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It’s Been a Bad News Week for Lithium Ion Batteries – HotAir
There are some lessons to be learned here, but we've become so dependent on these things so quickly that I'm not sure what we pivot to.I think probably breathing deeply and figuring out how to deal with the…
Vance Won the Debate And a Few Converts. What About the Media? – HotAir
Not just among voters either, but we'll get to that shortly. First off, Frank Luntz and CNN competed with the Washington Post to conduct focus-group testing on last night's VP debate, claiming to have balanced…
The Fact-Checking on Vance’s Claim About Abortion Seems Strained – HotAir
During last night's debate, JD Vance made a claim about a law which Tim Walz signed in Minnesota regarding abortion. "The Minnesota law that you signed into law, the statute that you signed into law, it says that a…
More People Trying to Get Into North Korea? – HotAir
For the longest time, it seemed as if (nearly) every story we heard about alleged unauthorized border crossings on the Korean Peninsula had one thing in common. They involved people from North Korea making a break for it and…
A Couple More Thoughts On Last Night – HotAir
It's been kind of fun this morning roaming around the innerwebs and watching all the euphoria, disappointment, and meltdowns we missed either because we were busy doing our thing here. Or because the damn thing ran way…
Vance Got It Right on Haitians, Not CBS, Says … Chris Cuomo – HotAir
You know what you need before ostentatiously conducting a fact-check? Actual facts. Like Candy Crowley at CNN twelve years ago, Norah O'Donnell and Margaret Brennan smugly "corrected" a statement that was…
California Makes it Illegal to Prevent Voter Fraud – HotAir
With every new law passed in the state of California recently, the political imbalance on display becomes more and more pronounced. Governor Gavin Newsom turned up the temperature by a few more degrees this week with a new…
CBS News Welched, Vance Soared – HotAir
During last night's live blog, I received the same basic message from multiple people: Why couldn't these two be running at the top of their tickets? That reaction came less from a desire to see either be…
Feckless UN Remains Feckless
We've grown used to seeing UN Secretary-General António Guterres beclown himself in his efforts to undermine the state of Israel while pretending to take a "both sides" attitude toward the recently escalated…
People Hate Those Who Fight Evil Far More Than Those Who Are Evil – HotAir
I realized something very important about the human condition when I was in high school. I realized that people tend to hate those who fight evil far more than they hate those engaged in doing evil. …