HotAir Daily Express 01/03/2019

[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]( [Romney: No, I’m not going to primary Trump]( 1/3/2019 11:01:09 AM Allahpundit 0 Comments Via the Free Beacon. Mitt says he’s out, Trump’s allies aren’t buying it. And in fairness to them, it’s not like Mitt Romney has ever held a consistent position for more than five minutes. At a time when talk of a 2020 GOP [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Supposed “suspects” in Khashoggi’s killing go to court]( 1/3/2019 10:01:09 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Are we approaching some form of justice in the murder of Jamal Khashoggi? You might be tempted to think so based on the latest news out of Saudi Arabia. Their investigation into the killing has produced eleven suspects and they are preparing to go [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Pelosi: Actually, a sitting president can be indicted]( 1/3/2019 9:01:48 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments We’ve come a long way from the midterm campaign, when Nancy Pelosi didn’t even want to breathe anything about removing Donald Trump from office. Later today Pelosi will take the gavel as House Speaker, but she sat down first with [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Washington state attempts to raise age limit for gun purchases]( 1/3/2019 8:01:56 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments As you may recall from earlier this year after Walmart changed their firearm sales policy to include a minimum age of 21, a 20-year-old man from Oregon sued the retailer for age discrimination. He wasn’t the only one, with similar suits [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]( [The tragic “Elizabeth Warren being very authentic and having a beer on Instagram” clip]( 1/2/2019 9:01:21 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Everyone watching this has the same thought: Has Elizabeth Warren ever in her life unwound with a beer instead of a glass of wine? “[She] seems more like a chardonnay senator than a beer senator,” said a former Democratic operative to [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Fleccas Talks: The best of 2018 protesters]( 1/2/2019 8:01:11 PM John Sexton 0 Comments I really like this guy. Never met him so this isn’t personal, but I think he pretty consistently does a very good job at something the major media outlets never, ever do: Ask left-wing protesters to talk on camera. When you think about it, [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump: Let’s face it, the Soviets were right to invade Afghanistan]( 1/2/2019 7:01:39 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Having critically wounded what little was left of the Reagan revolution, today he administered the coup de grace. Soon Ronna McDaniel will add “It’s bad that the Soviet Union collapsed” to the 2020 GOP platform. Trump: [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Democrats interrupt Secretary Nielsen, Trump rejects $2.5 border wall compromise]( 1/2/2019 6:01:45 PM John Sexton 0 Comments President Trump held a meeting with congressional leaders at the White House to see if some agreement could be reached to reopen the portion of the government that is currently shut down. Fox News reports the meeting didn’t go very [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [WSJ: Prepare to yawn at Mueller’s final report]( 1/2/2019 5:01:51 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments A new year offers the best chance for optimism, but perhaps the Wall Street Journal might be overdoing it here. We may be only a few weeks away from the end of Robert Mueller’s investigation, but Holman Jenkins advises everyone to scale down [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Analyst: Brexit deal now so damaged, “I don’t think it’s going to happen”]( 1/2/2019 4:01:56 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments There is now less than three months until the Brexit deadline in Great Britain. (The lights go out on March 29th absent some drastic change of course.) The deal that Theresa May cut with the EU Parliament has pleased pretty much nobody and shows no [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Report: Some Romney donors ready to support him if he challenges Trump]( 1/2/2019 3:01:11 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments The money question about his new op-ed: Who is this for, really? Who's listening? Who cares? The press and center-right elites? — Osita Nwanevu (@OsitaNwanevu) January 2, 2019 Ed wondered about that too in his [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Dave Rubin and Jordan Peterson leave Patreon over free speech concerns]( 1/2/2019 2:01:07 PM John Sexton 0 Comments On New Year’s Day, pundit Dave Rubin and psychologist Jordan Peterson announced they would be leaving the crowd-funding site Patreon over concerns about free speech. Both Rubin and Peterson say they have been thinking about leaving for some [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Former editor: You’d better believe the NYT is “unmistakably anti-Trump”]( 1/2/2019 1:01:11 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments You’d better believe that most of us already know that about the New York Times, but it’s good to get confirmation from its previous executive editor. In her new tell-all book Merchants of Truth, Jill Abramson dishes on her past [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Chinese admiral: We might just sink a couple of U.S. aircraft carriers]( 1/2/2019 12:11:48 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Don’t we have enough pots boiling on the