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-usThu, 21 May 2026 01:17:30 -0400<![CDATA[Beauty I'd always missed with these tabs before, just what the truth is I can't say anymore ...]]>Wed, 20 May 2026 22:00:01 -0400<![CDATA[Ed Morrissey]]><![CDATA[Antisemitism]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Iran]]><![CDATA[Israel]]><![CDATA[Operation Epic Fury]]>https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2026/05/20/wednesdays-final-word-n3815132<![CDATA[Grade inflation has been a problem at all levels of education but some of the Ivy League schools have been hit particularly hard. This week, faculty at Harvard voted to cap the number of A grades that students can receive.]]>Wed, 20 May 2026 21:00:30 -0400<![CDATA[John Sexton]]><![CDATA[Academia]]><![CDATA[Education]]><![CDATA[Harvard University]]><![CDATA[Massachusetts]]>https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2026/05/20/harvard-votes-to-put-an-end-to-easy-as-n3815142<![CDATA[The latest location for a totally chaotic, totally illegal, totally out-of-control social media organized 'pop-up party' turned out to be Long Branch, New Jersey last night.]]>Wed, 20 May 2026 20:00:30 -0400<![CDATA[Beege Welborn]]><![CDATA[Crime]]><![CDATA[Law and Order]]><![CDATA[New Jersey]]><![CDATA[Riots]]><![CDATA[Ron DeSantis]]>https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2026/05/20/high-spirited-new-jersey-youths-enjoy-pre-labor-day-frolic-at-the-shore-n3815138<![CDATA[Meta announced layoffs for about 8,000 employees which works out to about 10% of the company's workforce. Employees had been told a month ago that this was coming.]]>Wed, 20 May 2026 19:00:37 -0400<![CDATA[John Sexton]]><![CDATA[Artificial Intelligence]]><![CDATA[Big Tech]]><![CDATA[Jobs]]><![CDATA[Meta]]>https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2026/05/20/meta-cuts-8000-jobs-ai-to-blame-n3815141<![CDATA[Zohram Mamdani is turning out to be every bit the socialist know-nothing that many of us on the right predicted he would be. His snarky response to a video of Jeff Bezos today is a case in point.]]>Wed, 20 May 2026 17:00:25 -0400<![CDATA[John Sexton]]><![CDATA[Amazon]]><![CDATA[Jeff Bezos]]><![CDATA[Socialism]]><![CDATA[Taxes]]><![CDATA[Zohran Mamdani]]>https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2026/05/20/mamdani-is-a-socialist-demagogue-relying-on-peoples-ignorance-n3815135<![CDATA[Hey. I don't wanna you-know-what in anybody's Cheerios, but someone needs to start taking a look at Texas Opie, as unappetizing as that sounds.]]>Wed, 20 May 2026 16:10:47 -0400<![CDATA[Beege Welborn]]><![CDATA[2026 Elections]]><![CDATA[Democrat Party]]><![CDATA[Ken Paxton]]><![CDATA[Texas]]><![CDATA[James Talarico]]>https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2026/05/20/texas-opie-leading-both-cornyn-and-paxton-n3815133<![CDATA[The Left and its media lapdogs say “MAGA is dead,” but anyone with eyes can see that President Trump’s mission to Make America Great Again is more alive than ever before.]]>Wed, 20 May 2026 15:35:00 -0400<![CDATA[HotAir Staff]]><![CDATA[2026 Elections]]><![CDATA[Conservatism]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]>https://hotair.com/hot-air-staff/2026/05/20/gop-voters-are-rino-hunting-n3815136<![CDATA[What does one call doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result? In the rest of the world, it's called insanity. In California, it's called progress. Or more accurately, Progress.&nbsp;]]>Wed, 20 May 2026 15:20:00 -0400<![CDATA[Ed Morrissey]]><![CDATA[2026 Elections]]><![CDATA[Democrat Party]]><![CDATA[Homelessness]]><![CDATA[Karen Bass]]><![CDATA[Los Angeles]]>https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2026/05/20/laughing-bass-on-homelessness-17-is-a-passing-grade-n3815119<![CDATA[Today, an indictment aimed at former Cuban president Raul Castro was unsealed. Castro and five others have been indicted by a grand jury in Florida of crimes related to the downing of planes containing U.S. citizens back in 1996.]]