In case you don’t follow baseball, the L.A. Dodgers won the World Series Tuesday. I’m not a Dodgers fan, but, whatever. They beat the Tampa Bay Rays for the championship title, the Dodgers first such win in decades. The Rays beat the Houston Astros in the play-off series, so there may be a little residual

A lot depends on the meaning of the phrase “a lot” here. TRUMP: “We’ll see what happens [on Election Day]. Hopefully it won’t go longer than that. Hopefully the few states remaining that want to take a lot of time after Nov. 3 to count ballots that won’t be allowed by the various courts, because

Everyone expects a sh*tshow from a Senate hearing, but who could have guessed that Jack Dorsey wouldn’t come prepared to answer the most basic questions about why some dubious information gets banned and other dubious information remains free as a bird? It’s only the core critique of Twitter’s attempt to suppress the Hunter Biden laptop

Made me laugh, although lefties were in high dudgeon about the clip earlier this afternoon. “WOMEN WORK TOO, YOU KNOW.” Trump: We’re getting your husbands back to work pic.twitter.com/MOHh0d1Vu7 — Acyn Torabi (@Acyn) October 27, 2020 In fairness, wanting to go back to the way things used to be has been the underlying theme of

State officials across the country are preparing for the worst in case violence breaks out on or after Election Day. There is a role that the National Guard can play, as well as local police. Different states and localities have laws that must be taken into consideration as preparations are being made. For instance, the

Yesterday the wildfire known as the Silverado Fire in Orange County, California expanded from a few acres early in the morning to about 4,000 acres as of 1 pm local time. Since then the fire has continued to grow and has now consumed more than 11,000 acres. Here’s what the line of flame looked like

Here’s the moment the vote was announced by Sen. Grassley: [embedded content] Here’s the report from the NY Times: Inside a Capitol mostly emptied by the resurgent coronavirus pandemic and an election looming in just eight days, Republicans overcame unanimous opposition by Democrats to make Judge Barrett the 115th justice of the Supreme Court and

A rare campaign appearance by First Lady Melania Trump is scheduled for Tuesday. She will campaign in Atglen, Pennsylvania, with Kellyanne Conway, former counselor to President Trump. The campaign event will be moderated by Kellyanne. This will mark Melania’s first solo campaign appearance this year. Kellyanne, Trump’s 2016 campaign manager and the first woman campaign

The last time we heard from Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged procurer of underage sex slaves, the transcript from an earlier deposition she’d given had been released to the public in partially redacted form. While she may have feigned ignorance about the definition of “sex toys,” there aren’t any other real bombshells in there in

When schools closed last March due to the coronavirus pandemic, parents and students alike assumed that online classes would be a necessary but temporary move to help mitigate the spread of the highly contagious virus. Here we are seven months later and many students are still at home, receiving an education online. Recent findings from

Judge Amy Coney Barrett could be confirmed as the next U.S. Supreme Court justice on Monday. The U.S. Senate voted in favor of opening up 30 hours worth of debate on her nomination today. Via The Hill: While Sunday’s vote is only a procedural step, it underscores that Republicans have the votes to place Barrett

He said this about two hours ago as I’m writing this and I’m surprised there isn’t a Biden ad already circulating online to showcase the quote. Prominent Democrats are already highlighting it. Meadows is totally right, by the way. As an empirical matter, the window for containing the virus closed some time ago. Maybe it

Pennsylvania election law contains a requirement that absentee ballots must be signed by the voter so that the signature can be checked against the one they have on file. If the signatures do not match, the ballot is rejected. Or at least it used to be that way. But as of this week, thanks to

The Lincoln Project is being threatened with a lawsuit for their latest attack. This time the professional grifters took on Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner. Two side-by-side giant billboards in Times Square have a message – Ivanka and Jared don’t care about the American people even during the coronavirus pandemic. Ivanka and Jared

“A national mandate probably would not work,” he said as recently as six weeks ago. But last night he seemed to reconsider after being pressed by Erin Burnett, waving away the potential enforcement problem by saying, “if people are not wearing masks, then maybe we should be mandating it.” I don’t think he’s talking about

