[ad_1] Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom has admitted it was probably not the best idea for him and his wife to join a large dinner party at one of the world’s finest restaurants while he is discouraging the citizens of his state from gathering with folks outside their own households during the upcoming holiday season.

[ad_1] A veteran news anchor has been suspended after complaining on social media that 2020 “took” recently departed “Jeopardy!” host Alex Trebek while Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell remains among the living. What are the details? The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported that WITI-TV anchor Ted Perry was pulled off the air after he wrote

[ad_1] South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem (R) angrily responded to a passage from Obama’s forthcoming Memoir, titled “A Promised Land,” on Thursday. The memoir, to be released November 17, is scheduled to be the first of a two-part series released by Penguin Random House, which paid a $65 million advance to Barack and Michelle Obama

[ad_1] As you might expect in a year in which the state of California has imposed severe restrictions on all in-person activities other than mass liberal protest gatherings, Disneyland has had a brutal financial year. In the company’s regular earnings call with shareholders, Disney CEO Bob Chapek sharply criticized California’s government for refusing to allow

[ad_1] “Louder with Crowder” host Steven Crowder announced Thursday that his YouTube channel became the largest independent news and commentary show on the platform, surpassing far-left rivals “The Young Turks” to take the top spot with more than 5.03 million subscribers. What are the details? “Today, [Louder with Crowder] passes [the Young Turks] as the

[ad_1] Walking around my sleepy, shoreline town in Connecticut, I routinely see Black Lives Matter signs outside the most opulent homes, whose residents are (I can attest) often white, over-educated, white-collar, impossibly snobbish, and perversely provincial. Next to the BLM sign—which reads “Silence is Violence”—might be a Biden/Harris 2020 campaign sign. And finally, a third

[ad_1] (BogdanVj/Getty Images) A proposal to tax working from home has gotten some attention this week. You can find a description of and case for it on pp. 32-34 of this DeutscheBank report. Here’s how it would work: [T]he tax will only apply outside the times when the government advises people to work from home

[ad_1] The good news is that he was on message this afternoon, properly keeping the focus on the amazing vaccine breakthrough from Pfizer earlier this week. And he’s fully entitled to take a bow for the role of Operation Warp Speed in accelerating vaccine production. Although that program didn’t provide research money to Pfizer, it

[ad_1] You probably remember Marquise Love even if you don’t remember his name. Back in August he was filmed kicking Adam Haner in the face from behind so hard that Haner was knocked unconscious in the street. This happened in Portland in the context of nightly BLM protests: The man was kicked and knocked unconscious

[ad_1] At a press conference on Friday the 13th, Oregon Governor Kate Brown (D-Portland) announced a new two-week “freeze” on gatherings and activities, designed to slow the spread of COVID-19. According to media reports, the computer modeling used as a basis of the lockdowns lacked projections for hospitalizations and death rates, which were included in

[ad_1] Barack Obama has a new book coming out. Obama is promoting “A Promised Land” described as Obama’s first volume of his presidential memoirs in an interview taped for 60 Minutes. The interview is set to air on CBS during its Sunday night broadcast. He will also be interviewed for CBS Sunday Morning. To the

[ad_1] Alex Webster in June 2012 (Jonas Rogowski / CC BY SA 3.0 / Wikimedia) In my latest Music for a While, I utter a very strange sentence: “I’d like to give you about 25 seconds of ‘Frantic Disembowelment.’” When you listen to a podcast, of course, you can’t hear the quotation marks. “Frantic Disembowelment”

[ad_1] As we rush to embrace an “obey the experts” technocracy in the fight against COVID, media and commentators often assume that the epidemiological data justifying proposed draconian policies — such as lockdowns — are clear. But that’s not true. And that should give our policymakers pause before attempting to impose policies that are likely,

[ad_1] I thought nothing would top Gavin Newsom flouting his own COVID protocols to go clink wine glasses with his buddies at the French Laundry. But it’s 2020, and you know the rule: Things can always get worse. And will. The outrage being expressed at the photo below on Twitter this afternoon is deeply bitter