>Wed, 20 May 2026 14:30:48 -0400<![CDATA[John Sexton]]><![CDATA[Communism]]><![CDATA[Crime]]><![CDATA[Cuba]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Florida]]>https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2026/05/20/doj-indicts-raul-castro-for-murder-n3815122<![CDATA[A UN body of researchers that puts together possible climate scenarios announced last week that one extreme scenario it put forward back in 2011 is no longer plausible. As Roger Pielke Jr. from AEI puts it, the climate apocalypse is no longer around the corner.]]>Wed, 20 May 2026 12:50:15 -0400<![CDATA[John Sexton]]><![CDATA[Climate Change]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Energy]]><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]><![CDATA[United Nations]]>https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2026/05/20/researchers-conclude-climate-change-worst-case-is-implausible-n3815121<![CDATA[Not long after Janet Mills withdrew from the Senate primary in Maine, rumors swirled that the GOP had built an extensive oppo research file on Graham Platner. By that time, Platner's Totenkopf tattoo had been exposed months earlier, but his radical-progressive agenda got the Obama Bros arguing that all veterans went through a Nazi phase (for eighteen years?) and that we all needed to put his death-camp symbology in proper context. Supposedly, though, what would come next would sink Platner for good.]]>Wed, 20 May 2026 12:00:26 -0400<![CDATA[Ed Morrissey]]><![CDATA[Democrat Party]]><![CDATA[Fox News]]><![CDATA[Maine]]><![CDATA[Veterans]]><![CDATA[Graham Platner]]>https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2026/05/20/more-from-the-platner-files-ridiculing-wounded-troops-n3815118<![CDATA[Back on May 11, the Alberta Independence movement had well over 300K signatures on their petition to trigger a referendum for independence when they submitted it to Elections Alberta for verification.]]>Wed, 20 May 2026 11:00:42 -0400<![CDATA[Beege Welborn]]><![CDATA[Canada]]><![CDATA[Energy]]><![CDATA[Judges]]><![CDATA[Lawsuit]]>https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2026/05/20/about-that-alberta-independence-petition-n3815117<![CDATA[Ordering 'Zionists' into camps? Demanding to sterilize them? Something about Maureen Galindo's platform has a familiar ring to it. Add in some Totenkopf imagery, and the picture becomes complete.]]>Wed, 20 May 2026 10:00:00 -0400<![CDATA[Ed Morrissey]]><![CDATA[2026 Elections]]><![CDATA[Antisemitism]]><![CDATA[Democrat Party]]><![CDATA[House of Representatives]]><![CDATA[Texas]]>https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2026/05/20/texas-dem-lets-put-all-zionists-in-camps-and-castrate-them-n3815115<![CDATA[Have you ever been disappointed in life, where you've had large goals and big dreams, only to have to scale them back due to adversity? We've all had those moments, right? Imagine the heartbreak of being the poor, non-existent, 44-year-old California high-speed train fantasy.In 1982, California's legislature authorized the first $2 billion of a whole lot of billions to come for a study on a high-speed rail project from two actual cities in California - Los Angeles and San Diego. Anyone that has traveled Interstate 5, the only feasible north-south highway linking the two metropolises in the Golden State, would have cheered a high-speed rail that could get you from one place to the other in an hour or less.