Democrat Senator Hirono of Hawaii used Ford’s testimony before the Senate Judicial Committee as an opportunity to fundraise for her re-election campaign.

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Hawaiians are still hunkering down in the wake of Hurricane Lane, which has weakened so much that it has been officially downgraded to a tropical storm. However, the islands’ residents still face flooding and landslides in its wake.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is a media darling. They love, love, love her. Her defeat of Joe Crowley in the NY-14 primary was to herald a new era in Democrat politics – a new, young Socialist face for the coming years.

Ignored was that Ocasio-Cortez won her primary with only about <...

The last time we visited the Big Island of Hawaii, its Kilauea volcano had oozed lava over a portion of a geothermal power plant and some pot growers were staying...

It has been over a month since the newest cycle of eruptions of Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano started, and it is now officially the most destructive eruption in the United States since Mt. St.Helen’s collapse in 1980.

Hundred of the Big Island residents are now requesting financial assistance as a result of the...

Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano continues to erupt, oozing lava that is causing even more property damage and personal heartbreak for hundreds of families. (more…)

The last time we visited the erupting Hawaiian volcano, Kilauea, the lava from the steadily erupting volcano was threatening the Puna Geothermal Venture Plant.
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As predicted, Kilauea erupted violently on Thursday morning, spewing lava bombs and ash into the atmosphere.

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The United States Geological Survey (USGS) Volcanoes Hazard Program issued a “Red Warning” Tuesday night for Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano.

The agency’s Hawaiian Volcano Observatory issued the highest level alert in the afternoon after increased activity within Halemaumau crater.
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The last time we visited the island state of Hawaii, the state was dealing with the aftermath of a fake ballistic missile warning issued by one of its emergency management employees.

Now, there is a real one.

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On January 13, we covered the reports that a false alert about a ballistic missile headed toward Hawaii was sent to cellphones there, urging people to seek immediate shelter.

There were many troubling consequences as a result of that alert being issued, including parents placing their small children in sewers with potentially...

I was a fan of Jamie Lee Curtis, so it’s really depressing to read her reaction to the false missile alert in Hawaii.

Hawaiians got quite...

Hawaiians got quite a shock when they received news of an incoming ballistic missile and were assured in the text alert that “this is not a drill.”  It wasn’t a drill, but it was a mistake.

Here’s the erroneous alert via Dopl3r:

The New York Times reports:

The authorities confirmed on Saturday that there...

There are days in the year we should commemorate yearly: 9/11, D-Day, V-Day, July 4. December 7, the day the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, is one of those days. We lost 2,400 in the attack, the majority on the USS Arizona.

Today at Pearl Harbor, a sailor who saved six men finally...

Que Twilight Zone theme.  Scott Johnson of the conservative blog Powerline has been served a draft subpoena ordering that he preserve records of items he noted in his blog posts.

Judge James Robart, presiding over the Hawaii v. Trump “travel ban” case, authorized the move.

Johnson writes:

These are strange days. I seem to...

And there it is! Hawaii has become the first to file a lawsuit against President Donald Trump’s revised executive order on six nations. From The Hill:

“The Executive Order means that thousands of individuals across the United States and in Hawai‘i who have immediate family members living in the affected countries will...