[ad_1] President Donald Trump celebrated the historic progress of Operation Warp Speed, his administration’s effort to develop a vaccine for the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic, in a Rose Garden speech on Friday. He also pledged that his administration will not reenter a costly and potentially deadly lockdown in fighting COVID-19. “No

[ad_1] In a new campaign ad released this morning, the campaign for Republican senator David Perdue highlights top Democratic leaders describing the Senate runoff elections in Georgia as an opportunity to take total control of Congress and change the country. “Now we take Georgia, then we change America,” Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.)

[ad_1] Target is being blasted for removing a book — “Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters” by noted Wall Street Journal contributor Abigail Shrier — after a complaint on Twitter that the book is spreading “transphobia.” What’s the background? Shrier’s book was released in June, and the likes of Joe Rogan, Ben Shapiro,

[ad_1] The LA Times reported this week that a survey of LAPD officers found nearly 9 out of 10 of them are not happy with their police chief and 40% were thinking of leaving. The reason? They feel unsupported and are not happy with the Chief’s response to the Black Lives Matter protests: Nearly 9

[ad_1] Election workers sort through some of the thousands of mail-in ballots at the Orange County Registrar of Voters in Santa Ana, Calif., November 2, 2020. (Mike Blake/Reuters) With most of the votes counted, we are edging closer to having results for most of the country for 2020, with the exception of a few extremely

[ad_1] The networks seem to have waited until the last possible moment before making a projection in GA, when Biden’s lead finally exceeded the number of outstanding ballots. In the end, he flipped five states Trump won in 2016: Georgia, Arizona, and the “blue wall” in the Rust Belt of Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin. And

[ad_1] Earlier this year, a misguided effort emerged to tear down the Emancipation Memorial, a statue that has stood since 1876 in Lincoln Park, a part of Washington, D.C., about a mile away from the Capitol. The memorial depicts President Lincoln in the act of welcoming a former slave to freedom, and that freed slave

[ad_1] NBC 10 in Philadelphia published a story yesterday on the rise in violent crime and the decline in solved cases in 2020. The reasons for the shift aren’t completely clear and probably involve multiple factors including COVID-19 and street protests, but what is clear are the results. The piece opens with a description of

[ad_1] If I’m not mistaken, he was exempt from the state rules pursuant to the overarching national rule that liberals are entitled to ignore social distancing guidelines so long as it’s for an Important Cause™. Like holding mass demonstrations against police brutality. Or smoking weed in a park with strangers to celebrate Trump losing. Or

[ad_1] The Chinese government, which failed to control the initial outbreak of the virus and is widely suspected of having misled the World Health Organization and the global community about both the origins of the virus and the scope of its early spread, is now preventing Taiwan from participating in WHO meetings and explaining its

[ad_1] Reforms put in place by Donald Trump and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos are in danger of being gutted by the incoming Biden administration. The plain fact that Joe Biden’s education transition team has four members of the giant teacher’s unions among their ranks should be a warning signal of things to come.

[ad_1] Britain’s prime minister Boris Johnson leaves Downing Street in London, March 4, 2020. (Toby Melville/Reuters) I would call British prime minister Boris Johnson a disappointment, but that seems rather harsh on the word “disappointment.” He’s botched Brexit, he’s botched COVID, and with his uncosted and unworkable fantasy of transforming the U.K. into a net-zero

[ad_1] Politico published an interesting interview with “Democratic polling and data expert” David Shor. The interview is lengthy and covers a lot of territory but I wanted to highlight one section in particular where Shor talks about the power of the media and the elites who guide it in determining what issues matter during elections.

[ad_1] To the egalitarians who increasingly dominate educational policy in America, a key metric for colleges and universities is how well they promote upward mobility — that is, to what extent do students from relatively poor backgrounds later rise to higher income levels? Schools where relatively few of those students make leaps up the income