HotAir Daily Express 10/10/2017

[Hot Air Daily Express]( [Follow us on Facebook]( [Home]([Green Room]([Archive]([The Ed Morrissey Show]([Print]([Forward]( [New Global Currency Could End The Dollar for Good]( [US Debt Hits $20T - Your IRA/401k Could Foot the Bill]( [IRS Loophole: The secret you need to know about your 401K/IRA]( [Wisconsin school would like a “special plaque” for their statue of Abe Lincoln]( 10/10/2017 10:41:21 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments The University of Wisconsin-Madison certainly shows up quite a bit in the news lately. The most recent incident is yet another call for going after historical American figures, but this time it’s not Columbus. The students at UW would like some [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Rand Paul: I’m pretty stoked over an upcoming unconstitutional exercise of executive power]( 10/10/2017 10:01:46 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments “The first executive order that I would issue,” Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) told Breitbart News three years ago, “would be to repeal all previous executive orders.” The prospective presidential candidate explained that executive [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Measure your knowledge of the U.S. Constitution with this short quiz]( Hillsdale College SPONSORED Many Americans know the Constitution well -- they understand how it protects their freedoms and paved the way for a great nation to be built. But many more Americans don't know enough about it. How much do you know about the Constitution? [Take The Quiz Now]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [The end of the war on coal?]( 10/10/2017 9:21:02 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Back when Barack Obama was first rolling out his new Clean Power Plan in 2012 there were immediate questions about it. While it was still in the development phase, it was recognized by most conservatives for what it truly was: a backdoor energy tax. The [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Top fashion designer on Weinstein: Sorry for suggesting that women asked for it by the way they dressed]( 10/10/2017 8:41:02 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Who knew that DKNY was less w-o-k-e and more c-h-o-k-e? Hollywood’s CEOs had more sense than to rally to Harvey Weinstein’s side, but not fashion designer Donna Karan. After receiving an award in Los Angeles for her work as “a pioneer [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [New Global Currency Could End The Dollar for Good]( [US Debt Hits $20T - Your IRA/401k Could Foot the Bill]( [IRS Loophole: The secret you need to know about your 401K/IRA]( [Another dry hole: Mnuchin travel inquiry comes up empty]( 10/10/2017 8:01:00 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments The media has been busy looking into the travel arrangements and expenses of every official in the Trump administration and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin was no exception. The press quickly thought they’d latched onto a winner on this one, with [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [No law could have stopped the Vegas shooter, says … Democrat Dianne Feinstein]( 10/9/2017 10:41:13 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Alternate headline: “Dianne Feinstein joins NRA.” How does a gun-grabbing Democrat get so far off-message as to admit on a national television show that more regulations wouldn’t have stopped a mass shooting? Mass shootings are when [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Hey, who’s up for a Hollywood mogul for president?]( 10/9/2017 10:01:11 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Talk about bad timing. The Los Angeles Times noted last week that Robert Iger, the longtime chief executive of the Disney Corporation, will retire in two years and might be looking for a career in politics afterward. This morning, CBS News asks whether [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Las Vegas Police: Hotel security guard was shot before attack, not after]( 10/9/2017 9:21:11 PM John Sexton 0 Comments At a Monday press conferece, Las Vegas police offered a major update to the timeline of the shooting that took place last Sunday. As you may have heard, Stephen Paddock shot a hotel security guard named Jesus Campos by firing hundreds of rounds through [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [A Columbus Day question: Was colonialism inherently evil or racist?]( 10/9/2017 8:41:16 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Since half of the country is trying to save Christopher Columbus from being erased with the rest of our history and the other half is busy trying to tear him down as a genocidal war criminal, Columbus Day offers a chance to contemplate that era in [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump’s ex: In a way, I’m “first lady.” Melania: The hell you are.]( 10/9/2017 8:01:48 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments To cleanse the palate, in any other administration the president’s ex-wife and current wife sniping at each other in public would be a big story. In “The Apprentice: White House,” it’s just a quirky offbeat episode between the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Why are Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama silent about Harvey Weinstein?]( 10/9/2017 7:21:46 PM John Sexton 0 Comments It’s a damn good question. Last week I pointed out that some Democratic officeholders seemed ready to rid themselves of Weinstein’s money, but Weinstein was particularly close to the Clintons and has donated to them for decades. He was a [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Baltimore pushes “privacy” provisions for police body cams. Wait… what?]