“I’m going to start a pillow company to own the cons” is an exciting new frontier in negative partisanship. This smells suspiciously like an idea Hogg farted out on Twitter as an off-the-cuff joke, then rashly decided to pursue after it got a ton of excited feedback from followers who took it seriously. Why not

I’m sure by now you’ve caught some of the back and forth over whether AOC was telling the truth about her experience during the Capitol riots or not. I finally gave in and went down the rabbit-hole this afternoon and here is my honest impression of this whole controversy. I don’t think AOC intended to

The vote was supposed to happen at 4 p.m. ET but it’s coming up on 6:00 p.m. as I write this and still nothing. There’s no suspense about the outcome; the Democratic majority will vote to boot Greene off of the education and budget committees. The suspense has to do with how many Republicans will

Something funny that’s making the rounds as the House gears up to strip Marjorie Taylor Greene of her committee assignments. You can understand why McCarthy would be at pains to feign ignorance here: Not only are Democrats eager to make Greene and QAnon the face of the GOP, Pelosi went so far as to refer

National Geographic Documentary Films released a trailer for its upcoming documentary of Dr. Anthony Fauci. The longtime director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIH) is getting the full star treatment in a feature documentary. Fauci gives the film’s directors exclusive access to his career and life as a public servant. This

Immediately after progressive DA George Gascon was sworn in he put in place a series of new rules including one that prevented prosecutors from attending parole hearings. That decision is one of several that have generated controversy. Now LA County Sheriff Alex Villanueva has informed Gascon that in the absence of prosecutors at these hearings,

The good news for QAnoners: Georgia found some voter fraud! The bad news: The fraud is coming from inside the house. Allahpundit mentioned this last night, but it really deserves a full thread, if for no other reason than the multiple levels of irony involved. I wonder if we’ll get a treatise on burdens of proof from

President Trump offered the nation’s highest civilian honor – the Presidential Medal of Freedom – twice to legendary country music superstar Dolly Parton. She turned his offer down twice. Now it is very likely that she will have to decide if she will accept the honor from President Biden. It’s not what you might have

Alexei Navalny was finally scheduled to begin his trial in Moscow today after cooling his heels in a Russian jail since returning to the country last month. Given all of the complications involved in this proceeding and the international attention focused on it, I’m sure that it will drag on for quite a while before

The day may yet come when the California legislature proposes a new bill that will actually improve the lives of its citizens, my friends, but today is not that day. The latest bit of madness to come out of the Golden State is known as Senate Bill 271, and it’s clearly designed to make people

White House press secretary Jen Psaki announced last week that the Biden administration will use an interpreter during its daily press briefings because it is an accessible and inclusive administration or something. She even referred to that day’s interpreter by name. What Psaki didn’t say is that the administration is required by law to do

This is almost certainly nonsense, fed to Politico for a strategic reason and duly published by the paper because, let’s face it, the idea of a Schumer/AOC death match for the soul of the Democratic Party is irresistible. It’s roughly as sensational as Mitch McConnell being primaried by Donald Trump Jr would be. (Okay, not

Now that Susan Collins and her “Gang of Ten” have put forward a counteroffer to the Democrats’ bloated $1.9 trillion pandemic relief package, one of the main sticking points between the parties is coming back into focus. What will Congress do about a second round of direct payments to citizens? Some of the more liberal

Lincoln Project is disavowing their association with one of their co-founders. The Lincoln Project today released the following statement. pic.twitter.com/k9QkUsiFO5 — The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) January 31, 2021 It’s a far cry from their January 15th message saying “John [Weaver’s] statement speaks for itself,” after Weaver admitted to sending inappropriate messages and being gay. The

Senator Bill Cassidy didn’t hold back during an interview Sunday morning with FNC’s Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace. The talk of working with the other side of the aisle is just a whole lot of malarkey coming from Joe Biden and his administration. On a top priority, a COVID relief package, Senator Cassidy told

