[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] After four years of Democrats attacking President Donald Trump as “illegitimate,” “fascist,” “Nazi,” “tyrant,” “dictator,” “racist,” “anti-Semitic,” “Russian stooge,” “traitor,” “grifter,” “xenophobe,” “sexist,” “homophobe,” “ignorant,” “fat” and “lazy,” former Vice President Joe Biden, the presumptive president-elect, now says, “Let’s heal.” In his “victory speech,” Biden said, “And to those who voted for President Trump,
[ad_1] President Donald Trump during an event in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, D.C., November 13, 2020 (Carlos Barria/Retuers) Noah Rothman’s excellent piece in Commentary, “The Dumbest of Coups,” deserves to be widely read. I’ve been writing about conspiracy theories for a while now — QAnon, the Flat-Earth gang, etc. — and
[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] Pro-life groups are suing D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser over the arrests of advocates who wrote “Black Preborn Lives Matter” in chalk on the sidewalk. The Alliance Defending Freedom filed a lawsuit this week on behalf of the Frederick Douglass Foundation and Students for Life accusing Bowser and the District of Columbia following the August
[ad_1] Massachusetts Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren again called for former Vice President Joe Biden to cancel student debt when he takes office in January. Warren, who supported canceling nearly all student debt when she ran for president, said Tuesday that doing so was a “mandate” to Biden and Sen. Kamala Harris. “For me it is
[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] National Rifle Association merchandise at the Iowa straw poll in Ames, Iowa, in 2011. (Daniel Acker/Reuters) The National Rifle Association has agreed to suspend its insurance business in New York State for five years and pay a $2.5 million fine over charges that it offered insurance to members without a license and hid how
[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] Cancel culture is a black hole that is swallowing corporate America. The zeitgeist of social awareness and virtue signaling has spread far beyond the realm of adolescent Instagram posts to the point where corporate titans now have joined in the effort to push woke capitalism. Don’t be fooled. Principles are hardly the reason companies
[ad_1] Supporters of Donald Trump gather to demand a fair count of the votes of the 2020 presidential election, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November 5, 2020. (Eduardo Munoz/Reuters) Republicans on the House Oversight Committee called on Thursday for a hearing into violence committed against supporters of President Trump during the “Million MAGA March” in Washington, D.C.,
[ad_1] The top two items on the agenda in the waning days of the 116th Congress should be to pass appropriations bills to keep the government from shutting down Dec. 11 and to agree on the 60th annual National Defense Authorization Act. During an event Tuesday marking release of The Heritage Foundation’s 2021 Index of
[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] On the first day of Christmas, my true love sent to me . . . an LGBTQ movie. That could seriously be a legitimate advertising line for Paramount Network, which is releasing a LGBTQ+ Christmas themed film called Dashing in December, according to popculture.com. Written as a romantic comedy and directed by Jake Helgren,
[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] Registered nurse Glenda Perez waits to test people for the coronavirus in East Los Angeles, Calif., November 10, 2020. (Lucy Nicholson/Reuters) As of this writing, Johns Hopkins University reports that more than 250,652 Americans have died from the coronavirus. The calculation on Worldometers, which usually runs a little ahead of JHU, is 256,447 deaths.
[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] U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks during a news conference at the U.S. State Department in Washington, D.C., September 21, 2020. (Patrick Semansky/Pool via Reuters) Pompeo also became the first secretary of state to visit an Israeli settlement in the West Bank. GOLAN HEIGHTS — In a show of support for Israel’s sovereignty,
[ad_1] In the wee hours of Nov. 17, as Americans slept, the U.S. Navy and the Missile Defense Agency successfully shot down an intercontinental-range ballistic missile using the Navy’s Standard Missile SM-3 Block IIA interceptor launched from a Navy destroyer. This was a spectacular success for national defense for multiple reasons. Until now, the United
[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] A group of Central American migrants is questioned about their childrens’ health after surrendering to U.S. Border Patrol Agents south of the U.S.-Mexico border fence in El Paso, Texas, March 6, 2019. (Lucy Nicholson/Reuters) A federal judge ruled Wednesday that the Trump administration may no longer cite coronavirus concerns to quickly expel migrant children
[ad_1] In a separate “dubitante” opinion yesterday in Sanchez Rosales v. Barr, Ninth Circuit judge Lawrence VanDyke agreed with the panel majority that circuit precedent compelled the result in the case, but he powerfully demonstrated that that precedent is “silly” and argued that it “well illustrates our court’s nasty habit of muddying immigration law and
[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] A person walks past the Pfizer headquarters building in New York City, November 9, 2020. (Carlo Allegri/Reuters) The ‘follow the science’ Democrats care more about politics than science. Where has the coronavirus gone? Nowhere. The pandemic has gained a second wind, even as it is mysteriously scarcer in post-election headlines. If anything, COVID-19 seems
[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
[ad_1] According to one screenwriter, Trump has been saying of Hollywood for years, “We’re the radical left, anti-God; we hate Christmas! A bunch of condescending socialist defund-the-policers,” but the better term to use for them would be “patriots.” Writing in Variety on November 18, Billy Ray (pictured, right), who wrote, directed and executive produced Showtime’s