HotAir Daily Express 08/25/2016

[Hot Air Daily Express] [Follow us on Facebook] [Home][Green Room][Archive][The Ed Morrissey Show][Print][Forward] [The Presidency and the Constitution] How is it possible for so many people to have such different ideas about what the President can and can't do, under the Constitution? [Learn how to get your free online course]. [Scarborough to Hillary spox: “Go back to middle school”] 8/25/2016 10:01:51 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Over the last few days, Hillary Clinton apologists have taken to the airwaves and Internet to declare any criticism of the Clinton Foundation as an attack on charity itself. James Carville launched these talking points, suggesting that critics would find [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [University of Chicago rolls out alarming message to “safe space” advocates] 8/25/2016 9:21:35 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments In a crushing blow to special snowflakes and Social Justice Warriors around the nation, the University of Chicago has issued a clear directive on the subject of free speech to the incoming class of hopeful students. There are no safe spaces or trigger [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Government Lays Groundwork to Confiscate Retirement Accounts.] [Are Hidden FEES In Your 401(k) and IRA Funding Someone Else’s Retirement?] [More Americans Turn to Private Storage IRAs to Protect Their Money.] [Colombia reaches deal with FARC to end 52-year-old civil war] 8/25/2016 8:41:19 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments The longest-running civil war in the hemisphere may be over. Negotiators in Havana have reached an agreement between the Colombian government and FARC after 52 years of war, a conflict that had repercussions throughout the hemisphere. The big question [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Oregon is replacing coal power with wind. Let’s see what happens] 8/25/2016 8:01:14 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments If you live in Oregon and rely on certain fancy, high tech features of the industrial revolution such as having lights in your home and refrigerated food, you might want to start stocking up on candles and non-perishable goods. The green energy warriors [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [The Presidency and the Constitution] How is it possible for so many people to have such different ideas about what the President can and can't do, under the Constitution? [Learn how to get your free online course]. [UN concludes Syria crossed Obama’s red line at least twice since agreeing to give up its chemical weapons] 8/24/2016 10:31:54 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Four years ago President Obama said that the use of chemical weapons in Syria was a red line that would change his “calculus” about U.S. intervention in the region. He later backed away from enforcing that red line with a U.S. military strike [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Rush: “Trump supporters don’t care what he does or what he says”] 8/24/2016 10:01:06 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Via the Daily Rushbo, he’s not offering this as a criticism but rather as a clue to the media, which he thinks is confused about the reaction on the right to Trump’s immigration shift. The press keeps interviewing Trump fans about his [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Hillary Clinton’s hypocrisy on for-profit education] 8/24/2016 9:31:23 PM John Sexton 0 Comments NBC News pointed out yesterday how hypocritical Hillary Clinton has been on the issue of for-profit education. Since launching her campaign she has become a vocal critic of the schools: Hillary Clinton has been a vocal critic of for-profit schools, [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Hot new frontier in fighting Islamism in France: Banning the burkini] 8/24/2016 9:01:34 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments If you can’t change hearts and minds, I guess you can make ’em change their swimwear. This is the sort of cosmetic assimilation you worry about when you’re at a loss as to how to engineer the more meaningful variety. Call it [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [CBS: “ObamaCare orphans” can prepare … to cough up more cash] 8/24/2016 8:31:06 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Old and busted: ObamaCare will bring real choice to millions of people buying insurance on their own! New hotness: “ObamaCare orphans.” With insurers backing away from ObamaCare exchanges across the country, many Americans — forced into [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Hillary’s speech attacking the alt-right will only raise their profile] 8/24/2016 8:01:05 PM John Sexton 0 Comments There’s no such thing as bad publicity. Yesterday the Hill reported that Hillary Clinton would be giving a big speech Thursday aimed at the so-called alt-right: Clinton’s campaign announced Tuesday morning that her Reno, Nev., speech would [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Steve King: Trump’s not backing off mass deportation, he’s just going about it in a softer way] 8/24/2016 7:21:36 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments We’ll know soon enough, won’t we? If King’s right that this is a shift in “tone” more so than policy substance, the part on legalization in Trump’s upcoming speech on immigration will make that clear — I hope. [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Looks like the VA actually does fire people… if they blow the whistle on the VA] 8/24/2016 6:41:57 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments To give credit where credit is due, the Veterans Administration manages to keep surprising me. Just recently we talked about an instance where they managed to actually suspend someone without pay for misconduct and to get the Merit Systems Protection [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Meet PharmaSis: Daughter of Dem Senator behind massive Epi-Pen price spike] 8/24/2016 6:01:15 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Remember PharmaBro? Martin