HotAir Daily Express 07/27/2017

[Hot Air Daily Express]( [Follow us on Facebook]( [Home]([Green Room]([Archive]([The Ed Morrissey Show]([Print]([Forward]( [New Global Currency Could End The Dollar for Good]( [Savvy Americans Rush to Secret IRS Code to Save Retirement]( [Experts Warn: Worst Crisis of Lifetime to Strike in 2017]( [Are the unions finally getting tired of the Democrats?]( 7/27/2017 10:41:45 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments I don’t want to get your hopes up too much with the title because it’s certainly not all of them, but at least in Pennsylvania there are signs that the cold, harsh light of reality is creeping into the labor union leadership team. The head of [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Can Trump use playground bullying to score a recess appointment?]( 7/27/2017 10:01:12 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Donald Trump’s weirdly passive-aggressive feud with Jeff Sessions has prompted the question of what happens next. Assuming that the Attorney General resigns or Trump finally musters up the courage to fire him, the Senate would have to confirm [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [The Presidency and the Constitution--Free Online Course]( Hillsdale College SPONSORED The American presidency is often called the most powerful office on earth. This is so not only because the nation which elects the president is the most powerful nation on earth, but also because the American Founders designed the office to be strong and effective. However, the Founders also placed certain restraints on this power, which are necessary to maintain liberty and protect citizens’ rights. --------------------------------------------------------------- [So Russia was spying on Macron, using… Facebook?]( 7/27/2017 9:21:54 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Man, those Russians are just everywhere these days, aren’t they? When they weren’t sending super secret lawyers to try to trick Donald Trump Jr. into talking about adoption, they were allegedly spying on the campaign of future French [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Scaramucci on Priebus: Let him deny leaking, or something]( 7/27/2017 8:41:04 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Is Reince Priebus next for getting the Jeff Sessions treatment? A deleted tweet last night hinted that new White House comms director Anthony Scaramucci blamed chief of staff Reince Priebus for leaking his financial disclosures to the press and demanded [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [New Global Currency Could End The Dollar for Good]( [Savvy Americans Rush to Secret IRS Code to Save Retirement]( [Experts Warn: Worst Crisis of Lifetime to Strike in 2017]( [The case for Jeff Sessions just quitting and doing Dancing With the Stars]( 7/27/2017 8:01:45 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments As a bonus, he could probably get Sean Spicer to give him a few tips in advance. A couple of days ago I tried to make the case for Donald Trump keeping Jeff Sessions on as Attorney General and perhaps being a tad less, er… Trumpy toward him in [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Inevitable: “Dancing With The Stars” wants Sean Spicer]( 7/26/2017 10:41:27 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments I was going to post about Steve Bannon reportedly pushing a 44 percent income tax rate on the very rich, but (a) we already knew he wanted something like that and (b) it’ll never happen because pretty much the sole reason for the congressional [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Dear taxpayers: Thanks for funding housing for these “nonexistent tenants”]( 7/26/2017 10:01:52 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments In case you didn’t have enough government news guaranteed to either annoy or enrage you, try this one on for size. The federal government spends a massive amount of money either paying for or partially subsidizing public housing for lower income [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [HBO: Sorry for the terrible announcement of our new modern-day slavery show]( 7/26/2017 9:21:09 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Today HBO said it regretted the way its plans for the show Confederate, which features an alternate history in which the South seceded, was announced. From the Associated Press: “I would file this under, ‘hindsight is 20-20,’” programming president Casey [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Shots across the bow: Navy releases video of Iranian confrontation]( 7/26/2017 8:41:21 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Remarkable in some ways, but not completely unusual. Iranian and American forces have jousted with each other in the Persian Gulf for years, if not decades, as part of the tension between the two nations since the 1979 Islamic revolution. Occasionally it [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [GOP Rep on Senate repeal vote: “Somebody needs to go over there … and snatch a knot in their ass”]( 7/26/2017 8:01:10 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Pearls are being clutched online over this clip because Carter was asked specifically about a woman, Lisa Murkowski, but clearly he’s talking about all of the fair-weather repealers in the GOP caucus. And just as clearly he’s speaking [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Gov. Scott Walker and President Trump announce Foxconn factory in Wisconsin]( 7/26/2017 7:21:16 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Made in America week was something the White House announced last week and it quickly seemed most of the effort to focus on the topic was sidetracked by other issues including the Obamacare repeal effort. However, the White House hosted a big [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [King: Y’know, Trump needs to “restrain himself a little more” on Sessions]( 7/26/2017 6:41:57 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Notable not just for the advice, but for the source, and the outlet which he uses to convey it. Rep. Steve King is the distillation