HotAir Daily Express 09/21/2016

[Hot Air Daily Express] [Follow us on Facebook] [Home][Green Room][Archive][The Ed Morrissey Show][Print][Forward] [Video: Debate audience bursts into laughter when congressional candidate claims Hillary is ‘honest’] 9/21/2016 10:01:10 AM Larry O'Connor 0 Comments This is beautiful on so many levels. First, on the face of it, you’ve got to love the moment when Charlie Crist (R wait, I no, D yeah, that’s it, D) is engaged in a debate while running for the 13th congressional seat in Florida and he is [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Several years in, Obamacare isn’t as bad as you thought… it’s worse] 9/21/2016 9:31:01 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Last night John wrote at length about how the true cost of Obamacare matches up against traditional employer offered plans. That’s all true, but there’s more to consider here. Even if you get your healthcare coverage through your employer, [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [New police shooting in Charlotte sparks protests, tear-gas response] 9/21/2016 9:01:19 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments “More than a thousand people” poured into the streets of Charlotte, North Carolina last night after police shot and killed a black man while searching for someone else. According to police, Keith Lamar Scott drew a weapon and then refused to [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Will Chelsea at Clinton Foundation be a ‘conduit’ to President Hillary? Bill says: ‘We all know people’] 9/21/2016 8:31:54 AM Larry O'Connor 0 Comments Bill Clinton was asked if it’s appropriate for his daughter, Chelsea Clinton, to stay on at the Clinton Foundation while her mother is President of the United States. His response? “We all know people.” As is typical with a Bill Clinton [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Dakota pipeline divides unions from liberal activists] 9/21/2016 8:01:01 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments The Dakota Access Pipeline protests received a big media boost when Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein managed to earn herself an arrest warrant after vandalizing some construction equipment. Liberals love a good protest if it involves any [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Solid new Trump ad: “It’s a movement, not a campaign”] 9/20/2016 10:41:26 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Well done, especially the shiny-happy vibe to ease worries that Trump is too much of a demagogue to trust with the presidency. The most arresting thing about this, apart from the tone, is the staccato delivery. The narrator doesn’t even speak in [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Obama plans “unprecedented” campaign to drag bumbling loser over the finish line] 9/20/2016 10:01:30 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments He thought this race was unlose-able but there’s really no such thing when your candidate is as weak as Hillary Clinton. She lost to an upstart Obama in 2008 when he was running as a longshot mainly to establish himself for a more serious future [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [No, Obamacare is not cheaper than employer-based insurance plans] 9/20/2016 9:21:55 PM John Sexton 0 Comments A study released Monday by the Urban Institute claims that Obamacare premiums, though rising, are still lower than those of comparable employer-based insurance plans. That finding generated several stories yesterday and today. But, writing at Forbes, [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Hmmm: Clinton drops seven points, viewed negatively in …. California?] 9/20/2016 8:41:59 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Let’s be clear that the Golden State isn’t going anywhere on the Electoral College map. No Republican presidential candidate has won California since 1988, and none have even come close. Donald Trump doesn’t poll any better than Mitt [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Fox News: We had no idea Sean Hannity was cutting an ad for Trump — and we won’t let him do it again] 9/20/2016 8:01:12 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments You’ll find the Hannity bit in Trump’s new eight-minute ad at exactly 6:00 of the clip below. Fox is upset, but it’s not clear why. The Erik Wemple Blog has asked Fox News whether Hannity had to secure permission from Fox News to [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Actually, the number of immigrants wrongly granted citizenship is double what was reported yesterday] 9/20/2016 7:21:50 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Yesterday, Ed noted a mistake by the Department of Homeland Security that led to 858 immigrants who should have been deported being granted citizenship instead. The DHS Inspector General uncovered the mistake which involved people from “countries [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [The “last dance” teen is running into legal problems] 9/20/2016 6:41:00 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments You may recall our story from earlier this year about Jerika Bolen, the 14 year old girl from Wisconsin who suffers from incurable spinal muscular atrophy type 2. Having no prospects for a pain free, relatively “normal” life beyond divine [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Hillary crony Sid Blumenthal did urge reporters to cover Kenya-related stories about Obama in 2008] 9/20/2016 6:01:15 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments A necessary follow-up to this weekend’s post addressing Trump’s punchback at Clinton about Birtherism. Sure, says Trump, I may have pushed the idea for five years and used it to build my “politically incorrect” brand with [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [NFL’s TV ratings still falling?] 