HotAir Daily Express 12/03/2018

[Hot Air Daily Express]( [Follow us on Facebook]( [Home]([Green Room]([Archive]([The Ed Morrissey Show]([Print]([Forward]( [The Secret U.S. Government Scheme to Confiscate Your Savings]( [Unsuspecting Americans to be Hit Hard by this U.S. Confiscation Scheme]( The 20-year head of the U.S. Fed has revealed Washington's nasty trick to confiscate the savings of unsuspecting Americans... Are you one of them? ==> [Here's the ONE THING Greenspan Says Can Protect Your Savings]( [Ocasio-Cortez: We could pay for two-thirds of Medicare for All with that $21 trillion we spent on the Pentagon]( 12/3/2018 11:21:19 AM Allahpundit 0 Comments Even some lefties on Twitter are giving her the side-eye for this. Imagine how wrong you’d have to be on the numbers for defense spending for liberals to say, “You’re exaggerating the problem.” $21 TRILLION of Pentagon [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Dick’s Sporting Goods decision on guns “costing them dearly”]( 12/3/2018 10:41:03 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments You likely recall the brouhaha that erupted after Dick’s Sporting Goods decided to “take action on gun violence” by ending sales of certain types of rifles and raising the minimum age for gun purchases to 21. They didn’t just [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Comey: On second thought, I’ll comply with the House subpoena]( 12/3/2018 10:01:47 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments So much for running out the clock. Rather than take his chances in court, James Comey decided to take a small concession from the House panel that subpoenaed him. Comey withdrew his lawsuit against the House Judiciary and Oversight Committee that [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Reporters are just watching illegals cross the border]( 12/3/2018 9:21:32 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Over the weekend we learned that officials in Tijuana had closed the sports arena where many of the migrants in the caravan had been staying and were moving them to a new facility further south. That didn’t sit too well with some of the new [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [China Just Launched this Attack on the USD](  [China Just Launched this Attack on the USD]( [Alan Greenspan Warns of this U.S. Scheme to Confiscate Your Savings](  [Alan Greenspan Warns of this U.S. Scheme to Confiscate Your Savings]( [Move Your IRA or 401k to Gold](  [The Little-Known (But Legal) IRS Tax Law to Move Your IRA or 401(k) to Gold]( [Pope Francis: Gay men shouldn’t be priests]( 12/3/2018 8:41:59 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Get ready for a lot of public reconsideration of Pope Francis on both sides of the cultural divide in the US and around the world. In an interview with a Spanish priest working on a book, the pontiff expressed his concern over homosexuality within [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Macron’s riot problem in France is getting worse, not better]( 12/3/2018 8:01:46 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Most of the talking heads in international media will tell you that French President Emmanuel Macron is one of the most popular, charismatic leaders in the world. That may very well be true in Brussels, where he remains a big supporter of the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [For better or worse, the next Trump-Kim summit is looking like a reality]( 12/2/2018 8:01:39 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments It’s impossible to say if this is just another tease or if we’re close to a formal agreement, but the President is specifically stating that another summit with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un is in the works and we should expect it in [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Yes, President Trump will attend the funeral of George H.W. Bush]( 12/2/2018 6:31:07 PM Karen Townsend 0 Comments During the panel discussion on ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos’ Sunday morning, Chris Christie described George H.W. Bush as “a great protector of the institutions of our time.” To my ears, that was a perfect way [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Tijuana closes caravan shelter, moves migrants further from border]( 12/2/2018 5:01:34 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments For some time now, the advance guard of the caravan has been sheltered in the Tijuana sports complex, where officials have been providing them with food and basic medical attention as best they can. That came to an end this weekend. While officials [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Texas Attorney General sues San Antonio over sanctuary city law]( 12/2/2018 3:31:44 PM Karen Townsend 0 Comments Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit against the City of San Antonio and Police Chief William McManus over violations of SB4, the sanctuary city law. SB4 was signed into law by Governor Greg Abbott in May 2017 and is sometimes referred [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Seattle cop to reporter at Antifa rally: You’re inciting conflict]( 12/2/2018 2:01:51 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments We have to take it on faith from Andy Ngo that his short clips of yesterday’s protest fairly represent what actually happened, that he wasn’t taunting anyone while the recorder was turned off to try to generate juicier footage. But [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [NFL week 13 open thread]( 12/2/2018 12:31:53 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Jazz: Week 12 wasn’t a shutout, but it wasn’t that bad either. I settled back to a 5-2 margin, bringing me to 50-34 for the regular season and not opening the door too widely for Ed to zoom ahead. Can I hang on for five more weeks? [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Signs, signs, everywhere there’s signs: Sunday reflection]( 12/2/2018 11:46:35 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments This morning’s Gospel reading is Luke 21:25–28, 34–36: Jesus said to his disciples: “There will be signs in the sun, the moon, and the stars, and on earth nations will be in dismay, perplexed by the roaring of the sea and the waves. People will die [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Brenda Snipes “unresigns” from office. Seriously?]