John Sexton

1 week ago | hotair.com | John Sexton

Back in January, when firefighters were doing their best to fight the blaze in the Pacific Palisades, the fire hydrants started running out of water. Developer Rick Caruso commented about this on local television and his comments went viral. That led to this amazing video in which a local news anchor tried to debunk Caruso's claims only to have a reporter on scene correct him seconds later. Watch the whole clip.

1 week ago | hotair.com | John Sexton

Mayor Daniel Lurie was elected on a platform of cleaning up San Francisco's streets, in particular dealing with drugs and homelessness. He's been claiming some successes recently. The number of homeless tents are at the lowest levels on record. Every San Franciscan deserves clean, safe streets—and every person deserves a path to stability. We will be relentless until everyone is safe and feels safe.

1 week ago | hotair.com | John Sexton

Shortly after Judge Hannah Dugan was arrested in Milwaukee for attempting to interfere in the arrest of a criminal illegal immigrant by federal agents, there was a general caterwauling from elected Democrats. I wrote a post cataloging some of the instant and suspiciously similar responses from Senators Tina Smith, Tammy Baldwin, Elizabeth Warren, Chuck Schumer, Ed Markey, Bernie Sanders and others.

1 week ago | hotair.com | John Sexton

If we learned anything from mainland China's slow-motion take over of Hong Kong, it should be that China has option other than rolling tanks in the streets. In Hong Kong it used legal measures and police action to stop protests and jail activists. Then it threatened everyone into silence and shut down independent news outlets, raiding their offices and jailing publishers. And the bottom line is that freedom from the mainland is now just a memory.

1 week ago | hotair.com | John Sexton

There six authors in the byline of this story titled "The Story of the ‘Mistakenly Deported Maryland Man’." I think it's fair to say the NY Times is going all out here to salvage a failing Democratic effort to make Kilmar Abrego Garcia a sympathetic figure, despite all the bad news that has come out about him in the last few weeks. The story starts with his boyhood in El Salvador where neighbors described him as a mischievous kid who liked to play pranks.