Via David Byler, it could happen. But you can see from the chart below why Frank Luntz thinks political polling will never again be taken seriously if it blows this election. Pollsters have no excuses this time. They were caught by surprise four years ago by the strength of Trump’s appeal to working-class whites and

Here I was, thinking there was no common ground to be had this year between Never Trumpers and hardcore MAGA worshipers like Lou. But life is full of surprises, isn’t it? Are there any other weaselly Trump sycophants in the Senate we can get together on besides Graham? This could be a kumbaya moment for

No profession is ever really “finished” after a catastrophic failure. Ask someone who opposed the Iraq war. They’ll talk your ear off about how cheerleaders for the invasion ended up failing upward in the foreign policy establishment or landing softly as “wise men” commentators in American media. Polling won’t disappear either if it misjudges Trump’s

The fifth Annual Report on U.S. Attitudes Toward Socialism, Communism, and Collectivism has been released by the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation (VOC). The news is not good if these findings are to be looked upon as the direction in which our country is going. Capitalists beware, Socialism is gaining in popularity, especially among the

Tonight’s the big one. The last battle. The one that decides the presidency. Well … probably not. Everyone gets hyped for debates but the truth is that they rarely matter. The first debate between Trump and Biden was an exception, as the polls began moving towards Sleepy Joe in the aftermath and still haven’t fully

Twelve days left. This is what he’d like us to spend one of them talking about, it seems. Look at the bias, hatred and rudeness on behalf of 60 Minutes and CBS. Tonight’s anchor, Kristen Welker, is far worse! #MAGA https://t.co/ETDJzMQg8X — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 22, 2020 Watch below and you’ll find that

They would have called him a lot more than that. Obama on Trump: “He’s got a secret Chinese bank account. How’s that possible? Listen, can you imagine if had a secret Chinese bank account when I was running for reelection? You think Fox News might’ve been a little concerned? They would’ve called me Beijing Barry.”

In a sane world this would have to be true, right? He has no reason to lie. The footage will be globally available in 48 hours. We’ll all know the truth, or at least have strong opinions about it, by Friday afternoon. But in a sane world, he wouldn’t have gone boasting to New York

The beheading of high-school teacher Samuel Paty in Paris last Friday by an 18-year-old Islamic radical has shocked the nation of France into action. Police quickly rounded up almost a dozen people connected to the killer, Abdullakh Anzorov, who was shot dead by police. The Interior Minister promised to shut down several Islamic groups that

It looks like presidential cookie polls are popular with bakery customers this year. Some bakeries traditionally hold their own polls by selling sugar cookies iced with the logos or faces of the Republican and Democrat candidates. It’s a fun marketing gimmick that brings in customer traffic and delivers a boost in sales. Last weekend I

The temptation here is to say, “We’ll see what voters think about that on November 3.” If Trump’s all-base-all-the-time strategy succeeds in bringing out Fox viewers and talk-radio fans and assorted other working-class whites in numbers that obliterate Biden’s polling advantage, he’ll seem crazy like a fox. In an instant, the conventional wisdom will shift

We first started covering this story back in 2017 when a group of U.S. diplomats and spies in Havana, Cuba were targeted with some kind of mysterious weapon. Many of the victims described a high-pitched buzzing sound and said that by leaving a room the sound would go away. There were several subsequent attacks with

Lotta grim news about COVID this past week, as has been the case for nearly the entirety of the past seven months. The percentages of cases and hospitalizations were up double digits across the U.S. last week. According to this site, the virus is spreading in 42 states right now and slowing down in just

Recall this discussion at the first presidential debate? This turned into one of Donald Trump’s more surprising moments, in which he exhibited preparation on a key piece of policy before facing off against Joe Biden. Moderator Chris Wallace wanted to introduce climate change into the debate, and used the forest fires on the West Coast

Oops, he did it again. Joe Biden claimed that The International Brotherhood of Boilermakers union endorsed him for president during a televised town hall on ABC last week. The Boilermakers disagree with his claim. They didn’t endorse his bid for president at all. As a matter of fact, the union doesn’t make presidential endorsements and