HotAir Daily Express 05/22/2019

[Hot Air Daily Express]( [Follow us on Facebook]( [Home]([Green Room]([Archive]([The Ed Morrissey Show]([Print]([Forward]( [Once a media darling, Beto now struggles for campaign traction]( 5/22/2019 11:21:57 AM Andrew Malcolm 0 Comments By the holidays this year the historically ginormous field of 23 Democrat wannabe presidents will likely be cut at least in half. The debates that start next month in Miami will expose several for the shallow creeks they are. Among those likely to [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [End game: Juan Guaido ready to negotiate with Maduro]( 5/22/2019 10:41:56 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments While some may be taking the latest news out of Venezuela as a hopeful note, it may actually spell the beginning of the end of any hope that dictator Nicolas Maduro will be removed from power. We’re hearing from representatives of [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [If Your Cat Vomits (Do This Every Day)]( Ultimate Pet Nutrition SPONSORED Veterinarian: Add This One Thing To Your Cat’s Food To Help Them Be Healthier [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [“Pathological”: Avenatti talks to Vanity Fair for some reason]( 5/22/2019 10:01:06 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments One can certainly understand why Vanity Fair’s Emily Jane Fox wanted to talk with Michael Avenatti last month. Rarely has anyone had the public-relations arc that Stormy Daniels’ attorney achieved. Even Avenatti described it as [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Judge who helped illegal alien escape accused of “subterfuge”]( 5/22/2019 9:21:20 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments You may recall the bizarre story coming out of Massachusettes last month about a judge who was arrested after allowing an illegal alien to escape arrest by ICE agents. Judge Shelley Joseph was charged with obstructing justice, leading to cries of [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Hmmmm: Schiff, DoJ cut a deal for more access to Mueller materials]( 5/22/2019 8:41:25 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments If you had Adam Schiff down as the voice of reason in the House of Representatives, please collect your winnings. The House Intelligence chair announced this morning that he had negotiated a deal with the Department of Justice for more access to [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Here we go. Pelosi calls meeting on impeachment this morning]( 5/22/2019 8:01:59 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Just yesterday we were talking about the political pressure that’s been building on Speaker Nancy Pelosi from members of her caucus who are demanding impeachment proceedings against President Trump. Up until this point, Pelosi has wisely been [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Would Beto O’Rourke do a town hall on Fox? “Absolutely”]( 5/21/2019 10:41:14 PM Karen Townsend 0 Comments Is it time to stick a fork in Beto O’Rourke’s presidential campaign? Not quite, if we are to believe the people trying desperately to revive it. They aren’t done yet. Beto was in eastern Iowa checking out the flood damage in the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Rep. Yarmuth: There’s a growing sense ‘impeachment is inevitable’]( 5/21/2019 10:01:33 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Jazz wrote about the growing push for impeachment this morning. I agree with his analysis about the realities of impeachment and what Pelosi knows it could mean for Democrats’ future as a majority party in the House. But the drumbeat really [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump targets Pennsylvania, people fainted]( 5/21/2019 9:21:21 PM Karen Townsend 0 Comments Pennsylvania was Trump country in 2016. The question in 2019 is, will Pennsylvania deliver the votes for a Trump victory in 2020? In the match-up between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton in 2016, Trump won the state by more than 44,000 votes. The [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Meadows: Gowdy’s right — Americans will be “astonished” by “game changing” Russiagate material about to be declassified]( 5/21/2019 8:41:33 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Is a decision by Donald Trump to declassify material from Operation Crossfire Hurricane “just around the corner”? House Freedom Caucus leader Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC) told Fox’s Brian Kilmeade yesterday that the American people [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [NY next to target evil walking texters]( 5/21/2019 8:01:38 PM Andrew Malcolm 0 Comments There are few things that a Democratic state legislature can’t write a new law about. Now, the New York Senate is working on a new statute to ban texting while walking. Unfortunately, New York is not the first United States locality seeking to [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Predictably, people on the left are defending ‘milkshaking’]( 5/21/2019 7:21:20 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Yesterday I wrote about the spate of milkshake assaults taking place in the UK. I predicted this would be the kind of stunt the left would find irresistible and, sure enough, that seems to be the case. The Guardian published an opinion piece titled [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [China