HotAir Daily Express 08/22/2019

[Hot Air Daily Express]( [Follow us on Facebook]( [Home]([Green Room]([Archive]([The Ed Morrissey Show]([Print]([Forward]( [The Secret U.S. Government Scheme to Confiscate Your Savings]( [Unsuspecting Americans to be Hit Hard by this U.S. Confiscation Scheme]( The 20-year head of the U.S. Fed has revealed Washington's nasty trick to confiscate the savings of unsuspecting Americans... Are you one of them? ==> [Here's the ONE THING Greenspan Says Can Protect Your Savings]( [Size matters: Joe Biden scolds FNC reporter about crowds in Iowa]( 8/22/2019 11:01:28 AM Karen Townsend 0 Comments Good old Joe Biden snapped at a Fox News Channel (FNC) reporter Tuesday in Iowa. He didn’t appreciate being corrected after he boasted of being the king of crowds when it comes to campaign events. FNC’s Peter Doocy asked Biden, the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [NY Democrats in a civil war over… pizza?]( 8/22/2019 10:31:44 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments There’s a battle brewing in Brooklyn and it’s shaping up to be yet another fight between New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and Big Apple Mayor (and presidential candidate, for some reason) Bill de Blasio. Seeing these two mixing it up is [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Inslee: I suddenly realized I’m not going to win the nomination]( 8/22/2019 10:01:23 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments And then there were … twenty-two? Thirty-four? Eleventy-seven? Jay Inslee told MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow that he will withdraw from the Democratic presidential primaries, one week shy of a debate qualifying deadline the Washington governor [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Joe Walsh for President?]( 8/22/2019 9:26:38 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments It’s always nice when you see one of your own colleagues doing well, isn’t it? That’s why we took particular note of a New York Times story this morning suggesting that Salem radio host (and former congressman) Joe Walsh was [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [China Just Launched this Attack on the USD](  [China Just Launched this Attack on the USD]( [Alan Greenspan Warns of this U.S. Scheme to Confiscate Your Savings](  [Alan Greenspan Warns of this U.S. Scheme to Confiscate Your Savings]( [Move Your IRA or 401k to Gold](  [The Little-Known (But Legal) IRS Tax Law to Move Your IRA or 401(k) to Gold]( [Contagion, cont’d: Marriott cook latest to get arrested in nationwide wave]( 8/22/2019 8:41:58 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Yesterday we noted that mass shootings appear driven by “contagion,” a word researchers began using several years ago to describe the phenomenon. Pay attention to the second part of this CBS News report on the arrest of a 37-year-old [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Hickenlooper a go for Senate bid]( 8/22/2019 8:01:23 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments The teasing is apparently over for former Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper. Even before his presidential bid crashed and burned in spectacular fashion, Democrats had been pleading with him to drop out and take a run at Cory Gardner’s Senate [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump vs. the Squad: “The Simpsons” edition]( 8/21/2019 10:41:57 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments To cleanse the palate, Becket Adams calls this “the cringiest bit of #Resistance fan fiction produced since Jan. 2017.” It’s pretty bad. The most fun I had watching it was during the weakest part of the clip, when the Democratic [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Report: Scaramucci hosted Trump Jr at a dinner to promote his business just two weeks before breaking with POTUS]( 8/21/2019 10:01:10 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Another hit piece on Mooch from the Washington Examiner, the same outlet that published yesterday’s scoop about Scaramucci allegedly trying to intimidate White House comms staffers when he worked there for five minutes. “Allies have [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Washington Post: Kamala Harris has shifted positions on health care at least three times]( 8/21/2019 9:21:44 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Yesterday, Ed wrote about Sen. Kamala Harris and other Democrats backing away from Bernie Sanders Medicare for All plan. Today, the Washington Post published an entertaining video clip which pulls together all of Harris’ flip-flops on the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Merkel to Johnson: You’ve got 30 days to solve the Irish border issue]( 8/21/2019 8:41:42 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments A “blistering timetable” indeed, as Boris Johnson observed, considering his Tories haven’t come up with a plan to leave the Irish border open for the past three years. The UK’s prime minister acknowledged as much in their [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [A “stunning failure”: At least eight prison officials were told never to leave Epstein alone in his cell]( 8/21/2019 8:01:51 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments There’s probably no degree of incompetence and callousness by prison officials that would convince critics of the system that something unusual happened with Epstein. Taken off suicide watch after a week? Guards not making their half-hourly [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Venezuelans turn to US dollars and gold as the value of Bolivars continues to drop]( 8/21/2019 7:21:09 PM John Sexton 0 Comments This video of Venezuelan garbage men throwing away trash bags of paper money caught my attention today: In #socialist #Venezuela, thanks to hyperinflation, citizens throw out worthless #bolivars pic.twitter.com/zFfbMBRglO — Prof. Steve Hanke [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Area 51 county declares state of emergency]( 8/21/2019 6:41:32 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments It’s now less than a month until masses of UFO enthusiasts are set to descend on the tiny hamlet of Rachel, Nevada for “Alienstock.” (Formerly known as Storm Area 51. They Can’t Stop Us All.) With Rachel having a population [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Barr: Epstein’s death looks like a suicide to us too]( 8/21/2019 6:01:32 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments “Serious irregularities”? You betcha. A murder-for-hire to benefit Jeffrey Epstein’s friends-cum-extortion-targets? Naah, says William Barr. Despite a noticeable lack of cooperation from the people at the jail where Epstein died, [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Hey, what’s up with that mysterious Nikki Haley tweet about Mike Pence?]