&nbsp;It never happened. That project was killed off by bureaucracy and land rights lawsuits. It might be developed one day, but not before Christ comes back for his Church. The cancer of the idea of a bullet train, however, metastasized statewide over the next couple decades...sorta.In 2008, California voters approved a $33 billion price tag for high-speed rail that would take commuters from Los Angeles to San Francisco in a little under three hours. That was 18 years ago. There's still no track, no train, no happy commuters, and the projected cost has risen to $128 billion, without the added benefit of beginning and ending in the two major cities it promised.&nbsp;No, the revised estimate covered only 162 miles of the 381 miles between the two cities. Why? Because the line would now start in Bakersfield, an hour-and-a-half drive north of Los Angeles, to Merced, over an hour away from San Francisco.&nbsp;Our friend Jon Fleischman, who has spent much of his career covering many of the bigger boondoggles in the Golden State,&nbsp;has a new piece out on the project getting the budget cutting axe yet again. The long and a short of it? Internal California government documents now estimate the train's cost ballooning a little bit larger, very possibly exceeding $215 billion.&nbsp;How do the California unicorn train grifters plan on delivering on decades of false promises and justifying the money already spent? You're going to love this.&nbsp;]]>Wed, 20 May 2026 09:20:00 -0400<![CDATA[Duane Patterson]]><![CDATA[California]]><![CDATA[Gavin Newsom]]><![CDATA[Karen Bass]]><![CDATA[Spencer Pratt]]>https://hotair.com/generalissimo/2026/05/20/honey-i-shrunk-the-california-high-speed-railagain-n3815067<![CDATA[Since the American pullout from Afghanistan, the fate of Afghan women has become uniformly bleak.&nbsp;]]>Wed, 20 May 2026 08:00:00 -0400<![CDATA[David Strom]]><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]><![CDATA[Liberal Media]]><![CDATA[Woke]]>https://hotair.com/david-strom/2026/05/20/bbc-this-is-sick-beyond-measure-n3815084<![CDATA[Let’s face it – everyzing below ze tabs es kaput ...]]>Tue, 19 May 2026 22:00:00 -0400<![CDATA[Ed Morrissey]]><![CDATA[2026 Elections]]><![CDATA[Antisemitism]]><![CDATA[Chicago]]><![CDATA[Democrat Party]]><![CDATA[Ken Paxton]]>https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2026/05/19/tuesdays-final-word-n3815089<![CDATA[This Thursday is the final day for the Late Show with Stephen Colbert and I'm glad the show is ending. I think a lot of people on the right feel that way. His nightly clapter material about Trump is pretty tired at this point. I don't think anyone should miss that.]]>Tue, 19 May 2026 21:00:10 -0400<![CDATA[John Sexton]]>https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2026/05/19/thank-goodness-its-almost-over-n3815103<![CDATA[Well, this sounds awfully tempting.]]>Tue, 19 May 2026 20:00:40 -0400<![CDATA[Beege Welborn]]><![CDATA[Economy]]><![CDATA[New York]]><![CDATA[World Cup]]>https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2026/05/19/maid-in-manhattan-got-it-made-n3815099<![CDATA[The teen shooters behind yesterday's attack on a San Diego mosque have been identified. They are Cain Clark (17) and Caleb Velasquez (18). Today we're getting some more information about them and the attack. Apparently, most of the attack was livestreamed and authorities are now reviewing that video.]]>Tue, 19 May 2026 19:00:27 -0400<![CDATA[John Sexton]]><![CDATA[Domestic Terrorism]]><![CDATA[FBI]]><![CDATA[Islam]]>https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2026/05/19/more-on-the-mosque-shooters-n3815101<![CDATA[Update, 8:26 pm ET:&nbsp;Massie conceded, while managing to demonstrate how unhinged he is.&nbsp;]]>Tue, 19 May 2026 18:25:00 -0400<![CDATA[Ed Morrissey]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Kentucky]]><![CDATA[Pete Hegseth]]><![CDATA[Thomas Massie]]><![CDATA[Tucker Carlson]]>https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2026/05/19/live-primary-results-massiedammerung-in-ky-plus-georgia-alabama-oregon-n3815075