HotAir Daily Express 06/28/2016

[Hot Air Daily Express] [Follow us on Facebook] [Home][Green Room][Archive][The Ed Morrissey Show][Print][Forward] [More Benghazi report: Hillary aide influenced Accountability Review Board] 6/28/2016 10:01:02 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Remember the Accountability Review Board, appointed in the wake of the Benghazi attack that killed four Americans in September 2012? The ARB, headed by former ambassador Thomas Pickering, provided the first attempt at oversight over the State [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Video: What is Ed Rendell’s problem with women in government?] 6/28/2016 9:21:50 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments We recently discussed Ed Rendell’s rather, er… blunt comments about Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren and her lack of qualifications to be the Vice President. He seemed to be channeling some of the thoughts coming from her Montana [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Great news from WaPo/ABC poll: 13% of Americans understand due process] 6/28/2016 8:41:37 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments At least we can dispense with the debate over the sample composition of the Washington Post/ABC News poll on this question. Today, ABC unveiled another section of questions from last week’s poll dealing with the Orlando terror attack and the [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Porexit? When Brexit spreads to the Iberian Peninsula] 6/28/2016 8:01:19 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments While our betters in the media continue to scold us about how awful the Brexit voters in Great Britain are and the doom they are surely bringing upon themselves for wanting to protect their borders and preserve their way of life, the spirit of the [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Benghazi report details Obama/Clinton failures before, during and after deadly attacks] 6/28/2016 7:21:07 AM Larry O'Connor 0 Comments The long-awaited report from the House Select Committee on Benghazi will be released Tuesday and we’re learning some important and damning conclusions the congressmen, led by Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-SC,) have reached. After 26 months of hearings, [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Another 34 work-related emails Hillary Clinton deleted just turned up] 6/27/2016 11:01:14 PM John Sexton 0 Comments This is almost starting to become a running gag. Last week the Associated Press reported on a “key message” which Hillary Clinton failed to turn over to the State Department. Today the AP reports that 34 more work-related emails just turned [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [What if no British leader wants to pull the trigger on leaving the EU?] 6/27/2016 10:21:45 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments One senior EU diplomat, asked when he expects Britain will inform the EU that it’s leaving, said he doesn’t think it’ll ever happen. Is that possible? Read this, cribbing from a smart comment left at the Guardian over the weekend, for [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Watch the Daily Show eviscerate itself with response to SCOTUS’ abortion decision] 6/27/2016 9:41:57 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Comedy Central’s The Daily Show did not make any new friends today. After the Supreme Court overturned a law requiring strict regulation of Texas abortion clinics the show’s Twitter account celebrated the decision with this message: Celebrate [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [George Will: I left the GOP for the same reason I joined it, because I’m a conservative] 6/27/2016 9:01:02 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments A leftover from yesterday via Mediaite. Note that it’s not Trump or Trump’s nomination that sent him running for the lifeboats. It’s Paul Ryan’s half-hearted embrace of Trump, which is odd. If Ryan had resigned the Speakership [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Hey, who wants to speak at the GOP convention? Bueller? Bueller?] 6/27/2016 8:21:22 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments With seven three [see update] weeks to go before Republicans stage their national convention, will they find enough content to fill out the schedule? According to Politico’s Alex Isenstadt, the RNC will have trouble getting officeholders and [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [The shadow bailout of Puerto Rico is underway] 6/27/2016 7:41:55 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments You may recall that the initiative in Congress to bail out Puerto Rico by allowing them to enter into bankruptcy pretty much fell flat. Of course, there wasn’t much enthusiasm for seeing the Island of 3.5 million people completely collapse into a [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [NBC claims new poll shows “majority of Republicans prefer someone else to Trump” as nominee. But does it?] 6/27/2016 7:01:57 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments I think tense is important here. Here’s the headline to their story: The used the same headline for a related tweet. A majority of Republicans now want to dump Trump at the convention? That’s big news! Lots of #NeverTrumpers on social media [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [S&P slams Brexit, drops UK bond rating two notches] 6/27/2016 6:21:42 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Wise precaution, or political