HotAir Daily Express 10/12/2017

[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]( [Oh my: NYPD opening new Weinstein sexual-assault investigation?]( 10/12/2017 10:41:34 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Now that dozens of women have come forward with allegations of sexual abuse by Harvey Weinstein, the New York Police Department wants to conclude some unfinished business. Multiple outlets report that detectives have opened a new investigation of the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Did Trump really shoot 73 on a par-72 course? Lindsey Graham says yes]( 10/12/2017 10:01:49 AM Andrew Malcolm 0 Comments Golf magazine is suggesting President Trump may have been an unknowing party to some fake news, of the real golfing variety. On Monday, a federal holiday, the commander-in-chief invited a former competitor for the GOP presidential nomination, Sen. [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]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Surprise: American family rescued from Taliban after 5 years; Update: Trump hails Pakistan for “honoring America’s wishes” on security]( 10/12/2017 9:21:21 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Rescued, or released? According to NBC News, it’s the latter, but ABC News reports that a Pakistani military operation liberated a family of five from Taliban control. The case of Caitlan Coleman and Joshua Boyle has its share of curiosities and [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Message war begins on tax reform: Trump fires first]( 10/12/2017 8:41:15 AM Andrew Malcolm 0 Comments When’s the last time you saw a Republican president rally with over-road-truckers? Not the norm. But then President Trump is not the normal president and he’s not waging the normal fight. In his 50-minute speech Wednesday night in Harrisburg, [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]( [In swift reaction to Weinstein scandal, Twitter bans … Rose McGowan?]( 10/12/2017 8:01:26 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments The management team at Twitter has about as much talent at crisis management as the DNC. As victims of Harvey Weinstein come forward to tell their stories, none has been more assertive on the Twitter platform than actor Rose McGowan. She has called out [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Rush on NFL protests: It scares the hell out of me that the president can dictate private behavior]( 10/11/2017 10:41:02 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Well, this is surprising. I know there is good in you, father. The Emperor hasn’t driven it from you fully. It’s surprising in two ways. One is the fact that he’d disagree with Trump about anything, however politely, never mind on a [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Source to CNN: NBC basically told Ronan Farrow to stop working on the Harvey Weinstein story]( 10/11/2017 10:01:10 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Any “Johnny Dangerously” fans out there? Farrow’s ordeal in trying to get NBC to bite on a bombshell about one of the most formidable scumbags in Hollywood reminds of the scene where Johnny’s brother goes to his boss, the crooked [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [University of Michigan students disrupt speech by Charles Murray]( 10/11/2017 9:21:00 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Charles Murray gave a speech at the University of Michigan Wednesday afternoon and students disrupted it, talked over it, and eventually walked out on it but the event was not canceled. Reason editor Robby Soave was in the room and provided running [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump: It’s disgusting that the press is able to write whatever it wants]( 10/11/2017 8:41:29 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments It’s clear from the context, as you’ll see, that he means it’s disgusting that the press is able to publish falsehoods with impunity. He’s talking about the NBC story claiming that he wanted to expand the nuclear arsenal by a [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Twitter: On second thought, we’ll allow Blackburn’s pro-life ad]( 10/11/2017 8:01:09 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments How gracious of them! Twitter initially blocked Marsha Blackburn’s campaign-launch video as a paid ad for using the phrase “baby body parts,” a reference to her investigation into Planned Parenthood’s income from fetal organ and [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Actress Lea Seydoux: ‘Everyone knew what Harvey was up to’]( 10/11/2017 7:21:20 PM John Sexton 0 Comments French actress Lea Seydoux joins a growing list of women who say Harvey Weinstein tried to initiate an unwanted sexual encounter with her. Writing in the Guardian she says Weinstein demanded to meet her for drinks after a fashion show. She says he kept [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Shake Shack makes the move to automation in the face of higher wages]( 10/11/2017 6:41:41 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments John Sexton covered part of this story earlier this month, but there have been a couple of updates. Shake Shack has been one of those admirable success stories in the American casual dining scene. Their founder, Danny Meyer, started with a food truck in [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Be prepared: Boy Scouts to welcome girls into program]( 10/11/2017 6:01:25 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Gender integration has breached the walls of yet another institution of American life — only this time, the combatants have switched sides. The Boy Scouts of America announced today that they will fully integrate girls into Cub Scout dens, and [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Ben Affleck: In hindsight, it was inappropriate for me to grope an MTV host; Update: Another accusation]( 10/11/2017 5:31:16 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments What are you supposed to do if you’re