HotAir Daily Express 07/06/2017

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The Russo-Chinese plan to have the US and North Korea jointly stand down on military exercises on the Korean peninsula didn’t gain any traction in the Trump administration, as was utterly predictable when the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Shock Report: Trump’s tough trade talk is working]( 7/6/2017 10:01:03 AM Andrew Malcolm 0 Comments As the G-20 summit gets underway in Germany, a shocking study out of Britain suggests — are you sitting down? — President Trump’s aggressive statements on trade may actually be working to the benefit of the United States. Stay with us [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Cruz amendment splitting Senate GOP on ObamaCare repeal]( 7/6/2017 9:21:44 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Perhaps the healing power of Ted Cruz’ suggested compromise on ObamaCare repeal was a bit oversold. At first blush, the plan as laid out by Vox seemed like a simple enough idea — let insurers add non-compliant plans to the exchanges as long [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump: Why didn’t Obama do anything about Russian interference?]( 7/6/2017 8:41:03 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments It’s not the first time Donald Trump has offered this argument when asked about Russian interference in the election, but … it’s the first time he’s done so in Poland, anyway. Trump flew out for a state visit to the nation on the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump TANKS dollar after saying it's "getting too strong"]( [The Social Security 'Time Bomb' Crisis To Blindside Americans]( [Banks Get Green Light to Seize Your Bank Accounts]( [Canada to pay $8 million to confessed killer of U.S. Special Ops soldier]( 7/6/2017 8:01:17 AM Andrew Malcolm 0 Comments The admitted killer of an American Special Ops soldier in Afghanistan will receive $8 million in damages from the Canadian government, plus an official apology for mistreatment. You read that right. That’s the reported agreement between the Liberal [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Of course: “Morning Joe” nets biggest audience ever after Trump’s tweets]( 7/5/2017 10:01:58 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments This really is such a money scam both sides are running. As Dan McLaughlin said a few days ago when Trump tweeted his CNN GIF, pro wrestling perfectly encapsulates his relationship with the media. The drama of the conflict is riveting, but at base [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Rep. Cárdenas on Pelosi’s leadership: Democrats need to ‘make some tough decisions’]( 7/5/2017 9:04:19 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Rep. Tony Cárdenas of California appeared on CNN Wednesday and was asked if he supported Nancy Pelosi’s leadership in the House. In response, he did his best to dodge the question. From the Hill: Cárdenas was asked during an interview on CNN about [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Question for Paul Ryan’s Dem challenger: You want $32 trillion in tax hikes to pay for single-payer?]( 7/5/2017 8:01:15 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments No, silly. Leftists don’t want $32 trillion in new taxes. They want around $15 trillion in new taxes over the next decade plus a cool $32 trillion or so in new debt to pay for single-payer, at least if Bernie Sanders’s platform last year is [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Pro-government thugs storm Venezuela’s National Assembly, beat opposition lawmakers]( 7/5/2017 7:21:37 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Pro-government thugs entered Venezuela’s National Assembly and beat up opposition lawmakers, leaving several of them bloody and sending one to the hospital. From the Washington Post: Venezuelan lawmakers who oppose President Nicolás Maduro were [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Hot new Democratic slogan: “I mean, have you seen the other guys?”]( 7/5/2017 6:41:32 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments I don’t know if this counts as “new.” It was 95 percent of Hillary’s messaging last year, the other five percent being “Wisconsin’s in the bag.” It has never been clearer than at this moment: Trump will be [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Uh oh: Turkey moves military near US-backed YPG in Syria]( 7/5/2017 6:01:17 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments The good news: The US-backed forces encircling Raqqa have begun to penetrate into the capital of the so-called ISIS “caliphate,” which portends a short time left remaining for the marauding terrorist army. The Washington Post reports that [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Will Congress end the individual mandate even without Obamacare repeal?]( 7/5/2017 5:21:25 PM John Sexton 0 Comments The New York Times published an interesting story Monday that seems pretty significant. Last week a House subcommittee approved a provision that would stop the IRS from enforcing the individual mandate: The House Committee on Appropriations has drafted [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [New photo may show Amelia Earhart alive after plane crash]( 7/5/2017 4:41:26 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments To cleanse the palate, the most compelling thing you’ll see today unless Trump starts tweeting about CNN again. The main question I have is how this ended up on the History Channel. Is there a Hitler or “ancient aliens” angle to the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Did CNN identify the wrong guy behind the Trump wrestling GIF?]( 7/5/2017 4:01:52 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments If I understand this BuzzFeed analysis correctly, the answer is “sort of yes, sort of no.” The original GIF posted on Reddit is unavailable for comparison with the one Trump posted, but it sounds like Trump’s GIF did use footage taken [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Democrats are moving the goalposts on the collusion story]( 7/5/2017 3:21:57 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Democrats seem to be moving the goalposts on the collusion story a bit and Politico has a story today noting the shift: Hillary Clinton, Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe and Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, have all stoked [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Comedy ain’t pretty: Secret Service grilled Kathy Griffin for “over an hour” about tweet]( 7/5/2017 2:41:55 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Consider this the flip side of CNN’s strange decision to spend time and credibility just to get to the bottom of a CNN-critical Reddit meme. New York Magazine contributor Yasher Ali reported on Monday afternoon that the Secret Service spent more [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Ted Cruz: CNN could be guilty of a crime for threatening the Redditor who created Trump’s wrestling GIF]( 7/5/2017 2:01:22 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments We’re in an endless cycle of overreach. CNN is out to blow the lid off Russiagate — so it publishes a bogus, badly vetted hit piece on Anthony Scaramucci. Trump wants to gloat over CNN’s misfire — so he posts one of the tackiest, [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Mark Zuckerberg: Hey, let’s give everyone a basic income]( 7/5/2017 1:21:37 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Mark Zuckerberg has been traveling around the country meeting people while denying he has any intentions of running for office. And yet, here he is making what amounts to policy recommendation for the United States. You could call this the first major [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Charlie Gard family accuses Twitter of “censoring” their account]( 7/5/2017 12:41:30 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Has Twitter taken sides in the Charlie Gard controversy, or has its automated filters become inadvertently triggered over its popularity? The Mirror reports that Gard’s parents have had to launch a new Twitter account due to interference with its [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [NYPD officer assassinated; suspect killed]( 7/5/2017 12:01:44 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments While the New York police department worked to keep its city safe during the Independence Day celebrations, one man decided to target a female officer sitting in her vehicle. Miosotis Familia later died at the hospital, while suspect Alexander Bonds met [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [60% support travel ban limiting visas in six Muslim countries to close relatives of U.S. residents]( 7/5/2017 11:21:04 AM Allahpundit 0 Comments Given the tenor of the coverage, you might think Trump’s travel ban is wildly unpopular. Not so. In fact, since he first signed his original executive order in January, various polls (but not all polls) have showed solid support for the initiative. 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