https://hotair.com/headlines/feed/HotAir is the leading conservative blog for breaking news and commentary covering the Biden administration, politics, media, culture, and current elections.en-usThu, 10 Sep 2026 14:51:21 -0400<![CDATA[Under normal circumstances, I would say that the voters of Los Angeles would probably soon come to regret not having firebrand independent Spencer Pratt on their mayoral ballot in a couple of months, never mind actually electing him.]]>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 14:40:35 -0400<![CDATA[Beege Welborn]]><![CDATA[California]]><![CDATA[Karen Bass]]><![CDATA[Los Angeles]]><![CDATA[Puerto Rico]]><![CDATA[Spencer Pratt]]>https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2026/09/10/up-your-nose-with-a-rubber-hose-for-las-fire-season-n3818867<![CDATA[Prime property in Santa Monica, California, is some of the most valuable real estate in the country. A home there will routinely sell for between two and five million dollars, and commercial real estate is prized for the most obvious of reasons: it's a great place to live, if you can stand living around liberals who want to take everything you own and are OK with being governed by clowns.&nbsp;]]>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 14:00:39 -0400<![CDATA[David Strom]]><![CDATA[California]]><![CDATA[Gavin Newsom]]><![CDATA[Homelessness]]><![CDATA[Los Angeles]]><![CDATA[Socialism]]>https://hotair.com/david-strom/2026/09/10/leftists-always-make-things-worse-for-all-the-right-reasons-n3818857<![CDATA[A year after Charlie Kirk's death, it seems (to me at least) that the right faces a real challenge internally between the desire to let everyone have their say and the desire to avoid trafficking in conspiracy theories that sound crazy because they are.&nbsp;]]>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 13:20:47 -0400<![CDATA[John Sexton]]><![CDATA[Candace Owens]]><![CDATA[Charlie Kirk]]><![CDATA[Free Speech]]><![CDATA[Tucker Carlson]]>https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2026/09/10/a-challenge-for-the-right-a-year-after-charlie-kirks-death-n3818869<![CDATA[Angela Merkel, the former Chancellor of Germany who served 15 years and transformed a high-social-trust society with an economy the envy of Europe into a declining economic and social power riven by crime, social unrest, and seemingly irreversible economic decline, is deeply saddened by the AfD's victory in Saxony-Anhalt.]]>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 12:00:25 -0400<![CDATA[David Strom]]><![CDATA[Angela Alsobrooks]]><![CDATA[Censorship]]><![CDATA[Communism]]><![CDATA[Crime]]><![CDATA[Economy]]><![CDATA[European Union]]><![CDATA[Germany]]><![CDATA[Green Energy]]><![CDATA[National Security]]><![CDATA[Russia]]><![CDATA[Vladimir Putin]]>https://hotair.com/david-strom/2026/09/10/you-can-take-the-girl-out-of-east-germany-but-you-cant-take-east-germany-out-of-the-girl-n3818861<![CDATA[With the Alternativ for Germany's (AfD) stunning victory, and nearly complete triumph in the Saxony-Anhalt state elections on Sunday, as they came within a whisper - three seats - of having an outright ruling majority in the Landtag (parliament) there, one saw the howls of dismay, disbelief, and 'Oh, HELL, no' begin within mere minutes of the vote counts being announced.]]>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 11:20:19 -0400<![CDATA[Beege Welborn]]><![CDATA[2026 Elections]]><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]><![CDATA[European Union]]><![CDATA[Germany]]><![CDATA[Vladimir Putin]]>https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2026/09/10/nice-little-election-you-won-there-itd-be-a-shame-if-you-acted-like-it-changed-anything-n3818856<![CDATA[Shorter version of James Talarico's new approach: I used to have core beliefs. Now I have others. And if you don't like those, we can negotiate.]]