( 12/2/2018 11:01:17 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments With all the ugliness of the midterms – particularly in Florida – behind us, I bet you thought you’d heard the last of Broward County elections supervisor Brenda Snipes, right? You may recall that after the botched recounts in her [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [US takes another hit on biofuel blending mandates]( 12/2/2018 9:31:57 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments We knew (or at least feared) that this was coming, but Friday saw the finalization of the new biofuels – specifically ethanol – blending requirements for 2019 and 2020. And true to the promises that President Trump made to Iowa [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Sunday morning talking heads]( 12/2/2018 8:01:20 AM Allahpundit 0 Comments Russiagate intrigue, the U.S.-Saudi relationship, Jeff Flake’s blockade of judicial confirmations: All of this week’s news will be backburnered this morning as the Sunday shows scramble to cover the passing of George H.W. Bush. Because [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Neil deGrasse Tyson being investigated after multiple allegations of sexual harassment]( 12/1/2018 8:31:44 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Fox News and the National Geographic network are investigating scientist Neil deGrasse Tyson after multiple women have made allegations against him ranging from handsy behavior to rape. From the Associated Press: Patheos.com published accounts [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [A missive from the front line of the transgender bathroom wars]( 12/1/2018 7:01:49 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Over the past few years, we’ve examined more news items from the transgender agenda wars than I can keep track of. Of course, the ones that seem to draw the most attention are the stories involving children in public schools and [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Bill and Hillary tour underwhelms in ticket sales, attendance]( 12/1/2018 5:31:07 PM Karen Townsend 0 Comments Bill and Hillary Clinton have taken their show on the road. Ticket sales for “An Evening with the Clintons” are not what they once might have been, according to all reports. With stops deliberately booked in what are assumed to be [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Okay… look who *else* was sneaking in with the caravan]( 12/1/2018 4:01:53 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments We had a hint last week that the migrant caravan at the Mexican border might not be entirely the group of peaceful asylum seekers we’ve been told about when an admitted MS-13 member was captured after crossing the border illegally. It’s [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Temple University chairman rips Marc Lamont Hill amid calls to fire him: Hate speech isn’t free speech]( 12/1/2018 2:31:43 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments He’s wrong, and as a “prominent lawyer” he surely knows it. What’s his game here? Whatever the answer, it makes me laugh to see a dopey left-wing canard like “hate speech” being used against someone for pushing [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [The People’s House is beautiful at Christmas, the critics are wrong]( 12/1/2018 1:01:39 PM Karen Townsend 0 Comments Another year, another unveiling of the holiday decorations at the White House. As was the case last year, Melania Trump is being criticized by the usual suspects. It’s 2018 and in Trump’s America even red Christmas trees take a [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Control of Alaska’s state legislature may come down to a coin toss]( 12/1/2018 11:31:09 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments In the final days of the midterms, I really thought that all of the drama in Alaska was going to center on the bizarre twists in the governor’s race. (The Republican won, by the way.) But the real confusion and angst turned out to revolve [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Cohen filing: Kept in “close and regular contact” with WH, Trump lawyers while writing false testimony]( 12/1/2018 10:01:00 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Michael Cohen wants a “time served” sentence when all the dust settles, and he’s willing to throw lots of people under the bus to get it. Politico’s Kyle Cheney reports on a filing by Cohen’s defense team that implies [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [RIP George H.W. Bush. Warrior. President. Statesman]( 12/1/2018 8:31:03 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments We’re all waking up today to news which comes as a jarring shock, despite knowing that it had to happen eventually. President George H.W. Bush has passed away at the age of 94, bringing to a close a lifetime of service to his nation. (NBC [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Latest Headlines: We pick, you click.] Glenn Reynolds [I deleted my Twitter account. 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