HotAir Daily Express 08/23/2016

[Hot Air Daily Express] [Follow us on Facebook] [Home][Green Room][Archive][The Ed Morrissey Show][Print][Forward] [Petraeus: The October surprise will be …] 8/23/2016 10:01:04 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments As October surprises go, the potential shocker David Petraeus predicts in his interview with Politico’s Playbook doesn’t exactly register on the political Richter scale. The former four-star general and hero of the “surge” in Iraq [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Watch: Clinton supporting small business owner realizes Dem minimum wage plan is pretty awful] 8/23/2016 9:31:13 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Our friend and Ohio conservative activist Rachel Mullen of Third Base Politics had a very interesting encounter with some Hillary Clinton supporters at the Summit County Democratic Party headquarters in Akron this week. They were holding an anti-Trump [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Double stabbing in Virginia a terror attack?] 8/23/2016 9:01:24 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments At first, the double stabbing attack in a Roanoke County apartment building on Saturday evening appeared to be a random and bizarre attack. Two days later, the FBI has opened a terror probe after police reported that Wasil Farooqui repeatedly shouted one [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Hillary lied to the FBI about Colin Powell’s email advice] 8/23/2016 8:31:05 AM Larry O'Connor 0 Comments As noted here yesterday, Hillary Clinton and her apologists have been pointing the finger of blame at Colin Powell as the inspiration for her unprecedented use of a private, unauthorized email server for her government correspondence. One pithy reader [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Liberals enraged over latest news of officers in Freddie Gray case] 8/23/2016 8:01:41 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments The long and winding saga of Freddie Gray has mostly drawn to a close, but that doesn’t mean that the topic has dried up in Social Justice Warrior circles. At the home of all things liberal – Vox – there is a fresh round of outrage [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [The exodus from Venezuela] 8/22/2016 10:31:35 PM John Sexton 0 Comments The Financial Times has a story today on something that I assumed must be happening in Venezuela but which I haven’t seen widely reported. The downward spiral of the economy is so bad that Venezuelans are now fleeing the country [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Gallup: 80% of Americans favor voter-ID laws] 8/22/2016 10:01:14 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Does the level of support shown for voter-ID laws in Gallup’s new poll insinuate that four out of five Americans are raaaaacists? Only if seventy-seven percent of non-whites are also bigots. In fact, one will rarely see such consensus about policy [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Ohio: Nearly one-fifth of those not voting for Trump would reconsider if he apologizes to people he’s offended] 8/22/2016 9:31:28 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments A result from this weekend’s YouGov poll that caught my eye as a possible explanation for Trump’s surprising “regret” comments this past week on the stump. Kellyanne Conway, his new campaign manager, is a pollster by trade. If [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Gary Johnson: “This is the demise of the Republican Party”] 8/22/2016 9:01:06 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Via Red State, I’m skeptical. There may not be a majority out there of movement conservatives or nationalists or evangelicals or libertarians, but there may be a majority between them of anti-leftists. Where are those anti-leftists going in 2018, [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Email chain shows Huma Abedin arranging for Clinton Foundation donors to meet with Hillary] 8/22/2016 8:31:31 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Judicial Watch released more than 700 new pages of State Department correspondence today. One of the exchanges shows Huma Abedin responding to a response from the Clinton Foundation’s Doug Band to set up a meeting for the Crown Prince of Bahrain. [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Would President Trump eschew taking vacations while in office?] 8/22/2016 8:01:18 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments The Golfer in Chief is just returning from his latest, record setting (in terms of expense) vacation stint on the links and of course this has some observers in the press wondering if his replacement will continue the tradition. We haven’t heard [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Jeff Flake to RNC: C’mon, cut Trump loose] 8/22/2016 7:21:07 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Via BuzzFeed, the key bit runs from 1:30 to 3:30 of the clip below. I understand the logic of this argument but I continue not to understand the math. If the RNC reallocates the money it has earmarked for the presidential race to Senate races instead, [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Video: Meet the tween in charge of key Colorado county Trump effort] 8/22/2016 6:41:10 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments How people view this story will depend on their confidence in Donald Trump. For those convinced that he’s on his way to a win based on a stealth majority turning out to defeat Hillary Clinton, this profile of a 12-year-old co-chair of the Trump [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Hyperspin: White House backs away from admission $400 million in cash was used as ‘leverage’ (Update)] 8/22/2016 6:01:46 PM John Sexton 0 Comments