https://hotair.com/greenroom/feed/HotAir is the leading conservative blog for breaking news and commentary covering the Biden administration, politics, media, culture, and current elections.en-usTue, 04 Aug 2026 18:41:08 -0400<![CDATA[Yesterday I wrote about James Arday, the Cambridge academic who has been under fire recently for a bunch of different issues, starting with plagiarism. As I pointed out yesterday, Arday has been formally cleared by Cambridge and by the Liverpool college that granted him his Ph.D. So, officially, he's not a plagiarist. And yet, if you look at the comparison between his work and several other people's he clearly seems to have borrowed a bunch of material without giving proper attribution. From the outside, it really looks like the universities are just circling the wagons.]]>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 18:00:26 -0400<![CDATA[John Sexton]]><![CDATA[Academia]]><![CDATA[England]]><![CDATA[Mental Health]]><![CDATA[The New York Times]]>https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2026/08/04/the-ny-times-glosses-over-james-ardays-questionable-biography-n3817653<![CDATA[You had to know there was going to be money involved as soon as you saw the combination of 'migrants' and those lovely humanitarians from the non-governmental organizations (NGOs), alongside the town's women who were offering them water and treats as they successfully navigated their illegal crossing of the border into Spanish territory.]]>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 17:20:08 -0400<![CDATA[Beege Welborn]]><![CDATA[Border Security]]><![CDATA[European Union]]><![CDATA[Illegal Immigration]]><![CDATA[Spain]]>https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2026/08/04/for-the-children-ceuta-edition-n3817648<![CDATA[I'm not especially taken aback by the fact that The Washington Post wasted a lot of time doing a story about the Vice Presidential chicken coop.&nbsp;]]>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 16:40:35 -0400<![CDATA[David Strom]]><![CDATA[JD Vance]]><![CDATA[Republican Party]]><![CDATA[Usha Vance]]><![CDATA[Washington]]><![CDATA[Washington Post]]>https://hotair.com/david-strom/2026/08/04/will-the-chickens-come-home-to-roost-for-pravda-n3817644<![CDATA[&nbsp; &nbsp; Columbia Journalism School Dean Jelani Cobb tweeted out a welcome to his two recent hires, Scott Pelley and Sharyn Alphonse. Both were recently fired by CBS. Both are, of course, leftist hacks.]]>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 16:00:39 -0400<![CDATA[Mark Judge]]><![CDATA[CBS News]]><![CDATA[Columbia University]]><![CDATA[Liberal Media]]><![CDATA[Media Bias]]><![CDATA[The New York Times]]>https://hotair.com/mark-judge/2026/08/04/columbia-dean-who-praised-man-who-tortured-women-now-welcomes-journalist-in-residence-scott-pelley-n3817637<![CDATA[I've never been a big Ariana Grande fan. I don't care for her style of music but there's no doubt she can really sing. Really the only time I've paid any attention to her is when she sort of intersected with things beyond music. I remember the whole donut fiasco. (She was caught on video licking donuts in a shop and had to apologize.) That was more than a decade ago now.]]>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 15:20:42 -0400<![CDATA[John Sexton]]><![CDATA[Entertainment]]><![CDATA[Mental Health]]><![CDATA[Music]]><![CDATA[Video]]>https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2026/08/04/ariana-grande-is-obviously-not-well-n3817647<![CDATA[I remember a conversation some years ago, when the handlers for the vegetable in the White House, aka POTATUS, were scouring U.S. weapons inventories for anything they could pack up and send to Ukraine.]]>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 14:40:22 -0400<![CDATA[Beege Welborn]]><![CDATA[Joe Biden]]><![CDATA[Military]]><![CDATA[National Security]]><![CDATA[Ukraine]]><![CDATA[White House]]>https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2026/08/04/could-ukraine-please-give-back-some-of-the-boomboom-and-pewpew-stuff-potatus-sent-them-n3817645<![CDATA[Climate Change, as we know, is the root cause of all bad things. It has become so destructive that it is whispering in the ears of arsonists, telling them to start fires that burn down vast swathes of nature and not a few homes in places like Los Angeles and Spokane.&nbsp;]]>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 14:00:33 -0400<![CDATA[David Strom]]><![CDATA[Climate Change]]><![CDATA[Crime]]><![CDATA[Los Angeles]]><![CDATA[Washington]]>https://hotair.com/david-strom/2026/08/04/climate-change-started-another-fire-with-matches-n3817638<![CDATA[It has been almost two weeks since police in Madison, Wisconsin shot a man named Corey Ruiz. Ruiz was apparently seen in the area checking car doors and looking for something to steal. Police were called and he escaped on a bicycle. However, cops met up with him a short time later and a struggle ensued in the middle of the street between Ruiz and four officers. Ruiz was fighting the arrest and an attempt to use a taser on him failed. He was taken down to the ground but got an arm free and pulled out a knife, at which point one of the officers shot him three times, killing him. Video just shows the final seconds of the encounter.]]>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 13:20:06 -0400<![CDATA[John Sexton]]><![CDATA[Black Lives Matter]]><![CDATA[Wisconsin]]>https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2026/08/04/madison-autonomous-zone-finally-cleared-10-arrested-n3817643<![CDATA[Ah, Thanksgiving. Is there any holiday more American? Family around the table, gratitude towards the Creator who blessed this land, the Cowboys losing on national television ... it doesn't get any better than that, especially for a Steeler fan.