HotAir Daily Express 08/09/2016

[Hot Air Daily Express] [Follow us on Facebook] [Home][Green Room][Archive][The Ed Morrissey Show][Print][Forward] [Video: Feds raid Philly IBEW office cleverly disguised as Hillary campaign HQ] 8/9/2016 10:01:55 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments We get e-mails from time to time accusing us of missing a major story, and sometimes it’s easy to miss a golden nugget in a busy news cycle, although usually they either turn out to be nothingburgers or misunderstandings. After a couple of e-mails [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [The total bill for new regulations under the Obama administration is staggering] 8/9/2016 9:21:01 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments If you’re feeling a bit of a pinch in your wallet these days you may want to examine some of the new government regulations which have come into effect since Barack Obama has been in office. It’s an effect which isn’t always clear to [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Rio Recap: Day Three] 8/9/2016 9:01:41 AM Christine Rousselle 0 Comments After three days of competition, the US remains atop the leaderboard with 19 total medals. Star of the day: Lilly King, USA, Swimming Gold Medal ? Olympic Record ?@_king_lil had one BIG night in the pool! [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Collins: I’m not voting for Trump] 8/9/2016 8:41:47 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Hey, given Susan Collins’ track record in the Senate, how likely was she to vote Republican anyway? Sixty percent? I kid, I kid. With thirteen weeks still left before the election, Senator Collins (R-ME) penned a Washington Post column declaring [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Ahmadinejad asks Obama if he can do him a solid] 8/9/2016 8:01:13 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments In a summer already full of high strangeness, here’s a name you probably haven’t heard for a while: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The former Iranian President is back in the news this week in one of the more unexpected ways imaginable. He’d like [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Howard Dean screams ‘What more do you want?’ defending Hillary’s email lies] 8/9/2016 7:31:35 AM Larry O'Connor 0 Comments One of the most wonderful things to observe this election season has been the spectacle of Hillary Clinton surrogates contorting themselves into unrecognizable humanoid form to explain away Hillary Clinton’s blatant lies to the American people over [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Orlando terrorist’s father endorses Hillary, on display at rally in Florida] 8/9/2016 6:51:51 AM Larry O'Connor 0 Comments Apparently, the father of Omar Mateen, the radical Islamic terrorist who committed the deadliest terror attack on American soil since Sept 11, is a big fan of Hillary Clinton. Clinton held a rally in Kissimmee, FL, a suburb of Orlando, the site of [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [CNN: Maybe some of these terror attacks aren’t terrorism] 8/8/2016 10:31:39 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Philip Mudd is a CNN contributor on terrorism and a former “deputy director of the CIA’s Counterterrorist Center.” Today he writes an opinion piece for CNN arguing that maybe the terror attacks we’re seeing aren’t really [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Hillary now the favorite in … Georgia?] 8/8/2016 10:01:01 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Barely the favorite but still the favorite, according to FiveThirtyEight’s “polls-only” model. Thanks to a new survey out today, she now has a 51.3 percent chance of winning a state that Romney won by eight and which the GOP has won in [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Kasich: Yes, one of my aides got a call from Trump’s campaign offering to let me set national policy as VP] 8/8/2016 9:31:01 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments A tasty leftover from the Sunday shows via Red State. Tapper’s asking him about this splashy yet hard-to-believe NYT story from a few weeks ago alleging that Trump’s son, Donald Jr, dialed up the Kasich campaign in May and offered to let [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [50 GOP officials: Trump ‘lacks the character, values and experience’ to be president] 8/8/2016 9:01:54 PM John Sexton 0 Comments A collection of 50 Republicans who have worked in national security under previous presidents signed a letter which concludes Donald Trump is not qualified to be president. The NY Times was the first to report the story: Fifty of the nation’s most senior [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Mike Pence: Trump’s territorial ban on terrorism applies to Christians and Jews, not just Muslims] 8/8/2016 8:31:45 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Via BuzzFeed, I’ve been wondering about this. If, as Trump has said, the new and improved “Muslim ban” isn’t a ban on Muslims at all but rather a ban on all refugees from territories with a strong terrorist presence, then [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [2nd Circuit Court rules in favor of Chevron in next round of shakedown suit] 8/8/2016 8:01:02 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments The long saga of the attempted Chevron Shakedown by corrupt agencies in Ecuador and their environmentalist allies in the United States hit another milestone today. You may recall that more than two years ago a judge ruled against the groups attempting to [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [WaPo: Ryan sure seems worried about losing control of the House] 8/8/2016 7:31:23 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments How likely are Republicans to lose control of the House