HotAir Daily Express 07/30/2019

[Hot Air Daily Express]( [Follow us on Facebook]( [Home]([Green Room]([Archive]([The Ed Morrissey Show]([Print]([Forward]( [Is Trump’s new pick for intelligence chief about to be blocked by the Republican Senate?]( 7/30/2019 11:21:00 AM Allahpundit 0 Comments Two days ago I would have said no way. Rep. John Ratcliffe was one of the most aggressive Republican questioners at Bob Mueller’s House Judiciary Committee hearing, endearing him to the GOP base. And his biggest political “sin,” [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Wokeback Mountain purge: DCCC retreats, fires staffers over diversity complaints]( 7/30/2019 10:41:17 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments The rebels in the Wokeback Mountain War have several new scalps after winning a major battle last night. DCCC chair Rep. Cheri Bustos (D-IA) dismissed the executive director and a number of other “top executives” after some House [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [MO Senator: social media is too addictive so let’s censor it]( 7/30/2019 10:01:18 AM Taylor Millard 0 Comments U.S. Senator Josh Hawley has a vendetta against social media companies and Big Tech. The Missouri Republican’s multi-pronged attack on technology is far from surprising since he’s painting himself as some sort of modern-day Tipper Gore [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [McConnell blasts WaPo’s “McCarthyism” after “Russian asset” headline]( 7/30/2019 9:21:06 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Call him “Cocaine Mitch,” and Mitch McConnell launches a merchandising empire. Call him “Moscow Mitch,” and, well … look out. The Senate Majority Leader took the Washington Post to the woodshed yesterday after columnist [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Report: FBI, US Olympic Committee knew about Nassar’s serial abuse for a year or more — and did nothing]( 7/30/2019 8:41:14 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments It wasn’t just USA Gymnastics that covered up Larry Nasser’s horrific sexual abuse of young girls and women. A new report from a bipartisan congressional investigation concluded that the FBI and the US Olympic Committee knew about [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [San Fran legislator confronts Cruz in CA airport over detention centers]( 7/30/2019 8:01:22 AM Karen Townsend 0 Comments It’s not every day that a random encounter between two politicians in an airport results in an in-your-face confrontation. It happened to Senator Ted Cruz Sunday as he waited to board a plane at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). His [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Quinnipiac: Biden bounces back out to a big lead, up 12 points in a month, as Harris fades]( 7/29/2019 10:11:39 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments FiveThirtyEight noticed last week that, very quietly, Biden was recovering from the polling hit he took after the busing exchange with Kamala Harris at the last debate. Harris had zoomed up after that in some polls, even touching 20 percent in [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Rand Paul: I’d help pay for a ticket to Somalia so that Ilhan Omar can remind herself what it’s like]( 7/29/2019 9:21:27 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments A leftover from last week. I understand feeling annoyance at immigrants who arrive in America seeking a better life only to join the adversary culture. I … do not understand a member of the Paul family calling them out for it. .@RandPaul on [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Beto’s mom: Beto’s ready to “kick some a**” in second Democrat debate]( 7/29/2019 8:31:40 PM Karen Townsend 0 Comments Moms will cheer for their kids when no one else will. Melissa O’Rourke, Beto’s mom, stepped up to the plate and provided The Dallas Morning News with an interview that was published online Sunday. Most importantly, she reassured the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Coats’ resignation a win for … Pompeo?]( 7/29/2019 7:41:53 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments John Ratcliffe may soon be the Director of National Intelligence, but will Mike Pompeo pull the strings? With Dan Coats’ resignation, the last of the “team of rivals” approach to national security has gone among Cabinet members. [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Dem presidential candidates take the bait, express solidarity with Al Sharpton; Update: Biden too]( 7/29/2019 6:51:52 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments This is working out better for Trump than he could have hoped after this morning’s Twitter rant. I already linked this endorsement from Kamala Harris in an earlier post… .@TheRevAl has spent his life fighting for what's right and [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Politico: Say, Warren’s trade policy sounds a lot like …]( 7/29/2019 6:01:06 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Surprise! Donald Trump’s big win on populist economics has reset incentives across the board — and free-traders have been on their heels ever since. It’s no surprise, therefore, that Elizabeth Warren’s new trade policy sounds [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Antifa adopts AOC’s language to defend itself]( 7/29/2019 5:21:40 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Last Thursday, Rose City Antifa published a letter co-signed by a long list of other Antifa groups. The gist is that they don’t like efforts by Sen. Ted Cruz recommended designating Antifa as a domestic terrorist group. Last week, Cruz also [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Different narratives over China’s anger at Hong Kong]( 7/29/2019 4:41:40 PM Taylor Millard 0 Comments Two different narratives are apparent following today’s news conference on Beijing’s response to the demonstrations in Hong Kong. The first is from China News Service – one of the government-owned