HotAir Daily Express 06/14/2016

[Hot Air Daily Express] [Follow us on Facebook] [Home][Green Room][Archive][The Ed Morrissey Show][Print][Forward] [CBS: Marine combat veteran saved “dozens” of lives in Orlando terror attack] 6/14/2016 10:01:34 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments The terrorist attack in Orlando took more lives than in any other massacre in US history, assuming the 9/11 attacks exist in a category of their own. The death toll of 49 lives lost could have been much worse had it not been for the quick thinking of a [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [French President quickly labels killers of police officer correctly] 6/14/2016 9:21:12 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments With all of the media attention focused on the terror attack in Orlando this week it’s easy to overlook the fact that the enemy remains busy around the western world. Another attack took place in France this week which will receive far less [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Has the Hillary bump begun?] 6/14/2016 8:41:56 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Today, Washington DC Democrats vote in the final primary contest of the cycle, but Hillary Clinton wrapped up the presidential nomination a week ago — and may already be reaping the polling benefits. Today’s tracking poll from NBC News/Survey [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [About that Orlando AR-15… it wasn’t] 6/14/2016 8:01:07 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Some day, in a far off, idealistic future, we may yet live to see a time when the media reports on a story involving guns and gets the details right. But that day has apparently not yet arrived. After the news of the Orlando shooting broke, the focus of [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Muslim Congressman calls Trump rhetoric, not terror attack, ‘villainous rampage against other Americans’] 6/14/2016 7:21:39 AM Larry O'Connor 0 Comments It would be pretty accurate to describe the massacre in Orlando at the hands of a Jihadist terrorist as a “villainous rampage against Americans.” But Monday, those vivid and descriptive words were employed by a member of the House of [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Watch Jimmy Fallon’s viral response to the Orlando terror attack] 6/14/2016 6:21:18 AM Larry O'Connor 0 Comments As a comedian and entertainer, Jimmy Fallon had a tough job Monday night. The Tonight Show host was called upon to present his comedy talk show while the nation was still reeling from Sunday’s terror attack in Orlando. Fallon decided to address the [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Orlando shooter a repeat customer at Pulse, may have also scouted Disney World] 6/13/2016 11:01:00 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Regular patrons at Pulse, the gay nightclub where shooter Omar Mateen killed 49 people over the weekend, remember seeing the shooter there before. The Orlando Sentinel reports: At least four regular customers at the Orlando gay nightclub where a gunman [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump’s terror speech: We need my Muslim ban in order to protect gay Americans] 6/13/2016 10:21:05 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments You’ll find video of the full speech embedded below. I didn’t have time to watch so I’m relying on his prepared remarks, which is risky with a guy like Trump who likes to ad lib as he reads, so bear that in mind in case something in the [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Top DCCC brass: Uh, that Trump effect hasn’t shown up yet] 6/13/2016 9:41:29 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Forget talk of coattails — Democrats chortle with glee over the boat-anchor impact that Donald Trump will have on down-ballot races. It’s coming, the chair and the executive director of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee insist, [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Washington Post: The Founders wouldn’t recognize an AR-15, so let’s regulate it] 6/13/2016 9:01:08 PM John Sexton 0 Comments The Washington Post’s Wonkblog has a story today which is intended to dovetail with the Democratic calls for more gun regulation in the wake of the Orlando shooting. The story is titled, “The men who wrote the 2nd amendment would never [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump revokes Washington Post’s press credentials due to “incredibly inaccurate coverage”] 6/13/2016 8:21:18 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments He’s had it in for WaPo for awhile, I’m sure, since they were the ones who exposed his embarrassing “John Miller” idiocy and who finally forced him to put his money where his mouth is about donating to veterans’ charities. [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Brexit takes the lead in latest polling] 6/13/2016 7:41:31 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments After showing a near deadlock for the last month and with only ten days to go before the big Brexit referendum, the Leave faction seems to have opened up their first substantial lead. The Guardian provides the new numbers, and while not massive, [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Food riots leave 3 dead in Venezuela during past week] 6/13/2016 7:01:19 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Three people have been killed during food riots in Venezuela over the last week. Reuters reports all of the people killed were part of food riots taking place across the country: The state prosecutor’s office is investigating the deaths of a [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Senate Dems: This is a perfect time to take up gun control again] 6/13/2016 6:21:07 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Everyone