HotAir Daily Express 07/22/2016

[Hot Air Daily Express] [Follow us on Facebook] [Home][Green Room][Archive][The Ed Morrissey Show][Print][Forward] [Massachusetts AG redefines “assault rifle” with predictable results] 7/22/2016 10:01:25 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Normally when you see a change in a state’s gun laws it comes in the form of a new, hotly debated bill which is passed by the legislature and then perhaps signed by the governor. Not so in the Bay State, however, where the Attorney General recently [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [The GOP had a trainwreck in Cleveland. Is that a good thing?] 7/22/2016 9:21:04 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Traditionally speaking, the Republican national convention would look like a near-total debacle. In the era of television, major-party conventions have become tightly choreographed displays of party unity, bland speeches hailing the nominee, and almost [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [How the NBA decided to become a PAC] 7/22/2016 8:41:53 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments At this point, the National Basketball Association might as well file the required paperwork to register as a political action committee and begin dumping their enormous profits into election campaigns. In a move which I’m sure they think is [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [In his acceptance speech, Trump delivers both warnings and hope] 7/22/2016 8:01:18 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments The first thing I would note about the final night of the Republican convention and Donald Trump’s acceptance speech is that we really need to start these things a bit earlier. It ran well past my bedtime and I wound up falling asleep three [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [On the scene at #RNCinCLE: The first rule of Wannabe Fight Club is …] 7/21/2016 7:45:04 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments … is you probably shouldn’t blog anything about Wannabe Fight Club, but #YOLO, or something. For almost the entirety of the Republican National Convention, Media Row has been a hive of activity and no small amount of confusion, but it’s [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Day 4, Live blog: Donald Trump “I accept”] 7/21/2016 7:36:49 PM Andrew Malcolm 0 Comments 11:54pm House Speaker Paul Ryan declares the convention is adjourned. 11:36pm 100,000 balloons fall with 300 pounds of confetti. The End. 11:34pm Trump: “So to every parent who dreams for their child, and every child who dreams for their future, I [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [GOP convention, night four: The only speech that matters] 7/21/2016 7:21:33 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Is my headline correct? It would have been had Paul Manafort not strangely decided to make Ted Cruz’s low-key non-endorsement a made-for-TV “Two Minutes Hate.” Let’s compromise and say that Trump’s speech tonight is the only [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Fun rumor of the day: Boehner will be a surprise speaker tonight to attack Ted Cruz] 7/21/2016 6:41:02 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments An hors d’oeuvre to whet your appetite for this evening from Conservative Review editor Daniel Horowitz: I'm hearing they might put John Boehner on stage tonight to rebut Cruz. it would complete the freak show full circle. — Daniel [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Watch the reaction as CNN’s Chris Cuomo claims Hillary Clinton “did nothing illegal”] 7/21/2016 6:01:41 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Not that this will change anything in the Department of Justice and their handling of prosecution of politically popular figures from the administration, but there was a rather historic moment in the history of media bias this week. Appearing on CNN, [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Roger Ailes resigns as head of Fox News (Update: Statement from Carlson’s attorneys)] 7/21/2016 5:21:12 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Two weeks after former anchor Gretchen Carlson filed a lawsuit claiming sexual harassment, Roger Ailes is stepping down at Fox News. A statement about the decision was posted on the 21st Century Fox website: 21st Century Fox today announced that Roger [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump on Turkey’s Islamist government purges: Who are we to judge?] 7/21/2016 4:41:25 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Ed already blogged the NATO comments from Trump’s interview yesterday with the Times but this is amazing too. If the White House had reacted to Erdogan jailing thousands of his political enemies by blubbering about how a country as bad as ours is [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Rio de Janeiro is on track! (To be “the filth Olympics”)] 7/21/2016 4:01:47 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments HELP WANTED: (Janitorial) – Candidate must be a strong swimmer with a weak gag reflex. May need to supply their own snorkeling equipment and antibiotics. We’re only a little more than two weeks away from the opening of the Summer Olympic [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Attacker in Nice had help, planned attack for months] 7/21/2016 3:21:36 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Monday of this week the AP reported that the terrorist who murdered 84 people in Nice, France appeared to have self-radicalized in a matter of weeks. Today, the AP is reporting that Mohamed Bouhlel planned this for months and had help carrying it [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Live from Cleveland: Townhall-Hot Air Show] 7/21/2016 2:51:33 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Today, Townhall and Hot Air combine for live convention coverage and analysis from Media Row at the Republican National Convention! The show will be streamed on Hot Air’s Facebook page, as well as in this post. Ed Morrissey will anchor the show, [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Two unanswered questions about Cruz’s speech] 7/21/2016 2:41:51 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments I can’t figure them out. Maybe you can. Question one: Did Team Trump encourage the booing, and if so, why? I made this point myself last night on social media: People miss this: Last night's mess was Trump's doing, not Cruz's. If the [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Another 4th Amendment debate, this time over your car’s high beams] 7/21/2016 2:01:48 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments We recently went through a rather protracted debate over applications of the 4th Amendment in general and the case of Utah v. Strieff in particular. In that case, a questionable stop resulted in the discovery of illegal drugs in a car driven by someone [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Palin: Cruz made a career-ending mistake] 7/21/2016 1:21:23 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin gave an exclusive statement to Breitbart News Wednesday in which she called Ted Cruz’s decision not to endorse Donald Trump a “career-ending” moment. Linking to a video of Cruz’s former [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [New Hillary ad: Trump tells the truth about me!] 7/21/2016 12:41:13 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments The biggest lesson from the Republican National Convention this week has been this: There is one towering figure who unites the party. It’s not Donald Trump; it’s not Ted Cruz; it’s not anyone named Bush, either. It’s Hillary [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Liberals would like the government to force you to eat less meat] 7/21/2016 12:01:44 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments First they came for your Big Gulp sodas. Then it was your donuts. But now the liberal elite are drawing the ultimate battle line in the sand. At the Washington Post, Laura Wellesley argues in favor of having the government “enable a change” [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Cruz tells Texas delegates: I won’t be a “servile puppy dog” to a man who attacked my wife and father] 7/21/2016 11:21:20 AM Allahpundit 0 Comments Via the Free Beacon, four of the best minutes of his career. I knew Cruz wouldn’t endorse Trump explicitly last night but I expected he’d do it implicitly (“only one party can restore America” or something like that) so that he [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump to Baltic states: We’ll come to your rescue … if you’ve done enough for us; Update: NYT releases transcript] 7/21/2016 10:41:06 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Update: After Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort accused the NYT of misquoting Trump, the Times published the transcript of the interview: SANGER: I was just in the Baltic States. They are very concerned obviously about this new Russian activism, they [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Latest Headlines: We pick, you click.] [Why I just quit the Republican Party] [Five ways Trump’s convention was a success] [Roger Stone, Alex Jones plot primary challenge to Cruz] [Ted Cruz might be the only Republican who understands Donald Trump] [In Cleveland, the GOP’s “come to Trump moment”] [Cruz and Trump both lost in the convention face-off] [Followers, yes. Leaders?] [It might be time to bolt the GOP] [Ted Cruz is never going to be president now] [Beware Donald Trump Jr, fellow Democrats] [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. 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