HotAir Daily Express 08/16/2016

[Hot Air Daily Express] [Follow us on Facebook] [Home][Green Room][Archive][The Ed Morrissey Show][Print][Forward] [Report: Clinton Super PAC to suspend ads in Virginia, Colorado, Pennsylvania in mid-September] 8/16/2016 12:01:30 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Actually, they’re already off the air in Virginia. Why spend precious dollars in battlegrounds if they’re not really battlegrounds? So, @prioritiesUSA confirms: They've already stopped airing ads in VA; On 9/3 they'll stop airing ads [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [The Milwaukee riots are a local news story to the media] 8/16/2016 11:31:31 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Have you been following all of the breathless media coverage of the riots, arson and looting in Milwaukee this week? Me neither. It’s not that I wouldn’t find the subject interesting and pertinent to the national discussion on police [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Battleground fade: Clinton extends leads in CO, NC, VA in Marist polls] 8/16/2016 11:01:09 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments A bad August for Republicans has gotten worse in precisely the worst possible states, according to new battleground polls from Marist. Hillary Clinton now leads in two key swing states by double digits, and Donald Trump gets less than 40% in all [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Aetna bails on most ObamaCare exchanges … while lauding them] 8/16/2016 10:31:45 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Friends, collectivists, countrymen, lend me your ears, a modern Marc Antony might say if he had ascended to the CEO position at Aetna. We come to praise ObamaCare … and to bury it. The health-insurance giant announced that it would pull out of 11 [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Hillary takes ground troops ‘off the table’ in fight against ISIS] 8/16/2016 10:01:29 AM Larry O'Connor 0 Comments She isn’t even president and Hillary Clinton is already mimicking President Obama’s brilliant ability to surrender and telegraph our lack of will to fight to our enemies and allies. Clinton told a crowd in Scranton, PA yesterday that the idea [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Tyranny update: Turkish police raid 44 companies searching for “coup supporters”] 8/16/2016 9:31:06 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Our “ally” in Turkey, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, is keeping himself busy these days. When he’s not off hobnobbing with Vladimir Putin he’s back home taking care of business, and “business” this week comes in the [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Will a “Hillary defense” work for a Navy sailor?] 8/16/2016 9:01:22 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Six weeks ago, Hillary Clinton got let off the hook for transmitting highly classified e-mail through an unauthorized e-mail system in a way that almost certainly allowed foreign espionage services access to them. FBI Director James Comey called her [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Obama transfers 15 more detainees in continuing effort to empty Gitmo] 8/16/2016 8:31:36 AM Larry O'Connor 0 Comments President Obama is determined to empty the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba despite resistance from Congress and his own Pentagon. Late Monday the administration announced the single largest transfer of detainees of Obama’s presidency [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [I suppose Evan McMullin really didn’t need California anyway] 8/16/2016 8:01:03 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Yesterday we learned that independent presidential candidate Evan McMullin had qualified for the ballot in Utah, creating ripples of excitement among supporters of Hillary Clinton around the nation. When combined with Colorado, that’s two down and [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Peter Thiel defends his support for Hulk Hogan’s lawsuit against Gawker] 8/15/2016 10:41:34 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Gawker Media is up for sale today in an effort to raise money needed to pay a legal judgment of $140 million dollars. That sum is the result of a lawsuit brought by Hulk Hogan aka Terry Bollea. Bollea filed the lawsuit after Gawker published excerpts of [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Done deal: Evan McMullin qualifies for the ballot in Utah] 8/15/2016 10:01:54 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments If my theory about his candidacy is correct then this was the only state ballot that really mattered to him and his team. Mission accomplished. McMullin, running as an alternative to Donald Trump, filed the required 1,000 signatures on Monday to be on [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Right on schedule, Kim Jong Un would like to be buddies with Putin] 8/15/2016 9:21:55 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Not very long ago we were discussing the budding bromance between Turkey’s Tayyip Erdogan and Vladimir Putin, as well as the many similarities in “style” which they may share. At the time I wondered whether or not Erdogan would be [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Pew: Online support for Black Lives Matter shifted after shooting of Dallas police officers] 8/15/2016 8:41:16 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Pew Research published an interesting analysis today looking at online support for Black Lives Matter as measured by the use of the hashtag on Twitter. Pew measured the number of times the hashtags was used, either in support or opposition to the group, [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [The Queens Imam shooter’s ID may come as a surprise] 8/15/2016 8:01:04 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments The shooting of an Imam and his assistant near the Ozone Park mosque in Queens, New York over the weekend had many in the city nervous, angry or both. It was a shocking crime committed right out on the public streets which immediately raised fears and [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Are you ready for two more years of Reince?] 