HotAir Daily Express 07/04/2019

[Hot Air Daily Express]( [Follow us on Facebook]( [Home]([Green Room]([Archive]([The Ed Morrissey Show]([Print]([Forward]( [Happy birthday, America, from the folks at Hot Air]( 7/4/2019 8:01:12 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments The old saying informs us that there’s no rest for the wicked, but even the writers here at Hot Air need a day off now and again, and Independence Day is such an occasion. But as you prepare for parades, family reunions, BBQs, or whatever else [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [63-year-old woman in critical condition after random attack by homeless man in California]( 7/3/2019 10:41:17 PM John Sexton 0 Comments A 63-year-old woman taking a break at work was beaten in an alley so badly that she was unrecognizable. She was admitted to a hospital in critical condition. The attacker was identified by witnesses and arrested. He is 51-year-old Hector Manuel [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Advisor to Rouhani warns Trump: We’ve ended U.S. presidencies before — so listen to Tucker Carlson]( 7/3/2019 10:01:54 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Just a normal day in geopolitics in 2019, with an apparatchik in a fundamentalist Muslim regime publicly trolling the president of the United States by warning him to listen to Fox News’s peacenik 8 p.m. host instead of to his cabinet. Coming [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Joy Reid: Let’s face it, Trump’s July 4th tank pageant is a threat to the American people]( 7/3/2019 9:21:41 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments A leftover from yesterday that raises an important question: Must the Resistance always be so “extra,” as the kids say? To which they’d reply, I suppose, “Must Trump?” There are many reasons to object to this event but [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Bret Weinstein and Andy Ngo discuss Antifa: ‘The illiberal, authoritarian left keeps resetting the bar of irony’]( 7/3/2019 8:41:42 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Bret Weinstein launched a new podcast Tuesday with an interview of reporter Andy Ngo. After describing the attack which put him in the hospital, Ngo summarized his view of Antifa. “This movement does not deserve to be called anti-fascists, [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Crackdown: ICE issues notices of fines to illegal aliens]( 7/3/2019 8:01:14 PM Karen Townsend 0 Comments President Trump signed an executive order in 2017, not long after taking office, to enforce civil penalties against illegal aliens to beef up efforts to hold them accountable, as well as those who assist them by providing sanctuary. Penalties began [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Yikes: Two new polls show Biden sliding to … third place]( 7/3/2019 7:31:29 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments I’m being a little selective in singling out those two polls when there are others out today that are more encouraging for him. Okay, I’m being a lot selective. But whatever. Manufacturing half-assed BS narratives is the stuff of which [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Obama’s DHS chief: Dem candidates’ immigration plans are “tantamount to declaring publicly that we have open borders”]( 7/3/2019 7:01:05 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments This feels like a Republican debating point come to life. You can imagine Trump saying, “Democrats have moved so far left on immigration, even the Obama people would be shocked!” But it’s not a hypothetical. The Obama people, [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [China uses a surveillance app to search the phones of tourists entering the country]( 7/3/2019 6:31:37 PM John Sexton 0 Comments A joint investigation by several news organizations has uncovered another sign of China’s use of technology to expand its authoritarian control over the western province of Xinjiang. People coming across the border from Kyrgyzstan (see map [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [You can opt out of facial recognition at the airport… maybe]( 7/3/2019 6:01:26 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Depending on which airports you tend to use frequently, you may have already encountered the facial recognition scanners that TSA is employing as a replacement for waiting in line to have your passport or other documentation examined. If you [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Dan Crenshaw calls out AOC for lies, hypocrisy about border conditions]( 7/3/2019 5:21:00 PM Karen Townsend 0 Comments Rep. Dan Crenshaw voiced some thoughts about a fellow freshman serving in the House Tuesday. He says that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is lying about the treatment of detainees in detention centers along the border. Worse, he says, she is a hypocrite [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Of course: Julian Castro, Beto O’Rourke back Nike in decision to cancel its colonial flag sneakers]( 7/3/2019 4:41:04 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Just reminding you again in case you missed it in this morning’s post about Charlottesville that the colonial flag was given pride of place at the inauguration of America’s first black president with no objection. That Betsy Ross flag [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Fareed Zakaria: Our asylum laws are ‘vague, lax, and being gamed’]( 7/3/2019 4:01:24 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Sunday, Fareed Zakaria did a segment about the crisis at the border in which he stated the facts that few reporters seem interested in talking about. Speaking of Trump, Zakaria said, “He is right that the United States faces a crisis with its [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Court may rule that you can call non-meat meat]( 7/3/2019 3:21:37 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments What’s the harm, many of you said. So people are creating fake meat out of genetically modified enzymes from soy roots. And they’re supposedly making it juicy and creating it to taste almost like actual meat. Why panic? Nobody is making [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Congresswoman: Prosecute those poking fun of Congressional members]( 7/3/2019 2:41:37 PM Karen Townsend 0 Comments Some Democrats toured the Homestead Temporary Shelter for Unaccompanied Children in Homestead, Florida Tuesday. In case you haven’t heard, touring detention facilities is all the rage for Congressional Democrats now that they have been shamed [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Report: Meghan McCain feels like a “caged animal” on “The View,” might not renew her contract]( 7/3/2019 2:01:12 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Just putting this out there: If ABC wants to pay me a million bucks a year to sit there every day and be polite while Joy Behar calls me a racist, I will entertain the offer. I will not call her a “bitch.” And I will not call the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump: We’re ‘absolutely moving forward’ on adding a citizenship question to the Census]( 7/3/2019 1:21:59 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Yesterday, there were reports at every major news outlet saying the same thing: The citizenship question would not appear on the 2020 Census. This morning, Trump said all of those reports were fake news: The News Reports about the Department of [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Gun rights groups sue California over age limits on buying firearms]( 7/3/2019 12:41:57 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Last September, California passed a law raising the minimum age to own a firearm from 18 to 21. This highly problematic law was bound for one or more challenges from the moment it was proposed and now that’s come to pass. Multiple plaintiffs [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Clear 2020 theme emerges: Sharp partisan split over socialism vs capitalism]( 7/3/2019 12:01:12 PM Andrew Malcolm 0 Comments Now, we may know exactly why President Trump is vowing so often that the United States will never embrace socialism: That polls really well among Republicans, like more than eight-out-of-ten well, including nearly two-thirds of whom have a very [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Charlottesville City Council votes to cancel holiday for Thomas Jefferson’s birthday]( 7/3/2019 11:21:22 AM Allahpundit 0 Comments So it’s not just Confederate monuments. Smart liberals assured me during the debate over tearing down statues of Robert E. Lee that there was a distinction between Lee and Founding Fathers like Washington and Jefferson. The latter were [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Oregon Governor looks at executive powers to institute cap and trade]( 7/3/2019 10:41:34 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments With the return of the fleebagging Oregon state Senate members this week, it sounded as if the battle over cap and trade in that state was over. The Democrats had decided that they didn’t have the votes to pass the measure anyway, so the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Campaign Donations: $24 million is good for a Dem; $105 million better for a Trump]( 7/3/2019 10:01:23 AM Andrew Malcolm 0 Comments Last time Donald Trump ran for president, he was an upstart, outsider, unlikely to win, who put some $66 million of his own into that successful unorthodox campaign. This time is different, very different. He’s an incumbent commander-in-chief [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Cruz vs Wheeler over Antifa]( 7/3/2019 9:21:39 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments The debate over the beatdown of photojournalist Andy Ngo (among others) in Portland at the hands of Antifa is showing no signs of cooling down. While the lack of police presence and response remains of great concern, most of the focus now seems to [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Uh-huh: To save water, LA pays folks to tear out lawns that fight smog, costing billions]( 7/3/2019 8:41:52 AM Andrew Malcolm 0 Comments This would be so California-hilarious if it didn’t affect the health of millions of its citizens. Statistics show that after some years of improvement, mainly nationally, air in the country’s capital of smog, Los Angeles, is [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Navy Seal Eddie Gallagher found not guilty on most charges]( 7/3/2019 8:01:02 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments It’s been a long process, at least by military tribunal standards, but Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher has been found not guilty on nearly all charges related to the death of an ISIS militant in Iraq in 2017. He was found guilty of a single charge [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Latest Headlines: We pick, you click.] Axios [Trump considers executive order on citizenship question]( Donald Trump [Glad to see loser Justin Amash leave the party!]( NYT [“Leave tanks for Red Square”: Trump’s July 4 celebration unsettles military]( Becket Adams [The monster comes for Biden]( USA Today [16-foot-tall “Dumping Trump” robot to join protests during president’s 4th of July speech]( WaPo [Trump Fed nominee Judy Shelton once advocated for open borders with Mexico]( The Blaze [Cory Booker escorts five migrants across U.S. border to thwart Trump admin policies]( NYT [Trump says migrants are “living far better” in overcrowded border facilities]( AP [On second thought: Harris says busing should be considered, not mandated]( Justin Amash [I’m declaring my independence from the Republican Party]( Kyle Smith [Kamala Harris thinks busing in 2019 would be a good idea. Seriously.]( Edward-Isaac Dovere [Can Democrats still win if they don’t play Trump’s game?]( Sarah Levin [I shouldn’t be forced to give birth to a baby who won’t live]( Politico [NRA meltdown has Trump campaign sweating]( Megan McArdle [The Democrats are in disunity. How long can Pelosi hold them together?]( Axios [How payment rates would change for doctors under Medicare for All]( Alex Kingsbury [Let Trump have his birthday party for America. And let us all ignore it.]( Brian Klaas [Will Boris Johnson bring Trumpism to Britain?]( Rakich, Bronner [Where Kamala Harris’s new voters came from]( Kim Wehle [The Supreme Court’s constitutional cop-out]( Brandon Judd [Ocasio-Cortez’s attacks on Border Patrol are outrageous and based on lies]( David Graham [The sheriff who’s defying ICE]( Law.com [“The tweet this morning was the first I had heard of the President’s position on this issue”]( Geoffrey Skelley [Have we seen the last of Eric Swalwell?]( David Axe [Iran’s navy has a problem: A track record of being crushed in battle]( [Ed Morrissey Show]( [Advertisement] __________________________SUBSCRIPTION INFO__________________________ WERE YOU FORWARDED THIS EDITION OF THE HOT AIR DAILY? You can get your own free subscription to the #1 blog delivered to your email inbox early each morning by visiting: This newsletter is never sent unsolicited. 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