HotAir Daily Express 08/19/2019

[Hot Air Daily Express]( [Follow us on Facebook]( [Home]([Green Room]([Archive]([The Ed Morrissey Show]([Print]([Forward]( [Beto: “Our country was founded on racism – and is still racist today”]( 8/19/2019 11:01:39 AM Karen Townsend 0 Comments Presidential primary candidate Beto O’Rourke has an unusual message for Democrat voters. America was founded on racism and America is still a racist country today, 243 years later. How’s that for an inspiring message? Beto’s [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Are we secretly negotiating with Venezuelan socialist party leaders?]( 8/19/2019 10:31:04 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Last time we checked in on the situation in Venezuela it was basically a stalemate. Negotiations between the government of Nicolas Maduro and supporters of self-declared interim President Juan Guaido, being hosted by Norway have stagnated and were [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Today’s the deadline: Will Planned Parenthood get defunded after all by … Planned Parenthood?]( 8/19/2019 10:01:38 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments This is akin to finding out that Dan Hedaya was Keyser Soze. The years-long effort to defund Planned Parenthood may have finally succeeded, the Daily Beast reported over the weekend, because the nation’s leading abortion mill may refuse to [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Sanders joins the ranks of those hoping to empty the jails]( 8/19/2019 9:21:54 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments All of the serious 2020 Democratic primary candidates have some form of justice reform or prison reform on their agenda and now Bernie Sanders has joined their ranks. The Vermont Senator’s plan, while sparse on details, looks like an ambitious [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump: C’mon, you know Pence will be my running mate]( 8/19/2019 8:41:14 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Why wouldn’t he be? Donald Trump doesn’t have a good answer to that question, and the people posing it don’t really have a reason to ask anyway. Trump confirmed yesterday that Mike Pence will remain on the ticket for a second term, [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Halperin’s accusers not thrilled with book deal]( 8/19/2019 8:01:32 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments This weekend we learned that former MSNBC regular and accused serial sexual harasser Mark Halperin has landed himself a new book deal. Regan Arts will be releasing a new book by Halperin in November, providing advice on “How to Beat [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Government and the need to feel safe]( 8/18/2019 8:01:03 PM Taylor Millard 0 Comments Life is supposed to be a dangerous adventure fraught with gigantic melancholy and mirth. The interplay between individuals and each other or the environment brings about, in theory, the chance to gain knowledge or goods through the exchange of [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Is daylight savings time killing you?]( 8/18/2019 6:31:39 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments So far this year, 36 states have voted to either stop switching the clocks forward and back each year or at least undertake a study of the question. Arizona and Hawaii dumped daylight savings time ages ago. But the arguments against changing the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [The push is on to get Joe Kennedy III in the U.S. Senate]( 8/18/2019 5:01:24 PM Taylor Millard 0 Comments The push is on in Massachusetts to get another Kennedy into the U.S. Senate, even at the cost of Senator Edward Markey. Via POLITICO: A mysterious July telephone poll that tested Democratic Rep. Joe Kennedy III against Markey in a head-to-head [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Biden: Republicans are decent people, you know]( 8/18/2019 3:31:48 PM Karen Townsend 0 Comments Joe Biden said something nice about Republicans Saturday during a fundraiser in Massachusetts. Will he be punished for it on the campaign trail, assuming he gets back on the trail and doesn’t just continue doing private fundraisers? Biden [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Dem rep: I’m not surprised to see Trump taking sides against peaceful protesters like … Antifa]( 8/18/2019 2:01:33 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Via the Free Beacon, the typical spin from mainstream liberals is that Antifa is a group so small, inconsequential, and disorganized that it can’t even properly be described as a “group.” As such, worrying about it can only be an [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Los Angeles earthquake app upgraded to actually warn about earthquakes]( 8/18/2019 12:31:32 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Last month, shortly after the two, big, back-to-back quakes that rocked California, I wrote about an app that Los Angeles residents can install on their phones to warn them about earthquakes. It’s called ShakeAlert, and it’s one of the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Mired in division, united in endurance: Sunday reflection]( 8/18/2019 11:46:44 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments This morning’s Gospel reading is Luke 12:49–53: Jesus said to his disciples: “I have come to set the earth on fire, and how I wish it were already blazing! There is a baptism with which I must be baptized, and how great is my anguish until it is [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Tlaib calls for boycott of Maher’s show, he calls BDS “bulls**t” purity test]( 8/18/2019 11:01:24 AM Karen Townsend 0 Comments The fall-out continues from Bill Maher’s HBO show this weekend. Yesterday I wrote about an opinion he expressed during Friday’s Real Time with Bill Maher – a recession would be worth it to get rid of President Trump