military front at this point? We’re already dealing with a madman in North Korea with nuclear weapons, Russia and Turkey talking about “taking over” the conflict in northern Syria, [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [RNC committee member calls for blocking primary challenges to Trump]( 1/2/2019 11:21:19 AM Allahpundit 0 Comments The bad news if you’re worried about a primary challenge from Mitt Romney is that the head of the RNC happens to be his niece. In theory that makes any RNC effort to cancel the primaries to thwart him harder. In theory. In practice she’s [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Officially lit: 2019 kicks off “with a Mitt-storm”]( 1/2/2019 10:31:09 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Congress starts its new session tomorrow, but the fireworks have already gone off in the Senate. In a Washington Post op-ed, incoming Sen. Mitt Romney laid out his approach to Donald Trump, promising to support policies which deserve support but not [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Tear gas deployed to stave off caravan migrants again]( 1/2/2019 9:41:45 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments The new year started with a bang down on the Mexican-American border near Tijuana. Unfortunately, the “bang” in question was the detonation of a tear gas canister, followed by several others as migrants from the Honduran caravan once [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump to Pelosi: “Let’s make a deal?”]( 1/2/2019 8:51:30 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments The new year starts with the old shutdown still in effect, and not much progress on resolving it. Late yesterday, the White House announced that Donald Trump had invited leaders from both chambers of Congress to a briefing on border security, which [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [North Korea “ready” to denuclearize if Kim gets everything he wants]( 1/2/2019 8:01:15 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments With the new year comes the next chapter in the ongoing talks between the United States and North Korea regarding denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula. North Korean tyrant Kim Jong-un gave his annual New Years address this week, during which he [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Happy New Year to Hot Air readers!]( 1/1/2019 12:01:48 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Welcome to the new year, and say goodbye to the old! We had a weird and wild run in 2018, and now that we have divided government and a presidential campaign starting, we can look forward to an even wilder and weirder year in 2019. Before we move [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Vital tips for making your life-altering New Year’s resolutions this time]( 12/31/2018 6:31:11 PM Andrew Malcolm 0 Comments Here’s some last-day-of-the-year consolation for those of us who’ve been meaning to get to our 2018 New Year’s Resolution these past 364 days: It doesn’t matter. Around 80 percent of our individual resolutions, whether [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [LA Times suggests a neighborhood group concerned about homelessness in Portland may be ‘vigilantes’]( 12/31/2018 5:16:30 PM John Sexton 0 Comments The LA Times published a story Saturday suggesting that a group of neighborhood advocates in Portland trying to mitigate some of the problems associated with the large homeless population in the city might have crossed a line and become [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Turns out, first impressions are more like instant impressions]( 12/31/2018 4:01:13 PM Andrew Malcolm 0 Comments Partying tonight? Here’s a revealing stat to start the New Year: Not only do you have but one chance to make a first impression. You only have seconds to make it. It’s that quick. Dating, job interview, party encounter, coffee shop, [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Film review: Mary, Queen of Scots]( 12/31/2018 2:46:53 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments The problem with the remake of Mary Queen of Scots isn’t that you don’t learn anything new from it. It’s that you’re likely to learn less from it. Director Josie Rourke presents a beautifully produced costume drama, and a [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump takes a swipe at the Obamas as he keeps pushing for a border wall]( 12/31/2018 1:31:58 PM John Sexton 0 Comments The shutdown over funding for a border wall continues and yesterday President Trump kept up his push for the wall by comparing it to a security wall constructed around the Obamas’ house in Washington, DC. President and Mrs. Obama built/has a [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Latest Headlines: We pick, you click.] Politico [Romney broadside stokes Trump camp’s suspicions about 2020]( CNN [Source: Trump tells Schumer he can’t accept Dems’ offer because he’d “look foolish”]( Philip Klein [Where Mitt Romney’s attack on Trump went off the rails]( WaPo [Shutdown worsens strain on U.S. immigration system]( Guardian [Saudi prosecutors seek death penalty for Khashoggi suspects]( Rick Wilson [Mitt Romney is the most dangerous man in Trump’s city of lackeys]( YouGov [Poll: The shutdown is becoming the president’s shutdown]( Henry Olsen [Romney’s op-ed crystallizes why the GOP establishment has been pushed aside]( NYT [China lands craft on dark side of the moon]( Mediaite [Rand Paul tears into Romney: If he ran against Trump he “would be wiped out”]( NYT [Bucking a global trend, Japan seeks more immigrants. 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