HotAir Daily Express 07/16/2019

[Hot Air Daily Express]( [Follow us on Facebook]( [Home]([Green Room]([Archive]([The Ed Morrissey Show]([Print]([Forward]( [Shaun King: The Antifa terrorist who was killed while attacking an ICE detention facility is a martyr]( 7/16/2019 11:21:21 AM Allahpundit 0 Comments The tweets have since been deleted, whether because King thought better of them (unlikely) or because Twitter warned him privately that even a Woke Jedi would have to be banned for appearances’ sake for endorsing political violence this [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Another man wins gold in women’s weightlifting]( 7/16/2019 10:41:54 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments This turns out to be a follow-up to a story we started covering back in 2017. At that time, transgender weightlifter Laurel Hubbard of New Zealand had been cleared by the International Olympic Committee to compete in the upcoming Commonwealth Games, [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Machetes and mayhem: DoJ unveils MS-13 racketeering and murder indictment]( 7/16/2019 10:01:01 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Bet on this becoming a White House talking point by the end of the day. The Department of Justice unveiled an indictment against a virulent MS-13 gang in Los Angeles for racketeering and murder, but even those charges understate the bloodthirsty [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Looks like Trump didn’t delay the Harriet Tubman bill after all]( 7/16/2019 9:21:08 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Remember that racist plot hatched by Donald Trump and Steve Mnuchin to undo Barack Obama’s efforts to put Harriet Tubman on the twenty-dollar bill? It was such an obvious case of racism and spite toward the 44th President that the media has [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Ecuadorian probe: You bet Assange was meeting with Russians in the embassy]( 7/16/2019 8:41:29 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments And quite a few others, as it turns out. After his arrest, word got out about Julian Assange’s influence and control at Ecuador’s embassy in the UK, but a report from a probe ordered by its government shows his power at times exceeded [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Oregon’s Governor facing possible recall]( 7/16/2019 8:01:00 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Has Oregon Governor Kate Brown pushed her liberal agenda too far? In a blue state like that, it’s tough to imagine, but a group of Republicans are launching a recall effort amid complaints of government overreach and new policies they claim [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Al Green: Trump impeachment would heal our country’s “Original Sin”]( 7/15/2019 10:41:53 PM Taylor Millard 0 Comments Houston Congressman Al Green thinks impeaching President Donald Trump will suddenly close the racial divide in America. The Democrat suggested Trump’s ousting would be a public cleansing for the nation. This bigotry. This hate. This [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Hoo boy: If you like your plan you can keep your plan, says Joe Biden of new health-care proposal]( 7/15/2019 10:01:24 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments I realize that his whole thing is convincing Dem voters that they’ll be getting Obama’s third term if they nominate him. But does he have to mimic O right down to his most egregious and notorious lies? I mean, he’s really committed [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Meghan McCain on Graham and Trump’s tweets: This is not the Lindsey Graham I used to know]( 7/15/2019 9:21:28 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Not the first time she’s expressed unhappiness with Graham on her show. But every shot to date, including this one, has been brief and saw McCain quickly change the subject. Clearly she doesn’t want to lay into a de facto member of the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Media coverage of Hurricane Barry was the real disaster]( 7/15/2019 8:41:17 PM Karen Townsend 0 Comments There will be no media awards for Al Roker or the Washington Post in recognition of their coverage of Hurricane Barry. At least if the people living in New Orleans have a say in the matter. The weekend weather event, fortunately, was nowhere nearly [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Scarlett Johansson, briefly: Why can’t I play any role I want?]( 7/15/2019 8:01:11 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Just after the disappointing end to a potentially game-changing meltdown on wokeness among Democrats, Hollywood manages to avoid one of its own. In an interview with As If magazine, A-lister Scarlett Johansson wondered aloud about the impact [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Ilhan Omar responds to Trump: It’s time for us to impeach you]( 7/15/2019 7:21:09 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments From this afternoon’s joint “Squad” press conference. Between Omar trying to drag the caucus towards the nuclear option and Trump doubling down on his “go back to your country” shtick on Twitter a few hours ago, Pelosi [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Klobuchar: I’ll pass on open borders, thanks]( 7/15/2019 6:41:46 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments We’re finally seeing some daylight between a few of the two dozen Democrats vying for their party’s nomination next year. One area where the wheat is slowly be separated from the completely crazy chaff is on illegal border crossings. [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Tucker: The lefties are correct about