HotAir Daily Express 08/26/2019

[Hot Air Daily Express]( [Follow us on Facebook]( [Home]([Green Room]([Archive]([The Ed Morrissey Show]([Print]([Forward]( [CNN guest: Let’s face it, Trump might kill more people than Hitler or Stalin]( 8/26/2019 11:21:33 AM Allahpundit 0 Comments Via the Examiner, this is who they had booked for a show called “Reliable Sources.” It’s very on-brand for CNN that even a guest whom they had on to argue that Trump *isn’t* crazy would qualify that by adding that he’s probably worse [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Cherokee Nation to have a seat in the House of Representatives]( 8/26/2019 10:41:37 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Everything old is new again. In this case, hundreds of years old. If you thought our government couldn’t wind up entrenched in any other really obscure issues, how about our ongoing relations with the Cherokee Nation? It appears that [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Did Trump *really* want to nuke the hurricanes?]( 8/26/2019 10:01:51 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Fake news, or the best episode of Mythbusters ever? The normally close relationship between the White House and Axios has come under strain since the latter published a “scoop” last night. According to their administration sources, [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [The President needs to climb off the ethanol teeter-totter]( 8/26/2019 9:21:53 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Call it a teeter-totter or call it a tug-of-war. The fact is, as we’ve discussed here previously, President Trump is stuck in the middle of an ongoing feud between the ethanol lobby (a.k.a King Corn) and the oil and gas industry. He’s [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump: For “the first time,” China really wants to make a deal]( 8/26/2019 8:41:32 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Did China finally blink in Donald Trump’s trade war? Trump himself seems to think so. At the G-7 summit, Trump told reporters that a statement earlier in the day from a top official in Beijing showed that China had finally expressed a real [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [San Francisco: Let’s not call them “felons”]( 8/26/2019 8:01:13 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments San Francisco is currently in freefall when it comes to homelessness, drug addiction and crime. That much is fairly well established. But the Free Beacon reports that they’ve come up with a way to tackle the last of those three problems. [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Pass the ERA if you like. It doesn’t change anything]( 8/25/2019 7:31:39 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments If you feel like you’re having a flashback to the 70s this week, you’re not alone. It might be because the Equal Rights Amendment is back in the news yet again. Why there’s been a renewed interest in this subject remains something [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [April Ryan’s excuse unveiled: It’s the bodyguard’s fault]( 8/25/2019 5:31:30 PM Karen Townsend 0 Comments It’s time for the latest installment in the continuing saga of April Ryan versus the reporter from New Jersey. The CNN contributor and White House correspondent did an interview Sunday with Reliable Sources host Brian Stelter. The stated [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Biden in New Hampshire: It’s always great being back in Vermont]( 8/25/2019 3:31:48 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments This mix-up is actually more alarming than the one last week when he placed MLK’s and RFK’s assassinations in the late 1970s. In that case it was clear in context that he was thinking of the late 1960s, the correct period. He even said [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [So a “high level psychologist” took Epstein off suicide watch?]( 8/25/2019 2:01:54 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Amid competing conspiracy theories and official explanations, we finally learned last week that the coroner ruled Jeffrey Epstein’s death to be suicide by hanging. Fair enough. If that’s the case, it still doesn’t answer the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [It’s official: Joe Walsh is in the GOP primary]( 8/25/2019 12:31:20 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments We discussed this last week when he was still “seriously considering” jumping in, but now he’s made it official. Former Congressman and conservative talk radio host Joe Walsh has formally launched his primary bid, hoping to nab the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Get your RSVP in early: Sunday reflection]( 8/25/2019 11:46:20 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments This morning’s Gospel reading is Luke 13:22–30: Jesus passed through towns and villages, teaching as he went and making his way to Jerusalem. Someone asked him, “Lord, will only a few people be saved?” He answered them, “Strive to enter through the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [DNC votes no on single-issue climate change debate, candidates protest]( 8/25/2019 11:01:01 AM Karen Townsend 0 Comments A common claim among Democrats running for office is that climate change is one of the most important issues for voters. Polling continues to show that early primary state voters rank climate change second only to healthcare in importance. So why [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [China isn’t a national emergency]( 8/25/2019 9:31:36 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments By this time, most of you have doubtless heard about President Trump’s tweeted “order” for American businesses to find “an alternative to China” for their operations. This has left many observers somewhat slackjawed, [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Sunday morning talking heads]( 8/25/2019 8:01:11 AM Allahpundit 0 Comments Have pity for Larry Kudlow and Steve Mnuchin, tasked this morning with representing the White House on the Sunday shows after a week of Trump sparking an international incident with Denmark over Greenland, tweeting out a fan’s praise for him [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [The NYC pizza war reaches a ceasefire]( 8/24/2019 8:31:51 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments We learned on Thursday that Di Fara