HotAir Daily Express 08/29/2017

[Hot Air Daily Express]( [Follow us on Facebook]( [Home]([Green Room]([Archive]([The Ed Morrissey Show]([Print]([Forward]( [Will Hollywood get the message? Summer movie revenue plummets]( 8/29/2017 10:41:47 AM Andrew Malcolm 0 Comments If people don’t want to go to the movies, you can’t stop them. And that’s what happened this summer for a variety of reasons. By the end of this coming holiday weekend, Hollywood’s domestic summer box office will be down a [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Maryland University abandons state song. Guess why]( 8/29/2017 10:01:47 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments The University of Maryland marching band will no longer be playing the state song, “Maryland, My Maryland” at upcoming school events. Given the current arc of progressive action in blue states, the government may be looking into the same [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]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Booming ICBM rhetoric great for bomb shelter business]( 8/29/2017 9:21:29 AM Andrew Malcolm 0 Comments Not so long ago — perhaps just a few months even — the idea of Americans preparing bomb shelters to protect families from nuclear attack would have seemed humorously retro, quite 1950’s. “Duck and Cover,” as if school desks [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Today’s hot State Fair topics: Helping Houston, North Korea’s new antics, health care reform, clean fuel, and the latest Food on a Stick!]( 8/29/2017 8:41:09 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments The Minnesota State Fair returns to the Fairgrounds, and so does Hot Air at the Fair! All this week, local Salem Radio affiliate AM 1280 The Patriot will have me on the air from 8-10 am CT, talking both national and local politics. Today, we’ll try [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [This morning’s Hurricane Harvey news doesn’t look good at all. UPDATE: The Addicks dam has topped]( 8/29/2017 8:01:25 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments The rain has, at least for the moment, slowed down in Houston this morning. But that doesn’t mean that it’s stopped and now a new problem is threatening the city in a major way. We’ll be keeping our eyes on the two primary safeguards [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [US-backed SDF commander: ISIS to get evicted from Raqqa in two months?]( 8/28/2017 10:01:49 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Less of a timeline than a prediction, this commander’s ETA on victory over the capital of ISIS may seem overly optimistic. After all, the battle for ISIS’ other prominent urban center, Mosul, took nearly nine months, and killed more than [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Antifa chants at Berkeley: “No Trump, no wall, no USA at all”]( 8/28/2017 9:21:33 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments It’s exceptionally stupid to proclaim yourself literally anti-American when some of your fellow travelers on the left are working hard to portray you as defending American values from the alt-right. But then, most radicals are exceptionally [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [China: Don’t sanction our friends in Venezuela]( 8/28/2017 8:41:52 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments We may have gotten China to reluctantly go along with some sanctions on North Korea, but it seems we’ll have a tougher road ahead of us when it comes to Venezuela. President Trump announced another series of U.S. sanctions on Nicolas Maduro’s [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Report: Trump “livid” with Gary Cohn, Rex Tillerson]( 8/28/2017 8:01:20 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Livid at the two guys in his inner circle who’ve shanked him publicly over his Charlottesville comments? Yeah, I can believe that. Trump's dilemma within his government right now (or one of them) – he is said to be livid w both Cohn and [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Should free speech be protected on social media?]( 8/28/2017 7:21:37 PM John Sexton 0 Comments When the neo-nazi website Daily Stormer was shut down I wrote that GoDaddy had every right to stop hosting the domain of a group that was making the company look bad by association. Legally I still think that’s accurate. The First Amendment [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Breaking: North Korea fires missile over Japan; Update: Pentagon says no threat to US]( 8/28/2017 6:26:51 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments At least it wasn’t Guam, right? Er … not exactly. Japan issued an angry response after North Korea launched a ballistic missile over Hokkaido, the first time in almost 20 years that Pyongyang has violated Japan’s sovereign air [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump: Arpaio pardon pretty much the same as the Rich, Rosenberg pardons, right?]( 8/28/2017 6:01:54 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Not really, no, but bear with Donald Trump for a moment. Apparently surprised by the backlash over his pardon of Joe Arpaio on Friday, Trump told a joint press conference covering the visit of Finland’s president that “I stand by my pardon of [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump lawyer: He knew about the Moscow hotel plan during the campaign and signed a letter of intent]( 8/28/2017 5:31:46 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Possibly the best evidence we’ll ever have that the president really, really didn’t expect to become president. Imagine him trying to defend the building of a new Trump-branded hotel in Moscow during a campaign in which Hillary Clinton was [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Michael Moore: Trump will win re-election unless we undercut the electoral college]( 8/28/2017 5:01:05 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Michael Moore predicted Trump would win the 2016 election. Now he’s predicting Trump will win re-election unless changes are made to the electoral college. From Fast Company: Filmmaker and activist Michael Moore tells Fast Companythat the president [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [CNN ponders: why aren’t the SCOTUS justices attacking Trump?]