in November’s elections? They enjoy a fifty-nine seat majority — 61 including two Democratic vacancies — after a second successive midterm rout of Democrats, and even in losing the [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Oh my: GOP congressman being recruited to primary Ted Cruz] 8/8/2016 7:01:51 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Long overdue. This party needs to be completely cleansed of people who appeal to voters’ consciences. I’m going to go out on a limb and guess that Mike McCaul and any other prospective primary challenger will wait until the results are in on [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Last Obamacare provider in Alabama announces 39% average rate hike for 2017] 8/8/2016 6:31:49 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alabama is the last remaining company offering individual plans on the Obamacare exchange in the state. Today it announced proposed premium increases for 2017 that average 39 percent. AL.com reports: The proposed rate hikes will [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump: ‘If we don’t pull this off, I’m blaming Iowa’] 8/8/2016 6:01:19 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments He’s not a typical politician, that’s for sure. Like any Republican presidential candidate, Donald Trump would really like to carry Iowa in November. With that in mind, he made good on his earlier campaign promise to keep coming back there [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Will Smith in Dubai: ‘Embarrassing’ Trump needs to be ‘cleansed out of our country’] 8/8/2016 5:31:36 PM Larry O'Connor 0 Comments While promoting his film Suicide Squad in Dubai, actor Will Smith spoke out against Islamaphobia and Donald Trump during a press conference: Access Hollywood has the money quote: “As painful as it is to hear Donald Trump talk and as embarrassing [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [“We will put new American metal into the spine of this nation”: Trump’s speech in Detroit in the economy] 8/8/2016 5:01:27 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments He already gave a major speech on jobs and protectionism back in late June but his campaign needs a reset and his economic message is his strongest card to play. Here he is in Detroit this morning playing it. (Transcript here for those who can’t [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Finally: Team Trump starts ad-buy process in 17 states] 8/8/2016 4:31:25 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Looking for another sign that Team Trump has started getting more focused and disciplined? National Journal’s Adam Wollner reports that the campaign has begun the process of putting ads on the air. The Trump campaign had gone dark on television [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Why are we propping up Venezuela with crude oil purchases?] 8/8/2016 4:01:29 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments This is one of those good news, bad news stories coming out of the energy industry. To start things off on a positive note, here’s the good news. The American oil production rig count is finally back on the rise after hitting historic lows this [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Israel: World Vision charity director in Gaza funneled millions to Hamas] 8/8/2016 3:31:47 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Last Thursday Israel’s internal security agency, Shin Bet, indicted the director of World Vision in the Gaza strip for siphoning off millions in charity money and funneling it to Hamas. From the Washington Post: Mohammed el-Halabi established a [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Monmouth national poll: Clinton hits 50, leads by double digits — in a four-way race] 8/8/2016 3:01:01 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Easily the worst poll of the campaign for Trump to date. It’s a poll of likely voters, not registereds, so in theory it’s a more accurate reflection of the actual electorate than most other recent surveys. Monmouth is a highly regarded [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Morning Consult poll: Hillary winning on national security, nuclear arms, and the economy] 8/8/2016 2:31:17 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments After a bad week filled with undisciplined attacks on a Gold Star family and internecine fighting with the GOP, Team Trump appeared to right the ship by week’s end. Donald Trump endorsed a trio of major Republican officeholders in a carefully [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Questions raised in ambush killing of Pokemon Go player] 8/8/2016 2:01:13 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments There was another tragic Pokemon Go story this week, when 20 year old Calvin Riley was shot in the back and killed in Aquatic Park near Ghiradelli Square in San Francisco. According to witness accounts, Riley and a friend were absorbed in playing the [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Latest Headlines: We pick, you click.] [Beck: If Clinton wins, Trump backers will have little credibility to speak out against her] [Fox News staff feared Roger Ailes was monitoring them] [Poll: Clinton 51, Trump 41] [Report: Fox News negotiating eight-figure settlement with Gretchen Carlson; tapes may exist] [Why I cannot support Trump] [How to give a better speech: Talk to a dog] [Poll: 13% of American adults say they smoke marijuana] [Do your genes decide when you lose your virginity?] [How Trump can get his groove back (in three simple steps)] [Are religious people more moral because they fear God’s punishment?] [Ed Morrissey Show] [Advertisement] __________________________SUBSCRIPTION INFO__________________________ WERE YOU FORWARDED THIS EDITION OF THE HOT AIR DAILY? 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