HotAir Daily Express 06/18/2019

[Hot Air Daily Express]( [Follow us on Facebook]( [Home]([Green Room]([Archive]([The Ed Morrissey Show]([Print]([Forward]( [Banks Get Green Light to Seize Bank Accounts]( [Julian Castro says Kellyanne should go, defends own Hatch Act violation]( 6/18/2019 11:01:08 AM Karen Townsend 0 Comments Double standard, much? During his recent town hall on Fox News Channel, Julian Castro commented on the recommendation by the Office of Special Counsel (OSC) that Kellyanne Conway should be fired from her job in the White House. The finding of the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Could AOC be “one and done” next year?]( 6/18/2019 10:31:40 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments When Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez beat Joe Crowley in the 2018 primary for New York’s 14th District seat, I assumed that was pretty much the end of the story. There’s no need to mention the general election race since she was running against [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Plastic Surgeon Reveals #1 Method To Snap Back Aging Skin]( BHMD SPONSORED Visibly Reduce Loose Skin At Home (Do this daily) [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Hmm: Trump and Xi to have “extended meeting” at G-20; Xinhua: Trump requested the call]( 6/18/2019 10:01:37 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Will the trade war between the US and China come to an end next week? Donald Trump tweeted out this morning that a planned meeting at the upcoming G-20 summit next week will become an “extended meeting.” His description of preparations [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [New York approves driver’s licenses for illegals over public opposition]( 6/18/2019 9:21:55 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments New York State may not be able to figure out how to deal with people fleeing high taxes or its deteriorating infrastructure, but gosh darn it, they’re going to allow illegal aliens to obtain drivers licenses. A measure to put this policy in [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Banks Get Green Light to Seize Bank Accounts]( [New Law Cracks Down on Right to Use Cash. See Why!]( [Learn How To Rollover Your IRA, 401(k) or Other Retirement Account Into Gold Now. US #1 Gold IRA Provider. $0 fees.]( [No war for oil, says … Donald Trump?]( 6/18/2019 8:41:47 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Did attacks on oil shipping in the Gulf of Oman create a cassus belli for the US to attack Iran? Tehran has accused the Trump administration of conducting a false-flag operation in order to start a war, but Donald Trump told Time Magazine that [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump: We’re gonna be deporting millions]( 6/18/2019 8:01:25 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Tonight marks the official launch of President Trump’s 2020 reelection campaign, with a large rally being held in Florida. Of course, I’m not sure how we’re supposed to be able to tell this. Did the campaign ever actually end? In [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Is Alex Jones getting a bad rap on that story? You know the one I mean]( 6/17/2019 10:41:53 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments “Lawyers for Sandy Hook families say Alex Jones sent them child porn,” blares the headline at the CT Post. When I first saw it, I missed a breath. Why the hell would he mail evidence that he’s into child porn to people who are [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Led by Kavanaugh, SCOTUS (sort of) affirms that social media platforms aren’t bound by First Amendment in moderating content]( 6/17/2019 10:01:18 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments I say “sort of” because today’s ruling doesn’t specifically address social media. It was about public access television in New York City. The question: Was a private company that had been designated by NYC to operate public [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Washington Post Opinion: The Bronco chase showed whites had ‘conditional’ comfort with black athletes]( 6/17/2019 9:21:35 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Quinnipiac University professor of media studies Phillip Lamarr Cunningham has a piece at the Washington Post on the 25th anniversary of the infamous white Bronco chase in which O.J. Simpson fled the police with his friend A.J. Cowlings at the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Dems’ new strategy to defeat executive privilege: Subpoena randos!]( 6/17/2019 8:41:10 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Question: What can Congress do to get around claims of executive privilege while pursuing dreams of impeachment? Answer, via Politico — subpoena randos. Oh sure, they’re famous randos, of course, necessary for garnering the headlines [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Biden: If you think you can’t work with the other side, you might as well start a physical revolution]( 6/17/2019 8:01:37 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Literally every liberal and conservative activist watching this clip is thinking, “Time for a revolution then, I guess.” Biden has given variations of this answer repeatedly over the last month, insisting that bipartisanship in [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Under construction: Planned Parenthood builds huge clinic in Alabama]( 6/17/2019 7:31:12 PM Karen Townsend 0 Comments There are three clinics in Alabama that are open and performing abortions – in Montgomery, Tuscaloosa, and Huntsville. Planned Parenthood does not operate any of them. Planned Parenthood is determined to jump into the abortion business in [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Buzzfeed employees throw shade at owners, walk out to demand union recognition]( 6/17/2019 7:01:05 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Buzzfeed