HotAir Daily Express 08/09/2017

[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]( [In New York State, a surprising flow of illegal emigrants]( 8/9/2017 10:41:02 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments These stories keep cropping up in the news often enough that this must be more than a few isolated incidents. We’re talking about part of the Trump Phenomenon as it relates to illegal aliens and their desire to flee the country now that the new [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Document dump: Team Trump complies with Senate probe — but what about Fusion GPS? Update: FBI raided Manafort home]( 8/9/2017 10:01:34 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments While Robert Mueller works with a grand jury on the Russia probe, the Senate Judiciary Committee has continued its own probe into the 2016 election. Bloomberg reports that the Donald Trump campaign met the panel’s deadline and turned over 20,000 [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Measure your knowledge of the U.S. Constitution with this short 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? [Take The Quiz Now]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Venezuela’s new assembly grabs even more power]( 8/9/2017 9:21:27 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro could be described using any number of adjectives, but “subtle” isn’t one of them. Now that the new “constitutional assembly” (composed of candidates all selected by Maduro’s party) [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Tillerson: Blunt talk is all Kim understands]( 8/9/2017 8:41:45 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Did Trump throw gasoline on a flame yesterday with his remarks about North Korea, or just ensure that there was no ambiguity about a US response to a provocation? Secretary of State Rex Tillerson told reporters earlier this morning that he sees no [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]( [Chicago burglar in ICE custody has “interesting” history]( 8/9/2017 8:01:04 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Didn’t I read something just the other day about Rahm Emanuel suing the White House to protect their grant money and sanctuary city status? Perhaps Mayor Emanuel will want to take a quick second look at some of his policies. He wants Chicago to [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [The eternal question: Is Minnesota ready to turn red?]( 8/8/2017 10:41:49 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments I moved to Minnesota in late 1997, and at least since then, Republicans have asked this question in every election cycle. And in every election cycle, the answer has been a resounding no. However, last year’s unexpectedly close results in [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Tapper: If Trump is anti-leak, why is he promoting news stories based on leaked information?]( 8/8/2017 10:01:06 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Yeeeaaahhhh, the “Fox & Friends” retweet this morning that Tapper describes here was unfortunate, although not surprising. Trump’s ethics are and have always been situational: What’s good for Trump is good and what’s [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Niall Ferguson: ‘The real tyrants…will be for diversity (except of opinion)’]( 8/8/2017 9:21:58 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Monday the Boston Globe published an opinion piece by history professor Niall Ferguson titled “The biggest threat to free speech? It’s the left.” Ferguson makes the case that left wing concerns about a Trump-inspired tyranny are overblown. [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Pyongyang: We’re mulling a strike on the “air pirates of Guam”]( 8/8/2017 8:41:45 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Now that North Korea has achieved the capability of attacking the continental United States, they have escalated their rhetoric — but directed it toward a surprising target. After Donald Trump threatened the Kim regime with “fire and [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Mitch McConnell grumbles: Trump had “excessive expectations” for how quickly Congress can act]( 8/8/2017 8:01:33 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments “Part of the reason I think people feel we’re underperforming,” says a frustrated McConnell in the clip below, “is because too many artificial [procedural] deadlines … may not have been fully understood” by the president. Is [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Gasland: Cabot Oil sues anti-fracking resident of Dimock, PA for $5 milliion]( 8/8/2017 7:21:01 PM John Sexton 0 Comments In April, a Dimock, PA resident named Ray Kemble filed a lawsuit against drilling company Cabot Oil and Gas. Two months later, Kemble and his lawyers withdrew that lawsuit. Now Cabot is suing Kemble claiming his lawsuit was frivolous and an attempt to [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Blackwater founder: It’s time to replace U.S. troops with military contractors in Afghanistan]( 8/8/2017 6:41:08 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments I’m curious to see a poll on this. Under normal circumstances I’d bet public opinion would run heavily opposed to replacing American soldiers with guns for hire. After 16 years in Afghanistan, though, with no end in sight and the vast [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Professor: It’s time to regulate sex robots]( 8/8/2017 6:01:25 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Having solved all the other problems in the world… The College Fix brings us a story of a law professor who may have a wee bit too much time on his hands. John Banzhaf, of George Washington University Law School (which was named after a slave [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump warns