HotAir Daily Express 08/01/2018

[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]( [Unsuspecting Americans to be Hit Hard by this U.S. Confiscation Scheme]( The 20-year head of the U.S. Fed has revealed Washington's nasty trick to confiscate the savings of unsuspecting Americans... Are you one of them? ==> [Here's the ONE THING Greenspan Says Can Protect Your Savings]( [Scaramucci on Trump’s crowd jeering Jim Acosta: This is not who we are]( 8/1/2018 11:21:16 AM Allahpundit 0 Comments It is who we are, by definition. In fact, hooting at Acosta wasn’t even the worst “this is who we are” moment from last night’s rally. All over the arena, people where wearing shirts or carrying signs about QAnon, for cripes [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Britain’s Labour Party’s antisemitism problem isn’t going away]( 8/1/2018 10:41:19 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Britain’s ruling Conservative Party (or the Tories if you prefer) has been taking some serious PR hits of late because of the chaotic handling of the ongoing Brexit negotiations. But that doesn’t mean that their primary opponents in the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Crime of the century: Thieves sail off with Sweden’s crown jewels in daring heist]( 8/1/2018 10:01:21 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Audacious, indeed … so audacious that its success seems suspicious in and of itself. It can’t be this easy to steal a nation’s crown jewels, can it? At least in Sweden, the answer appears to be yes. A band of thieves somehow [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Real ID opponents fear it will “divide us into documented and undocumented”]( 8/1/2018 9:21:29 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments If you’re heading out to the DMV in the near future to renew your driver’s license or other identification you’ll probably be noticing a change. You’ll need to provide additional documentation to verify who you actually are [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Bank Accounts to be Crushed by this New Hidden Tax]( [Bank Accounts to be Crushed by this New "Hidden Tax"]( [Alan Greenspan Warns of this U.S. Scheme to Confiscate Your Savings]( [Alan Greenspan Warns of this U.S. Scheme to Confiscate Your Savings]( [Move Your IRA or 401k to Gold]( [The Little-Known (But Legal) IRS Tax Law to Move Your IRA or 401(k) to Gold]( [Mexico extradites another suspect in murder of Border Patrol officer]( 8/1/2018 8:41:57 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Almost seven years have passed since the murder of Border Patrol agent Brian Terry by guns run Mexico in Operation Fast and Furious. It’s been more than a year since one of the suspects in the killing was captured by law enforcement in Mexico, [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [NY Dem Governor attacks media for asking tough questions]( 8/1/2018 8:01:06 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments When you hear about a politician verbally attacking a member of the media the story is supposed to be about President Trump, right? (And to be fair, he certainly does more than his fair share of it.) But this story, which you’re unlikely to [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [What was MoviePass thinking?]( 7/31/2018 10:41:41 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments The more I read about the company and its financial problems, the more I’m convinced that I’m missing an important part of the story. They were offering one movie theater ticket per day … for $9.99 per month? Is that right? That [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Senate Dem to ICE official: I’m confused about immigration enforcement]( 7/31/2018 10:01:18 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments I mean, just watch the clip. She’s not wrong. Would you want your kids sent to a government facility after they were separated from you, asks Sen. Mazie Hirono of ICE bigwig Matthew Albence. To which Albence counters: What choice would I have? [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Federal judge blocks release of 3-D printable gun designs]( 7/31/2018 9:21:39 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Jazz wrote about this story earlier today but this update came late in the afternoon so I’m jumping in with a follow-up. A federal judge has blocked the release of designs intended to allow people to make their own firearms using a 3-D [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Jim Acosta gets the full “CNN sucks” treatment from Trump’s crowd at the Tampa rally]( 7/31/2018 8:41:34 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Three short points about this clip, via the Free Beacon. 1. I understand why some people are creeped out by it. Having an arena full of hardcore fans of a politician all hooting at you at the same time would be intimidating. Acosta has nothing to [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Whodunit? The very serious problem of the death of comedy]( 7/31/2018 8:01:20 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments We already know the answer to this, right? Everybody killed comedy, at least everybody in the entertainment and media industries. Comedian Owen Benjamin takes a close look at the crime for Prager University, pinning the blame on identity politics. [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [National Geographic: We don’t know what killed the polar bear in that viral video]( 7/31/2018 7:21:18 PM John Sexton 0 Comments A viral video of a starving polar bear published by National Geographic last December was promoted as an example of the impact climate change was having on wildlife. The clip may have been seen by a third of the world’s population, up to 2.5 [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Those self-driving trucks aren’t coming as