HotAir Daily Express 08/09/2019

[Hot Air Daily Express]( [Follow us on Facebook]( [Home]([Green Room]([Archive]([The Ed Morrissey Show]([Print]([Forward]( [MSNBC contributor: Why aren’t people boycotting pro-Trump businesses like they boycotted pro-apartheid businesses?]( 8/9/2019 11:21:25 AM Allahpundit 0 Comments Via the Free Beacon, what is this network going to be like a year from now, in the thick of the general election campaign, if they’re already at this level of hysteria? In the past five days we’ve had Joe and Mika defend Joaquin [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Good guys with a gun — and a fire alarm: Armed citizen *might have* stopped a potential mass shooting in Missouri Walmart]( 8/9/2019 10:41:30 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Thankfully, more than one hero stepped up to the plate in this Springfield, Missouri Walmart. When a man armed with a rifle and wearing body armor began filming himself stalking around the store, a quick-thinking employee hit the fire alarm to [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump: Full speed ahead on “meaningful Background Checks”]( 8/9/2019 10:01:29 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Will Donald Trump put together a gun-control package that eluded Barack Obama? After two mass shootings this weekend, Trump has ignored reluctant Republicans and a worried NRA to push for expanded background checks and “red flag” laws to [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Hickenlooper heading for Senate race?]( 8/9/2019 9:21:49 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Former Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper has a big decision to make and the clock is ticking in terms how long other options will be available to him. He’s one of many bottom-tier presidential primary candidates who has been under pressure [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Biden: “Poor kids are just as bright, just as talented, as white kids”?]( 8/9/2019 8:41:26 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments The Old Gaffer finally struck again last night. Joe Biden talked about education policy on the campaign trail in Iowa, trying to make a point about dumbing down schools to achieve equality. That shortchanges poor students, Biden declared, who are [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Finally. A fed federal study on transgender athletes in female sports]( 8/9/2019 8:01:31 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Better late than never I suppose. Why this didn’t happen years ago remains a mystery, but the Department of Education has finally agreed to look into the practice in several states of allowing boys who “identify” as girls to [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Are people seriously arguing that “The Hunt” is biased against “the deplorables”?]( 8/8/2019 10:41:16 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments I’m only going by the trailer in insisting that it’s not but that’s more than most of its critics seem to be going on. This passage from THR’s write-up of the movie, whose ads were pulled after the El Paso and Dayton [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [“You just want me to say the words”: Biden won’t call Trump a white supremacist]( 8/8/2019 10:01:56 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments The rest of the field had no trouble saying it. Elizabeth Warren told the New York Times “without hesitation” that Trump gave white supremacists aid and comfort. “He’s done the wink and a nod,” she said. “He has talked [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Five years after the shooting of Michael Brown, race relations seem ‘more divided than ever’]( 8/8/2019 9:21:24 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Tomorrow is the five year anniversary of the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. No doubt there will be a lot of think pieces out tomorrow but the Associated Press has published it’s piece on the anniversary today. Author Jim Salter [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Andrew Cuomo on reducing mass shootings: Let’s have a federal mental health database]( 8/8/2019 8:41:16 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments A solid sign that we’re in the midst of a panic is someone flinging “federal mental health database” onto the policy negotiating table. But there are at least three things working in Cuomo’s favor here: Democrats should come [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [The Hill: Why won’t Biden answer our questions on “sanctuary cities”?]( 8/8/2019 8:01:18 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments The correct answer? Pure political calculation, my friends, pure political calculation. Joe Biden has a comfortable and stable lead in Democratic presidential-primary polling despite being a punching bag in two prime-time debates. That means never [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Victoria’s Secret: New model is transgender woman, executive resigns]( 8/8/2019 7:21:52 PM Karen Townsend 0 Comments When times get tough, the tough …. hire a transgender model? That is the message from Victoria’s Secret, is seems. Ed Razek, the chief marketing executive for L Brands, the parent company of Victoria’s Secret, has made the decision [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Border apprehensions dropped 24% in July]( 8/8/2019 6:41:35 PM John Sexton 0 Comments After peaking in May, the number of people apprehended at the southern border has dropped for the second month in a row. Border Patrol arrested roughly 72,000 migrants at the southwestern border in July, according to statistics published Thursday by [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Wayne LaPierre hints: The NRA will oppose any of the gun-control proposals under consideration]( 8/8/2019 6:01:56 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments We already basically knew this but LaPierre blasted out an “important statement” late this afternoon confirming — in vague terms — that the NRA is a “no” on pretty much anything that’s on the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Wexner: Epstein made his money the old-fashioned