HotAir Daily Express 05/30/2018

[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]( [Banks Get The Go-Ahead to Seize Your Accounts Including IRA and 401k]( Can banks legally confiscate all your deposits including FDIC insured accounts, without your permission? Absolutely. The Answer is YES". ==> [Here's How To Protect Your Hard Earned Money From Greedy Bankers.]( [Breaking: Ukraine tries flushing out Russian assassins with the ol’ “dead journalist” trick]( 5/30/2018 11:21:30 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments The story has become sadly familiar. A Russian journalist produces reporting that shines a bright light on Vladimir Putin’s depredations suddenly dies, usually by stepping in front of random bullets. A few of them get beaten to death in [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [The next Sandy Hook lawsuit is going after an interesting target]( 5/30/2018 10:41:32 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Ever since the tragic shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, the families of some of the victims have been involved in a seemingly endless parade of lawsuits. Most of them have targeted Remington Arms and their subsidiary company which [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Get your free Make America Exceptional Again ebook]( Hoover SPONSORED How can America rediscover what has made it exceptional? Find out when you download your free Make America Exceptional Again ebook today! [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Gowdy: Come on, the FBI didn’t “spy” on Trump]( 5/30/2018 10:01:32 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Well, this will make for awkward conversation the next time that Trey Gowdy and Donald Trump meet, which will … be the first time the two have met. The retiring chair of the House Oversight Committee told CBS This Morning that Trump’s [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Why is India so tolerant of Venezuelan and Iranian tyranny?]( 5/30/2018 9:21:28 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments In case Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani were worried about the next round of sanctions coming their way, they received some good news this week. One of their biggest trading partners (and petroleum customers) [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [China Trade Tariffs Kills The U.S. Dollar.]( [Protect Your Future With Tangible Gold IRA.]( [Greitens to cut plea deal after resignation?]( 5/30/2018 8:41:18 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments When he announced his resignation as governor of Missouri, Eric Greitens castigated political opponents for having “designed” his legal troubles to ruin him and his family. Today, however, a prosecutor in St. Louis will announce a plea [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [So Europe wants to ban plastic straws now]( 5/30/2018 8:01:34 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments The European Union is debating a ban which isn’t actually a ban on certain plastic items. These would include some of the most ubiquitous products such as straws, drink stirrers and cotton swabs with plastic shafts. While I normally approach [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Sen. Grassley: Glenn Simpson’s congressional testimony included an ‘extremely misleading’ statement]( 5/29/2018 10:41:04 PM John Sexton 0 Comments The Daily Caller’s Chuck Ross caught this first. Sen. Chuck Grassley sent a letter to a Democratic colleague saying that Fusion GPS founder Glenn Simpson’s testimony before his committee was “misleading.” Grassley was [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [2020 poll: Obama 48, Trump 39]( 5/29/2018 10:01:07 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments On a slow post-holiday news day, what could be more blogworthy than a (1) 2020 poll (2) from Zogby, of all people, (3) featuring a hypothetical match-up between POTUS and Obama? Michelle Obama, that is. Not Barack. Her book, “Becoming,” [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Nikki Haley: Russia needs to withdraw from Ukraine]( 5/29/2018 9:21:49 PM John Sexton 0 Comments I’m sure someone, somewhere out there is already writing that this strong statement from Nikki Haley is just another attempt to distract from the all-important collusion narrative. But while progressives still mockingly refer to President [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Where have all the truck drivers gone?]( 5/29/2018 8:41:11 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments The reality of big-rig truck driving is actually far from the picture painted in Smokey and the Bandit. (You younger readers can go Google it. Everyone should watch it at least once.) Still, there’s always been an employment market for people [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trade war back on with China?]( 5/29/2018 8:01:39 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments So much for being “on hold.” The merry little trade war with China appears to be back on, as the White House announced tariffs on a broad range of imports. This time, the Trump administration has targeted industries where Beijing’s [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Wild, Wild Country is an interesting look at power and corruption]( 5/29/2018 7:21:15 PM John Sexton 0 Comments We don’t usually offer TV reviews here but I’m making an exception for a series I’ve been watching on Netflix called “Wild, Wild Country.” This is a six-part series which looks at a very strange series of events that [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Valerie Jarrett on Roseanne: This should be a “teaching moment”]( 5/29/2018 6:41:40 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments She’s not wrong. One thing it teaches is that you