9/20/2016 5:31:56 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Has the drop in interest in the NFL continued into Week 2 — and if so, why? Not all of the data has come in yet, and what we do have has been overshadowed a bit. The bigger ratings news turns out to be the all-time worst ratings for [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [White House stopped vote on bipartisan bill sanctioning Syria for mass murder] 9/20/2016 5:01:55 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Democrats in Congress bowed to the Obama administration’s desire to delay a bill aimed at sanctioning Syria for documented instances of mass torture and mass murder. The bill is called the Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act. Caesar is a code name [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Using “security” as a reason to shut down free speech on campus] 9/20/2016 4:31:49 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Here’s a short but interesting essay from Catherine Rampell at the Washington Post. She takes on a subject near and dear to my heart, specifically the lack of ideological diversity on our nation’s college campuses and the suppression of free [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Poll: Trump down five in … Florida?] 9/20/2016 4:01:10 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments It feels strange calling Monmouth’s latest a bad poll for Trump when their last poll of Florida had him down nine points in the four-way race. He’s cut Hillary’s lead nearly in half! But that last poll was taken in mid-August, during [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Tuesday TEMS: Andrew Malcolm, Michael Ledeen, Matt Lewis] 9/20/2016 3:31:05 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Today on The Ed Morrissey Show (4 pm ET), we have another great lineup for the news of the day! The show will be streamed on Hot Air’s Facebook page and embedded here and on the show page for those who are not on Facebook. (If it’s muted, [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Washington Post: Some of Trump’s charity donations look like ‘self-dealing’] 9/20/2016 3:01:15 PM John Sexton 0 Comments The Washington Post has a story on Donald Trump’s charity foundation which is getting a lot of attention today. What it shows is several donations, two of them fairly large, which directly benefited his for-profit businesses. From the Washington [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Poll: Half of Americans think voter fraud is fairly common] 9/20/2016 2:31:00 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments How secure is the integrity of the upcoming election? While I’m not terribly concerned about the overall fairness of American voting at large, there’s clearly a current of unrest among the populace. Last week the Washington Post took a look [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [WaPo: Right now, the GOP should hold the Senate] 9/20/2016 2:01:41 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Could the GOP retain control of the Senate despite defending fourteen more seats in the upcomimg election? According to the initial ratings on the 34 races from the Washington Post, the answer is yes. However, the operative condition on Aaron [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Uh oh: Rahami’s father told police in 2014 that he suspected his son was a terrorist] 9/20/2016 1:31:20 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments I used to think Hillary got special treatment from Jim Comey’s FBI but now I don’t know. Maybe they’re just bad at their jobs. Calling your son a terrorist, then telling police you didn’t mean it, and then having him actually [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Reuters’ reporters witness voter fraud in Russian parliamentary election] 9/20/2016 1:01:50 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Vladmir Putin’s United Russia party won a big victory Sunday in parliamentary elections. Reuters had teams of reporters covering voting sites across the country and found serious irregularities with vote counts as well as instances of repeat [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Angela Merkel suffers another setback in Berlin elections] 9/20/2016 12:31:34 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments A couple of weeks ago we saw Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union Party (CDU) take a beating in the regional, Mecklenburg-West Pomerania elections. This weekend that pattern repeated itself as Berlin held its own parliamentary contest. The [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Clinton campaign memo to donors: Don’t panic] 9/20/2016 12:01:19 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Team Hillary has 49 days until Election Day to clinch what should be an easy victory. After Donald Trump’s August swoon, Hillary Clinton should have been able to coast to November 8th. Instead she has apparently stumbled back into a virtual tie, [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Latest Headlines: We pick, you click.] [Terrorism doesn’t help Trump. 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