way — he stole it]( 8/8/2019 5:21:08 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Mystery solved? Jeffrey Epstein built what appears to be a billion-dollar-or-more fortune as an investment manager for a small select clientele — except few people can remember Epstein doing the work necessary for it. How, people wondered, did [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Colin Kaepernick: Please pay attention to me again]( 8/8/2019 4:41:44 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Colin Kaepernick hasn’t played in the NFL since 2016. Today he posted a video of his workout routine arguing that he’s “still ready” for a big job offer: 5am. 5 days a week. For 3 years. Still Ready. [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Under the bus: My former chief of staff was divisive, says AOC]( 8/8/2019 4:01:59 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Via the Daily Caller, here’s how I like to imagine this process playing out behind the scenes. Pelosi to AOC: Get rid of your bigmouthed pain-in-the-ass sidekick Chakrabarti or I’ll dog-walk you. AOC: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Today’s hot topics: Twitter fight, Harris’ slide, NRA’s fright, conservatives’ spite, and more!]( 8/8/2019 3:21:26 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...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Democrats at a crossroads over push for Medicare for all]( 8/8/2019 2:41:34 PM John Sexton 0 Comments I came across two different pieces this morning which both suggest that Democrats are nervous that some of their leading candidates are miscalculating the public’s appetite for another big, disruptive change to health care. First up is a piece [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [NRSC to Twitter: Of course, you know this means war]( 8/8/2019 2:01:04 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments The NRSC has declared war on Twitter, and the battleground will be Twitter’s revenue stream. It started with Mitch McConnell’s campaign account tweeting out videos of protesters at his home, threatening violence against him for his [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [The epic Trump “visit to El Paso and Dayton” promo vid]( 8/8/2019 1:31:08 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments This is so weird that it simply has to be a Dan Scavino production. No career GOP operative like Kellyanne Conway would pair music this bombastic with an occasion as solemn as the president visiting the victims of two mass shootings, knowing how [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Portland Mayor says he won’t tolerate street violence next weekend]( 8/8/2019 1:01:48 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Mayor Ted Wheeler of Portland, who is also the city’s police commissioner, has bent over backward to protect Antifa from the police this year. But in the wake of a violent attack against reporter Andy Ngo Wheeler seems to be changing his tune. [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Judge: Nope. Chelsea Manning needs to pay those fines]( 8/8/2019 12:31:52 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments As you may recall, back in March we learned that Chelsea Manning was back in jail on contempt charges for failing to answer questions before a grand jury looking into the affairs of Julian Assange, among other things. At the time, the judge decided [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump: Hasn’t Blago suffered enough at the hands of “sleazebags”?]( 8/8/2019 12:01:41 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Color me confused. Wasn’t Rod Blagojevich one of those “sleazebags”? The former governor of Illinois got caught demanding valuable quid pro quos in selling off Barack Obama’s Senate seat and got 14 years in prison for his [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Poll: Ban on assault weapons supported by 55% — of Republicans]( 8/8/2019 11:31:53 AM Allahpundit 0 Comments Not sure why righties on social media are so incredulous about this result. (“It’s a Politico poll!” Well, a poll by the pollster whom Politico uses, yes.) Support for gun control always surges after a mass shooting and then [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Latest Headlines: We pick, you click.] Bloomberg [CEOs who cheat on spouse twice as likely to cheat at work, study shows]( NYT [Trump’s opponents want to name his big donors. Supporters say it’s harassment.]( Richard Friedman [Why mass murderers may not be very different from you or me]( IGN [Report: MoviePass changed users passwords so that they couldn’t see movies]( Mediaite [“Act like a human being”]( Betsy Woodruff [Deputy intel chief Sue Gordon is out after Trump snub]( WFB [MSNBC analyst compares boycotting Trump supporters’ businesses to apartheid boycotts]( WaPo [“Inside the White House, the trip was generally seen as ‘not ideal'”]( NYT [McConnell expresses new willingness to consider background check bill]( Time [The U.S. is close to a peace deal with the Taliban, officials say]( Andrew Clark [Biden: “Poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids”]( Chuck Park [I can no longer justify being a part of Trump’s “Complacent State.” So I’m resigning.]( NYT [Do older people have a different smell?]( C.F. Lehman [Teen motherhood hits all-time low]( Newsweek [Dude]( NYT [Another baseball mystery: Why do players seem to live longer?]( Liesl Gerntholtz [Sex work should be legal — if only to protect women from police]( Toby Young [Trump isn’t to blame for this spate of mass shootings]( Politico [Tulsi Gabbard’s daredevil act]( John McCormack [Why are so many House Republicans retiring?]( Rich Lowry [Immigration restriction is not hate]( David French [My fellow Republicans must stand against the alt-right virus infecting America]( Barbara Ransby [The Squad is the future of the Democratic Party]( Michael Goodwin [Democrats, the time to work with Trump is now]( YouGov [How heat waves make it easier for people to believe in climate change]( [Ed Morrissey Show]( [Advertisement] __________________________SUBSCRIPTION INFO__________________________ WERE YOU FORWARDED THIS EDITION OF THE HOT AIR DAILY? 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