HotAir Daily Express 05/17/2018

[Hot Air Daily Express]( [Follow us on Facebook]( [Home]([Green Room]([Archive]([The Ed Morrissey Show]([Print]([Forward]( [Avenatti: I’m vetting two more women who say they’re under hush-money agreements with Trump]( 5/17/2018 11:21:58 AM Allahpundit 0 Comments Via the IJR, actually he says he’s vetting more than two. But there are two at the moment whose claims appear to be on “solid ground” and who might be coming forward soon. Hopefully before he’s disbarred! (Kidding. I [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [China: You’re darned right our Navy is a threat to Taiwan]( 5/17/2018 10:41:08 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Did you hear that China has deployed its very first, domestically built aircraft carrier for sea trials and expects it to be in full service later this year? It’s conventionally powered with oil-fired boilers, but they have a nuclear powered [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [U.S. Cardiologist: Stop Taking Probiotics Immediately]( Gundry MD SPONSORED Doctor Reveals The Real Reason You Aren’t Losing Weight And The At-Home Method To Fix It [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Good guy with gun stops school shooter in Illinois]( 5/17/2018 10:01:13 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Chalk one up for the good guys. Faculty at Dixon High School in Dixon, Illinois thought they’d heard fireworks yesterday morning, but school resource officer Mark Dallas knew otherwise. He confronted 19-year-old Matthew Milby, who had opened [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [The House DACA revolt might be a real thing]( 5/17/2018 9:21:29 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments It was a week ago when we were warned of some serious stirrings among House Republicans who were suggesting that they might support a discharge petition forcing a vote on a DACA bill over the objections of the GOP leadership. It’s a risky and [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Can Trump defund Planned Parenthood through executive action?]( 5/17/2018 8:41:37 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Despite continuous promises to the pro-life cause, Republican budgets still fund Planned Parenthood to the tune of over $500 million each year. Efforts to decertify the nation’s largest abortion-mill chain ran into stiff opposition during the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Video: Media falsely claims Trump called all immigrants animals]( 5/17/2018 8:01:05 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments I really hate being the one doing these sorts of stories. It’s not as if I agree with the President all the time. Nor do I sit around all day thinking up things to attack him over. But the same clearly can’t be said for far too many [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [More shrinkage: Democrats’ lead on generic ballot dips further to 4.7 points]( 5/16/2018 10:41:11 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments The news yesterday was that, at 5.2 points, the Dems’ generic-ballot advantage had dwindled to its lowest point of Trump’s presidency. But as encouraging as that was, there were milestones still untouched by the GOP. Yesterday the party [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Oh my: Sinclair making a play for Hannity?]( 5/16/2018 10:01:40 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments I say this no more than half-jokingly: The only proper replacement for Hannity at 9 p.m. on Fox would be Trump broadcasting live from the White House for an hour, riffing on whatever he wants to riff on. A nightly national rally, five nights a [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump hosts sanctuary state roundtable at the White House]( 5/16/2018 9:21:16 PM John Sexton 0 Comments President Trump hosted a sanctuary state roundtable at the White House Wednesday, bringing together roughly 20 representatives and elected officials from cities throughout California who oppose the sanctuary state law passed by the left-leaning [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [The outer space octopus theory]( 5/16/2018 8:41:05 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Here’s something fun for Wednesday evening. What with the recent news that the government wants to spend money looking for extraterrestrials, what if we already have some aliens living right under our noses? (Well… under our boats [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Leaker: Some of Michael Cohen’s financial records have suspiciously gone missing from a Treasury database]( 5/16/2018 8:01:12 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Now, there could be an innocent explanation. After all, this wouldn’t be the first time that a president’s lawyer was under federal investigation and suddenly records documenting his dubious transactions mysteriously disappeared from an [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Last year Seattle cut ties with Wells Fargo over the Dakota Access Pipeline, but no one else wanted their business]( 5/16/2018 7:21:09 PM John Sexton 0 Comments It was big news when Seattle’s far-left city council cut ties with Wells Fargo in February 2017. The city became the first in the nation to cut ties with a bank over the bank’s involvement in funding the Dakota Access Pipeline. But [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Giuliani: Mueller’s team admitted to me they can’t indict Trump]( 5/16/2018 6:41:48 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Is the special counsel probe all over but the shouting? At least according to Rudy Giuliani, the answer is yes. He’s been hinting for days that Robert Mueller might decide to just issue a report and close up shop, but Giuliani went a little [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Feel the Bern: Socialists celebrate winning four Democratic nominations in PA]( 5/16/2018 6:01:21 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Democrats face a crossroads after two successive defeats in national elections. Should they broaden their appeal by moderating their policies, or should they pander to their activist progressive base, fired up by Bernie Sanders in the 2016 [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [New Trump financial disclosure includes payment to Michael Cohen — triggering ethics referral to DOJ]( 5/16/2018 5:31:39 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments He did not mention the $130,000 