President Joe Biden and his team think that TikTok is a national security threat, but they also want to encourage the public to use it. Biden’s campaign decided to join TikTok, which it boasted about on Sunday in a post on X. John Kirby, newly appointed as the White House’s national security communications adviser, said […]
During a filibuster Monday night against proposed foreign aid deals to Ukraine and other countries, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) took a stand that would have made Jefferson Smith, the protagonist of the 1939 film Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, proud. With billions of dollars in taxpayer money at stake, Paul spoke for an hour, valiantly […]
Don’t be fooled by the hotter-than-expected consumer price inflation, or CPI, report for January. It is a head fake. Inflation is falling. The Federal Reserve will cut interest rates soon. Corporate profits are growing at a slightly faster-than-expected rate. Equities remain attractive for investors. Save for Tesla, the so-called Magnificent 7 — Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, […]
Many people were shocked and appalled by Tucker Carlson’s comments about Moscow being nicer than many cities in the United States. The usual suspects (people who identify or used to identify as Republicans but were affiliated that way only because of fiscal policies while altogether abandoning cultural matters) were outraged. Groups like the Lincoln Project, […]
The Republican National Committee has had a rough few cycles since winning the presidency, the House of Representatives, and the Senate in 2016. In 2018, the party lost control of the House of Representatives, losing 41 seats. In 2020, it lost the presidency and control of the Senate. And in 2022, despite an unpopular president, […]
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) was hoping to have a first vote on the $95 billion supplemental aid bill Monday night, but Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), along with Sens. J.D. Vance (R-OH) and Mike Lee (R-UT), led the charge to stop the bill, with a particular focus on the $60 billion allocated for Ukraine. “Open the […]
President Joe Biden’s cascading confusion means Democrats have a problem similar to the one America faces as it slides ever deeper into debt. The crisis clearly requires action. You can pretend it isn’t real in the short term, but it won’t get better and won’t go away. It will only get worse. And the longer […]
“Today is a day the residents of Denver should be heartbroken,” Mayor Mike Johnston said in an Instagram post after Senate Republicans blocked passage of immigration reform legislation backed by Democratic mayors and governors across the country. “If that measure had succeeded,” Johnston continued, “there would not be a crisis.” In one sense, Johnston is […]
