HotAir Daily Express 03/20/2019

[Hot Air Daily Express]( [Follow us on Facebook]( [Home]([Green Room]([Archive]([The Ed Morrissey Show]([Print]([Forward]( [“Husband from hell”: Trump/Conway war now fully engaged]( 3/20/2019 11:21:54 AM Allahpundit 0 Comments I continue to believe, if only for my own peace of mind, that Kellyanne could put a stop to this if she wanted to (at least on George’s end). Hence my new hot take: Trump and the Conways are in cahoots and manufacturing a media-friendly [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Of course FOIA requests skyrocketed when Trump took office]( 3/20/2019 10:41:40 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Remember, kids. Democracy dies in darkness. But what the Washington Post’s catchphrase leaves unsaid is that no one is likely to notice the death if they don’t bother turning the lights on. At least for those of us who have to write [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Rep. Clyburn: Trump family is worse than Hitler]( 3/20/2019 10:01:05 AM Karen Townsend 0 Comments Welcoming in the first day of Spring is some pretty strong hyperbole from South Carolina Rep. James Clyburn. President Trump and his family are the greatest threat to democracy in Clyburn’s long lifetime, you know. To explain his outrageous [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Study appears to link heavy pot use to psychosis]( 3/20/2019 9:21:45 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments All through the debate over marijuana legalization, a consistent complaint raised by opponents of such plans (frequently coming from more conservative critics) has been the idea that the health risks associated with using pot have been downplayed or [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [SCOTUS upholds ICE policy to dismay of liberals]( 3/20/2019 8:41:25 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Some good news came out of the nation’s highest court yesterday. In a ruling that once again smacked down the bizarre decisions coming out of the Ninth Circuit, the Supremes ruled that illegal aliens with criminal records could be held without [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Crashed Lion Air flight almost crashed the day before]( 3/20/2019 8:01:14 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Yesterday, when we talked about the distressing similarities between last year’s Lion Air crash and the recent loss of another Boeing 737 Max 8 in Ethiopia, it was looking like the problem had been identified. A fault in the autopilot software [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [HS classmate of Loughlin’s daughter: I can’t see how she had time to do the homework and all of that YouTube stuff]( 3/19/2019 10:41:19 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments I’m amazed at how popular the clip below has become given how thin the claims in it are. For starters, it’s wholly subjective. It allegedly took Harlow Brooks “six hours a night” to do the homework — a likely [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [O’Rourke rocked by major scandal: He once supported basic fiscal responsibility]( 3/19/2019 10:01:35 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments This made me think of that famous Edwin Edwards quote, “The only way I can lose this election is if I’m caught in bed with either a dead girl or a live boy,” just because O’Rourke would have an easier time explaining either [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [WSJ: Biden has told supporters he is running]( 3/19/2019 9:21:39 PM John Sexton 0 Comments The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Joe Biden has told close friends he intends to run for president. He is apparently concerned about not matching the big donations other declared candidates like Beto O’Rourke and Bernie Sanders have [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Glenn Beck: If Republicans don’t win this election we may be at the end of the country as we know it]( 3/19/2019 8:41:34 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments A leftover from last night. Watch the clip below, remembering that Beck was ardently anti-Trump in 2016, and tell me I was wrong to claim during the shutdown that Trump won’t lose a single vote (except Ann Coulter’s) if he can’t or [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [What are we to make of the Trump-Conway dozens game?]( 3/19/2019 8:01:51 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments We all know Donald Trump loves a good public fight with his critics. Hardly a day goes by without Trump tweeting something about opponents, critics, or the media at large, usually insulting and including favorite pet names Trump has assigned them. [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Preet Bharara: It’s possible ‘the Mueller report will not be that damaging to the president’]( 3/19/2019 7:21:57 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara has been a pretty harsh critic of President Trump. Bharara tells Politico Magazine that he expects Special Counsel Robert Mueller will offer up a detailed report on his investigation, something he’s not [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Patriots’ owner may see happy ending in prostitution bust]( 3/19/2019 6:41:28 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments First of all, as far as the headline goes, I apologize for nothing. I was exposed to the NY Post as a very young child and it left me with a lot of baggage. The story at hand is the ongoing saga of Patriots owner Robert Kraft. After his massage [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Gillibrand on calling for Al Franken’s resignation: I ain’t sorry]( 3/19/2019 6:01:48 