HotAir Daily Express 05/08/2019

[Hot Air Daily Express]( [Follow us on Facebook]( [Home]([Green Room]([Archive]([The Ed Morrissey Show]([Print]([Forward]( [Behar to Crenshaw: Trump supporters should take off “those flag pins”]( 5/8/2019 11:01:10 AM Karen Townsend 0 Comments President Trump is unpatriotic, you know. That’s one of the latest Trump deranged remarks made by Joy Behar as she sat at the table on The View. She was interviewing Rep. Dan Crenshaw Monday when she said that all Trump supporters should take [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [A majority of Democrats now feel the President is guilty of treason]( 5/8/2019 10:31:27 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments So much for getting over the 2016 election and “moving on” I suppose. A recent poll completed by Scott Rasmussen has found that a perhaps surprising number of Democrats really have bought into their own press about the President. A solid [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Politico: Self-deportation turns out to be real after all]( 5/8/2019 10:01:46 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments It may have backfired as a political argument, but self-deportation might be the new reality anyway. Politico reports today that “voluntary departures” of illegal immigrants have soared during Donald Trump’s presidency, although [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Theresa May and Joe Biden, sinking the special relationship]( 5/8/2019 9:21:55 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments This past weekend, Joe Biden appeared to stick his foot in his mouth when he told supporters at a campaign stop about a conversation he allegedly had with British Prime Minister Theresa May. If his account of their chat is accurate, the PM may have [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [DoJ fires back: Contempt vote on Barr will result in full executive-privilege claim on Mueller report; Update: Contempt vote proceeds, White House claims privilege; Collins: We waited 450 days for Holder, not 43]( 5/8/2019 8:41:42 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Even for Beltway hardball, this feels like the playoffs. After attempts at negotiations between the House Judiciary Committee and Attorney General William Barr either went nowhere or never really started, the Department of Justice escalated matters [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump can enforce asylum policies says… the Ninth Circuit?]( 5/8/2019 8:01:27 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Did somebody spike the water in San Diego this week? A very unusual ruling was handed down from the Ninth Circuit yesterday. President Trump’s recent policy of having asylum seekers wait in Mexico while their cases are heard had been put on [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Hoo boy: Americans heavily oppose Bernie Sanders’s plan to let all prisoners vote, 17/65]( 5/7/2019 10:41:55 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Every now and then a tweet will go viral in which someone asks, Which outlandish belief do you secretly hold? The outlandish belief I not-so-secretly hold is that Bernie blew up his campaign by coming out strong during that CNN town hall in favor of [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Beto hops on the impeachment train, “There has to be consequences”]( 5/7/2019 10:01:07 PM Karen Townsend 0 Comments Beto O’Rourke told a group of reporters in Iowa Sunday that he thinks it’s time to impeach President Trump. While it’s not a surprise that he has this opinion, given that he frequently mentioned it when he ran for the Senate seat [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [NY Times: Donald Trump lost a lot of money and paid little in taxes decades ago]( 5/7/2019 9:21:19 PM John Sexton 0 Comments The NY Times published a big story today on Trump’s taxes from 1985 to 1994. The upshot is that Trump claimed over a billion dollars in losses during that time and, as a result, paid almost no tax on his income. The numbers show that in 1985, [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Michael Cohen starting to spill secrets about Trump allies?]( 5/7/2019 8:41:23 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Verrrrry curious that this story, which seems like it could only be sourced to Team Cohen, suddenly appeared 24 hours after he finally headed off to prison. I approach all news involving Trump and his cronies as TV drama so my mind naturally turned [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Panic on the Left? Progressives target Biden as polling soars]( 5/7/2019 8:01:24 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Looks like Joe Biden might be a legitimate front-runner after all. At least that’s the assessment from Biden’s opponents who have watched his post-launch polling bump with increasing levels of panic. The Hill reports that progressive [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [CNN contributor: “When a woman gets pregnant, that is not a human being inside of her”]( 5/7/2019 7:31:10 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments “Babies aren’t human.” Who could resist an abortion pitch as winning as that? “The combination of scientific ignorance and *literal* dehumanization on display here is really something,” Seth Mandel marvels about the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Steele said his client was keen to get the ‘Russia/Trump connection’ out prior to the election]( 5/7/2019 7:01:05 PM John Sexton 0 Comments This won’t represent any kind of a shock to anyone who has been paying attention to this story over the past couple years but it’s one more confirmation that the Steele Dossier and the Russian collusion story it presented was always a [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [New ICE program for local law enforcement has ACLU outraged]( 5/7/2019 6:31:22 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Stand by for the incoming lawsuits. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is rolling out a new program this week that was requested by various sheriffs’ departments and other local law enforcement agencies around the country. What [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Paul Krugman: Since when do we give the Presidential Medal of Freedom to people who hit golf balls for money?]