Law prof: The Senate isn't required to hold an impeachment trial at all
Forget for the moment the question of when Nancy Pelosi will send over the articles of impeachment. Does the Constitution require Mitch McConnell to do anything with them except perhaps give the House...
View ArticleHong Kong: Police and protesters clash on Christmas Eve
It may be Christmas Eve but protesters in Hong Kong are still protesting and undercover police are still beating them with batons. In the second clip below you'll see a group of people identified as...
View ArticleNew Zealand gun confiscation program steps on a rake
When New Zealand experienced a mass shooting in April (previously virtually unknown in that nation), legislators there moved quickly to enact a mandatory gun "buyback" of certain semiautomatic...
View ArticleWaPo: Is Warren a class-warrior convert -- or world-class hypocrite?
Elizabeth Warren hoped to reboot her flailing campaign with an attack on Pete Buttigieg's fundraising, but it might end up kicking her to the curb instead. After heaping scorn on Mayor Pete's "wine...
View ArticleSaturday was the biggest shopping day in US retail history
Super Saturday (Dec. 21) was expected to be a bigger sales day this year than Black Friday and it did not disappoint. Bloomberg reports it was the biggest single day in US retail history:Holiday...
View ArticleAOC on Telemundo: “It’d be an honor to be vice president”
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...
View ArticleA small business owner faces red tape and left-wing activists in San Francisco
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...
View ArticleA blessed and merry Christmas to our Hot Air readers!
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...
View ArticleWaPo: The true meaning of Christmas is that Trump is terrible
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...
View ArticleHome DNA tests not on the Pentagon's Christmas wish list for troops
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...
View ArticleBloomberg used prison labor to make campaign calls
In one of the more surprising - and puzzling - stories of the 2020 Democratic primary race, we learned this week that New York billionaire Michael Bloomberg has been busy creating jobs long before he...
View ArticleMurkowski: I'm "disturbed" by McConnell's coordination with the White House...
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...
View ArticleBack to the future: Hillary's recycled Christmas photo lands in a tweet
The Democrats running for their party's nomination for president remembered to wish potential voters a Merry Christmas on Twitter. Well, most of them (or their staff) did. For the most part, the...
View ArticleNY Times: Say, these UAW leaders act like corrupt fat cats
You will be shocked to learn that UAW labor union leaders have been living a life of luxury on membership dues and payments from the car companies they were supposed to be negotiating with. Today the...
View ArticleAlien contact in the 2020s? Don't rule it out yet
David Axe at the Daily Beast left us all a Christmas present in the form of an intriguing essay posing one provocative question. Will we find aliens in the next decade? He begins by referencing...
View ArticleToday's hot topics on #TEMS: Christmas joy, Murkowski coy, Bloomie's prison...
Today on The Ed Morrissey Show (4 pm ET), we have another great lineup for the news of the day! The show will be streamed on Hot Air's Facebook page and embedded here and on the show page for those who...
View ArticleHot Air's top 50 countdown in 2019: 41-50
It's almost time to bid farewell to 2019 and embrace 2020 ... or at least batten down the hatches for what's coming. Before we do that, though, let's take a look back at the past year and the stories...
View ArticleBBC video: It's Merry Impeachment, not Merry Christmas, America
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...
View ArticleVenezuela slightly less miserable this Christmas thanks to free markets
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...
View ArticleTurkey is blackmailing the US over Russian alliance
Turkish President/dictator Recep Tayyip Erdogan has kept the United States and the rest of his supposed NATO allies on a teeter-totter for the past year or more. But his most recent moves have exposed...
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