HotAir Daily Express 04/24/2019

[Hot Air Daily Express]( [Follow us on Facebook]( [Home]([Green Room]([Archive]([The Ed Morrissey Show]([Print]([Forward]( [Pelosi ponders: Why aren’t Republicans ashamed of Trump?]( 4/24/2019 11:01:52 AM Karen Townsend 0 Comments Speaker Nancy Pelosi walked the red carpet Tuesday night as she arrived for the Time 100 Gala, but earlier that afternoon she expressed her frustration with Republicans. Pelosi went into a scolding-mom moment as she disingenuously disparaged [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [A new twist on the Bob Kraft hooker video]( 4/24/2019 10:31:22 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Last week we looked at the efforts by New England Patriots owner Bob Kraft’s attorneys to suppress the release of a video allegedly showing him “engaged” with a prostitute and giving her cash. While Kraft’s legal team seemed [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Feeling Old? Do This Once A Day And Watch What Happens]( LCR Health SPONSORED PLUS 3 Signs You’re Aging Too Quickly [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump: We’re sending “armed soldiers” to Mexico border after military confrontation]( 4/24/2019 10:01:22 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments The declared emergency on the southern border might get a little more emergent in coming days. Donald Trump ripped Mexico over a bizarre confrontation earlier this month in which their military drew weapons on two American soldiers on the US side of [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [The ratings are in for those CNN town halls. It was… meh]( 4/24/2019 9:21:45 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Yesterday I looked at the disappointing ratings for some editions of CNN’s endless parade of Democratic 2020 candidate town halls. They seemed to describe a stark contrast with the massive audience Fox News pulled in for their similar Q&A [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Harris: On second thought, maybe violent felons shouldn’t vote]( 4/24/2019 8:41:34 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments On Monday night, Kamala Harris told a CNN town hall audience that “we should have that conversation” about allowing Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to help select our next president. By yesterday afternoon, Harris had all of the conversation on that [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Let’s finish the debate over the citizenship question on the census]( 4/24/2019 8:01:11 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Earlier this month, we learned that yet another judge had blocked plans to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census. We also found out at the same time that the Supreme Court was going to entertain the question quickly and deliver a ruling, [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Report: Bernie’s campaign planning to “lean directly into” message about letting prisoners vote]( 4/23/2019 10:41:01 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Via the Free Beacon, this isn’t going to work out for him long-term but there’s some strategic sense to it medium-term. Remember what Bernie’s big liability was in the 2016 primaries: He was strong with young adults, strong with [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Exactly how many Republicans are going to end up primarying Trump?]( 4/23/2019 10:01:56 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments I thought we’d end up with zero given the futility of the endeavor. Instead one has already declared, another is making post-Mueller noises about getting in, and a third — the most formidable, although not very formidable — is out [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Bernie Sanders dodged questions about his past support for authoritarian socialism]( 4/23/2019 9:21:24 PM John Sexton 0 Comments During the CNN town hall event Monday night Bernie Sanders was challenged about his support for socialism by a student whose parents had fled Soviet Russia in the late 1970s. Sanders attempted to sidestep the question but the answer he did give was [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Beltway, First Amendment in crisis as White House boycotts WHCA dinner]( 4/23/2019 8:41:15 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments After last year’s Nerd Prom fiasco, this might secretly be welcome news to both sides of the ongoing White House briefing room battle. No one from the White House will attend the annual dinner staged by the White House Correspondents [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [“Disingenuous and deceptive”: Shep Smith scolds Kushner for minimizing Russia’s campaign interference]( 4/23/2019 8:01:05 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments An extremely Shep reaction to the comments made earlier today by Kushner about Russian meddling amounting to “buying some Facebook ads.” It’s true, Kushner came off like a jackhole by glossing over Russia’s hacking of the DNC [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Wired: We need ‘social media control’ over how and when platforms operate]( 4/23/2019 7:31:01 PM John Sexton 0 Comments I should be clear up front that this piece is published at Wired by someone who appears to be a regular contributor but it’s not necessarily the position of the magazine. Author Noam Cohen argues that, in light of the mass murder in Sri Lanka [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Will Hollywood defeat Senator John Cornyn’s re-election bid?]( 4/23/2019 7:01:40 PM Karen Townsend 0 Comments Will Hollywood elites rise up on Twitter to support MJ Hegar this time around? In 2018, Hegar was the Democrat challenger to longtime Texas GOP incumbent Rep. John Carter and she came within 3 points of winning that election. Hollywood elites were [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Can the Baltimore City Council oust their corrupt mayor?]