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.
Last week, President Joe Biden commemorated George Floyd‘s death with several social media postings and a statement released by the White House. He repeated the anecdote about meeting Floyd’s daughter since he’s been president. “The day before George Floyd’s funeral, his young daughter Gianna told me, ‘Daddy changed the world,'” Biden said. “Four years after […]
For 3 1/2 years, the Biden White House has seemed remarkably leakproof. Even amid popular backlash to administration policies — the spending splurge in 2021 that was followed by sharp inflation in 2022 and 2023, the changes in enforcement of immigration laws that have produced numbers of incoming illegal immigrants unmatched even in border boom […]
President Joe Biden announced the release of a million barrels of gasoline from government reserves on Tuesday in an effort he said would “lower prices at the pump when folks need it the most.” Not only is the amount being released so infinitesimally small that it won’t have any effect on gas prices, but the […]
“Woke” ideology breeds hypocrisy. Just ask basketball star Caitlin Clark, the latest target of the Left. Clark was the first overall draft pick in the Women’s National Basketball Association this year after generating national attention during the March Madness collegiate tournament. According to The View, however, Clark has only been afforded more respect for her […]
In a span of eight months, Mexico has endured the assassination of 34 candidates for local offices. But in the telling of President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, this spate of violence is nothing more than media “sensationalism.” For Obrador, there is no political liability. The incumbent president of Mexico is term-limited, and his successor will […]
Last week, the Washington Post editorial board came out against “DEI statements” for college faculty hiring. While this is a welcome sign of how the tide is turning against the Left’s diversity, equity, and inclusion agenda, the Washington Post’s stance is utterly without moral force. And without massive administrative force, DEI statements are going nowhere. […]
Oh, what a tangled web they weave when first the managers of the California Public Employees’ Retirement System and the New York State Common Retirement Fund practice to have it both ways. The problem is the demand from the environmental Left that the retirement funds divest from fossil fuel producers. On the one hand, the […]
New data from AdImpact show that $71.3 million has been spent on campaign ads for the 2024 election so far. Democrats have spent $49.2 million compared to $22.1 by Republicans. More interesting still is that 30% of the total spending has targeted voters in Pennsylvania. While the Keystone State remains very much in the toss-up […]
During a conference call on Feb. 1, 2020, Dr. Anthony Fauci and National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins implored a group of esteemed international scientists to produce a paper that would discredit the lab leak theory of COVID-19’s origins. Twice during the call, Fauci prodded Dr. Kristian Andersen, a Danish evolutionary biologist, to lead […]
Neo-populism is a philosophy that pretends to be innovative and more economically efficient than free market capitalism. True believers in neo-populism are described as neo-populists. But on economic policy, they are much more akin to traditional progressives. They believe that they know how best to most efficiently allocate capital in an economy that approaches $30 trillion in […]
Whatever the jury decides in former President Donald Trump’s New York City felony bookkeeping trial, any pretense that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s prosecution was not entirely political died Tuesday when President Joe Biden’s campaign held an event on the courthouse steps. “First of all, let me say this,” Biden spokesman Michael Tyler shouted over […]
