HotAir Daily Express 05/03/2019

[Hot Air Daily Express]( [Follow us on Facebook]( [Home]([Green Room]([Archive]([The Ed Morrissey Show]([Print]([Forward]( [CNN poll: Beto 52, Trump 42]( 5/3/2019 11:21:34 AM Allahpundit 0 Comments The first genuinely good campaign news O’Rourke has had since his first-day fundraising total. It had been all downhill since then, capped by the pitiful turnout for his rally last weekend at UNLV. He has no apparent campaign strategy yet, and [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Poynter: Our blacklist of “unreliable” news sites turned out to be … unreliable]( 5/3/2019 10:41:16 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments This isn’t Poynter Institute’s finest hour. Not only did their attempt to identify “fake news” sites turn out to be inaccurate, it now appears much of it wasn’t even their own work. The organization pulled down their [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Beto caves to Sunrise Movement kids, takes No Fossil Fuel Money Pledge]( 5/3/2019 10:01:39 AM Karen Townsend 0 Comments Beto O’Rourke rolled out his first big policy plan Monday. The subject was climate change. Unfortunately for Beto, the policy he called “the most ambitious climate plan in the history of the United States” was a flop with some far left [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Boom, ctd: Unemployment falls to 49-year low as 263,000 jobs added in April]( 5/3/2019 9:21:44 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments The surprising GDP boom in the first quarter doesn’t look like a fluke at all. Job creation had its biggest gain in April since the first of the year, adding 263,000 jobs and sending unemployment to a 49-year low. The latter might have more to [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump: McGahn’s done testifying, and enough is enough]( 5/3/2019 8:41:18 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments “I would say it’s done,” Donald Trump told Fox News’ Catherine Herridge last night, but Congress certainly doesn’t think so. The House Judiciary Committee subpoenaed former White House counsel Don McGahn to testify [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Baltimore won’t have Mayor Pugh to kick around anymore]( 5/3/2019 8:01:29 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments We were given hints that it might happen as recently as yesterday morning. I’ll confess I was a bit skeptical, given the pattern of abuse, denial, and obfuscation we’d seen, but at roughly 3:30 in the afternoon, Baltimore (ex) Mayor [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Support for impeachment craters: Now at 29/66 in new Quinnipiac poll]( 5/2/2019 10:01:50 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments None of the data sites are tracking impeachment polls so there’s no handy list of numbers for me to compare this to. But 29 percent is the weakest support for impeachment I can recall seeing from any major pollster. Less than a week ago, [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [State Rep. Rogers: Donald Trump Jr. is proof mothers should have the right to an abortion]( 5/2/2019 9:21:23 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Earlier today Ed wrote about Alabama State Rep. John Rogers, a Democrat who argued that abortion should remain legal because if unwanted children can’t be killed in the womb they would need to be executed in the electric chair sometime [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [WaPo: Trump tax cut capped SALT deductions, and you won’t believe what happened next]( 5/2/2019 8:41:33 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Remember when Republicans capped the deductions for state and local taxes (SALT) as part of their overall tax reform package in December 2017? Critics predicted the Apocalypse, and advocates waited excitedly for tax revolts in blue states. Governors [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Biden 2015: Dick Cheney is a decent man and I like him]( 5/2/2019 8:01:28 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Someone dug up this clip and put it online today annnnnnnd it’s not going over so well in Leftistan. Not the first time Biden has gotten in trouble with the left for praising the decency of a Republican vice president, although Cheney and [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Burger King introduces … the unhappy meal]( 5/2/2019 7:21:04 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments To cleanse the palate, the worst idea I’ve heard all year. Except for Kirsten Gillibrand wanting to give every American free money which they can only spend on politicians. I still can’t believe that one’s real. Where to begin [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump administration pursuing plan to allow Border Patrol to decide asylum claims]( 5/2/2019 6:41:16 PM John Sexton 0 Comments It’s now widely accepted that we have a crisis at the southern border which has pushed the immigration system to the limit. A big part of the problem is that Central Americans coming to the border mostly don’t try to sneak across and [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [CNN poll: Trump hits new high on economy approval]( 5/2/2019 6:01:23 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments If it’s still “the economy, stupid,” Donald Trump has positioned himself well for re-election. CNN reported this morning that the president hit a new high for approval on the economy, with 56% of respondents giving him good grades. [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Rick Scott: C’mon, it’s time for military intervention in Venezuela to prevent genocide]( 5/2/2019 5:21:11 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Every time Tucker Carlson annoys me with an isolationist rant against U.S. action to help people under siege by a cretin like Maduro, someone like Scott comes along cheerleading for another open-ended war. And so I end up thinking, “You know [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [NY Times: Woman who met with Papadopoulos in 2016 was an undercover government investigator]( 5/2/2019 4:41:39 PM John Sexton 0 Comments An interesting story at the NY Times today sheds some additional light on the early stages of the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane investigation into the Trump campaign. You