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-usSun, 19 Jul 2026 05:58:39 -0400<![CDATA[Their small town tabs will gape at you in dull surprise when clicking through exceeds accounts received ...]]>Sat, 18 Jul 2026 20:00:18 -0400<![CDATA[Ed Morrissey]]><![CDATA[Illegal Alien]]><![CDATA[Marco Rubio]]><![CDATA[Missouri]]>https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2026/07/18/saturdays-final-word-n3817108<![CDATA[&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; ALTOONA, Pennsylvania -- In Virginia Lee Burton's classic 1939 children's book "Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel," Mulligan often boasted that his steam shovel, Mary Anne, "could dig as much in a day as a hundred men could dig in a week, but he had never been quite sure that this was true."]]>Sat, 18 Jul 2026 14:30:00 -0400<![CDATA[Salena Zito]]><![CDATA[History]]><![CDATA[Pennsylvania]]><![CDATA[USA]]><![CDATA[Veterans]]><![CDATA[America 250]]>https://hotair.com/salena-zito/2026/07/18/more-than-a-machine-big-boy-no-4014-sparks-a-nationwide-reunion-n3817085<![CDATA[&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;The 2026&nbsp;Anti-Communist Film Festival will take place October 1-4 at&nbsp;the Victims of Communism Museum in Washington, D.C. The headline film will be&nbsp;The Lives of Others, which this year&nbsp;celebrates&nbsp;its 20th anniversary. Other films&nbsp;will be announced shortly.]]>Sat, 18 Jul 2026 13:00:50 -0400<![CDATA[Mark Judge]]><![CDATA[Communism]]><![CDATA[Entertainment]]><![CDATA[Marxism]]><![CDATA[Movies]]><![CDATA[Washington]]>https://hotair.com/mark-judge/2026/07/18/the-anti-communist-film-festival-official-dates-announced-n3817091<![CDATA[&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; A few years ago, nuclear power looked doomed.]]>Sat, 18 Jul 2026 11:30:00 -0400<![CDATA[John Stossel]]><![CDATA[Adam Schiff]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Energy]]><![CDATA[France]]><![CDATA[Sheldon Whitehouse]]>https://hotair.com/john-stossel/2026/07/18/nuclear-power-n3817084<![CDATA[&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; The New York Stock Exchange opened its doors over 230 years ago. It has been one of the iconic symbols of America's economic might for more than two centuries.]]>Sat, 18 Jul 2026 08:30:00 -0400<![CDATA[Stephen Moore]]><![CDATA[Economy]]><![CDATA[New York]]><![CDATA[Socialism]]><![CDATA[Taxes]]><![CDATA[Texas]]>https://hotair.com/stephen-moore/2026/07/18/move-over-wall-street-here-come-the-texas-longhorns-n3817083<![CDATA[Ooh, but now it's so much better, it's so much better, I'm tabbing out in every way ...]]>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 22:00:00 -0400<![CDATA[Ed Morrissey]]><![CDATA[2026 Elections]]><![CDATA[China]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[National Security]]>https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2026/07/17/fridays-final-word-n3817070<![CDATA[Iran making threats isn't exactly news, but it really has become fixated on vengeance for the death of Khamenei. I wrote here about the banners that were flying all over Tehran during Khamenei's funeral.]]>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 21:20:06 -0400<![CDATA[John Sexton]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Iran]]><![CDATA[Trump Assassination Attempt]]><![CDATA[Ayatollah Ali Khamenei]]>https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2026/07/17/iran-places-billboard-in-tehran-showing-trump-in-a-coffin-n3817076<![CDATA[It's like a perpetual case of déjà vu.]]>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 20:40:48 -0400<![CDATA[Beege Welborn]]><![CDATA[DHS]]><![CDATA[Illegal Alien]]><![CDATA[Illegal Immigration]]><![CDATA[Medicaid]]><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]>https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2026/07/17/that-thing-that-never-happens-seems-to-be-happening-again-n3817082<![CDATA[Shot spotter is an acoustic technology sold to cities around the country. It's essentially a series of microphones which are intended to identify the sound of bullets being fired and then triangulate the location of those sounds. Ideally, the system gives police a heads up about shots fired where no 911 call is made.]]>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 20:00:48 -0400<![CDATA[John Sexton]]><![CDATA[Crime]]><![CDATA[Gun Violence]]><![CDATA[ICE]]><![CDATA[Law and Order]]><![CDATA[Massachusetts]]>https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2026/07/17/progressives-in-cambridge-mass-eliminated-shot-spotter-there-were-consequences-n3817073<![CDATA[Actually, the snowflakes are worried they might melt in Palm Beach due to the renaming of the airport there to "President Donald J. Trump Airport, which will have its three-letter code changed to DJT.&nbsp;]]>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 19:20:59 -0400<![CDATA[David Strom]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Florida]]><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]><![CDATA[Woke]]>https://hotair.com/david-strom/2026/07/17/snowflakes-in-fort-lauderdale-n3817075<![CDATA[Remember the team of progressives who recruited Graham Platner to run for the Senate? They were riding high for months. Politico reports how they overcame Platner's initial reluctance and created real excitement on the far left.]]