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-usFri, 08 May 2026 08:14:03 -0400<![CDATA[Luke Rosiak, an outstanding reporter for the Daily Wire, has been posting an explosive series on his investigation into welfare fraud in Ohio, which appears to be another epic center of primarily Somali fraud.&nbsp;]]>Fri, 08 May 2026 08:00:00 -0400<![CDATA[David Strom]]><![CDATA[Keith Ellison]]><![CDATA[Libs of TikTok]]><![CDATA[Medicaid]]><![CDATA[Ohio]]>https://hotair.com/david-strom/2026/05/08/the-ohio-fraud-will-blow-you-away-n3814713<![CDATA[It's an ancient blogging art, and everybody knew their part, from a feint into a link and a tabbing from the click ...]]>Thu, 07 May 2026 22:00:33 -0400<![CDATA[Ed Morrissey]]><![CDATA[2028 Elections]]><![CDATA[Democrat Party]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Iran]]><![CDATA[Jeffrey Epstein]]>https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2026/05/07/thursdays-final-word-n3814709<![CDATA[I keep seeing bits of news about this but I haven't really been paying attention to it. So if you're in the same boat (pun intended) consider this your primer. Let's start with a timeline courtesy of the AP:]]>Thu, 07 May 2026 21:20:41 -0400<![CDATA[John Sexton]]><![CDATA[Argentina]]><![CDATA[South Africa]]>https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2026/05/07/whats-going-on-with-the-hantavirus-cruise-ship-outbreak-n3814721<![CDATA[For the first part of the debate jointly hosted by NBC LA and Telemundo, I had to check in with my Red State girlfriend, Jennie Van Laar, on X.]]>Thu, 07 May 2026 20:40:25 -0400<![CDATA[Beege Welborn]]><![CDATA[2026 Elections]]><![CDATA[Karen Bass]]><![CDATA[Los Angeles]]><![CDATA[Media Bias]]><![CDATA[Spencer Pratt]]>https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2026/05/07/i-got-to-watch-some-of-that-la-mayoral-debate-last-night-n3814718<![CDATA[You probably remember this attack which happened in Boulder last June. A group of mostly elderly Jewish people went into a city park to protest and demand the release of Jewish hostages taken by Hamas. A man later identified as Mohamed Sabry Soliman showed up and attacked the group with Molotov cocktails.]]>Thu, 07 May 2026 20:00:16 -0400<![CDATA[John Sexton]]><![CDATA[Antisemitism]]><![CDATA[Colorado]]><![CDATA[Crime]]>https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2026/05/07/free-palestine-firebomber-sentenced-to-life-in-prison-n3814720<![CDATA[As Beege wrote earlier today, Keir Starmer is headed for an epic beatdown in the council elections being held.&nbsp;]]>Thu, 07 May 2026 19:20:40 -0400<![CDATA[David Strom]]><![CDATA[2026 Elections]]><![CDATA[Energy]]><![CDATA[Keir Starmer]]><![CDATA[United Kingdom]]>https://hotair.com/david-strom/2026/05/07/ed-miliband-for-pm-n3814702<![CDATA[I think it has been pretty obvious for a long time that AOC's fundamental belief about capitalism is that it's a bad system which only exists because rich people want to take advantage of poor people.&nbsp;]]>Thu, 07 May 2026 18:15:33 -0400<![CDATA[John Sexton]]><![CDATA[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez]]><![CDATA[Economy]]><![CDATA[Taxes]]>https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2026/05/07/aoc-you-cant-earn-a-billion-dollars-n3814714<![CDATA[Looks like Donald Trump and the Pentagon have taken full advantage of the renewed lease of Saudi and Kuwaiti airspace. Just hours after negotiating a restart of Project Freedom, US forces have struck targets in the Strait of Hormuz in apparent retaliation for Iran's attacks on shipping and US allies.&nbsp;]]>Thu, 07 May 2026 17:45:21 -0400<![CDATA[Ed Morrissey]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Iran]]><![CDATA[National Security]]><![CDATA[Saudi Arabia]]><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]>https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2026/05/07/new-us-forces-fire-on-hormuz-targets-fox-not-ceasefire-breach-n3814719<![CDATA[Friedrich Merz has hit the one-year mark as German chancellor. It's the job he always wanted, always worked towards, and finally, after years in Angela Merkel's shadow and then being on the sidelines as others took the reins, he won the job by the hair on his skinny chin chin.]]>Thu, 07 May 2026 17:20:13 -0400<![CDATA[Beege Welborn]]><![CDATA[2026 Elections]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Economy]]><![CDATA[Germany]]><![CDATA[Tariffs]]>https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2026/05/07/merz-at-the-one-year-point-as-german-chancellor-n3814716<![CDATA[This is the perfect metaphor for the state of prestige journalism today.