don’t need to be friends with a kook just because they want to be friends with you. David French: Trump World shouldn’t have embraced her new show. Remember when President Trump called [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Breaking: Greitens resigns in midst of scandal]( 5/29/2018 5:59:51 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Eric Greitens will leave office as Missouri governor effective on Friday, resigning as multiple investigations of his conduct in office and as a candidate began picking up steam. Greitens made a public announcement of his resignation in an angry [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Video: The inevitable “Dems say MS-13 isn’t so bad” RNC ad]( 5/29/2018 5:21:28 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Democrats got baited into this fight, and now they get to pay the price for it. After initially castigating Donald Trump for allegedly calling immigrants “animals” based on faulty news reporting, their leadership failed to pull back [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [CA mayor to offer $1K/mo stipend to “those most likely to shoot somebody”]( 5/29/2018 4:41:49 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Sometimes you just need to think outside of the box. That’s apparently the key to success in Stockton, California where their young mayor, Michael Tubbs, has some interesting plans to turn things around for the citizens of his community. One [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [A season of “Roseanne” without Roseanne would have been interesting]( 5/29/2018 4:01:50 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments The more I think about it, the stranger it is that they chose to blow up the show instead of drop-kicking Roseanne herself off of it and proceeding. That seems counterintuitive. She’s the central figure, right? The show’s named after [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [As Starbucks closes for racial bias training, its new bathroom policy still seems like a bad idea]( 5/29/2018 3:31:29 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Today is the day that Starbucks is closing 8,000 stores for part of the day for unconscious bias training. From Money, here’s what the 175,000 employees will be doing this afternoon: Starbucks’ employees will participate in the racial bias [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Today’s hot topics: North Korea, Roseanne, Solo, The Great Revolt, and more!]( 5/29/2018 3:21:21 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Today on The Ed Morrissey Show (4 pm ET), we have another great lineup for the news of the day! The show will be streamed on Hot Air’s Facebook page and embedded here and on the show page for those who are not on Facebook. Join us as we [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [MI rep really angry with EPA over not being invited to thing he was totally invited to]( 5/29/2018 2:51:55 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Congressman Dan Kildee (D-Michigan) is quite upset with the management of the Environmental Protection Agency, but it doesn’t have anything to do with the water quality in Flint or some new regulatory change. Kildee claimed he was snubbed on [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Romney: Yeah, Trump’s not a role model I’d choose for my grandkids]( 5/29/2018 2:01:27 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments But does it matter? Mitt Romney doesn’t seem to think so, which is actually the more significant takeaway from this NBC News exclusive. “I call ’em like I see ’em,” Romney tells a reporter, explaining that he’s [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Roseanne apologizes for “Planet of the Apes” joke about Valerie Jarrett as Wanda Sykes quits the show; Update: ABC cancels “Roseanne”]( 5/29/2018 1:31:26 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments “Only question is whether [ABC] will air the Roseanne episodes that are already in the can or not,” sniffs Dan Foster. Nah, cmon. Two years ago this would have been a no-platforming offense. Two years later there’s too much on the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Canada to buy Trans Mountain pipeline for $4.5 billion to ensure it gets built]( 5/29/2018 1:01:12 PM John Sexton 0 Comments This decision makes perfect sense so I’m a little surprised that Justin Trudeau’s government is behind it. Canada has announced it will purchase the Trans Mountain pipeline from developer Kinder Morgan to ensure it is completed. From the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Yes, Alexa is spying on you, even if unintentionally]( 5/29/2018 12:31:20 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Continuing with our ongoing investigation into What The Heck Are These Newfangled Machines Up To, an interesting story popped up last week involving the Amazon digital assistant known as Alexa. One family in Oregon ran into an unexpected and [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Hmmm: SCOTUS denies Planned Parenthood appeal, allows Arkansas abortion restriction to take effect — for now]( 5/29/2018 12:01:49 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Technicalities, technicalities — and curiosities still. The Supreme Court declined to take up an appeal from Planned Parenthood challenging an Arkansas law that restricts the dispensing of abortion pills, allowing the law to be enforced after [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Latest Headlines: We pick, you click.] William Cummings [Televangelist says God told him he needs fourth private plane]( Mediaite [Roseanne lashes out at former cast members: “You throw me under the bus, nice!”]( Kirsten Grieshaber [Study: Christians in west Europe less tolerant of immigrants]( Alberto E. 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