HotAir Daily Express 05/15/2019

Banks Get Green Light to Seize Bank Accounts Alyssa Milano reacts to passage of Alabama anti-abortion bill, "Not one uterus" 5/15/2019 11:01:18 AM  Karen Townsend 0 Comments Tuesday Alabama’s state Senate passed a bill that outlaws almost all abortion, with the only exception being to protect the life of the mother. It is the country’s strictest abortion bill. Alabama’s House of Representatives already More... All has been forgiven for Brian Williams at NBC 5/15/2019 10:31:41 AM  Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Is Brian Williams on his way back to the big chair he surrendered to Lester Holt on Nightly News? It’s starting to look that way. After his awkward departure from his anchor duties nearly four years ago, it looked as if his career was More... Feeling Old? Do This Once A Day And Watch What Happens LCR Health SPONSORED PLUS 3 Signs You're Aging Too Quickly More... Hmm: CIA, DNI joining probe of FBI's Russiagate activities 5/15/2019 10:01:11 AM  Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Old-timers at Langley must be licking their chops over this news from CNN. Having the CIA investigate their rivals at the FBI for potential counterespionage wrongdoing has to be a bucket-list item for a few of them. For the rest of us, though, it More... Zogby has Trump above water in approval ratings 5/15/2019 9:21:45 AM  Jazz Shaw 0 Comments I know that everyone is going to see the headline of the latest Zogby Analytics poll of President Trump’s approval ratings and think “outlier.” And perhaps that will prove to be the case, but their numbers still definitely have a More... Banks Get Green Light to Seize Bank Accounts New Law Cracks Down on Right to Use Cash. See Why! Learn How To Rollover Your IRA, 401(k) or Other Retirement Account Into Gold Now. US #1 Gold IRA Provider. $0 fees. Provocation: Alabama Senate passes bill that makes almost all abortions a crime 5/15/2019 8:41:52 AM  Ed Morrissey 0 Comments If the Supreme Court’s conservatives truly relish a fight over Roe v Wade, Alabama has only a governor’s signature in the way of one. The state senate passed a bill that would ban abortion in almost all instances, charge doctors with More... U.S. bugging out of Iraq? 5/15/2019 8:01:46 AM  Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Well… not exactly. Or at least not entirely. But the State Department has ordered all non-essential personnel to leave the country. It’s a move unusual enough to lead to questions and it almost certainly has to do with the deteriorating More... Beto: On second thought, that "Vanity Fair" cover I did announcing my candidacy reinforced perceptions of my privilege 5/14/2019 10:41:07 PM  Allahpundit 0 Comments My strong sense from this guy is that he’d quit the race today if he could. He’s not licked yet; a good retail politician with a core of ardent fans remains a threat in Iowa. If he won the caucuses, he’d be in business as a More... Deal: Donald Trump Jr reaches agreement with Burr on testifying before Senate Intel Committee 5/14/2019 10:01:15 PM  Allahpundit 0 Comments It was rare bad luck for the Trump family that the head of the committee, Richard Burr, was the one of the few remaining Republicans in the Senate whose balls aren’t in the president’s pocket for safekeeping. Burr drove a hard bargain, More... Linda Greenhouse on threats to Roe v. Wade 5/14/2019 9:21:04 PM  John Sexton 0 Comments Linda Greenhouse is a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter. Her beat for the NY Times, where she worked for 40 years until 2008, was the Supreme Court. She is also a progressive who has strong personal views on topics she covered, especially Roe v. Wade. More... Bill Nye scorches ears while torching the globe 5/14/2019 8:41:01 PM  Karen Townsend 0 Comments Welp. Bill Nye’s appearance on John Oliver’s Sunday night show on HBO created quite a stir on social media Monday as a video clip of Nye’s over-the-top performance circulated on Twitter. Most notable, at least to me, is Nye’s More... Morning Consult: Guess which Dem does better on Fox than MSNBC? 5/14/2019 8:01:12 PM  Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Hint: It’s one of the Democratic presidential candidates who bothered to show up on Fox. That’s not the only eye-catching result from Morning Consult’s latest poll, either. Bernie Sanders’ brand of unvarnished socialism More... Warren doubles down: It's time to stop Fox News's "hate-for-profit machine" — by sending me your money 5/14/2019 7:31:39 PM  Allahpundit 0 Comments Once again I’m left feeling like Ralphie in “A Christmas Story” after he finally gets the Li’l Orphan Annie decoder pin. Warren’s big anti-Fox-News play was … a crummy commercial? She did warn us that she’s More... Dershowitz: Harvard gave in to 'irrational, bigoted, unprincipled' SJW arguments 5/14/2019 7:01:21 PM  John Sexton 0 Comments Ed already covered this story yesterday in some detail but today law professor Alan Dershowitz has weighed in, saying the school should be ashamed of what it has done here. If you missed the story yesterday, here’s the abbreviated version: Ron More... Chicago Cardinal "blindsided" by Farrakhan invitation 5/14/2019 6:31:38 PM  Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Over the weekend we looked at the “surprise” appearance at St. Sabina Catholic Church in Chicago by Louis Farrakhan. He generated headlines that were not of the best sort during his Absolutely Not Antisemitic remarks where he spoke of More... Biden: I "absolutely agree" that Trump is an illegitimate president 5/14/2019 6:01:18 PM  Allahpundit 0 Comments Via Mediaite, we should seize this opportunity