( 10/9/2017 6:41:49 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments While the trials of Baltimore police officers involved in the Freddie Gray arrest turned out to be a complete farce, it was also obvious that the department needed to make some changes, particularly in terms of getting more of the public back on their [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Chelsea Manning’s latest excuse for treason is… interesting]( 10/9/2017 6:01:07 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Having had his sentence for betraying the nation commuted by President Barack Obama, former soldier Chelsea Manning is making the rounds of various public speaking appearances. One of these took place in the Big Apple at the New Yorker Festival [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [University of Oregon students shout down speech by school’s president]( 10/9/2017 5:21:05 PM John Sexton 0 Comments University of Oregon President Michael Schill was scheduled to give a “state of the university” speech last Friday but he never got the chance. Before he could start speaking, a group of several dozen protesters entered the hall and took over [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Twitter rejects Marsha Blackburn’s Senate announcement video as a paid ad due to … anti-abortion messaging]( 10/9/2017 4:43:32 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments On the average day, it feels like around 80 percent of content on Twitter is either out-and-out misinformation pushed by political partisans or racist shrieking by alt-right mouth-breathers about Jews and “white genocide.” Twitter famously, [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [ESPN anchor who called Trump a white supremacist suspended after pushing boycott of Cowboys over anthem policy]( 10/9/2017 4:01:00 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments I don’t get it. When your network brand is WokeSports, why punish an anchor for being extra woke? “Just so we’re clear,” tweeted Jemele Hill earlier this afternoon, no doubt after network execs had pulled her aside to complain, [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Saturday Night Live cut Weinstein jokes at the last minute]( 10/9/2017 3:21:18 PM John Sexton 0 Comments If you watched Saturday Night Live this weekend you may have noticed that one big news story this week was completely ignored by the show. Harvey Weinstein was never mentioned in a skit or even during the Weekend Update news segment. The NY Times [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [“Disgusting and kind of pathetic”: Lauren Sivan on being cornered and sexually menaced by Harvey Weinstein]( 10/9/2017 2:41:54 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Anyone have a better word than “menaced” for what she describes? Assault might have been hard to prove absent physical contact but this act of lewdness goes way beyond harassment. Sivan cuts right to the heart of it when she calls it [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Why was Planned Parenthood at NYCC and not freedom folks?]( 10/9/2017 2:01:21 PM Taylor Millard 0 Comments Andrew Breitbart famously said, “Pop culture is downstream from politics.” So why did so-called freedom and liberty organizations ignore New York City Comic Con? Planned Parenthood showed up, with a panel being held to discuss an upcoming [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump’s executive order on Obamacare expected this week]( 10/9/2017 1:21:08 PM John Sexton 0 Comments President Trump is expected to sign an executive order this week that could have a substantial impact on Obamacare. The order would make changes to how federal agencies handle association health plans by reversing some Obama-era regulations. The Wall [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Angela Merkel forced to agree to a German limit on migrants]( 10/9/2017 12:41:25 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments As discussed here previously, German Chancellor Angela Merkel may have won another term in the recent elections, but she came away damaged with her previous coalition in tatters. In order to rebuild her alliance in the Bundestag she had to make some new [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Cowboys owner: I’ll bench anyone who disrespects the flag]( 10/9/2017 12:01:47 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Benching players for national-anthem protests? Or will Jerry Jones go so far as to forfeit games? “If we are disrespecting the flag,” the Dallas Cowboys owner said after yesterday’s loss to the Green Bay Packers, “then we [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [“World War III”: Bob Corker uncorks, craps all over Trump again]( 10/9/2017 11:21:27 AM Allahpundit 0 Comments The mystery of yesterday’s vicious “adult day care” tweet was whether it was a one-off, essentially a shot across the bow from Corker warning Trump not to criticize him again, or a declaration of war, promising many more attacks for the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Latest Headlines: We pick, you click.] [It’s come to this]( [Breaking: Three women accuse Weinstein of rape]( [Some Dems threaten shutdown if Trump doesn’t deal on DREAM]( [Ex-Trump aide: Corker should resign if he can’t support the president]( [Trump’s new GOP problem: Lame-duck senators with ax to grind]( [Al Sharpton calls for ESPN to reinstate Jemele Hill]( [Amid a widening rift, John Kelly has a Mar-a-Lago strategy to contain Trump]( [The NRA’s phony concession on bump stocks invites a real ban]( [“Pressure cooker”: Trump’s fury ruptures alliances, threaten agenda]( [Jessica Chastain on Weinstein: “I was warned from the beginning”]( [Trump: My IQ is higher than Tillerson’s]( [Hollywood fears Weinstein, not Trump]( [We have a pretty good idea of when humans will go extinct]( [Appreciating John McCain, America’s “imperfect servant”]( [Poll: Most favor policies to limit job and wage losses caused by automation]( [Are Democrats headed for a McGovern redux?]( [Against public apologies]( [Hollywood is America’s conscience or something]( [The year of the sociopathic baby-men]( [Leave Columbus alone]( [I miss the old Megyn Kelly]( [The problem with Trump’s calling for more positive coverage of himself on TV]( [The bottom line of the culture wars]( [Most agree: It’s time to end late-term abortions]( [Mike Pence used the Colts for political purposes]( [New Global Currency Could End The Dollar for Good]( [US Debt Hits $20T - Your IRA/401k Could Foot the Bill]( [IRS Loophole: The secret you need to know about your 401K/IRA]( [Ed Morrissey Show]( [Advertisement] __________________________SUBSCRIPTION INFO__________________________ WERE YOU FORWARDED THIS EDITION OF THE HOT AIR DAILY? 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