Jan 10, 2023 – Man. In case New Yorkers needed any more cheerful news besides crime rates, taxes and the nails-on-a-blackboard voice of the creature they actually elected governor, there’s more fun in the pipeline. Sometime this month Kathy Hochul is going to get a piece of legislation that has the potential to make...

Jan 10, 2023 – I’ve done numerous posts here at HotAir (e.g. their last ditch pitch or restarting the pandemic payment pause) about the dogged determination the Biden administration has shown in trying to turn your tax dollars into handouts of massive proportions. Late this fall there appeared to have been, at long last,...

Jan 9, 2023 – So. Just how is that renewable thing going, guys? Belgium has reached an agreement with French utility Engie to extend the life of two nuclear reactors by 10 years, the prime minister said on Monday, overturning a plan to exit nuclear power in 2025 as the war in Ukraine...

Jan 9, 2023 – Good grief. What are we doing to our children? The American Academy of Pediatrics for the first time recommended that doctors offer weight-loss drugs to obese children 12 or older, alongside lifestyle and behavioral counseling. — Sarah Toy (@sarahtoy17) January 9, 2023 The American Academy...

Jan 9, 2023 – Hang on. That question probably answers itself… …but I’m taking a shot at it anyway. Last October, President Biden had yet another one of his blustery, incoherent moments and, unchallenged by any media there at the time, let the oil industry have it. The most...

Jan 6, 2023 – Sure sounds like those demands for a $15 hr minimum wage are paying off! McDonald's plans reorganization, job cuts — CNBC (@CNBC) January 6, 2023 I’m not sure what the minimum wage battles are looking like in other states, but I do remember hearing about...

Jan 6, 2023 – The beer industry was already in the doldrums this summer. …The four months between May and August represent 40% of total annual beer sales, according to data from the National Beer Wholesalers Association, with holidays like Memorial Day and the Fourth of July helping make it a critical...

Jan 20, 2023 – And a Happy New Year to the “Don’t be evil” crowd, huh? It’s shaping up to be a barn burner. Google parent Alphabet Inc. said it plans to eliminate roughly 12,000 jobs, reducing its staff by 6% and marking the company’s largest-ever round of layoffs as it copes with...

Jan 20, 2023 – The well-heeled and well-connected have certainly been busy in Switzerland this week, and I’m not just talking about escort services. There have been all sorts of plans and big ideas floated to their fellow attendees. All in a concentrated effort to further their collective vision of the future as they...

Jan 19, 2023 – Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen threw the warning flag this morning. The US government has hit the legal limit on how much money it can borrow, and Congress must approve an increase to avoid a debt default in the coming months, Treasury secretary Janet Yellen said this morning. In...

Jan 19, 2023 – Of all the religious institutions one would expect to crumble in the face of unrelenting pressure from the alphabet fanatics, the notoriously liberal Church of England might well have been at or near the top of your list. There has been decade upon decade where the indignant howls of believers...

Jan 18, 2023 – Ah, where would be without the do-good nannies of the world, hell-bent on saving us from ourselves? Thou shalt THIS, Thou shalt not THAT, Thou shalt PUT THAT DOWN, SPIT THAT OUT and all the rest of the commanding and demanding these zealots do in the name of the Holy...

Jan 18, 2023 – It sounds as if things are starting to get pretty testy there. French unions dig in for pension battle with Macron: Trade unionists plan to paralyse public transport, shut down schools, set up picket lines and march through cities on Thursday over President Emmanuel Macron's pension reform. —...

Jan 17, 2023 – Ah, New Orleans. Don’t ever change. Mel Gibson dropped from Mardi Gras parade in New Orleans after ‘threats’ Mel Gibson has been dropped from a Mardi Gras parade’s lineup in New Orleans after organizers said they’d received “threats” and cited safety concerns. The announcement was a...

Jan 17, 2023 – What has happened to my kinfolk? Has every last drop of independence and fighting spirit been crushed out of their now mostly socialist souls? I mean, this pasty-faced Scottish government fellow literally announces: …the era of catering for unconstrained growth in private car use is well...

Jan 16, 2023 – That last name is a puzzler, let me tell you. He surely wasn’t invited for his intellectual heft. But he is gullible enough to eat the bugs if someone told him to. What are they serving at Davos? — Viva Frei (@thevivafrei) January 16, 2023 Well,...

Jan 16, 2023 – This past Friday, four more Virginia high schools admitted to withholding National Merit notifications from students who had earned them. …Shawn DeRose, principal of Annandale High School wrote a letter for parents noting that when the delay of award notifications came to light at Thomas Jefferson High School for...

Jan 13, 2023 – Literally. Pretty wild news in light of everything going on in Europe. The discovery here of a large deposit of rare-earth elements, vital for renewable energy and electric vehicles, offers fresh hopes for Europe’s transition away from fossil fuels and a lessened reliance on China, the world’s top supplier...

Jan 13, 2023 – In a little over a month, six whales have washed up on the length of Mid-Atlantic beaches that stretch from Atlantic City, New Jersey to Montauk Point, New York, with two of them coming ashore in Atlantic City within 3 weeks of each other. The events locals are calling “unprecedented”...

Jan 12, 2023 – President Joe Biden, the proud owner of Joe’s Garage, had another go-round today with his favorite reporter. You might remember the last time our silver-tongued chief executive lavished praise on the guy. Too bad for Joe that young Doocy had another shot at him today, and Joe...

Jan 12, 2023 – Lori Lightfoot is an arrogant, oblivious mess. She’s always been pretty wrapped up in her own self… …so she probably hasn’t noticed that Chicago is a mess, too. Other people have noticed, though – called “voters” – and it looks as if they are fixin’...

Jan 11, 2023 – The unctuous governor of California, Randall Flagg doppelganger Gavin Newsom, had himself one of the healthiest rainy day funds in any blue state ever – a smidge over $98B in the bank last year. It must have been like being out at sea on a carrier for 3 months with...

Jan 11, 2023 – Sweden’s new, center-right government has had enough of Green schemes. 🇸🇪 #Sweden: Government Preparing Legislation For Construction Of New #Nuclear Power Plants. #NuclearEnergy #NuclearPower Country aiming for ‘more reactors in more places’, including SMRs — NucNet Nuclear News (@NucNetNews) January 11, 2023 Feeling...

Jan 30, 2023 – (Before we get into any firearm safety/trigger discipline brouhaha, the picture was taken at the S&W Firearms factory, and the hands you see are the assembler putting the 1911 together.) (There. That should settle THAT.) (I know how you all are.) The speaker of the Florida House announced lawmakers...

Jan 30, 2023 – Coming soon – like, real soon – to a chain pharmacy near you: shorter hours…if you’re lucky. CVS Health Corp. CVS and Walmart Inc. are cutting pharmacy hours in the midst of a pharmacist shortage that has plagued the nation’s biggest drugstore chains throughout the Covid-19 pandemic. CVS,...