reimbursement to Cohen for paying off Stormy Daniels in last year’s financial disclosure, which left him in a predicament. Even if Trump somehow wriggles off the campaign-finance hook for that reimbursement (for [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Crossfire Hurricane: The investigation into possible Trump campaign collusion with Russia]( 5/16/2018 5:01:38 PM John Sexton 0 Comments The New York Times has published a lengthy article describing the path taken by the FBI in its investigation of possible Trump campaign collusion with Russia. The first noteworthy revelation in the piece is that the investigation which began on July [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [SCOTUS: California county can regulate gun stores out of existence]( 5/16/2018 4:31:10 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments This actually happened on Monday evening but we didn’t get around to tagging it until today. SCOTUS had been petitioned to review the case of Teixeira vs. Alameda County, a California suit brought by prospective gun shop owners who were [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump: I’m going to the summit to demand denuclearization — if it happens]( 5/16/2018 4:01:39 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments If the Kim regime is bluffing, consider it called, at least for now. In a press availability during a historic meeting with Uzbekistan president Shavkat Mirziyoyev at the White House, reporters asked whether Donald Trump had any response to North [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Debbie Wasserman Schultz: Let’s face it, the NRA is just shy of being a terrorist organization]( 5/16/2018 3:31:21 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Before you get mad, remember that she has a good side too. For instance, she utterly destroyed the DNC’s credibility among her party’s base while chairman. How many of us can say we’ve done something as virtuous as that for [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Former SRO Scot Peterson, the coward of Broward, receiving $8,700 per month pension]( 5/16/2018 3:01:16 PM John Sexton 0 Comments The former School Resource Officer who stood outside with his gun in his hand while Nikolas Cruz continued his shooting spree inside a Florida high school is now receiving $8,700 a month in pension payments. The Miami Herald [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Ecuador may be close to kicking Assange out of their embassy]( 5/16/2018 2:31:48 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Is the figurative noose tightening around Julian Assange? We recently learned that Ecuador was none too happy with the vast sums of money they’ve had to spend on their perpetual guest living in their London embassy. Prior to that, they may [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Deep thoughts from Minnesota Dem: Why’d we bother with independence anyway?]( 5/16/2018 2:01:42 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Old and busted: Make America Great Again! New hotness, Minnesota Democrat-style: Make America British Again! Richard Painter, a former Bush administration ethics officer turned Democratic Senate candidate in Minnesota, has made opposition to Donald [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Hamas official: 50 of the 62 Palestinians killed in the “protests” were ours]( 5/16/2018 1:31:39 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments The most amazing thing about western media coverage of the standoff at the Gaza border, Ben Shapiro notes, is that Hamas isn’t trying to hide the ball this time. A typical “Pallywood” propaganda production would insist that all [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Gov. Cuomo announces more money for ‘holistic approach’ to fight MS-13 on Long Island]( 5/16/2018 1:01:08 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Back in January, President Trump gave his State of the Union and mentioned the threat of Central American gang MS-13, which has spread inside the U.S. thanks to lax immigration policies. At the time, there was some pushback from mystery-hacking [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [The metamorphosis of Morning Joe]( 5/16/2018 12:31:36 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments I’ll start this with a quick confession, though most regular readers are already aware of it. I’ve been a fan of Morning Joe for years… pretty much since the beginning. (Also, by way of full disclosure, I’ve actually met and [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Latest Headlines: We pick, you click.] WaPo [“Diplotainment”: Critics fear Trump’s style eclipses substance on North Korea]( Brian Bennett [President Trump isn’t prepping much for the North Korea summit]( Jack Shafer [The last McCain swoon]( Charles Cooke [Trump and MS-13: A willful lie by the press]( Philip Terzian [Yes, Americans should care about the royal wedding]( Donald Trump [Happy witch-hunt anniversary!]( Bethany Mandel [Why on earth is Ivanka being blamed for bloodshed in Gaza?]( Julian Borger [Trump faces North Korea dilemma after John Bolton infuriates Pyongyang]( Gallup [Poll: Satisfaction with way things are going in U.S. reaches highest level since 2005]( WaPo [FBI agents said to be probing Michael Cohen’s deal with Korean firm]( Daniel DeNicola [You don’t have a right to believe whatever you want to]( NBC [More kids, especially girls, are attempting suicide. It’s not clear why.]( Christopher Buskirk [It’s Roseanne’s America, not Trump’s]( Kurt Schlichter [Brutalized by Trump’s winning, liberals nip at conservatives’ ankles]( Matthew Stewart [The birth of a new American aristocracy]( Politico [Republicans are still running against Colin Kaepernick]( James Kirchick [A thing for men in uniforms]( Conor Friedersdorf [Sean Hannity failed to tell his viewers the truth]( Chris Cillizza [Do Democrats have to be more than “not-Trump”?]( Patton, Farley [There’s no cost to white people who call 911 about black people. There should be.]( Axios [Dems’ 2018 bet: Net neutrality voters]( Jonathan S. Tobin [The blood isn’t on Trump’s hands]( Hyrum Lewis [Has the Republican Party really moved to the right?]( Ronan Farrow [Breaking: Source who leaked Michael Cohen’s financial records speaks]( WaPo [“The next thing I know, my co-pilot had been sucked halfway out of the window”]( [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. [You can unsubscribe from the Hot Air Daily here](. 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