James Freeman brings up the awkward possibility in the WSJ showing support for Hamas might in fact be on the back burner. There are welcome signs that Palestinians in general aren’t fully behind the terrorist group. A Call to March Fizzles Jared Malsin and Fatima AbdulKarim report for the WSJ on Hamas’s call for protests […]
Corporations Aren’t from Mars
Sticking It to $15-an-hour Cashier In Joe Biden’s State of the Union address last week, the President shouted to his audience how he would raise the corporate income tax to make corporations pay their “fair share.” “Whatever that is,” speculates Daniel Oliver in American Greatness. The Democrats leapt to their feet, hooting, clapping, and cheering […]
A Hard Day’s Night
A Roaring Success How will the next president of the United States be able to handle the job? In a note to clients, Jason DeSena Trennert of Strategas details the bleak portrait of the federal fisc: It took Uncle Sam 232 years to accumulate its first $10 trillion in debt, nine years to accumulate its […]
Keep Repeating a Lie ‘til It Sounds True
Originally posted February 26, 2024. Suppressing Common Sense It don’t make no sense. There is much wrong with the Biden administration, starting with its hasty retreat from Afghanistan. No one, protests Andy Kessler in the WSJ, has explained why the chaos, why the rush. Was it part of someone else’s agenda? Then There’s the Border […]
Fear and/or Loathing in DC
Biden Helps the “Orange Peril” American voters are in quite the pickle: a Biden/Trump rematch. During last week’s SCOTUS address, President Joe Biden made it clear that Donald Trump poses a greater peril to the U.S. than Xi Jinping, Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong Un, Ali Khamenei, Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis, all rolled into one. In the WSJ, […]
Remembering Abby Gate
The Vileness of Politics Along with 12 other American servicemen, Lance Corporal Kareem Nikoui was killed outside of Abby Gate at Kabul airport, Afghanistan, in 2021. During President Joe Bidens’ state of the union address before Congress last week, Steve Nikoui, Lance Corporal Nikoui’s father, disrupted Biden’s address to yell “Do you remember Abby Gate?” […]
Reality Check: Unintended Consequences of Green Energy
Originally posted January 30, 2024. Axing Trees to Build Solar Farms If wind and solar projects make profound sense, why then would they need government subsidies and mandates? Even beyond the costs of inefficient power production, James Freeman notes, “There’s a question of whether alternative-energy cheerleaders yet have a handle on the environmental impact of […]
Not Falling Asleep, a Measure of Success
Why Not Mail It In If not falling asleep is the measure of success, President Joe Biden carried the night, reports Christopher Bedford in Spectator. Republicans might have been disappointed that Joe Biden didn’t slur his words or bungle names of living colleagues with dead ones. In American Spectator Daniel Oliver called it the worst […]
Is President Joe Biden in Denial
From Scranton and Not Talking about “Democracy” Eight months really is a lifetime in politics, and the presidential election isn’t till November. And no, Donald Trump’s legal woes aren’t going to suddenly disappear, Still, one wonders, what has Joe Biden been thinking? Policy Disasters, temporarily financed by taking the U.S. to unprecedented post WWII levels […]
What the Hell Is Going On?
Can’t Take Hamas at Face Value From John Kirby, spokesman for President Joe Biden’s National Security Council: “We all know that the Gazan Ministry of Health is just a front for Hamas. It’s a — it’s run by Hamas, a terrorist organization. I’ve said it myself up here: We can’t take anything coming out of […]
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