Erick Erickson—the influential conservative blogger, Atlanta-area radio host, and Fox News talking head—published a curious claim on Twitter this past Monday, which marked the 74th anniversary of the Imperial Japanese Navy’s coordinated attack on Hawaii’s Pearl Harbor in 1941. “Growing up, I remember my parents never letting us have Asian food on December 7th,” he tweeted. “They were children of WWII.” He later noted that his sister remembered the same tradition.

You may have thought that Donald Trump’s vague and fascist proposal to ban all Muslims from entering America was absurd. Republican voters disagree.

Student activists at Lebanon Valley College are asking the school to change the name of Lynch Hall because of its racial connotations, even though it is named for a former school president who had nothing to do with lynchings. One suggestion: “Maybe they should file a complaint with Attorney General Loretta Lynch.”

Last August, Time took some photographs of a bird-brained, predatory beast to add a bit of color to its Person of the Year line-up. A bald eagle was also present.

Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel addressed City Council this morning, where he continued to insist that his police department needs to be completely overhauled while also attempting to display an emotion heretofore foreign to the Emanuel brothers: Sadness.

The Supreme Court revisited today Fisher v. University of Texas, an affirmative action case that was first considered by the court in 2013. SCOTUS declined then to make a definitive ruling about the constitutionality of UT’s admissions policy—in which race is considered a factor—and instead sent the case back to a lower court.

Crap galaxy Walmart has long used overt appeals to American patriotism as a cornerstone of its marketing and PR efforts. A new study attempts to quantify exactly how much bullshit is contained in Walmart’s patriotic reputation.

It’s the biggest day of your life... You’re on stage with the president... She gives you an award... Where did your pants go?

Teens: America’s greatest danger. Whether roughhousing, vandalizing things, or making snide remarks, groups of teens are reliable terrors. We must now confront the possibility that teens are growing even bolder.

This... fuckin’.... guy!!!

Intelligence officials tell CNN that long before the San Bernardino attacks, the male shooter may have plotted a different attack in California with a different, unnamed co-conspirator.

An unarmed man was shot and killed by a uniformed NYPD officer after an eight-mile car chase through the Bronx and Westchester County ended in the woods around Yonkers, off the Saw Mill River Parkway.

In an email to editorial staff on Tuesday, BuzzFeed editor-in-chief Ben Smith addressed questions about whether expressing opinions about Donald Trump violates company ethics guidelines governing political partisanship on social media. (Smith’s ruling: it doesn’t.) The email was leaked to The Blaze.

Two Syrian families of six were settled in the Dallas and Houston areas on Monday, the Associated Press reports, and another family of four was settled near Indianapolis. “They seem very happy,” a spokeswoman for the International Rescue Committee, Lucy Carrigan, said.

After conducting an online poll earlier this month, the Working Families Party voted “overwhelmingly” to endorse Bernie Sanders for president. “Really, the endorsement is more about the WFP than it is about the presidential race,” one party activist told Politico NY.

On Tuesday evening, the Associated Press reported that Donald Trump would visit Jordan, a majority-Muslim monarchy, during his trip to Israel at the end of December. Trump promptly tweeted that he would not be visiting Jordan. (Probably for the best.)

Early Monday morning, NBC Phildalphia reports, the manager of a North Philadelphia mosque discovered a bloody, severed pig’s head that surveillance footage later showed had been thrown at the building from a red pickup truck.

After calling for a “a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States” yesterday, Donald Trump sat down with Barbara Walters, his personal friend of many years, for an interview on ABC’s World News Tonight. Walters asked Trump the tough questions, like “Do you regret your ban on Muslims, which some people think is un-American?” and “Are you a bigot?”

Jeb Bush has suffered at the hands of Donald Trump, who has taken special glee in taunting all of his weaker opponents in the Republican field, but especially so the one-time presumed frontrunner from a previously untouchable political dynasty. Today, Jeb revealed what might be his final attempt at felling the orange beast: perpetuating the conspiracy theory that Trump was planted in the GOP race by the Clinton family.

Kristin Cavallari, author of the forthcoming memoir Balancing in Heels (formerly titled Balancing on Heels), has posted a new article on her app. If you want to read it, you will have to pay.