Clunker: Buttigieg bundler pushed "Cash for Fatties" federal proposal
Just when the commotion caused by a top bundler for Pete Buttigieg was fading from political conversations, another problematic bundler has been exposed. This time it is Wendy Wanderman, an...
View ArticlePope Francis: Sorry about "bad example" of slapping woman who grabbed me
Did Pope Francis need to apologize for this at all? Perhaps, but let's just say that this exchange warranted mutual apologies at best. A viral clip from St. Peter's Square showed the normally beatific...
View ArticleKlobuchar suggests she would disclose UFO information as president
Here's an obscure tidbit from the campaign trail involving Democratic Senator (and POTUS hopeful) Amy Klobuchar. This week she sat down for a lengthy interview with the editorial board of the Conway...
View ArticleHot Air’s top 50 countdown in 2019: 21-30
Happy new year to everyone, and so long to 2019 -- especially the last two days of it, when I managed to catch the last flu bug of the year. Originally, I planned to share our walk down Memory Lane by...
View ArticleBloomberg's secret data firm mislead recruits as DNC's “primary platform”
It's good to be a billionaire running for president. Did Michael Bloomberg decide to jump into the Democrat primary for the party's presidential nomination because of the data he is receiving from his...
View ArticleBiden to coal miners: Learn to program. Industry spox responds
Joe Biden had a moment on the campaign trail Monday in Derry, New Hampshire that created a stir. During a campaign event, he was asked about the coal mining industry's future in a green new world. As...
View ArticleEpstein's madam is "living in a series of safe houses"
Though he's allegedly dead, the dark and twisted tale of Jeffrey Epstein (whose assassin was voted 2019 Person of the Year by the Free Beacon) continues to chug along with a life of its own. But the...
View ArticleSchiff's blues: Trump raises record $46M during Impeachment Q
As an issue in a general-election campaign, Democrats might have made a good deal of hay in the Ukraine-Gate sunlight. As an impeachment effort, it makes for a good general-election fundraiser for...
View ArticleSix arrested in Fresno mass shooting that the media ignored
Back in November, we learned about a mass shooting that took place in Fresno, California, resulting in ten people being shot, four of them fatally. Unlike more politically useful shootings, that one...
View ArticleUN official tries to butt into Chelsea Manning case
As we previously discussed here, Chelsea Manning remains in jail over her refusal to comply with a federal subpoena and testify before a grand jury in Virginia. Manning is racking up massive fines that...
View ArticleJulian Castro: I'm out
Weird timing. He's been a no-chancer for months, excluded from the most recent debates, but slogged on anyway. Now here we are, a month out from Iowa -- and suddenly he's gone. Presumably he ran out of...
View ArticleTrump: US-China Phase One to be signed on Jan 15; China: ...
Does the US and China have an interim agreement to retreat from its bruising trade war? Earlier this week, Donald Trump declared a diplomatic victory, and pledged a signing ceremony at the White House...
View ArticleOxford historian on the 1619 Project: 'A preposterous and one-dimensional...
The World Socialist Website published another interview with a historian who takes issue with the NY Times' 1619 Project. Oxford historian Richard Carwardine is the author of a book on Lincoln and an...
View ArticleIsraeli victim attorneys: Manhattan DA will refuse to charge hate crime over...
Remember Lihi Aharon? The Israeli student took a New York subway ride last month and got assaulted by a woman yelling anti-Semitic taunts at both her and an Orthodox Jewish man riding in the same car....
View ArticleElizabeth Warren doesn't want to talk about Medicare for All anymore
Elizabeth Warren's campaign appears to be struggling. Her polling numbers are down, her fundraising is expected to be lower than last quarter, and she seems to be doing her best to veer back toward the...
View ArticleToday's hot #TEMS topics: New Year talk, NYC's hate-crimes balk, impeachment...
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 ArticleC'mon, AOC won't be redistricted out of her House seat. Will she?
I saw this Frank Luntz tweet a few days ago, concluded it was BS, then spent the morning talking myself into believing that maybe he's onto...
View ArticleMcCabe apologized to FBI agents after changing his story on leak
Last April I wrote about the IG report which concluded that Andrew McCabe had lacked candor in several instances involving a leak to the media. IG Horowitz concluded that McCabe not only told a...
View ArticleDem rep: One reason to hold the articles of impeachment is in case new...
I think this really is why they're doing it. I've spent two weeks trying to make sense of this idiotic ploy strategically and this is the only thing that sort of adds up.REP. LLOYD DOGGETT: Well, I...
View ArticleThere was another anti-Semitic attack in New York on New Year's Day
As I pointed out on New Year's Eve, the New York area saw a disturbing number of anti-Semitic incidents in 2019. But the first such incident of 2020 happened on New Year's Day in Brooklyn. The victim...
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