HotAir Daily Express 06/28/2019

[Hot Air Daily Express]( [Follow us on Facebook]( [Home]([Green Room]([Archive]([The Ed Morrissey Show]([Print]([Forward]( [Harris wimps out again: I didn’t mean to strongly suggest at the debate that I’d get rid of all private health insurance]( 6/28/2019 11:21:58 AM Allahpundit 0 Comments The woke commentariat is heavy-breathing this morning over her attack on Biden for his opposition to busing in the 70s, but this clip may have more legs. For the second night in a row, a top-tier Democrat (two, actually) appeared to endorse flushing [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Photojournalist detained by ICE, Amtrak raid in Montana]( 6/28/2019 10:41:08 AM Karen Townsend 0 Comments A 28-year-old photojournalist and DACA recipient was detained in Montana Monday by border patrol officers as he was traveling from Seattle to Williston, North Dakota on Amtrak. Despite the fact that he has an outstanding deportation order, ICE [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [California poised to ban hairstyle discrimination]( 6/28/2019 10:01:03 AM Andrew Malcolm 0 Comments This is California, remember. The Golden state is perched to become the first in the nation to ban discrimination based on unique hairstyles, mainly targeting blacks. The measure, which has passed both chambers of the state legislature, could be [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [State Department’s Chief of Protocol ousted, skipping G-20 with Trump]( 6/28/2019 9:21:00 AM Karen Townsend 0 Comments Welp. Another one bites the dust. Sean Lawler, President Trump’s chief of protocol since December 2017 is out. Assistant chief of protocol, Mary-Kate Fisher, is in. Apparently, if the president frequently asks why a person is still working in [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [First time: Women now a majority of the college-Educated workforce]( 6/28/2019 8:41:22 AM Andrew Malcolm 0 Comments It’s not been big news regularly. But for the past almost four decades women have constituted more than half each year’s college graduating classes. That’s been adding up. So, sometime this year for the first time women will [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [The media myth-building of Kamala Harris continues after debate]( 6/28/2019 8:01:41 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Whether you watched the various bits of media analysis of last night’s debate in real-time or are catching up this morning, you’re probably sensing two themes emerging from the various liberal expert analysts. The first is that Joe Biden [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Co-Chair of House progressive caucus lashes out at moderate Dems as ‘Child Abuse Caucus’]( 6/27/2019 8:41:57 PM John Sexton 0 Comments As Allahpundit noted earlier, Pelosi’s arm was twisted today by a group of moderates who threatened to shut down her revised border bill and basically forced her to accept the Senate bill (or have nothing). Now Politico reports on the ugly [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Dem primary debate, night two: Two grandpas enter, one grandpa leaves]( 6/27/2019 8:01:22 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments 9 p.m. ET on NBC. The anticipation couldn’t be any higher: Statler versus Waldorf for all the marbles. Last night was the undercard debate. This one has most of the top tier, excluding Elizabeth Warren. The line-up: Joe Biden Bernie [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Rashomon: Reporters toured Clint, Texas shelter for migrant children and saw different things]( 6/27/2019 7:21:40 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Wednesday, a group of reporters from various outlets were given a tour inside the Clint, Texas shelter which made news last week after attorneys claimed children insider were dirty and hungry and didn’t have soap or toothbrushes. The tour this [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Brilliant: De Blasio quotes famous Che Guevara line — in Miami]( 6/27/2019 6:41:25 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments In fairness to him, this is what all communists naturally exclaim when they’re excited. All you need to know about this guy’s political instincts is this: He’s the mayor of New York and he’s an avowed Red Sox fan. Going into [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Pelosi caves, agrees to pass Senate border funding bill after McConnell defeats House version]( 6/27/2019 6:01:10 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Remember, Pelosi’s first, second, and third priorities as Speaker of the House when government is divided is to maximize her party’s chances of winning next year. It doesn’t matter how much the left wants to impeach Trump. If [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [AOC: I’m outraged that Mitch McConnell killed the House border bill I voted against! (Update: Tapper asks the obvious question)]( 6/27/2019 5:21:11 PM John Sexton 0 Comments The outrage never stops with Rep. Ocasio-Cortez. Today she expressed outraged that a House border funding bill did not pass in the Senate. She said this despite the fact that she vocally opposed the same bill and refused to vote for it when it was [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [ICYMI: Elizabeth Warren is all-in on ending private health insurance]( 6/27/2019 4:01:21 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments It’s late but I wanted to make sure everyone’s seen this, as chances are good that it’s the only soundbite from last night’s debate that’ll matter between now and Election Day 2020. How many Democratic voters watching [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [AP: The father and daughter who drowned crossing the Rio Grande were economic migrants who planned to claim asylum]( 6/27/2019 3:21:18 PM John