HotAir Daily Express 07/14/2016

[Hot Air Daily Express] [Follow us on Facebook] [Home][Green Room][Archive][The Ed Morrissey Show][Print][Forward] [GOP convention speaker list short on candlepower?] 7/14/2016 9:21:55 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Donald Trump promised to bring showbiz to the Republican convention, which kicks off on Monday in Cleveland. The partial speaker list released this morning appears somewhat … underwhelming. The name “Trump” appears five times, but names [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [AP poll: 81% of Americans fear their presidential choices] 7/14/2016 8:41:43 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Alternate headline: Nineteen percent of Americans haven’t found out who’s running. The latest Associated Press/GfK poll shows that four out of five Americans feel fear over at least one of the two major-party nominees, and 25% fear both, a [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [ESPN hypocrites celebrate Black Lives Matter at ESPYS while silencing Schilling, Lewis over their politics] 7/14/2016 8:01:50 AM Larry O'Connor 0 Comments Wednesday night’s ESPY award broadcast was filled with about as much race-baiting, left-wing politics as the Democrats convention in Philly will have two weeks from now.  And ESPN, the Disney-owned network that created and produces the awards [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Report: Trump reached out to Condi Rice this week to gauge her interest in being VP] 7/13/2016 10:41:57 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments If you’re going to put someone who’s past their prime on the ticket because they really sound like they know what they’re talking about, Condi’s a better pick than Newt is. Or she would be if not for the fact that … Trump [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [NARAL’s new ‘comedians getting abortions’ video is as terrible is it sounds] 7/13/2016 10:01:41 PM Guy Benson 0 Comments I’m torn.  Is the worst part of this abortion-promoting “comedy” sketch its preposterous premise, or its irredeemably anti-funny lameness?  Tough call.  I think I’ll go with the former, because let’s face it:  Is it really [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [CNN: Children dying from lack of medicine, supplies in Venezuela’s hospitals] 7/13/2016 9:21:13 PM John Sexton 0 Comments This is the ugly truth about end-stage socialism. In Venezuela, children are dying because of a lack of medicine and supplies. CNN reports from a children’s hospital in Venezuela’s capital city where Lucero Rodriguez’ son, Dylan, is at [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Since 2006, the Feds have lost close to 1,000 firearms] 7/13/2016 8:41:26 PM Matt Vespa 0 Comments The federal government has doled out over $1 billion on firearms and ammunition since 2006, and they’ve lost 985 of them. Some of the missing firearms include Uzis and grenade launchers. As Paul Bedard at The Washington Examiner wrote: In a hearing to [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump seeks $10 million from former aide for breaching nondisclosure agreement] 7/13/2016 8:01:58 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments No, it’s not Corey Lewandowski. It’s Sam Nunberg, who was part of the Trump campaign in its early stages and then was fired — allegedly on Lewandowski’s orders — over old Facebook posts last August. As best as I can tell, [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Memorial service held for DART Officer Brent Thompson, father of six] 7/13/2016 7:31:59 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Dallas Area Rapid Transit officer Brent Thompson was one of five officers killed during the mass shooting on July 7th. His memorial service was held Wednesday with 3,000 in attendance. The Dallas Morning News describes the scene: Hundreds of police [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Cotton: I’m speaking at the convention — about veterans and the military] 7/13/2016 7:01:35 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Want to see why some conservatives have Tom Cotton high on their list of acceptable running-mate choices for Donald Trump? This six-minute segment on MSNBC’s Morning Joe demonstrates his grasp of national-security and foreign-policy issues, [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Donald Trump officially courting Bernie Sanders supporters] 7/13/2016 6:31:31 PM Taylor Millard 0 Comments Donald Trump is officially going hard after Bernie Sanders voters. AP has already looked at Sanders’ decision to endorse Hillary Clinton (which, honestly, no one should be surprised happened), but Trump is trying to lure in disaffected [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Oh my: Both sides expect Mike Lee to support “conscience clause” that would unbind the delegates] 7/13/2016 6:01:55 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments I know he’s anti-Trump, but lots of people who are obviously anti-Trump on the merits are tepidly pro-Trump when finally forced to declare themselves. Paul Ryan and Marco Rubio embody the phenomenon. I figured Lee, a member of the Rules Committee, [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Wall Street Journal: Justice Ginsburg ‘should resign from the Court’] 7/13/2016 5:21:44 PM John Sexton 0 Comments As Ed noted earlier today, Justice Ginsburg’s statements about Donald Trump are so out of line that the NY Times titled its editorial on the matter, “Donald Trump is right about Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.” The Times’ editorial [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Senate probe: Obama administration funded efforts to unseat Netanyahu] 7/13/2016 4:41:31 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments After Benjamin Netanyahu staged a surprise win in Israel’s national election sixteen months ago, questions began emerging about whether the Obama administration attempted to intervene on behalf of his opponents. Almost immediately afterward, an [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Hillary: Can you imagine electing a vindictive man who might … send the IRS after his critics?] 