HotAir Daily Express 06/01/2016

[Hot Air Daily Express] [Follow us on Facebook] [Home][Green Room][Archive][The Ed Morrissey Show][Print][Forward] [Even lefty PolitiFact calls Hillary a liar over email scam] 6/1/2016 9:21:28 AM Larry O'Connor 0 Comments We’ve spent plenty of time explaining how PolitiFact is not the “arbiter of truth” they present themselves to be. In fact, as John Nolte has so brilliantly pointed out over the years, most of these “fact checker” sites are [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump secures the coveted Kim Jong Un endorsement] 6/1/2016 8:01:29 AM Larry O'Connor 0 Comments The totalitarian, communist government of North Korea has endorsed Donald Trump for president.  Seriously. Reuters has the details: A column carried on Tuesday by DPRK Today, one of the reclusive and dynastic state’s mouthpieces, described Trump as [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Great #NeverTrump hope Gary Johnson: I side with Bernie Sanders 73% of the time, you know] 5/31/2016 10:41:33 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Via the Free Beacon, this is the guy I’m stuck with this fall, huh? *ffffaaaarrrrtttt* Second look at NRO Contributor 2016? A few months ago I would have laughed at Johnson for pandering to a left-wing movement that’s purportedly all about [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [New spin: If only she’d known about them, Hillary totally would have addressed “any concerns” about her emails] 5/31/2016 10:01:06 PM Guy Benson 0 Comments Another day, another set of lies from Hillary Clinton’s campaign about her national security-compromising and ongoing email scandal — previous dissembling and dishonesty about which was exposed in last week’s bombshell Inspector General [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Cheryl Mills doesn’t recall FOIA request for Clinton’s email accounts] 5/31/2016 9:21:07 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Judicial Watch released the full transcript of a 7-hour deposition of Cheryl Mills on Tuesday. The actual deposition took place in Washington D.C. last Friday. The transcript puts to rest any idea that lawyers for the government acting on Mills’ [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [WSJ editor: Trump must be defeated as decisively as possible to teach Republican voters a lesson] 5/31/2016 8:41:14 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Via RCP, there’s #NeverTrump and then there’s this guy. What he says here is interesting mainly for the counterfactual it presents, I think. What if Trump doesn’t lose decisively? Looking at the polls today, it’s hard to believe [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Jack Hanna: I’d bet my life that gorilla would have killed the child had zookeepers not stopped it] 5/31/2016 8:01:30 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Gettin’ weird out there. This guy has it all right #justiceforharambe pic.twitter.com/rAwLS8de2l — Hope (@HopeEsser12) May 30, 2016 “But no moment came.” Right. There’s a reason for that. If you can’t spare the time [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [NPR: We probably shouldn’t have taken funding from Ploughshares Fund to cover Iran deal] 5/31/2016 7:21:34 PM John Sexton 0 Comments National Public Radio’s ombudsman published a response to the government funded news channel’s decision to accept money from the Ploughshares Fund to cover the Iran deal in 2015. The ombudsman denies NPR intentionally did anything wrong but [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Democrats on the Benghazi committee really hope to cooperate on final report] 5/31/2016 6:41:33 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Democrats on the Benghazi Select Committee want to play nice to insure the final report is not seen as too partisan. Democratic members of the committee sent a letter to Chairman Trey Gowdy Tuesday which opened with a sincere plea for bipartisanship: We [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Report: Bill Kristol recruiting conservative writer and Iraq veteran David French for independent run] 5/31/2016 6:03:48 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments This was who he had in mind with that much-hyped tweet this weekend that had everyone wondering if Romney had reconsidered? An … NRO writer? Trump fans are forever deriding #NeverTrump as a “movement” consisting of, like, six guys at [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Rasmussen: 50% think Hillary should still run even if she’s indicted] 5/31/2016 5:21:28 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments We may finally have at least an indication as to the answer to one of the big questions hanging over the 2016 election. Specifically, what happens in the event that James Comey turns over to the Justice Department a recommendation that Hillary Clinton be [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Forbes: That State Department email report could result in Biden as the nominee] 5/31/2016 4:41:35 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments The damning IG report on Hillary Clinton’s email scandal has produced plenty of speculation since it came out, none of which seems to have affected the race one bit thus far. One of the more common themes seems to be that if the report (and [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump on Susana Martinez: If a Republican’s not on my side, why should I be particularly nice to them?] 5/31/2016 4:01:21 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments It’s quite simple, wrote Byron York last night, attempting to solve the mystery of why Trump would go after a popular Republican governor in her home state. (Even Trump crony Newt Gingrich was baffled by it.) Martinez was critical of Trump, York [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Hate speech law used to stifle online dissent in Russia (Update)] 5/31/2016 3:21:10 PM John Sexton 0 Comments In Russia, hate speech is whatever the government says it is. That’s how dozens of people have ended up in prison for sharing things on social media that are critical of Putin’s newly expansive state. In particular, authorities cracked down [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Poland revives extradition hearings for Roman Polanski] 5/31/2016 2:41:21 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments We’ve been down this road too many times now for me to get my hopes up overly much, but there’s some fresh movement in Poland over the possible extradition of convicted pedophile rapist Roman Polanski to the United States. When we last [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Katie Couric: On second thought, I can see why that highly deceptive edit in our gun-control movie might be misleading] 5/31/2016 2:01:37 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Last week, when gun-rights advocates first cried foul, she sniffed that she was “very proud” of the film. Now, in a statement posted this morning, she’s claiming the edit bothered her too the first time she watched it. What [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Clinton’s campaign chairman just revealed Hillary lied at her UN press conference] 5/31/2016 1:21:13 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Ed has already highlighted John Podesta’s weekend letter to supporters in his write up today but I wanted to spell out one aspect of it in more detail… Over the holiday weekend Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta sent a message to campaign [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Campaign for Britain to leave EU gains steam over immigration concerns] 5/31/2016 12:41:26 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Things are heating up in Great Britain as the vote on the Big Brexit approaches. The Brits seem to be generally split on the subject, with those wishing to remain in the European Union holding a slim, but statistically solid edge over the past month. [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [McConnell: Trump won’t change the GOP] 5/31/2016 12:01:42 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Is that the real question, though? After a year that confounded longtime observers of the Republican Party and much of its leadership, Hugh Hewitt’s question to Mitch McConnell on this morning’s show might aim at the wrong dynamic. The Senate [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Report: GOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger nearly ran as an independent, “literally to save the union”] 5/31/2016 11:21:16 AM Allahpundit 0 Comments Here’s an insight, I guess, into whether conservatives who are trying to recruit an independent candidate on the right really are in it to win it or are just looking for a spoiler to damage Trump. Kinzinger’s a veteran but he’s all of [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [As predicted, Chicago turned bloody over Memorial Day weekend] 5/31/2016 10:41:33 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments We talked about this over the weekend with at least the vague hope that things in Chicago might turn out better than predicted. The death toll, largely caused by gang violence, has been on the rise in the Windy City and the police were concerned that the [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Latest Headlines: We pick, you click.] [State Department warns Americans about European travel] [Mitt Romney praises possible independent candidate David French] [Bill Weld: ‘I’m not buying’ that Clinton will be indicted] [Poll: Clinton, Trump running tight race in NJ] [Billy Joel: Trump’s campaign ‘very entertaining’] [S.E. 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