HotAir Daily Express 06/07/2016

[Hot Air Daily Express] [Follow us on Facebook] [Home][Green Room][Archive][The Ed Morrissey Show][Print][Forward] [Hmmm: FBI requests permission for secret declaration in Hillary e-mail FOIA case] 6/7/2016 10:01:34 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Why would the FBI need to make a declaration secret in a civil FOIA action? In fact, why would it need to make two?  Late last night, the Department of Justice requested permission for the FBI to enter a secret declaration that the agency could not find [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [The media may have kneecapped Hillary Clinton by declaring her the presumptive nominee] 6/7/2016 9:21:49 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments I saw a series of puzzling news flash items coming over the transom last night, all of which carried one version or another of the theme that Hillary Clinton had “secured the Democratic nomination” by finally getting enough delegates locked [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Pelosi: Now I think I’ll endorse Hillary] 6/7/2016 8:41:37 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments “Neither you nor President Obama have endorsed yet,” George Stephanopoulos said to Nancy Pelosi this morning after leading into the interview with the AP’s call of the Democratic nomination for Hillary Clinton. “Are you prepared [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Officer Ceasar Goodson opts for bench trial in Freddie Gray case] 6/7/2016 8:01:56 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Yesterday I looked at the trial of Baltimore Police Officer Ceasar Goodson which is set to begin this week regarding the death of Freddie Gray. As I noted at the time, perhaps the biggest question to be answered was whether Goodson’s defense team [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [In Alaska, transgender rights trample all over women’s rights] 6/7/2016 7:21:47 AM Larry O'Connor 0 Comments This took less time than many of us predicted. In Alaska, a transgender high school student (born with boy parts but living as a girl)  has qualified for the state track meet finals, displacing a young woman who was born with “girl [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [State Dept blocks release of Hillary’s TPP emails until after election] 6/7/2016 6:41:22 AM Larry O'Connor 0 Comments The United States State Department will block the release of any emails from Hillary Clinton while she served as Secretary of State related to the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal until after November’s presidential election. The emails [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Michael Reagan: Trump is the first GOP nominee since my father’s presidency whom he probably wouldn’t have supported] 6/6/2016 10:31:40 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments The Gipper just went #NeverTrump. Sort of. This most likely would be the 1st time if my father was alive that he would not support the nominee of the GOP @Reince @newsmax — Michael Reagan (@ReaganWorld) June 6, 2016 Is that right? My pal Karl [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Venezuelan social order collapsing as looting, robbery and murder become the norm] 6/6/2016 10:01:48 PM John Sexton 0 Comments The socialist revolution in Venezuela has resulted in a country with sky-high inflation, no medicine, no food and, finally, no security. The Los Angeles Times has an excellent piece on the rise of robbery, kidnapping and murder that have made the nation [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Gary Johnson: I support Obama’s executive amnesty because it “challenged Congress to action”] 6/6/2016 9:31:44 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments I knew he supported open borders, which is Libertarianism 101 (except, oddly, within the Paul family), but I could shrug that off by reminding myself that this guy won’t get within 30 points of winning a state. He’s a protest vessel, nothing [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Google’s new AI is composing original music and it’s every bit as horrifying as you’d imagine] 6/6/2016 9:01:34 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Google remains hard at work in the field of Artificial Intelligence despite repeated warnings by everyone from conspiracy theorists (okay… me) to Stephen Hawking that they were ushering in the end of mankind’s run as lords of this planet. [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trey Gowdy blasts obstructionist Democrats on Benghazi committee] 6/6/2016 8:21:23 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Chairman Trey Gowdy of the Benghazi Select committee published a blistering response to the committee’s Democratic members Sunday. The letter was a direct reply to a letter Democrats sent to Gowdy last week. Last week Democrats on the committee [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [8 minutes of shame: Reporters covering Hillary embarrass profession with softball questions] 6/6/2016 7:41:28 PM Larry O'Connor 0 Comments Hillary Clinton stopped for an impromptu gaggle with reporters covering her campaign in California today. It was the first time the former Secretary of State graced reporters with her presence in over a month, according to the Weekly Standard. In the [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Video: New California gun rights ad focuses on women, LGBT