HotAir Daily Express 09/21/2017

[Hot Air Daily Express]( [Follow us on Facebook]( [Home]([Green Room]([Archive]([The Ed Morrissey Show]([Print]([Forward]( [Trump TANKS dollar after saying it's "getting too strong"]( [Economists Warn: Your Money Isn't Safe in U.S. Banks - Get the Loophole...]( [Banks Get Green Light to Seize Your Bank Accounts]( [Bernie Sanders goes there: Let’s have a “wealth tax”]( 9/21/2017 10:41:43 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments You’re probably already aware of the growing popularity of Bernie Sanders among the furthest left wing of the Democratic Party. (Ironic, since Senator Sanders fled the party and re-registered as an independent as soon as his presidential bid [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Spicer: Trump loved my Emmy cameo, you know]( 9/21/2017 10:01:41 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Don’t expect to hear a “blanket apology” for his work in the Donald Trump administration, Sean Spicer told Paula Faris on ABC’s Good Morning America. “I made mistakes,” the former press secretary admits, adding [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Measure your knowledge of the Supreme Court with this short quiz]( Hillsdale College SPONSORED The Supreme Court has shaped American society and politics significantly. But how much do you know about the major cases and decisions of the highest court in the land? [Take The Quiz Now]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [VA Secretary “re-fires” person he fired in April]( 9/21/2017 9:21:46 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments More than a month ago we talked about the problems that VA Secretary David Shulkin was having in attempting to fire delinquent D.C. medical center Director Brian Hawkins. The soon-to-be ex-employee was in charge of a center where unsanitary conditions [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Devastation: Puerto Rico 100% without power — for months]( 9/21/2017 8:41:49 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments “The San Juan that we knew yesterday is no longer there,” the city’s mayor declared today after Hurricane Maria’s Category 4 winds and rain finally left the island of Puerto Rico. “Once we’re able to go outside,” [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump TANKS dollar after saying it's "getting too strong"]( [Economists Warn: Your Money Isn't Safe in U.S. Banks - Get the Loophole...]( [Banks Get Green Light to Seize Your Bank Accounts]( [EPA approves phony “gas-powered clock” for ENERGY STAR program]( 9/21/2017 8:01:37 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments The group Citizens Against Government Waste has a history of investigating wasteful spending and highlighting opportunities for savings. That’s an important mission these days, particularly when you consider that the national debt nearly doubled [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Surprise: Plurality of Republicans support Trump making a deal on DREAMers]( 9/20/2017 10:41:18 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments “New poll reveals Trump supporters are surprisingly onboard with Trump’s immigration deal with Democrats,” reads The Week’s headline for its story on this poll. “Surprisingly”? Either they meant that ironically, like I [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Pelosi: DREAMers’ parents did a great thing for our country by bringing them here illegally]( 9/20/2017 10:01:53 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Watching this, I keep thinking of that Hillary clip from 2014 that made the rounds a few weeks ago in which she said “Just because your child gets across the border, that doesn’t mean the child gets to stay.” Conservatives pointed to that as [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Here are the students who think Antifa violence is okay]( 9/20/2017 9:21:08 PM John Sexton 0 Comments As Allahpundit wrote yesterday, a poll of college campuses across the country found 19% of students supported the idea of using violence to shut down a speaker they disagreed with. Today, Campus Reform published a video yesterday in which a pair of [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Hillary memoir a “Mary Sue self-insertion fanfic,” says …]( 9/20/2017 8:41:57 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments For all of the criticisms from the right of Hillary Clinton’s blamethrowing on her book tour, perhaps it was inevitable that the sharpest ridicule would come from those her failure disappointed most. In this case, HuffPost doesn’t disappoint [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [The best people: Manafort offered to give Kremlin-linked Russian billionaire “private briefings” as Trump campaign chair]( 9/20/2017 8:01:52 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Increasingly it seems the Russiagate saga ends for Trump in one of two ways. One: It turns out he’s crooked and hired Paul Manafort and Mike Flynn for the express purpose of carrying out his crooked designs. Two, the more likely and more tragic [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Someone leaked a tape of MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell having a meltdown]( 9/20/2017 7:21:35 PM John Sexton 0 Comments “It f**king sucks to be out here with this out of control s**t,” Lawrence O’Donnell said, summing up what appears to have been a very frustrating day of taping his show last month. Mediaite reports the leaked 8-minute segment of [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [The inevitable OKCupid hooks up with Planned Parenthood thread]( 9/20/2017 6:41:32 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Jerrod Laber at the Federalist put up a hot take this week which, to his credit, makes most of the hot takes from the past few weeks look like icicles. It carries a title which really does the job of click attraction on both sides of the aisle while [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Prosecutors: Why didn’t Menendez disclose gifts?]