Have you grown tired of the winning yet? Especially after the past week? Yesterday, the media narrative on the House was “Republicans in disarray!” Today, Speaker Mike Johnson and Donald Trump corralled their caucus to pass a renegotiated budget plan that will allow Trump’s tax cuts and spending reductions to pass through reconciliation: The House...
This is a bold move. Then again, if a terrorist organization was ever going to try such a gambit in a Western country? Other than maybe Germany, the United Kingdom would be my choice for ‘best chance of a successful conclusion to the effort’ as the sympathies and priorities of officials and the judiciary in...
The FBI certainly has come a long way from surrounding pro-life activists with a dozen armed agents in dawn raids over a sidewalk dispute, eh? All it took for a renewed focus on real law enforcement was a new president … and a new crop of psychotic morons rage-posting on social media. Last night, Bill...
Hours before Trump announced his pause on tariffs, he posted a clear signal to everybody that it was a great time to buy stocks. ( @realDonaldTrump – Truth Social Post )( Donald J. Trump – Apr 09, 2025, 9:37 AM ET ) THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO BUY!!! DJT pic.twitter.com/QLMJkjARw1 — Donald J. Trump 🇺🇸...
Time to play The Dog That Didn’t Bark. In this version of the media game, we try to find that strangely silent and altogether unmentioned dog, who had been barking plenty until yesterday. The Wall Street Journal did a deep dive last night into Donald Trump’s decision to pause ‘reciprocal’ tariffs against 75 trading partners...
A long time ago, in a political galaxy far, far away, I was a Policy Fellow at Minnesota’s conservative think tank  American Experiment, so I have some special pride and affection for the work that Bill Glahn, a current policy fellow, has been doing uncovering the largest COVID-era scandal in the country. He just dropped...
Last week the remnants of the Department of Education sent letters to state leaders across the country requiring them to certify within 10 days that they were compliant with the Trump administration’s view of DEI in schools. As a condition for receiving federal money, the Trump administration is ordering K-12 schools to certify that they...
I’m starting to feel like a psychic as opposed to a psycho. No sooner do I get my VIP post up about Dems telling Dems how to win again – a surefire stra-tee-gery always develops when bubble people chirp at each other – then Democrats in Arizona take Winning Suggestion Number Four to heart. Be...
Feds Create Task Force to Investigate Fraud, Corruption in California’s Homeless Services – HotAir
A potential scandal has been brewing in southern California. Back in February I wrote about what may have been just the tip of the iceberg. The person in charge of the LA Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA) was caught signing a $2.1 million contract with her husband’s employer. A LAHSA spokesperson told LAist the contracts had...
It’s no secret that the propaganda war over Trump’s cuts of government programs, particularly foreign aid, grossly distorts what Trump and Marco Rubio have actually done while eliminating USAID. If you follow the “news” put out by Pravda, you would be led to believe that people are dying in droves, children are left starving, and...
I once had a point, or should I say, it once had me … One could come up with a number of good arguments against tariffs. Chris Matthews did not choose well among them. Earlier today, the MSNBC commentator complained that American construction companies would lose access to … Canadian wood? Indeed, Matthews chose this...
I’ve never been a fan of Jamelle Bouie and his latest take on Trump and tariffs is a good example of why. As with everything he writes, it comes with no surprises or genuine insights. Instead, it’s more anti-Trump, anti-Republican material for his audience of like-minded readers. His job is to convince you he’s being...
Americans were never crazy about electric vehicles to begin with, certainly not in a Cabbage Patch Doll or Beanie Baby buying frenzy sort of way. For one thing, EVs were always too expensive and too impractical for an impulse purchase, which is what Americans live for when they go nuts over some new technology. Take...
Good news! I bring you good tidings and great cheer. You can retire again. Don’t ask me about tomorrow. Tomorrow never comes. About an hour ago, the Trump administration announced a couple developments on the tariff front. First, in response to China going all-in on reciprocity, The United States will now impose a 125% tariff...
This proves once again that Supreme Court decisions require careful reading rather than broad assumptions. Federal judges in both Texas and California read the per curiam order issued late Monday in challenges to deportations of alleged Tren de Aragua organized-crime members — and issued separate stays today. The first came in New York:   A...