voters] 6/6/2016 7:01:56 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments You may recall Gavin Newsom, formerly the Mayor of San Francisco who made national headlines by getting out way ahead of the curve on gay marriage. He was an instant star of the Democratic Party and has since moved on to the position of Lt. Governor. [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Video: The creeping militarization of Miss USA is, er … awesome] 6/6/2016 6:21:25 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Well, we’ve had a national conversation about over-militarization in police departments. How does everyone feel about the militarization of Miss USA? I’d guess the answer is … Hoo-ah. The Miss USA pageant made history last night by [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump orders his surrogates to step up attacks on judge as Gingrich hits him again] 6/6/2016 5:41:43 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments One of his own campaign deputies sent around a memo yesterday asking top supporters to duck questions about Trump University, an understandable piece of advice given that, er, how does talking about Trump University or the litigation over it help Trump [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Dem Rep. to Trump: Take this wall and shove it] 6/6/2016 5:01:18 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Texas Democrat Rep. Filemon Vela published a letter Monday attacking Donald Trump, calling him a “racist” and telling him to “take your border wall and shove it up your ass.” The complete letter was published by the Dallas Morning [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [WaPo, ABC: Hillary’s claim about press availability is “totally bogus,” you know] 6/6/2016 4:31:37 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Yesterday, Team Hillary flack Brian Fallon tried to put the best spin on an ugly statistic. CNN’s Brian Stelter challenged Fallon over Hillary Clinton’s lack of availability to the news media, including the reporters assigned to cover her [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [We’re about to approve a private corporation’s moon launch] 6/6/2016 4:01:33 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments I’ve been a serious fan of the efforts of American companies such as SpaceX who, with their Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket have been ushering in the era of private space exploration. It’s an exciting time for science and it provides [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Louisiana insurer: As designed and administered, Obamacare ‘simply does not work’] 6/6/2016 3:31:49 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Insurers selling Obamacare plans in Louisiana have requested rate hikes as high as 30 percent for next year. More significantly, the state’s largest insurer is saying that, as designed and currently administered, Obamacare “simply does not [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump: Newt Gingrich’s criticism of me over the Trump University judge is “inappropriate”] 6/6/2016 3:01:42 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments The first duty of a vice president is grinning and bearing it when his boss says something he can’t defend. If it’s true that Newt is lobbying to be VP, what exactly does he think he’s signing up for? Choking down whatever sh*t sandwich [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [IRS filing: We targeted 426 organizations, not 298] 6/6/2016 2:31:07 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments In May 2013, the Inspector General for the Treasury Department reported that the IRS had targeted 298 organizations applying for tax-exempt status, almost all of whom were conservative groups. Tea Party-related groups came under special scrutiny and [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Cleveland Democratic Mayor, City Council President, come out against $15 minimum wage] 6/6/2016 2:01:19 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments We’ve heard plenty of complaints over the “Fight for 15” in the minimum wage battle and they’ve come from the federal, state and municipal levels. But what you don’t normally see is the angst rising up from Democrats. Yet [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Sen. Jeff Flake: Trump’s comments on Judge Curiel ‘very disturbing’] 6/6/2016 1:31:46 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Monday morning Senator Jeff Flake appeared on MSNBC’s Morning Joe and criticized Donald Trump’s comments about Judge Curiel, saying they were “a whole new level.” Flake also said he could not endorse Trump and might even end up [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [BuzzFeed cancels $1.3 million ad buy by RNC because Trump is “hazardous to our health”] 6/6/2016 1:01:46 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Why’d they wait until now to cancel the ads? The agreement with the RNC was reached in April after two months of primaries had put Trump well ahead in delegates. Cruz still had a shot but there was every reason at the time to think Trump would end [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Scarborough: Republicans lashing out at Trump now deserve a Captain Louis Renault award] 6/6/2016 12:31:24 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Which Republicans should be the focus of Joe Scarborough’s ire in this segment? 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