Murkowski: I'm "disturbed" by McConnell's coordination with the White House...
And then there were ... fifty-two? CBS News reports that Senate moderate Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) might have signaled that she will peel away from the GOP caucus when it comes to a rules fight over an...
View ArticleBack to the future: Hillary's recycled Christmas photo lands in a tweet
The Democrats running for their party's nomination for president remembered to wish potential voters a Merry Christmas on Twitter. Well, most of them (or their staff) did. For the most part, the...
View ArticleNY Times: Say, these UAW leaders act like corrupt fat cats
You will be shocked to learn that UAW labor union leaders have been living a life of luxury on membership dues and payments from the car companies they were supposed to be negotiating with. Today the...
View ArticleAlien contact in the 2020s? Don't rule it out yet
David Axe at the Daily Beast left us all a Christmas present in the form of an intriguing essay posing one provocative question. Will we find aliens in the next decade? He begins by referencing...
View ArticleToday's hot topics on #TEMS: Christmas joy, Murkowski coy, Bloomie's prison...
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 ArticleHot Air's top 50 countdown in 2019: 41-50
It's almost time to bid farewell to 2019 and embrace 2020 ... or at least batten down the hatches for what's coming. Before we do that, though, let's take a look back at the past year and the stories...
View ArticleBBC video: It's Merry Impeachment, not Merry Christmas, America
BBC decided to put Democrats and anti-Trumpers into the Christmas spirit by commissioning a non-profit choir in Washington, D.C. to perform "The Twelve Days of Impeachment" to the tune of "The Twelve...
View ArticleVenezuela slightly less miserable this Christmas thanks to free markets
Venezuela still has the highest rate of inflation in the world (15,000 percent) but the Washington Post reports the situation has improved slightly compared to last year. What's surprising is the...
View ArticleTurkey is blackmailing the US over Russian alliance
Turkish President/dictator Recep Tayyip Erdogan has kept the United States and the rest of his supposed NATO allies on a teeter-totter for the past year or more. But his most recent moves have exposed...
View ArticleWaPo media critic: Maddow has a lot to answer for with Steele dossier obsession
Plenty of people need to answer for their embrace of the Steele dossier -- the FBI, James Comey, Adam Schiff, Christopher Steele himself. A number of media outlets need to provide accountability,...
View ArticleTEMS special: NFL picks showdown preview!
Today on The Ed Morrissey Show (11:30 am ET), we have a special event -- a preview of the final battle between Jazz Shaw and me for the 2019 NFL season! We're tied up on predictions heading into the...
View ArticleVA school district to allow student absences from classes to protest
Happy New Year, kids! Fairfax County Public Schools in Northern Virginia will enact a new policy on January 27, 2020, which allows school students to skip school to protest.So it begins. Fairfax County...
View ArticleNY Times reporter assaulted while covering protest in Nicaragua
Nicaragua has been governed by Daniel Ortega for much of the last 40 years. Today, many people in his own country see him as an autocrat who will never leave power. His wife is the country's vice...
View ArticleHuh. Schumer's handling of Clinton's impeachment was very different
Chuck Schumer (as well as a couple of moderate Republicans, to be fair) was quite put off by Mitch McConnell's announcement that he would "coordinate" with the White House on the impeachment trial....
View ArticleHot Air's top 50 countdown in 2019: 31-40
This is the way the cookie crumbled in 2019, and in more ways than one! The year went from parody to anarchy and back, and that's just in this new selection of our Top 50 posts from 2019. In this...
View ArticleCBC cuts Trump cameo in Home Alone 2. Did Trudeau do it?
President Trump frequently appeared in television shows and movies before he was elected leader of the free world. One cameo appearance in particular in a 1992 movie is making headlines now. Is there a...
View ArticleDurham investigation focusing attention on John Brennan and some CIA veterans...
A week ago the NY Times reported that the ongoing Durham investigation was looking at former CIA Director John Brennan's possible role in pushing the Steele dossier. Today Politico published a piece...
View ArticleMcConnell "impaneling an all-white jury for a Klansman trial"
The nice thing about the Christmas season is the way it seems to bring everyone together for a rare period of harmony and polite discourse. Some of that warmth seemed to be mysteriously missing on CNN...
View ArticleLily Tomlin ends the year in handcuffs and under arrest
It's Week 12 for the climate alarmists protesting during Fire Drill Fridays rallies in Washington, D.C. The designated celebrity to be arrested for the cause this week was the actress and comedienne...
View ArticleBob Kraft's hooker trial could include a felony charge
Wait... I thought the Robert Kraft prostitution trial story was over and done, wasn't it? Apparently not. Back in May, a Florida judge agreed with Kraft's lawyers that virtually all of the evidence...
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