North Korea: You will be met with “fire and fury” the likes of which the world has never seen; Update: McCain grumbles; Update: North Korea threatens Guam]( 8/8/2017 5:31:41 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments A soundbite like this, in which the president of the United States more or less explicitly threatens to nuke someone, really deserves its own thread. Says Ken White, “Who the f*** let the President watch Game of Thrones right before a press [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [The media misled readers about the Google memo]( 8/8/2017 5:01:57 PM John Sexton 0 Comments On Saturday Gizmodo published a story titled, “Exclusive: Here’s The Full 10-Page Anti-Diversity Screed Circulating Internally at Google.” Other news outlets quickly followed Gizmodo’s lead: Fox News: Google employee’s [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Dershowitz to Waters: Stop calling me racist]( 8/8/2017 4:31:23 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments How did Alan Dershowitz get to the point of being called a racist? The famed law professor wondered about that himself last night on Fox News. At issue was his analysis of Robert Mueller’s decision to use a Washington DC grand jury, which included [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Miami-Dade is cashing in on abandoning their sanctuary city policies]( 8/8/2017 4:01:31 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments The municipal leaders in Chicago, Baltimore, San Francisco and a bunch of other places may want to take note of this story. It might save them a lot of headaches in the future and relieve some of their budget problems to boot. Down in Florida, Miami-Dade [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Pentagon assessment: North Korea has miniaturized nuclear warheads for ICBMs]( 8/8/2017 3:31:10 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments I’m not sure what we’re waiting for. Obviously we’ll never trust these lunatics not to order a first strike on the U.S. once they’re able. The Kim regime said just yesterday, in fact, that they won’t use nukes against any [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Will Bernie Sanders insistence on single-payer spoil Democrats’ chances in 2018?]( 8/8/2017 3:01:43 PM John Sexton 0 Comments While the divisions in the Republican party continue to be front in center, especially when it comes to Obamacare repeal, divisions in the Democratic party are just as serious. Last year we saw Hillary Clinton lose a close election after Bernie Sanders [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Today’s hot topics: Google dissent, End of Discussion, North Korea’s nuclear breakout, real-life Taken and modern-day slavery, & more]( 8/8/2017 2:31:01 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Once again, I get to step outside the box and guest host on Relevant Radio’s Drew Mariani Show from 3-6 ET today! The Catholic talk-radio network is heard nationwide on the air after its merger with Immaculate Heart Radio, as well as online and through [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Elizabeth Warren sort of announces her future plans]( 8/8/2017 2:01:23 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Will she or won’t she? Only her hair dresser knows. Elizabeth Warren was the source of endless speculation during the early stages of the 2016 election, with many far left liberals not just hoping, but praying that she would jump into the race. [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Princeton president: Sure, we use race in admissions decisions]( 8/8/2017 12:31:46 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments “It’s tough to get into Princeton,” Chris Eisgruber tells CBS News reporter Tony Dokoupil, and that much is certain. What’s in question is whether it’s tougher for some than others on criteria other than pure academics. [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Liberal efforts to erase confederate history run into a snag]( 8/8/2017 12:01:32 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments It seems that a group of Democrats found their way onto Fort Hamilton army base in New York recently. (Or more likely talked to someone who did.) It’s a really beautiful base if you ever get the chance to visit and, if not, there are some lovely [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [New Hampshire: Kasich 52, Trump 40]( 8/8/2017 11:21:14 AM Allahpundit 0 Comments Alternate headline: “Kasich hopes to improve on 2016 performance by winning two primaries instead of one.” If this poll is anywhere near accurate come 2019, Trump would be better off not running for reelection. As it is, I suspect he’d [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Latest Headlines: We pick, you click.] [“[T]he Vice-President can’t believe what the f*** is going on”]( [Poll: Voters support Trump-backed immigration bill]( [FBI conducted predawn raid of former Trump campaign chairman Manafort’s home in July]( [Trump is losing his battle with the Republican Party]( [Discrimination against men at Google]( [What’s the logic behind Trump’s threat to North Korea?]( [Harvard’s discrimination against Asian Americans must end]( [Pastor Robert Jeffress: “God has given Trump authority to take out Kim Jong-un”]( [Trump endorses Luther Strange over Mo Brooks in Alabama’s GOP Senate primary]( [Tillerson: Trump sent Kim a message in a language he’d understand]( [Are we all racists deep inside?]( [The man who wrote those password rules has a new tip: N3v$r M1^d!]( [Does the U.S. military need a space corps?]( [The early deaths of Appalachians]( [Getting Trump out of my brain]( [Are index funds evil?]( [Spare me your insecurity-induced Dunkirk envy]( [The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were war crimes. 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