Remember “Volt Typhoon?” That was the name given to a group of Chinese hackers who were identified last year by Microsoft. Volt Typhoon was a state sponsored effort to gain access to US infrastructure including communications and utilities. At the time, FBI Director Christopher Wray said this about the effort. “The fact is, the PRC’s...
What a depressing poll. The Heartland Institute’s poll, done in conjunction with Rasmussen Reports, shows us a couple of things we wish we could unsee. First, that a third of Democrats want the US to lose its trade war with China, and another third aren’t sure whether they want the US or China to win. ...
I should say up front that I don’t really care about Sean Combs in any of his various incarnations as a rapper or a business mogul. In fact the only music I can associate him with is some song he did for the terrible 1998 Godzilla movie where he appeared with Jimmy Page. My thought...
Second thoughts, eh? They’re very useful … when pandering politicians sense that the winds have changed. And they are all the more remarkable when first thoughts should have sufficed to deduce the obvious. Case in point: Gavin Newsom, who has run California into the ground in every way imaginable, but especially on fiscal stability. Despite...
I like Megan McArdle. A lot. She is one of the better columnists in the Pravda Media, writing from her perch at the Washington Post in a generally dispassionate manner, which is rare these days. But…there is always a but, isn’t there…she has developed blind spots that baffle me. Perhaps it comes from spending so...
This is a public service announcement from me, resident cynic, and I don’t give a s**t who it is when I have something that’s torqued me off. As has this ERMAGERDÂ BOMBSHELL-laden exercise in hubris, cover, and concealment by none other than the saintly, always holier-than-thou Jake Tapper. I’m not even going to link to it...
To quote my good friend and VIP Gold chat partner Cam Edwards: Everything is stupid, and it’s only getting worse. Not surprisingly, House Democrats make for very good exemplars of Cam’s evergreen observation. The DNC is already humiliatiing itself on the Altar of Woke to impose “gender balance” rather that accept election results. Meanwhile on...
You can’t make this crap up, can you? After decades of “partnering with”–read “getting big bucks from”–the federal government to aid with the resettlement of refugees, the Episcopal Church has decided that it can no longer do so because…they were asked to help resettle white people. Episcopal Church Bishop Sean Rowe: It’s against what we...
Last week, David Strom noted that Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty – one of the raft of prosecutors who wafted into office on a wave of George Soros’s money – Â was moving to mandate the “consideration of race” when prosecuting alleged offenders: This is the equivalent–in reverse–of what happened in the old South when the...
We are pleased to present this guest essay from Robert G. Joseph, Special Envoy for Nuclear Non-Proliferation under George W. Bush, and Robert Toricelli, former Democrat Senator from New Jersey. As always, the opinions expressed by the guest author do not necessarily represent those of Hot Air or Townhall Media. Â Bipartisan Agreement: Â Iran’s Future,...
There are a lot of grating things about Trump’s critics, but perhaps the most frustrating one for me is how so many of them still fail to understand the fact that so much of what he says and does has to be understood not as literal statements of what he thinks at any given moment,...
Hannah Dugan is the Wisconsin judge who was arrested by the FBI last month after (allegedly) interfering with ICE agents who were present in the public part of the courthouse to make an arrest of a criminal illegal alien. Today she was indicted on two counts by a federal grand jury. The Wisconsin judge arrested...
In December, as weepy Winken Antony Blinken was busy sucking up to the newest, cleanest Jihadi in a suit to roll into a Middle Eastern Third World s**thole, I was asking if the Biden administration had bothered to ‘meet the new boss’ in light of their effusive greetings to Abu Mohamed al-Jolani and his victorious,...
When a friend of mine in PR sent me a review copy of a new book on the excavation of an ancient site outside Jerusalem, I was skeptical that I would have much to say about the book. The subject, while intellectually interesting, is not exactly in my wheelhouse. But, being a friend, I said...
Truth be told, that’s not the deepest question the day. “Did Israel just give itself a justification for ending the war” is the deepest question. IDF forces struck a suspected Hamas command center near a Khan Younis hospital this morning. The Israelis believe that Mohammed Sinwar, the brother of October 7 architect Yahya Sinwar and...