knew this was coming from the moment that news broke about the shooting in Orlando. Rather than deal with another example of radical Islamist terror and the failure of our security systems to prevent an attack — even with clear danger [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Gorka on Orlando: It’s not a hate crime, it’s a holy war] 6/13/2016 5:41:37 PM Larry O'Connor 0 Comments "This was an act of terror and act of hate." —@POTUS on the tragic shooting in #Orlando — The White House (@WhiteHouse) June 12, 2016 “An act of terror and an act of hate.” It was the description used [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [White House throws in the towel on Gitmo] 6/13/2016 5:01:21 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Barack Obama promised to make shutting down the detention center at Guantanamo Bay his first mission. It turned out to be Mission Impossible, in large part because Obama never made the case for closing it to Congress or the American people. The White [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [SCOTUS punts on deciding natural citizenship definition] 6/13/2016 4:31:10 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Well that was certainly disappointing. The Supreme Court had the opportunity to weigh in on the idea of how we define birthright citizenship – a least in some cases – this week, but they took a pass on it. When I see a case description like [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Paul Ryan: I spoke to Trump about his deportation plan and he said, “Well, that’s not part of our agenda”] 6/13/2016 4:01:51 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Interesting notation at the end of CBS’s write-up yesterday about Ryan’s interview on “Face the Nation.” EDITOR’S NOTE: Speaker Paul Ryan’s office disputes a section of the transcript. They say that Speaker Paul Ryan [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Ken Burns trashes Trump at Stanford graduation, calls on ‘Vichy Republicans’ to reconsider] 6/13/2016 3:31:13 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Documentarian Ken Burns launched an extended attack on Donald Trump during a commencement address at Stanford University Sunday, calling Trump a “proto-fascist” and calling on “Vichy Republicans” to reconsider their support for [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Appeals court tosses out American Sniper defamation award to Ventura] 6/13/2016 3:01:39 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Taya Kyle and her late husband’s publishing team can breathe a sigh of relief … for now, anyway. The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals has tossed out Jesse Ventura’s win on defamation and “unjust enrichment,” citing numerous [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Oregon court allows formerly male female to change to … something new] 6/13/2016 2:31:56 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments This story cropped up last week but got lost in the shuffle for obvious reasons over the weekend. A judge in Oregon has taken a bold step toward moving the goalposts in the whole “transgender” debate quite a bit further off the field and into [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Hillary: Hate is not the answer to “people who themselves are divided in their loyalties and their beliefs”] 6/13/2016 2:01:51 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Good catch by Karol Markowicz. Who are the people Hillary has in mind at the end here when she refers to divided loyalties? I don’t think she means jihadis. Their loyalties aren’t divided, and even a Democrat would say it’s okay to hate [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Obamacare enrollees without subsidies face big premium increases] 6/13/2016 1:31:59 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Obamacare rates are going up sharply this year. While most enrollees are sheltered from the increases by government subsidies, there are some—those making over $47,000 a year—who face paying the full cost of the mandated coverage. The Associated Press [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Video: The moment the shooting began] 6/13/2016 1:01:46 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments The woman who comes into frame for a close-up at the end of the clip is 25-year-old Amanda Alvear, who was recording her night out at Pulse and auto-uploading it to Snapchat. She didn’t make it out alive. I read somewhere yesterday that an [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [You may want to just give up on parenting in the internet age] 6/13/2016 12:31:40 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Among the many things which the internet has ruined (read: pretty much everything) you can probably add parenting to the list. It’s not as if raising decent children and balancing discipline and education with a certain measure of freedom and fun [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Latest Headlines: We pick, you click.] [Orlando’s hard, simple truth: radical Islamists hate us for our values] [Orlando shooter scouted Walt Disney World during search for targets] [LGBT groups to Trump: No thanks] [Trump on Orlando, and on our immigration problem] [Homeland Security instructed to fight terrorism with political correctness] [Migrant traffickers renting luxury buses for rapid smuggling to U.S.] [Former classmate: Omar Mateen was gay] [“Do you want Sean ‘Puffy’ Combs to be the secretary of state and Gary Busey to be on the Supreme Court?”] [The Islamic State’s shocking war on gays] [The Orlando massacre and the crisis of humanism] [Ed Morrissey Show] [Advertisement] __________________________SUBSCRIPTION INFO__________________________ WERE YOU FORWARDED THIS EDITION OF THE HOT AIR DAILY? 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