of Trumpism in the House of Representatives — an immigration hawk, a cheerleader for America First and Donald Trump, [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Yes, we needed a transgender military ban (another view)]( 7/26/2017 6:01:14 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Ed Morrissey wrote about this subject this morning, but there are a couple of other points I wanted to hit. Now, of course, Politico is reporting that the only reason Trump announced the ban was because it was a trade-off to get funding for the border [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [“Public waterboarding”: Mo Brooks calls on Alabama Senate contestants to quit and give Jeff Sessions back his seat]( 7/26/2017 5:31:03 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments An intriguing thought from a Sessions pal, but … does Brooks realize that this only gives Trump more cover to fire him? If Trump cans the AG and Sessions is left frozen out of government, having given up a safe Senate seat only to be humiliated and [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [NY Medical Examiner: Judge whose body was found in the Hudson River killed herself]( 7/26/2017 5:01:12 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Judge Sheila Abdus-Salaam was found dead in the Hudson River back in April. Initially, authorities suggested it looked like suicide but then the NYPD backtracked after an initial autopsy proved inconclusive. Today the city’s medical examiner [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Broken promise: GOP-run Senate votes down clean repeal of ObamaCare, 45/54]( 7/26/2017 4:31:48 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Two years ago, with Obama’s veto waiting in the wings, only Susan Collins and now-retired Mark Kirk voted against clean repeal. Today, with an opportunity to send clean repeal to the House: Seven Republican senators have voted NO on straight ACA [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [On for all calls: Minneapolis PD changes body-cam policy after Damond shooting]( 7/26/2017 4:01:40 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments After a horrific police shooting of an unarmed woman made headlines in Minneapolis and around the world, the city’s government and police force have been under fire for the failure of the two officers involved to activate their body cams. Police [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [McCain on Trump’s military trans ban: Anyone willing to serve who meets the standards should be allowed to serve]( 7/26/2017 3:31:00 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments This is high-grade political cover for any congressional Republican who’s inclined to oppose the ban but leery of becoming a lightning rod for the right. McCain will be the lightning rod. And meanwhile other Republican pols can point to him and [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump supporters in far-left Portland lose friends and jobs]( 7/26/2017 3:01:32 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Earlier this week, PBS published a piece about three conservative women in the city of Portland. It’s an unusual perspective in a city that is overwhelmingly progressive. As you would expect, many of the locals aren’t kind to those with a [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Women in combat roles face these “disproportionate medical risks”]( 7/26/2017 2:31:57 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Are recruiters, particularly in the Army and Marines, lying to (or at least misleading) young women who they try to recruit into military service? That’s a question which is asked and answered in the LA Times this week by two people who should [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Hillary campaign memoir: Russians and Comey and Misogyny, Oh My!]( 7/26/2017 2:01:06 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Alternate title: I Don’t Think We Were Ever in Wisconsin, Toto. The Hillary Clinton campaign memoir awaited with bated breath will focus attention on the real reasons she lost to Donald Trump, reports The Hill. And those “real reasons” [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Poll: Republicans think courts should be able to shut down media that’s “biased or inaccurate,” 45/20]( 7/26/2017 1:31:35 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Many people are saying this total civic collapse will be the best civic collapse, believe me. Here’s what YouGov got when it asked Americans if they support or oppose letting courts shut down news media outlets for publishing stories that are [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Anthem threatens to leave additional Obamacare markets if cost-sharing payments are cut]( 7/26/2017 1:01:27 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Anthem insurance is one of the few big players remaining in the Obamacare marketplaces. On a conference call Wednesday, CEO Joseph Swedish said the company was waiting to see whether or not cost-sharing subsidies were going to continue under the Trump [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [This is how Venezuela might become the next Cuba]( 7/26/2017 12:31:43 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments There was an important essay published at The Hill yesterday by Venezuelan-American attorney Antonio Mora which carries some vital information and dire warnings concerning the unfolding crisis in his home country. What he’s warning of is the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Senate defeats BCRA in opening rounds of ObamaCare repeal carousel]( 7/26/2017 12:01:38 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Mitch McConnell scored a win yesterday by managing his caucus through a motion to proceed on debate for repealing and replacing ObamaCare. That could be his last win for a while. Late last night, the Senate soundly rejected McConnell’s favored [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Latest Headlines: We pick, you click.] [“Skinny” Obamacare repeal still lacks votes to pass]( [Republican Sen. 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