HotAir Daily Express 07/15/2019

[Hot Air Daily Express]( [Follow us on Facebook]( [Home]([Green Room]([Archive]([The Ed Morrissey Show]([Print]([Forward]( [Biden ad: I’m for keeping ObamaCare — and I’m surprised that so many of my Dem rivals aren’t]( 7/15/2019 11:21:28 AM Allahpundit 0 Comments I feel like this ad, and the new health-care plan Biden’s rolling out today, is one part policy to four parts political branding. Biden’s willing to pander to lefties on marginal stuff like the Hyde Amendment but if they demand that he [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Churches offering sanctuary to illegal aliens from raid that didn’t happen]( 7/15/2019 10:41:49 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Yesterday was supposed to be the start of the big ICE raids in cities across the country, with the agency rooting out illegal aliens who have ignored their lawful deportation orders for years. In anticipation of this, activists and politicians have [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Dem internal poll: Ocasio-Cortez becoming the party’s “definitional face” in the heartland]( 7/15/2019 10:01:13 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Why did Nancy Pelosi reverse her earlier approach to her noisy first-term progressives and start taking them to the public woodshed? An internal poll conducted in May by Democrats might explain why Pelosi decided to start cracking down on the frosh [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [So the Molotov Man was Antifa (and a “hero” to some)]( 7/15/2019 9:21:53 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments This is my shocked face. What were the odds? The maniac who tried to burn down and blow up an ICE detention center in Tacoma yesterday (and wound up being “iced” by the police) was an Antifa member. And we’re not talking about [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Did Trump just toss House Dems a lifeline?]( 7/15/2019 8:41:47 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments One of the most important rules in partisan politics is this: when your opponents are fighting amongst themselves, stay out of it. House Democrats spent the last few days in a civil war over whether Nancy Pelosi and the Congressional Black Caucus [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Out: Equal pay. In: ERA?]( 7/15/2019 8:01:56 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments The USA women’s soccer team is all the rage right now, and not just for their back to back World Cup victories. It seems like everyone, particularly politicians and liberals in the media, is trying to hitch their wagons to these rising stars. [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Report: The 007 moniker is passed on]( 7/14/2019 8:01:25 PM Taylor Millard 0 Comments James Bond is no longer 007. Via Daily Mail: In what’s been called a ‘popcorn-dropping moment’, British star Lashana Lynch, will be given Bond’s licence to kill in the 25th movie in the franchise, currently being shot in [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Air Force: We’re not kidding. “Storming Area 51” would be a really bad idea]( 7/14/2019 6:31:40 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Just yesterday we were discussing what I’m still holding out hope turns out to be one of the most widespread pranks in history. Nearly 400,000 people have signed on to a crackpot scheme on Facebook to “storm” Area 51, the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump declares Cincinnati, Detroit, NYC sovereign nations in tweets]( 7/14/2019 5:01:33 PM Taylor Millard 0 Comments Three United States cities are now sovereign nations after a declaration by President Donald Trump. The president issued the edict removing Cincinnati, Detroit, and New York City from the United States today in a series of tweets which also [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Alyssa Milano compares Pence to Himmler visiting concentration camp]( 7/14/2019 3:31:43 PM Karen Townsend 0 Comments Vice-President Mike Pence went to Texas Friday to check on the situation at the southern border for himself and the inevitable happened. It’s 2019 and that means it is completely predictable that Pence was compared to a Nazi visiting a [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Rahm Emanuel: Let’s face it, AOC’s chief of staff is a snot-nosed punk]( 7/14/2019 2:01:36 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Time for today’s civil war update. A weird but true fact about the barroom brawl Democrats have been having for the past 72 hours is that Saikat Chakrabarti, AOC’s chief of staff, is in the middle of it despite the fact that he [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Hot tip: If you throw Molotovs, the police will probably shoot you]( 7/14/2019 12:31:14 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Apparently, this isn’t the type of story the media likes to talk about very much. A guy showed up at an ICE detention center in Tacoma, Washington yesterday, armed with a rifle and a duffle bag full of Molotov cocktails and other improvised [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Love in the time of fallenness: Sunday reflection]( 7/14/2019 11:46:44 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments This morning’s Gospel reading is Luke 10:25–37: There was a scholar of the law who stood up to test him and said, “Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?” Jesus said to him, “What is written in the law? How do you read it?” He said in [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Gubernatorial candidate refuses female reporter’s access to campaign]( 7/14/2019 11:01:00 AM Karen Townsend 0 Comments A story has been going around for a few days about the Mississippi gubernatorial race. A Republican running in the party’s primary to be the nominee for governor refused a request from a newspaper’s female reporter to cover a campaign [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Amid homelessness crisis, SF residents sue to block new shelter]( 7/14/2019 9:31:35 