HotAir Daily Express 04/02/2019

[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]( [In Venezuela, Maduro moves toward prosecuting Juan Guiado]( 4/2/2019 10:41:05 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments For a while there, the news out of Venezuela seemed to be moving in some sort of historic arc leading toward the expulsion of dictator Nicolas Maduro and the installation of opposition leader Juan Guaido as interim president. But the situation [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Pelosi: Biden’s grabbiness isn’t disqualifying, but …]( 4/2/2019 10:01:56 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments “He’s an affectionate person,” Nancy Pelosi says of Joe Biden, but then invites him to “join the straight-arm club.” In a Politico interview this morning, Pelosi says that the allegations against Biden aren’t [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Are Donor-Advised Funds Safe for Conservatives?]( Donors Trust SPONSORED Donor-advised funds simplify giving, but not all fund providers share the same values. Here's what to look for. [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Beto O’Rourke compares electoral college to slavery]( 4/2/2019 9:21:30 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Is slavery the new… Hitler? It might be, at least in terms of political hyperbole in the 2020 nomination race. Failed Texas Senate candidate Beto O’Rourke decided to invoke the image of slavery this week while explaining why we need to [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Boeing: On second thought, that 737 Max fix might take weeks longer than we thought]( 4/2/2019 8:41:57 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments So much for the easy fix. With hundreds of 737 Max jets sitting on the ground and sales frozen for any more, Boeing had promised a quick fix for a software “glitch” tied to two fatal crashes overseas. The company had hoped to correct its [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]( [Dem candidates’ forum kicks off with chanted quote of cop-killer]( 4/2/2019 8:01:06 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments The 2019 “We the People Summit” is taking place in Washington this week and it’s expected to draw many of the top-tier Democratic presidential candidates. They might want to exercise just a bit of caution, however. The tone for the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Palin: It was a “gut punch” not to be invited to McCain’s funeral]( 4/1/2019 10:41:46 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Have we ever gotten a public explanation about this? It’s so strange that you would think some anodyne excuse would have been offered for the oversight. But no, as far as I know, the snub was deliberate and the public is invited to understand [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Jussie Smollett is the biggest loser during the NAACP Vision Awards show]( 4/1/2019 10:01:07 PM Karen Townsend 0 Comments When you’ve lost the home crowd, you know times are tough. That adage has to be running through the mind of disgraced race-baiting hoaxer Jussie Smollett. The 2019 NAACP Image Awards were held in a ceremony over the weekend in Hollywood and if [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [NY Times Opinion: ‘Hand off Venezuela’ advocates are living on another planet]( 4/1/2019 9:21:14 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Got to give some kudos to the NY Times for publishing this opinion piece featuring Joanna Hausman. Hausman takes on the growing “Hand off Venezuela” movement and calls out some of the prominent members by name: Noam Chomsky, Roger [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [McConnell: No really, this time I’m pulling the trigger on rules changes for confirmation debate]( 4/1/2019 8:41:56 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments No really, we’ll believe it when we see it. It’s not that Mitch McConnell doesn’t make a good case for rules changes to limit Senate debate on confirming presidential nominees to a much smaller amount of time. In fact, McConnell [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Must-see: Greg Gutfeld’s crazy Rachel Maddow Russiagate montage]( 4/1/2019 8:01:56 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Via Newsbusters, the objection will be raised that 99 percent of the crazy here is an artifact of editing. Is it? Granted, anyone would sound nuts if you stitched together footage of them saying the same word in 15 different contexts. But ask [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Stephanie Carter: I thought story of Biden’s pawing me would just blow over]( 4/1/2019 7:31:12 PM Karen Townsend 0 Comments Stephanie Carter is the wife of former Secretary of Defense Ash Carter. You may know her from the picture taken during her husband’s swearing-in on February 17, 2015. Vice-President Joe Biden has both hands on her shoulders as he stands behind [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [AOC and Liz Cheney argue about the 22nd Amendment on Twitter]( 4/1/2019 7:01:12 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Earlier today I mentioned on Twitter that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is getting the Occupy treatment from the national media. What I meant by that was that she is being built up by people who promote all of her best moments but who studiously avoid [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [BookGate expands: Baltimore Mayor takes “leave of absence” after more scandals revealed]( 4/1/2019 6:31:10 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Sometimes a story begins picking up speed like a snowball turning into an avalanche. That may be what’s happening with Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh and her “Healthy Holly” book sales scandal. Only this morning we learned that