A whistleblower at Lockheed Martin has come forward to Christopher Rufo claiming that annual bonuses at the company were based on skin color rather than performance in some case. The source is anonymous but the story suggests they brought with them evidence to back up this claim. The story began in December 2022, when the...
On Tuesday, oleaginous California Governor Gavin Newsom took time out from podcasting to ask a federal judge for a temporary restraining order (TRO) against the President of the United States. President Trump, the toothy state chief executive claimed, might be able to federalize the National Guard and send Marines into a city in his state,...
Is this a TACO moment, or Trump going somewhere he always intended? TACO, as you know, is the Democratic Party acronym for “Trump Always Chickens Out,” implying that all Trump’s zigs and zags on things like tariffs are evidence that their Nazi authoritarian self-proclaimed king is actually a paper tiger who talks big and chickens...
Hoo boy, Part Deux. And I thought Pete Hegseth’s takedown of House Dem Betty McCallum (MN-04) would be the Congressional Moment of the Week. However, the difficulty level of facing McCallum in a battle of wits is akin to nailing a simple front dive at the Olympics. You may score a 10, but you don’t...
Eight police vehicles were intentionally set on fire early Thursday morning in Brooklyn by two unidentified men. Arsonists torched at least eight NYPD vehicles in a targeted attack in a Brooklyn parking lot early Thursday — with undetonated explosive devices also found after two masked suspects were seen running away, police and sources said. Police...
Wowsahs. What a difference ten days and the promise of rent freezes make when you’ve got a cute face, huh? Zohran Mamdani, the Socialist and Hamas-supporting New York Assembly member running in the Democratic primary for New York City mayor (I introduced you to him here), has pulled into the lead. Over former Governor Andrew...
They say that the No Kings rallies scheduled for Saturday are intended to be peaceful protests against Trump the tyrant. But then again, they are also claiming that the violence in Los Angeles and other cities is “peaceful,” so the word has as solid a meaning to them as the verb “is” had for Bill...
The most obvious thing in the world probably doesn’t qualify as “news” to most HotAir readers but it does to the folks over at NBC News. Today they have a story up about some of the far-left online accounts that are pushing for more violence and destruction from a group of people who have already...
Gutless Gavin Hides ‘First Amendment’ Speech Behind Copyright Claims to Shut Down Critics – HotAir
Perhaps my Javert analogy treated Gavin Newsom too kindly. This smells more like a Hunger GamesÃ/Panem setup, in which the ridiculously baroque elites strut on stage but fear the people so much that they arrange death matches on the streets to distract the peasantry. In fact, that may be uncomfortably on the nose, given the...
For the first time in decades, it appears the Iranians have really stepped in it, and the United Nations group tasked with monitoring the nuclear agreements has officially had enough. BREAKING: The U.N.’s 35-nation nuclear watchdog just declared Iran in breach—for the first time in 20 years—raising the prospect of Security Council action. Iran failed...
I am not a fan of calling every act of political opposition to government policies an “insurrection.” The word is overused, largely because the Democrats found the term useful in their fight against Donald Trump. In turn, Republicans have taken to using the term frequently as an implicit rebuttal–if a term gets overused it loses...
Has there ever been a governor more derelict in duty than Gavin Newsom? Or as arrogantly tiresome? Or with so much of that arrogance completely unjustified? Frankly, Newsom might want to fully transition into podcasting at this point. He clearly doesn’t to govern anything, especially his own tongue. He stood around while thousands of Angelenos...
Leftists have a love affair with political violence. It is in the DNA of the movement, which began during the French Revolution. Obviously, modern leftism is not the first political movement to USE violence–at some level, force and politics are intimately tied together, although stable regimes try to reserve the use of violence as much...
David Hogg has been creating problems for DNC chair Ken Martin since he got the job as vice chair back in February. By April Hogg was using his PAC Leaders We Deserve to support primary opponents against moderate Democrats. By mid-May the DNC’s Credentials Committee suggested Hogg and fellow vice chair  Malcolm Kenyatta were elected...
And I had such high hopes when I read this earlier. I thought, schmaybe, just schmaybe, cranky pants old Communist Karen had had herself an Elon-like moment of reflection amid all the flames and chaos. That Mayor Bass was ready to…well, not kiss, but perhaps bite her vicious forked tongue and make nice for the...