>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 18:00:30 -0400<![CDATA[John Sexton]]><![CDATA[2026 Elections]]><![CDATA[Democrat Party]]><![CDATA[Maine]]><![CDATA[Graham Platner]]>https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2026/07/17/things-not-going-well-for-guys-who-recruited-platner-n3817068<![CDATA[The All Bull Corporation, or ABC News, has been on a whale of a roll in the past couple of days.]]>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 17:20:59 -0400<![CDATA[Beege Welborn]]><![CDATA[2026 Elections]]><![CDATA[ABC News]]><![CDATA[China]]><![CDATA[DHS]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]>https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2026/07/17/the-all-bull-corporation-is-battin-1000-with-their-reporting-n3817074<![CDATA[Most people I know think I am insane to suggest that the West is rapidly descending into soft totalitarianism, despite all the obvious indicators that this is the case.&nbsp;]]>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 16:40:16 -0400<![CDATA[David Strom]]><![CDATA[Canada]]><![CDATA[Censorship]]><![CDATA[Democrat Party]]><![CDATA[Free Speech]]>https://hotair.com/david-strom/2026/07/17/truth-is-no-defense-when-dealing-with-totalitarians-n3817069<![CDATA[It's been a full week since Secretary of State Marco Rubio intervened to deport Tou Vang, an illegal alien and convicted child rapist who sexually assaulted a child repeatedly over a two-year period. Vang told investigators that sex with children was part of his Laotian culture, and that police should also charge the girl for initiating her own sexual assault. The Department of Homeland Security announced Vang's removal and reminded everyone of the disgusting details of his crime:]]>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 16:00:00 -0400<![CDATA[Ed Morrissey]]>https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2026/07/17/walz-hey-let-he-who-has-not-molested-a-kid-throw-the-first-stone-amirite-n3817063<![CDATA[Back to our regularly scheduled program of Ukraine blowing up Russian shadow fleet tankers in the Black Sea. Since I don't think I posted yesterday's video, here it is. This one shows strikes on 11 ships and is a bit different from previous videos because some of these were hit early in the morning instead of at night.]]>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 15:20:46 -0400<![CDATA[John Sexton]]><![CDATA[Military]]><![CDATA[Russia]]><![CDATA[Ukraine]]>https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2026/07/17/ukraines-drone-attacks-work-on-a-free-market-system-n3817065<![CDATA[Sorry, I can't let this go. The "fact checks" and dismissals of Trump's speech being pushed out by the Pravda Media and Democrats are so off point, absurd, and flat-out deceptive that it is driving me nuts.]]>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 14:00:33 -0400<![CDATA[David Strom]]><![CDATA[2026 Elections]]><![CDATA[China]]><![CDATA[CNN]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Fake News]]>https://hotair.com/david-strom/2026/07/17/cnn-and-blinken-in-2024-yes-china-was-interfering-in-us-elections-n3817066<![CDATA[The Trump administration plans to ramp up pressure on Senate Republicans to get the SAVE America Act after Donald Trump's prime-time speech last night focused almost entirely on election security. The White House has focused its messaging today on Trump's arguments last night, demanding action to correct the "vulnerabilities" that Trump presented from declassified intelligence.&nbsp;]]>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 12:40:00 -0400<![CDATA[Ed Morrissey]]><![CDATA[DHS]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]><![CDATA[Voter ID]]>https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2026/07/17/new-dhs-announces-new-election-security-measures-after-trump-release-of-intel-n3817067<![CDATA[I didn't know that somebody tried to kill Scott Bessent. Perhaps because it was just another day in the paradise we call the Divided States of America.&nbsp;]]>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 12:00:08 -0400<![CDATA[David Strom]]><![CDATA[Domestic Terrorism]]><![CDATA[Marco Rubio]]><![CDATA[Scott Bessent]]><![CDATA[Trump Assassination Attempt]]>https://hotair.com/david-strom/2026/07/17/new-republic-says-scott-bessent-is-to-blame-for-his-attempted-assassination-n3817064<![CDATA[Oh, good morning, SUNSHINES!]]>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 11:20:39 -0400<![CDATA[Beege Welborn]]><![CDATA[2026 Elections]]><![CDATA[Democrat Party]]><![CDATA[Maine]]><![CDATA[Senate]]><![CDATA[Susan Collins]]>https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2026/07/17/maine-dems-dump-rapey-nazi-and-get-a-freak-parade-n3817058<![CDATA[Last night's speech from Donald Trump went long on election-interference claims, as John and David have covered, but said nearly nothing about the re-escalation against Iran. The war got only a single sentence, assuring the country that we are "winning big," and that those results would become apparent "very, very shortly." Trump aimed almost the entirety of his speech at China's election espionage and the "vulnerabilities" that he wants addressed through the SAVE America Act.]]>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 10:40:52 -0400<![CDATA[Ed Morrissey]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Iran]]><![CDATA[National Security]]><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]><![CDATA[The Wall Street Journal]]>https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2026/07/17/wsj-has-bridge-and-power-day-arrived-n3817061