https://hotair.com/archive/feed/HotAir is the leading conservative blog for breaking news and commentary covering the Biden administration, politics, media, culture, and current elections.en-usWed, 02 Sep 2026 15:41:37 -0400<![CDATA[Give Abdul El-Sayed this much credit: at least he's targeting actual voters with this ad. His "Blues Clues" ad during the Michigan primary on mail-in ballots aimed at the Peaked In Romper Room demo. El-Sayed's latest video testimonial from a campaign rally was even worse, a painful-to-watch testimony from a frightened woman closely flanked and "coached" by Mallory McMorrow and El-Sayed to get through a boilerplate "man of the people" endorsement.&nbsp;]]>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 15:20:00 -0400<![CDATA[Ed Morrissey]]><![CDATA[2026 Elections]]><![CDATA[Democrat Party]]><![CDATA[Michigan]]><![CDATA[Socialism]]><![CDATA[Abdul El-Sayed]]>https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2026/09/02/swipe-left-el-sayeds-senate-island-dating-app-ad-n3818619<![CDATA[Last month I wrote about a Wyoming trans activist named Rihanna Kelver. Kelver is a trans woman who got into an altercation in the street about a year ago with a man named Scott Durham.&nbsp;]]>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 14:30:14 -0400<![CDATA[John Sexton]]><![CDATA[Crime]]><![CDATA[Transgender]]><![CDATA[Wyoming]]>https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2026/09/02/wyoming-trans-activist-will-face-prosecution-n3818632<![CDATA[Yesterday, CNN unearthed some comments James Talarico, the Democrat running for Senate in Texas, made about capitalism back in 2020. Ed covered Talarico's comments and the story about them by CNN's Andrew Kaczynski.]]>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 12:50:43 -0400<![CDATA[John Sexton]]><![CDATA[CNN]]><![CDATA[Socialism]]><![CDATA[James Talarico]]>https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2026/09/02/cnn-is-capitalism-tied-to-white-supremacy-n3818624<![CDATA[Alternate headline: Mike Johnson Looks Like a Genius – Again.]]>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 12:00:44 -0400<![CDATA[Ed Morrissey]]><![CDATA[Democrat Party]]><![CDATA[Hakeem Jeffries]]><![CDATA[House of Representatives]]><![CDATA[Mike Johnson]]><![CDATA[Socialism]]>https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2026/09/02/masks-dropped-dsa-poached-dems-suddenly-get-tough-on-anti-socialism-resolution-n3818623<![CDATA[Four days until voters in the former East German state of Saxony-Anhalt go to the polls to elect their government.]]>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 11:00:08 -0400<![CDATA[Beege Welborn]]><![CDATA[2026 Elections]]><![CDATA[Cybersecurity]]><![CDATA[Germany]]><![CDATA[National Security]]><![CDATA[NATO]]>https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2026/09/02/whistling-crowds-harass-chancellor-merz-four-days-from-critical-regional-election-n3818622<![CDATA[I can't say I remember all of my high school chemistry and physics education, but I do remember the concept about water boiling. Under normal atmospheric pressure, 212 degrees is the magic temperature for it to begin bubbling off into steam in earnest. But if you can pressurize the container holding the water, doubling its surroundings in atmospheric pressure, you get an additional 36 degrees of heat before boiling begins. That's why cars and trucks for a very long time have had pressurized cooling systems for engines.&nbsp;Don't worry, I'm not going to geek out on science for the rest of this column. I bring it up in order show that cars and water have a very symbiotic relationship, provided that they're used in the right way. And when they're not, as is happening with increasing frequency inside Iran, we're about to see what happens when pressure reaches its critical point.&nbsp;An important sequence of events took place in the Middle East in the last week, and much of it was very predictable based upon economic conditions deteriorating rapidly inside Iran that&nbsp;we covered last week. &nbsp;Without any revenue, gasoline, grain, or weapons flowing into the Islamic Republic, and nothing to generate revenue leaving, the IRGC could not stand still and starve along with 93 million Iranians. The status quo of the blockade with the addition of further sanctions rolled out in Operation Economic Outcast was not sustainable. They had to lash out in order to change the equation. The last straw for the regime? De-mining the Strait of Hormuz.