[ad_1] “I’m a proud Trump supporter,” Brad Raffensperger noted this morning, but he’s smart enough to know that won’t be reciprocated. Georgia’s secretary of state announced that he would certify the results of the 2020 election today, declaring that “numbers don’t lie.” The hand recount and audits have corroborated the outcome of the presidential contest,

[ad_1] Brutal, but well deserved, and yet another mystifying decision by Team Trump. After Sidney Powell declared that communist-funded conspiracy rigged the election against Donald Trump, Tucker Carlson wanted to see the evidence. He told his Fox News Channel audience last night that he’s been trying to get Powell to come on the show for

[ad_1] The Senate’s most visible advocate of a sane foreign policy spends a little time with TAC. Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) talks to reporters as he leaves the Republicans Policy Luncheon on October 26, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Samuel Corum/Getty Images) It’s strange to think but Rand Paul is something of an institution

[ad_1] After taking the oath of office President Joe Biden may be tempted to resume policy as if it was January 20, 2017. But the nation and world with which he dealt as vice president no longer exist. The first challenge will be political. There was no blue wave. Indeed, had President Donald Trump been

[ad_1] Republican Sen. Mitt Romney (Utah) released a blistering statement condemning President Donald Trump’s claims of widespread voter fraud, saying, “It is difficult to imagine a worse, more undemocratic action by a sitting American president.” What are the details? Late in the evening, Sen. Romney — who was the GOP presidential nominee in 2012 —

[ad_1] Nikki Haley started a Twitter feud with democratic socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) after she floated her idea for a solution to the coronavirus pandemic. Ocasio-Cortez offered a short tweet on Thursday about the pandemic. To get the virus under control, we need to pay people to stay home. — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez)1605806942.0

[ad_1] South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham (R) fired back Thursday after days of far-left House members calling for him to resign his seat, citing a claim from Georgia’s GOP secretary of state alleging that Graham suggested he toss legal ballots in favor of President Donald Trump. But Graham says he did no such thing and

[ad_1] Former Vice President Joe Biden said in a media briefing on Thursday that he would not support a national lockdown and that the coronavirus could be defeated without such an order. Biden made the comments in the question and answer period after his remarks on the coronavirus pandemic from Wilmington, Delaware. He was responding

[ad_1] Chaplain (Major General) Thomas Solhjem, U.S. Army Chief of Chaplains, and Sergeant Major Ralph Martinez, Chaplain Corps Regimental Sergeant Major, lay a wreath at Chaplains Hill in Section 2 of Arlington National Cemetery in honor of the Army Chaplain Corps 245th birthday, July 29, 2020. (Elizabeth Fraser/Arlington National Cemetery) As there is much talk

[ad_1] A man inspects a handgun at the NRA annual meeting in Indianapolis, Ind., April 28, 2019. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters) When a federal court in North Carolina issued a restraining order stopping Governor Roy Cooper from stripping citizens of the right to assembly for religious worship, Judge James C. Dever III noted that, “There is no

[ad_1] Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-Calif.) — who violated social distancing by attending a maskless indoor dinner party at the three-Michelin-star restaurant The French Laundry with lobbyists and California Medical Association execs who are totally part of his household — imposed new lockdown measures to fight the spread of some virus or whatever. He issued a

[ad_1] President-elect Joe Biden speaks in Wilmington, Del., November 10, 2020. (Jonathan Ernst

/Reuters) The incoming Biden-Harris administration has already unveiled its plan for what the new Democratic White House will do policy-wise in its early days. Unsurprisingly, among the action items is a pledge to reverse a pro-life policy that President Trump enacted and then

[ad_1] New York Times contributor Wajahat Ali wants everyone to know it is not worth your time to reach out to Trump supporters. He’s really tried. But now, he has given up. And if you have a problem with that, you’re likely a racist. That’s an interesting thing to say about approximately 73 million Americans. But