Shkreli, co-founder of Turing Pharmaceuticals and a hedge-fund broker, incurred the wrath of the media and political establishment when he arbitrarily hiked the price for a popular AIDS and malaria medication by 5000%. [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Reporter covering Milwaukee riots was attacked because he wasn’t black] 8/24/2016 5:21:11 PM John Sexton 0 Comments A Chinese-American intern working for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has written a first-person account of his attempt to cover the aftermath of the Sylville Smith shooting. Aaron Mak says he was attacked by a group of people who chased and beat him [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Wow: New Florida poll has Trump ahead] 8/24/2016 4:41:58 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments It’s a two-point lead, 43/41, which is within the margin of error, but man oh man did he need some good news out of Florida after the bloodbath in the last two polls. This FAU survey is the first time he’s led in the state since before the [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Carson: Our two elderly candidates need to release their medical records] 8/24/2016 4:01:13 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments What’s good for the 68-year-old goose is good for the 70-year-old gander. For at least the past two weeks, Dr. Ben Carson has been demanding that Hillary Clinton release her medical records and not just a statement from her doctor, part of a Team [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [How’s that higher minimum wage working out for jobs in DC?] 8/24/2016 3:21:25 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments The nation’s capital has been leading the way on the minimum wage front and the Fight for 15 crowd couldn’t be happier. Still, those not invested in the future of the unions and the Social Justice Warrior movement have questions which deserve [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Silent majority: There’s an “undercover Trump voter” missing from the polls, says Kellyanne Conway] 8/24/2016 2:41:41 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Oh man. She has a duty to spin for her boss, sure, but a professional pollster resorting to “silent majority” arguments? Yeesh. Why not just stick to the old chestnuts like “the race will tighten in September” (which is likely [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Virtual tie? YouGov poll shows Trump within 3 points of Hillary] 8/24/2016 2:01:15 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments If the Reuters/Ipsos poll results were a Debbie Downer, then the latest from YouGov/Economist should be positively Pollyanna-ish. The tracking poll results from the last week shows no hint of the decline demonstrated in the Reuters series. Instead, [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Texas A & M professor: ‘We may be beginning to see the death spiral…’] 8/24/2016 1:21:21 PM John Sexton 0 Comments The Texas Tribune published a story today outlining the precarious situation of the Obamacare exchange in that state. Several insurers are pulling out and those staying in are asking for massive premium hikes. It has one professor from Texas A & M [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Group supporting Evan McMullin closes up shop] 8/24/2016 12:41:27 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments This article has been updated. The Great White Whale of the #NeverTrump movement may have just been downgraded to a minnow. Evan McMullin never seemed to have even a theoretical chance of winning the presidency even if you looked no further than the [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Pay-for-play? Hillary hosted dinner for foundation donors — including an alleged Iran-sanctions violator] 8/24/2016 12:01:02 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Remember Walter Pinchuk? His name came up last year in an ongoing series of exposés regarding influence-peddling at the State Department through the Clinton Foundation. The steel tycoon got some face time with a “top Clinton aide” to argue on [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [“This could be the shortest book tour ever”: Yes, there’s one Trump fan who’ll be unhappy if he flips on deportation] 8/24/2016 11:21:29 AM Allahpundit 0 Comments “What he should keep doing is what he’s been doing,” says Ann Coulter, who may be the first person to say that about the Trump campaign since the conventions. But look. As much as people are goofing on her for rolling out a book titled [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Reuters poll: Hillary back up to 12-point lead, 45/33] 8/24/2016 10:41:01 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments The silent majority has gotten even more quiet of late, at least in the Reuters/Ipsos polling series. Hillary Clinton extends her lead in the poll to 12 points, slightly higher than the previous iteration and a post-convention high. However, she still [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Latest Headlines: We pick, you click.] [Katrina Pierson: Trump didn’t change his position on immigration, he changed his words] [Hillary’s totally corrupt. Don’t expect that to matter.] [Julian Assange: Wikileaks will release “significant” Hillary documents before the election] [Team Cruz on Trump’s immigration shift: Told you so] [Clinton defends Foundation: Smoke, but “no fire”] [Coulter mocks Trump for immigration flip] [Hardliners shrug off Trump’s softer tone on immigration] [Moist. Probe. Crevice: Why do we hate certain words?] [Why can’t resurrect T. Rex and we don’t want to] [Brexit Armageddon was a terrifying vision — but it simply hasn’t happened] [The Presidency and the Constitution] How is it possible for so many people to have such different ideas about what the President can and can't do, under the Constitution? [Learn how to get your free online course]. [Ed Morrissey Show] [Advertisement] __________________________SUBSCRIPTION INFO__________________________ WERE YOU FORWARDED THIS EDITION OF THE HOT AIR DAILY? 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