the corporations, man]( 7/15/2019 6:01:03 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Is an opening speech at a National Conservatism Conference a good venue at which to give credit to … progressives? Give Tucker Carlson credit for chutzpah, at the very least, but also for a clever hook on an important argument for the future [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Dem Rep. Al Green: I’m going to force an impeachment vote on Trump after yesterday’s Ilhan Omar tweets]( 7/15/2019 5:21:08 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments A strange but true fact that I learned today from a Politico reporter: Unlike most other business in the House, because impeachment is “privileged” any single member can force a floor vote on whether to take it up. Normally the Speaker [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [NY Post: Time for de Blasio to go]( 7/15/2019 4:41:23 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments I’m sure you’ve all heard about the major, end of the world power outage that hit New York City over the weekend. Everyone has been talking about it and it’s eating up a ton of the news cycle on CNN today. (For some reason.) In any [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Death threat, sexist jokes: Puerto Rico governor refuses to resign after text messages leak]( 7/15/2019 4:01:33 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Ricardo Rosselló had his hands full with corruption scandals before this, but now he’s going to need serious juggling skills. The leak of messages from a group chat the Puerto Rico governor administrated exposed profane and offensive jokes [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Pelosi: The House will vote on condemning Trump’s racist tweets about AOC and the “Squad”]( 7/15/2019 3:21:18 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments No-brainer. “This morning, the President doubled down on his attacks on our four colleagues suggesting they apologize to him,” Pelosi wrote to House Democrats. “Let me be clear, our caucus will continue to forcefully respond to [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Oh, great. Now people are “microdosing” hormones to be “nonbinary”]( 7/15/2019 2:41:44 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments We’ve known for several years now that patients diagnosed with gender dysphoria have been receiving hormone therapy to force their bodies to look and behave more like the gender they “identify” as. But now, as reported at NBC News [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump orders sweeping changes to asylum rules]( 7/15/2019 2:01:00 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Donald Trump managed to score a big win against illegal immigration without Congress’ help. Can he win another on his own? Rather than flexing economic power with Mexico to gain tougher enforcement against illegal immigration, this time Trump [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Feds: We found an expired passport in Epstein’s safe under a false name claiming he’s from Saudi Arabia]( 7/15/2019 1:31:52 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments This wasn’t the safe on Pedophile Island stashed in a room that no one’s allowed to enter. This was a safe in his ultra-ultra-ultra-luxe Manhattan townhouse. The guy’s so shady that something as cartoonishly shady as a fake [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Amal Clooney: Media around the world at risk, blames Trump’s attacks]( 7/15/2019 1:01:46 PM Karen Townsend 0 Comments Amal Clooney, the wife of actor George Clooney, is a human rights lawyer and the U.K. government’s special envoy on media freedom. She delivered a speech at the Global Conference for Media Freedom in London last week where she declared that [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Guatemala’s high court probably just killed Trump’s Safe Third Country deal]( 7/15/2019 12:31:12 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Over the weekend we talked about the President’s announcement that he was close to inking a Safe Third Country deal with Guatemala, following discussions with President Jimmy Morales. There are certainly questions to be answered and issues to [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Epstein judge: I’ll take bail under advisement until Thursday]( 7/15/2019 12:01:43 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments This seems like a curious punt on the question of bail. Saying he needed more time to “absorb” the material provided by prosecutors and defense attorneys, Judge Richard Berman postponed a decision on whether to release Jeffrey Epstein [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [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...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Latest Headlines: We pick, you click.] Michelle Goldberg [Please, Pelosi, fight Trump, not the Squad]( CNN [Read: House resolution to condemn Trump’s racist tweets]( BuzzFeed [How Silicon Valley’s angry right-wing sends its message to Washington]( Elvia Díaz [If Republicans can’t condemn Trump’s racist tweets, they are as racist as he is]( P&C [Mark Sanford: I might challenge Trump for president]( Donald Trump [Those tweets weren’t racist!]( Kevin Williamson [A herd has no mind]( Mediaite [Geraldo Rivera: It pains me to see Trump’s racist tweets]( NYT [After 2016 Bible slip, Trump lashed out at “so-called Christians,” book says]( George Conway [Trump is a racist president]( WaPo [Interior to move most of Bureau of Land Management’s D.C. staff out west]( Shaun King [It’s come to this]( NYT [Driverless cars are taking longer than we expected. 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