HotAir Daily Express 09/30/2016

[Hot Air Daily Express] [Follow us on Facebook] [Home][Green Room][Archive][The Ed Morrissey Show][Print][Forward] [Did Trump’s company violate Cuba embargo in 1998?] 9/30/2016 10:01:28 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Is this ancient history, new fiction, or will it matter much either way? According to Newsweek’s Kurt Eichenwald, Trump’s resort business violated the embargo on Cuba in 1998 by spending almost $70,000 on researching the possibilities of [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Override hangover: Bipartisan effort to fix JASTA emerges] 9/30/2016 9:21:15 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments When Congress issued its first-ever veto override in Barack Obama’s presidency, the White House called it “the single most embarrassing thing that the United States has done, possibly since 1983.” The 97-1 override vote certainly [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Jeb to Kathleen Kennedy Townsend: Stay classy] 9/30/2016 8:41:40 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Remember this nugget from Kathleen Kennedy Townsend? The former Maryland lieutenant governor attended a Points of Light event and claimed in a Facebook post shortly afterward that George H. W. Bush told her he was voting for Hillary Clinton. It got [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [All hail His Majesty Grant Strobl] 9/30/2016 8:01:24 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments We’ve covered enough of these public school and college transgender pronoun stories for them to be fairly routine, but now there’s one with a twist which makes it noteworthy. When the University of Michigan not only told the students to [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Hillary on Trump and Cuba: Don’t you hate it when politicians put their business interests ahead of the United States?] 9/29/2016 10:41:03 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments This is like Bernie Madoff attacking someone over dubious investments, and it’s not the first time she’s done it this month. She operates a charity that sells influence with the Clintons to wealthy special interests, including and especially [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [AP: Why Chicago is the murder capital] 9/29/2016 10:01:28 PM John Sexton 0 Comments A couple weeks ago I posted a video put together by the BBC titled “The Lost Streets of Chicago.” That video was interesting because it didn’t really try to offer solutions so much as it just turned a camera on what is actually [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Will: Conservatism has to come to grips with its failure — and America’s] 9/29/2016 9:21:57 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Conservatives already dispirited over the outcome of the 2016 cycle might want to pop a Xanax before reading George Will’s latest essay on the state of the Right. The Washington Post columnist paints a dreadful, but realistic, picture of the world [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Gallup: Percentage of young adults who say they’ll definitely vote craters] 9/29/2016 8:41:06 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Good thing neither of the two parties is depending very heavily on young adults to replicate their high turnout in 2008 and 2012, eh? Democrats must be wondering what it’s going to take. Bernie Sanders is on the trail, Clinton is doing dopey [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Belgium to expand security push beyond Molenbeek, cut foreign fighters off welfare] 9/29/2016 8:01:59 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Ever since authorities in Belgium discovered that the terror cell that carried out the Paris attack (and the subsequent Brussels attack) was operating out of a Brussels neighborhood called Molenbeek, there has been a push to identify possible threats in [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump spokesman to Chuck Todd: Winning the unscientific online polls means he won the debate, man] 9/29/2016 7:31:26 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments What makes the public bickering over scientific versus unscientific polls interesting isn’t the questions about methodology, it’s how it relates to the duty to tell the truth. Which political actors have a duty to tell the truth? The public [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Lewandowski: My Trump campaign “severance” has ended] 9/29/2016 7:01:49 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments For the last three months, former Donald Trump campaign manager Cory Lewandowski has worked as an analyst for CNN — while still drawing a salary from Team Trump, apparently without disclosing the payments. The campaign and Lewandowski characterized [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Washington mall shooter voted in this year’s presidential primary — despite not being a U.S. citizen] 9/29/2016 6:31:51 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments The requirements for registering to vote in Washington are straightforward. If you’re at least 18 years old, have resided in the state for 30 days, haven’t been convicted of a felony, aren’t barred by court order, and are a citizen of [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [The siege of Aleppo and what the U.S. is doing about it] 9/29/2016 6:01:00 PM John Sexton 0 Comments The Washington Post’s Liz Sly and Louisa Loveluck had an excellent story yesterday reporting what it’s like for the estimated 250,000 people being hit with constant airstrikes in eastern Aleppo: The bombings at night are the worst. There is [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Obama: Maybe Kaepernick should rethink his form of protest] 9/29/2016 5:21:12 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Consider this statement from last night’s CNN town hall on veterans’ issues a kind of Rorschach test — as is true of many Barack Obama statements. One veteran introduced by Jake Tapper asked the president about Colin Kaepernick’s [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump campaign to surrogates: Stop telling people that he lost the debate] 9/29/2016 4:41:15 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments I guess he noticed that New York Times story yesterday, huh? I don’t blame him for being annoyed that his advisors are telling the media that he needs to prepare more diligently, even if they’re going that route only because they fear he [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [GAO report: HHS owes taxpayers billions in Obamacare reinsurance money] 9/29/2016 4:01:56 PM John Sexton 0 Comments The Government Accountability Office has issued a report which concludes the Department of Health and Human Services had no authority to withhold money from the federal Treasury under Obamacare’s reinsurance program. Politico reports: In 2014, the [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Thursday TEMS: Duane Patterson, Andrew Malcolm] 9/29/2016 3:21:18 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...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Newt Gingrich: Let’s face it, you’re not supposed to gain 60 lbs when you’re Miss Universe] 9/29/2016 2:41:01 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments He’s 100 percent right, but what does he gain by being right about this? Speaking to the Log Cabin Republicans at a dinner in Washington, Gingrich echoed Trump’s attacks, eliciting laughter from the room. “You’re not supposed to gain 60 pounds [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Team Hillary hitting the panic button over African-American turnout in Florida?] 9/29/2016 2:01:26 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments While researching my book Going Red in seven different battleground states, I asked people on the ground whether they saw the same enthusiasm for Hillary Clinton as they did for Barack Obama at a similar point four years earlier. Without exception, [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Hoboken train crash injures over 100 people, at least one fatality] 9/29/2016 1:21:14 PM John Sexton 0 Comments A commuter train entered a Hoboken, New Jersey terminal at high speed, crashing over a “bumper block” and stopping just outside the station’s waiting area. The crash collapsed part of the station’s roof on top of the first car. At [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [You’re not going to live on Mars and neither are your children] 9/29/2016 12:41:01 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments I’m about as much of a fanboy and aspiring geek when it comes to outer space news and science as the next person, so I’ve really enjoyed following all of the recent stories about Mars. Whether you’re talking about the rovers we’ve [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [PPP: Not much has changed after the debate] 9/29/2016 12:01:44 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Did the debate produce a change in the race? According to Democratic pollster PPP, not really — even if a majority of respondents believe Hillary Clinton won it. In their four-way question as well as in their two-way version, Hillary leads Donald [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Video: The “South Park” presidential debate] 9/29/2016 11:31:54 AM Allahpundit 0 Comments Via Newsbusters, what separates “South Park” from lesser satires is that they’re not satisfied with the easy jokes on Trump, as “Saturday Night Live” inevitably will be. This is a bank shot, as you’ll see. The Trump [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Maryland high school moves to genderless homecoming court] 9/29/2016 10:56:43 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments In yet another sign of Social Justice Warriors poisoning the well of education, one high school in Maryland has decided to move into the bold new frontier of discarding gender and basic science during their homecoming festivities this year. Rather than [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Tim Kaine weasels out of critical 9/11 vote because he was campaigning… 10 miles from Capitol Hill] 9/29/2016 10:21:58 AM Larry O'Connor 0 Comments Wednesday the US Senate voted 97-1 to override President Obama’s veto of the 9/11 families bill allowing surviving family members from the 9/11 terrorist attacks to sue the government of Saudi Arabia. This was a critical moment for the US Senate. A [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Latest Headlines: We pick, you click.] [Gingrich to Donald Trump: Don’t go there on Bill Clinton and women] [Trump Foundation lacks the certification required for charities that solicit money] [Trump attacks Alicia Machado in overnight tweetstorm] [Obama operatives stripped Judical Watch of “media” status, overcharged for FOIA requests] [McConnell opens door to changing 9/11 bill] [Editorial: Vote for anyone but Trump] [Nike’s self-lacing shoes are our latest self-destructive nostalgia trip] [Can an atheist lead a Protestant church?] [Is there a future for the GOP?] [Split over Trump and cut off by culture wars, evangelicals despair] [Ed Morrissey Show] [Advertisement] __________________________SUBSCRIPTION INFO__________________________ WERE YOU FORWARDED THIS EDITION OF THE HOT AIR DAILY? 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