news agencies mainly serving Hong [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Gallup: Plurality of Dems now favor cash reparations for black Americans despite heavy opposition from public overall]( 7/29/2019 4:01:25 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Every now and then I see a news story about reparations pop up and think, “Why are we talking about this now?” And then I remember, “Oh right — not one but two top-tier Democratic presidential candidates have endorsed the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [KOMO News looks at homelessness in San Francisco’s worst neighborhood]( 7/29/2019 3:21:23 PM John Sexton 0 Comments KOMO News, the Seattle news station that produced the “Seattle is Dying” special, sent a reporter to look at the homeless situation in the city of San Francisco. The result was a video report that compares the situations in the two [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Ratcliffe’s job interview? “There were crimes committed during the Obama Administration”]( 7/29/2019 2:41:28 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Did this interview get John Ratcliffe the job as ODNI? Naah, but it likely didn’t hurt either. Just a few hours before Donald Trump announced Ratcliffe as the replacement for Dan Coats, whose “retirement” had been rumored for [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Tempe cops now pulling over drivers to … give them coupons for free beverages?]( 7/29/2019 2:01:27 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments To cleanse the palate on a slow news day, who wouldn’t want to be detained by law enforcement in exchange for a free cup of watery convenience-store coffee? If anything, they should scale the program up. If they shoot your dog during a raid, [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [PSU: Prof. Boghossian violated protections for human subjects by hoaxing grievance journals]( 7/29/2019 1:21:03 PM John Sexton 0 Comments When a group of three people set about demonstrating the problems with so-called “grievance studies” in academia they did so by creating spoof papers designed to embarrass the reviewers at leading journals. As I described last October [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Lori Loughlin and husband to present united front, share attorneys]( 7/29/2019 12:41:54 PM Karen Townsend 0 Comments Actress Lori Loughlin and her fashion designer husband Mossimo Giannulli are planning to present a united front moving forward in their legal battle, according to court documents. The plan is for the couple to continue to be represented by attorneys [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Nadler: There’s no deadline to take up impeachment, you know]( 7/29/2019 12:01:28 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Jerrold Nadler might not think so, but voters might have a very different idea. As House Democrats scatter for the six-week-long August recess, the House Judiciary chair told CNN’s Jake Tapper that impeachment has no deadline, even with an [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump: Al Sharpton hates whites!]( 7/29/2019 11:21:06 AM Allahpundit 0 Comments Trump vs. Sharpton is the quintessence of American political culture in 2019, the battle-of-the-con-men that this country deserves. Or, if you prefer Philip Klein’s formulation, “it’s 1980s/early90s NYC politics — just on the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [“Complete chaos”: Wokeback Mountain War shifts to House Dems’ main campaign arm]( 7/29/2019 10:41:31 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments In other news, a global popcorn shortage threatens the watch-party economy. Film at 11: The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is in full-blown turmoil. Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chairwoman Cheri Bustos (D-Ill.) was set to [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [“No tengo interés”: Puerto Rican governor-in-waiting wants to pass]( 7/29/2019 10:01:37 AM Taylor Millard 0 Comments The woman set to become Puerto Rico’s next governor does not want the job. Me reitero, no tengo interés en ocupar el puesto de Gobernadora. Es un dictamen Constitucional. Espero que el señor Gobernador identifique y someta un candidato para [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Suspect ID’d in Gilroy shooting, manhunt on for possible accomplice; three dead]( 7/29/2019 9:21:23 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Law enforcement shot and killed the 19-year-old suspect at the Gilroy Garlic Festival, but not before he opened fire on the crowd, murdering three people, including a 6-year-old boy. Investigators are attempting to figure out why Santino William [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Latest Headlines: We pick, you click.] Time [Top GOP senator warned the White House about Trump’s choice for intelligence director]( AP [Suburban women recoil as Trump dives into racial politics]( Jack Crowe [O’Rourke invites HS football players who kneeled for anthem to debate]( Jared Olsen [I’m a Republican and I oppose restarting federal executions]( Jack Crowe [Hawley introduces bill to ban “addictive” social media features]( ABC [Trump’s pick for intelligence director misrepresented role in anti-terror case]( WaPo [How Trump seized on a Fox News broadcast to go after Cummings]( NYT [Trump’s choice of a partisan for top intelligence post rattles critics]( Politico [DCCC faces mass staff upheaval after uproar over diversity]( NYT [WH officials privately scoff that Trump’s attacks on Cummings are strategic]( WSJ [Wealthy parents transfer guardianship of their teens to get college financial aid]( Pagan Kennedy [The land where the Internet ends]( Denver Post [“We want people to come here and celebrate life and spend time together as a family”]( WaPo [Never-Googlers: Web users take the ultimate step to guard their data]( Tim Chapman [The GOP’s challenge in 2020? 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