( 9/20/2017 6:01:52 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments A good question, but perhaps not the question. Prosecutors have to prove that Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ) purposely traded official acts explicitly for monetary gains to benefit longtime crony and supporter Salomon Melgen in order to win a conviction [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Report: News networks not interested in hiring Spicer due to “lack of credibility”]( 9/20/2017 5:31:58 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments That’s fine spin but “lack of credibility” isn’t the reason. If it were, these same networks wouldn’t be in the habit of hiring every two-bit Democratic hack who held a job in the Obama administration. I remind you again of [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Mexico City school collapse kills 30]( 9/20/2017 5:01:47 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Yesterday a powerful 7.1 earthquake hit about 75 miles southeast of Mexico City. It was evident within the first hours of the quake that multiple buildings had collapsed throughout the city and that there would be a significant death toll from the quake. [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [“Customers who purchased this also bought ISIS flags…”]( 9/20/2017 4:31:37 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments This would be a hilarious story if it weren’t true. Unfortunately for everyone… it is. If you’ve ever shopped for anything on Amazon you’re almost certainly familiar with the site’s recommendation tool. Either while browsing [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Will this man get the credit he deserves for a successful ObamaCare repeal?]( 9/20/2017 4:01:31 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Credit, blame … hey, six of one, half-dozen of another, right? A few weeks ago, Democrats felt so confident in the demise of the effort to repeal ObamaCare that they began falling in line behind Bernie Sanders’ Pied Piper routine on [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [It’s happening: Pluralities support single-payer, universal basic income]( 9/20/2017 3:31:11 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments We’re not all socialists yet but we’re getting there. A majority of Democrats are, in any case. The single-payer numbers in Morning Consult’s new survey not only aren’t surprising, they’re right in line with what other [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Prosecutors: Anthony Weiner should spent 2 years in prison]( 9/20/2017 3:01:21 PM John Sexton 0 Comments In May, Anthony Weiner pleaded guilty to sexting a 15-year-old girl. His sentencing is coming up Monday and he could face a maximum of 10 years in prison. Prosecutors are asking that he spend about two years in jail, pointing out that his crime went way [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [What’s wrong with Los Angeles sports fans? Plenty]( 9/20/2017 2:31:49 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments This season (and for the next three, in fact) the Los Angeles Chargers, formerly of San Diego, will be calling StubHub Center their home. If the fan base in Los Angeles is aware of this fact, they’re certainly not spreading it around. For their [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Hillary: On second thought, I won’t be challenging the election]( 9/20/2017 2:01:04 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Is this a clarification, or a reversal? Mic’s Emily Singer calls it the former, but more than one person took it to be the latter after hearing Hillary Clinton’s NPR interview with Terry Gross on Monday. The runner-up in the 2016 election now [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [White House: No, Trump didn’t apologize to Erdogan after Turkish goons beat up American protesters]( 9/20/2017 1:31:43 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments I criticize Trump a lot but in a contest of credibility between him and Erdogan I’m 100 percent confident that POTUS is telling the truth, not the sultan. Well, 90 percent. 75 percent, bare minimum. Okay, 63 percent. I’m 63 percent [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Berkeley launches website explaining free speech, denouncing ‘de facto censorship’]( 9/20/2017 1:01:14 PM John Sexton 0 Comments As part of chancellor Carol Christ’s commitment to a “free speech year,” UC Berkeley recently launched a website devoted to explaining the ins and outs of free speech. From the Daily Californian: The site includes links to articles [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Sessions visits Portland to chat about their sanctuary city policies]( 9/20/2017 12:31:38 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments The Attorney General has been cracking down on sanctuary cities and making his case to the public forcefully on that score, pretty much since he took office. But rather than being content to explain his policies from the comfort of his office or the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump: I’ve decided what to do on the Iran deal, but …]( 9/20/2017 12:01:37 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Remember this old joke? Q: How do you keep a fool in suspense? A: I’ll let you know. Donald Trump apparently remembers it, teasing reporters with a statement of having reached a decision on whether to remain in the Iran deal while keeping everyone [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Latest Headlines: We pick, you click.] [Trump’s not paying his own legal bills, because he doesn’t have to]( [Jim Acosta is the White House’s favorite reporter]( [Sources: Trump leaning toward decertifying Iran nuclear deal]( [Clapper claims FISA wiretap of Paul Manafort conducted without his knowledge]( [“Brian, you phony little creep. 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