is hosting the next winter Olympic Games because nobody else wanted to]( 5/21/2019 6:41:27 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Yes, this is an odd time to be talking about the Olympic Games, since we’re sort of in the middle of a cycle. But it’s worth pointing out that the 2022 Winter Olympics are out there on the horizon and they’re going to be in [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [ESPN chief: You’ll never guess what our viewers want to hear nothing about]( 5/21/2019 6:01:04 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Ooooohhhhh, yes we can. The Los Angeles Times profiles ESPN president Jimmy Pitaro and his fight to keep cord-cutters from cutting off his channel, but buries one big reason why it might have become a problem in the first place. After watching [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Senator Hirono: President Trump acts like a dictator, you know]( 5/21/2019 5:31:43 PM Karen Townsend 0 Comments Senator Mazie Hirono is often in the headlines. She isn’t written about because of her hard work in the Senate, though. It is usually because she is responsible for a soundbite or a course remark made during an interview. Monday Senator [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Guardian: How long will the US tolerate the rule of ‘rich white men’]( 5/21/2019 5:01:59 PM John Sexton 0 Comments The Guardian is a left-wing paper in the UK. Yesterday one of their opinion writers published a piece with the headline “Rich white men rule America. How much longer will we tolerate that?” The launching point of the piece is the Alabama [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Japan “disappointed” in Trump’s auto industry trade war]( 5/21/2019 4:31:18 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments As you may have heard, the President had a few more verbal salvos to fire last week in the trade wars. One of them, in particular, had to do with the auto industry, specifically auto imports, which Donald Trump described as a potential national [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [McCabe: You’re darned right I ordered the Code Red on Strzok]( 5/21/2019 4:01:25 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Huh? The record thus far shows that special counsel Robert Mueller removed Peter Strzok from his investigatory team after learning about texts between them demonstrating hostility toward Donald Trump. Mueller’s office took credit for it at the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Today’s hot topics: Mueller demurs, ESPN deters, conservative poseurs, and Evan Sayet confers!]( 5/21/2019 3:41:36 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...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [New Gallup Poll finds Americans liking the idea of socialism more]( 5/21/2019 3:31:28 PM Andrew Malcolm 0 Comments Here’s a revealing — and disturbing — new poll that bears on the current gang fight among leftists for the soul of the Democratic Party and its 2020 presidential nomination. Almost half of Americans in a new Gallup Poll believe [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [AOC and Elizabeth Warren on Game of Thrones finale: We were so close to women running the world]( 5/21/2019 3:01:17 PM John Sexton 0 Comments If you had any remaining doubts that the negative reaction to the Game of Thrones finale had to do with disappointed progressives, this should settle it. Today, Sen. Elizabeth Warren posted a brief video in which she and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Cocaine Mitch to raise federal smoking age?]( 5/21/2019 2:31:50 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Andrew Malcolm wrote this morning about the news that Mitch McConnell was endorsing a move to support raising the minimum age for tobacco use to 21 across the nation. The Tobacco-Free Youth Act, as it’s being called, would make it illegal to [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Atlanta-area DAs: No, we won’t prosecute women for getting abortions]( 5/21/2019 2:01:02 PM Karen Townsend 0 Comments The State of Georgia’s new abortion law may be postponed from going into effect as it works its way to the Supreme Court but metro Atlanta District Attorneys are taking a preemptive stance. They will not prosecute a woman for getting an [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Mueller to Congress: I’ll pass on being politicized, thanks just the same]( 5/21/2019 1:31:26 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments So it’s not William Barr preventing Robert Mueller from testifying after all. CNN reported today that Mueller has “expressed reticence” about appearing publicly in a congressional hearing due to the politics surrounding his report. [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Loretta Lynch: I never told Comey to call the Clinton investigation a ‘matter’]( 5/21/2019 1:01:39 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Monday, a transcript of testimony former Attorney General Loretta Lynch gave before a joint session of the House Oversight and Judiciary Committees in December was released. During her testimony, Lynch was asked about the claim that she once asked [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Latest Headlines: We pick, you click.] Zachary Halaschak [Trump to launch reelection bid on four-year anniversary of 2016 kickoff]( Andrew R. 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