Please note that the opinions and positions expressed in guest essays are those of the writer alone and not those of Hot Air, Townhall Media, or Salem Media. By Hollie McKay PARIS, France – Fifty years later, anti-Iranian regime activist Aziz Rezaee still bears the scars of torture on the bottoms of her frail feet....
Everybody’s closing tabbies for the weekend, except in Playa Del Carmen … After the European Union offered to slash tariffs to zero for industrial goods with the U.S., Trump said that wasn’t enough. The bloc, he said, should close its trade surplus with the U.S. by buying $350 billion of U.S. energy products. That amount,...
China announced today that it was raising its tariffs on US goods to 125%, just below where Trump raised tariffs on Chinese goods earlier in the week. Chinese leader Xi Jinping has said his nation is “not afraid,” in his first public comments on the escalating trade war with the United States, as Beijing raised...
Contrary to what you might have heard, EV sales in the US were up in the first quarter according to two reports out recently from automotive research firms. First up, JD Power. A J.D. Power report has revealed that the overall electric vehicle (EV) market share percentage rose to 9.3% in March 2025 compared to...
Welp, it looks, amazingly enough, like our long national nightmare is close to over. No, Maxine Waters didn’t retire. An actual judge in an actual courtroom actually ruled in favor of the Trump administration and said they were free to boot Hamas-loving Columbia University ‘student’ Mahmoud Khalil. He can be deported. The government had satisfactorily...
Here’s a story that made the local news in Texas this week. A woman was cleaning out a home she had recently vacated and was attacked by a pair of squatters. This particular home had been occupied by squatters just before she moved in a year ago. “When I moved in, the house was completely...
How did Wisconsin Democrats eke out an electoral victory in the 2025 state supreme court race? Part of that strategy consisted of making sure their 2024 presidential nominee stayed out of Wisconsin, as it turns out. Of course, one has to read more than two-thirds of the New York Times’ profile of Kamala Harris and...
CNN data analyst Harry Enten had a segment this morning which hammered home a message Democrats have been struggling with for months. They have completely lost their historic advantage on the question of which party cares most about average Americans. During “CNN News Central,” Enten pulled up new aggregate poll numbers showing that Americans currently...
Why would a judge in Fairfax County, Virginia release a sex offender with a detainer from Immigration and Customs Enforcement? Perhaps residents in northern Virginia should demand an answer to that question — and soon. ICE first encountered Ander Cortez-Mendez in February 2018, when the Guatemalan crossed illegally into Texas and was ordered to appear...
Back in February, MSNBC’s parent company settled a lawsuit brought by a gynecologist who accused the network of defaming him after three of its anchors referred to him as the “uterus collector” on air. The suggestion being made was that he was some kind of lunatic performing surgery on migrant women without their consent and...
This weekend, the US and Iran will hold their first semi-direct talks in years, despite the previous insistence of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in barring such talks. What changed? First, the Iranian security situation has degraded rapidly over the last few months, thanks to their stupidity in attacking Israel directly as well as indirectly through their...
During his failed vice-presidentail bid, Tim Walz faced charges of stolen valor in about the same way as Brave Sir Robin from Monty Python and the Holy Grail faced his travails – had SIr Robin had the benefit of a compliant media that did its best to keep the issue quiet. And Walz is famous...
A few days ago, there was a bit of a tempest in a teapot when our representative to the NATO military committee, a female US Navy admiral named Shoshana Chatfield, was ‘forced out,’ as the media decided to put it. Now, the pretty sympathetic coverage the story got was overshadowed by the noise of the tariff...
Confused about the meaning of the unanimous Supreme Court order issued late yesterday? I certainly wonder what an order to “facilitate” an action without “effectuating” it means. John Sexton seemed similarly nonplussed about it last night. So it comes with some sense of relief to discover that the demand to facilitate the return of a...
I am going to leave aside any question about whether the World Health Organization is telling the truth because I have no way of knowing. There may have been a time when, in ignorance, I would have assumed that they were, but that time is long past. The WHO is run by a man who...