>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 10:40:00 -0400<![CDATA[Ed Morrissey]]><![CDATA[2026 Elections]]><![CDATA[Fox News]]><![CDATA[Ken Paxton]]><![CDATA[Texas]]><![CDATA[Transgender]]><![CDATA[Women's Sports]]><![CDATA[James Talarico]]>https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2026/09/10/talarico-to-fox-i-no-longer-believe-anything-i-said-before-including-my-votes-n3818855<![CDATA[Leftism has always been driven by a sense that the world is divided between "victims" and "oppressors," but for most of its existence, the claims people made to victimhood were based on some sort of visible evidence that most people could recognize.&nbsp;]]>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 10:00:34 -0400<![CDATA[David Strom]]><![CDATA[Academia]]><![CDATA[Critical Race Theory]]><![CDATA[Harvard University]]><![CDATA[Libs of TikTok]]><![CDATA[Woke]]>https://hotair.com/david-strom/2026/09/10/leftists-see-oppressors-behind-every-tree-and-under-every-rock-n3818854<![CDATA[Night One of Donald Trump's midterm Republican convention certainly delivered on expectations. A number of Republicans running for office this cycle introduced themselves to national audiences. A few fresh faces made impressive speeches, perhaps especially T.W. Shannon, the GOP's nominee for lieutenant governor in Oklahoma, and Jay Feely running for the House in Arizona. Experienced firebrands such as Byron Donalds revved up the enthusiasm while landing the arguments about Democrat extremism. And, of course, Donald Trump took up the last two hours of the night with a typical rally speech that should make recent allegations of slowing down look even more absurd than usual.]]>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 09:20:50 -0400<![CDATA[Ed Morrissey]]><![CDATA[2026 Elections]]><![CDATA[Democrat Party]]><![CDATA[John Fetterman]]><![CDATA[Republican Party]]><![CDATA[RNC]]>https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2026/09/10/fetterman-i-am-still-a-democrat-but-an-american-first-n3818848<![CDATA[A lot of attention has been focused on the Michigan Senate race, where Abdul El-Sayed and Mike Rogers are nearly tied in the polls, despite El-Sayed's being buffeted by political headwinds stemming from his ties to the DSA and Islamist extremists, not to mention his own radical statements in the past.&nbsp;]]>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0400<![CDATA[David Strom]]><![CDATA[2026 Elections]]><![CDATA[Ken Paxton]]><![CDATA[Senate]]><![CDATA[Texas]]><![CDATA[James Talarico]]>https://hotair.com/david-strom/2026/09/10/as-we-focus-on-el-sayed-dont-forget-how-awful-talarico-is-n3818824<![CDATA[And the tabs go by like a click in the wind, in the web that is my own ...&nbsp;]]>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 22:00:12 -0400<![CDATA[Ed Morrissey]]><![CDATA[2026 Elections]]><![CDATA[2028 Elections]]><![CDATA[Fox News]]><![CDATA[Illegal Alien]]><![CDATA[Jeanne Shaheen]]>https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2026/09/09/wednesdays-final-word-n3818821<![CDATA[I think the toughest decision most progressives face these days is which figure on the right they hate most. President Trump is of course the standard against which all others are judged. If you don't believe he's truly evil and that everything he does is completely wrong and destructive, can you even call yourself a Democrat?&nbsp;]]>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 20:00:11 -0400<![CDATA[John Sexton]]><![CDATA[Elon Musk]]><![CDATA[Hollywood]]><![CDATA[SpaceX]]><![CDATA[Tesla]]>https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2026/09/09/theres-a-new-elon-musk-documentary-coming-soon-n3818827<![CDATA[&nbsp; &nbsp; In the forthcoming book Cosmic Missions: Religion and Space Exploration, there is a fascinating essay about a forgotten history. “The World of Tomorrow: Soviet Communism, Russian Cosmism, and the Fate of Utopia” tells the history of “cosmic utopianism,” or the belief among Soviets in the early 20th century that the communist revolution would take place not only on Earth, but in space.