[ad_1] If you walked into an ice cream shop and saw Kamala Pecan on the menu, would you order a scoop or two? A Lexington, Kentucky ice cream shop decided to honor the first black/Indian female vice-presidential candidate by naming an ice cream flavor for her. The Crank & Boom Craft Ice Cream Shop is

[ad_1] Big day tomorrow. Maybe even bigger than Monday. When the states are projected to certify their electionshttps://t.co/cdpxpk64YA Tomorrow: GeorgiaMonday: Michigan, PennsylvaniaNov 30: ArizonaDec 1: Nevada, Wisconsin The uncontested states + GA/MI/PA puts Biden at 279 electoral votes. — Derek Thompson (@DKThomp) November 19, 2020 Like I said here, the problem with Trump’s coup plot

[ad_1] The winner of the most-hated member of the Trump administration’s cabinet may be the Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos. Her strongly conservative ideas on public and private education have greatly agitated the union-supporting Democrats who are in charge of our country’s schools. Once Joe Biden’s administration comes into power, you can kiss school choice

[ad_1] Government has no right to infringe on our liberties in this way, even if there is a pandemic going on. Demonstrators rally outside the Pennsylvania Capitol Building regarding the continued closure of businesses due to the coronavirus pandemic on May 15, 2020 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Mark Makela/Getty Images) The City of Philadelphia

[ad_1] Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) is being called “a racist piece of trash” and a “white supremacist” after defending the legacy of the Mayflower Compact and criticizing an article in the New York Times that called the story of the Pilgrims a “myth” and re-examined the “cruel history” of Thanksgiving. In a speech delivered on

[ad_1] Airplanes of German carrier Lufthansa parked at the airport as air traffic is affected by the spread of the coronavirus in Frankfurt, Germany, March 16, 2020. (Kai Pfaffenbach/Reuters) Airlines want a bailout. If they need to change their argument to get one, they don’t mind doing so. First, it was that they needed the

[ad_1] The most disgraceful episode in American politics of my lifetime, bar none. It’s the worst thing Trump has ever done, which is a highly competitive category. And it’s only just begun. Hot Air alum Noah Rothman wrote a piece yesterday — before today’s hallucinatory Giuliani press conference — titled “The Dumbest of Coups,” arguing

[ad_1] The Republican leader in the Michigan House of Representatives ended talk of impeachment proceedings against Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on Wednesday amid an ongoing debate about the governor’s authority to issue coronavirus restrictions. Earlier, three Republican members of the state House introduced a resolution for impeachment against Whitmer, charging that her executive orders were unconstitutional

[ad_1] Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials today announced the results of Operation Broken Promise. The announcement included the number of those arrested – 180 illegal aliens. The operation targeted those who promised to leave the United States but did not do so. The illegal aliens violated the terms of their agreement to voluntarily leave

[ad_1] 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 are not on Facebook. Join us as we welcome: Duane “Generalissimo” Patterson brings us

[ad_1] Pfizer, Inc. announced that it plans to ask for emergency use authorization of its vaccine “within days.” BREAKING: We are proud to announce, along with @BioNTech_Group, that the Phase 3 study of our #COVID19 vaccine candidate has met all primary efficacy endpoints. — Pfizer Inc. (@pfizer) November 18, 2020

[ad_1] Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) calls for the resignation of Senator Lindsey Graham after stories emerged about the senator’s conversation with the Georgia secretary of state Brad Raffensperger. Raffensperger, a Republican, accused Graham of trying to get him to throw out mail-in ballots during a phone call about the process of signature verification. Graham says

[ad_1] Yashar Ali was LOL’ing over this yesterday, and he won’t be alone in it. Both parties have turned on the money spigots in Georgia for the two Senate runoff elections, as expected. Democrats and Republicans are making hard pitches for cash, but one might think that past performance might impact donor spending decisions. How

[ad_1] On Tuesday, we covered the news of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s edict stating that no more than ten people could gather in private residences for Thanksgiving and the response he received from numerous law enforcement agencies around the state. To put it kindly, none of the police departments or sheriffs were enthusiastic about