HotAir Daily Express 09/16/2019

[Hot Air Daily Express]( [Follow us on Facebook]( [Home]([Green Room]([Archive]([The Ed Morrissey Show]([Print]([Forward]( [O’Rourke: Trump has blood on his hands for El Paso shootings]( 9/16/2019 11:01:49 AM Karen Townsend 0 Comments Robert Francis O’Rourke is doubling down on his intention to confiscate guns from law-abiding Americans in the highly unlikely chance that he becomes president. During a campaign stop in suburban Dallas Sunday, he told a crowd of about 300 [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Did Biden’s “record player” answer sink him?]( 9/16/2019 10:31:22 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Ever since Ed initially covered Joe Biden’s mind-boggling “record player” answer at the last debate the media has been knocking this one around. (Though far more gently in most cases than the treatment President Trump receives for [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Ousted president to Planned Parenthood: Stop trying to “enforce a gag order” on me]( 9/16/2019 10:01:33 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Oh, the irony. Two months after the sudden departure of Dr. Leana Wen as president of Planned Parenthood, the nation’s biggest abortion mill has fought a two-front war on so-called “gag orders.” They have taken the Trump [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Biden: White people don’t get it]( 9/16/2019 9:21:33 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Former Vice President Joe Biden traveled the well-worn Democratic practice of addressing the congregation in a primarily African-American church yesterday. Despite what should be a fairly obvious problem in the whole Separation of Church and State [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [NYT: On second thought, never mind about the Kavanaugh penis-pushing incident; Trump: “HORRIBLE PEOPLE … are looking to destroy”]( 9/16/2019 8:41:19 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments The New York Times’ attempt to resurrect the character assassination of Brett Kavanaugh this weekend collapsed overnight. On Saturday evening, their Books section ran an adaptation of an upcoming book written by two NYT reporters that dredged [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [The BoJo-Juncker lunch. Will there be a deal?]( 9/16/2019 8:01:00 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments I’m one of those geeks who listen to British political comedy podcasts every week. (Do a search on your favorite podcatcher for “Friday Night Comedy from BBC.” You’ll thank me later.) One constant theme over the past couple [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [No end to Hong Kong violence]( 9/15/2019 8:01:05 PM Taylor Millard 0 Comments Pro-China groups are now involved in the violence consuming Hong Kong. Hong Kong Free Press reported Saturday a large demonstration brawled with democracy protesters at a Kowloon Bay mall while also damaging pro-democracy placards set up across the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [California adds another state to its “no travel” list]( 9/15/2019 6:31:36 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Back in 2016, California passed a new law (Assembly Bill 1887) establishing a naughty list of states that don’t conform to their high moral standards. The bill created a travel ban, forbidding state-funded or endorsed travel to states that [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [The hypocrisy of Xavier Becerra]( 9/15/2019 5:01:16 PM Taylor Millard 0 Comments One of the odder bits of news from last week was California’s decision to not get involved in the antitrust lawsuit against Google. Attorney General Xavier Becerra and Alabama AG Steve Marshall were the only two who abstained from the suit [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [National Women’s Hall of Fame inducts a domestic terrorist and a traitor]( 9/15/2019 3:31:08 PM Karen Townsend 0 Comments The 2019 induction ceremony was held Saturday at the National Women’s Hall of Fame. Eleven women were inducted. Of all the accomplished women in America, The National Women’s Hall of Fame, located in Seneca Falls, New York, chose to [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [The obligatory Joe Biden “Corn Pop” clip]( 9/15/2019 2:01:04 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments I had to watch it twice, just because the first time I was too struck by how much he sounded like Grandpa Simpson to follow the story he was telling. This clip is actually a few years old but was resurrected by writer Michael Harriot, who devoted an [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [NFL week 2 open thread]( 9/15/2019 12:31:18 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Jazz: I managed to go 5-2 in week one, missing only on the Jets and the Browns. There’s probably some irony in that statistic because the Jets play the Browns this week. Of course, our superstar sophomore quarterback is out for a few weeks [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Abundant grace and the elder brother: Sunday reflection]( 9/15/2019 11:46:15 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments This morning’s Gospel reading is Luke 15:1–32: Tax collectors and sinners were all drawing near to listen to Jesus, but the Pharisees and scribes began to complain, saying, “This man welcomes sinners and eats with them.” So to them he addressed this [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [“Remain in Mexico” immigration hearings begin in tents at border]( 9/15/2019 11:01:34 AM Karen Townsend 0 Comments Tents set up in Laredo and Brownsville, Texas for the purpose of holding immigration hearings under the Migrant Protection Protocol (MPP), also known as the “Remain in Mexico” program, are opening. The first to open was in Laredo Wednesday and the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Booker: Stop “fearmongering” over what we clearly said would happen]( 9/15/2019 9:31:08 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Cory Booker is fed up with all this fearmongering from his fellow Democrats. Some of them are in a panic over Beto O’Rourke’s claim during the last debate that the government was going to “take your AR-15.” He decided to air [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Sunday morning talking heads]( 9/15/2019 8:01:33 AM Allahpundit 0 Comments The Sunday shows offer us a smattering of Democratic 2020 also-rans this morning, with gun-grabber extraordinaire Beto O’Rourke the top guest. He’ll be on “Meet the Press” to discuss his master plan to confiscate the 16 [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Michio Kaku: We’ve reached a turning point on UFOs]( 9/14/2019 8:31:48 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments As we’ve been covering the various stories relating to the recent release of videos by our military, showing strange aircraft (spacecraft?) in our military airspace, there’s been one repeating theme. Most of the people speculating on the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Greenpeace protesters arrested while hanging from Houston bridge]( 9/14/2019 7:01:09 PM Karen Townsend 0 Comments The Democrat circus came to Houston Thursday and it produced several stories. Locals were subjected to road closures, environmental extremists protesting the fossil fuel industry by hanging from a major bridge and shutting down the Houston Ship [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Does calling Trump a racist make him more likely to win?]( 9/14/2019 5:31:40 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Here we find an unusual instance of someone calling for everyone to stop calling President Trump a racist. Well, that’s not unusual in and of itself. Trump’s supporters do that on a daily basis. But what makes this particular incident [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [IG Horowitz has submitted a draft of his report on FBI surveillance]( 9/14/2019 4:01:39 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz has submitted a draft of his report on the FBI’s use and possible abuse of the FISA court. In a letter, Horowitz outlined the steps that remain before he can issue a final draft. From [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Beto O’Rourke: Police wouldn’t go door to door to confiscate guns under my plan]( 9/14/2019 2:31:37 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments The money quote: “Much like we don’t go door-to-door to enforce almost any law in the United States, in fact I don’t think we do that for any law in the United States, this would not be something that we would do.” Presumably he’d treat an [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [A Gosnell menagerie: Over 2200 fetuses found on late abortionist’s property]( 9/14/2019 1:01:50 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments At one time, Ulrich Klopfer was known as Indiana’s most prolific abortionist, at least until his license got yanked for failing to report the sexual exploitation of two thirteen-year-old girls. Four years later, Klopfer passed away, but [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [A Dutch euthanasia case that was not “assisted suicide”]( 9/14/2019 11:31:59 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Apologies for bringing up such a depressing topic this weekend, but a story out of the Netherlands has been making the rounds and it involves the ongoing debate over assisted suicide in this country. The Free Beacon highlighted the tale of an [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Bad news for Lori Loughlin – Felicity Huffman is going to prison]( 9/14/2019 10:01:50 AM Karen Townsend 0 Comments Actress Felicity Huffman was sentenced Friday for her role in the school admissions fraud scandal known as Operation Varsity Blues. She received a light sentence by any standard. In a hearing that lasted more than an hour, U.S. District Judge [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [What is the Taliban doing in Moscow?]( 9/14/2019 8:31:06 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Here’s a curious bit of news for you. Recently, the President took to twitter after the cancellation of the Taliban’s expected visit to Camp David (!) and declared that the negotiations with them were effectively dead. 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