HotAir Daily Express 08/17/2016

[Hot Air Daily Express] [Follow us on Facebook] [Home][Green Room][Archive][The Ed Morrissey Show][Print][Forward] [AP: Manafort channeled millions to lobbyists without disclosure] 8/17/2016 10:01:04 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Perhaps this explains the Trump campaign shuffle today. The Associated Press reports that Paul Manafort, until today Trump’s campaign chief, may have violated federal law in channeling cash from foreign sources to US lobbyists. The alleged [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [What are the Baltimore Police doing with Stingray cell-site simulators?] 8/17/2016 9:31:59 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments The Baltimore Police Department gets accused of many things, often spuriously, but one question which has been raised about them this year deserves a closer look. According to multiple reports dating back to last year, the cops in Charm City have [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Eyebrows raised as Trump hires Breitbart’s Bannon to run presidential campaign] 8/17/2016 9:05:36 AM Larry O'Connor 0 Comments Donald Trump announced a shake-up of his campaign late Tuesday night, moving Paul Manafort to a less influential and public role and bringing in conservative pollster Kellyanne Conway as Campaign Manager and Breitbart News Executive Chairman Stephen K. [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Johnson, Weld: See you at the debates!] 8/17/2016 8:31:44 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Will the Libertarian ticket of Gary Johnson and William Weld wind up qualifying for the presidential and vice presidential debates, tentatively scheduled to start next month? If not, perhaps they could debate each other. The pair appeared on Morning Joe [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [When the media intentionally distorts the news, Milwaukee edition] 8/17/2016 8:01:12 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments I’ve been looking at this story since it came out, but it was only last night that it really seemed to crystallize for the various players involved. As we discussed yesterday, there hasn’t been a lot of media attention paid to the recent [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump: “I don’t want to change… I don’t want to pivot”] 8/16/2016 10:41:24 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments You know, I don’t really disagree at this point. It’s too late to pivot now. If he spent the next three months reading off of cue cards held in front of him by Paul Manafort, voters would laugh and say “that’s not the real [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Great moments in UN peacekeeping, redux: Sitting out a South Sudan massacre] 8/16/2016 10:01:27 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Lather, rinse, repeat. The United Nations puts peacekeeping troops in countries despite their record of abusing the local populations on the off chance that a genocide, massacre, or pillaging might take place in the area. When they do, though, UN [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [11 killed and 40,000 homes damaged in Louisiana floods] 8/16/2016 9:21:12 PM John Sexton 0 Comments The Associated Press reports 11 people have been confirmed dead and 40,000 homes damaged by flooding in Louisiana: Officials painted a stark picture of the crisis so far: at least 40,000 homes damaged and 11 people killed in some of the worst flooding in [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Uh oh: Hillary’s lead expanding in … Florida] 8/16/2016 8:41:16 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments One intriguing subplot to the post-convention polls has been that some attractive purple states like Pennsylvania and New Hampshire have broken sharply blue while others like Florida and Ohio have remained close-ish, with Clinton out to a comfortable but [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Tim Kaine undergoes miraculous conversion, now opposes offshore drilling] 8/16/2016 8:01:41 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments If there’s one thing we know about Hillary Clinton it’s that she’s never seen a position on any issue in American politics which she couldn’t fully embrace if it suited her needs at the moment. The woman has so many flip flops [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [FBI hands over Clinton’s interview notes to Congress] 8/16/2016 7:21:36 PM John Sexton 0 Comments The FBI handed over its notes from the Clinton email investigation to Congress on Tuesday. Politico reports: Among the materials turned over to Capitol Hill was an FBI summary of the three-and-a-half hour interview Clinton submitted to at FBI [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Evan McMullin: I support a path to legalization for illegals once the border is secure] 8/16/2016 6:41:23 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Skip to 3:30 below for the key bit. Nick Gillespie wonders whether #NeverTrump conservatives will be as hard on McMullin for this heresy (“amnesty, as nativists are wont to call it!”) as they were on libertarian Gary Johnson for his [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Rio Recap: Day 10] 8/16/2016 6:01:16 PM Christine Rousselle 0 Comments While the United States is still comfortably in the lead in the medal count, yesterday was the first time since 2008 that they did not win a gold medal, snapping a 29-day streak. However, American athletes still did quite well: Star of the day: Sanne [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [2016: The Inconceivable