HotAir Daily Express 09/02/2016

[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]. [Clinton’s worst nightmare: The unpredictable Trump emerges] 9/2/2016 10:01:42 AM Andrew Malcolm 0 Comments For someone who’s often been reputed to be such a campaign klutz, Donald Trump had a pretty good week. Yes, he wastefully campaigned in Washington and Connecticut, which he has no chance of winning, and in Mississippi, which he has no chance of [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [NYT: State gave Foundation donor access to Hillary in exchange for a private jet ride for Bill] 9/2/2016 9:21:22 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Ever wonder how to get a ride on a private jet? The Clintons figured it out pretty well while Hillary Clinton served as Secretary of State, as the New York Times explains today. New e-mails emerging from a FOIA lawsuit brought by Judicial Watch explain [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]. [Friday TEMS: Hot Air at the Fair!] 9/2/2016 8:41:57 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments The Minnesota State Fair returns to the Fairgrounds, and so does Hot Air at the Fair! All this week, local Salem Radio affiliate AM 1280 The Patriot will have me on the air from 8-10 am CT, talking both national and local politics. Our sponsors this year [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [FEC demands proof of existence from God, Satan] 9/2/2016 8:01:35 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments The Federal Election Commission has put a number of aspiring candidates on notice in the final weeks of the presidential election and they include God, Satan and the Ghost of Ronald Reagan. If you can’t prove that you are, in fact, who you say you [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]. [Harry Reid: Senate Democrats might have to nuke the filibuster to ram through President Hillary’s agenda] 9/1/2016 10:41:57 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Reid and his caucus already nuked part of it in 2013, eliminating filibusters on presidential appointments (with the notable exception of Supreme Court appointments). The 60-vote requirement remains in place for SCOTUS nominations and of course for [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Safe space alert: Triggering comedy from the late, great Gene Wilder is a-nearer] 9/1/2016 10:01:07 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Gene Wilder, star and writer of some of Hollywood’s greatest comedy classics, passed away this week at 83 years of age from complications of Alzheimer’s. He partnered with Mel Brooks for the best work both of them have done, including the [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Black Lives Matter upset about memo telling Democrats to partner with the radical movement] 9/1/2016 9:21:41 PM John Sexton 0 Comments This week a hacker calling himself Guccifer 2.0 (who is probably a Russian propaganda front) released a memo from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee on how to deal with Black Lives Matter. The two page memo includes advice on how to deal [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Colin Kaepernick: Let me explain why my socks show police officers as pigs] 9/1/2016 8:41:48 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments So this guy’s not even trying to win allies, huh? When he first sat for the national anthem, you might have chalked it up to an error in judgment: He’s trying to make a point about racism and police brutality, he chose a stupid way to do it [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [NYT: Someone leaked the script of Trump’s upcoming Q&A with black pastor to us] 9/1/2016 8:01:10 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Assuming this is legit, what do you do if you’re Team Trump? He can’t deliver the scripted answers now that they’ve been telegraphed or it’ll turn into a joke. The last thing he wants black voters to think in his “heartfelt [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Democrats who cried wolf on Mitt Romney have nowhere to go on Donald Trump] 9/1/2016 7:21:18 PM John Sexton 0 Comments The NY Times published an opinion piece today in which Howard Wolfson, a former Hillary Clinton communications director, laments the fact that Democrats’ over-the-top attacks on previous Republican candidates has left them no room to step up those [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Another member of Trump’s Hispanic advisory council withdraws his support over last night’s immigration speech] 9/1/2016 6:41:08 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments I mentioned Jacob Monty’s un-endorsement of Trump in this post but watch below to see Alfonso Aguilar retract his own backing in an interview on CNN. They may not be the only members of the advisory council who end up walking away, either. Ramiro [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [NYT confirms: ObamaCare enrollees to experience the traditional annual treatment yet again] 9/1/2016 6:01:02 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Give ObamaCare credit for consistency, if nothing else. With premiums escalating all over the country, the ObamaCare experience in 2017 will feel a lot like 2016, only more so. And this time, the New York Times’ Margot Sanger-Katz explains, not [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Space X rocket explodes during pre-launch test] 9/1/2016 5:21:45 PM John Sexton 0 Comments This wasn’t a launch, just a pre-launch test but something went very wrong and the rocket and the communications satellite it was supposed to carry into orbit were completely destroyed. Fortunately, the launch pad had been cleared for the test and [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Jorge Ramos: Hey, how about letting me moderate a presidential debate?] 