Hot Air
It begins: The most important election ever — and our game plan to engage
It took a few tries by Elon Musk yesterday afternoon for the Republican presidential field to officially firm up, even if it's not necessarily complete. Ron DeSantis patiently waited for a series of technical failures to…
Nikki Haley is the next Republican candidate to get the CNN town hall treatment
CNN is hosting its second town hall with a Republican primary candidate on June 4 in Iowa. The candidate is Nikki Haley and the host is Jake Tapper. The venue has not been announced yet. Will the haters continue to hate that…
IRS investigation of Taibbi stinks worse than you thought
Remember the minor controversy--maybe not so minor, if you were paying attention--regarding the IRS showing up at Matt Taibbi's door the day he testified before Congress about the government's censorship efforts?Read More
President DeSantis?
Recently, Gov. Ron DeSantis sat down with me for a one-hour interview.Read More
SF Mayor announced a crack-down on open-air drug markets, but was shouted down and had a brick thrown at her
The city of San Francisco was having a normal one yesterday. One observer called it a "circus" and that seems entirely fair given what happened. So the story here is that San Francisco's rate of violent crime…
North Face Pride!
Corporate America is vomiting rainbows. From sea to shining sea you can't help but step in a puddle of colorful puke this summer.Read More
More Chicago teens released without charges after killing
Back in February, in the town of Robbins, southwest of Chicago, three teenagers stole a KIA and took off in a high-speed chase. They wound up crashing the stolen vehicle into a car being driven by 70-year-old Donald Carter.…
Remember when I said German Greens were either gonna chill out or go for broke?
Last week I pointed out that the #mathz on shutting down their nuclear reactors was fixin' to really bite the ruling Greens in the tookus even as they were reeling from losses in April's regional elections. Their…
Trump: DeSantis running in the primary is “ELECTION INTERFERENCE!”
Are actual elections now "election interference"? Say what you will about Donald Trump, but the former president certainly knows about staying on brand. Just days after welcoming Tim Scott to the GOP presidential…
Why is DeSantis using Twitter to launch his campaign? Here is one explanation
The more I think about it, the more sense it makes. Launching a presidential campaign on Twitter is an innovative way of doing it, especially since he will be using Twitter Spaces in a virtual audio event. That's right -…