HotAir Daily Express 09/24/2019

[Hot Air Daily Express]( [Follow us on Facebook]( [Home]([Green Room]([Archive]([The Ed Morrissey Show]([Print]([Forward]( [Reports: Trump ordered military aid to Ukraine blocked not long before phone call with president]( 9/24/2019 11:21:09 AM Allahpundit 0 Comments This isn’t proof that Trump intended to use the money as leverage to get the Ukrainians to investigate the Bidens, but obviously it’s something one would do *if* one intended to use it that way. Turn off the foreign-aid spigot, make a [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [California utility again cutting power to wildfire-prone areas]( 9/24/2019 10:41:01 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments California has been reasonably fortunate this year in terms of outbreaks of major wildfires, at least as compared to last year. Some of these fires are set by careless or malicious humans, while others are simply bad luck and acts of God. But in at [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump: The last republican president?]( Stansberry Research SPONSORED Research shows America is entering a new era… One our country has only entered once before. Policies like the “wealth tax” and Medicare for All are just the beginning. If history is any guide, no one, not even Trump, can stop what’s coming. [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Dems’ progressive poker: Bernie sees Warren’s wealth tax — and raises it]( 9/24/2019 10:01:51 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Damn the constitutional torpedoes, full speed ahead — for class warriors, anyway. Bernie Sanders refused to let Elizabeth Warren outflank him to the left and has revealed his own wealth-tax proposal as an answer to his ridiculously costly [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Democrats don’t want red flag laws applied to gang members]( 9/24/2019 9:21:06 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments The House is staying busy now that the August recess (such as it was) is over. One of the latest items of business was having the House Judiciary Committee approve that new red flag law everyone has been talking about. But they ran into a bit of a [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [WaPo, NBC: Pelosi now privately talking up impeachment]( 9/24/2019 8:41:19 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments It’s a huge risk, but at this point it might be a bigger political risk to refrain from it. After months of pressure from progressive activists and angry members of the House Democratic caucus, Pelosi might have finally given her blessing to a [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Oof. UK Supreme Court declare’s BoJo’s suspension of Parliament unlawful]( 9/24/2019 8:01:33 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments When newly minted British Prime Minister Boris Johnson suspended Parliament over the summer there was plenty of grumbling. Some accused him of lying to the Queen about his reasons for doing so. (Did you know it’s illegal to lie to the Queen in [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Biden: In prison, your gender should be what you say it is, not what the prison says it is]( 9/23/2019 10:41:58 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments A leftover from this past weekend via Red State. Watching the clip below, it made me laugh to think of blue-collar 70s-era Joe Biden time-traveling to 2019 and trying to digest the sort of woke shibboleths he’d occasionally have to mouth [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Napolitano: This Ukraine business is far more serious than anything Mueller had on Trump]( 9/23/2019 10:01:56 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Via the Daily Beast, an enjoyable two-minute interview in which host David Asman does his best at every turn to steer Napolitano away from anti-Trump talking points and towards more Fox-friendly anti-Biden talking points. With some success! By the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Leaders of France, Germany, the UK issue joint statement blaming Iran for attack on Saudi Arabia]( 9/23/2019 9:21:29 PM John Sexton 0 Comments As Ed noted earlier, Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani demanded Sunday that western powers remove troops from the Persian Gulf. He was probably hoping for a warm welcome at the UN where he could complain about US intervention to a sympathetic [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Leaked EU Brexit memo: Johnson’s “ideas” solve nothing about the backstop]( 9/23/2019 8:41:00 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments To be fair, Boris Johnson did try to temper expectations ahead of informal Brexit meetings in New York during the UN General Assembly session, but perhaps not enough. Johnson told the media that he didn’t want to “elevate excessively the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Romney: Trump should release the whistleblower complaint or else the House will have to decide how to proceed]( 9/23/2019 8:01:37 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Action by the House if Trump refuses to comply with a demand? Gee, Mitt. Whatever do you have in mind? Whether you love Trump or loathe him, we should all agree that it would be high comedy watching the few remaining Trump-skeptic Republicans in the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Oregon state regulators fault Cider Riot owner for actions in May Day brawl]( 9/23/2019 7:01:14 PM John Sexton 0 Comments More fallout from the May Day brawl that took place in Portland outside a business called Cider Riot. A state regulator called the Oregon Liquor Control Commission (OLCC) has concluded the owner of Cider Riot, Abram Goldman-Armstrong, should face [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Video: Michio Kaku on UFOs. “The evidence is overwhelming.”]