HotAir Daily Express 06/23/2016

[Hot Air Daily Express] [Follow us on Facebook] [Home][Green Room][Archive][The Ed Morrissey Show][Print][Forward] [Video: Congresswoman describes how nearly being kidnapped made the Second Amendment personal to her] 6/23/2016 10:01:34 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Regular Hot Air contributor Dustin Siggins has a great interview today with Tennessee Congresswoman Diane Black in which she describes a particularly harrowing incident in her life from two decades ago which gave her a whole new appreciation for gun [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Federal judge has some bad news for the Interior Department on fracking] 6/23/2016 9:21:59 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Liberal opponents of hydraulic fracture, better known as fracking, continue to attempt to make this a wedge issue in the upcoming election. So firmly are they fixated on the idea that this highly successful technology is the great evil of our time that [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [OCCUPY CONGRESS: Speaker Ryan adjourns House as Dems continue sit-in protest to infringe on individual rights] 6/23/2016 8:41:47 AM Larry O'Connor 0 Comments Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) has come full circle in his astounding, American life. He came to prominence during the struggles of the 1960s as an original member of the “Big Six” civil rights leaders who risked their lives for the rights of black [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Congressman Chaka Fattah receives his walking papers] 6/23/2016 8:01:41 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Earlier this week, John covered the end to the Pennsylvania trial of Congressman Chaka Fattah and his conviction on multiple counts of racketeering and fraud. One would expect that with such a result, Fattah would quickly depart the scene, sparing his [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Immigration expert explains how Obama is lying about his border record] 6/22/2016 10:41:44 PM Larry O'Connor 0 Comments The Obama Administration, along with their willing allies in the mainstream media, continue to perpetuate the deception that deportations under President Barack Obama are at their highest levels of all time. Just look at the alarming language employed by [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Some sick bastard came up with “Mac ‘n Cheetos” so I guess I have to write about it] 6/22/2016 10:01:34 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments I write these Frankenfood posts from time to time and there’s always some intimation that I’m too disgusted by the concept to actually eat the thing I’m writing about. Let me be upfront about this: It’s always a lie. Of course [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Hillary Clinton’s IT guy invokes 5th Amendment more than 125 times] 6/22/2016 9:21:02 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Bryan Pagliano gave his deposition today in a lawsuit brought by Judicial Watch. Fox News’ Catherine Herridge reports he repeated the same statement invoking his Fifth Amendment rights more than 125 times: Hillary Clinton IT specialist Bryan [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [State Department disabled internal security features after it blocked email from Clinton’s private server] 6/22/2016 8:41:23 PM John Sexton 0 Comments The Associated Press has an important story on some new revelations coming from emails released as part of the Judicial Watch lawsuit. The AP’s headline, “Emails: State Dept. scrambled on trouble on Clinton’s server,” really [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Ready for war: Team Trump organizing to head off “Dump Trump” revolt at the convention] 6/22/2016 8:01:40 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Even an underfunded, poorly organized campaign like Trump’s should have enough juice to squash a seat-of-the-pants eleventh-hour push like the “Dump Trump” movement that’s coalescing right now among a few hundred delegates. After [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Omar Mateen’s gay lover: Attack was about revenge] 6/22/2016 7:21:52 PM John Sexton 0 Comments We’ve already seen evidence that Orlando shooter Omar Mateen was a regular at Pulse nightclub, and at least one patron saying he was there not to case the joint but to pick up men. Now a man who claims to have had a “friends with [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump spokesman on “no fly, no buy”: He doesn’t want to remove Second Amendment rights without due process] 6/22/2016 6:41:31 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments This is a leftover from last night but it’s worth blogging now, and not just because House Democrats decided this afternoon to do a little “down with due process” performance art. Trump has been typically ambiguous about whether he [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [New poll shows Hillary leading in a state she, er, shouldn’t be leading in] 6/22/2016 6:01:15 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments I’m trying to find some hopeful spin for you on a poll that has her up four points in … Arizona. A state that hasn’t gone blue in 20 years. Here’s some, I guess: If Trump wets the bed there, McCain’s as good as gone from the [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [RNC member: Dump Trump is gearing up for convention battle] 6/22/2016 5:21:51 PM John Sexton 0 Comments The movement to dump Trump at the convention has picked up enough steam that a Republican on the permanent rules committee has written a letter to his colleagues warning of “rage” if Trump is denied the nomination. The Associated Press [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Senate still wants to limit warrantless snooping by the FBI] 6/22/2016 4:41:18 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Under the pretense of needing to respond to the Orlando terror attack, a group of mostly Republican Senators led by John McCain attempted to extend authority to the FBI to conduct warrantless searches of individuals’ email and browser histories if [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Democrats vow: This House sit-in will go on until one of us literally wipes with the Fifth Amendment] 6/22/2016 4:01:42 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments An update to John’s post earlier. The headline’s a joke, of course, but not much of one. As several conservatives on Twitter have marveled, what they’re really protesting here is due process for American citizens. Says Phil Kerpen, is [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Medicare trust fund to run out of money 2 years sooner than expected] 6/22/2016 3:21:30 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Medicare’s hospital-insurance trust fund will run out of money two years earlier than expected, in 2028. The news was part of an annual report on the program released Wednesday. The report itself is hundreds of pages long but a summary of the [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Banning Uber and Lyft in Austin has led to an explosion of “black market ride sharing”] 6/22/2016 2:41:59 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments A couple of months ago we talked about the failed effort in Austin, Texas to regulate ride sharing in a way which would allow consumers more choices in local transportation. The cab companies and their union lobbied heavily to make it nearly impossible [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Full speech: Trump goes nuclear on Hillary] 6/22/2016 2:01:05 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments A solid summa of the many reasons to fear and loathe Hillary Clinton. Why he didn’t give this speech the day after Cruz and Kasich dropped out, I’ll never understand. If he had stuck to this message at his rallies and in his interviews over [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [We finally have the lawsuit that could break one of the worst parts of Title IX] 6/22/2016 1:21:07 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments We’ve covered far too many stories of the “campus rape culture” here and the frequent miscarriages of justice ( on both sides) which result when colleges attempt to replace the judicial system when dealing with potential felonies taking [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Democrats are holding a sit-in on the House floor] 6/22/2016 12:41:34 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Democrats are holding a sit-in on the floor of the House to demand a vote on their no-fly gun control proposal. Rep. John Lewis led the demonstration by calling Democrats down to the floor and giving a brief speech which concluded, “Now is the time [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [A major name in golf will be missing the Olympics… and so will one jaguar] 6/22/2016 12:01:05 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Normally, as we approach the beginning of the Summer Olympics every four years, the focus is on our top athletes and their preparations to go for the gold, but at this point some of them are preparing to head for the hills. Just how much of a disaster is [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Surprise: Marco Rubio flip-flops on something important to his presidential ambitions] 6/22/2016 11:21:32 AM Allahpundit 0 Comments I wonder if he’ll run as a border hawk again this time or as a comprehensive immigration reformer. No, wait, don’t tell me. I want to be surprised. I won’t needle him too much here as Rubio running for reelection improves the [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [The Pentagon doesn’t want to talk about US soldiers injured in Iraq or Syria anymore] 6/22/2016 10:41:28 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments It’s been known for a while now that even though Barack Obama “ended the Iraq war” to fulfill one of his campaign promises, we have troops back in Iraq and Syria these days. 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