Veteran's Day first: Trump delivers speech before N.Y.C. parade
American presidents are always looking for a historic marker in their presidencies. They like to boast about being the first to do something. Today President Trump can say that he is the first sitting...
View ArticleImpeaching Trump via a "secret ballot" may be the Democrats' next plan
Most of us have been operating on one assumption since the entire impeachment hearing circus rolled into town. Sooner or later the Democrats in the House are going to impeach Donald Trump. (They've...
View ArticleJane Fonda: Nuremberg trials for war criminals ... fossil fuel executives
Jane Fonda is leaving quite a trail of over-the-top remarks in interviews these days. She's on a tear about climate change and she won't rest until the streets are clogged with protesters. The latest...
View ArticleThe end of Spicermania
Should I turn this post into a full-blown hot take that Spicer's elimination last night on "Dancing With the Stars" is an early omen for 2020 that MAGA Nation isn't as formidable an electoral force as...
View ArticleNew San Francisco DA okays hookers, peeing in public
As of this weekend, the City by the Bay has a new, incoming District Attorney. Chesa Boudin ran on a social justice platform that's pretty far to the left, even by San Francisco standards. And now that...
View ArticleHollywood: Homeless man dumped bucket of diarrhea on a woman, now he's back...
After a night out in Hollywood with friends, Heidi Van Tassel returned to her car with the intention of heading home. Instead, a homeless man pulled her out of the car, dragged her into the street and...
View ArticleHmmm: Did Bolton tip his hand on potential Ukraine-gate testimony?
Or was he just venting? NBC News reports that John Bolton took aim at Donald Trump's real-estate-mogul approach to diplomacy in a "private speech." Six people present for the talk note that Trump's...
View ArticleVideo: More antisemitic attacks in New York City
Unfortunately, this has become all too common over the past few years but we're not seeing signs that tensions are easing in New York when it comes to the Orthodox Jewish community. The latest series...
View ArticleElizabeth Warren's Medicare for All plan is a con and not a very convincing one
Philip Klein has written an excellent piece for the Washington Examiner walking readers through Elizabeth Warren's history as a public policy con artist. The eventual focus of the piece is her Medicare...
View ArticleSchiff: The first rule of Whistleblower Club is that you don't talk about...
Criticize a whistleblower, go to Ethics jail? Adam Schiff didn't get quite that explicit in his memo today outlining the rules of the impeachment inquiry hearings, but that certainly seems to be the...
View ArticleToday's hot #TEMS topics: Impeachment rules, J-school tools, Iran cools, and...
Today on The Ed Morrissey Show (4 pm ET), we have another great lineup for the news of the day! The show will be streamed on Hot Air's Facebook page and embedded here and on the show page for those who...
View ArticleTrump crisis averted: Mark Sanford ends primary challenge
Congrats to Joe Walsh and the other guy, who now have one less competitor for the three percent of the GOP vote that's not going to Trump.Weird but true: It was less than two weeks ago that Sanford...
View ArticleA Denver business is fined for not picking up other people's poop
Upon seeing this story, you might be tempted to think it was about San Francisco, but it actually takes place in Denver, Colorado. Jawaid Bazyar is the owner of a communications company named...
View ArticleBorder apprehensions dropped again in October but the next border crisis may...
The number of people apprehended at the southern border dropped again in October for the 5th straight month. Vox reports that makes for a cumulative 75 percent drop since May and credits President...
View ArticleReport: Mulvaney hinting to friends that Trump can't fire him because he...
I wonder if this ominous little detail buried in a NYT story about tensions in the West Wing was leaked to the paper with or without Mulvaney's approval.At first blush, it's ... not the sort of thing a...
View ArticleBroke: Infinite burger. Woke: Infinite Twinkie
Earlier this month we looked at the bizarre story of a McDonald's hamburger and order of french fries that were purchased in Iceland. Despite being left sitting out in the open for more than a decade,...
View ArticleABC still trying to uncover the identity of leaker calling himself 'Ignotus'
I may have underestimated ABC's desperation to punish an employee who dared to tell the truth. It seemed to me that having been publicly humiliated by fingering the wrong person for leaking the Amy...
View ArticleNorthwestern dean to triggered protesters: Our student newspaper shouldn't...
A sequel to Ed's post this morning about the instantly infamous editorial from Northwestern's college newspaper apologizing to campus activists for "traumatizing" them by covering their protest of a...
View ArticleDid Farage just hand BoJo the election -- and secure a hard Brexit?
For Boris Johnson, this is a classic good news/bad news scenario. The good news: Nigel Farage will indeed prevent any Brexit Party challenge in the 317 constituencies that Johnson's Tories now hold in...
View ArticleMacron questions U.S. commitment to NATO: “turning its back on us”
French President Emmanuel Macron is voicing concern that the United States is not a reliable NATO partner. Macron wants France to have a bigger role in the Middle East, for example. President Trump's...
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