If there was ever a good reason for claiming diplomatic immunity, this is it. In the midst of the ongoing tension with China over Taiwan and Xinjiang, Chinese authorities have literally been poking our diplomats in the rear. It’s China’s unique method of testing for traces of COVID. After complaints from the State Department, China

This news from Pfizer and Moderna is of the just-in-case variety, but there are obvious reasons why vaccinated Americans might be asked to get a third shot sometime later this year. The most obvious one is that a vaccine-resistant killer variant could pop up, instigating a scramble by pharma to produce a new product to

It’s going to take a while for Senator Ted Cruz to put the story of his getaway to Cancun during a winter storm in Texas behind him. A party store in Dallas is offering a new item for sale – a pinata of Cruz dressed as he returned from the trip. When Cruz returned to

Last weekend I wrote about the resignation of Smith College staffer Jodi Shaw. Shaw had been battling the school since last year when she announced in a YouTube video that she was tired of her employer “reducing my personhood to a racial category.” Shaw, who is white and liberal, said that ever since an incident

Just a couple of months ago, having a press secretary sneer at reporters constituted an attack on the First Amendment and qualified journalists for hazard pay. When House Democrats attempt to take news channels off of cable and satellite systems through intimidation, suddenly the story becomes — wait for it — “Republicans pounce!” In Politico’s case,

Here’s a little comic relief. Hillary Clinton and her long-time friend Canadian author Louise Penny are writing a book together. It’s being described as an international political thriller and the storyline sounds very familiar. In fact, the book sounds as though it is a not-so-thinly veiled recollection of Clinton’s time as secretary of state. The

Which answer do you want first — the fun answer, or the better answer? Let’s start off with the fun answer, but first, let’s specify precisely what House Democrats want from Joe Biden. A letter signed by three dozen of his party’s caucus urges the new president to relinquish full control over the country’s nuclear

Nice cable-satellite service ya got there. Shame if anything happened to your regulatory approvals. Two House Democrats didn’t waste much time in attempting to bully these distributors into deplatforming conservative media outlets. Reps. Anna Eshloo and Jerry McNerney sent letters to the CEOs of Comcast, AT&T, Verizon, Roku, and others demanding to know whether they planned to

The soccer players on the U.S. women’s national team are not going to be kneeling in protest of police brutality and systemic racism during the national anthem anymore. U.S. defender Crystal Dunn said she and her teammates are “past the protesting phase”. Team member Megan Rapinoe began taking a knee during the national anthem in

The title question may seem a bit odd since Donald Trump’s relationship with Iran appeared to be one of direct confrontation and demands for civilized behavior, with sanctions and other punishments awaiting any failure to deliver on such values. But according to one recent report, Trump never entirely gave up on finding a way to

On the other hand, Randi Weingarten doesn’t rule it out as a prerequisite either. The head of the American Federation of Teachers told Chuck Todd on yesterday’s Meet the Press that teachers badly want to return to work, but only when they stop being “scared” of the potential for catching COVID-19. She claims that it’s a

New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham, a Democrat, finds herself in a mess of her own making. She is being criticized for using money from a taxpayer-supported expense fund for purchases of groceries and alcohol, along with dry cleaning. Wagyu beef, anyone? According to a report detailing purchases made with the expense fund released last

You may not see much news coverage on the world’s 100,000 airplane flights that land safely every day. Let one of them crash, however, and you’ll see smoldering wreckage and sobbing relatives for 24 hours. It’s the same in news coverage of U.S. politics. Now for the first time in memory a research team has

By all accounts, yesterday was just another Saturday at the Jefferson Gun Outlet and Shooting Range in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana. In the front of the building, customers were browsing the available firearms. Around back, people were engaged in training and target practice in the facility’s shooting range. Then somebody walked into the store and opened

Jodi Shaw was a staffer at Smith College in Massachusetts. Last October, Shaw became a kind of whistleblower when she posted a video on YouTube last October describing some of the experiences she was having at the school. “I really don’t want to be making videos. I don’t want my face on a video camera