Pizza in Brooklyn had been locked down by the state government for failing to pay more than $150,000 in delinquent taxes. This led Big Apple Mayor Bill de Blasio to take to social media, vowing to help them reopen [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Baltimore asks Governor for help, while being unwilling to help itself]( 8/24/2019 7:01:17 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments With the number of murders in Baltimore quickly approaching 300 (as it’s done annually for the past several years) and the total number of shootings nearing 700, interim Mayor Jack Young took a meeting with Governor Larry Hogan this week to [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [GOP senator: It was my idea to buy Greenland, not Trump’s, a year ago]( 8/24/2019 5:31:06 PM Karen Townsend 0 Comments An odd little story surfaced this week over President Trump’s idea about buying Greenland. For some reason, a Republican senator felt the need to let some constituents in on a fact not previously reported on – he was the one who had the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Left Behind: Fox News’ take on west coast homelessness]( 8/24/2019 4:01:34 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Fox News was clearly inspired by KOMO News’ Seattle is Dying special released earlier this year. Over the past week, the network released its own four-part series on homelessness in cities along the west coast. The four parts of the series [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Newest Joe Walsh advisor for Trump primary challenge: Mr. Kellyanne Conway?]( 8/24/2019 2:31:18 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments I side with George on the political merits in the increasingly bizarre Conway family dispute but it’s impossible not to sympathize with Kellyanne’s predicament. Bad enough to have your spouse trash-talking your boss to an audience of [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Deep thoughts from Joe Biden: What if Obama had been assassinated in 2008?]( 8/24/2019 1:01:03 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments What the hell? Fresh off his minor gaffe about the timing of the Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy assassinations, Joe Biden mused about what would have happened if Barack Obama had been assassinated before the 2008 Democratic convention as [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Sports columnist to 2020 Olympians: Skip visit to Trump’s White House]( 8/24/2019 11:31:20 AM Karen Townsend 0 Comments Just wait and accept an invitation to visit the White House after the next election, Christine Brennan counsels 2020 Olympians. The sports columnist for USA Today assumes America will have a new president by then so the Olympians should just wait [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [USA Today: Yes to gun bans, but no to confiscation]( 8/24/2019 10:01:51 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments While we all wait around to see whether or not the President is going to cave on gun control legislation, the editorial board at USA Today has published a lengthy screed about the need for moderation in what the Democrats should be asking for. [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [If you’d like to hire Al Franken, he’s available]( 8/24/2019 8:31:14 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments He’s good enough, he’s smart enough, and doggone it, people should want to pay him to come to speak at their events. Yes, Al Franken has apparently decided that he’s spent long enough in time out after his Me Too troubles and [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Democrats are not ready to make reparations payments now]( 8/23/2019 8:41:18 PM John Sexton 0 Comments It’s Friday afternoon so let’s close the day with a laugh. Rob Smith describes himself as a “America’s Favorite Black Gay Republican! Iraq War Veteran.” He works at Turning Point USA which put together the clip below. The [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Latest Headlines: We pick, you click.] Andy Kessler [The market’s recent drop is like a tantrum, screaming at President Trump to knock off the tariffs]( David Marcus [Did the sexual revolution give birth to identity politics?]( Reuters [China says wants “calm” resolution to U.S. trade war]( WaPo [Iran’s Zarif makes surprise trip to G-7, catching Trump off-guard]( HuffPost [Lindsey Graham to U.S. consumers: “Accept the pain” of Trump’s trade war]( NYT [A campaign targeting our staff]( Dow Jones [U.S. companies greet latest Trump tweets with concern and confusion]( Seth Kugel [How guilty should you feel about your vacation?]( HuffPost [Bernie Sanders suggests he wouldn’t abolish ICE]( FTN [Kudlow: Trump has authority to block companies from investing in China]( NYT [Trump allies target journalists over coverage deemed hostile to White House]( Axios [Scoop: Trump suggested nuking hurricanes to stop them from hitting U.S.]( Dana McMahan [I love my child-free life. Why do other people have such a problem with it?]( Conor Friedersdorf [When Kamala was a top cop]( Kevin Williamson [We need more conservatives like David Koch who care about high culture]( Josie Rubio [Dating while dying]( David Mark [Ted Kennedy died 10 years ago. It’s time for liberals, and America, to reassess his life and crimes.]( Devin Gordon [Joe Rogan understands men in America better than most people do]( Steven Malanga [I apologize for this article]( Melinda Henneberger [Biden is my Harvard, not my “safety school.” He really is my favorite 2020 Democrat.]( Michael Goodwin [Bias has killed the NYT, and Dean Baquet fired the fatal shot]( NPR [Houses of worship find new life after congregations downsize]( ABC [“I’m talking five minutes. You may kiss the bride.”]( Bloomberg [Australia to block websites hosting live-streamed terror attacks]( Alex Hubbard [How conservatives are making the best case against the death penalty]( [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. It was sent to you because you signed up to receive this newsletter on Hot Air OR a friend forwarded it to you. We respect and value your time and privacy. If this newsletter no longer meets your needs we will be happy to remove your address immediately. [Visit the Townhall Media Preference Center to manage your subscriptions]( [You can unsubscribe by clicking here.](. 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