( 8/21/2019 5:31:05 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments The tweet itself is less interesting than the fact that certain tapped-in reporters seem to find it interesting. Enough of the false rumors. Vice President Pence has been a dear friend of mine for years. He has been a loyal and trustworthy VP to [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Critics line up to primary Trump]( 8/21/2019 5:01:55 PM John Sexton 0 Comments At least four Republicans are considering getting into the 2020 race to mount a primary challenge to President Trump. The Washington Post reports that Joe Walsh, Mark Sanford, Jeff Flake, and John Kasich are all either testing the waters themselves [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Gender pronouns and the Supreme Court]( 8/21/2019 4:31:20 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments We’ve touched on this subject a few times recently, but there’s another layer to the upcoming Supreme Court case of R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes Inc. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission that’s worth considering. It [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Dem rep: You bet I’ll force another vote on impeachment when we return]( 8/21/2019 4:01:12 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Has Ben Ray Luján’s call on Monday for an impeachment “inquiry” changed the game for House Democrats? Nancy Pelosi’s assistant Speaker and #4 on the caucus leadership team became the highest-ranking member to endorse formal [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump: All I meant when I said Jews who vote Democrat are “disloyal” is that they’re disloyal to Jewish people — and to Israel]( 8/21/2019 3:31:03 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Via the Examiner, my sympathies to the MAGA diehards who spent last night spinning his comments in the Oval Office about the alleged “disloyalty” of Jewish Democrats. Usually he leaves enough room for ambiguity in the things he says that [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Mayor Munchkin: Bill de Blasio’s video at AFL-CIO event is unintentionally hilarious]( 8/21/2019 3:01:40 PM John Sexton 0 Comments I’m starting to feel a bit sorry for Mayor Bill de Blasio. Today, de Blasio’s flight to Iowa was canceled so he couldn’t appear in person at an AFL-CIO conference he was scheduled to attend. But, not wanting to miss out on a chance [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [The Chicago Way: Democrats endorse Kim Foxx for another term]( 8/21/2019 2:31:16 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments The Jussie Smollett case is still far from over, but some of the major players in that debacle are clearly ready to put all of the unpleasantness behind them and get on with their lives. Such is the case with Cook County State’s Attorney Kim [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [“Contagion”: Arrests soar as tips on potential shootings flood police departments]( 8/21/2019 2:01:50 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments A 15-year-old gamer who makes threats on the Internet. A 38-year-old schizophrenic with a pistol. These two are among several people arrested in the wake of two mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton, thanks to heightened scrutiny by citizens who want [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Biden: I remember when MLK and RFK were shot in the late 1970s]( 8/21/2019 1:31:29 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments How hard do we want to be on him for this? Is it a minor gaffe or a major gaffe? A minor gaffe would be something like Obama saying on the trail in 2008 that he’d visited “57 states.” That was a simple (if amusing) misstatement, [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [City ignores business owner’s pleas for help: ‘Downtown LA is a hellscape’]( 8/21/2019 1:01:24 PM John Sexton 0 Comments NBC4 in Los Angeles reported Tuesday that a business owner in downtown LA has been trying for months to get the city to clean up a homeless camp set up in an alley directly behind his business. However, even after a fire forced him to call the fire [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Are we better at predicting recessions or the weather?]( 8/21/2019 12:31:11 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments You’re hearing a lot of talk about an impending recession these days, despite a number of economists saying that the signs are either missing or dubious. Why do you suppose that might be? One theory pops up at the New York Post from John [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Latest Headlines: We pick, you click.] Yair Rosenberg [Trump keeps pushing anti-semitic stereotypes. But he thinks he’s praising Jews.]( Source Not Found:ID-4191144 [Sarah Huckabee Sanders joins Fox News as contributor]( The Hill [Former Danish leader fires back at Trump over defense spending comments]( Mairead McArdle [Trump cancels student-loan debt for thousands of disabled vets]( NYT [Pompeo fuels further talk of Senate race]( NYT [Trump’s interest in buying Greenland seemed like a joke. 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