HotAir Daily Express 08/02/2019

[Hot Air Daily Express]( [Follow us on Facebook]( [Home]([Green Room]([Archive]([The Ed Morrissey Show]([Print]([Forward]( [Trump mocks Cummings: Too bad his house was robbed!]( 8/2/2019 11:21:17 AM Allahpundit 0 Comments “President Nelson Muntz,” Liam Donovan calls him. This is what I get for jumping on the A$AP Rocky story last night and calling it the ultimate “What if Obama did it?” item. It took literally 15 hours for a better one to come [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Politico: My, but “Middle Class Joe” Biden and his family seem … swampy]( 8/2/2019 10:41:21 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments And my, but isn’t this attack convenient after this week’s debate. That’s not to say that Politico’s Ben Schreckinger didn’t do a good job in delving into the finances of one of America’s most prominent [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Cool, cool summer: 164K jobs added in July]( 8/2/2019 10:01:11 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments The labor force hit a record high, but otherwise the July jobs report was rather unspectacular. The addition of 164,000 new jobs landed almost squarely on economists’ expectations, and wages grew slightly better than expected. However, the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Federal judge to NY: Don’t turn over Trump’s state tax returns to Congress — for now]( 8/2/2019 9:21:21 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments New York’s attempt to get around the IRS and target Donald Trump has come to a temporary — and surprisingly early — halt. A federal judge issued a temporary injunction that forbids the state to use its new TRUST Act to supply [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [INF off: US officially withdraws from nuclear-arms treaty]( 8/2/2019 8:41:58 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Will the last one out of the INF room please turn off the glowing lights? The US has formally withdrawn from the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces pact signed by Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev in 1987. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Turns out, political momentum is also political hokum]( 8/2/2019 8:01:14 AM Andrew Malcolm 0 Comments With the “Come-One-Come-All” portion of the Democratic primary debate season complete, we are now about to enter the unpredictable Season of Momentum. You can see momentum in a football game. It’s on the scoreboard. But momentum is [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [What is the White House’s special envoy on hostage affairs doing at the A$AP Rocky trial in Sweden?]( 8/1/2019 10:41:00 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments So embarrassing. And doubly embarrassing is the fact that every righty in the country would have taken a rhetorical flamethrower to Obama if he had pulled this swampy garbage. Read this post for background if you haven’t been following the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump fan: I was attacked in New York City for wearing a MAGA hat]( 8/1/2019 10:01:34 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Caution is always in order with a claim of hit-and-run political violence, as attention-seekers have been known to fabricate such things for their own personal or ideological reasons. As I’m sure you know. This guy, however, is clearly not [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Google Camp: Celebrities with huge carbon footprints talk environment]( 8/1/2019 9:21:27 PM Karen Townsend 0 Comments What do former President Barack Obama, Prince Harry, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Katy Perry have in common? All of them are famous, extremely wealthy, and environmental scolds. They talk a big game about saving the planet and fighting global warming but [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Debate deflate continues: Second night dropoff 40% from previous debate]( 8/1/2019 8:41:39 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments How tough is it to counter-program against summer reruns, anyway? CNN’s coverage of the second Democratic presidential debate managed to improve in the second round, but viewership still fell far short of the first debate’s second round [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Majority of House Democrats now support impeachment inquiry. Does it matter?]( 8/1/2019 8:01:10 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments I’m just a simple unfrozen caveman, but isn’t this kabuki? Posturing by Dems, or at least many Dems, with no real intention of following through? The majority of the House Democratic caucus now supports an impeachment inquiry against [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Debate night two winner: Kool-Aid]( 8/1/2019 7:21:52 PM Karen Townsend 0 Comments There was one exchange last night that really captured my attention. I wasn’t able to watch the entire Democrat debate on CNN Wednesday (a blessing, I know) but one back and forth between Senator Cory Booker and former Vice-President Joe Biden [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Jail time for defiant Ohio lady who feeds homeless cats]( 8/1/2019 6:41:33 PM Andrew Malcolm 0 Comments Finally, authorities in suburban Cleveland are cracking down on an old lady who feeds cats without homes. Now that officials in Garfield Heights have conquered serious crimes, they’re focused on Nancy Segula, a 79-year-old widow who lost her [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Mystery deepens: Why doesn’t that weird blue-striped building on Epstein’s private island match the blueprints for it?]