may recall that George Papadopoulos was credited with indirectly kicking off [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [CNN to Pelosi: Barr probably didn’t commit a “crime” in his discussion of Mueller’s reactions]( 5/2/2019 4:01:29 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments True — but the Attorney General wasn’t exactly forthcoming, either. CNN dropped a fact check on a claim from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that William Barr committed a crime in his exchanges with Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) and Rep. [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [News from WaPo: Facebook has banned “far-right” Louis Farrakhan]( 5/2/2019 3:21:48 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments On the one hand, this is a laughable smear. Just because Farrakhan and the alt-right share some opinions about Jews doesn’t make him right-wing, as his admirers in the Congressional Black Caucus, the leadership of the Women’s March, the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [San Francisco will spend $72 million on street cleaning this year, but it won’t be enough]( 5/2/2019 2:41:46 PM John Sexton 0 Comments The San Francisco Chronicle published a story yesterday highlighting the city’s ongoing public pooping problem. The city will spend more than $72 million this year on cleaning the sidewalks several times a day, but that won’t be enough. [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Surprise! Dems still jumping into the 2020 sweepstakes despite Biden’s entry]( 5/2/2019 2:01:10 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments “No one could have seen this coming,” CNN’s anchors remarked this morning after Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet announced his entry into the Democratic presidential race. Well, maybe only one person might not have seen it coming, but [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Stephen Moore “withdraws” from Fed consideration — hours, or minutes, after saying he was “all in”]( 5/2/2019 1:31:05 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments The writing’s been on the wall for days. Almost 48 hours ago, Joni Ernst was signaling to the White House with neon lights to move on from Moore. Sen ERNST on Stephen Moore: "No, he does not have the votes." "He would not have [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [CNN, MSNBC ratings down sharply in April]( 5/2/2019 1:01:57 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Something seems to have happened to the news networks, especially CNN and MSNBC, since the collapse of the collusion narrative. AG Barr released his letter offering the bottom line of the Mueller report in late March. In April, ratings at CNN and [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Canadian judge silences man for misgendering his daughter]( 5/2/2019 12:31:30 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments In the Great White North, your fundamental rights aren’t quite as fundamental as they are under the American Constitution. That’s a lesson that’s no doubt sinking in for one man who dared to attempt to exercise some parental [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Oops! Joaquin Castro leaks his Senate run decision to reporter… “inadvertently”]( 5/2/2019 12:01:45 PM Karen Townsend 0 Comments Don’t you hate it when that happens? Imagine being a member of Congress contemplating a challenge to one of the opposition party’s top members in the Senate only to have your decision leaked to a reporter. By you. That’s what [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Hillary: What if a Democratic candidate publicly called on China to get Trump’s tax returns?]( 5/2/2019 11:31:43 AM Allahpundit 0 Comments This is not, of course, a pure hypothetical. She’s not advising China to do this (I think?), just using the example to underline the fact that Trump had zero moral or ethical qualms about using hacked material laundered through Wikileaks to [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Dem state rep on abortion: Let’s kill ’em now rather than later]( 5/2/2019 11:01:41 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Rarely will one see a politician so completely — and so bluntly — embrace the utilitarian point of view on abortion as Alabama state representative John Rogers did yesterday. Unfortunately, the media’s focus on conservative [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Latest Headlines: We pick, you click.] WaPo [Despite setbacks, Venezuela’s opposition wary of U.S. intervention]( Fox News [Trump calls on parties to “come together” after “costly & time consuming investigations”]( Tani, Grove [Mark Halperin enlists Joe and Mika to rehab his career after sexual misconduct scandal]( Benjamin Wittes [The catastrophic performance of Bill Barr]( The Hill [Poll: O’Rourke 52, Trump 42]( WaPo [WH complained to Barr about contents of Mueller report after its release]( Stephen Moore [My brush with personal destruction]( Politico [Democrats channel their Trump outrage on Barr]( Margaret Carlson [Beto O’Rourke blew it]( Politico [“Quit thinking like a New Yorker”: GOP smacks Trump on trade]( David Cowan [How science will explain and fix fake news]( Sara Chodosh [Measles is an early warning sign for outbreaks of more serious diseases]( Wayne Curtis [Yes, buying alcohol is still illegal in parts of the U.S.]( Perry Bacon [Why Democrats’ most liberal wing is struggling to gain power]( Greg Hunter [The NRA left gun owners like me behind long ago]( College Fix [It’s come to this]( Robert Tracinski [This is how you get Bernie]( Suranjen Sen [Presidents should not investigate themselves]( Eric Levitz [2021 could be a nightmare for Democrats — even if Trump loses]( Bixby, Resnick [Biden’s union pitch is a throwback aimed at white males]( Aaron Ames [Why Christian children don’t belong in public schools]( Michael Goodwin [Barr exposed the rampant desperation of Trump’s foes]( Amanda Mull [Everything is a subscription now]( David Knowles [Biden’s surge and Warren’s resilience are bad news for Sanders]( Alia Wong [What it’s like to be quarantined on a college campus]( [Ed Morrissey Show]( [Advertisement] __________________________SUBSCRIPTION INFO__________________________ WERE YOU FORWARDED THIS EDITION OF THE HOT AIR DAILY? 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