to game out how a Biden presidency might be delegtimized by the right if he succeeds in knocking off Trump next year. It’s a cinch to happen, since it’s happened with every president dating More... NYT: "Hard-liner" Pentagon war plans call for deploying up to 120,000 troops after Iranian attack; Trump: "Fake news" 5/14/2019 5:31:18 PM  Ed Morrissey 0 Comments One could headline this New York Times article thusly: War planners gotta warplan. Administration sources told Eric Schmitt and Julian Barnes that the acting Secretary of Defense has updated the US plans to deal with military provocations by Iran or More... AFL-CIO shares Marxist video: 'The middle class…is a fiction' 5/14/2019 5:01:18 PM  John Sexton 0 Comments According to a video tweeted out today by the AFL-CIO, the middle-class is “a fiction.” That’s probably going to be a real surprise to a lot of middle-class people and also to people who thought the AFL-CIO’s goal was to More... Mystery assailants of Jewish men in Brooklyn still at large 5/14/2019 4:31:01 PM  Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Last week we looked at the story of a Hasidic Jewish man who was attacked in Brooklyn. The assailant fled, but there was security camera video of the attack available. As it turns out, however, there was another attack in the same neighborhood on More... Liz Cheney to Tlaib and Pelosi: I'm sorry — that so many House Democrats are anti-semitic 5/14/2019 4:01:35 PM  Allahpundit 0 Comments Pelosi asked for an apology yesterday after Trump came down hard on Tlaib. Now she has one. The silver lining of Tlaib’s “safe haven” comments is that they’ve inspired a burst of interesting writing about the early history of More... Today's hot topics: Hollywood legends RIP, foreign policy entropy, Rashida Tlaib's zealotry, economic recipes, and more! 5/14/2019 3:31:03 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... The Seattle trash map shows the city has a problem it needs to address 5/14/2019 3:01:23 PM  John Sexton 0 Comments I don’t know if this was inspired by the San Francisco poop map, but it offers a similar view of a major west coast city that desperately needs to clean up its act. Christopher Rufo, who created the map, is the same person who recently created More... Bernie Sanders' felon voting idea hasn't exactly caught on 5/14/2019 2:31:43 PM  Jazz Shaw 0 Comments To say that Senator Bernie Sanders’ proposal to allow all felons to vote from behind bars has landed with a thud is a bit of an understatement. As compassionate and forgiving as he may feel Americans are, very few are ready to let the Boston More... WaPo fact check: No Pinocchios for dubious Harris claim to not oppose private health insurance? 5/14/2019 2:01:22 PM  Ed Morrissey 0 Comments None at all? Not even after Kamala Harris made it clear that she wanted to “eliminate all of that” insurance entanglements with Medicare for All back in January? Ever since then, Harris has sung a different tune, which CNN’s Jake More... Elizabeth Warren: I won't do a town hall on Fox News's "hate-for-profit machine" 5/14/2019 1:31:16 PM  Allahpundit 0 Comments Smart, if cynical. After all, Warren must have arrived at her allegedly principled objection to Fox’s “hate” outlet fairly recently: A rival campaign reminded journalist Yashar Ali today that she was still doing interviews on More... A comparison: What Rep. Tlaib said about Israel vs. what Trump said about Charlottesville 5/14/2019 1:01:29 PM  John Sexton 0 Comments Yesterday, President Trump invited this very comparison on Twitter, so I’m going to make it. “Can you imagine what would happen if I ever said what she said, and says?” he wrote. Democrat Rep. Tlaib is being slammed for her More... NYT Trump's tariffs, once seen as leverage, may be here to stay CNN GOP senators "underwhelmed" with Kushner's legal immigration plan, sources say Politico "He's white, male and gay": Buttigieg hits obstacles with black voters NYT Trump can't stop attacking Biden. GOP strategists wish he would. William McGurn Go ahead, impeach Trump The Hill Cotton: U.S. could win war with Iran in "two strikes" CNBC Mark Cuban leaves open possibility of running for president as an independent Jeffrey Linder Don't visit your doctor in the afternoon Politico Russians hacked two Florida voting systems WaPo GOP senators raise alarms, criticize Trump as U.S.-China trade war heats up Maren Estrada AI is now better at predicting mortality than human doctors NBC Alabama state senate passes near total abortion ban in direct challenge to Roe v. Wade USSD State Dep't orders non-emergency personnel to leave Iraq Joe Pinsker Now is the best time ever to be in a long-distance relationship Geoffrey Skelley The Buttigieg bump is fading, but he could surge again John Paul Stevens The worst decision of my Supreme Court tenure Paul Mulshine It's time for Trump to stop Bolton and Pompeo from sabotaging his foreign policy Anne Applebaum It's clear why Trump likes autocrats. But why are American conservatives following him? Thomas Wright Democrats need to place China at the center of their foreign policy Damon Linker What I got wrong about Trump and the culture war Bloomberg Biden's NAFTA vote is a liability in the Rust Belt Ross Douthat A de Gaulle of our own Charles Sykes The attack on David French once again sheds light on Christian hypocrisy Conor Friedersdorf The damage that Harvard has done Tina Nguyen Can MAGA country learn to love Elizabeth Warren? Banks Get Green Light to Seize Bank Accounts New Law Cracks Down on Right to Use Cash. See Why! Learn How To Rollover Your IRA, 401(k) or Other Retirement Account Into Gold Now. US #1 Gold IRA Provider. $0 fees.