( 5/7/2019 6:01:26 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments A leftover from yesterday. Imagine how bad your takes need to be for this to *not* be your worst take this year: I'm old enough to remember when Presidential Medals of Freedom were given for showing courage and making sacrifices on behalf of [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [NYT: Swampy, GOP-e establishment going all-MAGA in 2020]( 5/7/2019 5:31:56 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments It really is Donald Trump’s party now. Three years ago, traditional Republican donors kept Trump at arm’s distance, or in many cases further than that. Trump returned the favor by declaring his scorn for the GOP establishment and [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [PA Rep. Brian Sims apologizes…to Planned Parenthood]( 5/7/2019 5:01:45 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Pennsylvania State Representative Brian Sims issued a semi-apology for his obnoxious behavior in front of a Planned Parenthood clinic last week. He posted his statement on Twitter. “I’ve received a lot of feedback about a video I posted [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Study: The real cost of Renewable Fuel Standards is… a lot]( 5/7/2019 4:31:15 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments We’ve spent plenty of time here talking about the federal Renewable Fuel Standard, particularly as it pertains to ethanol blending. But what’s less often discussed is that fact that many states and cities have been implementing their own [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Elizabeth Warren on the Senate floor: It’s time to start on impeachment]( 5/7/2019 4:01:33 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments She’s been hinting at impeachment for months, long before Mueller finished his investigation and then more insistently on Twitter after his report was published. Today’s the first time she’s made the case in a format as visible as [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Today’s hot topics: Democrats’ collusion shift, tax-return rift, Venezuela drift, and more!]( 5/7/2019 3:31:32 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...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [When a Seattle woman raped by a homeless man told her story, the progressive backlash began]( 5/7/2019 3:01:59 PM John Sexton 0 Comments “I thought to myself that I didn’t want to die,” a Seattle woman named Lindsey said of her experience being raped last year in a car dealership bathroom. She continued, “And I didn’t want to die on a linoleum trailer [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Turkey’s president didn’t like an election outcome so he’s “fixing” it]( 5/7/2019 2:31:30 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Our “ally” in Turkey continues to blaze a trail toward a future for his country that looks less and less democratic by the day. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s PK party didn’t fare all that well in the country’s recent [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [McConnell to Dems: Welcome to the Russian-aggression party, pals]( 5/7/2019 2:01:55 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Old and busted: Cocaine Mitch! New hotness: Gloat-caine Mitch! The Senate Majority Leader’s office alerted the media that McConnell planned to use his time on the floor today to declare the Russia-collusion “case closed,” but that [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Chris Wray: I don’t personally have evidence of illegal surveillance into any political campaigns]( 5/7/2019 1:31:52 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments What odds can I get in Vegas that the eventual IG report about this will find that (a) nothing illegal happened in 2016 but (b) having one party’s presidential nominee investigated by a DOJ run by the other party is “problematic,” [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Why end-of-life care is not ethically the same as abortion]( 5/7/2019 1:03:05 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signed a so-called heartbeat bill into law today which makes abortion illegal after it becomes possible to detect a fetal heartbeat. CNN gave the story the prime spot on its home page and quoted some of what Kemp said when [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Latest Headlines: We pick, you click.] Jim Tankersley [Are Trump’s tariffs bolstering the U.S. economy? Nope]( Conor Friedersdorf [The biggest loser]( TV Line [College admissions scandal to be turned into TV series]( Military Times [Navy leader who told sailors to “clap like we’re at a strip club” has resigned]( CNN [Breaking: House committee votes to hold Barr in contempt]( NPR [Iran says it will stop complying with parts of nuclear deal]( Mediaite [Video: Meghan McCain and Seth Meyers get testy over Ilhan Omar]( Reuters [Sources: China backtracked on nearly all aspects of U.S. trade deal]( NBC [Pelosi: “Trump is goading us to impeach him”]( Betsy Woodruff [Trump admin inflated Iran intel, U.S. officials say]( CNN [Mueller fought release of Comey memos to prevent Trump and others from changing stories]( WaPo [Trump has signed off on Kushner’s immigration plan]( NBC [DOJ set to ask for executive privilege on Mueller report]( AP [Appeals court: Trump can make asylum seekers wait in Mexico]( Eric Holthaus [Get rid of your lawn]( NYT [Silicon Valley is coming for your house]( David Epstein [The peculiar blindness of experts]( Hanna Flint [How “Game of Thrones” has got it in for people of color]( Politico [Republicans pray for Bernie as Democratic nominee]( Ferguson, Freymann [The coming generation war]( Pro Publica [Infographic: What happened to all the jobs Trump promised?]( Tom Nichols [Don’t let students run the university]( Rich Lowry [We’ve heard enough from Robert Mueller]( David Frum [Why is Trump hiding his tax returns?]( Melanie Hamlett [Men have no friends and women bear the burden]( [Ed Morrissey Show]( [Advertisement] __________________________SUBSCRIPTION INFO__________________________ WERE YOU FORWARDED THIS EDITION OF THE HOT AIR DAILY? 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