( 8/28/2017 4:31:15 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Joan Biskupic is a CNN legal analyst and their Supreme Court biographer. This week her analysis takes a turn toward mind reading as she examines the recent pardon of Sheriff Joe Arpaio by President Trump. But rather than focusing on the issue of the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [While we watched Harvey, North Korea tested new gear]( 8/28/2017 4:01:32 PM Andrew Malcolm 0 Comments While Americans watched in dismay media coverage of the ongoing slow-motion devastation of Hurricane Harvey in Texas, North Korea staged new missile tests, this time three shorter-range missiles launched simultaneously. It was another flouting of U.S. [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [2015 Felix Sater email to Trump lawyer: “I will get Putin on this program and we will get Donald elected”; Update: Lawyer asked Putin spokesman for help with hotel deal]( 8/28/2017 3:31:11 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments If you don’t know who Sater is, read this morning’s post. The NYT got copies of the emails he sent to Trump lawyer Michael Cohen in November 2015 and, uhhhh, they don’t “scan well,” let’s just say. An email in the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Kathy Griffin: That press conference where I acted like a victim wasn’t helpful]( 8/28/2017 3:01:05 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Everyone remembers Kathy Griffin holding up a bloody, severed head intended to look like President Trump back in May. Hours after the stunt went viral, Griffin put out an apology video in which she said, “I went way too far.” But three days [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Emmanuel Macron no longer the golden boy of France]( 8/28/2017 2:31:31 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments I’m old enough to remember when Emmanuel Macron defeated Marine Le Pen in the French Presidential elections and was quickly described as the new leader of the free world. (He was also almost immediately proclaimed the World’s Sexiest G7 [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Great news: Hillary to finally make a campaign appearance in …]( 8/28/2017 2:01:45 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Better late than never? Maybe not. Hillary Clinton’s efforts to sell her campaign memoir What Happened will push her to do something she never did during her failed presidential bid — pay a visit to the state of Wisconsin: Hillary [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Joe Arpaio: I might primary Jeff Flake]( 8/28/2017 1:31:22 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments He’s 85. And even if he were half as old as that, this would still be bananas. “I’m sure getting a lot of people around the state asking me” to challenge Flake, said Arpaio, who served 24 years as sheriff before losing reelection [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Poll: Majority of Americans think Google was wrong to fire James Damore]( 8/28/2017 1:01:03 PM John Sexton 0 Comments A Harvard-Harris survey found a majority of Americans think Google was wrong to fire James Damore for writing a memo about the company’s diversity practices. From the Hill: Fifty-five percent of those polled in the latest Harvard-Harris survey said [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Did Kansas welfare reform move more people back into the workforce?]( 8/28/2017 12:31:47 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Kansas Governor Sam Brownback’s tax cut plan may have turned out to be a “spectacular failure” (because the state failed to cut spending as the second half of the formula) but one of his other reform initiatives is receiving high marks. [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Not for the last time, Kasich vows no 2020 unity ticket]( 8/28/2017 12:01:33 PM Andrew Malcolm 0 Comments For someone who professes no interest in a 2020 presidential run, Ohio Gov. John Kasich sure makes himself available as a Sunday morning-show regular to deny that he’s planning to challenge fellow Republican President Trump. The 65-year-old [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump business was trying to swing deal for Moscow hotel during presidential campaign]( 8/28/2017 11:21:47 AM Allahpundit 0 Comments Anti-Trumpers are buzzing about this because it has all the makings of a true Russiagate bombshell — Trump! Russia! money! secret deals! — but doesn’t deliver much of anything. It’s noteworthy only to the extent that it raises the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Latest Headlines: We pick, you click.] [Dems wrestle with how much to focus on Confederate statues]( [Texas floodwaters pose unique health risks, U.S. experts say]( [Joel Osteen responds to accusations of closing church doors to Harvey evacuees]( [Mueller team asking if Trump tried to hide purpose of 2016 meeting]( [White House staff was warned not to admit Gorka last Friday]( [Republican floats measure to kill Mueller probe after six months]( [Kathy Griffin “no longer sorry” for bloodied Trump head photo]( [Mr. President, end DACA]( [South Korea drops eight heavy bombs near North Korea border to show “overwhelming force”]( [Berkeley mayor asks Cal to cancel conservatives’ “Free Speech Week”]( [I can’t get a meeting with the president anymore]( [Our fear of killer robots might doom us all]( [Why Antifa Nazi-punching is just a gift to the right]( [The basis of the universe may not be energy or matter but information]( [The Arpaio pardon was Trump-level political theater from top to bottom]( [The political lynching of Sebastian Gorka]( [Charlottesville’s statue burqas are a sign of liberals’ panic over what they’ve unleashed]( [The grand delusions of Kasich-Hickenlooper 2020]( [How Jared and Ivanka were repelled by Washington’s elite]( [Conservatism is not a suicide pact]( [I am a DREAMer. 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