&nbsp;]]>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 19:30:03 -0400<![CDATA[Mark Judge]]><![CDATA[Communism]]><![CDATA[History]]><![CDATA[Russia]]><![CDATA[Science]]><![CDATA[Space]]>https://hotair.com/mark-judge/2026/09/09/socialism-in-space-the-fascinating-forgotten-history-of-soviet-cosmic-utopianism-n3818822Wed, 09 Sep 2026 19:00:14 -0400<![CDATA[HotAir Staff]]><![CDATA[2026 Elections]]><![CDATA[GOP]]><![CDATA[Republican Party]]><![CDATA[Texas]]>https://hotair.com/hot-air-staff/2026/09/09/live-blog-gop-2026-midterm-convention-night-one-n3818815<![CDATA[I hate to say I told you so ... except on those occasions when I can actually say I told you so.]]>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 18:40:22 -0400<![CDATA[Ed Morrissey]]><![CDATA[Hollywood]]><![CDATA[Lawsuit]]><![CDATA[Movies]]>https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2026/09/09/sympathy-for-the-devil-new-film-attacks-predator-buster-n3818811<![CDATA[There's a danger in any anti-elite movement that, at some point, it goes beyond opposing elite arrogance and starts opposing knowledge itself. You can see a strain of this in the Chinese Communist Revolution where professors were routinely denounced and made to kowtow by their own students who had become Red Guard revolutionaries following Mao. Mao taught that only the "pure people" who worked with their hands were virtuous. Those who taught subjects in schools were considered to be corrupted by capitalism and therefore were enemies of the revolution.]]>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 18:00:01 -0400<![CDATA[John Sexton]]><![CDATA[Antisemitism]]><![CDATA[Education]]><![CDATA[Science]]><![CDATA[Tucker Carlson]]>https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2026/09/09/tucker-carlson-algebra-seems-like-a-plot-n3818823<![CDATA[Your love gives me such a thrill,]]>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 17:20:53 -0400<![CDATA[Beege Welborn]]><![CDATA[2026 Elections]]><![CDATA[Democrat Party]]><![CDATA[DNC]]><![CDATA[USAID]]>https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2026/09/09/they-say-the-best-things-in-life-are-free-but-they-need-to-give-money-to-the-dnc-n3818820<![CDATA[The body of scientific literature on which new research is based is being flooded with fake research, much of which is published in respected scientific journals.&nbsp;]]>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 16:40:13 -0400<![CDATA[David Strom]]><![CDATA[Academia]]><![CDATA[Artificial Intelligence]]><![CDATA[France]]><![CDATA[Science]]>https://hotair.com/david-strom/2026/09/09/fraudulent-cancer-research-papers-increased-10x-in-recent-years-n3818816<![CDATA[A collection of nearly 40 pro-life groups has joined together to ask the Trump administration to consider cutting Planned Parenthood off from all government funding, a process called debarment.]]>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 15:20:06 -0400<![CDATA[John Sexton]]><![CDATA[Abortion]]><![CDATA[GOP]]><![CDATA[Medicaid]]><![CDATA[Pro-Life]]><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]>https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2026/09/09/pro-life-groups-want-the-trump-administration-to-defund-planned-parenthood-n3818817<![CDATA[Ordinary Americans do not grasp what the American left has become.&nbsp;]]>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 14:00:13 -0400<![CDATA[David Strom]]><![CDATA[Antifa]]><![CDATA[Charlie Kirk]]><![CDATA[Communism]]><![CDATA[Democrat Party]]><![CDATA[Trump Assassination Attempt]]>https://hotair.com/david-strom/2026/09/09/the-sick-celebrations-of-charlie-kirk-assassination-anniversary-n3818810<![CDATA[This week there is a big defense conference taking place in Seoul, South Korea. It's titled the Seoul Defense Dialogue 2026 and this is its 15th year. The purpose of the conference is to have dialogue about peace on the Korean peninsula and beyond. About 1,000 defense leaders from 67 countries are attending this year.&nbsp;]]>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 13:20:51 -0400<![CDATA[John Sexton]]><![CDATA[China]]><![CDATA[Philippines]]><![CDATA[South Korea]]>https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2026/09/09/this-is-going-to-make-china-very-unhappy-n3818814