Jun 12, 2025 – For the first time in decades, it appears the Iranians have really stepped in it, and the United Nations group tasked with monitoring the nuclear agreements has officially had enough.BREAKING: The U.N.’s 35-nation nuclear watchdog just declared Iran in breach—for the first time in 20 years—raising the prospect of Security...

Jun 12, 2025 – Wowsahs.What a difference ten days and the promise of rent freezes make when you've got a cute face, huh?Zohran Mamdani, the Socialist and Hamas-supporting New York Assembly member running in the Democratic primary for New York City mayor (I introduced you to him here), has pulled into the lead.Over former...

Jun 12, 2025 – On Tuesday, oleaginous California Governor Gavin Newsom took time out from podcasting to ask a federal judge for a temporary restraining order (TRO) against the President of the United States.President Trump, the toothy state chief executive claimed, might be able to federalize the National Guard and send Marines into a...

Jun 13, 2025 – I had a VIP post the other day about the fissure opening in European politics over the power vested in the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), the judicial arm of the European Convention of Human Rights.Leaders from nine European Union countries had sent a letter to the court asking...

Jun 13, 2025 – Holy smokes. This was some refreshing news breaking from our Energy Secretary Chris Wright during his appearance before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce a couple of days ago.He was using some pretty bald language, too, concerning what were just six months ago sacred cows.Lobbyists' worst nightmare: 4 minutes...

Jun 13, 2025 – It's Flag Day tomorrow, which is kind of being lost in all the sauce about Trump's birthday, the Army's 250th birthday (Well done, y'all!), and then, of course, the turds with their NoKings plans.Flag Day honors the day in 1777 when the United States, infant nation that we were, adopted...

Jun 14, 2025 – There isn't a lot of information yet, but here's what I have.Sources have told 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS’ Tom Hauser that two Minnesota Lawmakers have been shot.Minnesota state senator John Hoffman in Champlin and Minnesota state representative Melissa Hortman in Brooklyn Park were reportedly shot in their homes by a gunman...

Jun 16, 2025 – Besides simply appreciating the absolute fearlessness and mastery the Israelis have displayed in their campaign against the Iranian regime, and, as David posted a short while ago, very possibly brought them groveling for mercy, there are additional benefits to Israel's actions for everyone.Hezbollah was told by a suddenly stiff-spined Lebanese...

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...