in 2020. That [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Oregon: Hey, let’s build our new ocean studies center in the path of a tsunami]( 8/18/2019 9:31:45 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments It’s not often you find a land development story (outside of Kelo) that’s worth a debate, but there’s one playing out this month that might have some broader implications worth considering. In the state of Oregon, work is underway [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Sunday morning talking heads]( 8/18/2019 8:01:28 AM Allahpundit 0 Comments It’s Trade War Sunday on the chat shows, with two of Trump’s top advisors set to try to calm investors’ nerves about a looming economic downturn. Free marketeer (is he still a free marketeer?) Larry Kudlow will sit down with [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Reporters shocked (SHOCKED!) to learn ICE uses ankle bracelets to monitor illegal aliens]( 8/17/2019 8:31:25 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments When we discussed the highly successful ICE raids in Mississippi targeting employers hiring hundreds of illegal aliens earlier this month, one little detail seemed to catch a lot of people by surprise. It turns out that a number of the illegal [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Portland: Proud Boys vs Antifa ends early without serious violence (Update)]( 8/17/2019 7:01:38 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Today is the day the city of Portland has been worried about for several weeks. Various far-right groups including the Proud Boys are holding an “End to Domestic Terrorism” rally and far-left group including Antifa are holding a [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Scaramucci talking to Bill Kristol about how to get Trump off the ticket next year]( 8/17/2019 5:31:59 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments This would be like finding out in early 1984 that a pair of former Gerald Ford advisors were plotting to have Reagan replaced as GOP nominee by some Rockefeller Republican. I’m … not sure you grasp where the balance of power lies in the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Bill Maher: Yes, a recession would be worth it to get rid of Trump]( 8/17/2019 4:01:07 PM Karen Townsend 0 Comments The host of HBO’s Real Talk with Bill Maher talk show doesn’t just think a recession is a swell idea to ensure the defeat of President Trump’s re-election bid in 2020, Bill Maher thinks it would be “very worth” it. [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Epstein’s attorneys: We’re not fully buying the suicide ruling]( 8/17/2019 2:31:19 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments As I said yesterday, join the club. Jeffrey Epstein’s legal team announced yesterday that they will launch an independent investigation into his death, including why authorities housed Epstein in the “medieval conditions” at the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Philly cop shooter was offered “bull**** deal” to surrender]( 8/17/2019 1:01:45 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments We previously covered the arrest of long-time Philadelphia felon Maurice Hill after he shot six police during a standoff at his rowhome. Thankfully, all of the officers survived and have been released from the hospital, but the details of the nearly [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Biden tweets on Israel denying congresswomen’s visit, swiftly backfires]( 8/17/2019 11:31:43 AM Karen Townsend 0 Comments In the midst of the hot takes offered up by the 2020 Democrat candidates when the two anti-Semitic U.S. congresswomen were denied entry into Israel, the guy at the front of the pack was quickly reminded that former President Obama’s [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [US can reject asylum claims in some areas says… the Ninth Circuit?]( 8/17/2019 10:01:19 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments I had to read this story a couple of times to make sure I hadn’t inadvertently followed a link to The Onion, but it’s apparently legitimate news. The report deals with the Trump administration’s order to deny some asylum claims [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump: You know who’d make a good NH Senator, right?]( 8/17/2019 8:31:12 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Are you ready for Senator Corey Lewandowski? Donald Trump certainly is, as he made clear twice yesterday. Trump stopped short of a formal endorsement at his rally in New Hampshire, but told his former campaign adviser to “let us know” [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Latest Headlines: We pick, you click.] NY Post [Megan Rapinoe reveals her dad voted for Trump]( WSJ [Russian nuclear monitoring stations went silent after missile blast]( JPost [Palestinian Authority bans LGBTQ activities in West Bank]( News Busters [NYT columnist admits media is purposely ignoring anti-semitism of Omar and Tlaib]( Peter Beinart [Only Biden can challenge Trump on trade]( Bloomberg [Harris on “Medicare for All”: “I have not been comfortable with Bernie’s plan”]( A.D. 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I think call-out culture is toxic.]( Sam Brodey [Israel’s snub of Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib is a gift for the BDS movement]( Jim Newell [Gun control can’t survive without Trump]( Jeremy Straub [A cyberattack could wreak destruction comparable to a nuclear weapon]( Tom Krattenmaker [Trump’s thought stream is often toxic sludge. Don’t let him dominate national life.]( NPR [After the hospital closes, how do people get emergency care?]( Daily Mail [Surgeon: Pig hearts could be implanted in humans “within three years”]( RCP [Michael Moore: The Squad is how Democrats are going to win in 2020]( [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. 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