HotAir Daily Express 08/04/2016

[Hot Air Daily Express] [Follow us on Facebook] [Home][Green Room][Archive][The Ed Morrissey Show][Print][Forward] [SCOTUS barely dips a toe into the school transgender bathroom debate] 8/4/2016 9:21:18 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments We briefly touched on this case last summer as one of several “transgender bathroom” challenges making their way through the courts. Coming out of the Gloucester County, Virginia school district, the family of Gavin Grimm, a female student [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Granite State crash: Trump trails Hillary in new WBUR poll by 15 points] 8/4/2016 8:41:37 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments It’s been a tough couple of weeks for Donald Trump, and the new WBUR/MassINC poll of New Hampshire brings that home — almost literally. In the last iteration in this series in early May, Hillary Clinton had a two-point edge over Trump, 44/42. [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Barack Obama commutes the sentences of more than fifty felons with firearms violations] 8/4/2016 8:01:07 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments When I turned on MSNBC this morning I heard one of those short, snappy headline blurbs which seems to be consuming the media at the moment. A record has been set, but it has nothing to do with the Olympics. Barack Obama issued 214 sentence commutations [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Moon Express becomes first company to get approval for private moon shot] 8/3/2016 11:01:12 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Today the FAA and NASA granted the first approval for a moon shot to a private company. Moon Express is competing for Google’s LunarX prize which offers a reward of up to $25 million to the first company that can put a lander on the surface, move [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Rush: Meg Whitman backing Hillary is “treasonous to the party to whom [she’s] sworn allegiance”] 8/3/2016 10:21:48 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Via the Daily Rushbo, I was not aware until this very moment that we had a duty of loyalty, backed by sworn allegiance, to a political organization. And not just any political organization but an organization that grassroots conservatives who idolize [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Some DOJ officials objected to timing of cash haul to Iran] 8/3/2016 9:41:03 PM John Sexton 0 Comments The Obama administration says the secret delivery of $400 million in cash to Iran was not a ransom payment, it just happened to coincide with the release of four U.S. citizens. Wednesday afternoon the Wall Street Journal published a follow up story [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Et tu, Fox News? Hillary leads Trump big in latest national poll] 8/3/2016 9:01:44 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments A quick reality check to counter all of the hype today: Trump is not dropping out. The RNC will not remove him. Republicans will not desert him en masse. And he still has a chance to win. …unless his polling really starts to slip, in which case all [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Captain Khan’s former commander: Attack on gold star family ‘un-American’] 8/3/2016 8:21:56 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Captain Khan’s former commander, retired Major General Dana Pittard, has written a piece for the Washington Post in which he praises Khan and defends his family: I am a former soldier who served our nation in uniform for more than 34 years. I was [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [On “I’m quitting the party” and not letting the door hit you…] 8/3/2016 7:41:32 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments I’ve mostly lost track of the various politicians and media personalities who have thrown up their hands in despair over the nomination of Donald Trump and declared that they are leaving the party because they can no longer in good conscience be [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [ADP: Private sector added only 179,000 jobs in July] 8/3/2016 7:01:11 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Don’t expect much in the way of happy surprises in Friday’s jobs report from BLS. The US economy has barely lifted its head in two straight quarters, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis’ GDP reports, and the jobs situation [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Pew data: Heavy majority of asylum seekers in Europe are young men under the age of 35] 8/3/2016 6:21:09 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Two tables from the new survey by Pew, which I missed yesterday but which Ross Douthat didn’t. Table one: Where are the refugees coming from? As it turns out, exactly where you expect. Of the top 10, only Eritrea and Nigeria aren’t [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [GAO report: ATF illegally hoarding gun owner information?] 8/3/2016 5:41:37 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Federal law forbids the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) from maintaining a consolidated database of firearms transactions in order to keep government from effecting a de facto central registry. Instead, gun sellers are required [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [It’s time for a permanent (non-US) home for the Olympic Games] 8/3/2016 5:01:42 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments It’s always a pleasure to run across a brilliant, simple solution to a real problem which results in one of those forehead smacking, why didn’t I think of that moments. I had one of those today when reading an opinion piece at the Washington [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Newt knifes Trump: Right now, neither nominee is acceptable; Update: Still 100% for Trump, says