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Remember when we talked about the 30% increase in homelessness in San Francisco? At the time I suggested that some combination of public and private investment might be needed to combat the problem. As it turns out, just such a proposal is moving [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Sunday morning talking heads]( 7/14/2019 8:01:07 AM Allahpundit 0 Comments Has LeBron James ever done “Meet the Press”? Tom Brady? It’s not a show that typically invites on athletes, even when their cultural footprint is enormous and has lasted for upwards of two decades. But James and Brady aren’t [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Forget lab-grown meat. Here comes lab-grown milk]( 7/13/2019 8:31:14 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments It used to be that I was just fretting over the idea of the vegan barbarians being at the gate with their plans to wipe out the cows and force us all to live on a diet of twigs and leaves. But in less time than even I could have imagined, the gates [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [The plan to “storm Area 51” was a joke. Maybe.]( 7/13/2019 7:01:35 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments In the movie Independence Day, Will Smith’s character rocks up to the gates of Area 51 in a pickup truck with a captured space alien in the back. He’s leading a massive caravan of RVs and other vehicles with thousands of people fleeing [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [American Federation of Teachers join Lights for Liberty protests]( 7/13/2019 5:31:55 PM Karen Townsend 0 Comments Friday night organized protests were held in cities and towns across America, according to reports. The reason for the protests was to voice opposition to the conditions that exist in detention centers housing illegal immigrants. In Washington, D.C. [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Roll Call: McGrath’s campaign video attack on McConnell sure looks faked]( 7/13/2019 4:01:18 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments And you thought the Ashley Judd proto-campaign was a joke. Fresh off the humiliation of her double-flip-flop on Brett Kavanaugh, Roll Call’s Niels Lesniewski fact-checks Amy McGrath’s campaign launch video — and finds it’s [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Oh yes: House Dems, progressives melting down on Twitter over AOC/Pelosi war]( 7/13/2019 2:31:52 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Following this has been the most fun I’ve had as blogger. At least since the first Anthony Weiner scandal and the day Andrew Breitbart briefly commandeered his podium. I don’t even know where to begin in trying to catch people up. Here, [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Kamala Harris can’t make up her mind about private health insurance]( 7/13/2019 1:01:10 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments California Senator and 2020 presidential hopeful Kamala Harris has some very strong opinions about getting rid of private medical insurance as part of a Medicare for All program. Specifically, she has two very strong ideas. The first is that’s [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Are we getting a safe third country deal with Guatemala?]( 7/13/2019 11:31:24 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments We’ve heard at least half a dozen announcements about this over the past couple of months, but now it looks as if it will become official this week. The President is preparing to finalize a Safe Third Country agreement with Guatemalan [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Marianne Williamson rescued a fellow candidate’s dead campaign]( 7/13/2019 10:01:33 AM Karen Townsend 0 Comments Let’s face it, few people know who Mike Gravel is, much less that he is a Democrat running in the 2020 presidential primary. He announced his candidacy in April. Unlike most candidates, though, he asked supporters to donate as little as [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump can deny funds to sanctuary cities says… the Ninth Circuit?]( 7/13/2019 8:31:36 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments I’ll confess that I didn’t see this one coming. One of the many decisions the President made in pushing border security and combatting illegal immigration was to channel federal grant money away from sanctuary cities who refuse to [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Latest Headlines: We pick, you click.] Dina Nayeri [Why they fear Ilhan Omar]( Donald Trump [When will radical left congresswomen apologize for their foul language?]( AP [Trump moves to end asylum protections for Central Americans]( Politico [Biden unveils health care plan: ObamaCare 2.0]( Axios [Jeffrey Epstein and the utility of fake billions]( Axios [Poll: AOC is defining Dems in swing states]( WaPo [As immigrant families wait in dread, no sign of large-scale enforcement raids]( CNN [Theresa May’s office calls Trump’s tweets about Omar, AOC “completely unacceptable”]( NBC [Trump weighs ousting Commerce chief Wilbur Ross after census defeat]( Courtney Maum [Please touch me]( Kevin Drum [Are Democrats now the party of open borders?]( HuffPost [Pelosi emerges as unexpected villain at Netroots Nation]( James Warren [Why can’t the most lethal military in history win its wars?]( L.B. 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The Trump administration is silent.]( HuffPost [Harris rips Russian bots for Kaepernick furor, says they’re coming for her]( Daily Mail [“I should be allowed to play any person, or any tree, or any animal”]( Army Times [Army researchers building “smart” landmines for future combat]( NY Post [Chick-Fil-A manager fixes WWII veteran’s flat tire]( NY Post [Flame-throwing AOC chief of staff “looking for fight” with Nancy Pelosi]( [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. It was sent to you because you signed up to receive this newsletter on Hot Air OR a friend forwarded it to you. We respect and value your time and privacy. 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