gamesmanship? Suffice it to say that Standard & Poor’s sees the British vote to end its membership in the European Union as a big problem both economically and politically. The bond agency cut its rating on [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Paul Ryan: I won’t tolerate another sit-in from Democrats] 6/27/2016 5:41:33 PM John Sexton 0 Comments After Democrats held what the Speaker of the House has called a fundraising stunt last week, some Republicans have recommended he file ethics charges against anyone who violated House rules. Ryan doesn’t seem ready to go there quite yet but he did [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [If you’re planning on protesting the GOP convention, the FBI would like a word…] 6/27/2016 5:01:13 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments It’s easy to lose track of the number of protests, disruptions and assorted styles of mayhem we’ve been promised during the GOP convention in Cleveland next month. Originally there were going to be armies of Bikers for Trump taking to the [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [NYT: US arms intended for Syrian rebels used to kill American soldiers] 6/27/2016 4:31:03 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Consider this a deadly lesson in the perils of proxy wars. The US has tried to find ways to undermine Bashar al-Assad in Syria ever since the eruption of the “Arab Spring” protests several years ago in Syria, but have lacked the political [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [All in: RNC joins Trump in effort to stop “Dump Trump” delegates] 6/27/2016 4:01:49 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Your quote of the day, courtesy of a GOP Rules Committee member: “We’re going to ride the Trump bandwagon into 1600 Penn Ave., or into oblivion. One or the other.” I couldn’t agree more. Anti-Trumpers will be angry that the RNC is meddling [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Democrats release their own Benghazi report] 6/27/2016 3:31:58 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Democrats on the Select Committee investigating the Benghazi attack released their own report on the matter Monday. The report is intended to undercut the forthcoming report by the majority on the select committee which is expected to be released this [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Washington state to begin teaching “gender identity” in Kindergarten] 6/27/2016 3:01:20 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Earlier this month another dubious milestone was reached in the state of Washington, already home to many such distinctions. We learned that beginning in the fall of next year, kindergarten students being sent off to school for the first time will be [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [SCOTUS unanimously springs McDonnell on corruption charges … for now] 6/27/2016 2:31:35 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Bob McDonnell can breathe a sigh of relief, even if the Supreme Court only “springs” him in a theoretical sense. Out on bail while appealing his corruption convictions, McDonnell now has a clean record after having his case vacated this [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [New poll shows Clinton within single digits of Trump in, er…] 6/27/2016 2:01:13 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments You’ll remember from the Book of Revelation that Texas going blue is what happens when the sixth seal is broken. Dude, I think I hear it cracking. No, just kidding. Texas isn’t going blue. Or, to hedge a bit, if Texas goes blue then it [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Donor promised to make Clinton ‘look good’ if appointed to international security board] 6/27/2016 1:31:38 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Newly released emails show Rajiv Fernando promised to make Hillary Clinton “look good” if he was appointed to the International Security Advisory Board. Fernando also seemed to recognize that he was relatively ill-equipped for the position [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [The justifiable hypocrisy of veterans’ preferences in federal hiring] 6/27/2016 1:01:33 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments This is the sort of story which no doubt requires some disclosure up front, so let’s get that out of the way right now. I’m a hypocrite. Yes, it’s true. When it comes to the government putting its thumb on the scale and favoring one [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump: I just can’t believe this “dirty” WaPo/ABC poll] 6/27/2016 12:31:42 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Donald Trump may have some legitimate polling issues, but he’s also got a legitimate gripe in this instance. On Friday, the new Washington Post/ABC national poll showed Trump trailing by twelve points — which also happened to be the gap [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Hillary’s new ad hits Trump for golf course Brexit presser] 6/27/2016 12:01:05 PM Larry O'Connor 0 Comments Hillary Clinton’s new ad is designed to make voters terrified of having Donald Trump at the reigns of power during a major international crisis.  The crisis she uses to demonstrate this concern is the Brexit vote results from this past Friday in [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Latest Headlines: We pick, you click.] [Trump goes silent on Supreme Court abortion ruling] [The antidote to Brexit: A strong NATO] [No speaking slots? 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