Hot Air
Matt Yglesias: Progressives are incentivized to catastrophize (aka the special snowflake problem)
Okay, I have to confess that Matt Yglesias definitely didn't say what my headline does exactly. The word snowflake does not appear in his latest essay but I do think that's a close approximation of his actual…
The COVID hearings you will never see covered in the news
Did you see the blaring headlines about the hearing held by the House COVID Subcommittee yesterday?Read More
Will Ghislaine Maxwell get a new trial?
Like many people, I foolishly thought that we had heard the last of disgraced sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell for at least the next twenty years. (Barring some sort of early release deal.) Maxwell was convicted of…
Performative shrieking at SCOTUS about student debt not terribly effective
It seems the Biden student debt cancellation plan now before the Supreme Court is causing a fair amount of heartburn in liberal GI tracts, especially with the direction the justices' questions have gone.Read More
WaPo: FBI resisted Mar-a-Lago raid, DoJ prosecutors demanded it. Why?
Did the FBI get a bad rap in the wake of the raid on Mar-a-Lago? According to the Washington Post, the raid took place only after months of debate between the FBI and prosecutors from the Department of Justice. The FBI argued…
US Intelligence agencies conclude ‘Havana Syndrome’ not the result of a secret weapon
I've lost track of how many stories I've personally written about Havana Syndrome over the years. It has been quite a few. But today the Post is reporting that a review of evidence by US intelligence agencies has…
GAO: FBI, Capitol Police failed to share information of threats before January 6 riot
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) released its report on the January 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol. The non-partisan government watchdog found that the U.S. Capitol Police and the FBI properly identified credible…
Good riddance
Mayor Lori Lightfoot of Chicago got the boot yesterday.Read More
DeSantis to DA: Give me all your documentation on why you allowed the Pine Hills shooter to remain on the street
The Left tried to make the Pine Hills triple murder into a political cause celebre -- right up until police arrested the alleged perpetrator. As Tom Jackson wrote in his VIP column last week, the White House and gun grabbers…
Joe Biden’s “9,000 unused drilling permits” lie
This is a story that most of you are familiar with by now. Ever since taking office, Joe Biden has received complaints about the high price of gasoline and other fuels as well as the slow collapse of America's energy…