&nbsp;]]>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 12:40:00 -0400<![CDATA[Ed Morrissey]]><![CDATA[2026 Elections]]><![CDATA[CNN]]><![CDATA[Democrat Party]]><![CDATA[Wisconsin]]>https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2026/08/04/cnn-to-dsa-candidate-do-you-still-want-to-cancel-thanksgiving-n3817630<![CDATA[Today is the Michigan primary, in which the Democrat Party voters in Michigan decide whether Abdul El-Sayed or Haley Stevens is their candidate for United States Senate.&nbsp;]]>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 12:00:52 -0400<![CDATA[David Strom]]><![CDATA[2026 Elections]]><![CDATA[Antisemitism]]><![CDATA[Democrat Party]]><![CDATA[Michigan]]><![CDATA[Abdul El-Sayed]]>https://hotair.com/david-strom/2026/08/04/el-sayeds-final-pitch-america-is-racist-hasan-piker-is-my-guy-n3817634<![CDATA[At the tail end of this past June, as you all might remember, Europe was steaming its way through the first and most brutal of the several heat waves it's had this summer.&nbsp;]]>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 11:20:14 -0400<![CDATA[Beege Welborn]]><![CDATA[Energy]]><![CDATA[European Union]]><![CDATA[France]]><![CDATA[Italy]]><![CDATA[United Kingdom]]>https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2026/08/04/things-can-get-hairy-and-expensive-when-your-grid-depends-on-the-neighbors-n3817635<![CDATA[Has the Strait of Hormuz crisis found a resolution? Or has Lucy teed up the football again? Two key players in Donald Trump's strategy on Iran have signaled that an agreement to permanently unlock the Strait and end the Hormuz standoff may emerge in a matter of hours. At the same time, though, other reports suggest that the Iranians are still attempting to cut a side deal with Oman to freeze the US out entirely.]]>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 10:40:17 -0400<![CDATA[Ed Morrissey]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Iran]]><![CDATA[Marco Rubio]]><![CDATA[Scott Bessent]]><![CDATA[Oman]]>https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2026/08/04/new-rubio-bessent-claim-hormuz-deal-imminent-n3817633<![CDATA[The invasion of Ceuta should be a clarifying moment for the European mind.&nbsp;]]>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 10:00:19 -0400<![CDATA[David Strom]]><![CDATA[European Union]]><![CDATA[Illegal Alien]]><![CDATA[Illegal Immigration]]><![CDATA[Spain]]>https://hotair.com/david-strom/2026/08/04/pravda-is-trying-to-soften-ceuta-invasion-n3817631<![CDATA[Come on, man. Or rather:&nbsp;Don't come on, man.&nbsp;]]>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 09:20:58 -0400<![CDATA[Ed Morrissey]]><![CDATA[Minnesota]]><![CDATA[Title IX]]><![CDATA[Transgender]]>https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2026/08/04/too-dumb-to-check-pro-trans-wnba-coach-draws-line-right-where-youd-expect-n3817629<![CDATA[Scott Galloway is a marketing professor at NYU and was a big supporter of Zohran Mamdani. Because of course he was. All the Best™ people were, because Zohran is so dreamy and wants the best for everybody, unlike the meanies.&nbsp;]]>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 08:00:00 -0400<![CDATA[David Strom]]><![CDATA[2026 Elections]]><![CDATA[New York]]><![CDATA[Socialism]]><![CDATA[Taxes]]><![CDATA[Zohran Mamdani]]>https://hotair.com/david-strom/2026/08/04/leftist-mamdani-supporters-scream-i-didnt-think-you-would-do-this-to-me-n3817601<![CDATA[I post hit tabbies, my fans they can't wait, they leave me comments, tell me I'm ...&nbsp;]]>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 22:00:00 -0400<![CDATA[Ed Morrissey]]><![CDATA[Minnesota]]><![CDATA[Riley Gaines]]><![CDATA[Transgender]]>https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2026/08/03/mondays-final-word-n3817606<![CDATA[Cuba's entire electrical grid went down yesterday. It was the sixth time the nation's power has gone out this year.]]>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 21:20:46 -0400<![CDATA[John Sexton]]><![CDATA[Communism]]><![CDATA[Cuba]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Economy]]><![CDATA[Energy]]>https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2026/08/03/cuba-struggles-after-6th-nationwide-blackout-n3817612<![CDATA[Last month, Tyler Robinson's preliminary hearing gave us a better view of the evidence prosecutors have been assembling against him. On September 1, Judge Graf is set to hear arguments from the prosecutors and the defense and issue a ruling whether or not Robinson will be formally charged and the case will move forward to a trial.&nbsp;]]>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 20:00:00 -0400<![CDATA[John Sexton]]><![CDATA[Crime]]><![CDATA[Judges]]><![CDATA[Law & Order]]><![CDATA[Utah]]>https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2026/08/03/prosecutors-tyler-robinson-confessed-at-least-11-times-in-writing-n3817611<![CDATA[Expect to see a lot more of this: prominent people who were absolutely savaged for refusing to take the COVID vaccine and being open about it.&nbsp;]]>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 19:20:45 -0400<![CDATA[David Strom]]><![CDATA[Anthony Fauci]]><![CDATA[COVID-19]]><![CDATA[Vaccines]]>https://hotair.com/david-strom/2026/08/03/aaron-rogers-gets-his-revenge-n3817610<![CDATA[&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;As regular Hot Air readers know, we’re holding an Anti-Communist Film Film Festival this October at the&nbsp;Victims of Communism Foundation, which is also our sponsor. You&nbsp;can donate here.]]>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 18:40:00 -0400<![CDATA[Mark Judge]]><![CDATA[Communism]]><![CDATA[Conservatism]]><![CDATA[Hollywood]]><![CDATA[Marxism]]><![CDATA[Movies]]>https://hotair.com/mark-judge/2026/08/03/the-future-of-the-anti-communist-film-festival-n3817598