&nbsp;]]>Thu, 07 May 2026 16:40:09 -0400<![CDATA[David Strom]]><![CDATA[Fake News]]><![CDATA[Gaza]]><![CDATA[Libs of TikTok]]><![CDATA[The New York Times]]>https://hotair.com/david-strom/2026/05/07/nyt-photographer-gets-pulitzer-for-hoax-photo-n3814708<![CDATA[Alas, poor Steven Cohen, we hardly knew ye ... oh, wait, we only knew ye too well. Tennessee's lone congressional Democrat faces tough sledding in the midterms now that the Tennessee legislature has started the redistricting process. Cohen represents the Volunteer State's 9th CD, which up to now is the state's lone majority-minority district crafted under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. For 20 years, Cohen has held the seat that legislators had crafted for a black candidate, which made the whole racial-gerrymandering process in Tennessee a big bust.]]>Thu, 07 May 2026 16:00:58 -0400<![CDATA[Ed Morrissey]]><![CDATA[2026 Elections]]><![CDATA[Democrat Party]]><![CDATA[Gerrymandering]]><![CDATA[Redistricting]]><![CDATA[Tennessee]]>https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2026/05/07/hakeems-folly-tn-house-passes-redistricted-map-mississippi-next-n3814707<![CDATA[I wanted to give you all a quick update on the offshore wind farm that's been nothing but trouble since its inception - Vineyard Wind, off the Nantucket coast.]]>Thu, 07 May 2026 14:40:09 -0400<![CDATA[Beege Welborn]]><![CDATA[Climate Change]]><![CDATA[Energy]]><![CDATA[Green Energy]]><![CDATA[Lawsuit]]><![CDATA[Massachusetts]]>https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2026/05/07/vineyard-wind-lawsuit-spinning-away-n3814703<![CDATA[OK. I have been doing my best to read the Trump tea leaves, figure out the Art of the Deal, and parse all the information out there so that I can figure out Donald Trump's strategy in the Iran War.&nbsp;]]>Thu, 07 May 2026 14:00:31 -0400<![CDATA[David Strom]]>https://hotair.com/david-strom/2026/05/07/is-trump-chickening-out-on-iran-n3814706<![CDATA[In 2020 Britain's National Health Service commissioned an investigation into the medical research supporting gender affirming care for children. Dr. Hilary Cass spent four years gathering evidence as part of what became known as the Cass Review. Her findings were published in April 2024 and they concluded that the medical research behind many aspects of gender affirming for kids was weak.]]>Thu, 07 May 2026 13:20:24 -0400<![CDATA[John Sexton]]><![CDATA[Healthcare]]><![CDATA[Science]]><![CDATA[Transgender]]><![CDATA[United Kingdom]]>https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2026/05/07/vindicated-british-medical-association-drops-opposition-to-cass-report-n3814701<![CDATA[Imagine going to court to force the release of investigative material that ends up proving your own guilt. Actually, we don't have to imagine that at all. Democrats did that with their push to release the Jeffrey Epstein files, which then ended careers for high-profile progressives and Democrats.&nbsp;]]>Thu, 07 May 2026 12:40:00 -0400<![CDATA[Ed Morrissey]]><![CDATA[Democrat Party]]><![CDATA[DNC]]><![CDATA[Joe Biden]]><![CDATA[Kamala Harris]]>https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2026/05/07/too-fun-to-check-kamala-demands-release-of-dncs-2024-autopsy-n3814697<![CDATA[Wales is very concerned that toddlers might be getting away with hate crimes, as they so often do.&nbsp;]]>Thu, 07 May 2026 12:00:52 -0400<![CDATA[David Strom]]><![CDATA[Critical Race Theory]]><![CDATA[Education]]><![CDATA[United Kingdom]]><![CDATA[Woke]]><![CDATA[Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion]]>https://hotair.com/david-strom/2026/05/07/racist-toddlers-british-teachers-told-to-report-them-to-police-n3814700<![CDATA[Could this be the swan song for the embattled and inept Prime Minister of England?]]>Thu, 07 May 2026 11:20:49 -0400<![CDATA[Beege Welborn]]><![CDATA[2026 Elections]]><![CDATA[Keir Starmer]]><![CDATA[Polling]]><![CDATA[United Kingdom]]>https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2026/05/07/starmergeddon-n3814681<![CDATA[Has Donald Trump made Iran a deal it can't refuse? Or will Ahmad Vahidi try playing Michael Corleone from the sequel not just to The Godfather but also to Barack Obama's JCPOA?]]>Thu, 07 May 2026 10:40:00 -0400<![CDATA[Ed Morrissey]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]><![CDATA[Iran]]><![CDATA[National Security]]><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]>https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2026/05/07/vito-or-michael-the-deal-iran-cant-refuse-n3814696<![CDATA[Liberal intellectuals love Barack Obama. He is smart, good-looking, and has great sartorial skills (that pants crease!), and talks exactly how they want to themselves.&nbsp;]]>Thu, 07 May 2026 10:00:00 -0400<![CDATA[David Strom]]><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]><![CDATA[Democrat Party]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Fox News]]><![CDATA[Republican Party]]>https://hotair.com/david-strom/2026/05/07/obama-is-the-1-gaslighter-n3814675<![CDATA[Greek tragedies usually hinge on punishment for hubris. This looks more like a Beltway-geek farce.]]>Thu, 07 May 2026 09:20:00 -0400<![CDATA[Ed Morrissey]]><![CDATA[2026 Elections]]><![CDATA[Hakeem Jeffries]]><![CDATA[Redistricting]]><![CDATA[Ron DeSantis]]><![CDATA[Supreme Court]]>https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2026/05/07/punchbowl-hakeems-end-zone-dance-may-have-been-a-safety-n3814695