https://hotair.com/feedHotAir is the leading conservative blog for breaking news and commentary covering the Biden administration, politics, media, culture, and current elections.en-usThu, 16 Jul 2026 02:55:27 -0400<![CDATA[I remember there's a tab or two, coming from the screen next door, and the browser lagged the way some windows do ...]]>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 22:00:00 -0400<![CDATA[Ed Morrissey]]><![CDATA[2026 Elections]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Israel]]><![CDATA[Joe Biden]]><![CDATA[Michigan]]>https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2026/07/15/wednesdays-final-word-n3816992<![CDATA[There's a long and somewhat sketchy story to tell here. I'm not sure I can do it justice but I'm going to try. It starts with a guy named Roger Worthington, a progressive attorney who lives in Bend, Oregon. Worthington is behind a lawsuit attempting to blame the fossil fuel industry for a deadly heat wave that impacted Multnomah County, the county where Portland is located. Yesterday, the NY Times published a flattering profile of Worthington.]]>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 21:20:55 -0400<![CDATA[John Sexton]]><![CDATA[Climate Change]]><![CDATA[Lawsuit]]><![CDATA[Ron Wyden]]><![CDATA[Justice Elena Kagan]]>https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2026/07/15/the-latest-attempt-to-use-the-courts-to-end-fossil-fuels-n3817001<![CDATA[While acknowledging that we still have ourselves a spending problem here in the United States, at least I can say we also have an economy that is clawing its way out of the doldrums, thanks to the reversal of fortune in the correct direction we suffered thanks to 5 November 2024.]]>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 20:40:56 -0400<![CDATA[Beege Welborn]]><![CDATA[Climate Change]]><![CDATA[Economy]]><![CDATA[Energy]]><![CDATA[Keir Starmer]]><![CDATA[United Kingdom]]>https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2026/07/15/the-uk-doesnt-have-two-pence-to-rub-together-and-thats-okay-with-labour-n3816995<![CDATA[Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey opens this Friday, and today the embargo on reviews of the film was finally lifted. The reaction seems to be extremely positive. The movie is debuting with a 98% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.]]>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 20:00:21 -0400<![CDATA[John Sexton]]><![CDATA[Entertainment]]><![CDATA[Hollywood]]><![CDATA[Movies]]>https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2026/07/15/the-odyssey-reviews-are-out-and-theyre-really-good-n3816997<![CDATA[I admit it. I am an egghead. I am a product of the same elite cultural milieu from which come most of Trump's most vehement critics.&nbsp;]]>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 19:20:53 -0400<![CDATA[David Strom]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Lawsuit]]><![CDATA[Never Trump]]><![CDATA[Ronald Reagan]]><![CDATA[America 250]]>https://hotair.com/david-strom/2026/07/15/say-it-isnt-so-mr-president-n3816991<![CDATA[You'd think that Maine Democrats solved most of their problems by dumping their violent Nazi-tatted Kik creeper and alleged rapist off the November ballot. Unfortunately for the Democrats, Graham Platner may turn out to be more of a symptom than a root cause. And their solution may end up making both worse rather than better.&nbsp;]]>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 18:40:06 -0400<![CDATA[Ed Morrissey]]><![CDATA[2026 Elections]]><![CDATA[Bernie Sanders]]><![CDATA[Communism]]><![CDATA[Democrat Party]]><![CDATA[Graham Platner]]>https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2026/07/15/politico-maine-kampf-continues-for-dems-n3816984<![CDATA[New York City has nine elite high schools which students are admitted to based on the results of a test called the Specialized High Schools Admissions Test (SHSAT). This test is similar to the SAT in that it has a section of math questions and one of English questions both of which have to be completed within the 3 hour time limit.]]>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 18:00:38 -0400<![CDATA[John Sexton]]><![CDATA[Education]]><![CDATA[New York]]><![CDATA[Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion]]><![CDATA[Zohran Mamdani]]>https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2026/07/15/the-media-is-campaigning-for-more-equity-in-new-york-high-schools-n3816994<![CDATA[Okay, OKAY.]]>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 17:20:00 -0400<![CDATA[Beege Welborn]]><![CDATA[2026 Elections]]><![CDATA[Congress]]><![CDATA[Democrat Party]]><![CDATA[Ohio]]><![CDATA[The Atlantic]]>https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2026/07/15/who-says-masculinity-is-back-why-those-experts-on-the-subject-at-the-atlantic-n3816990<![CDATA[It will come as no surprise to Americans to hear that their confidence in national institutions and industries drops lower every year. Pollsters have tracked this decline for years, perhaps none as vigorously as Gallup, which has survey data stretching back more than 40 years on this subject. In their latest report, Gallup notes that the decline has not been gradual, but rather the result of very specific institutional failures that resulted in rational re-evaluation of these stakeholders:]]>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 16:00:00 -0400<![CDATA[Ed Morrissey]]><![CDATA[Academia]]><![CDATA[Congress]]><![CDATA[Education]]><![CDATA[Healthcare]]><![CDATA[Transgender]]>https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2026/07/15/gallup-confidence-in-academia-craters-usf-chief-hold-my-microbrew-n3816982<![CDATA[J.K. Rowling is threatening to sue Amnesty International UK after the group put out a report labeling the women's recovery center she founded as "anti-rights."