The president often exaggerates his threats. But not always. From New Year’s Eve: ….Iran will be held fully responsible for lives lost, or damage incurred, at any of our facilities. They will pay a very BIG PRICE! This is not a Warning, it is a Threat. Happy New Year! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December

Hillary Clinton is welcoming in the new year with a new job – she has been appointed chancellor of Queen’s University, Belfast (QUB). The appointment is effective immediately and it’s a five-year gig. She’s the first woman to do the job so we can look forward to future speeches about how she broke the glass

The World Socialist Website published another interview with a historian who takes issue with the NY Times’ 1619 Project. Oxford historian Richard Carwardine is the author of a book on Lincoln and an expert on the Civil War. Like the other historians the WSWS has interviewed, Carwardine found the 1619 Project troubling and ultimately “wrong”

Happy new year to everyone, and so long to 2019 — especially the last two days of it, when I managed to catch the last flu bug of the year. Originally, I planned to share our walk down Memory Lane by finishing the Top 50 Hot Air posts of 2019 on New Year’s Day, but

It’s good to be a billionaire running for president. Did Michael Bloomberg decide to jump into the Democrat primary for the party’s presidential nomination because of the data he is receiving from his own digital business? More importantly, who even knew he owned a digital business called Hawkfish? A little over a week ago, CNBC

Just when the commotion caused by a top bundler for Pete Buttigieg was fading from political conversations, another problematic bundler has been exposed. This time it is Wendy Wanderman, an entertainment executive who specializes in film marketing and production. A taxpayer-funded initiative she proposed in 2009 has surfaced and is causing some heartburn for Buttigieg’s

Welcome to 2020. From all of the staff here at Hot Air and our other Salem Media affiliate sites, our best wishes for a safe, happy, healthy and prosperous new year. I’m not one for New Year’s resolutions, personally, so I thought we might instead take a moment to reflect on how things went in

There have been so many anti-Semitic attacks in the New York area within the past month that it’s difficult to keep them all straight. In trying to sift through this timeline myself using YouTube and local news reports, I kept coming across earlier incidents. I decided I would close out 2019 by attempting to assemble

After the Democrat debate last September, Bernie Sanders raised eyebrows of observers when he canceled three scheduled events in South Carolina. He cited the need to rest his voice which was noticeably more raspy than normal during the debate. At the time, he promised to release his medical records before the primary. Bernie has fulfilled

I’d expect POTUS to throw a fit upon learning that he’s no better than tied with O in a popularity contest normally, but this result is progress for him. He finished second behind Obama the past two years, a poor result for a sitting president. Typically, if you’re in the Oval Office, you’re also America’s

A court in China has sentenced a well-known pastor to 9 years in prison for the crime of subverting state power. Pastor Wang Yi was arrested last December along with his wife and 100 members of his church. Most were eventually released but Wang Yi’s wife was kept in jail for six months and now

It is nothing new for Bandy X. Lee to sound the alarm about her opinion that President Trump is mentally ill. Lee began warning anyone who would listen about the danger she believes President Trump presents to the country even before he was elected. She finds a willing audience among Democrats and anti-Trumpers. Now, she’s

There is some good news in Afghanistan following a report of a temporary ceasefire between the U.S. and the Taliban. Details are still being figured out but it appears to be for at least ten days so a final agreement can be completely hammered out. Associated Press cited ‘sources’ in their report on the ceasefire

I made a quip about the deteriorating relationship between the U.S. and Iran in my post on Afghanistan, but it appears things may be collapsing faster than originally believed. Iran reportedly fired multiple rockets into Baghdad this evening hitting Camp Taji. #BREAKINGMultiple rockets fired towards #Taji military base that host #US personnel northern #Baghdad. —

This morning’s Gospel reading is Matthew 2:13–15, 19–23: When the magi had departed, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, “Rise, take the child and his mother, flee to Egypt, and stay there until I tell you. Herod is going to search for the child to destroy him.”