( 9/23/2019 6:31:29 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments This is another intriguing interview I wanted to share with those of you who may have missed it. It deals with those three videos of UFOs (they want us to say Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon these days but I don’t care for it) captured on film [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Iran to West: Get out of the Persian Gulf]( 9/23/2019 6:01:54 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments In fairness, they’ve been saying this for forty years, but now they really mean it. Hassan Rouhani rallied the troops, literally, in demanding that the US and other Western nations exit the Persian Gulf region and leave it to Iran’s [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump rips media: If a Republican did what Biden did in Ukraine, you’d give him the electric chair]( 9/23/2019 5:31:03 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Gotta watch to the end of the clip below for the best lines. (It’s already cued up to where he starts talking about Ukraine.) He’s asked repeatedly if he’ll release the transcript of his call in July with Ukraine’s president [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Polls show Liberal Party losing ground after Trudeau blackface scandal]( 9/23/2019 5:01:17 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Before the Justin Trudeau blackface scandal broke last week, polls basically showed a dead heat between Trudeau’s Liberal Party and the Conservatives led by Andrew Scheer. While the polls were even nationally, the distribution of support meant [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Super. Democrats have convinced half of younger voters the world is ending in the next 15 years]( 9/23/2019 4:31:53 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments The day may be coming when I just have to stop reading the Scott Rasmussen weekly polls. Some of them are simply too depressing. Take for example this week’s survey, where respondents were asked whether or not they thought humanity might meet [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Mattis: Hey, don’t get me involved in this Ukrainian mess]( 9/23/2019 4:01:06 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments No one questions former Marine commandant James Mattis’ courage. And no one should doubt his wisdom either after this exchange on ABC’s This Week. When Martha Raddatz attempted to draw the former Secretary of Defense into judgment on [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Giuliani: I don’t think Trump threatened Ukraine’s president over the Biden probe but I’m not 100% sure]( 9/23/2019 3:31:51 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments This reminds me of the time Rudy blurted out on Hannity’s show that Trump had in fact reimbursed Michael Cohen for the $130,000 payment to Stormy Daniels. Oh, and the time he admitted on George Stephanopoulos’s show that, sure, [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Greta Thunberg throws the Green New Deal under the bus (Update)]( 9/23/2019 3:01:48 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Child activist Greta Thunberg gave a speech at the UN today in which she angrily criticized adults who aren’t doing enough to prevent climate change. The first part of her speech, in which she dramatically rebuked listeners for ruining her [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Vermont city council tackles problem of their police having guns]( 9/23/2019 2:31:15 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments As the 2020 Democratic primary drags on, we’ve seen any number of creative gun control proposals on the table. These range from expanded background checks to outright confiscation of firearms from law-abiding citizens. But this crowd [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Today’s hot topics on Relevant Radio: Ukraine-gate, UN and religious freedom, Thomas Cooked, climate change, and more!]( 9/23/2019 2:26:33 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Once again, I get to step outside the box and guest host the Drew Mariani Show on Relevant Radio® from 3-6 ET today! The Catholic talk-radio network is heard nationwide on the air, as well as online and through their free mobile app that plays live [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Pro tip from Rep. Jackson Lee: The AR-15 is 500 pounds and shoots .50 caliber rounds, or something]( 9/23/2019 2:01:38 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments You know what gives Congress its confidence ratings from American voters? The expertise among legislators on subjects for which they intend to dictate choices to the electorate. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee offered her expert review of the AR-15, which [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Kasich on Trump and Ukraine: “Where are the Republicans?!”]( 9/23/2019 1:31:21 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Good lord. This Ukraine thing isn’t going to end up producing a John Kasich presidential candidacy, is it? Then it really will be a national crisis. He wants to know where the outrage is among Republicans over what Trump’s accused is. [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Anti-ICE protesters held a rally outside the home of detention center warden]( 9/23/2019 1:01:56 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Abolish ICE Denver and a local communist group held a protest last Thursday night outside the home of the warden of a local detention facility. Three people were arrested and Aurora police and neighbors expressed disgust over the protesters’ [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Latest Headlines: We pick, you click.] Detroit News [Another freshman House Dem comes out for impeachment]( The Hill [“She seems like a very happy young girl”]( A.G. 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