Earlier this week the Trump administration threatened to fine California after a trans athlete won several track events at the state final competition for girls. Today, CNN is reporting that the administration is indeed working on a plan to cut off federal funding to California, not unlike what the administration has done to Harvard. Details...
Have you seen season 2 of the Star Wars show Andor? I watched it and it’s a pretty fascinating take on what the early days of a rebellion against an evil empire looks like. Just to set the table here, Critical Drinker did a turnabout on season 2 of the show. After finding the first...
This is a bit of a leftover from yesterday, but it provides some good insight into why the Democrat establishment may hit the panic button over Karine Jean-Pierre’s new project. Set aside all of the nonsense hypocrisy of the Biden Conspiracy’s most prominent propagandist declaring her Independence from the party that basically made her what she...
This is another one of those things happening since, well, basically the election that isn’t just a surprising and encouraging reversal of recent trends. It’s frickin’ downright gobsmacking how fast the 180° turn and acceleration in the opposite direction took off. When last we saw our demoralized and struggling United States Army, they were being...
Did the US economy deliver a dud in May? Not exactly, but the job creation report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics definitely cannot be described as exciting or energetic. For the fifth straight month, the economy added only a maintenance level expansion of new jobs, although that number is tempered — slightly — by...
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has ordered the removal of Harvey Milk’s name from a Navy replenishment ship, and the move stirred up the inevitable controversy. It was intended to, just as the original naming of the ship was meant to be a poke in the eye of opponents of DEI. The choice to name...
We’ve seen the Hundred Years War. We’ve seen the Thirty Years War. We’ve even seen the Six Day War. Could the conflagration between Donald Trump and Elon Musk become known as the Ten Hours War? Maybe we need a new olive-branch emoji on X, one with a dove wearing a MAGA hat: Elon Musk tried...
When I saw this headline and read the story about how a 22-year-old intern is now in charge of a Department of Homeland Security program to prevent terrorism, I smelled a big pile of bovine excrement. Written by ProPublica–need I say more?–but published by Defense One–we learn that Trump cares so little about defending the...
Atlantic staff writer Helen Lewis has a new book coming out titled “The Genius Myth: A Curious History of a Dangerous Idea.” The book itself won’t be released for another two weeks but she wrote an article based on the book which gives a pretty good idea what it’s about. I can’t prove it but...
Two years ago, I got to write one of the weirdest headlines I’ve ever written here at HotAir. What made it weird was that no Beege-isms were required. The whole thing spoke for itself. What happens when Target hires a transgender Satanist to design their Pride merchandise? That was the whole story right there. Target was...
I have never quite understood the elite’s obsession with Greta Thunberg. She rose to prominence in 2018, when she was 15 years old, because she refused to go to school because she was, according to her, terrified that climate change would kill us all. Given that she was simply repeating what literally every leftist activist...
Uh … sure, pal. Sure you did. Late yesterday, Donald Trump upped the ante on exposing the fraud surrounding Joe Biden’s cognitive incapacity during his presidency. The House Oversight Committee had already started an investigation into the use of the autopen over the last four years and whether Biden made those choices as required by...
I wrote about this earlier before things really broke loose a couple hours ago. Time to drop the really big bomb:@realDonaldTrump is in the Epstein files. That is the real reason they have not been made public. Have a nice day, DJT! — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 5, 2025 And that has led to some...
See the kind of totally cool news you miss if you watch the spat between the big kids…Â Â Â Â Oh, SHUT UP ALREADY …instead of the rest of what’s going on in the world? Trump and Elon can duke it out over who got who elected (I’m ‘Team Trump’ with an able-bodied Musk assist), but...
Everybody has been laughing at CNN’s skydive without a parachute, and we all had a chuckle when the ratings came out that showed that CNN’s viewership is now about 1/6th that of Fox News. After all, who would have predicted that the publicity push for Jake Tapper’s “Original Sin” (apologies to Alex Thompson, who co-wrote...