HotAir Daily Express 09/26/2019

[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]( [Alan Greenspan Warns of this U.S. Scheme to Confiscate Your Savings]( 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]( [Tucker mocks Shep Smith: I prefer honest opinion to opinion masquerading as objective “news”]( 9/26/2019 11:21:22 AM Allahpundit 0 Comments I thought Carlson might use his show last night to briefly answer Shep’s criticism that it was “repugnant” of Tucker to let a Fox News guest call a Fox News contributor a “fool” unchallenged. I did not think he’d [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [New York State sues ICE for doing its job]( 9/26/2019 10:41:58 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments New York, New York. So nice they say it twice. But not when it comes to ICE. (Save your booing. I never claimed to be a poet.) Out in the Empire State, the Attorney General is preparing to sue Immigration and Customs Enforcement for the crime of [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [So we’re legalizing pot banking, but not pot?]( 9/26/2019 10:01:55 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments The House passed a bill yesterday that will likely have a big impact on companies dealing in legal marijuana sales in the 33 states where that’s currently allowed. Of course, it’s only legal under state law. The upshot of this new [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Breaking: Whistleblower complaint released]( 9/26/2019 9:21:28 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments That didn’t take long. As acting DNI Joseph Maguire prepares to testify about Ukraine-Gate on Capitol Hill, the whistleblower complaint that started the controversy has been declassified and released. As reported earlier, it covers more than [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]( [Media will eat itself, Ukraine edition]( 9/26/2019 8:41:00 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments The American people certainly have reason for confusion over Ukraine-Gate. It’s a complicated mess of a story made even worse by politicians getting out ahead of their skis to declare conviction or vindication, and even worse yet by news [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [California shocked to find bill decriminalizing retail theft resulted in… more retail theft]( 9/26/2019 8:01:12 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments A few years ago, California passed one in a series of bills aimed at emptying the jails and prisons. Proposition 47 carried the disingenuous name of “the Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act and its stated purpose was to keep non-violent [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Comey: On second thought, maybe Trump should be impeached]( 9/25/2019 10:41:14 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments This guy. If Democrats are looking for an outside-the-box campaign pitch for next fall that might move casual voters, here’s one: Vote Trump out and you’ll never have to hear from James Comey again. Once the president who fired him is [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Republican “insider”: Dam may start to break among GOP on impeachment if there’s evidence of a Trump quid pro quo with Ukraine]( 9/25/2019 10:01:15 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments My dude, let me assure you that the proverbial dam is not going to proverbially break. In fact, I’m so sure that the dam isn’t going to break that I suspect the “insider” interviewed by David Drucker for this piece is [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [218: Majority in House now back some form of impeachment]( 9/25/2019 9:21:40 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Democrats need 218 votes to impeach the president. Politico reports that a short time ago they reached that threshold: A majority of the House now backs impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump, a significant milestone as Democrats [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [“As a matter of honour” BoJo must resign, says …]( 9/25/2019 8:41:30 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments This certainly seems surprising, at least at first blush. Nigel Farage tell Piers Morgan on Good Morning Britain that Boris Johnson is honour-bound to tender his resignation to Parliament after getting scolded by a unanimous Supreme Court. [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Shep hits Tucker Carlson and Joe diGenova: It’s “repugnant” that Andrew Napolitano was called a “fool” for thinking Trump committed a crime]( 9/25/2019 8:01:19 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments As you’ll see, Smith offers this chiefly as a critique of diGenova, who appeared on Carlson’s show last night to sneer at Napolitano’s criticism of Trump on the Ukraine matter. But he makes a point of noting that that criticism [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [A 59-year-old man and a 13-year-old boy were beaten to death last week by teens]( 9/25/2019 7:03:18 PM John Sexton 0 Comments When I first read about the random attack on a 59-year-old man at Great Frederick Fair in Maryland I was stunned by it but I also figured this must be an incredibly rare occurrence. Then I learned that a 13-year-old boy had died last night after a [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Brain to machine interfaces are almost here]( 9/25/2019 6:31:21 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Who’s ready to be a cyborg? Well, you may have your chance sooner than you think. Check out this wild report from Government Executive about some new “brain-computer interface strips” that can be attached to your skin and transmit [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [By the way, Trump administration just scored another safe-third-country agreement in Central America today]( 9/25/2019 6:01:49 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments No biggie, just the last link in a fence that might end up mooting much of the asylum debate in Congress. While most of the attention today has focused on Ukraine, the White House announced a new agreement with Honduras to take any refugees