HotAir Daily Express 09/26/2017

[Hot Air Daily Express]( [Follow us on Facebook]( [Home]([Green Room]([Archive]([The Ed Morrissey Show]([Print]([Forward]( [New Global Currency Could End The Dollar for Good]( [US Debt Hits $20T - Your IRA/401k Could Foot the Bill]( [IRS Loophole: The secret you need to know about your 401K/IRA]( [The Left’s (brilliant) scam behind the NFL anthem protests]( 9/26/2017 10:41:52 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments It didn’t happen until last night. For the entire time that the recent spate of highly inflamed National Anthem protests on NFL playing fields has been unfolding this year, there’s been something nagging at the back of my mind. Watching [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Breaking: FBI rounds up NCAA assistant coaches in corruption probe]( 9/26/2017 10:01:29 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Get ready for the national spotlight to shift away from the NFL to college basketball — and not in a good way. NBC News reported a few minutes ago that the FBI rounded up several NCAA assistant coaches in a corruption probe that appears [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Measure your knowledge of the Supreme Court with this short quiz]( Hillsdale College SPONSORED The Supreme Court has shaped American society and politics significantly. But how much do you know about the major cases and decisions of the highest court in the land? [Take The Quiz Now]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [The ACLU has a problem with the police using drones]( 9/26/2017 9:21:33 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments The main thrust of this story is probably nothing unusual. No matter what the police do anywhere around the country, the ACLU can reliably be counted upon to find some reason to object to it. But it’s the location of today’s news item and the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Question the timing? Cowboys add new wrinkle to (non-) anthem protest]( 9/26/2017 8:41:17 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Alternate headline: Market incentives promote innovation. Stuck between a labor force outraged by Donald Trump’s remarks on Friday and a fan base outraged over disrespect to the American flag, the Dallas Cowboys came up with a new twist on the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [New Global Currency Could End The Dollar for Good]( [US Debt Hits $20T - Your IRA/401k Could Foot the Bill]( [IRS Loophole: The secret you need to know about your 401K/IRA]( [How Target wins the “Fight for 15”]( 9/26/2017 8:01:45 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Some news from the retail sector this week which could prove instructive for political activists on both sides of the aisle. While the “Fight for 15” crew continues to hold rallies demanding that the government mandate a vast increase in the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [LeBron James on why Ohio voted for Trump: Lack of education]( 9/25/2017 10:41:50 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments To cleanse the palate, I think he means “education” in terms of civic education, i.e. familiarity with policy and the candidates’ backgrounds, not grade-level achieved. It’d be weird if he didn’t since James himself famously [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Sanders: If NFL players are upset about police brutality, why aren’t they protesting police at the game?]( 9/25/2017 10:01:20 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments She ended up walking this back and clarifying, but hoo boy. “Why aren’t people protesting the police?” is the last soundbite you’d expect from the Law-n-Order administration. There’s a germ of a point in what she says but it [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Sadly the NY Times is back to questioning the value of free speech]( 9/25/2017 9:21:29 PM John Sexton 0 Comments One month ago I wrote a post giving the NY Times credit for publishing a solid defense of free speech. “It’s good to see the paper publish something that defends free speech as a blessing rather than a problem that needs to be solved,” I [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Video: Best hit in NFL action yesterday was …]( 9/25/2017 8:41:52 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments This may not qualify as a palate cleaner as much as a cautionary tale about the limits of Minnesota Nice. The most violent hit in yesterday’s Vikings-Buccaneers game may have come at halftime, when a group of team mascots lined up to scrimmage [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Walmart offers to send a stranger to your house to stock your fridge when you’re not home]( 9/25/2017 8:01:44 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments From the strange but true files. Retailers are in a battle to bring consumers the most convenient and interesting variety of delivery options possible in a race for your spending dollars. Drones will drop off packages on your porch and robots will soon [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Steelers’ Ben Roethlisberger: ‘I wish we approached it differently’]( 9/25/2017 7:21:55 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Allahpundit noted this morning that there has been a run on Alejandro Villanueva jerseys after he became the lone Steelers player to come out of the tunnel during the national anthem yesterday. Today, quarterback Ben Roethlisberger published his [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Buzzfeed: Bannon tried to “infiltrate” Facebook’s management]( 9/25/2017 6:41:44 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Can we consider this the greatest “friending” ever attempted? According to an e-mail obtained by Buzzfeed, Steve Bannon planned to infiltrate Facebook by flooding its application process with like-minded applicants that would have loyalty to [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Alejandro Villanueva: I threw my teammates under the bus yesterday by standing alone for the anthem]( 9/25/2017 6:01:06 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Watch as he explains how they collectively “butchered” their plan for what was supposed to happen. It sounds like the idea was for him to join the captains at the front of the pack in the tunnel for the anthem, yet he somehow ended up a few [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Whoa: Roy Moore 57, Luther Strange 41 in new Alabama GOP Senate poll]( 9/25/2017 5:31:57 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Yes, this poll was conducted over the weekend, after Trump’s