HotAir Daily Express 08/21/2018

[Hot Air Daily Express]( [Follow us on Facebook]( [Home]([Green Room]([Archive]([The Ed Morrissey Show]([Print]([Forward]( [Trump now using security clearances to … troll people]( 8/21/2018 11:21:51 AM Allahpundit 0 Comments I mean, I think it’s trolling. But sometimes what looks like trolling, isn’t. After a week of critics blasting him for treating natsec clearances as a royal privilege, unfit for those who would speak ill of the king, here he is last [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [It’s time to finally elect a UFO abductee to Congress]( 8/21/2018 10:41:30 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Florida’s primary is coming up one week from today and the race for the GOP nomination in the 27th district has taken an interesting turn. There are a number of viable candidates in the field and the GOP has held the seat for decades. (The [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [How To: Get Rid Of Deep Belly Fat]( LCR Health SPONSORED Doctor Reveals How To Get Rid Of Deep Fat From The Body And At Home [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Again, Americans list their government as top problem]( 8/21/2018 10:01:30 AM Andrew Malcolm 0 Comments No one ever accused Americans of thinking consistently about the nation’s array of problems. Problems come and go in the American mind, often according to what media is currently focused on for a week or three. And then we all move on to the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Who are those Airbnb hosts? In many cases, teachers]( 8/21/2018 9:21:10 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments As we’ve been covering the attempts by municipal governments in multiple cities to stamp out Airbnb (and the gig economy in general) it’s been an educational experience for me. It seems that there are a significant number of people [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Scott Pruitt used that $43,000 phone booth to call the White House once]( 8/21/2018 8:41:00 AM Andrew Malcolm 0 Comments Remember earlier this year when the now-departed Scott Pruitt spent about $43,000 in taxpayer money to construct a secure phone booth in his office as director of the Environmental Protection Agency? That seemed a little excessive even for a [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Celebrating vandalism in North Carolina]( 8/21/2018 8:01:50 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments There are elections coming soon so I suppose it was unavoidable that we’d have some more confederate monument statue stories cropping up. This week’s edition of the ongoing saga took place at the University of North Carolina where [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Report: Trump nearly revoked Obama’s access to the daily intelligence briefing last year]( 8/20/2018 10:01:44 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Good thing he did too. Now he can do it this year, a week before the midterms. Nothing would get Republicans out to the polls like a huge chair-throwing Trump/Obama brawl over O’s security clearance right before Election Day. No, no, I kid. In [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Antifa in Portland beat up a Bernie Bro because he was carrying a ‘fascist’ American flag]( 8/20/2018 9:21:31 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Two weeks ago I wrote about a Patriot Prayer rally in Portland at which several hundred counter-protesters, including black-clad Antifa, showed up. One incident which caught my attention was a fight over an American flag. When the guy holding the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [David Hogg: The David Hogg era in Congress begins seven years from now]( 8/20/2018 8:41:15 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments There’s simply no need. By the time he’s eligible to run, President Avenatti will have already confiscated all of America’s guns. You will be surprised to learn that Rep. Hogg’s political awakening has made him not just a [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump and Rudy to John Brennan: We dare you to sue over your security clearance]( 8/20/2018 8:01:52 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments “It is not entirely apparent why Mr. Trump and his lawyers would want to wage another legal battle at the moment,” sniffs the Times, wondering if there’s any strategy behind this double-barreled taunt or if it’s just standard [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Hillary is returning to the national limelight at last…said no one]( 8/20/2018 7:21:49 PM John Sexton 0 Comments She’s like the dinner guest who stays and stays and never takes the hint that the party is over. NBC News reports that Hillary Clinton has decided to weigh in again to help push her party across the line in November: Hillary Clinton is [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Italy to EU: YOU find a place for these migrants]( 8/20/2018 6:41:27 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments There’s been an ongoing confrontation for several months now between Italy and the European Union over what to do with boatloads of migrants who are picked up at sea trying to reach Europe. Italy’s new government has made it clear that [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Definitely maybe: Chelsea opens the door to running for office — eventually]( 8/20/2018 6:01:50 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments “Hillary, without the charisma” sounds like just what the political doctor ordered for the ol’ US of A. Imagine what would have to happen to America generally and the Democratic Party specifically over the next 10-15 years for [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Bernie Sanders and Jake Tapper argue about Medicare-for-all]( 8/20/2018 5:21:52 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Is Medicare-for-all a bargain or is it an unsustainable fiasco? Well, it depends on who you ask. Today, Bernie Sanders attacked criticism of his Medicare-for-all proposal which arose in a report by the Mercatus Center. In case you missed it, you can [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Brazilians attack, burn migrant camps of Venezuelan refugees]( 8/20/2018 4:41:39 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments A few weeks ago we discussed the ongoing refugee crisis involving Venezuelans fleeing starvation, disease and violence in their home country. The majority of them have been attempting to travel through Colombia to Ecuador because there are more [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [The inevitable “sounds like Michael Cohen’s getting arrested soon” post]( 8/20/2018 4:01:04 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments A leftover from yesterday to prepare you for the not-quite-inevitable-but-probably-pretty-close follow-up story that Cohen is now cooperating with the DOJ. Quote: “He has hinted publicly and has stated explicitly in private that he is eager to [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Another bad weekend in Chicago: 6 killed, 59 shot]( 8/20/2018 3:21:08 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Even by Chicago standards, this was a bad weekend. Various outlets have various tallies. Fox News reports 54 were shot. CNN puts the number at 58. But ABC 7 in Chicago says 59 were shot and six were killed, including two teenagers: Since 5 p.m. [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [E-mails: NY Governor Cuomo’s administration in regular contact with corrupt lobbyist]( 8/20/2018 2:41:34 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments We’ve written here in the past about the number of aides and lobbyists associated with New York Governor Andrew Cuomo who have wound up going to trial and, in some cases, prison. Many of these activities revolved around the so-called [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Giuliani: When I said “truth isn’t truth,” I didn’t literally mean “truth isn’t truth”]( 8/20/2018 2:01:47 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Rudy’s getting a bad rap about this although there’s no denying the truth of Ken White’s point: Giuliani really has a talent for putting defense arguments as unconvincingly, unappealingly, and suspiciously as possible. If his [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Washington Post opinion: Let’s reclaim ‘socialism’ without talking about why it became a dirty word]( 8/20/2018 1:21:02 PM John Sexton 0 Comments The Washington Post published an opinion piece Sunday titled “It’s time to reclaim ‘socialism’ from the dirty-word category.” The point of the piece is ostensibly to explain what socialism is, but author Elizabeth Bruenig doesn’t [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [You shouldn’t be “disenfranchising” the Democrats’ superdelegates]( 8/20/2018 12:41:35 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Next week will see the widely anticipated meeting of the DNC in Chicago (assuming everyone makes it through the war zone and safely into the Hyatt Regency Chicago). Normally something of a snoozer in an odd-numbered year, this meeting should be [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Sex online sure, but grocery-Shopping not so much]( 8/20/2018 12:01:46 PM Andrew Malcolm 0 Comments Despite doing pretty much everything else online — from banking and music-streaming to researching and having sex — Americans have not taken to grocery-shopping there — yet. Americans’ love affair with the convenience of [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [HimToo: #MeToo leader Asia Argento accused of paying off 17-year-old after sex]( 8/20/2018 11:21:42 AM Allahpundit 0 Comments He was 17 years and two months at the time in a state, California, where the age of consent is 18. Which means my headline should read “rape” instead of “sex,” no? Either way, here’s another stranger-than-fiction [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [White House rejects offer to free Pastor Andrew Brunson]( 8/20/2018 10:41:29 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments I wrote my first article on the imprisonment of American Pastor Andrew Brunson in Turkey more than 20 months ago. In the more than a year and a half that’s passed since then, there has been virtually no good news regarding Brunson’s [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [N.H. voters want Trump challenged there in 2020]( 8/20/2018 10:01:18 AM Andrew Malcolm 0 Comments A new pre-midterm poll just out in New Hampshire finds almost half of respondents (46 percent) say the economy is better today under President Trump than the last guy to hold that office. However, a whopping majority of New Hampshire voters — [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Latest Headlines: We pick, you click.] Elizabeth Chuck [Why Asia Argento allegations might actually strengthen #MeToo movement]( CNN [Why Trump let Don McGahn talk to Mueller]( WaPo [Trump says about Russia probe: “I could run it if I want”]( NYT [New Russian hacking targeted anti-Trump Republican groups, Microsoft says]( Donald Trump [I never considered revoking Obama’s security clearance]( N&O [Protesters topple Silent Sam Confederate statue at UNC]( WSJ [Omarosa: I’m part of the Resistance now]( The Hill [DOJ releases emails of RBS bankers joking about crashing housing market before 2008]( Carol D. Leonnig [McGahn doesn’t believe he implicated Trump in legal wrongdoing in Mueller interviews]( Oregonian [He brought an American flag to protest fascism in Portland. Then Antifa attacked him.]( Fox News [Top Al Qaeda bomb maker killed in Yemen drone strike last year, U.S. official confirms]( MIT TR [This company embeds microchips in its employees, and they love it]( Annie Lowrey [America’s invisible pot addicts]( Simon Jenkins [Worrying about robots stealing our jobs? How silly]( Benjamin Wallace-Wells [John McCain and the end of romantic conservatism]( James Antle [Only the best people: Four reasons Trump ends up with employees like Omarosa]( Kurt Schlichter [Pulling their clearances is only the start — it’s time to stamp out elite privilege]( David Axe [The Pentagon has a plan to arm satellites with lasers to shoot down missiles. It’s insane.]( Axios [Behind the scenes: Trump’s habit of blurting]( Jay Cost [Americans want their president to have a little class]( Matthew Walther [Trump’s most faithful courtier]( Jim Tankersley [How sexism follows women from the cradle to the workplace]( Nathaniel Rakich [Will backing Trump’s Supreme Court pick help or hurt red-state Democrats?]( Neal Pollack [Now that Twitter no longer helps me gauge what’s offensive, here’s what I do]( Axios [Comfortably numb: Americans are less worried about online security]( [Ed Morrissey Show]( [Advertisement] __________________________SUBSCRIPTION INFO__________________________ WERE YOU FORWARDED THIS EDITION OF THE HOT AIR DAILY? You can get your own free subscription to the #1 blog delivered to your email inbox early each morning by visiting: This newsletter is never sent unsolicited. It was sent to you because you signed up to receive this newsletter on Hot Air OR a friend forwarded it to you. We respect and value your time and privacy. 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