Apr 29, 2026 – Matt Dunlap is the former Secretary of State of Maine and currently the Maine State Auditor. At the moment, he's one of the Democratic candidates for the CD-2 congressional seat.He's one of four Democrats -  Dunlap, State Sen. Joe Baldacci, social worker Paige Loud, and former Capitol Hill staffer Jordan...

Apr 28, 2026 – This absolutely had to be my last one for the night.As you may - or may not - have known, it's been a couple of busy days for the president and our glorious First Lady.From ducking madmen and comforting an angry and concerned nation on Saturday night...Trump and White House...

Apr 28, 2026 – For the first two years or so that I was aboard here at HotAir, things in Scotland were just a complete disaster...and absolutely terrific fodder for articles.A tiny tyrant by the name of Nicola Sturgeon was the First Minister (their version of a prime minister). She was also head of...

Apr 28, 2026 – There is suddenly a mighty crack in the cartel wall that has kept world oil prices in its thrall for the better part of 66 years. We could have probably heard the SNAP! from here.The United Arab Emirates said Tuesday it will leave OPEC effective May 1, stripping the oil cartel...

Apr 29, 2026 – There's nothing worse than a man on a mission, and nothing more intractable headed to his goal than that man when he knows he's right and has one helluva a score to settle.That's the story of Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt right now. The former reality TV star, who,...

Apr 30, 2026 – Now I don't know if we can hand some of the credit for this amazing 180° to spending the last three years watching their Teutonic neighbors shriveling away, and the better part of the first few months of this new year watching those sameGermans - and, by extension, most of...

May 4, 2026 – Three days. Two and a wake-up. That's all Sir Keir Starmer, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, has left until the local council elections on May 7 across the length and breadth of the UK, which are expected to at long last put paid to the painful and expensive farce...

May 4, 2026 – The commie Cabbage Patch doll with the rictus grin who really, really wants to keep her job running Los Angeles into the dirt while executing the plans of the progressive cabal said something so flatly unbelievable on its face and so frankly revolting to boot during an interview that she...

May 4, 2026 – The only question is, 'Is it in time?'The warning bells were clanging like crazy back in 2024 when immigrant numbers had reached 20% of the general population, and the gentle rhythms of Scandinavian life seemed to be slipping rapidly away forever. ...After staying out of World War II, Sweden had evolved...

May 4, 2026 – While Marine Le Pen, leader of the French National Rally Party (RN), is still twisting in legal limbo, waiting on a final July decision in the appeal of her conviction on corruption charges, with its subsequent ban from running for office, her second in command has been on the road...

Mar 19, 2026 – How deep does the deep state rot go in the bowels of our intelligence agencies?I don't know that we'll ever truly find out or root it all out, but what's been coming to light should surely piss every red-blooded American off royally.The first hard evidence you could point to, I...

Mar 19, 2026 – You know, when I read my first Xweet about this situation, all I could think was, "Okay. Another woke town wants to play f**kf**k (as we used to say in the Corps). Let them find out the hard way.'It didn't help that most of the hyper-partisan 'conservative influencers' were the ones...

Mar 19, 2026 – Man, it's hard to believe these dreary virtue-signaling fascists are still doing this, but here we are.Tantrum at The Croissanterie time....Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the governor of Arkansas and former White House press secretary, says she was having lunch with two mom friends at a restaurant called The Croissanterie in Little Rock...

Mar 17, 2026 – This has been pretty entertaining today. I've been catching a bunch of Nick's videos in between stories, and holy smokes - what he's finding doing his trademark wander around and knock on doors is, well, classic Shirley.That sweet face and so innocent, pre-pubescent teenage boy's voice, 'If I open a...

Mar 17, 2026 – Three years ago, in one of the few things I applauded the Biden administration for, it gave the Australian government in Canberra the thumbs-up to acquire its own Virginia-class nuclear submarines....After working through the details and in close concert with the British, the answer, as of yesterday, was “You got ’em.”The...

Mar 18, 2026 – Someone likened it to 'killing the Golden goose,' and if there was ever anything golden about Los Angeles, it was the glitter of its legendary film industry.I mean, the celebrity culture and mystique of the movie industry was, next to palm tree-lined boulevards, the association most often made in the...

Mar 23, 2026 – It must be so neat to be a well-heeled Western commie and be able to take your progressive revolutionary resistance circus act on the road with little to no discomfort to yourself.I mean, we've seen it for years with Bernie Sanders, who never met a real job he could hold...

Mar 23, 2026 – Over the weekend, the United States State Department issued a worldwide security alert for Americans abroad.Event: The Department of State advises Americans worldwide, and especially in the Middle East, to exercise increased caution.  Americans abroad should follow the guidance in security alerts issued by the nearest U.S. embassy or consulate....

Mar 23, 2026 – It was a regional election palooza in France and Germany this weekend. In France, it was Round Two of the march toward the national presidential elections, with a lame-duck Emmanuel Macron's presidency up for grabs. In Germany, it's waffling and wounded German Chancellor Friedrich Merz's desperate bid to avoid losing...

Mar 16, 2026 – Oh, it's been a while, but I do have a couple of electrified goodies to pass along, thanks to dear David and my buddy GlobalTravlr.And, of course, there's a rabbithole.The first thing was an interesting Xweet David sent me, which, for the first time, had a municipality that had actually...

Mar 16, 2026 – Okay. You are going to have to go a long way to prove to me that Mayor Karen Bass of Los Angeles doesn't actually despise the tax-paying residents and business owners in her city.I have yet to see the woman do a single thing to their advantage in the time...

Mar 16, 2026 – Honest to God. The Canadians have no clue whether they're coming or going anymore.Prime Minister Mark Carney has been 'We're in!,' 'We're out!,' 'We're in!' so many times in the past two weeks, it's tough to keep track of precisely which flip or flop he's on.The best guess landed fish...

Mar 9, 2026 – Two delightful young men from affluent households in Pennsylvania bopped over to relatively nearby New York City this Saturday.The distance is what we used to call 'comfortable daytripping.'As it was pretty decent weather, and with a lot going on in the world, it seemed the two young men had more...

Mar 23, 2026 – Welp. Right off the bat, let me note that this controversy is about a year old, and I did a post on it last March, in fact.But it's just caught people's eyes again, making the rounds.There's not a lot to say about this one, exceptin' let it speak for itself.The more...

Mar 24, 2026 – It seems as if we were just watching Lahaina burn, doesn't it?Golly Nell.And now, in the way that the fickleness of weather works, in the past few days, a pair of Kona storms has dumped over four feet of rain in some parts of the Hawaiian islands, leading to some...