An air of triumph surrounded D.C. Council member Trayon White after a judge declared a mistrial Monday in his federal bribery case, while some of his council colleagues have spoken up about the ethics violations revealed during his legal saga.
Washington Monthly found: "In the vast majority of cases, campuses that educate students mostly from working-class backgrounds have not had any protest activity."
The last time the Commonwealth of Virginia supported a Republican presidential candidate was in 2004, when then-President George W. Bush capped off 10 consecutive wins for the GOP in the Old Dominion, but former President Donald Trump has a shot at reversing that trend this November. Once considered a perennial swing state, Virginia has tilted […]
News that the White House is working behind the scenes to get flattering media coverage for President Joe Biden is three things: it’s par for the course, it’s eye-opening this close to the election, and it’s ironic because it misses the point. Presidents always seek positive stories in an election year, but Biden is increasingly […]
One of the many problems with the Democratic Party’s stance on gun control is that Democrats are already loathe to enforce existing gun laws when dealing with criminals. Last week, an off-duty Metropolitan Police Department officer in Washington, D.C., was shot, sending him to the hospital. The suspects had been driving erratically, cutting the officer […]
President Joe Biden will address the nation from the White House following the verdict of former President Donald Trump’s hush money trial, supposedly in a nonpolitical capacity. Biden plans to break his “vow of silence” regarding the trial. But I’m positive he’s the last person people want to hear from on this issue. Do not […]
While Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) is out complaining about racism and bigotry in other states, it turns out that hate crimes have surged in supposedly tolerant California during his tenure. According to the Public Policy Institute of California, reported hate crimes (described as “crimes with reasonable evidence of motivation based on a victim’s race/ethnicity, gender, […]
When special counsel Robert Hur announced he wouldn’t bring charges against President Joe Biden for his improper handling of documents, he set off a torrent of anger among Biden’s supporters — because he did it in a way that made Biden look bad. This isn’t an unfair criticism of Hur, but it applies 1,000 times […]
President Joe Biden’s flailing reelection campaign shows that blind party loyalty to the status quo can, in fact, cost parties elections. All the alarms are blaring about Biden’s campaign, given that he is consistently polling behind former President Donald Trump despite having beaten Trump in 2020, Biden being the incumbent, and Trump being Trump. A […]
Hot off the heels of his wildly successful Netflix series The Gentlemen, filmmaker Guy Ritchie’s latest project is effectively his version of a James Bond film, set amid World War II. An adaptation of Damien Lewis’s 2014 nonfiction book about Operation Postmaster, the film features Ian Fleming, a British intelligence officer in 1942, conspiring with Prime Minister […]