Election] 8/16/2016 5:31:18 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments These days, dinner conversations with friends and family usually end up at one topic in particular: the presidential election. How can anyone vote for Donald Trump, they will ask, and then add How can we let Hillary Clinton become president? That’s [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [21% of New York manufacturing companies hiring fewer workers because of Obamacare] 8/16/2016 5:01:47 PM John Sexton 0 Comments An August survey by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York finds 20.9% of manufacturing companies in New York report hiring fewer workers in response to Obamacare. From Business Insider: According to a new survey by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Brian Williams to return to full time journalism for election coverage?] 8/16/2016 4:31:18 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Well, it’s not on NBC, but I suppose MSNBC is as close as he would need to come. The latest rumor (as reported at CNN Money) is that discredited news anchor Brian Williams may finally be coming fully out of the penalty box and getting a nightly [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Is the House in trouble?] 8/16/2016 4:01:36 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Unless the trajectory of the race changes, the Senate is highly likely to flip. Mark Kirk and Ron Johnson are almost certain goners and Pat Toomey and Kelly Ayotte both trail narrowly right now. The last poll of North Carolina also had Richard Burr down [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Tuesday TEMS: Andrew Malcolm, Russell Shaw, Brad Thor] 8/16/2016 3:31:22 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Today on The Ed Morrissey Show (4 pm ET), we have another great lineup for the news of the day! The show will be streamed on Hot Air’s Facebook page and embedded here and on the show page for those who are not on Facebook. Join us as we [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Wonkette: Sure sounds like Bill Clinton raped Juanita Broaddrick but, hey, he’s a good guy] 8/16/2016 3:01:28 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Yesterday Buzzfeed published a lengthy interview with Juanita Broaddrick, the woman who says Bill Clinton raped her back in 1978. That piece prompted some soul searching at Wonkette in a piece titled “Let’s talk about Juanita [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Obama to issue transgender bathroom mandate for federal facilities] 8/16/2016 2:31:02 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Some things never change, and if I must give credit to the Obama administration on one count, it’s that they are at least consistent. When there’s a controversial issue in play between the states and the federal government, rather than [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Brad Thor: Rethinking the #NeverTrump position] 8/16/2016 2:01:58 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Hot Air is pleased to present a guest post from acclaimed author Brad Thor, a friend of the site and an active conservative voice in social media. Brad has been a vocal advocate of the #NeverTrump movement, but has recently reconsidered his position, as [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Simple question for Dem Senate candidate: Is Hillary Clinton honest?] 8/16/2016 1:31:40 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments The answer is equally simple, unless you’re a Democrat. Then it becomes very hard indeed. The appropriate response here, if you’re barred by party loyalty from telling the truth, I suppose would be, “Well, I trust her more than I trust [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Reporter: I’m leaving Milwaukee because white people are being threatened and attacked] 8/16/2016 1:01:53 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Monday morning an independent reporter named Tim Pool announced he would no longer cover events in Milwaukee after witnessing white reporters being harassed and seeing a white man shot in the neck. Pool posted a video explaining his decision on You [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [The death of Trey Dennis should clarify the real problem of guns and violence in America] 8/16/2016 12:31:42 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Not to send our regular readers into shock here, but please allow me to offer a tip of my hat to Katie Mettler at the Washington Post for telling a story which wouldn’t normally gather any attention in the mainstream media but is probably one of [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [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...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Latest Headlines: We pick, you click.] [Is the end of white Christian America a good thing?] [Would racism exist if there had been no U.S. slavery?] [Trump to air first TV ads of general election campaign] [Aide: Clinton camp would prefer that FBI notes be released to public] [Uh oh: Sources ties Paul Manafort tied to undisclosed foreign lobbying] [My administration will reject hatred and bigotry in all its forms] [Trump appears to demote Paul Manafort, promotes Kellyanne Conway and hires executive at Breitbart] [Jesus, take the lever] [Altruistic people have more sex] [California bill would make it a felony for prosecutors to withhold evidence] [Ed Morrissey Show] [Advertisement] __________________________SUBSCRIPTION INFO__________________________ WERE YOU FORWARDED THIS EDITION OF THE HOT AIR DAILY? 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