Sexton 0 Comments You’ve probably seen the photo by now. A father and daughter from El Salvador washed up on the Mexican shore of the Rio Grande Monday after trying to cross the river. The little girl was not quite two years old. The image is tragic and hard to [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [FANtastic news: Naps make you smarter, nicer]( 6/27/2019 2:41:15 PM Andrew Malcolm 0 Comments Finally, a scientific explanation for how some of us of a certain age have gotten so much smarter than others over the years. Naps. Some wise cultures around the world with high noontime temperatures have midday breaks for a whole hour or two called [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Audio: Trump accuser’s confidants corroborate that she told them decades ago about an assault]( 6/27/2019 2:01:36 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments The full NYT podcast is long at nearly 30 minutes but you don’t need to bother with all of it. The key bit is much shorter — just around 10 minutes in all, starting with E. Jean Carroll’s account at 9:00 or so and continuing with [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Twitter plans to label politician’s tweets that violate its rules, but won’t remove them (Update)]( 6/27/2019 1:21:43 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Twitter has announced a new plan to label tweets which violate its rules but which it has decided to leave on the site because they are in the public interest. Twitter says the new labeling will only apply to government officials who have more than [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [SCOTUS rules against citizenship question on census … for now]( 6/27/2019 12:41:47 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Here’s one decision we’ve been waiting for with bated breath. Can the citizenship question be added to the 2020 census? This is one of the more convoluted decisions we’ve had to plow through in a long time, but the short answer [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [It only took a spark: Investigators give first findings on historic Notre Dame fire]( 6/27/2019 12:01:51 PM Andrew Malcolm 0 Comments A discarded cigarette, still alive with smoldering tobacco, is one of the most likely causes of the historic fire that saddened millions around the world and destroyed large parts of the historic Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. In a preliminary [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [5-4: SCOTUS says partisan gerrymanders can’t be challenged in court]( 6/27/2019 11:21:38 AM Allahpundit 0 Comments All five conservatives in the majority, all four liberals in dissent. To me, this is a case where it’s easy to see the virtue in both sides’ arguments. On the one hand, why should unelected, unaccountable jurists micromanage how the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [ICE now has a detainer for the guy who ran down all those motorcyclists]( 6/27/2019 10:41:04 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments When we first learned of the story of Volodymyr Zhukovskyy having killed seven motorcycle riders in New Hampshire, I found the story to be an obvious tragedy, but also likely little more than a tragic accident. Sadly, such things do happen out on [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [FAA test pilots find another problem, further delaying return of Boeing’s 737 Max]( 6/27/2019 10:01:01 AM Andrew Malcolm 0 Comments In terms of corporate brand disasters, the unfolding series of problems with Boeing’s new 737 Max plane are right up there with Johnson & Johnson’s Tylenol poisonings in 1982. The initial mystery of seven deaths from random [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Oregon’s Governor, chasing fleeing Republicans, once fled herself]( 6/27/2019 9:21:59 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Last week, we looked at a group of Republicans in the Oregon state Senate who had fled the state to deny the Democratic supermajority a quorum for a vote on a new cap and trade carbon bill. For better or worse, the fleebagging tactic worked and, [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [The post office faces fiscal doom, though it’s the most popular federal agency]( 6/27/2019 8:41:35 AM Andrew Malcolm 0 Comments Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds. The unofficial motto of the U.S. Postal Service does not say anything about persevering through a profound agency financial [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [De Blasio somehow manages to lose debate before it begins]( 6/27/2019 8:01:57 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments I’ll confess that I didn’t get to watch the Democrats debate last night and had to catch the blooper reels this morning. (I’m old and these things start too late for me.) But not all of the action was taking place at the lecterns, [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Latest Headlines: We pick, you click.] Jarrett Blanc [What Trump really just told the Iranians: He’s out of ideas]( Politico [McConnell haunts Democratic debates]( Charles Lane [Progressives should be glad they lost the Supreme Court gerrymandering case]( The Week [Biden campaign denies they’re “freaking out” about his debate performance]( CNN [SCOTUS will hear challenges to Trump’s suspension of DACA next term]( BuzzFeed [Tulsi Gabbard is having a MAGA moment after her debate performance]( CNN [Trump jokes with Putin: “Don’t meddle in the election, please”]( Politico [McConnell willing to vote on new Dem president’s Supreme Court nominee]( NYT [Why the Trump administration is running out of time to print the census]( WaPo [Harris/Biden exchange on race and busing dominates Dem debate]( Caitlin Flanagan [Migrant children are suffering. 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