We’re very glad to have Karen back with us after surviving the Texas snowpocalypse. She’s been through a harrowing experience but is sharing some information about the collapse of the Texas energy grid from a first-hand perspective. Karen brought up some of the ongoing debates over how the Texas energy grid managed to undergo such

As Congress struggles to figure out a way to fix the United States Postal Service and get it back to operating in a profitable fashion, sporadic problems continue to dog delivery services in some areas. The city of Chicago is one location with chronic delivery problems, with some residents complaining that they haven’t seen a

This seems like a shame — a shame that it didn’t include the resignation of the entire board. Oakley’s school board made national news when a parent recorded what members thought was a private conversation, and captured the board’s contempt for parents anxious to get their children back in school. Board president Lisa Brizendine resigned

Looks like the trainwreck that pretty much everyone predicted has arrived. Whose bright idea was it to pick political elbow-thrower Neera Tanden to run the Office of Management and Budget, anyway? Oh yeah. Joe Manchin slid the knife into the nomination a few minutes ago, but Joe Biden can’t say he wasn’t warned all along: “I

Could we effectively double the supply overnight for both Pfizer and Moderna vaccines against COVID-19? A new study from Canada concludes that the short-term effectiveness of both vaccines is nearly identical from a single dose as it is from the two-dose regimen. However, “short term” might also be the problem: Single doses of the Pfizer

She’s not the hero we deserve, but Dolly Parton is the hero America needs. Tennessee lawmakers had hoped to move on from a debate over Confederate memorials by honoring one of the most beloved Volunteers instead. The idea of building a statue of Parton quickly gained bipartisan support and a bill quickly emerged to authorize

Eeenteresting, as the potential for another Rubio/Trump showdown in 2022 rather than 2024 had percolated for a couple of months in Florida. With Donald Trump apparently setting up another presidential campaign and Marco Rubio expected to try again as well, a Senate primary against Ivanka Trump could have pre-empted the 2024 fight altogether. However, Politico

While it might have been easy to miss with all of the disastrous news flooding the MSM these days, there’s something big about to happen on another planet. The Mars Perseverance rover will be attempting what the space agency describes as “the hardest landing” they’ve ever tried. The touchdown is expected to take place at

Earlier this month Evan Rachel Wood came forward and named Marilyn Manson aka Brian Warner as the person who had physically and sexually abused her a decade ago. Four other women also came forward at the same time and accused him of similar abuse. In a podcast episode released yesterday, Manson’s former assistant Dan Cleary

Perhaps Andrew Cuomo should title his next book How To Lose Friends and Repel People. In the midst of what should be an existential crisis to his political career, the Love Gov needs all the friends he can get. Instead, CNN reported this afternoon, Cuomo has begun threatening his Democratic allies to keep them from

As Ed Morrissey reported yesterday, the situation across much of Texas is getting pretty dire following a freak winter storm and freezing temperatures. Millions of people are without power and many have lost their heating as well. To make matters worse, water pipes are breaking all across the state. Going out to purchase potable water

I saw this floating around on Twitter and my first thought was that it must be fake. But then I came across a NY Post story about it and, incredibly, this may be real. A city public school principal is asking parents to “reflect” on their “whiteness” — passing out literature that extols “white traitors’’

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: Andrew Malcolm joins us for Tuesdays

The fallout from the impeachment trial is still going on. Some of the seven Republicans who voted with the Democrats to convict Donald Trump are facing a backlash from their state parties. Senator Bill Cassidy was censured by the Louisiana state GOP over the weekend and last night North Carolina Senator Richard Burr joined the

The San Francisco School Board has been in the news a lot recently. First it was controversy over the decision to rename 44 schools in the district. Then it was the decision to get rid of selective admissions at their best performing high school on the grounds that meritocracy is racist. Over the weekend, the