7/13/2016 4:01:55 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments You know what? I can imagine it. Pretty vividly, actually. Right down to the names of the “hypothetical” IRS officers involved. Of all the examples she could have cited to make the point that Trump is a loose cannon, how did she and her [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Insurers nationwide are struggling to break even on Obamacare’s exchanges] 7/13/2016 3:21:41 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Insurers around the country are struggling to make money on the Obamacare exchanges. That’s the bottom line of a story published today by Politico. Most insurers want their expenses for medical coverage to be around 85% of premiums, but the [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump on Republicans holding the Senate: I hope they do “but I don’t mind being a free agent, either”] 7/13/2016 2:44:33 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Yeah. Why would a would-be president from one party, who’ll be making dozens of critical appointments that require Senate confirmation, have a strong preference as to whether his party controls the Senate or not? You would think a guy whose [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [“Trumpified” platform bodes ill for final #NeverTrump push] 7/13/2016 2:01:07 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Don’t look now, but the Republican Party shows signs of moving toward Donald Trump than the other way around … to some degree, anyway. The proposed GOP platform contains two new provisions that mirror Trump’s campaign pledges over the [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Report: More than 100 #NeverTrump delegates gave up after Cruz accepted speaking slot from Trump] 7/13/2016 1:31:45 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments I missed this yesterday but it’s worth blogging now, with the Rules Committee set for war 24 hours from now. You can dismiss this if you like on account of the fact that Randy Evans, the source, is pro-Trump and has been conducting whip counts on [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Obamacare co-op in Illinois to be liquidated] 7/13/2016 1:01:13 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Another one bites the dust. Illinois’ Land of Lincoln co-op was taken over by state insurance regulators Tuesday and will be liquidated. From the AP: Illinois regulators took steps Tuesday to shut down Land of Lincoln Health, a 3-year-old startup [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Bernie on Hillary veepstakes: It ain’t me, babe] 7/13/2016 12:31:19 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Call this the final flickers of the Feel The Bern fire. After Bernie Sanders got eliminated from the Democratic presidential nomination, his legions of followers wanted him to carry the torch all the way to the convention anyway, and to join the ticket [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [NYT to Ginsburg: Please shut the hell up] 7/13/2016 12:01:08 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Finally, “Notorious RBG” has gotten too notorious for even the stalwart institutions on the Left. The New York Times editorial board takes Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg to the woodshed for her repeated attempts to provide activism [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Another poll sees a drop in Hillary’s numbers after the FBI announcement on Emailgate] 7/13/2016 11:21:00 AM Allahpundit 0 Comments It’s the first time McClatchy’s found her under 50 percent — way under — in a year. On the other hand, they haven’t conducted a national poll since late March. Who knows if her numbers nosedived suddenly after Director [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Singer adds ‘All lives matter’ lyric to Canadian national anthem at All-Star game] 7/13/2016 10:41:04 AM Larry O'Connor 0 Comments Imagine if someone changed the lyrics to the Star Spangled Banner to make a political statement while singing it at a baseball game. Not cool, right? Check out what happened Tuesday night at the Major League Baseball All-Star game at Petco Park in San [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Latest Headlines: We pick, you click.] [The Senate’s only black Republican just got real on race] [Survey: Evangelicals rally to Trump, “nones” back Clinton] [Purdue: On second thought, we won’t expel a student for criticizing Black Lives Matter] [Live now: GOP Rules Committee meets in Cleveland] [Hmmm: Audio of Gingrich discussing Trump in February released on eve of VP announcement] [Finally: List of speakers at Republican convention revealed] [Tied at 40: Hillary drops six points, now even with Trump as e-mail scandal does damage] [America’s worst president?] [How Obama left us more racially divided than ever] [Liberal online daters less willing to fall in love with conservatives] [Ed Morrissey Show] [Advertisement] __________________________SUBSCRIPTION INFO__________________________ WERE YOU FORWARDED THIS EDITION OF THE HOT AIR DAILY? 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