( 4/23/2019 6:31:56 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Out in Charm City, progress in sorting out Mayor Catherine Pugh’s BookGate scandal is dragging on slowly. There have been no new revelations in a week or more, though official investigations have kicked off. But what about the mayor herself? [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Harris joins Warren: Let’s impeach Trump rather than run against him]( 4/23/2019 6:01:44 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Oh, the irony. And for Nancy Pelosi, oh the headache. As leading Democrats and even a lot of non-entity Democrats prepare to start debating over who gets to run against Donald Trump in 2020, some of them have begun arguing to remove Trump without an [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Hillary: Anyone else would have been indicted for obstruction if they did what Trump did]( 4/23/2019 5:31:03 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Ironic, since others have made the same point about her mishandling of classified information — even in court, as part of their legal defense to the same charge. The most famous example, Kristian Saucier, received a pardon from Trump because [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Border apprehensions in Rio Grande Valley have already surpassed all of last year]( 4/23/2019 5:01:22 PM John Sexton 0 Comments The Texas Tribune reported Monday that the number of border apprehensions in the Rio Grande Valley in fiscal year 2019, which is just past half over, have exceeded the number for all of the previous fiscal year. From October, when the federal [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Kim Foxx staffers continue to resign]( 4/23/2019 4:31:26 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Is this a case of normal turnover in a government bureaucracy or rats fleeing a sinking ship? Out in Chicago, one gets the sense that Kim Foxx and the rest of the State’s Attorney’s office are still laying low and hoping the whole Jussie [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [“The View” blows up over letting convicted terrorists vote]( 4/23/2019 4:01:05 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments All day today I’ve been nagged by the vague feeling that I’m hallucinating, because I still can’t quite believe Bernie Sanders chose to saddle his party with a national debate over whether the degenerate who blew up children in [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Kushner: You know what did more harm than 2016’s Russian interference?]( 4/23/2019 3:31:17 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Three guesses, and the first two don’t count. Jared Kushner made a rare appearance at a Q&A forum earlier today sponsored by Time Magazine, and talk turned quickly to the outcome of the special counsel investigation. Kushner called the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [ISIS claims responsibility for Sri Lanka attack, releases photos and video of bombers]( 4/23/2019 3:01:53 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Ed noted this earlier but I wanted to focus on it plus add some new information. Two days after the deadly suicide bomb attacks in Sri Lanka, ISIS has claimed responsibility for the attacks and has released photos and video of the men it claims were [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Don’t look now, but Mexico just busted a migrant caravan]( 4/23/2019 2:31:23 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Less than a week ago, President Trump issued a stern warning to the government of Mexico. They would need to step up their efforts to halt these caravans of migrants surging toward the United States or we would need to take steps that could impact [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Loughlin to prosecutors: Show me yours and maybe I’ll show you mine]( 4/23/2019 2:01:06 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Reality may have finally dawned on the highest-profile celebrity couple involved in the Operation Varsity Blues college-admissions scandal. As many have speculated, prosecutors have upped the ante again by threatening to prosecute one or both [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Another poll shows record low in Trump’s job approval after Mueller report]( 4/23/2019 1:31:38 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments This is the second poll in four days to show a sizable post-Mueller hit to his numbers, which is unusual because (a) news rarely dents his approval rating and (b) Mueller didn’t accuse Trump of any crime! On Saturday, Reuters revealed that [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Osundairo brothers file defamation lawsuit against Jussie Smollett’s attorneys]( 4/23/2019 1:01:23 PM John Sexton 0 Comments “Let me make one thing perfectly clear,” Gloria Schmidt said at a press conference this morning, “the Chicagoan brothers told the truth.” Schmidt gave the press conference Tuesday morning to announce that her clients, the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Latest Headlines: We pick, you click.] WFB [Report: Senior IRGC officer flees Iran with secret intel]( WBEZ [Report: Feds probing Illinois governor over property tax appeals]( WSJ [Thank you, Don McGahn]( NYT [Biden to start race with $0]( Charles Sykes [Romney, alone]( Elaina Plott [The Republican push to keep Mueller drama alive]( Tom Rogan [Yes, ask a citizenship question on the census]( Sommer, Suebsaeng [Twitter CEO gently tells Trump: Your “lost” followers are bots]( Nate Silver [Bernie Sanders can win, but he isn’t polling like a favorite]( NYT [“Trump’s chief of staff told her not to bring it up in front of the president”]( NYT [Is sex by deception a form of rape?]( Matt Lewis [2020 is going to make 2016 look like a student council election]( M.B. Dougherty [Macron’s failure is ominous for France]( Tonya Riley [What Andrew Yang’s universal basic income would actually look like]( Shannon Palus [No, Netflix isn’t killing people’s sex lives]( Heather MacDonald [Drawing the line against campus radicals, at last]( Shikha Dalmia [Sanctuary cities should hope Stephen Miller makes good on his threats]( Charles Cooke [Next time, use Congress to investigate the president]( Joe Lockhart [Keeping Trump in office will destroy the Republican Party]( R.N. Patterson [Taking reparations seriously]( Kara Swisher [Sri Lanka shut down social media. My first thought was “good.”]( Andrew Bacevich [The constitutional travesty of our war in Yemen]( Politico [The rude awakening creeping up on Kamala Harris]( Charles Lipson [Democrats’ relentless, fruitless hunt for the great orange whale]( WaPo [White House plans to fight House subpoena of Don McGahn]( [Ed Morrissey Show]( [Advertisement] __________________________SUBSCRIPTION INFO__________________________ WERE YOU FORWARDED THIS EDITION OF THE HOT AIR DAILY? You can get your own free subscription to the #1 blog delivered to your email inbox early each morning by visiting: This newsletter is never sent unsolicited. It was sent to you because you signed up to receive this newsletter on Hot Air OR a friend forwarded it to you. We respect and value your time and privacy. If this newsletter no longer meets your needs we will be happy to remove your address immediately. [Visit the Townhall Media Preference Center to manage your subscriptions]( [You can unsubscribe by clicking here.](. 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