HotAir Daily Express 10/22/2019

Report: "Sighs and gasps" during testimony as Trump envoy claims he was told there was a quid pro quo with Ukraine

The Deep State's 50+ Year Old Scheme to Confiscate Your Savings The 20-year head of the U.S. Fed, Alan Greenspan, has revealed the long-standing, nasty trick to confiscate the savings of unsuspecting Americans... Are you one of them? ==> Here's the ONE THING Greenspan Says Can Protect Your Savings THR: Will China's influence in Hollywood block No Safe Spaces from theaters? 10/22/2019 5:21:46 PM  Ed Morrissey Surprisingly, the answer to this question appears to be no ... for now. The upcoming documentary No Safe Spaces by comedian Adam Carolla and my friend and colleague Salem* Radio host Dennis Prager opens on Friday. The Hollywood Reporter's Paul Bond writes that its distributor is thus far succeeding in adding "hundreds" of ... More... Report: "Sighs and gasps" during testimony as Trump envoy claims he was told there was a quid pro quo with Ukraine 10/22/2019 4:41:15 PM  Allahpundit Thanks to the secrecy of the proceedings, you can take these breathless reports about today's impeachment testimony as seriously or unseriously as you like. Democrats are reeeeeeeally hyping it... https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/1186692283799916544 https://twitter.com/ShimonPro/status/1186696713710555136 ...but there were lots of moments during Russiagate that were reeeeeeeeally hyped as well, and you know how that turned out. To refresh ... More... A study that claimed to show proof of gender bias in hiring gets a second look 10/22/2019 4:01:17 PM  John Sexton A study of gender bias claimed that orchestras that held "blind auditions," in which performers were hidden behind a screen so judges couldn't determine their sex, were 50 percent more likely to hire women. Here's how the Guardian reported the results back in 2013: Bias cannot be avoided, we just can't ... More... Today's hot #TEMS topics: Hillary trippin', donors tippin', impeachment slippin', Hellbender grippin', and more! 10/22/2019 3:21:45 PM  Ed Morrissey Today on The Ed Morrissey Show (4 pm ET), we have another great lineup for the news of the day! The show will be streamed on Hot Air's Facebook page and embedded here and on the show page for those who are not on Facebook. Join us as we welcome: Andrew Malcolm ... More...   China Just Launched this Attack on the USD   Alan Greenspan Warns of this U.S. Scheme to Confiscate Your Savings   The Little-Known (But Legal) IRS Tax Law to Move Your IRA or 401(k) to Gold Sanitary towel-maker forced to ditch Venus logo for being too female 10/22/2019 2:41:03 PM  Jazz Shaw Really? Do we have to go there? Apparently so... #sigh. Procter & Gamble is the parent company that produces the Always brand line of feminine hygiene products. (You've probably seen the advertisements on television, even if you're a dude.) Some of their packaging for sanitary napkins includes a "venus" symbol ... More... BoJo to EU and Parliament: No delay, or the deal gets it; Update: Accelerated timetable rejected, bill "paused" 10/22/2019 2:01:57 PM  Ed Morrissey If Parliament thought they could box in Boris Johnson with the Benn Act, he has some news for them and the EU. The PM went to Parliament to demand quick action on the enabling legislation for his deal, and with a warning to the Commons and the EU. If they ... More... UConn students face criminal charges -- for saying the N-word 10/22/2019 1:31:45 PM  Allahpundit I'll defer to legal eagles on this, as always. But after reading half a dozen different stories about it, it sure looks unconstitutional to me. And not in a "5-4, depending upon what John Roberts had for breakfast" way either. The facts couldn't be simpler. Three UConn students were strolling through ... More... Naomi Wolf's book canceled after her research was undercut during a radio interview 10/22/2019 1:01:23 PM  John Sexton Naomi Wolf's forthcoming book "Outrages: Sex, Censorship and the Criminalization of Love," has finally been canceled, marking the end of an embarrassing chapter in Wolf's career. The book was initially delayed after a radio host uncovered significant errors in Wolf's research: In June, days before the book was expected ... More... One Baltimore neighborhood is cutting crime... with doorbell cameras 10/22/2019 12:31:12 PM  Jazz Shaw Last month we talked about the way the widespread use of remote doorbell cameras and the technology associated with them are changing suburban life. Cameras such as Amazon Ring, Google Nest, and others are showing up on more and more homes. But it's not just the individual cameras making a ... More... Texas jury: Father can't stop chemical castration, gender change of seven-year-old son 10/22/2019 12:01:14 PM  Ed Morrissey Most seven-year-olds have difficulty deciding on Christmas lists, let alone anything as permanent as gender choice. However, a jury in Texas has ruled against a father's petition for sole custody of his twin seven-year-old boys as a means to protect one from undergoing hormonal gender-change therapy at the hands of ... More... Hillary telling friends: If I thought there was an opening in the primary, I'd consider jumping in 10/22/2019 11:31:57 AM  Allahpundit A tantalizing detail from this NYT piece about establishment Dems wringing their hands over the primary. If you're a Wall Street liberal, you're in a bad place nowadays. After all, the Republican nominee is very much anti-liberal and two of the top three candidates on the Democratic side are very ... More... Brits to Chick-fil-A: "Get the chick out", LGBTQ protest closes pilot shop 10/22/2019 11:01:26 AM  Karen Townsend That didn't take long. Chick-fil-A opened its first location in the U.K. - a pilot shop in the Oracle Mall in Reading, about an hour and a half drive from London on October 10. The shop was granted a six-month lease in the mall. The company