9/1/2016 4:41:22 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Why not? Why not let a guy who was removed from a Trump presser last year, who warned in Time magazine a few days ago that “judgment day” is coming for those who “stay silent on Trump,” who vowed this morning that Latino voters [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Hillary up in Florida, 51 to … one?] 9/1/2016 4:01:55 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Hillary Clinton has a 51-1 advantage over Donald Trump in Florida, but that’s not a poll result. The Tampa Bay Times’ Adam Smith reports this morning that Team Hillary has opened fifty-one field offices in the biggest swing state in the [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Massive march in Venezuela against socialist President Maduro] 9/1/2016 3:21:12 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans held a protest in Caracas today to demand an end to socialist rule in the country. Reuters reports: Dressed in white and chanting “this government will fall,” hundreds of thousands of opposition supporters [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Suffolk: Trump still trails by seven in national race] 9/1/2016 2:41:30 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Rasmussen has Trump leading in the four-way race. Suffolk has him down further than Romney’s margin of defeat against Obama. What’s a poll consumer to do? It’s not just Ras and Suffolk either. Check out the spread in the last 10 surveys [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Rasmussen: Trump gains five points in the gap to edge Hillary for lead] 9/1/2016 2:01:16 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Yes, yes, this comes from Rasmussen, whose track record in presidential polling for the 2012 election was less than stellar, and whose 2016 results have fallen almost entirely on the sunny side for the GOP. However, their latest survey results [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Report: U.S. agreed to secret exemptions to the Iran deal] 9/1/2016 1:21:48 PM John Sexton 0 Comments It may be time for the White House to fire up the Iran deal echo chamber once again. A new report by the Institute for Science and International Security finds that, contrary to a claim made by the Obama administration, there was a last minute agreement [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [California prepares to criminalize sting videos against Planned Parenthood] 9/1/2016 12:41:04 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments This doesn’t even sound like a headline which could appear anywhere but on the front page of The Onion, but it’s true. The California legislature is putting the finishing touches on a bill which will make it illegal to secretly record [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Should a medical marijuana card prevent you from buying a gun?] 9/1/2016 12:01:29 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments I suppose we should have seen this one coming. There was bound to be some sort of intersection between the Second Amendment and the ongoing, state vs. federal battle over marijuana legalization, and now it’s happened in Nevada. A woman with a [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump’s immigration speech: Illegals must leave the U.S. for legal status, but we’ll figure out what to do with those who remain later] 9/1/2016 11:21:56 AM Allahpundit 0 Comments It wasn’t Churchill, but if you’re a border hawk there’s little more you could have wanted from last night’s speech than what you got. It was almost pure Grade-A red meat. Build a wall, end catch-and-release, block funding for [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Going by the Ann Coulter standard, Trump’s immigration speech might rank just behind the Gettysburg Address] 9/1/2016 10:41:23 AM Larry O'Connor 0 Comments Conservative polemicist Ann Coulter had been expressing some grave concerns about Donald Trump’s so-called “softening” of his position on border security and illegal immigration. As Trump and his surrogates have performed their bizarre [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Latest Headlines: We pick, you click.] [Just 151,000 jobs created in August, U-6 unemployment rate flat at 9.7%] [Debate moderators announced: Lester Holt, Elaine Quijano (VP), Martha Raddatz & Anderson Cooper, Chris Wallace] [“Alien” signal from space apparently just interference from a military satellite] [Daily Mail retracts Melania Trump story after she files lawsuit] [Pope Francis calls global warning a “sin”] [As Donald Trump calls for wall on Mexican border, smugglers dig tunnels] [A question about friends reveals a lot about class divides] [What sexbots teach us about happiness and love] [Is the impeachment of the next president an inevitability?] [As the race tightens, don’t assume the electoral college will save Clinton] [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? 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