&nbsp;As President Trump is fond of saying, Iran's Navy is gone. What they had left was speedboats with machine guns tied to them. Most of those are gone now, too. But late last week, the IRGC began scrambling together a ragtag group of naval volunteers into whatever they could find that would float, and fashion a few more mines to begin the process of closing the Strait anew. There were reports that the Iranians wanted to deploy rockets with mines as payloads and drop them into the Strait, as absurd as that sounds. Of course, Centcom had a pretty good idea they would try something, and unlike Iran, our Navy and Air Force have the ability to watch them.&nbsp;On Sunday, targets on Larak Island, one of the channel islands in the Strait of Hormuz, the same island &nbsp;the IRGC envisioned would be the proverbial toll booth collecting fees from tankers and freighters, were destroyed. And according to several open source reports in Israel and around the region, it was a direct hit. How do we know? The Iranians immediately launched nine missiles in response at...Jordan.&nbsp;]]>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 10:00:00 -0400<![CDATA[Duane Patterson]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Iran]]><![CDATA[Israel]]><![CDATA[Jordan]]>https://hotair.com/generalissimo/2026/09/02/what-is-irans-boiling-point-we-may-be-very-close-to-finding-out-n3818597<![CDATA[Er … maybe Donald Trump? Repeatedly?]]>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 09:00:00 -0400<![CDATA[Ed Morrissey]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Iran]]><![CDATA[Islamic Terrorism]]><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]><![CDATA[Truth Social]]>https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2026/09/02/trump-who-says-i-want-a-deal-with-iran-n3818596<![CDATA[I love browsing tabs, dreaming of browsing tabs, you love browsing tabs ...&nbsp;]]>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 22:00:00 -0400<![CDATA[Ed Morrissey]]><![CDATA[Academia]]><![CDATA[CBS News]]><![CDATA[Education]]><![CDATA[Student Loans]]><![CDATA[Abdul El-Sayed]]>https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2026/09/01/tuesdays-final-word-n3818589<![CDATA[The phrase "society of cheats" comes from this recent headline at the Atlantic. The author of this story teaches a class on ethics at both Harvard and the University of Chicago. He was writing primarily about the campus environment but it's not hard to see what that environment will produce for society as a whole if the cheating continues.]]>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 21:00:14 -0400<![CDATA[John Sexton]]><![CDATA[Academia]]><![CDATA[Artificial Intelligence]]><![CDATA[Education]]><![CDATA[The Atlantic]]>https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2026/09/01/ai-is-creating-a-society-of-cheats-n3818595<![CDATA[What it boiled down to is that CBS News (mind you, one would think NEWS would be the operative word here, but it hasn't been for so long. People got kinda used to the crappy CBS) found some deleted old tweets from that dashing Islamic senate candidate from Michigan that might be construed as unhelpful to his campaign, depending on what jaundiced eye was reading them.]]>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 20:00:52 -0400<![CDATA[Beege Welborn]]><![CDATA[2026 Elections]]><![CDATA[Bari Weiss]]><![CDATA[CBS News]]><![CDATA[James Talarico]]><![CDATA[Abdul El-Sayed]]>https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2026/09/01/bari-weiss-is-a-terrible-jewish-person-ad-nauseum-edition-n3818592<![CDATA[Things are really heating up again in Iran after an attack against two ships in the Strait of Hormuz yesterday.]]>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 19:00:12 -0400<![CDATA[John Sexton]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Iran]]>https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2026/09/01/us-launches-new-attacks-on-iran-n3818594<![CDATA[&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;Ladies and Gentlemen, I’m happy to announce the lineup for the 2026 Anti-Communist Film Festival. We have some wonderful films we are screening:&nbsp;The Lives of Others,&nbsp;Night Crossing,&nbsp;Hail, Caesar!, Pikleck’s Report,&nbsp;The Killing Fields,&nbsp;Red Dawn.&nbsp;]]>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 18:30:14 -0400<![CDATA[Mark Judge]]><![CDATA[Communism]]><![CDATA[History]]><![CDATA[Marxism]]><![CDATA[Movies]]><![CDATA[Woke]]>https://hotair.com/mark-judge/2026/09/01/its-here-officially-announcing-the-2026-anti-communist-film-festival-n3818582<![CDATA[Today, the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement held a hearing. The express purpose of the session was to explore how the sanctuary policies of specific states - Colorado, California, and Maryland - were putting the interests of illegal aliens ahead of the safety and security of the citizens who lived there.]]