We’ve addressed the homelessness crisis on the west coast, particularly in California, more times than I can count. California has the highest number of homeless people in the country. (Washington, D.C. actually has the highest per capita homelessness rate.) Despite massive amounts of money being thrown at the problem, it’s continuing to grow rather than

The Washington Post editorial board spelled out Friday what most conservatives already know to be true: Democrats can get away with anything. Not only that, they can be applauded for getting away with it by their friends in the media. Gov. Ralph Northam of Virginia continues to claim he’s not in the blackface photo that

Wait… I thought the Robert Kraft prostitution trial story was over and done, wasn’t it? Apparently not. Back in May, a Florida judge agreed with Kraft’s lawyers that virtually all of the evidence against him had been collected improperly and tossed it. This left the prosecution with a case consisting almost entirely of hearsay and

President Trump frequently appeared in television shows and movies before he was elected leader of the free world. One cameo appearance in particular in a 1992 movie is making headlines now. Is there a conspiracy afoot? Lots of Trump supporters seem to think so. Trump, at the time of the filming of Home Alone 2,

A week ago the NY Times reported that the ongoing Durham investigation was looking at former CIA Director John Brennan’s possible role in pushing the Steele dossier. Today Politico published a piece which reads like push back against the Durham investigation from the CIA: Intelligence community veterans say the Durham probe could force Haspel to

Today on The Ed Morrissey Show (11:30 am ET), we have a special event — a preview of the final battle between Jazz Shaw and me for the 2019 NFL season! We’re tied up on predictions heading into the last week of the regular season, and we’ll preview our preliminary choices for Sunday’s open thread. We’ll

BBC decided to put Democrats and anti-Trumpers into the Christmas spirit by commissioning a non-profit choir in Washington, D.C. to perform “The Twelve Days of Impeachment” to the tune of “The Twelve Days of Christmas”. Yes, really. Apparently, BBC thought it would be a good idea to stick it to half of the American voters

Venezuela still has the highest rate of inflation in the world (15,000 percent) but the Washington Post reports the situation has improved slightly compared to last year. What’s surprising is the reason for that improvement. Having tried everything else to remain in power, President Nicolas Maduro is now releasing his grip on the nation’s economy

And then there were … fifty-two? CBS News reports that Senate moderate Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) might have signaled that she will peel away from the GOP caucus when it comes to a rules fight over an impeachment trial. Their report focuses on a comment Murkowski made in a KTUU interview that she was “disturbed” by

Fortunately, she is too young to meet the constitutional requirement but Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) thinks it would be an honor to be vice-president. She’s a surrogate for the Bernie Sanders campaign, so that means she’d like to be his vice-presidential pick but she’s only 30 years old. AOC did an interview with Telemundo News last

Here’s a puzzle for you. If you happen to have sent a Christmas gift to that friend or family member who is in the military, the Pentagon would prefer that it not be a home DNA test kit from one of those genealogy companies like Ancestry or 23andMe. But why? The answer isn’t entirely clear

When I woke up on Christmas morning I checked my email (some habits are hard to break) and noticed that the Washington Post had sent out their usual “Wednesday Headlines” newsletter. Since it would be a little while before everyone was awake and ready to open presents, I clicked on it and began scanning the

In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that the whole world should be enrolled. This was the first enrollment, when Quirinius was governor of Syria. So all went to be enrolled, each to his own town. And Joseph too went up from Galilee from the town of Nazareth to Judea, to the

Joey Mucha’s arcade rental business in San Francisco grew out of his love for Skee-ball. For the last five years, he has been renting Skee-ball and other machines out of a warehouse in the Mission District. Recently, Murcha decided to convert the space into an arcade/restaurant that would be open to anyone. Since the warehouse

The Democrats in Boston continued their war on the gig economy this year, just in time for the Christmas travel season. This time they were once again going after Uber and Lyft with a new regulation designed to discourage people from using the ride-sharing services. Following the example of Los Angeles International Airport, the new