&nbsp;]]>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 15:20:17 -0400<![CDATA[John Sexton]]><![CDATA[J.K Rowling]]><![CDATA[Lawsuit]]><![CDATA[Transgender]]><![CDATA[United Kingdom]]>https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2026/07/15/jk-rowlings-center-for-women-threatens-to-sue-amnesty-international-n3816986<![CDATA[There are tons of reasons to worry about the breakneck pace at which AI is being integrated into everything.&nbsp;]]>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 14:00:58 -0400<![CDATA[David Strom]]><![CDATA[Artificial Intelligence]]><![CDATA[China]]><![CDATA[Energy]]><![CDATA[Kathy Hochul]]>https://hotair.com/david-strom/2026/07/15/the-rhetoric-about-ai-data-centers-is-ridiculous-n3816980<![CDATA[Over the past week, Ukraine struck a total of 116 Russian vessels in the Sea of Azov. Most were smaller tankers used to transport oil and grain from ports along the Russian coast to larger ships in the Black Sea. The result of these attacks was a bunch of floating hulks and Russia closing the Kerch Strait.]]>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 13:20:08 -0400<![CDATA[John Sexton]]><![CDATA[Military]]><![CDATA[Russia]]><![CDATA[Ukraine]]>https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2026/07/15/ukraine-moves-on-to-russian-tankers-in-the-black-sea-n3816985<![CDATA[Early in the war, the IRGC seemed determined to play chicken with Donald Trump. Arguably, both sides blinked to some extent in April and again in June with the ceasefire and the MOU. This week, however, the game of chicken has reappeared, only with the US accelerating this time.]]>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 12:40:00 -0400<![CDATA[Ed Morrissey]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]><![CDATA[Iran]]><![CDATA[Military]]><![CDATA[The Wall Street Journal]]>https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2026/07/15/escalateo-us-steps-up-pace-of-attacks-as-iran-threatens-gulf-energy-production-n3816978<![CDATA[Did the Graham Platner implosion do more than stop the socialist momentum in one state?]]>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 12:00:00 -0400<![CDATA[David Strom]]><![CDATA[2026 Elections]]><![CDATA[Democrat Party]]><![CDATA[Michigan]]><![CDATA[Polling]]><![CDATA[Graham Platner]]>https://hotair.com/david-strom/2026/07/15/is-the-socialist-moment-already-over-n3816956<![CDATA[Wind farms, particularly the massive towers and enormous blades used in offshore projects, can have 'significant effects' on radar signatures. Our National Weather Service (NWS) meteorologists have had to 'learn to work' with the radar signature&nbsp;produced by wind fields in their watch areas, as if they needed another thing to decipher during severe storm outbreaks and possibly issuing life-saving alerts.&nbsp;]]>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 11:20:00 -0400<![CDATA[Beege Welborn]]><![CDATA[Energy]]><![CDATA[Military]]><![CDATA[National Security]]><![CDATA[Russia]]><![CDATA[Sweden]]>https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2026/07/15/wind-farms-drones-and-defense-n3816981<![CDATA[Late yesterday, after two shootings involving Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents that resulted in fatalities, the Department of Homeland Security ordered agents to suspend the use of traffic stops. The pause would allow DHS to review policies that may put agents and bystanders in danger, while insisting that the use of lethal force in these cases was justified. In both Texas and Maine, agents reported being attacked by the cars driven by the two men shot and killed:]]>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 10:40:58 -0400<![CDATA[Ed Morrissey]]><![CDATA[DHS]]><![CDATA[DOJ]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[FBI]]><![CDATA[ICE]]>https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2026/07/15/stopping-the-stop-stop-trump-reverses-dhs-order-n3816979<![CDATA[Ro Khanna can't catch a break.&nbsp;]]>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 10:00:00 -0400<![CDATA[David Strom]]><![CDATA[2026 Elections]]><![CDATA[Congress]]><![CDATA[Democrat Party]]><![CDATA[Israel]]><![CDATA[Graham Platner]]>https://hotair.com/david-strom/2026/07/15/hilarious-ro-khannas-stunt-not-enough-for-pro-hamas-crowd-n3816948<![CDATA[As one commenter on this X/Twitter thread quipped: You have to admire the dedication to the grift.&nbsp;]]>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 09:20:51 -0400<![CDATA[Ed Morrissey]]><![CDATA[2026 Elections]]><![CDATA[Democrat Party]]><![CDATA[Jill Biden]]><![CDATA[Joe Biden]]><![CDATA[White House]]>https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2026/07/15/entitlement-by-a-thousand-video-cuts-biden-announces-new-lecture-book-n3816977<![CDATA[Jack Smith, the illegally appointed Special Prosecutor whom Biden's Justice Department sicced on Donald Trump, is a perjurer.&nbsp;]]>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 08:00:00 -0400<![CDATA[David Strom]]><![CDATA[Congress]]><![CDATA[DOJ]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Justice Amy Coney Barrett]]>https://hotair.com/david-strom/2026/07/15/straight-to-jail-jack-smith-straight-to-jail-n3816950<![CDATA[In the cool of the evening, when all the tabs are getting kinda groovy ...]]>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 22:00:00 -0400<![CDATA[Ed Morrissey]]><![CDATA[2026 Elections]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[ICE]]><![CDATA[Iran]]><![CDATA[Iraq]]><![CDATA[Israel]]><![CDATA[Medicare]]><![CDATA[New York]]><![CDATA[Graham Platner]]>https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2026/07/14/tuesdays-final-word-n3816933