Dec 19, 2025 – This is kind of fun in this day and age, to hear this term being used by serious people in a serious fashion, in concert with the government of the United States.LETTERS OF MARQUE AND REPRISALAnd I have to clarify for those not up to speed on the nuances of...

Dec 15, 2025 – There actually was one cheerful, hopeful piece of news coming out of this Godawful weekend of death and carnage, and it could very well spell the beginning of something terrific for a whole country.Almost exactly a month ago, I told you how the national election in Chile was signaling that...

Dec 15, 2025 – What did that vile, daffy, worthless drunk who ran for president last year say about our troops again?AND, AS OF TODAY, THERE IS NOT ONE MEMBER OF THE UNITED STATES MILITARY ON ACTIVE DUTY IN A COMBAT ZONE IN ANY WARZONE AROUND THE WORLDI will always cherish the incredulous reaction...

Dec 15, 2025 – It's hard not to see the meme with Giorgio Tsoukalos in your head this weekend, and just, like, change a word.Aliens Ancient Aliens Memefrom Aliens MemesLike, 'I'm not saying it's the Presbyterians again...'But it sure sounds like it definitely was.Five men have been arrested in Germany suspected of being involved...

Dec 15, 2025 – Along with the momentous change being crowned by the election of a conservative Republican as president in Chile this weekend, events in the Eastern European country of Bulgaria have been moving rapidly.Since the first of the month, the GenZers of the country have been taking to the streets in ever-widening protests,...

Dec 17, 2025 – When the headlines broke late last night, I thought, wowsahs - this is an escalation.And that while a 'blockade' was a dramatic move, it seemed like it would be kind of difficult to enforce on a country whose other two-thirds of borders had nothing to do with the oceanfront. There...

Dec 17, 2025 – This is such a wild development.Friedrich Merz, Chancellor of Germany, milque-toast waffler and master of the Old Magoo, is trying out for yet another role - DEFENDER OF EUROPE.No one is quite sure what to make of this reincarnation unfolding on an international stage. The skeletal German leader, whose usual...

Dec 17, 2025 – REQUIRED LEGAL DISCLAIMER: It so happens that this major transgression against the British State happened last February, and I would hazard a guess that because the details are so gruesome and so unbelievable, it is only now coming into light. HotAir and especially little ol' me are not responsible for what...

Dec 17, 2025 – That 'People's Elbow' move was born when WWE superstar The Rock came off the ropes and dropped an elbow into his opponent's chest.Linda McMahon is big-time wrestling royalty, and she is still using those off-the-ropes moves as Trump's unyielding, no-nonsense Secretary of Education. A department she took over where the...

Dec 22, 2025 – In November, another of these horrific train-riding stories broke. Where an innocent person is just going about their business, trying to get home from work or whatever, and a monster strolls onto their car.Who then randomly picks them as the target for some unimaginable act of inhuman cruelty.The sleeping lady...

Dec 30, 2025 – It isn't often one gets a chance to go out in a blaze of righteous glory, be it while shuffling off this mortal coil, one's time in a particular employment situation, or even as an elected official.Not in a flashy, 'take that' show of bluster and spite. I'm not talking...

Feb 17, 2026 – So this was an interesting development that popped up after the ghastly Stellantis quarterly report last week.That was where the company wrote down $26.5B - that's billion with a 'B' - in charges thanks to their miserably performing electric vehicle (EV) adventures.The Ford/GM/Stellantis EV collapse is definitely stunning, but I...

Feb 17, 2026 – The Scholastic Aptitude Tests (SAT) have been around forever and have never been held in less regard than now. Thanks to the past decade or so of intense advocacy for equity over quality, and race-grievances over education, the SATs have been the whipping boy for every anti-merit-based admissions policy foe...

Feb 18, 2026 – It's a comfort to know we, as in the American taxpayer, are no longer footing the bill for these abominations, these rolling climate cult public transportation fantasies. That's cold comfort to any of the taxpayers in municipalities who, in their greed and wokeness, grabbed at the federal largesse flying from...

Feb 18, 2026 – If it seems like it concerns two of the least likable, least reputable people in their separate fields of operations, that's because it does.Stephen Colbert, the bespectacled, jug-eared, unclever, canceled talk show host, on his last obnoxious gasp of airtime as he runs out the clock, has figured out yet...

Feb 17, 2026 – I know Nashville's had a rough month or two lately. View this post on InstagramA post shared by Sarah Knuth (@sarahknuth)The late January snowstorm, with its over half-inch-thick layer of ice, laid a hurt on the area, knocking out power for many for almost two weeks during the deep freeze accompanying...

Feb 17, 2026 – Oh, gosh darn it. It's amazing how progressive #mathz, like communism #failz, are the same whatever language they're in at the time.Progs trying to make their case or hide their incompetence/malfeasance cannot or will not count correctly to save their lives, be it poop content in the outflow from a...

Feb 16, 2026 – I won't tell you what we called the river between the base at Subic Bay and the city of Olongapo just across from it.But it did have its own distinctive l'odeur nauséabonde reminiscent of the outhouses at Girl Scout camp if you mixed it with dead chickens, monkeys, and soy...

Feb 18, 2026 – This is getting to be like one of those amusement-park outings where you're doing fine, have a big day as a G kinda guy on the best rides, and then suddenly the queasiness hits.It had to have been all the hairpin turns finally catching up with you, and out of...

Feb 23, 2026 – I waffle back and forth.I know that's probably something you wouldn't normally associate with me, but it's true.What I can't settle on is if we're being royally played, like a supersized joke or something. Or if this current crop of Democratic Party luminaries, across the length and breadth of the entire...

Feb 23, 2026 – Over three thousand people of all ages marched in Lyon, France day before yesterday, in honor of twenty-three-year-old Catholic college student Quentin Deranque. The slight young man had been beaten to death by a savage Left-wing mob in the preceding week. He had been a volunteer security watch for a...

Feb 23, 2026 – Things have gone from bad to worse for Prime Minister Keir Starmer after the body blow he took last week, when he initially squeamishly denied both RAF Fairford and our joint base at Diego Garcia in the Chagos Islands.For his rank perfidy, Trump blasted the deal Starmer's been trying to ram through...

Feb 23, 2026 – This is such a great all-American story on top of the great all-American golds won by our Olympic hockey teams in Milan.Between Karma handing out a few lessons of her own to whiny alphabet soup sex skaters who then come in 13th, pissy free stylers who don't come in at...

Feb 24, 2026 – The last time I wrote anything at length about the Panama Canal specifically was last April, so almost a year ago.The new Trump administration had moved swiftly to reassert American influence in the region and engineered a pretty impressive about-face as far as the Panamanian government went, which had been in...

Feb 26, 2026 – There are so many loons wandering the streets of the Big Apple, shoving people onto subway tracks from platforms, setting snoozing passengers on fire, and harassing people walking to work or just trying to get home.It's an urban zooscape filled with every type and stripe of animal, from the chirpy,...