Newt] 8/3/2016 4:31:36 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Is there no ally our nominee can count on in his time of crisis? Christie’s supposedly still miffed about the VP thing, Pence is on TV endorsing Trump’s frenemy Paul Ryan, and now here’s Trump cheerleader Newt Gingrich dismissing him as [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Not the Onion: Yale prepares to reconsider buildings with racist, offensive names] 8/3/2016 4:01:48 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments At some point it will become completely redundant to introduce articles about Black Lives Matter and the Social Justice Warriors with the phrase, “you can’t make this stuff up.” That day may have arrived. At Yale, a committee has been [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Ben Carson: Khan family, Trump should both apologize and call a truce] 8/3/2016 3:31:08 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Ben Carson is trying to be helpful here. He really does have the best of intentions. However, his suggestion that the Khan family owes Trump an apology is not going to do the Trump campaign any favors at this point. Here’s the exchange with [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Mike Pence: I “strongly endorse” Paul Ryan — and Trump encouraged me to do so] 8/3/2016 3:01:35 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments You know the mess that needs cleaning up is a big one when they skip the official Mike Pence campaign press release contradicting Trump and opt for the official Mike Pence live phone interview contradicting Trump instead. I’m sure Pence’s [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Wednesday TEMS: Guest hosting on Relevant Radio] 8/3/2016 2:31:30 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Today I get to step outside the box today and guest-host for Drew Mariani at Relevant Radio from 3-6 pm ET! The Catholic talk-radio network is heard on over 40 stations nationwide, including affiliates and O&Os in New York, Philadelphia, and Chicago, [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [NYT: Hillary quietly reaching out to prominent Republicans to ask for their support] 8/3/2016 2:01:54 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments A key detail from the news about Romney pal and GOP mega-donor Meg Whitman declaring “I’m with her.” Whitman didn’t just walk into Hillary’s camp. She was recruited. And if she was recruited, other Republicans are being [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Who’s to blame for Jackass: The Political Cycle?] 8/3/2016 1:31:39 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments No one has ever seen a presidential cycle quite like this one — and not just in regard to the Republican Party. Republicans nominated an amateurish loose cannon, and Democrats nominated someone under FBI investigation for potentially criminal [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Hillary Clinton’s free college plan could put hundreds of private colleges out of business] 8/3/2016 1:01:42 PM John Sexton 0 Comments One of the policy positions that Bernie Sanders successfully pushed Hillary Clinton to embrace was his plan for free college tuition. However that plan has a potential downside: It could wipe out hundreds of small, private colleges around the country. [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [DC transit officer charged with aiding ISIS] 8/3/2016 12:31:40 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments While it may not lead to the uncovering of any major, wide reaching terror plot, this is some of the worst news to come out on the domestic terror front in some time. For the first time in the United States, a law enforcement officer has been arrested [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [NBC: Giuliani, Gingrich, Priebus “plotting an intervention” with Trump] 8/3/2016 12:01:23 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Can Donald Trump be convinced to impose some discipline on his campaign — and himself — now that the general election has begun? NBC News reports that the question has become so urgent that two key allies of Trump have started working on an [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Scarborough: Trump kept asking during a foreign policy briefing why can’t we use nuclear weapons] 8/3/2016 11:21:32 AM Allahpundit 0 Comments So the current guy wants to pay terrorists for taking hostages and the next guy is open to dropping the bomb? Good work, America. This discerning “elect the polar opposite on foreign policy of whomever we last elected” strategy is paying big [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Inevitable: Turkey accuses US military of helping to plot coup] 8/3/2016 10:41:10 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments So how is the establishment of a new dictatorship in Turkey going? Things are looking up for Recep Tayyip Erdogan by all accounts. Not only was the very short lived and ill fated coup against him quashed in near record time, but he’s had [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Latest Headlines: We pick, you click.] [Michigan: Clinton 41, Trump 32] [Fox News sexual harassment inquiry is said to look at what others knew] [Gaps in Melania Trump’s immigration story raise questions] [Democrats, looking past mere victory, hope to end the Trump movement altogether] [Pennsylvania: Clinton 49, Trump 38] [Conservatism’s sad and ugly transformation into Trumpism] [I played Pokémon Go beyond the bounds of human ability and sanity] [America’s electronic voting machines are scarily easy targets] [Why anti-Trump Republicans shouldn’t back Johnson-Weld] [Men can’t compromise without women around] [Ed Morrissey Show] [Advertisement] __________________________SUBSCRIPTION INFO__________________________ WERE YOU FORWARDED THIS EDITION OF THE HOT AIR DAILY? 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