Tag: HotAir

AOC Solves Immigration Crisis – HotAir

Some ideas are so obvious that it takes a genius like AOC to blurt them out. Once these genius ideas are on the table, everybody can agree that the solution was obvious from the beginning. “Why didn’t I think of that?!” we all wonder. AOC dropped a bit of wisdom on The Daily Show (which […]

Besides Not Having a SecDef, We Don’t Have Much of a Int’l Red Sea Coalition Against the Houthis, Either – HotAir

In mid-December, almost as soon as our currently ailing Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin announced his soaringly named international coalition of high seas passage defenders… BREAKING: ⚡ 🇺🇸🇮🇱 U.S. Secretary of Defense General Lloyd Austin will announce a multinational campaign codenamed ‘Operation Prosperity Guardian’ during his visit to the Middle East next week According to […]

Record Number of Police Shot on Duty in 2023 – HotAir

“A stain on our society.” That’s how a spokesperson for the Fraternal Order of Police described the latest figures they compiled for 2023. The FOP recorded more shootings of on-duty police officers last year than in any year since they began keeping records. There were 378 officers shot, with 46 of them being killed. They […]

SATs Aren’t Racist and Universities Should Use Them – HotAir

A majority of colleges and universities in the United States have stopped using SAT scores in their admissions process. Scores are either optional now or, in some cases like California’s UC system, not accepted at all. The reasons for this are clear to everyone involved. There has been a concerted effort by the left to ditch […]

German Farmers Sowing Some Discontent – HotAir

This has been festering for a while – ever since the Greens outsmarted themselves by trying to roll over COVID emergency funds into the the regular budget. But with the ruling from the German Supreme Court on November 15th that Greens could no longer constitutionally touch that €60M they’d already worked into that very same […]

Biden Isn’t Considering Firing Def Sec Austin – HotAir

The story of Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin’s undisclosed hospitalization just keeps getting worse. On Saturday, I wrote about it because it is a shocking story, even for the inept and incompetent Biden administration. Jazz wrote about it on Sunday I was shocked that Austin was hospitalized on January 1 and no one bothered to […]

Democrats Really Have No Good Options on Immigration – HotAir

Politico published a story today about concerns among Democratic operatives that Mayor Eric Adams is putting the White House in a bad position with regard to migrants. The more he complains about the problems NYC is facing the better the electoral environment gets for Republicans. The ceaseless, dire messaging is threatening Democrats in a pivotal […]

Pack the Supreme Court to Unpack It – HotAir

Just as Joe Biden wants to save democracy by banning his political opponents from running for office and putting them in jail, liberal lawyers are now arguing that the only way to save the Supreme Court is to unpack it by appointing six or more liberal justices. To somebody untrained in the arcane doublespeak of critical […]