the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Supreme Court: Eighth Amendment doesn’t require a “painless” execution]( 4/1/2019 6:01:14 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments When does pain in an execution become “cruel and unusual punishment”? According to a 5-4 Supreme Court decision authored by Justice Neil Gorsuch, only when the state deliberately “superadds … terror, pain, or disgrace.” [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [James Comey on 2020: I’m in]( 4/1/2019 5:31:57 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Well, that’s surprising. I assumed he’d be spending 2020 in prison. Consensus on political Twitter as of 3:45 ET is that this is a lame April fool’s gag, but Comey running for president for real would be so on-brand for the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Another woman comes forward to complain about Biden touching her inappropriately]( 4/1/2019 5:01:36 PM John Sexton 0 Comments A second woman has come forward to complain about Joe Biden’s habit of being touchy-feely with women he doesn’t know. The Hartford Courant spoke to Amy Lappos about an incident that she says occurred at a political fundraiser in 2009. [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Did the White House force through unqualified security clearances?]( 4/1/2019 4:31:29 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Another weird “whistleblower” story coming out of the Democrat-controlled House Oversight Committee, and this time we’re at least not dealing with anonymous sources. Chairman Elijah Cummings and the rest of the members questioned [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [“A big s**tshow”: Brexit turning into Common Market 2.0? Update: All four indicative votes fail]( 4/1/2019 4:01:11 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Today is April Fool’s Day around the world, but the British must feel as though they’ve been living in it for months … or Groundhog Day. Parliament meets again today to consider again a set of “indicative votes” for the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Poll: 29% say Mueller’s findings have cleared Trump of wrongdoing, 40% say they haven’t]( 4/1/2019 3:31:18 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Three possible explanations for this, one good-ish, one middling, and one bad. 1. The good(-ish): It’s early yet! We still haven’t seen extensive passages from Mueller’s own report, just Barr’s summary of it. Suspicions [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [MSNBC producers correct Rachel Maddow’s misinformation in real time]( 4/1/2019 3:01:09 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Kudos to the producers behind the scenes at MSNBC for correcting this nonsense before it even made it out of Rachel Maddow’s mouth. Here’s Maddow from her show last Friday night asking why Attorney General William Barr is working through [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Will Maryland be able to reform the UMMS board before end of session?]( 4/1/2019 2:31:28 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments The Maryland General Assembly is coming up on Sine Die one week from today, meaning they will no longer be meeting for the rest of the year. And as the Baltimore Sun points out, they’ve got a lot left on their plate to get done. In addition to [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Carter Page: You’d better believe this was a witch hunt]( 4/1/2019 2:01:04 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments If anyone has reason to call the FBI’s counterintelligence probe into the Trump campaign a “witch hunt,” it’s Carter Page. The Department of Justice got a FISA court to issue a surveillance warrant and to renew it three more [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Dick Durbin: C’mon, we’re not going to disqualify Joe Biden over one allegation]( 4/1/2019 1:31:55 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Via the Free Beacon, this is true. Can’t hang a man over one unproved claim, especially when his alleged behavior even in that case was weird and uncomfortable but perhaps not exactly sexual. Now, show of hands: Who thinks Lucy Flores’s [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Vox: The ’emotional devastation’ of Trump’s election colored our judgment on collusion]( 4/1/2019 1:01:59 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Monday Vox published an interview with Rolling Stone’s Matt Taibbi about the media’s big failure to cover the collusion story accurately. Taibbi has argued this was a worse journalistic failure than the coverage of WMD prior to the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [The lobster wars may be put on hold]( 4/1/2019 12:31:27 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments This summer’s edition of our ongoing lobster war with Canada may need to be postponed, or at least significantly scaled back. But this has nothing to do with settling the territorial dispute off the coast of Maine. The fact is that there just [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Latest Headlines: We pick, you click.] Axios [2020 presidential election: Joe Biden advisers smell a conspiracy]( Politico [Trump punts health care until after 2020]( The Hill [Pelosi: Accusations against Biden don’t disqualify him]( Axios [Scoop: Mike Bloomberg might still run in 2020]( Katherine Miller [You already know what you think about Joe Biden touching women]( Jonathan Last [Would you let these people watch your children?]( Timothy O'Brien [No, Russiagate isn’t this generation’s WMD]( WFB [Beto O’Rourke endorses abolishing electoral college]( WaPo [Massive disaster relief bill stalls in Senate over Puerto Rico dispute]( NBC [“Zoo hypothesis” may explain why we haven’t seen any space aliens]( Amanda Hess [People don’t bribe college officials to help their kids. 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