HotAir Daily Express 05/24/2016

[Hot Air Daily Express] [Follow us on Facebook] [Home][Green Room][Archive][The Ed Morrissey Show][Print][Forward] [Super. We’re building separate detention facilities for transgender illegal immigrants] 5/24/2016 10:01:37 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Well isn’t that special? When the new detention center for illegal immigrants comes online in Texas it will be divided up into three sections: one for men, one for women (and children) and a third one for… other. This is apparently in keeping [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [FLASHBACK: Remember Hillary’s outrage when Obama wouldn’t debate in 2008?] 5/24/2016 9:21:17 AM Larry O'Connor 0 Comments Hillary Clinton has opted out of an invitation to debate challenger Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-VT) on Fox News Channel prior to the June 7th primary in California. As John Sexton pointed out Monday night, Sanders had agreed to the debate which would have [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [TSA security chief removed from his position] 5/24/2016 8:41:45 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments We recently talked about the pledge from the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to shorten the horrendously long lines many of you are currently dealing with at the nation’s airports. Perhaps that’s one factor which led to [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Harry Reid: ‘Hell no’ Hillary shouldn’t pick Warren as VP] 5/24/2016 8:01:32 AM Larry O'Connor 0 Comments The smart guys in Washington think it would be a great idea for Hillary Clinton to pick Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) as her running mate. The conventional wisdom suggests that the liberal fire-brand would shore up Hillary’s left flank thus giving [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Let’s talk about that “fried chicken taco shell” abomination from Taco Bell] 5/23/2016 10:41:18 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments We could talk about “Fear the Walking Dead” instead, but I get the sense that I’m the only one still watching, especially now that “Game of Thrones” is back on the air. Too bad. FTWD is more interesting than its parent, [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Clinton declines to participate in California debate] 5/23/2016 10:01:03 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Hillary Clinton has decided not to participate in a debate with Bernie Sanders prior to the California primary. As recently as Sunday Clinton was asked if she would participate in the debate which Fox News had offered to host. Appearing on Meet the [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Tough new Trump online ad: “Is Hillary really protecting women?”] 5/23/2016 9:21:55 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Feels like a teaser trailer for a bigger production, which is what it is. I can imagine it playing before each of Trump’s rallies, to whet the crowd’s appetite before he launches into a 20-minute shpiel about “Rapist Bill” — [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Virgin Islands AG drops subpoena against CEI] 5/23/2016 8:41:34 PM John Sexton 0 Comments An attorney general for the Virgin Islands had dropped a subpoena demanding a decade of records from the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI). CEI announced the change on their website but said they will continue their own counter-effort to sanction AG [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Obligatory: Hillary 37, Trump 35, Romney 22] 5/23/2016 8:01:34 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Almost cut short my vacation to blog this poll. But even the Internet’s premier “Romney 2016?” trollblogger needs to rest sometimes, my friends. The most interesting crosstab here, incidentally, isn’t that Romney takes 33 percent [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [WaPo: Those dumb Indians don’t even know when they’re being insulted] 5/23/2016 7:21:40 PM Larry O'Connor 0 Comments Just days after the Washington Post revealed that 90% of Native Americans don’t find the term “Redskins” to be offensive, the paper’s own editorial board has proclaimed that they know better about racial slurs than the alleged [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Surprise: Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, shady Clinton crony, under federal investigation over campaign contributions] 5/23/2016 6:41:32 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments This was exactly as predictable as a new Bill Clinton White House sex scandal. Which, let’s face it, is probably also in America’s short-term future. He was chairman of Hillary’s campaign in 2008, co-chair of Bill’s reelection [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Efficient, corruption free government workers finally located. And they’re goats] 5/23/2016 6:01:39 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments There’s been more than enough depressing or distressing news today, so let’s focus on the positive for a change. In Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the local government is handling at least one challenge by adding more workers to the payroll, but [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Guccifer will change plea to guilty signaling possible cooperation with investigators] 5/23/2016 5:21:03 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Marcel Lazar, the hacker known as Guccifer, will change his plea in court to guilty this Wednesday. The Hill reports: A spokesman with the U.S. attorney’s office prosecuting Lazar confirmed that he would plead guilty. However, it is unclear which charges [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Report: Gingrich lobbying to be Trump’s running mate] 5/23/2016 4:41:41 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Actual quote from Ed Rollins about the fact that a Trump/Gingrich ticket would have six wives between them: “They certainly understand women.” That’s like saying a business owner who’s gone bankrupt four times certainly understands [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Austria saddles itself with Green Party candidate in close run-off election] 5/23/2016 4:01:22 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments We talked yesterday about the nail biter of a race in Austria’s presidential elections and how it came down to Norbert Hofer of the Freedom Party and the Socialist/Greens’ Alexander Van der Bellen. Some of the locals who felt that the signs [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Appeals Court tosses out $1.27 billion judgment against Bank of America] 5/23/2016 3:21:19 PM John Sexton 0 Comments A massive $1.27 billion penalty that was imposed on Bank of America in 2014 over mortgage loans it sold to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac has been overturned by an appeals court. Reuters reports: The Justice Department claimed Countrywide, which Bank of [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [EgyptAir plane was once tagged with graffiti saying ‘We will bring this plane down’] 5/23/2016 2:41:17 PM Larry O'Connor 0 Comments The very same EgyptAir jetliner that crashed into the Mediterranean Sea last week was once vandalized with graffiti reading “We will being this plane down” according to the New York Times. The Times quaintly (and perhaps naively) calls the [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [VA secretary: You don’t judge your experience at Disneyland based on the wait times, do you?] 5/23/2016 2:01:06 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments If there was a chance you’d die while in line for Space Mountain, I’m thinking you might. People are wondering on Twitter how long it’ll be before the VA introduces a Fastpass+ program for vets. Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Sen. Sessions: Hillary Clinton the most anti-2nd amendment candidate ever] 5/23/2016 1:21:04 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Senator Jeff Sessions appeared on Fox News Sunday and was asked about the NRA decision to endorse Donald Trump. Sessions replied, “Hillary Clinton is the most anti-2nd amendment president, perhaps we’ve ever had.” Sessions probably [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Is it time for an American Foreign Legion?] 5/23/2016 12:41:03 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments When you think of the French Foreign Legion, some of you – particularly those a bit closer to my age bracket – probably summon up thoughts of Gary Cooper in the 1939 film classic, Beau Geste. While there’s a definite tendency to overly [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Officer Edward Nero acquitted in Freddie Gray case] 5/23/2016 12:01:13 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments We’ve been expecting this news for a while and now it’s official. The bench trial for Baltimore Police Officer Edward Nero – he of the Freddie Gray case – has come to a close and Nero was found not guilty on all charges. NBC News [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [WSJ/NBC poll: Hillary 46, Trump 43] 5/23/2016 11:21:04 AM Allahpundit 0 Comments Whether you believe Trump holds a slight lead or Clinton holds a slight lead, there’s no doubt that the early race is tight. Check out the RCP poll average since January 1st: Between mid-February and mid-April, Hillary led every head-to-head poll [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Pittsburgh police refusing to work security at Beyonce’ concert over anti-police message] 5/23/2016 10:41:45 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments This would likely be an easier column to write if I were more familiar with the life and work of Beyonce’, but even I know that she’s a very popular singer with significant music sales and well attended concerts. 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