rally for Strange on Friday night. And yes, the pollster is legit. It’s Trafalgar, whom you may remember as having called Michigan and Pennsylvania last fall with eerie precision [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Megyn Kelly’s awkward attempt to be the white Oprah]( 9/25/2017 5:01:24 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Megyn Kelly premiered her 2nd new show on NBC Monday morning and by many accounts, it was an awkward experience. From CNN: Megyn Kelly launched her daytime makeover on Monday with “Megyn Kelly Today,” conspicuously trying to reintroduce [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Monty Hall time again: GOP spreading the wealth to get Graham-Cassidy passed]( 9/25/2017 4:31:45 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments “These people, dressed as they are, come from all over the United States to make deals, here in the marketplace of America!” That used to be the introduction for the classic, zany game show Let’s Make a Deal, but the same line could [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Another lawsuit against Trump over blocking people on Twitter]( 9/25/2017 4:01:19 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments This has come up before and we’ve covered it here, but now another group of so-called free speech advocates are suing the President because he blocked them on Twitter. A lawsuit such as this can eat up a lot of time and resources, so you need [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Boycott? Sunday Night Football game had lowest Week 3 ratings since 2006]( 9/25/2017 3:31:12 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments If it’s not a boycott that explains this, what does? There was nothing special on TV last night to compete with the Sunday night game, as there was a week ago when the Emmys went head to head with it. That game did better than last night’s [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Enrollment at University of Missouri drops to lowest level since 2008]( 9/25/2017 3:01:05 PM John Sexton 0 Comments The University of Missouri released fall enrollment numbers last week and, as expected, they are down once again. The freshman class this year will be about 2/3 the size of the freshman class in 2015 before protests rocked the campus. The Associated [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Today’s hot topics: Dogma living loudly, religious liberty, new Title IX rules, anthem protests, and more!]( 9/25/2017 2:31:08 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...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Lax policies at the FAA should frankly terrify you]( 9/25/2017 2:01:46 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments This weekend the Boston Globe published a two part investigative report on the FAA which everyone really needs to take a look at. I realize most of you have probably had your fill of bad news for one year by now, but they’ve uncovered some [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [GOP senators to introduce bill that would offer up to 2.5 million DREAMers a path to citizenship]( 9/25/2017 1:31:40 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments There are only 800,000 or so DACA enrollees. A bill legalizing three times as many people would be quite an amnesty indeed. Wait, did I say “amnesty”? The co-sponsors, Thom Tillis and James Lankford, are adamant that this isn’t that [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Anthony Weiner sentenced to 21 months in prison (Update: Rachel Maddow’s 2011 defense of Weiner)]( 9/25/2017 1:01:35 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Disgraced former congressman Anthony Weiner was given a 21-month prison sentence Monday. He must report to prison by November 6 to begin his sentence. After he serves it, he will be on monitored probation for an additional 3 years. From the Associated [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [North Korea: Trump’s comments mean war, you know]( 9/25/2017 12:31:56 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments While attention in the US has focused on the spreading conflict between multimillionaire athletes and a multibillionaire president, a few other human interest stories are unfolding. This declaration by North Korea is one example, which could interest [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Merkel prevails in German elections, but emerges with less support than Trump has in U.S.]( 9/25/2017 12:01:58 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments The elections in Germany didn’t produce much in the way of surprises, with Chancellor Angela Merkel relatively easily cruising to victory, though by a noticeably slimmer margin than last time. The real news coming out of that contest wasn’t [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Latest Headlines: We pick, you click.] [The White House is not ignoring Puerto Rico]( [Electronic stimulation makes vegetative patient minimally conscious]( [Borders are back]( [Trey Gowdy joins Dems in probing Trump aides’ use of personal email]( [Twitter to clarify rules in wake of Trump North Korea threat tweets]( [Russian operatives used Facebook ads to exploit divisions over black political activism and Muslims]( [Zinke: One-third of Interior employees not loyal to Trump]( [Hillary: I’m not sure Trump knows Puerto Ricans are Americans]( [Gohmert calls for McCain’s recall]( [At least six White House advisors used private email]( [John Kelly not pleased with Trump’s NFL culture war]( [Puerto Rico governor warns of a humanitarian crisis]( [“Tomorrow’s going to decide who has sovereignty in the United States”]( [Why are good men so hard to find?]( [The dying art of disagreement]( [Standing together]( [“I think my daughter looks down on me”]( [These bitter right-wingers don’t like black stars making millions]( [Conservative, Inc., is being replaced by us militant normals]( [Kneeling for life and liberty is patriotic]( [The streets are “not safe” — San Juan is forgotten by the U.S.]( [It’s come to this]( [Being rich and privileged doesn’t undermine the anthem protests]( [Joe Biden is against a Universal Basic Income — and he’s right]( [NFL protest may be unpopular now, but might not end up that way]( [New Global Currency Could End The Dollar for Good]( [US Debt Hits $20T - Your IRA/401k Could Foot the Bill]( [IRS Loophole: The secret you need to know about your 401K/IRA]( [Ed Morrissey Show]( [Advertisement] __________________________SUBSCRIPTION INFO__________________________ WERE YOU FORWARDED THIS EDITION OF THE HOT AIR DAILY? 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