Monthly Archives: April 2021
April 30, 2021 — John Hinderaker
Poor Joe Biden, a sad shell of a man who is thrown into a panic when he can’t find his mask–which was in his pocket all the while. But why is Biden wearing a mask, speaking outdoors, when he has been vaccinated? Why is he “in trouble” if he can’t come up with it? And observe how “Dr.” Jill rushes to help Joe find the missing mask. The man is
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April 30, 2021 — John Hinderaker
This story from the Telegraph evidently is not a parody. Britain’s spy agency promises to focus on sniffing out other countries’ carbon dioxide emissions: MI6 is placing the climate emergency at the forefront of its international espionage with “green spying” on the world’s big polluters, its new chief has revealed. Richard Moore, head of the UK’s foreign intelligence service, described climate change as the “foremost international foreign policy item for
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April 30, 2021 — Paul Mirengoff
Rep. Cheri Bustos (D-IL) has announced that she will not seek reelection in 2022. Bustos was head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee last year (currently, she heads the House Democratic Steering Committee). The Democrats were expected to gain seats in 2020, but ended up losing some and barely holding their House majority. In addition, Bustos, who had won reelection in 2016 by 20 points even though Donald Trump carried
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April 30, 2021 — Steven Hayward
News item: The Biden Administration is going to restrict travel from India starting next week. But last year, candidate Biden said this: Meanwhile, who needs slow-motion replay when you have stellar moments like this in real time:
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April 30, 2021 — Paul Mirengoff
Tim Scott’s powerful response to Joe Biden’s address to Congress has forced both Biden and Kamala Harris to reject a core belief of the BLM movement and the American left. Both the president and the vice president have now stated that the American people are not racist. Biden said this: No, I don’t think the American people are racist, but I think after 400 years, African-Americans have been left in
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April 30, 2021 — Scott Johnson
The Foreign Agents Registration Act is the last refuge of a prosecutorial scoundrel. That was my reaction to the New York Times story yesterday reporting that Rudy Giuliani is under investigation for an alleged FARA violation. The Times has a follow-up story here today with additional information on the focus of the investigation. My reaction was of course elicited by Robert Mueller’s persecution of Michael Flynn. The FBI showed up
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April 30, 2021 — Paul Mirengoff
The Biden administration is determined to see America’s youth indoctrinated with the noxious teachings of Critical Race Theory (CRT). And Team Biden is moving quickly to accomplish this. Stanley Kurtz writes: The new Biden rule favoring education grants that push Critical Race Theory is a disaster for this country. Put that new rule together with the massive federal Civics Secures Democracy Act that pushes both leftist “action civics” and Critical
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April 30, 2021 — Scott Johnson
If you want to understand the perverse foreign policy of the Obama administration, Michael Oren’s memoir Ally is in invaluable text. It provides a first-hand account of Obama’s dishonesty and deceit toward Israel while his administration worked toward an arrangement facilitating the Iranian regime’s pursuit of nuclear weapons while funding it terroristic pursuits. It’s hard to come up with an innocent explanation, or at least one that is not stupefying.
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April 30, 2021 — Scott Johnson
The Washington Free Beacon has compiled a supercuts video displaying the judgments of prominent media gasbags on the speeches of President Joe Biden and Senator Tim Scott this past Wednesday evening. The Free Beacon provides this brief introduction: The media’s adulation of President Biden was in full display after his first joint address to Congress Wednesday night. MSNBC’s Brian Williams drew attention multiple times to the president’s “extraordinary use of
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April 30, 2021 — Scott Johnson
Ammo Grrrll recalls being asked WHY DO YOU LIVE THERE? She writes: One time I had a show in Orlando in February. It was 82 degrees F. when I checked in for departure at the Orlando airport to return to Minnesota. A very pleasant African-American ticket agent looked up “Minnie” as Mordor was called in the airline biz. I saw an odd look pass over her face. She said, “Uh,
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April 29, 2021 — Steven Hayward
Back in February we took prominent notice of how French President Macron and a number of other leading French officials decried the poisonous ideas emanating from American universities, which has led me to wonder why there aren’t at least ten Republican governors taking the same line. (So far the only one who has, and only to a limited extent, is Florida’s De Santis.) Well the next shoe has dropped over
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April 29, 2021 — Steven Hayward
Power Line doesn’t actually have—yet—an official Hero of the Week, but if we did, it would have to start with Braden Ellis, a student at Cypress College in southern California, who had the temerity to stick up for the police in a class presentation, indeed, suggesting police officers deserve to be regarded as heroes. His professor then spouts the ignorant nonsense that policing began and grew out of slave patrols,
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April 29, 2021 — John Hinderaker
This video by Project Veritas’s James O’Keefe is entertaining. O’Keefe is not a lawyer, but what he says about the progress of Veritas’s defamation lawsuit against the New York Times is basically accurate. The case arises out of Veritas’s exposure of voter fraud in Minnesota, which the Times labeled, falsely, as “deceptive” and “probably part of a coordinated disinformation campaign.” Project Veritas alleges that these and other statements by the
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April 29, 2021 — John Hinderaker
Last night, Joe Biden repeated the absurd claim that, according go our intelligence agencies, white supremacists are our number one terrorist threat. Let me know when white supremacists burn down a city or two; until then, I am going with Antifa. This Antifa video describes the far-left movement in honest–i.e., openly terrorist–terms. It includes a threat to kill Ted Wheeler, the hapless left-wing mayor of Portland, and helpfully includes his
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April 29, 2021 — Paul Mirengoff
On Tuesday, I wrote about Mahanoy Area School District v. B.L., the high school free speech case the Supreme Court was about to hear. The Court heard the case yesterday. You can listen to the oral argument here. It was a lively affair, as well it should have been given the tricky questions involved, and was well argued on both sides. The Court seemed sympathetic to B.L. who was suspended
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April 29, 2021 — John Hinderaker
Historically, giving the out-party’s response to a president’s speech to a joint session of Congress has been a thankless task. That is, in part, because the out-party’s response, typically delivered to a camera in a more or less empty room, looks lame compared to the excitement in the House chamber. Last night may have been different, however. Joe Biden’s snoozefest generated no excitement in the near-empty House, and Senator Tim
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April 29, 2021 — Paul Mirengoff
Last night, Joe Biden lied about a range of issues. NRO identifies three of Biden’s deceptions. Phillip Klein exposes Biden’s falsehood regarding health care. Biden claimed that giving Medicare the power to negotiate lower prices for prescription drugs will “strengthen the Affordable Care Act – expand Medicare coverage and benefits – without costing taxpayers one additional penny.” Nonsense. Klein points out that the Congressional Budget Office has twice concluded that
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