HotAir Daily Express 09/19/2017

[Hot Air Daily Express]( [Follow us on Facebook]( [Home]([Green Room]([Archive]([The Ed Morrissey Show]([Print]([Forward]( [Trump TANKS dollar after saying it's "getting too strong"]( [Economists Warn: Your Money Isn't Safe in U.S. Banks - Get the Loophole...]( [Banks Get Green Light to Seize Your Bank Accounts]( [That shooting at Georgia Tech was suicide by cop]( 9/19/2017 10:41:11 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments What with all of the other rioting going on all over the country, you’re to be forgiven if you missed the latest mayhem breaking out around Georgia Tech this week. It resulted from the shooting of a student there by the name of Scout Schultz on [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump at Turtle Bay: “Make the United Nations great … not again”; Live video stream added]( 9/19/2017 10:01:20 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Donald Trump got his first official presidential look at the United Nations yesterday — and the UN got its first official look at Trump, too. He’ll speak at the General Assembly for the first time at roughly 10:30 this morning, but Trump [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]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [American Antifa on trial in France for attacking police (graphic video)]( 9/19/2017 9:21:46 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Here’s a story which is “surprisingly” not getting much attention in the United States. In fact, I wouldn’t have even seen it had one of our readers in Lyon, France named Dylan Kissane not sent in a tip with a link to a story from [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [O’Reilly to Lauer: My firing was “a business decision”]( 9/19/2017 8:41:13 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Television viewers may have wondered why Bill O’Reilly was on NBC’s Today show answering questions about sexual harassment allegations from Matt Lauer. The former Fox News star has a new book out today, Killing England, which gives his take [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump TANKS dollar after saying it's "getting too strong"]( [Economists Warn: Your Money Isn't Safe in U.S. Banks - Get the Loophole...]( [Banks Get Green Light to Seize Your Bank Accounts]( [Someone wants to “overturn” Trump’s pardon of Arpaio]( 9/19/2017 8:01:25 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Harvard law professor Laurence Tribe has established something of a reputation for coming up with some, shall we say… unique interpretations of the Constitution when it suits his needs. This week is no exception and he’s rolled out a doozy. [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump: We might have a parade in Washington next July 4th to showcase our military strength]( 9/18/2017 10:41:19 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments It makes me chuckle that Macron invited him to the Bastille Day parade in France thinking that nothing would impress an ostentatious alpha male quite like some military muscle-flexing, and he was totally right. Months later POTUS is still chattering [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Video: The painfully bad Dan Helmer “Top Gun” ad]( 9/18/2017 10:01:44 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments To cleanse the palate. The first and most important task for a newbie congressional candidate is to get his name out there, right? Make an impression. Do something to make sure voters, most of whom don’t give a wet fart whom their party nominates, [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Investigators wiretapped Manafort’s phones, may have picked up conversations with President Trump]( 9/18/2017 9:21:29 PM John Sexton 0 Comments CNN is reporting that the U.S. government used a FISA warrant to tap the phones of Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort starting sometime last year before the election. The wiretap continued into this year and may even have picked up [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Bloomberg: DoJ opens Equifax insider-trading probe]( 9/18/2017 8:41:09 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Forget the SEC and the FTC — the Department of Justice wants to get in some licks on the Equifax scandal, and their licks could carry prison time. Bloomberg reports today that a US Attorney out of Atlanta has opened a criminal insider-trading probe [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Hillary on Russiagate: I won’t rule out questioning the legitimacy of the election]( 9/18/2017 8:01:57 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Things get going at 26:55 below but stick with it until she starts riffing on the Kenyan presidential election that was overturned. Challenging the legitimacy of the election has been her chief occupation in U.S. politics since November 8th, although [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Evergreen State College settles professor’s lawsuit for $500,000]( 9/18/2017 7:21:00 PM John Sexton 0 Comments In July, professor Bret Weinstein and his wife Heather Heying, who is also a professor at the school, filed a $3.8 million lawsuit against Evergreen State College. The lawsuit claimed the school created a hostile work environment and failed to protect [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Guess what. Hollywood doesn’t care if you watch the Emmys]( 9/18/2017 6:41:32 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments This morning Ed wrote about the anticipated (and delivered) crash and burn of the ratings for last night’s Emmys. I suppose I contributed to that in a small way since I was watching football. In my Twitter feed, I only saw two of the conservatives [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [CBO: We’re not going to make preliminary projections on latest ObamaCare repeal bill]( 9/18/2017 6:01:32 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments A blow for Democrats and perhaps a lucky break for Republicans, who could use a couple in the long-shot effort to get ObamaCare repeal through the Senate. Earlier today, as I noted in this post, Democratic leadership demanded that the Congressional [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [“Shut down ICE!”: Amnesty activists shout down Pelosi over DREAM deal with Trump]( 9/18/2017 5:31:02 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments As of mid-afternoon on Monday, it’s already a cinch you won’t watch anything more enjoyable online this week than this. Remember this post from Friday night? Words can’t capture how funny it’ll be if the open-borders left muscles [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Rolling Stone magazine up for sale]( 9/18/2017 5:01:30 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Jann Wenner and his son Gus, who currently runs Wenner media, announced Sunday they would be selling of Rolling Stone magazine. The NY Times story on the sale opened like this: From a loft in San Francisco in 1967, a 21-year-old named Jann S. Wenner [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trendy socialist proposal gets a thumbs down from Joe Biden]( 9/18/2017 4:31:40 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments It’s the great, grand dream of the more hard core socialists in the Democratic Party and the liberal movement in general. Long seen as impossible, it’s getting a second wind among some of the Bernie and Elizabeth Warren supporters. [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Retiree on pension still has not made enough money, occupies Wall Street … sort of]( 9/18/2017 4:01:32 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Remember when Barack Obama pushed for Wall Street reform by telling a Quincy, Illinois audience that “I do think at a certain point you’ve made enough money?” These days, the former president has picked up a little extra cash by giving more [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Jedediah Bila leaves “The View” — over Hillary interview?]( 9/18/2017 3:31:54 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Watch the first clip below from Clinton’s appearance on the show last week. Bila asks two questions, both fair and both polite. Question one: Amid all the speculation about sexism and the Comey letter and Russia sinking her chances, isn’t it [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Antifa and the normalization of left-wing violence]( 9/18/2017 3:01:04 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Megan McArdle has written a piece for Bloomberg which highlights something that the media continues to gloss over. What we’re seeing on the left today, from Antifa and student protesters, is not normal but is being normalized. Last week the city of [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [California chefs revolt against renewed foie gras ban]( 9/18/2017 2:31:40 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Californians are crazy about banning things (particularly if they have anything to do with conservative values) but sometimes they get a bit carried away and it comes back to bite them. More than half a decade ago the Golden State fell victim to a [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Conway: We’re getting close to 50 on ObamaCare repeal … again]( 9/18/2017 2:01:24 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Third time’s the charm? Kellyanne Conway told Fox & Friends this morning that the third push for ObamaCare repeal looks like it may succeed in the Senate. “We’re getting close to 50 votes,” the White House counselor told the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump lawyer overheard talking about Russiagate at restaurant — by NYT reporter]( 9/18/2017 1:31:50 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments It wasn’t just one Trump lawyer, actually, it was two. And the restaurant is located … next door to the Times’s Washington bureau office. Dude: Here's a photo of Ty Cobb & John Dowd casually & loudly discussing details of [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Day 3 of rioting in St. Louis, 80 arrested]( 9/18/2017 1:01:12 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Sunday in St. Louis was a repeat of the pattern we’ve seen over and over. A peaceful protest march that lasts through part of the day followed by a late-night turn to rioting and vandalism. You can hear the change in the tone being used by police [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [As predicted, the lawnmower kid is now a victim of Trump’s evil regime]( 9/18/2017 12:31:54 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments When John Sexton wrote about 11 year old Frank Giaccio getting to mow the White House lawn, he seemed to be taking a tongue-in-cheek tone when he wondered if anyone would invoke child labor laws to criticize the President. I mean, seriously now… [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Oh my: Prelim ratings for Emmys predict new record … low]( 9/18/2017 12:01:06 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Hey, who’s up for several hours of celebrities droning on about politics and how their audiences are idiots for their electoral choices? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller? At least in terms of preliminary ratings reported by TV Line, the answer [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Latest Headlines: We pick, you click.] [Iraqi Kurds set to vote on independence, panicking neighbors and Washington]( [Russian collusion? 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