Starting Monday, just before midnight, there’s a new mandate taking effect and it’s on the national level rather than the usual state and municipal orders we’ve been seeing. Anyone taking public transportation of any kind is not to be allowed to travel without wearing a face mask. The order applies to airplanes, buses, trains, subways,

The trial of Cristhian Bahena Rivera for the murder of Mollie Tibbetts was supposed to start last week after years of delay, some of it necessitated by the coronavirus. But back in December there was another delay and the trial still hasn’t started. However, this week there was an argument in court over attempts by

A Norwegian parliamentarian, Petter Eide, has nominated Black Lives Matter for a Nobel Peace Prize. The far-left politician, a member of the Socialist Left Party, said the nomination was in recognition of the group’s impact on raising awareness of racism worldwide. Marxists of the world, unite! Let’s review – Black Lives Matter began in 2013

The powers that be in Los Angeles just seem to be trolling people at this point. After a judge found that a ban on outdoor dining was “arbitrary” and capricious, the Governor said that a ban on dining al fresco could be lifted. Now Los Angeles County is getting in on the action and will

Fear not, Girl Scout cookie fans. If like me, you look forward to your yearly fix of Thin Mints, there is a way to get them even in these days of a pandemic. And, of course, there is the bonus of supporting the scout troops so that when the pandemic wanes, they will be able

Watch this, and pay attention to how careful her phrasing is. This is about as good as one can do answering a question without quiiiiiite answering it. Here it is: pic.twitter.com/q4EUSsuJhu — Governor Kristi Noem (@govkristinoem) January 28, 2021 “We have a president that was elected. He is in office. I am willing to work

It’s barely been a day since we learned about the New York Attorney General’s report indicating that the state had undercounted the number of COVID-19 nursing home deaths by as much as 50%. Last night, John dug into the AG’s report to see how the wheels came off of Governor Andrew Cuomo’s disastrous policies so

It’s hard to argue with his conclusions. As Brooks points out, there’s a big price being paid by children who are not attending school: The broader data on school closure is horrendous. Mental health problems have increased. Many children have simply vanished from official oversight. Schools in Hillsborough County, Fla., started the year missing 7,000 students. The children who

Watch some of this if you have time, just so that you fully understand that it’s *not* really an attack on Cheney for voting to impeach Trump. That’s part of it, of course — Trump Jr even calls in at 19:30 of the clip — but it’s actually a full-spectrum assault on Cheneyism, especially her

We were recently assured by the Washington Post that Joe Biden had made it clear to Vladimir Putin on their phone call this week that his treatment of Alexei Navalny and his supporters who have been holding protests around the country was unacceptable and the Russian president needed to mend his ways. Perhaps the White

You probably remember NY Times opinion editor James Bennet as the guy who was fired after he allowed Sen. Tom Cotton to write an opinion piece for the paper. You may also recall that prior to that, Bennet got in legal trouble over an editorial which stupidly suggested the Tuscon shooter had been inspired by

As soon as Donald Trump entered office, he set to work toughening up our border security situation and making it harder for illegal aliens to enter (and remain in) the United States. Last year, after the pandemic arrived, he took the additional step of instituting a zero-tolerance policy for illegal border crossings, with the perpetrators

Well, maybe not explicitly instead of, although it’s hard to see the value in this proposal to Republicans otherwise. Rand Paul’s collection of 45 votes to sustain a point of order rejecting the Senate’s authority to conduct an impeachment trial against a former president may have had more impact than first thought. Axios reports that

Goya Foods voted to silence the public remarks of its CEO Robert Unanue. He was censured after recent television appearances when he made controversial remarks about the “unverified” presidential election. Frankly, many members of the company’s board have been trying to punish him ever since he went to the White House last July and praised

The funniest thing on social media over the past 48 hours has been liberals complaining that McConnell may love the filibuster now but if he were back in charge of the Senate he’d nuke it ruthlessly to clear a path for Republican policies. As if we didn’t just spend six years watching Cocaine Mitch steadfastly