HotAir Daily Express 10/13/2016

[Hot Air Daily Express] [Follow us on Facebook] [Home][Green Room][Archive][The Ed Morrissey Show][Print][Forward] [The amazing timing of the sexual misconduct accusations against Trump] 10/13/2016 10:01:10 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments John already broke down the claims being made by several women regarding unwanted sexual advances by Donald Trump anywhere from ten to thirty years ago, and the hounds have been loosed in the usual media sources. But now that the headlines have had [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [RNC spending $0 on presidential campaign ads … same as the the DNC] 10/13/2016 9:21:15 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Has the RNC abandoned Donald Trump? Only if the DNC has turned its back on Hillary Clinton. Politico headlines a report from Ken Vogel and Alex Isenstadt with the news that the RNC has spent nothing on independent expenditures (IE) for TV ads supporting [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [How much do you know about the constitution? Take the quiz!] Hillsdale College SPONSORED Many Americans know the Constitution well -- they understand how it protects their freedoms and paved the way for a great nation to be built. But many more Americans don't know enough about it. How much do you know about the Constitution? [Read More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [U.S. missiles take out three radar sites in Yemen] 10/13/2016 8:41:26 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments How about some good news to start off Thursday? We’ve previously seen two incidents where our enemies have fired missiles at U.S. Navy ships in what can only be described as an act of war. Last night the good guys struck back when we launched [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Former US Attorney: Career FBI agents think Comey’s ‘a crook’] 10/13/2016 8:01:23 AM Larry O'Connor 0 Comments There’s more fallout from yesterday’s revelations that a “vast majority” of career FBI agents expected Hillary Clinton to face criminal charges for her use of an unauthorized email server for government business. Hours after the [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [What could be better than a TV series about young Hillary Clinton wanting to be president?] 10/12/2016 10:41:00 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments To cleanse the palate. There was already a movie about this, I believe. It had a Trump character in it and everything. The idea sounds worse than it looks if the two clips below are representative, but “not as terrible as you feared” [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [It begins: Dem elector in WA plans to reject Hillary] 10/12/2016 10:01:15 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments It begins (maybe) with Hillary Clinton, but it may not end with her. A Democrat elector for the state of Washington has declared that he will refuse to cast his ballot in the Electoral College for the Democratic nominee. Even though acting as a faithless [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [In Memoriam: Pepe. 1998 – 2016] 10/12/2016 9:21:08 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Last night at around 6 pm our oldest cat, Pepe, passed away. My wife was holding him in her arms at the time and he was sleeping, which is pretty much all he’d done for the previous two days. And then he was gone. Like most of our pets, Pepe came [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [NY Times: Two women say they were touched inappropriately by Trump] 10/12/2016 8:41:41 PM John Sexton 0 Comments The NY Times is reporting that two women who met Trump in passing, one in the 1980s and one in 2005, claim he actually did some of the things he discussed doing in a much discussed video clip released last week. The first accuser, Jessica Leeds, met [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump: The polls are crooked, Paul Ryan made a sinister deal, and ISIS might take over this country if Clinton wins] 10/12/2016 8:01:42 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments I’m not joking when I say this: I am legit excited to see what sort of accusations he makes at his rallies during the last week of the campaign, especially if he’s far enough behind that he feels he has nothing to lose. The odds that he [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [‘Vast majority’ of career FBI agents felt Hillary Clinton should be prosecuted] 10/12/2016 7:21:46 PM John Sexton 0 Comments According to a source inside the FBI, the “vast majority” of career agents and prosecutors who investigated the Clinton email case believed she should be prosecuted. From Fox News: “No trial level attorney agreed, no agent working the case [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Kellyanne Conway: Before Trump, this party was veering dangerously close to being a party of the elites] 10/12/2016 6:41:31 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Says Mike Warren drily in reply, “Good thing the GOP dodged that bullet.” Skip to 2:30 below for the key bit. This is a smart message by a smart spin doctor — right up to the point where she starts talking about Trump [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [New Trump ad hits Hillary over “Corruption”] 10/12/2016 6:01:12 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments The shackles are off, Donald Trump promised earlier this week, but … why were these shackles on before now? For months, we have waited for Team Trump to start airing ads about the corruption between the Clinton Foundation and the State Department. [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Democratic Governor Dayton: Obamacare ‘no longer affordable’] 10/12/2016 5:31:01 