May 12, 2025 – If there's one thing I can't stand, it's paying for someone else's indulgences.You know, like the 'Pay my student loans' kind of crap the left is always pulling.Yo. You took those out, you pay for them. My attitude extends to things like owning a house in a high tax state and...

May 12, 2025 – These people are whack - lemme just throw that out there first.They haven't attacked anyone yet. They're trying to play it off like it's an evangelical tent revival or something.Left-wing religious activists have mobilized to try to shut down the ICE detention facility in Newark, N.J. that was targeted last...

May 7, 2025 – Let's see how fast Abrego-Garcia changes his tune about his accommodations in San Salvador and how quickly bleeding heart progressive Democrats in Congress pool their pennies together to pay for photo ops in the heart of Kigali in the summer.RWANDA, HERE WE COME!         Yes, it's true, all of it.BREAKING: @POTUS Trump Makes...

May 7, 2025 – There are a couple of aspects to the story that broke this morning - that mega offshore wind developer Ørsted, one of my all-time favorite Green villains, had pulled the plug on a British project known as 'Hornsea 4.'Is that a consumately British name or what?In any event, a number...

May 9, 2025 – Way back in 2016 and the waning days of his second term, President Barack Obama nominated an old friend to fill the post of Congressional Librarian.Today, President Barack Obama announced his intent to nominate Carla D. Hayden as Librarian of Congress. President Obama said, “Michelle and I have known Dr. Carla Hayden...

May 9, 2025 – You know, I've done a number of posts (as has John) on San Francisco's public transportation ills, particularly their Bay Area Rapid Transit or BART commuter trains. Two years ago this month, the city was plaintively asking 'Why nobody ride our trains?' What I found was simply a nightmare of...

May 9, 2025 – Well. 🚨 #BREAKING: Grand jury subpoenas have just been issued in the Letitia James mortgage fraud investigationLooks like an arrest could be coming VERY soon!Big Tish is gonna be BIG MAD! 🤣🔥 pic.twitter.com/CW7pjKegrX— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) May 9, 2025What I would have paid to be a fly on that doorstep...or wherever it...

May 9, 2025 – Pardon me for being a little confused here.Now, I'm no legal scholar - I don't even pretend to play one here at HotAir - but I always thought that Supreme Court justices were supposed to be, if not the shy, retiring type, at least marginally unbiased in public about current...

May 8, 2025 – Oh, those crafty mullahs. They thought they were going to pull another slick one on the United States and the world, much as they have been ever since sending the Shah into exile.I'm sure their little hard hearts went pitter-patter listening to President Trump's interview with Kristen Welker the other...

May 6, 2025 – This had to be an unwelcome surprise for the Master of the Old Magoo.Friedrich Merz has spent his whole life massaging the various super-sized egos along the path of his political career, fawning at the feet of such Christian Democrat (CDU) luminaries as Angela Merkel, to reach the pinnacle of...

May 6, 2025 – This is quite something (although the music is obnoxious beyond belief).Police have arrested 8 people, 7 of whom are Iranians, over a suspected terrorist plot.I wonder what excuses they will come up with so they don’t get deported ?pic.twitter.com/A7xXEQhO20— WeGotitBack 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧🇺🇸 (@NotFarLeftAtAll) May 4, 2025What makes it even more interesting...

May 5, 2025 – By the time you all get to read this, all the celebrities and wanna-bees, often in outlandish costumes...oh. Excuse me. 'High fashion.' Anyone lucky and/or rich enough will have sashayed up the sweeping, wide staircase into the Met Gala 2025, Anna Wintour's must-be-seen social event of the year.I'm serious about...

May 6, 2025 – This is such a tired, obvious old story repeating itself endlessly that we don't cover much of it anymore.Lying, gaslighting, half the story - it's what the press does routinely. Protecting, defending, and promoting, not the truth but the progressive narrative is so much a part of their function, so...

May 6, 2025 – This is all very cursory right now, but what we know at the moment - the Indians have named this Operation Sindoor and as of right now hit nine sites in Pakistan in retaliation for the slaughter in Pahalgam.The Indian armed forces have confirmed it targeted nine sites in Pakistan...

May 19, 2025 – After all the sturm und drang over annulled results and canceled candidates in Romania's madcap, seven-month run at electing a new president, it turns out that the establishment-blessed, independent candidate, Bucharest Mayor Nicusor Dan, walked away as victor after yesterday's second round of voting.And the European Union heaved a huge...

May 19, 2025 – Man, these guys passed 'goofy' and 'outrageous' a long time ago, and went straight into demented, desperate lunatic ravings.I guess when you're a colorless, inner-fireless, charisma-free party apparatchik like Chuck Schumer, having to fight for your very existence for the first time in your political life against an on-coming swarm...

May 19, 2025 – There's more than one way to skin a cat, as the old saying goes.And with the Trump administration's deep bench of on-the-ball heavy hitters, there's more than one way to get around recalcitrant sanctuary states' insufferable righteousness, and active interference in immigration enforcement while protecting the worst of the border...

May 19, 2025 – After reading about intellectually and ethically challenged Chicago mayor Brandon Johnson for any length of time, especially if you've done it here, two things should have become dazzlingly clear: he is completely and utterly the tool of the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) and its sketchy president, Stacy Davis Gates. He...

May 20, 2025 – I woke up to what seemed like a cryptic Xweet from Protect Our Coast NJ this morning.It was pretty hard to believe what I was reading was actually what the words were saying....There was a shocking announcement last night that the federal government reversed course on the Empire Wind Project. We...

Jun 3, 2025 – One year ago, after winning the Dutch elections while forfeiting his right to be Prime Minister in order to get a coalition government formed, populist 'far-right' politician Geert Wilders thought all the ducks were in line to begin a shift away from what he felt were many of the ruininous...

Jun 3, 2025 – Oh, my gosh - these guys just don't quit.Remember at the beginning of May, when the Mayor of Newark and some potty-mouthed congresspeople tried to slam the gate doing ninety-eight for a supposed immigration facility spot check?The folks at the ICE detention center in Newark were not amused.Open up Alcatraz...

Jun 3, 2025 – Ed, David, and I have all written about some aspect of the alternate joint US-Israeli aid program underway in Gaza right now. American contractors have set up a relief system to get food into the area and are predicting that they will be able to feed over half of the...

Jun 3, 2025 – VURT DA FURK?It was hard enough getting used to 'New Math,' but in this day and age, 'scholar' doesn't exactly mean anything near what it used to, either.Like, at Columbia, the argument for not deporting his hate-filled, anti-American butt is that Mahmoud Khalil is a gentle Palestinian 'scholar.' He's simply...

Jun 4, 2025 – If there's anything we've done pretty well for a Stateside blog, I think it's trying to keep y'all up with what's happening across the pond.Granted, we have no deep understanding of either European tribalism or feudalism and it's damn near every day I thank God the Founding Fathers did not...

Jun 2, 2025 – It says a lot for German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius that he is still in the seat after all the uproar with the German government changeover and the constant tension between new Chancellor Friedrich Merz's fragile coalition and the now ever-present number two party in the country, the outcast Alternative...