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments You’re about to witness history — the first semi-effective political answer Kirsten Gillibrand’s ever given. At least since 2008, when she was the most hardcore border hawk in the Democratic caucus. Her handling of the sexual [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Nadler: Trump better not claim executive privilege on the Mueller report]( 3/19/2019 5:31:24 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Somehow it seems doubtful that this threat from House Judiciary chair Jerrold Nadler (R-NY) will have its intended effect. As special counsel Robert Mueller prepares to wind down his probe and write its final report, all sides are jockeying for [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [David Sirota worked as an informal advisor to Bernie Sanders while trashing Sanders’ opponents]( 3/19/2019 5:01:19 PM John Sexton 0 Comments David Sirota is a journalist, at least that’s what he was up until a point several months ago when he became an advisor for the Sanders campaign and began trashing all of Sanders’ rivals on Twitter. People on the left noticed his attacks [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [King Corn’s good, but also bad month thanks to Trump’s EPA]( 3/19/2019 4:31:12 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Over at Forbes, Robert Rapier has a good analysis of the recent changes taking place at the EPA and how they impact the ongoing debate over ethanol blending and general health of the oil and gas industry. He describes it as a “good-news, [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [CNN wins Cronkite Award for that garbage gun-control town hall it held after Parkland]( 3/19/2019 4:01:56 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Literally one of the most demagogic stunts CNN has ever aired, but it had the right politics so naturally it just won a Cronkite Award for “journalism” from USC’s Norman Lear Center. The full title of the award, by the way, is [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Today’s hot topics: Impeachment conceit, Mueller complete?, the Beto beat, City of God retreat, and more!]( 3/19/2019 3:31:45 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Today on The Ed Morrissey Show (4 pm ET), we have another great lineup for the news of the day! The show will be streamed on Hot Air’s Facebook page and embedded here and on the show page for those who are not on Facebook. Join us as we [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [SPLC hires Michelle Obama’s former Chief of Staff to investigate workplace environment]( 3/19/2019 3:01:53 PM John Sexton 0 Comments When SPLC co-founder Morris Dees was fired last week, the organization promised a “comprehensive assessment” of the office climate. Today, the SPLC announced it has hired Michell Obama’s former Chief of Staff, Tina Tchen to conduct [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Baltimore Mayor resigns from board that paid $500K for her books]( 3/19/2019 2:31:56 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Over the weekend we talked about the awkward situation Democratic Mayor Catherine Pugh of Baltimore has found herself in. On top of all the rest of her duties, the mayor has found time to write (and self-publish) a number of children’s books [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [EU to May: Please assume your crash-out positions]( 3/19/2019 2:01:11 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments The best-laid plans of mice, men, and Theresa May often go awry — especially when the latter somehow overlooks a parliamentary rule in place for 415 years. Last night, May’s plan to bring another vote on her Brexit deal with the EU got [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Beto bust? Almost no bounce for O’Rourke in first post-announcement poll]( 3/19/2019 1:31:34 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Every election you’ll hear it said of a candidate that his support is a mile wide and an inch deep. That may be true of Biden this year: He leads right now on the strength of name recognition, but how much of that support is soft and willing [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [No jail time for the woman who climbed the Statue of Liberty]( 3/19/2019 1:01:57 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Patricia Okoumou, the activist who climbed the statue of liberty to protest the detention of immigrant children last year, won’t face any jail time for her actions. From AM New York: U.S. Magistrate Gabriel Gorenstein ordered Okoumou to serve [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Will SCOTUS help do away with the insanity defense?]( 3/19/2019 12:31:14 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Violent criminals pleading not guilty by reason of insanity may be a thing of the past in more states around the country in the near future. Five states, including Kansas, have already passed laws largely eliminating that defense tactic, but one [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Latest Headlines: We pick, you click.] Tiana Lowe [Ladies, we need to talk about Beto]( Joe Scarborough [Obama will be hailed as transformative. Trump will be viewed with scorn.]( Gabriel Sherman [Hellfire at Fox as Hannity mulls leaving]( Donald Trump [“[J]ust take a look, a stone cold LOSER & husband from hell!”]( Bloomberg [Pilot who hitched a ride saved Lion Air 737 day before deadly crash]( WaPo [The real reason the Trump administration is constantly losing in court]( Politico [Trump’s ever-expanding list of grievances]( NYT [Asked whether white societies are superior, Steve King demurs]( A.B. 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