HotAir Daily Express 07/19/2017

[Hot Air Daily Express]( [Follow us on Facebook]( [Home]([Green Room]([Archive]([The Ed Morrissey Show]([Print]([Forward]( [Squad goals: Baltimore hoping for a “murder free weekend”]( 7/19/2017 10:41:52 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Did you hear about the ceasefire? No… not the one in Syria, though that’s important too. This ceasefire, assuming it comes together, is taking place in an American city. While the rest of the country was celebrating National Ice Cream Day, [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Did a “loud sound” prompt fatal police shooting in Minneapolis?]( 7/19/2017 10:01:31 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Investigators working on the Minneapolis police shooting released the first details of their probe late yesterday, but those will create more questions than answers. The state Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, which now has jurisdiction over the case, [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [How much do you know about the U.S. Constitution? Take this quiz!]( Hillsdale College SPONSORED Many Americans know the Constitution well -- they understand how it protects their freedoms and paved the way for a great nation to be built. But many more Americans don't know enough about it. How much do you know about the Constitution? [Take The Quiz Now]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Tapper: Maybe celebrating a cop killer during the Women’s March wasn’t the best idea]( 7/19/2017 9:21:55 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments I watched some of this play out on Twitter myself yesterday, but it quickly spiraled out of control. When liberals get together to march, protest and issue their list of whatever the demands of the day happen to be, it’s not unusual for them to [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Bloomberg poll: Guess who trails Trump in popularity?]( 7/19/2017 8:41:16 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments “Finally, a poll Donald Trump will like,” Bloomberg proclaims, and they’re mostly right. Trump may have his issues with job-approval and favorability ratings in national polls, but he still manages to edge a familiar political figure [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump nominates Jon Huntsman for Ambassador to Russia]( 7/19/2017 8:01:30 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments The fact that Jon Huntsman’s name has been both officially and unofficially in the mix for this post since early this year doesn’t make it any less startling now that it’s official. President Trump has nominated the former Utah Governor [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Poll of counties won by Trump: Approval of House GOP health-care bill at … 12%]( 7/18/2017 10:41:38 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Cross your fingers for the many House Republicans who reluctantly cast a vote for that fart of a bill back in May on the assumption that the Senate would produce something better. Sure, the House plan was grievously unpopular in poll after poll, but [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Texas is wrestling with a sales tax revenue problem]( 7/18/2017 10:01:59 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Texas is one of the places you’d expect to be booming in the current economy and you wouldn’t be far off the mark to think so. Their unemployment rate is down to 4.6%, ahead of the national curve. And that’s happening at the same time [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump had an undisclosed meeting with Putin at the G20]( 7/18/2017 9:21:12 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Remember the “very good talks” President Trump had with Vladimir Putin at the G20 in Hamburg? The meeting was scheduled for half an hour but wound up going over two hours. The First Lady even went in to break up the meeting at one point and [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Rush on health-care implosion: The Senate is now being run by three female leftists]( 7/18/2017 8:41:31 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Hint: He doesn’t mean Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris, and Kirsten Gillibrand. He’s talking about Collins, Murkowski, and Capito, the Republican trio that sank clean repeal this morning. Supposedly the RINOs have mutinied and seized control [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [115th Congress on pace to be least productive since … Millard Fillmore?]( 7/18/2017 8:01:31 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Not yet it isn’t, and for now the 115th Congress still outpaces more recent sessions, but it depends on how one measures productivity — and what lies ahead. The Week’s David Faris writes today that even before one calculates the utter [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [The left’s hero worship of Assata Shakur is shameful (Update: BLM defends Assata)]( 7/18/2017 7:21:21 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Sunday the Women’s March sent out a tweet celebrating convicted murderer Assata Shakur: Happy birthday to the revolutionary #AssataShakur! Today's #SignOfResistance, in Assata's honor, is by @Meloniousfunk. [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [“Sometimes facts are displeasing”: Shep Smith and Sean Hannity skirmish over Trump]( 7/18/2017 6:41:29 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Is this news? I feel like any jabs between Fox News stars are ipso facto news. It’s more accurate to say that CNN and Mediaite are trying to turn this into news by hyping Hannity’s anodyne comments yesterday about Shep’s political lean. [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Apparently those sweetheart buyout deals for government workers weren’t plush enough]( 7/18/2017 6:01:13 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments There’s been an update in the ongoing saga of the EPA “buyout” program which was announced earlier this year (though it immediately spread to other departments). In order to facilitate the cutbacks at the agency, they originally [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [The eighth person in Donald Jr’s meeting with the Russian lawyer was…]( 7/18/2017 5:31:52 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments [Norm MacDonald voice:] You guessed it — Frank Stallone. Actually, it was someone who worked for Emin Agalarov, the Russian developer who brokered the meeting between Don Jr and the Russian lawyer. And thus do the dreams of a million Democrats, who [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Sen. Kamala Harris is running for president, Democrat donors say]( 7/18/2017 5:01:39 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Senator Kamala Harris is running for president. The Hill reports that’s the word coming from top donors who are excited about the possibility: The Bridgehampton event, where Harris mingled with top donors and supporters of Hillary Clinton, was the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Manchin to McConnell: Let us former governors in the Senate show you how it’s done]( 7/18/2017 4:31:14 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments They could hardly do any worse than Senate Republicans in dealing with ObamaCare, right? Well … maaaaaayyyyyyyybeeee. Senator and former West Virginia governor Joe Manchin wants to leverage the experience and executive skills for former governors [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Growing fears of the war(s) to come]( 7/18/2017 4:01:20 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments I suppose after all the obsessive polling over Russian election “meddling” and the Obamacare repeal debacle it’s only fair that we poll the citizens on something a bit more cheerful and less depressing, eh? How about.. whether or not [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Troll poll: Plurality of Trump voters would approve of his job performance if he shot someone on Fifth Avenue]( 7/18/2017 3:31:16 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments An instant classic from the masters of the troll-poll genre, Public Policy Polling. I think the numbers here are a case of the respondents being in on the joke, offering a trollishly insincere answer to a trollish question, but I don’t know. [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump came close to killing the Iran deal this week]( 7/18/2017 3:01:49 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Eli Lake reports that President Trump came very close to killing the Iran deal this week, or at least starting down that road. On Monday when the Secretary of State was set to announce Iran’s ongoing compliance with the deal, Trump stopped the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [TEMS on Relevant Radio: Religious liberty, ObamaCare flop, tax reform, and more]( 7/18/2017 2:31:18 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Once again, I get to step outside the box and guest host on Relevant Radio’s Drew Mariani Show from 3-6 ET today! The Catholic talk-radio network is heard nationwide on the air after its merger with Immaculate Heart Radio, as well as online and through [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Donald Trump just put Venezuela on notice]( 7/18/2017 2:01:19 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments There wasn’t much coverage of this in the press last night, but after the Venezuelan people went to the polls and expressed their displeasure with President Nicolas Maduro’s plans to essentially scrap their constitution, the White House [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Doom for repeal: Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski won’t proceed on a bill unless it includes replacement for ObamaCare; Update: Vote coming?]( 7/18/2017 1:31:29 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Put ’em together with Shelley Moore Capito’s “no” vote this morning and that’s three against clean repeal. McConnell, of course, can only afford to lose two. Which means it’s on to Plan C. From Collins’s [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Why it’s not a good idea to equate speech with violence]( 7/18/2017 1:01:25 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Last week the NY Times published a piece titled “When is Speech Violence?” which purported to show that speech can have real world health consequences. If words can cause stress, and if prolonged stress can cause physical harm, then it seems [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Delayed reaction: Russia threatens retaliation over seized compounds]( 7/18/2017 12:31:36 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Back in December, Barack Obama announced sanctions on Russia in response to their interference in the 2016 election cycle, which included the seizure of two compounds along with the expulsion of dozens of personnel with diplomatic immunity. At the time, [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [The remaining GOP solution on healthcare involves a Heaven’s Gate scenario]( 7/18/2017 12:01:08 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments By now you’ve already heard about the complete collapse of the GOP’s health care plans. Ed Morrissey wrote about it this morning, including some of the increasingly far-fetched scenarios on the table, such as the one where the GOP repeals [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Latest Headlines: We pick, you click.] [70-year-old Army veteran fired for confronting shoplifters at Home Depot]( [University to replace portraits of Its founding fathers because they’re white]( [Charlie Gard given legal permanent residence by Congress to seek treatment in U.S.]( [It’s (still) never Trump’s fault]( [Trump should resist the temptation to pardon his team]( [“It’s an insane process”: How Trump and Republicans failed on their health-care bill]( [Tapper: Why aren’t progressives calling out the Women’s March?]( [Trump’s company gets millions so Toronto hotel can erase brand]( [House GOP can’t agree on government spending package]( [Why it’s a bad idea to tell students that words are violence]( [Ed Morrissey Show]( [Advertisement] __________________________SUBSCRIPTION INFO__________________________ WERE YOU FORWARDED THIS EDITION OF THE HOT AIR DAILY? 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