8/15/2016 7:21:22 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments I am not. He’s always seemed like a nice guy and he was dealt a bad hand by primary voters with Trump, but no matter what happens in November, the party needs a fresh start. If Trump wins, let him purge the ancien regime of the old GOP and install [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Will the debates settle the election?] 8/15/2016 6:41:57 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Do presidential debates ever have a dramatic impact on presidential elections — or do they only matter in razor-close contests? Before we get to that question, we now know the criteria on which the Commission on Presidential Debates will [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [The cancellation of The Nightly Show shouldn’t be all that shocking] 8/15/2016 6:01:22 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments I still remember when Comedy Central announced the launch of The Nightly Show starring Larry Wilmore, replacing Steven Colbert’s show when he moved on to a network television gig. I was pretty excited about it. While many of our readers have seemed [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [GOP makes case Clinton perjured herself in congressional testimony] 8/15/2016 5:31:55 PM John Sexton 0 Comments When FBI Director James Comey testified before Congress last month he was asked if he had reviewed Hillary Clinton’s prior congressional testimony about her email server. Comey said Clinton’s testimony was outside the scope of his [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump’s new test for immigrants: Do you share America’s liberal values?] 8/15/2016 5:01:21 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments A newsy bit from today’s foreign policy speech. I like the idea a lot in principle. I wonder how easy it’d be to enforce. “As he laid out in his Orlando remarks, Mr. Trump will describe the need to temporarily suspend visa issuances to [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [NYT: Trump insiders complain that they’ve failed at “Pygmalion-like transformation”] 8/15/2016 4:31:14 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments It’s not much of a stretch to assume that Team Trump isn’t terribly happy about the arc of the general-election campaign in its first three weeks. The way in which their candidate keeps stepping on the message has to have them frustrated. [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Book review: The War on Guns, by John Lott] 8/15/2016 4:01:32 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments I’ve just finished reading one of the best books on gun control to come out in some time and wanted to share some of the experience with you. The timely and superbly written tome by John R. Lott Jr. is titled, “The War on Guns: Arming [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Rush warns Trump: Going after the media doesn’t work] 8/15/2016 3:31:48 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Via the Daily Rushbo. He’s right, but he’s assuming that Trump’s top priority is to win. It’s *a* priority, but at this point is it *the* priority? As I said this morning, once Trump himself reaches the point of believing that the [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [38 police officers shot dead so far in 2016] 8/15/2016 3:01:10 PM John Sexton 0 Comments The number of officers shot dead in the line of duty is up in 2016. CNN reports there is also a worrisome increase in ambush shootings, which are up 367% compared to last year: Shooting deaths of police officers in the US are on the rise this year. [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Does Juanita Broaddrick have “a right to be believed”?] 8/15/2016 2:31:43 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments For almost twenty years, Juanita Broaddrick has told a consistent story in public about her allegation that Bill Clinton raped her 38 years ago. Unlike other accusers, Broaddrick has not used her claims to gain financially; in fact, she had mostly [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Hillary Clinton to continue “mobilizing” illegal immigrants to boost her campaign] 8/15/2016 2:01:41 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments This never, ever seems to work out well for the Democrats, but bless their hearts for continuing to try. Eager to expand her share of the Hispanic vote in November, the Clinton campaign has announced yet another voter outreach program. This time [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Latest Headlines: We pick, you click.] [Roger Ailes is advising Trump ahead of presidential debates] [Has a new, fifth force of nature been found?] [“A lot of people are saying” Trump’s a Democratic plant] [Once unthinkable, more British Jews seek German citizenship] [The speech Trump could give if he loses the election but refuses to concede] [Video: NH’s Democratic governor can’t say Hillary is honest even after being asked three times] [Rubio stands by calling Trump “con man,” but still backs him] [Virginia: Clinton 51, Trump 43] [Here’s why only Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump — at most — will make the debates] [Poll: Clinton 50, Trump 41; just 17% say Trump has the temperament to serve as president] [Ed Morrissey Show] [Advertisement] __________________________SUBSCRIPTION INFO__________________________ WERE YOU FORWARDED THIS EDITION OF THE HOT AIR DAILY? 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