in the position Hilarie Burton found herself in, on the receiving end of a casual boob-squeeze by a Hollywood A-lister? If you say nothing and laugh it off only to complain later, as she did, you’ll be [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Washington Post fact-checker: Only 7 of 198 nations allow abortion after 20 weeks]( 10/11/2017 5:01:28 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Last week the House passed the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act which bans abortion after 20 weeks. Similar measures have been brought up in Congress before (2013 and 2015) but always faced the inevitability of a presidential veto. This time, the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Two Freddie Gray cops are punished after all]( 10/11/2017 4:31:24 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments It’s the story that never seems to go away. The Freddie Gray trials in Baltimore are long since in our rear view mirror, but the entire matter wasn’t settled. Five of the officers involved in the arrest were still scheduled to go before [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [WaPo: Could Clintons and Democrats have handled the Weinstein scandal any worse?]( 10/11/2017 4:01:16 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments One point has become clear in the Harvey Weinstein scandal — none of the millions of cash he poured into the Democratic Party went to crisis management training. After several days of silence over the horrendous allegations that emerged about one [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Does Trump really want to increase America’s nuclear arsenal tenfold? Update: “Absolutely false,” says Mattis]( 10/11/2017 3:31:53 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments This is the story that sent him into a tirade this morning about yanking NBC’s broadcast license. They’ve been killing him lately, first breaking the story about Tillerson allegedly calling him a moron, then revealing Trump’s anger [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Weinstein’s wife: ‘I have chosen to leave my husband’]( 10/11/2017 3:01:45 PM John Sexton 0 Comments As the number and seriousness of the accusations piled up against Harvey Weinstein, his wife Georgina Chapman announced Tuesday that she was leaving him. From People magazine: Harvey Weinstein’s wife, Marchesa designer Georgina Chapman, is leaving him — [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Poll: Democrats out of line with public on transgender pronouns]( 10/11/2017 2:31:13 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Only yesterday we looked at a new law in California which could impose fines or even jail time for healthcare workers who refuse to refer to transgender patients using the pronouns which are opposite of their actual gender. At the time I wondered if that [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Can Trump challenge NBC’s license for “fake news”?]( 10/11/2017 2:01:09 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Curiously, there are two answers to the question Donald Trump poses here. The first is “never,” and the second is “absolutely never.” A third would have to point out that it’s a trick question in the first place: With all [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Ultra-mega-donor to Dems: You must pledge to impeach Trump]( 10/11/2017 1:31:54 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Normally we’d say “mega-donor” but Tom Steyer’s in a class by himself. He blew nearly $100 million on Democrats last year alone and, as the NYT notes, has been the party’s single most generous contributor for two cycles [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Hotel spokeswoman questions the timeline offered by Vegas police]( 10/11/2017 1:04:52 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Las Vegas police made a dramatic change to the official timeline of the shooting Monday, stating for the first time that hotel security guard Jesus Campos was shot by Stephen Paddock before the attack on the concert began, not after. Tuesday a [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [The implosion of Chicago’s soda tax is nearly upon us]( 10/11/2017 12:31:40 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments The last time we checked in on the Great Chicago Soda Tax of 2017 (which is actually a Cook County initiative, but that’s pretty much Chicago) things weren’t looking good. Following one legal foul-up after another, they finally had the tax in [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Manhattan DA: It’s totally the NYPD’s fault that we didn’t prosecute Weinstein in 2015]( 10/11/2017 12:01:47 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Would the Manhattan district attorney had prosecuted “Harvey Schmuck” with the evidence gathered by police in 2015? The Harvey Weinstein scandal has provoked a war of words between the DA’s office and the New York Police Department over [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Latest Headlines: We pick, you click.] [“They threw my baby into a fire”]( [Unemployment claims fall to lowest level in 43 years]( [Hillary: I had no idea about Weinstein]( [After Las Vegas shooting, Hollywood criticized for gun violence in top films]( [Why did Brad Pitt keep doing movies with Weinstein?]( [Trump: FEMA can’t stay in Puerto Rico forever]( [Conservatives want to make Mitch McConnell the symbol of a toxic Washington]( [Sean Hannity renounces support for Ben Sasse because of a tweet]( [How top NBC executives quashed the bombshell Weinstein story]( [“He threw a fit”: Trump’s anger over Iran deal forced aides to compromise]( [Survey: Share of Americans living without a partner has increased]( [Have we become too squeamish about losing astronauts?]( [The movement to bury pets alongside people]( [What Bob Corker really fears]( [Hollywood isn’t going to deal With Weinstein, it’s going to erase him]( [Bob Corker in the land of the orange god]( [Obama lied. 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