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Democratic Governor Mark Dayton of Minnesota had some tough words for Obamacare Wednesday. “The reality is the Affordable Care Act is no longer affordable for an increasing number of people,” Gov. Dayton told reporters for the Pioneer Press. [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Of course: NBC execs timed release of “Access Hollywood” tape for maximum damage to Trump, says TMZ] 10/12/2016 5:01:04 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments I saw liberals on Twitter arguing in all seriousness over the weekend that an 11-year-old tape emerged when it did, a month to the day before the election and 48 hours before a must-win presidential debate, by sheer happenstance. TMZ says otherwise. Whom [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Comcast is being smacked down by the FCC, but not for the real reason they should be] 10/12/2016 4:31:31 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Comcast is getting their knuckles rapped by the FCC this month to the tune of millions of dollars. Their sin was the deliberate overcharging of customers for equipment and services which they hadn’t asked for. As the Washington Post reports, this [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [More Podesta: Hey, who’s up for a Catholic Spring to reject church’s “middle ages dictatorship”?] 10/12/2016 4:01:57 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments If anything, a second e-mail chain on Catholicism from the hacked archives of John Podesta might be even sillier than the earlier release. In that thread, Center for American Progress fellow John Halpin ranted about the supposed lack of interest that [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Climate activists shut off oil pipelines which provide 15% of daily US consumption] 10/12/2016 3:31:54 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Climate change activists shut off cross-border oil pipelines in Minnesota, Montana, North Dakota, and Washington on Tuesday. The activists broke in to unguarded valve stations and shut off the flow of oil before being arrested. Reuters reports: All they [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Does Europe need its own army?] 10/12/2016 3:01:55 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments At the Washington Post, Judy Dempsey looks deeply into one of the running themes of the Trump campaign, specifically the call for our European allies to put a bit more skin in the game when it comes to their military defense and stop relying so heavily [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Poll: Clinton leads in Ohio by … nine?] 10/12/2016 2:31:01 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Seems outlier-ish, but after the “Access Hollywood” tape, who knows. Clinton had never led Trump by more than seven points in Ohio until now; apart from a pair of CBS/YouGov polls, in fact, she’s never led there by more than four. It [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Reuters poll: Trump down eight after roller-coaster weekend] 10/12/2016 2:01:13 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments The glass-half-full takeaway from the Reuters-Ipsos tracking poll results today is this: It could have been worse. The glass-half-empty conclusion: Well, it is, albeit marginally. After a weekend of bombshell revelations and rollicking debate, Donald [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Coalition of over 50 conservative groups calls on Congress to block Obamacare bailouts] 10/12/2016 1:31:50 PM John Sexton 0 Comments A coalition of over 50 conservative organizations has sent a letter to Members of Congress demanding that they act to block a possible bailout of Obamacare. The coalition, organized by Freedom Partners, includes Americans for Prosperity, the Competitive [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Another adviser to NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo resigns amid bid-fixing scandal] 10/12/2016 1:01:13 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments How many more of these dominoes need to fall before the highest level of Democrat controlled New York State government is definitively wrapped up in the ongoing corruption investigations? This saga has been dragging out since last year, with US Attorney [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Billy Bush fired by NBC but John Harwood still has a job] 10/12/2016 12:31:17 PM Larry O'Connor 0 Comments The New York Post is reporting that NBC News has decided to fire Billy Bush because of his involvement in the leaked audio of Donald Trump: An NBC insider told us: “He is technically fired. It’s just a matter of time. NBC isn’t ready to announce it yet. [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Never mind: Defecting Republicans begin undefecting] 10/12/2016 12:01:23 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Vent outrage in haste, repent at leisure. In the immediate aftermath of the release of the Access Hollywood tape, many elected Republicans rushed to repudiate prior endorsements of Donald Trump. Now that Trump seems to have stopped the bleeding and made [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Shock Utah poll: Trump crumbles, now even with Clinton as Evan McMullin pulls within four] 10/12/2016 11:31:26 AM Allahpundit 0 Comments McMullin moved on Utah very heavily, that I can tell you. I can’t believe I’m about to write this, but here you go: The fourth-party candidate is probably the favorite right now to win America’s reddest state. The poll shows Clinton and [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Latest Headlines: We pick, you click.] [Trump threatens to sue New York Times over sexual harassment report] [I’m one of the Central Park Five. 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