soon as you thought]( 7/31/2018 6:41:31 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments When Congress decided to alter certain safety regulations and technological testing criteria to promote the development of autonomous vehicles, there was an exception carved out in the rules. They wouldn’t apply to trucks. There was no logical [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Dem rep on Judiciary Committee: I think Don Jr and Jared Kushner will both be indicted]( 7/31/2018 6:01:47 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments A leftover from yesterday that caught Wolf Blitzer off-guard, of note mainly because it dovetails perfectly with what Jonathan Turley warned about yesterday. Like I said last night, the odds that Mueller is going to blow up Trump’s presidency [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Franken comeback? “I haven’t ruled it out, and I haven’t ruled it in”]( 7/31/2018 5:31:23 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Who’s ready for Al Franken’s big comeback from #MeToo purgatory? The former Senator from Minnesota himself may be, local CBS affiliate WCCO reports. Franken has begun making public appearances again, raising questions about his [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [At the Nation, outrage and repentance over a poem]( 7/31/2018 5:03:18 PM John Sexton 0 Comments This happened a few days ago but it’s still worth chronicling as another example of social justice warriors demanding everything be made a safe space. The Nation published a poem by someone named Anders Carlson-Wee which is just over 100 words [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Should federal workers be able to smoke pot where it’s legal?]( 7/31/2018 4:31:40 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments This is a question we batted around back in June, in that case applying to workers in the private sector. If you live in a state where marijuana has been legalized, either for medical or recreational use, can your employer fire you for failing a [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [It’s happening: We need a shutdown over immigration, says Trump — regardless of the “political ramifications”]( 7/31/2018 4:01:34 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments A follow-up to this morning’s post. You’ll note that nowhere in the tweets below does he explicitly say we need a shutdown before the midterms, which is what congressional Republicans are worried about. Maybe he’s being coy, [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Today’s hot topics: Social-media cesspools, Kavanaugh update, Medicare for All’s $32 trillion bill, and more!]( 7/31/2018 3:41:07 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...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Iran: Rejoin JCPOA and maaaaaaybe we’ll chat]( 7/31/2018 3:31:43 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Call this a precondition. The mullahs in Tehran didn’t take Donald Trump up on his sudden and surprising offer to meet them “anytime” with “no preconditions,” and used the opportunity to scold him over the withdrawal [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [North Seattle residents form neighborhood watch to catch ‘serial pooper’]( 7/31/2018 3:01:05 PM John Sexton 0 Comments In North Seattle, residents have been dealing with a serial pooper or maybe two. No one has seen the person making deposits in the neighborhood but King 5 reports local residents suspect “a pair of people living in nearby woods.” In [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Chicago’s gun violence is so bad that parents resort to “hiding” their children]( 7/31/2018 2:31:35 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Gang violence and crime in the Windy City have not gone away under Rahm Emanuel’s leadership, though some progress has been made in specific categories of crime. Still, the endemic problems are enough to have altered the lives of many of [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Facebook: We stopped “new covert disinformation campaign”]( 7/31/2018 2:01:45 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Chalk one up for lessons learned the hard way. After taking the brunt of social-media criticism over Russian interference in the 2016 election, Facebook turned its attention to smoking out coordinated disinformation campaigns on its platforms. [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [John Kelly to staff: Trump asked me to stay on as chief of staff through the 2020 election — and I’ve agreed]( 7/31/2018 1:31:13 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments I … but … wait. What? When I first read the WSJ headline, I thought it referred to *this year’s* election, which would make sense. Choosing a new chief of staff is an important decision and Trump will be distracted this fall with [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [German immigrants launch #MeTwo campaign against racism]( 7/31/2018 1:02:40 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Germany let more than a million migrants into the country in a very short time. The idea was that these asylum seekers would play by the rules and be accepted as part of German society. The reality hasn’t always been as simple. Now some [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Latest Headlines: We pick, you click.] Randall D. Eliason [Collusion is not a crime? Not so fast.]( Bloomberg [Erdogan slams “evangelist” U.S. as pastor’s detention roils ties]( David French [The 3D-gun debate: Separating truth from fiction]( Perry Bacon Jr. [Why LeBron can say whatever he wants about politics]( Donald Trump [Jeff Sessions should stop this Rigged Witch Hunt right now!]( The Hill [Scaramucci on Trump supporters heckling CNN reporter: This is not who we are]( Marc A. 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