employees are fed up waiting for their management to recognize the union they voted for months ago. Today, more than 100 employees in four different offices around the country walked out to demand that the union be recognized. BuzzFeed [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [California develops and immediately dumps new wildfire plan]( 6/17/2019 6:31:53 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Following last year’s outbreak of massive and frequently deadly wildfires in California, the state created the Commission on Catastrophic Wildfire Cost and Recovery. This group of experts from various, related fields was charged with sorting [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [More SCOTUS: You’d better believe there’s no double jeopardy issue between sovereigns]( 6/17/2019 6:01:42 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments A year ago, the Supreme Court granted cert in an appeal from Terance Gamble in what appeared to signal a willingness to expand the constitutional prohibition on double jeopardy. Gamble got prosecuted by Alabama and by the federal government over [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [The freaky Arnold Schwarzen-Hader deepfake]( 6/17/2019 5:31:57 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments To cleanse the palate, the most amazing deepfake video I’ve seen yet, allegedly created by a graphic illustrator in the Czech Republic using nothing more sophisticated than open-source software. Deepfakes typically take one of two forms. First [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Gunman launches attack at Dallas court building, is shot dead by police]( 6/17/2019 5:06:56 PM John Sexton 0 Comments It’s still not completely clear what the motive was here but it looks like the 22-year-old man who opened fire outside a Dallas court building was seeking to create mass casualties. Fortunately, police returned fire and no one else was hurt. [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Should felons serve on juries? California seems to think so]( 6/17/2019 4:31:19 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments California is still tinkering around with their own special version of democracy. The latest lab experiment they’re looking to conduct comes to us in the form of Senate Bill 310, introduced by Nancy Skinner, a Democratic state Senator from [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Matthews’ advice to Dems: Maybe stop sneering at pro-life “lowbrows”]( 6/17/2019 4:01:05 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments How can Democratic presidential hopefuls beat Donald Trump in the states that matter? Chris Matthews offers them some advice before their first debate, which will take place next week in a series of one-on-one matchups. The MSNBC host told Morning [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Iran: You have 10 days until we pass the limit of uranium we’re allowed to stockpile under the nuclear agreement]( 6/17/2019 3:31:17 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments This threat is aimed at Europe more so than at the U.S., although their problem will become our problem if they can’t reach some economic accommodation with Iran quickly. If not, what does Trump propose to do? Both he and Khamenei have ruled [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [More evidence that Trump’s tariff battle with Mexico made a difference]( 6/17/2019 3:01:21 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Last week, Ed pointed to some pretty clear evidence that things were changing in Mexico in response to direct pressure from President Trump. Specifically, it appears Mexico is making a more concerted effort to stem the flow of migrants from Central [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [San Francisco PD sued for discrimination… against white men]( 6/17/2019 2:31:58 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Hey, did you hear the one about the 12 white guys who brought a lawsuit saying they were being discriminated against? That probably sounds like the opening line of a joke you’d read at Media Matters, but in this case, it’s true. And the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Happy Father’s Day: “America’s Dad” wants you to man up, or something]( 6/17/2019 2:01:05 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments It’s the “Fat Albert” opening to the greeting that really sells it, right? Bill Cosby offered a belated Instagram message to all of America’s fathers to let us know that he’s thinking of them today — while [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump campaign fires three pollsters after internal numbers leaked showing him trailing Biden]( 6/17/2019 1:31:13 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments I sympathize with POTUS and campaign manager Brad Parscale in being angry that their own internal polls somehow ended up in the media’s hands. But why do they assume the leak came from the pollsters rather than from someone inside [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Jon Stewart’s imitators have weaponized comedy in the Trump era]( 6/17/2019 1:01:40 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Jon Stewart was back in the news last week which may be what prompted Politico to publish a piece over the weekend looking at how comedy has changed in the Trump era. It turns out most of the comedians currently hosting shows with nightly or weekly [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Latest Headlines: We pick, you click.] Katherine Timpf [I am a patriot. That’s why I want to keep flag-burning legal.]( CNN [Amazon condemns AOC for “starvation wages” comment]( Gabriel Sherman [Why the Mercers, Trump’s biggest 2016 backers, have bailed on him]( Lance Morrow [A reckoning with Martin Luther King]( NYT [Manafort seemed headed to Rikers. 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