( 8/1/2019 6:01:54 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments You know the building I’m talking about. The one with the bar across the door — on the outside, not the inside, presumably to keep people in. But seriously, what's up with this weird temple thing on Jeffrey Epstein's private [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Campus Reform asks Democrats to name Joe Biden’s accomplishments]( 8/1/2019 5:21:43 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Campus Reform went to the theater where the Democratic debate took place and asked a bunch of Democrats what they would consider Joe Biden’s major accomplishments. “I don’t know of a specific accomplishment of his,” one woman [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump: On second thought, China lies, so let’s slap on all the tariffs]( 8/1/2019 4:41:21 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments It seems as though it was just yesterday when the White House was bragging about the progress being made in their trade talks with China. Oh, wait — it actually was yesterday. Their readout bragged about new commitments for increased [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Michael Moore: I am begging Michelle Obama to get into this race and crush Trump]( 8/1/2019 4:01:36 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments She’s the world’s most admired women, extremely personally popular here at home, and singularly well positioned to reassemble the Obama coalition for obvious reasons. A poll taken in February found her running one point behind Biden in [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Today’s hot topics: Debate fade, Comey stayed, China trade, Iran shade, and more!]( 8/1/2019 3:41:47 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Today on The Ed Morrissey Show (4 pm ET), we have another great lineup for the news of the day! The show will be streamed on Hot Air’s Facebook page and embedded here and on the show page for those who are not on Facebook. Join us as we [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Graham forces Senate Judiciary Committee vote on asylum bill]( 8/1/2019 3:21:18 PM Karen Townsend 0 Comments “Blame me but we’re not going to stop”, he said. Senator Lindsey Graham, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee kept his promise to move a bill on asylum out of the committee today. Committee Democrats aren’t happy about [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [DoJ: No prosecution for Comey over leaks]( 8/1/2019 2:41:13 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments So much for the former FBI director perp walk, eh? Despite receiving a referral from Inspector General Michael Horowitz over the matter, the Department of Justice will not prosecute James Comey for the leaks of his memos to the New York Times [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Fox vs. Fox: Neil Cavuto clashes with Lou Dobbs on Trump and the deficit]( 8/1/2019 2:01:58 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Via the Examiner, this was making the rounds yesterday but it’s best enjoyed today, on the occasion of the Senate rubber-stamping the latest garbage spending bill. I’ve never seen a purer microcosm of the news/opinion divide within Fox [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Ex-Google engineer says he was fired for his conservative views]( 8/1/2019 1:21:11 PM John Sexton 0 Comments The Wall Street Journal has a story today about a former Google engineer named Kevin Cernekee. Cernekee, who hasn’t told his story publicly before, claims that he was fired last year after battling they company for years over his conservative [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [NYT: Which seven candidates have qualified for the next Dem debate?]( 8/1/2019 12:41:35 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments More importantly, which haven’t? The mid-September debate in Houston has a tougher bar for entry, and thus far only seven candidates have already cleared it. The rest have until August 28th, the New York Times explains, but at the moment only [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Senate to vote for awful budget bill today; Update: Passes 65-28]( 8/1/2019 12:01:24 PM Taylor Millard 0 Comments The Senate is set to vote on the horribly awful, no-good, very bad budget today in a vote which will surely go down as one of the worst fiscally-related bills in some time. This ‘compromise’ bill (which is really politicians in both [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Harris sneers at Tulsi Gabbard: I’m a top-tier candidate and she’s at zero or one percent]( 8/1/2019 11:21:13 AM Allahpundit 0 Comments Via the Free Beacon, did I tell you the Harris/Gabbard war was coming or did I tell you? “Gabbard might be an attack dog for Biden onstage tonight,” I wrote last night, “and if she is, the theories of why she’s allied herself with [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Latest Headlines: We pick, you click.] Matthew Walther [Biden is collapsing, and so is the Obama-era consensus]( Elaina Plott [“We’re all tired of being called racists”]( Michelle Goldberg [Why not Cory Booker?]( Matt Taibbi [The rise and fall of superhero Robert Mueller]( Hanna Trudo [New Hampshire Republicans to Corey Lewandowski: Stay away from the Senate]( Donald Trump [“The Baltimore house of Elijah Cummings was robbed. 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Yes, says a study showing humans’ biases extend to robots]( Peter Beinart [The Democratic debates ignored China — at Americans’ peril]( Philip Klein [Elizabeth Warren is a policy fraud]( David French [The meaning of the Marianne Williamson moment]( David Brog [What Bret Stephens gets wrong about national conservatives]( Bret Stephens [Democrats are not up to their historic responsibility]( Shadi Hamid [If Trump were an immigrant the U.S. might not let him in]( Brad Polumbo [Love or hate her politics, Tulsi Gabbard is a patriot]( NYT [Only seven candidates have qualified for the next Dem debate]( Lance Morrow [Self-driving cars will ruin our connection to the metal beast]( Fred Kaplan [Dan Coats lost his job for telling Trump the truth]( WaPo [U.S. preparing to withdraw thousands of troops from Afghanistan in initial deal with Taliban]( [Ed Morrissey Show]( [Advertisement] __________________________SUBSCRIPTION INFO__________________________ WERE YOU FORWARDED THIS EDITION OF THE HOT AIR DAILY? 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