White House spokesman Josh Earnest says the revelation that the U.S. made the release of $400 million in cash contingent on the release of U.S. prisoners in Iran might be, “interesting fodder for a read in a spy novel on the beach.” [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Rio Recap: Day 16] 8/22/2016 5:31:43 PM Christine Rousselle 0 Comments And we’re done! The United States will leave Rio with 121 medals: 46 gold, 37 silver, and 38 bronze. This is the best the U.S. has ever done at an Olympics held outside of the United States. Great job, Team USA! Star of the day: Claressa Shields, [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Report: Trump campaign postpones this week’s big immigration speech because it’s “still being modified”] 8/22/2016 5:01:45 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments I’ll bet it is. After the past 48 hours, I’ll bet they’re modifying the fark out of it. As of this morning, Trump was “planning a major immigration speech this week.” As of the last few hours, things are in flux. Donald [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Hmmm: GOP winning registration wars in battleground states] 8/22/2016 4:31:54 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Is this a measure of enthusiasm for Donald Trump, or the effectiveness of the RNC’s extensive investment in ground operations? Despite polling that suggests — at the moment — that Republicans will experience a wipeout in swing states in [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Oh my… Army security brief lists Hillary Clinton as security threat] 8/22/2016 4:01:50 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments The Daily Caller News Foundation has done it again. While this isn’t one of those stories which is likely to blow up into (yet another) scandal for Hillary Clinton’s campaign, it does provide a peek inside of our military and how they view [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Mystery edit of State Department briefing began with call about Fox News and Iran] 8/22/2016 3:31:59 PM John Sexton 0 Comments A phone call made to a technician at the State Department about editing the daily press briefing specifically mentioned Fox News and Iran. Last week when State Department spokesman John Kirby described the results of the investigation he suggested the [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Let Trump be Trump: The case for trolling Joe Scarborough] 8/22/2016 3:01:02 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Ed already mentioned this morning’s Twitter nastiness but I’m going to take the opposite line on it. Sure, Trump is a moron for handing the media a shiny object on a day when he should be focused like a laser on Clinton Foundation sleaziness, [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Massachusetts moves to directly help taxi unions by taxing Uber] 8/22/2016 2:31:33 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments We’ve known for some time that far too many state and municipal government actors are in bed with the taxi companies (and their unions) because of generous donations made to political campaigns. This has led to all manner of mischief, including [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump: Clinton Foundation “most corrupt enterprise in political history”] 8/22/2016 2:01:10 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments “If you look at it,” Donald Trump told Fox and Friends about the Clinton Foundation, “it’s pay-for-play.” Looping in the e-mail scandal after being asked about Colin Powell, Trump responded, “Everything’s a scam [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Looks like Rio police were the biggest liars in the Lochte drama… if anyone still cares about the truth] 8/22/2016 1:31:33 PM Larry O'Connor 0 Comments You heard it all weekend:  “Four American swimmers trashed a Rio bathroom in a drunken rage and then lied to investigators about an armed robbery to cover-up their story.” It’s become conventional wisdom from network anchors trying to [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Hillary Clinton’s fundraisers as transparent as you’d expect] 8/22/2016 1:01:47 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Given a choice between transparency and secrecy, it’s not hard to guess which Hillary Clinton will choose every time. She has a secrecy reflex that is so pronounced it leads her to do things like create a private email server in her own basement. [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [State Dept: FBI uncovered 15,000 previously deleted Hillary e-mails during probe] 8/22/2016 12:31:29 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Get ready to start reading about Chelsea’s wedding — or perhaps much more. During the FBI investigation into potential criminal violations in the use of Hillary Clinton’s e-mail, it became apparent that agents had recovered some of the [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Latest Headlines: We pick, you click.] [Andrea Tantaros files lawsuit accusing Fox News of retaliation for harassment complaints] [The GOP should fear the rise of Democratic Tories] [Trump started collecting more rent from his campaign once it began accepting donor contributions] [RNC ready to reelect Reince Priebus] [Trump’s new deportation plan: Do what Obama is doing but “with a lot more energy”] [Dude] [Two views of the west’s decline] [How many stars in the night sky still exist?] [“I can say without any hesitation that the Democrats will retake the Senate”] [Steve Bannon, Trump’s new top guy, told me he was a “Leninist” in wanting to destroy the establishment] [Ed Morrissey Show] [Advertisement] __________________________SUBSCRIPTION INFO__________________________ WERE YOU FORWARDED THIS EDITION OF THE HOT AIR DAILY? 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