HotAir Daily Express 05/17/2019

[Hot Air Daily Express]( [Follow us on Facebook]( [Home]([Green Room]([Archive]([The Ed Morrissey Show]([Print]([Forward]( [Fox News poll: Biden 49, Trump 38]( 5/17/2019 11:21:16 AM Allahpundit 0 Comments It’s the second poll in three days to show Trump trailing Biden by 11 points, which is mega-landslide territory by the standards of presidential elections. But there are two differences between Wednesday’s poll and today’s. [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Warren: Let’s have the federal government pay for abortions — through Medicare for All]( 5/17/2019 10:41:22 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Did Democrats learn a lesson about attacking the Hyde Amendment in 2016? A new press from conservative states to restrict abortion has led at least one Democratic presidential candidate to repeat that strategy. Elizabeth Warren declared today that [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [If Your Cat Vomits (Do This Everyday)]( Ultimate Pet Nutrition SPONSORED Veterinarian: Add This One Thing To Your Cat’s Food To Help Them Be Healthier [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump claws back nearly $1B from California high-speed rail project]( 5/17/2019 10:01:11 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments The Trump administration declared California’s high-speed rail project dead yesterday, even while state officials extolled its beautiful plumage. Noting that the state had abandoned the full San Francisco to Los Angeles vision which prompted [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Barr: “Government power was used to spy on American citizens”]( 5/17/2019 9:21:49 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Looks like William Barr still has no issues using the s-word to describe Operation Crossfire Hurricane. Despite criticism over calling the FISA-warrant surveillance on Trump campaign adviser Carter Page “spying,” Barr insists [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [New Mueller mystery: Why was no one charged for tampering with Flynn?]( 5/17/2019 8:41:00 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Who tried to flip Michael Flynn? A court filing yesterday from Robert Mueller’s special counsel office revealed a heretofore unknown set of contacts between the former national security adviser and “people linked” to the White [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Yep. Chelsea Manning is back in jail]( 5/17/2019 8:01:39 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments When Chelsea Manning was released from jail last week after the grand jury she was stonewalling was dismissed, I suggested that she really enjoy some hot food and sleeping in a comfortable bed because she probably wouldn’t be out for long. [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Gillibrand: We need to “take action” against Gorsuch and Kavanaugh if they go back on their word and strike down Roe]( 5/16/2019 10:41:36 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Via CNS. By “take action” she seems to mean impeaching them and/or maybe charging them with perjury for falsely testifying about Roe during their confirmation hearing. Not burning down their homes or anything. Although she is pretty [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Georgetown student sues college, challenges expulsion over admissions scandal]( 5/16/2019 10:01:57 PM Karen Townsend 0 Comments There is a new twist to the neverending Operation Varsity Blues saga. A Georgetown student caught up in the college admissions scandal is suing the university over his expulsion. To be more specific, he wants to be able to keep his college credits [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump: I think it’s great that we have a married gay Democratic candidate this year]( 5/16/2019 9:21:48 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments He’s pushed policies occasionally that single out people who are LGBT, most famously the ban on transgender soldiers in the military. But it’s a weird-yet-true fact that the most reactionary president in modern American history, who [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Homelessness up 17% in San Francisco, 43% in Alameda County]( 5/16/2019 8:41:15 PM John Sexton 0 Comments San Francisco did a single-day count of homeless people back in January, part of an ongoing attempt to track whether the problem is improving or getting worse. The preliminary numbers were released today and the answer is that things are worse. In [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [The Atlantic wonders: Is Kamala Harris the Jan Brady of 2020?]( 5/16/2019 8:01:36 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments If one reads the polling trends at RealClearPolitics, Kamala Harris might appear more to be in a 20-way tie to be Cindy Brady. However, Edward-Isaac Dovere thinks that the California senator who seemed to have all the advantages at the beginning of [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Surprise: Acosta misquotes Trump to distort his position on asylum]( 5/16/2019 7:21:08 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments I’m curious to see if he corrects the record. I know he doesn’t want to, but there are enough righties calling him out for it on Twitter that he may have to in order to keep up the pretense that he’s a just-the-facts newsman [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [A border patrol agent rescued a 7-year-old from drowning in the Rio Grande]( 5/16/2019 6:41:26 PM John Sexton 0 Comments A group of immigrants from Honduras were illegally crossing the Rio Grande last Friday when the inflatable kiddie pools they were using as rafts capsized. One of the five children in the group was a 7-year-old boy who was being swept away from his [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump pitches the Kushner-Miller plan: Same immigration levels as before, but more emphasis on skills]( 5/16/2019 6:01:25 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments It’s going over precisely as well as every other immigration proposal produced by Washington. NO WALL. KEEPS SAME MASSIVE LEVELS OF LEGAL IMMIGRATION. And this is the rube-bait campaign document, not even a serious bill. — Ann Coulter [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Ocasio-Cortez: Abortion threatens the “patriarchy” and therefore bans are “brutal form of oppression”]( 5/16/2019 5:21:47 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Banning abortion is “brutal”? What about abortion itself? Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez argued early this morning that it’s an act of liberation against the “patriarchy” that underpins “right-wing ideology.” Or [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [David French: In defense of the direct attack on Roe]( 5/16/2019 4:41:31 PM John Sexton 0 Comments I don’t think the Alabama abortion law is a good law but David French, writing at NR, suggests that it may be a good strategy for the pro-life side. Yesterday he made the case for states fighting Roe head on so this issue can be returned to [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [NYT: No war with Iran, Trump tells defense secretary]( 5/16/2019 4:01:01 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments I’m imagining him on the campaign trail next year, boasting to a crowd how he kept America out of war despite the dastardly efforts of … his own advisors. And you know what? That might be an effective pitch. Even those who have no use [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Today’s hot topics: Mosul revelations, abortion negations, impeachment gyrations, Russiagate instigations, and more!]( 5/16/2019 3:41:53 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Today on The Ed Morrissey Show (4 pm ET), we have another great lineup for the news of the day! The show will be streamed on Hot Air’s Facebook page and embedded here and on the show page for those who are not on Facebook. Join us as we [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Pelosi: We might do impeachment without the impeachment to enforce subpoenas]( 5/16/2019 3:21:05 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Nancy Pelosi doesn’t want to do an impeachment but might stage a pretend one. She floats the idea of “inherent contempt” without saying she wants to use it. So what is Pelosi saying? CNN’s Manu Raju doesn’t seem certain [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [SAT will now assign an ‘adversity score’ to each student]( 5/16/2019 2:43:04 PM John Sexton 0 Comments There has already been a beta test involving 50 colleges. Now the College Board is expanding this to 150 schools. The idea is to give admissions offices some indication of the student’s socio-economic background in addition to their score on [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [WaPo: Trump “frustrated” with advisers’ push to “attack Iran”]( 5/16/2019 2:01:42 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments A government of hardliners seemingly reveals an opening for moderates. Will that create a window for world-shifting negotiations? Barack Obama thought so when that described Iran, but will Iran think so after reading the Washington Post’s [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Divided America comes together in gleeful scorn for De Blasio presidential bid]( 5/16/2019 1:31:03 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments “Scornful glee” might be more accurate. Either way, my experience today reading news coverage, watching man-on-the-street interviews in NYC, and following social media completely jibes with Katherine Miller’s headline at BuzzFeed, [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Code Pink activists forcibly removed from the Venezuelan embassy]( 5/16/2019 1:01:51 PM John Sexton 0 Comments A group of left-wing protesters calling themselves the Embassy Protection Collective had occupied the Venezuelan embassy as part of the “Hands Off Venezuela” movement. Today the remaining four were evicted and arrested by police: Carlos [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Maine moves toward abandoning the Electoral College]( 5/16/2019 12:31:12 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments The state of Maine took one more step toward joining the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact this week when the state Senate passed a bill adopting the proposal. It still has to be passed in the House and get their Democratic governor’s [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Barr: I’m not stopping Mueller from testifying]( 5/16/2019 12:01:33 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments More to the point, William Barr can’t stop Robert Mueller from testifying, and the Attorney General knows it. Barr tells the Wall Street Journal that he’s not even involved in negotiations for Mueller’s testimony to congressional [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Latest Headlines: We pick, you click.] James Carroll [Save the Church — by abolishing the priesthood]( Fox News [Poll: Biden 35, Sanders 17, Warren 9]( Donald Trump [TREASON means long jail sentences, and this was TREASON!]( Daniel Chaitin [Hannity: DOJ inspector general FISA abuse probe is “done and it’s devastating”]( CNN [Warren calls for federal protections for abortion rights]( NYT [Pelosi raises impeachment as a way to break Trump’s information stonewall]( NBC [Eric Holder sees “grounds for impeachment” in Mueller report]( WaPo [Trump wants border barrier to be painted black with spikes. 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