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Who are really the actual Nazis? While visiting Dachau concentration camp, a leftist made the following remark as she stood, smiling, in front of the crematorium ovens. North Carolina Democrat state legislative candidate Shelly Headen posted a Facebook story from a vacation showing her in front of ovens in a German concentration camp memorial, saying, “Visiting Dauchau [sic] Concentration Camp in Germany… This is where Trump supporters belong.” … In social media photos, Headen is seen smiling as she stands in front of what appears to be crematorium ovens, which were used by the Nazi SS to burn the bodies...

The 25th anniversary of 9/11, and the ongoing controversy over the Lindsay Clancy mistrial, do not offer much direct humor, but mordant commentary is still deserving. Let’s start with 9/11, or better yet 9/12. What would you have thought on the day after if someone predicted that the next president would bear the middle name “Hussein,” and that on the 25th anniversary the mayor of NY City would be a radical muslim, and that the Taliban would hold a military parade in Aghanistan featuring billions worth of U.S. military equipment? You’d think the person making such predictions should be handed...

The fantasy-fed denialism of George Bush’s Freedom Agenda has metastasized into a dangerous suppression of our most basic survival instincts in the face of a foe we can no longer name, but who is sure to attack us againTwenty-five years later, the legacy of 9/11 is that there was no 9/11. Commemorations this week hold that the deadliest attack on the U.S. mainland forever changed the way we live. And that’s true if we mean that for the past 25 years Americans have lived in a collective fugue state from which there seems no exit. The issue isn’t that nearly...

I think that most people who read Hot Air are appalled by the subset of the population that has embraced Lindsay Clancy as a cultural hero. For most of us, the fact that Clancy clearly was having trouble with her mental health may help explain how she decided to kill her children, but for nobody I know does that excuse the fact that she chose to respond to her despair by killing her own children. I can understand, at some level, the feeling of empathy for Clancy's struggles; I cannot and will never understand turning her into a hero. There...

The Trump administration has gotten its fair share of "threats" from TDS-afflicted "entertainers" who say they are going to leave the country because of who is president. As the old saying goes, don't threaten us with a good time. The latest is Art Garfunkel, who will always be remembered as 'the guy who used to sing sometimes with Paul Simon.' “I don’t like America’s position at all,” the singer told the Guardian after being asked about issues “global heating” and “those in power.” He said about the former topic, "It's real that the planet is getting warmer, that the water’s...

“I hope that guy can sleep well at night.” Those words from Kevin Reddington on the steps of the Plymouth, Massachusetts Courthouse were part of a diatribe against the “guy” who was reportedly the sole holdout in the Lindsay Clancy trial. The scene was a fitting end to a visceral trial, but it added a vindictive element that should prompt Judge William Sullivan to call out the seasoned defense attorney. After declaring that the 11-1 mistrial was “no time to gloat,” Reddington bragged repeatedly about “crushing” District Attorney Tim Cruz, whom he also attacked. He insisted that, in the trial,...

Suffering from an acute, and possibly terminal, case of Trump Derangement Syndrome, the Democrats have been assiduous in shredding their credibility since the 2024 election.So how is it going? In the Republic, I mean. Pretty well, I’d say. President Trump just announced the Mother of All Oil Deals with Venezuela, the country he liberated from its narco Chinese puppet Nicolás Maduro at the beginning of 2026. (Was it only at the beginning of January 2026 that President Trump extracted Maduro and his wife from their heavily guarded palace? Yes. Time flies when you are having a good time.) “BREAKING NEWS,”...

A Girl for LuigiI guess the Lindsay Clancy trial has put an end to that whole thing about a woman being president. Clancy has become a feminist hero for slaughtering her three children, whose names, in case anyone cares, were Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months. For that brave response to “postpartum depression,” she’s attracted hundreds of female admirers, who stand petulantly outside the courthouse in pink T-shirts, demanding her acquittal. When Muslims pull this crap, blaming their gang rapes on the trauma of being asylum seekers, we’re not as understanding. But when women claim mental anguish from...

There are several ways that wars end. –One side conquers and annexes the other. –One side surrenders and gives up some of their land, treasure, and authority in a peace treaty. –One side has a domestic change of government and the new one befriends the other side. –Things reach a stalemate and the shooting stops in an ongoing, uncomfortable sort of permanent ceasefire. The USA-Iran War has never fit comfortably into such normal classifications. During the first 47 years of the war, the Twelver regime of Iran didn’t just attack the United States, but attacked countless countries and interests all...