has already been told ... More... Predictably, people continue to lash out against Extinction Rebellion 10/22/2019 10:31:35 AM  Jazz Shaw Things have been going increasingly badly for Extinction Rebellion over the past ten days, particularly in Great Britain. John wrote about this previously when commuters (and the Mayor of London) were already lambasting the group. But now it's getting worse. After the Brits began busting up the group's antics, the ... More... New CNN poll: Support for impeachment and removal hits 50% -- while Trump approval ticks up 10/22/2019 10:01:28 AM  Ed Morrissey How can that be? Those two trends in CNN polling would appear to be at least somewhat contradictory, but that neglects the impact of the magic elixir of American politics -- partisanship. For the first time in CNN's series on impeachment, support for Donald Trump's removal from office has hit ... More... Is Trump getting ready to pull the plug on Afghanistan? 10/22/2019 9:21:55 AM  Jazz Shaw We're currently in the middle of the process of pulling all of our troops out of Syria. Or most of them. Or moving them to Iraq, even though the Iraquis are saying they can't stay there. Or something. In any event, it's a tactical shift in strategy that seemed to ... More... Shocker: House treats hyperpartisan Schiff in hyperpartisan manner 10/22/2019 8:41:51 AM  Ed Morrissey If nothing else, yesterday's failed attempt to punish Adam Schiff for his "parody" statement at a House Intelligence Committee is instructive. When the inevitable articles of impeachment emerge over Ukraine-Gate, the 218-185 vote to table Schiff's censure will closely resemble the eventual passing vote. Otherwise, this was as predictable as humidity ... More... NYPD ordered to deal with mentally ill better by... using different words 10/22/2019 8:01:04 AM  Jazz Shaw Everyone seems to agree that we have a mental health crisis on our hands these days and it's a problem that's particularly exacerbated in our larger cities. As if the police don't have enough on their plates as it is, when they show up at the scene of a disturbance ... More... Poll of six key swing states: 53% oppose removing Trump over his handling of Ukraine 10/21/2019 10:41:15 PM  Allahpundit Some of the best polling news Trump has received in awhile, and ironically it comes from his friends at the New York Times. Compounding the irony, some of the worst polling news he's received this year came last week from ... Fox News. Impeachment makes for strange bedfellows. Some polls, like Fox's, ... More... Hillary stole Jimmy Kimmel's bit -- and all sides lambasted her for it 10/21/2019 10:01:30 PM  Karen Townsend Hillary Clinton is the party guest that does not get the hint when her host starts yawning. She doesn't grab her jacket and head for the door with everyone else. She won't leave. Hillary had quite the weekend in social media. First, she said on former Obama adviser David Plouffe's podcast ... More... With polls closing in Canada, Justin Trudeau is still in a dead heat (Update) 10/21/2019 9:21:06 PM  John Sexton Today is election day in Canada and the first set of polls have already closed as I write this. It sounds as if Justin Trudeau's future as Prime Minister is still hanging by a thread at the moment: Voting ended in Newfoundland and Labrador, which account for seven of the 338 ... More... Strib poll: Minnesota still has the blues, folks 10/21/2019 8:41:38 PM  Ed Morrissey Can Donald Trump flip Minnesota back to the GOP in a presidential election for the first time in nearly 50 years? Alas, as Hot Air's resident Land-of-Ten-Thousand-Lakes observer, the task falls upon me to cast a little cold water on the idea, although perhaps not quite as much as today's ... More... Bernie Sanders: It's "outrageous" that certain people would accuse Tulsi Gabbard of being a foreign asset 10/21/2019 8:01:57 PM  Allahpundit There's little downside to Bernie in reviving his 2016 battle with Hillary at this point, even if it means coming to the defense of another candidate. Gabbard herself understands how a war with Clinton might help galvanize progressive voters, which is why she tweeted on Friday at Clinton that "It's ... More... Hmmm: Buttigieg surges to within five points of lead in Iowa as Kamala Harris collapses 10/21/2019 7:31:51 PM  Allahpundit Ed mentioned this poll in passing in his Zuckerberg post earlier but it deserves its own thread. I've overlooked Buttigieg in writing about the primary because we (or at least I) tend to focus on national polls as the best rough measure of the race even though we (er, I) ... More... Chinese state TV threatened NBA commissioner Silver with 'retribution' 10/21/2019 7:01:32 PM  John Sexton Over the weekend, Chinese state television attacked NBA Commissioner Adam Silver, threatening retribution for what it claimed was a lie. Last week Silver claimed the Chinese government had asked him to fire Rockets general manager Daryl Morey over his tweet about Hong Kong: The Chinese government asked the N.B.A. ... More... Poll: The American melting pot isn't quite so melty anymore 10/21/2019 6:31:06 PM  Jazz Shaw We cover enough immigration issues here on a regular basis that it's probably a good idea to keep a finger on the pulse of where America stands on related issues. The latest poll from Scott Rasmussen dips a toe into questions related to this subject, specifically how voters feel about ... More... Inquirer minds want to know: What if you threw a Biden debate party and no one came? 10/21/2019 6:01:56 PM  Ed Morrissey Throughout this election cycle, Joe Biden has dominated the polling for the Democratic nomination for one reason -- electability. But just how much does a potential Biden nomination fire up voters? The Philadelphia Inquirer checked out the response to Team Biden debate parties, and found out that there wasn't any at ... More... 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