>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 16:10:35 -0400<![CDATA[Beege Welborn]]><![CDATA[Illegal Alien]]><![CDATA[Illegal Immigration]]><![CDATA[Sanctuary Cities]]>https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2026/09/01/a-father-named-marcus-coleman-just-took-congressional-dems-to-the-woodshed-n3818588<![CDATA[This weekend, the Washington Post lamented the success of Donald Trump's immigration enforcement by claiming that it has resulted in record numbers of 'non-criminal' illegals being deported. As I wrote yesterday, the real story was that the Department of Homeland Security has found, detained, and deported record numbers of illegal aliens overall – and almost two-thirds of them had separate criminal records by WaPo's own numbers. That's more than twice the average rate among American adults (29.5% according to PolitiFact).]]>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 15:20:00 -0400<![CDATA[Ed Morrissey]]><![CDATA[DHS]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[ICE]]><![CDATA[Illegal Immigration]]><![CDATA[New York]]>https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2026/09/01/alert-the-wapo-dhs-operation-rotten-apple-nets-2200-illegals-including-serious-felons-n3818579<![CDATA[Today is the day that Judge Tony Graf is hearing final arguments from both sides before he issues a decision about whether the prosecution of Tyler Robinson will head to a trial. This is called a bind-over decision.]]>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 14:30:27 -0400<![CDATA[John Sexton]]><![CDATA[Charlie Kirk]]><![CDATA[Crime]]><![CDATA[Law and Order]]><![CDATA[Utah]]>https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2026/09/01/judge-to-decide-if-tyler-robinsons-case-goes-to-trial-n3818586<![CDATA[Well, this is a fine surprise kettle of fish for his replacement from the milquetoast, mushmouth, authoritarian, disgraced former Prime Minister.&nbsp;]]>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 13:40:52 -0400<![CDATA[Beege Welborn]]><![CDATA[England]]><![CDATA[Keir Starmer]]><![CDATA[NATO]]><![CDATA[Andy Burnham]]>https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2026/09/01/keir-starmer-just-quit-parliament-too-n3818580<![CDATA[A woman with a history of mental health issues went on a stabbing spree yesterday in Times Square. She stabbed two people, one of whom died, before police shot her.]]>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 12:50:04 -0400<![CDATA[John Sexton]]><![CDATA[Crime]]><![CDATA[Mental Health]]><![CDATA[New York]]>https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2026/09/01/deranged-woman-with-knives-kills-one-person-in-times-square-n3818581<![CDATA[As a Texan, James Talarico makes a pretty good ... Californian. Politically speaking, Talarico's appeal would be even more limited to the Berkeley/San Francisco/Hollywood version of California. And now that the general-election season has kicked off more or less officially, Ken Paxton and the GOP want to make sure everyone in the Lone Star State understands just how poorly Talarico fits.&nbsp;]]>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 12:00:00 -0400<![CDATA[Ed Morrissey]]><![CDATA[2026 Elections]]><![CDATA[Climate Change]]><![CDATA[Ken Paxton]]><![CDATA[Texas]]><![CDATA[James Talarico]]>https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2026/09/01/talarico-in-private-i-want-to-end-capitalism-and-texas-oil-n3818575<![CDATA[Maybe, just schmaybe, those cod-clasping Vikings in Iceland knew what they were doing on Sunday evening, when, by the hairs on their bearded chinny chinchins, they extricated themselves for the foreseeable future from any discussions about becoming a European Union vassal state.]]>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 11:00:26 -0400<![CDATA[Beege Welborn]]><![CDATA[2026 Elections]]><![CDATA[Economy]]><![CDATA[European Union]]><![CDATA[Germany]]>https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2026/09/01/rand-smiles-von-der-leyen-tells-eu-citizens-all-your-monies-are-belong-to-us-n3818577<![CDATA[Will Letitia James face any consequences for using the Attorney General's office to persecute political opponents? Or will voters in New York reward her for doing, well, pretty much what she explicitly promised to accomplish?]]>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 10:00:41 -0400<![CDATA[Ed Morrissey]]><![CDATA[2026 Elections]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Letitia James]]><![CDATA[New York]]>https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2026/09/01/whistleblower-ny-ag-ordered-vendettas-on-political-opponents-including-trump-n3818574