seeking [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Ron Johnson’s Homeland Security Committee may investigate the Bidens and Ukraine]( 9/25/2019 5:31:58 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments There’s no indication from this WaPo story if he’s doing it at Trump’s behest or because he’s independently intent on getting to the bottom of the Burisma matter. But either way, their interests align. Here’s Trump this [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Senate votes to end emergency declaration on the border…again]( 9/25/2019 5:01:30 PM John Sexton 0 Comments The Senate voted today to put an end to President Trump’s emergency declaration on the border. Eleven GOP Senators joined Democrats in voting to end the emergency by 54-41. This is the second time the Senate has voted to override the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [L.A. business owner gets 4 months in Varsity Blues scandal]( 9/25/2019 4:31:29 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Although his name isn’t as recognizable as some of the celebrities caught up in the Varsity Blues scandal, Deven Sloane was certainly wealthy enough to take part in the scam. As the owner of the Los Angeles water systems company AquaTecture, [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Morning Consult warns Dems: Americans just aren’t into impeachment]( 9/25/2019 4:01:05 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Not even with Ukraine-Gate? According to a Morning Consult poll conducted for Politico, the events of the past week didn’t have any impact at all on Americans’ perception of impeachment. After support peaked a year ago in the low 40s for [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Report: Acting DNI threatened to quit if Trump tried to stop him from testifying before Congress; Update: DNI denies; Update: WaPo stands by story]( 9/25/2019 3:31:36 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments So maybe this explains why the White House is cooperating with Democrats all of a sudden. I was surprised yesterday when Trump responded to impeachment rumblings in the House by promising to release the transcript of his call with Zelensky, a key [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Student wins lawsuit over Boston College’s mishandling of sexual assault claim]( 9/25/2019 3:01:29 PM John Sexton 0 Comments A student who sued Boston College over its mishandling of a sexual assault allegation against him won a $100,000 judgment. The case is considered legally significant because it is the first lawsuit to reach a jury since the Obama administration [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [NPR: Cocaine Mitch may have to die before we fix climate change]( 9/25/2019 2:31:06 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments If you ever feel the need for a break from your usual routine you can always dive into the swamps of National Public Radio. The folks who hang out there will typically deliver some of the most liberal conversations you’d ever care to hear on [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Zelensky: Did I feel pressured by Trump? Naah; Update: “Nobody pushed me”]( 9/25/2019 2:01:51 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Don’t expect this to be taken as an exoneration or vindication of Donald Trump by his critics, because it’s actually neither. However, it might provide some context that could temper the hysteria swirling around Ukraine-Gate, the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Romney: This Trump/Zelensky transcript is “deeply troubling”]( 9/25/2019 1:31:47 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Ed’s done a bang-up job of going through the transcript itself so read him if you haven’t yet. I sifted through reactions on political social media and it’s already clear as can be that this is an unusually stark Trump Rorschach [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Former MP: ‘I was punished for failing to hail Justin Trudeau as a great feminist’]( 9/25/2019 1:01:09 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Former Canadian Member of Parliament Eva Nassif was elected as the representative of Vimy, an area north of Montreal, in 2015. She was expected to run for reelection next month but suddenly dropped out of the race. Today, Nassif claims she was [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Poll: Climate change isn’t a priority with voters]( 9/25/2019 12:31:37 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments This survey from Morning Consult comes out at a particularly apt time. We’ve just finished the “climate strike” where students and teachers walked out in protest of a lack of action by the government to combat global warming. There [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Latest Headlines: We pick, you click.] Nate Silver [If this is Trump’s best case, the Ukraine scandal is looking really bad for him]( BuzzFeed [Democrats still hope Mitt Romney will take on Trump]( NYT [“When they speak, everybody listens”: How Dem freshmen are shaping the impeachment push]( Sam Brodey [Dems worry Rudy would send impeachment hearing off the rails]( NYT [Phone call showed only a slice of Trump’s obsession with Ukraine]( Bret Stephens [Pelosi’s bad impeachment call]( Frank Bruni [Why a Trump impeachment should terrify you]( DNI [Breaking: Whistleblower complaint released]( Stein, Banco [House Dems probing April call between Trump and Zelensky]( NYT [Whistleblower is said to allege concerns about White House handling of Ukraine call]( Erick Erickson [GOP source: The whistleblower complaint “paints a clear path to impeachment”]( Libby Emmons [Why cities are becoming “theme parks of childless affluence”]( Andrew Egger [Voting on impeachment is the Senate GOP’s nightmare]( Ilya Shapiro [It’s time for Trump to update his Supreme Court short list]( Matthew Walther [Trump’s Ukraine scandal is the second coming of Russiagate]( Erielle Davidson [Impeachment would be really stupid, but Dems will probably do it anyway]( Kevin Williamson [China’s population problem: It’s running short of workers]( Mimi Rocah [Trump won’t be prosecuted for his Ukraine call. 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