Remorse and atonement do not exist in the leftist mindset.Michael Shellenberger, who to his complete and total credit has published damning takedowns of the left’s inherent hypocrisy and corruption in works such as San Fransicko, published an article on Wednesday titled “Progressives Will Be Horrified When They Wake Up To What They’ve Done.” The subheadline of that piece said, “The sterilization of children, the killing of mentally ill addicts, the decimation of education, and more, will haunt the Left.”Many conservatives think this way, that our poor, misguided leftist friends, who may or may not have endorsed the aforementioned barbarities with...

In their collective Trump Derangement, the Elitist Media will grab and hold on to anything they can in order to claw their way back to Regime Media in service of Democrats in power. Most egregious of these are the Hall Monitor subset, who will seemingly defend anyone and anything standing opposite a Republican.This means that America is subjected to Oliver Darcy hysterically howling in protest because the Bari Weiss-led CBS News had the temerity to point out that Michigan Democrat Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed deleted a series of social media posts evoking the terrorist attack on September 11th, 2001. What...

Will Letitia James face any consequences for using the Attorney General's office to persecute political opponents? Or will voters in New York reward her for doing, well, pretty much what she explicitly promised to accomplish?I know which way I'm betting.Two days ago, one of James' assistant AGs went public to accuse her of ordering political vendettas, almost all of them without cause. The New York Post's editorial board called Daniel Wiesenfeld "the Whistleblower of the Year," but perhaps he might end up as the Jeremiah of the Empire State. Make no mistake, though – these allegations would certainly be abuses...

When I enter the form to read posts, all of them repeat all down the page... 3, 4 and more times.

A Satanic Temple-associated band has released a new music video in which a “satanic abortion ritual” is performed inside the bathroom of a Hobby Lobby. The craft store chain is known for being a Christian company. Satanic Planet, whose members include Satanic co-founder Lucien Greaves, released the video for its song “Sam Alito’s Mom,” in which a woman is seen going into Hobby Lobby’s bathroom to perform the ritual. The video opens with a statement saying that “on Friday, March 13, 2026, a satanic abortion ritual was performed inside of a Hobby Lobby bathroom.” It cuts to numerous Christianity-related decor...

New awards include ‘Allahu Akbar’ medals and Islamophobia awareness patches.Aug 28, 2026 Islamic lessons for four-year-olds. A mosque at Scouting’s historic headquarters. An inflatable minaret and “Allahu Akbar” medals at America’s National Jamboree. Behind the global movement: $87 million from Saudi Arabia. The Islamization of Scouting is no longer confined to Muslim-only troops.Across American and British Scouting, Islam is now appearing in national events, children’s activities, badges, recruitment plans, family programming and permanent infrastructure. At the same time, Saudi Arabia has placed an effective $87 million behind World Scouting’s flagship Messengers of Peace program—including a Saudi-supported operation inside America’s National...

At the 2017 Emmy Awards, Dolly was reunited with her co-stars from the 1980 hit comedy Nine to Five. It was nine months into the Trump administration, and two of the presenters weren’t about to let you forget it. Lily Tomlin and Jane Fonda let loose mini-screeds against Trump. Dolly looks uncomfortable, then defuses the awkwardness by making a joke about the size of her breasts. And the podcasters want to know—they need to know—why Dolly didn’t attack Trump along with her co-stars and friends. Doesn’t she hate the guy? (Translation: Please tell us you hate the guy!) For the...

It's almost too easy to take a swipe at the hypocrisy of the Democratic Socialists of America. I'm not kidding about that. I seriously debated with myself about whether it is even worth it to write about how just about every DSA leader turns out to be a nepo-baby cosplaying as a working-class person before going home to their parent-purchased or subsidized luxury home. f the DSA had remained an obscure political party with little relevance, I wouldn't have written about this phenomenon, but the line between the DSA and the Democratic Party is blurred. The DSA may see itself...

Torrential rains caused a gigantic pile of garbage to become a deadly landslide in Guinea’s capital city of Conakry on Sunday morning, killing at least 30 people as homes were completely buried under the avalanche of refuse. City sanitation officers said the Dar Es Salam landfill, the largest trash dump in Conakry, was supposed to be shut down on Sunday. Minister of Territorial Administration Djenab Toure announced on Thursday that trash from the unsafe landfill would be relocated to a dump further from the city, which has a population of about two million. The same site produced a deadly landslide...