Opinion

During a press briefing earlier today, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre claimed that "Americans feel better about their personal finances” right now relative to the past few years. She implicitly gave credit to President Joe Biden’s policies, but there is no data to support this claim.

Disastrous National Assessment of Educational Progress test scores were released last week. The New York Times reports that the “last time math performance was this low for 13-year-olds was in 1990. In reading, 2004.”

The question being posed to GOP voters ahead of the 2024 election has been, remains, and will continue to be a simple one: How badly do you want to lose another presidential election?

Hours after being federally charged with two counts of willful failure to pay income taxes, Hunter Biden was seen strutting through the White House for his father’s lavish state dinner. He chatted, laughed, and dined with some of the dinner’s most influential guests — of which Attorney General Merrick Garland, whose department has been investigating Biden for the past five years, was one — as if the charges were nothing to be ashamed of or worried about.

One thing is clear. Russia does not know what to do about its at least temporarily suspended revolutionary, Yevgeny Prigozhin. The Kremlin's uncertainty follows a stunning weekend in which Prigozhin's Wagner Group mercenary force charged toward Moscow before withdrawing to Belarus.

On June 24 of last year, under the threat of violence and uproar, the Supreme Court made history by declaring there is no constitutional right to abortion, robbing the Roe v. Wade decision of its 50th anniversary.

THE STUFF HUNTER BIDEN DIDN'T GET INDICTED FOR. There's no doubt Hunter Biden had some serious tax problems. In the 2010s, he took in millions from shady overseas business dealings, trading on the name of his father, then-Vice President Joe Biden, and had a history of filing his returns late with six-figure amounts of taxes due. There was also his lowlife, high-cost drug addict lifestyle in which he threw away hundreds of thousands of dollars on prostitutes and crack. He had personal financial problems most people don't share.

Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has thoughts about term limits and ethical standards for the Supreme Court. Given her long, unethical history in government, she should keep them to herself.

Paul Ehrlich, a professor of population studies at Stanford University, has made a career out of making spectacular predictions that turn out to be spectacularly wrong. Yet, it seems that he will never give up on making alarmist statements about alleged overpopulation.

WASHINGTON — At the Russell Senate Office Building last Wednesday, four senators — Sens. Tom Cotton (R-AR), Todd Young (R-IN), Marco Rubio (R-FL), and J.D. Vance (R-OH) — spoke about a fresh conservative approach to economics outlined in American Compass’s new policy handbook titled Rebuilding American Capitalism.