Biden Administration
April 4, 2026 — John Hinderaker
It seems that one can best explain America’s immigration policies with the supposition that they were crafted by our enemies to do as much harm as possible. That thought is prompted by news that the niece and grand-niece of Iran’s arch terrorist, Gen. Qasem Soleimani, killed by an American missile during the first Trump administration, are to be deported: The niece of slain Iranian mastermind Gen. Qasem Soleimani, who showcased
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March 25, 2026 — Scott Johnson
Do you remember the massive Biden-era censorship case that was litigated mostly as Missouri v. Biden? I wrote about the case in several posts including “Walk away, Joe.” The case resulted in a disappointing Supreme Court opinion that avoided the merits on the ground of standing in Murthy v. Missouri. I anticipated the result after the oral argument of the case which I summarized in “To the Supreme Court” (citing
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December 11, 2025 — John Hinderaker
Democrats have chosen to make “affordability” their theme for the 2026 midterm elections. This is ironic, since the big jump in the cost of living, around 10%, happened during the Biden administration and was the direct result of Biden administration policies. Nothing much has happened since Donald Trump took office 11 months ago; price increases have been modest, in keeping with historic levels. Some prices, like gasoline, have fallen. The
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November 18, 2025 — John Hinderaker
Normally I wouldn’t do anything so facile as to blame inflation on a particular politician, but given that the Democrats are pinning their hopes on hanging the “affordability crisis” around President Trump’s neck, a little historical perspective is in order. Thus, from the Unleash Prosperity Hotline: We went back to January 2020 when the pandemic started. We found that 13.5% of cumulative inflation (prices are 24% higher today) has happened
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November 17, 2025 — John Hinderaker
This is one of those stories that seem impossible, but are obviously important if true. FBI Director Kash Patel, appearing on a podcast, reportedly suggested that CIA Director Gina Haspel bribed intelligence officers to go along with the Democrats’ theory of covid origins: FBI Director Kash Patel dropped a bombshell during a recent interview with Glenn Beck…. *** Patel reminded Beck that the team briefed Trump based on the intelligence
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September 9, 2025 — John Hinderaker
I know, that is a very high bar to get over. But consider: why did Joe Biden pardon more people, by a wide margin, than any other president? Documents have come to light that suggest Biden pardoned thousands, some of whom were violent criminals and most of whom had no apparent grounds for clemency, because he was being criticized for pardoning his degenerate partner in crime, his son Hunter. So
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September 6, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Alex Thompson’s Axios story “Biden officials raised concerns with how he issued pardons, used autopen” is in the Axiotic form, but is not what I have come to call Axiotic. It seems to me to contribute to our understanding of the late Politburo regency period of the alleged Biden administration. It adds some disgraceful factual background to what we have come to understand of one disgraceful component of a disgraceful
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September 3, 2025 — John Hinderaker
The Committee to Unleash Prosperity has analyzed household income growth and decline during the first Trump administration and the Biden administration, as well as the eight Obama years. The results are striking: President Trump gained ten times more income for the average family than Joe Biden. Every income group did better under Trump than Biden — by a wide margin. *** Real median household income grew ten times more under
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August 21, 2025 — Scott Johnson
As I write this morning, the Minnesota Star Tribune still features Kim Hyatt’s soft-focus profile of cold-blooded murderer Leonard Peltier on its home page. The Star Tribune tweeted out her story. They are proud of it. Their heart belongs to daddy Peltier. Our software screwed up access to my post on Hyatt’s story yesterday. I’m reposting it below with my own tweet commenting on Hyatt’s story. Do you think there
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August 20, 2025 — Scott Johnson
On his way out of office, “President Biden” or his autopen commuted the sentence of Leonard Peltier — two consecutive life terms — for the cold-blooded murder of two FBI agents in 1975 on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Peltier has long been a cause of the lunatic left. He was represented for years by William Kunstler, a blast from the past. Peltier is to serve out the remainder of
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August 7, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Bill Glahn took up Charles Gasparino’s New York Post story of President Trump’s “debanking” by JPMorgan and Bank of America here earlier this week. As Gasparino tells it, I call it debanking à la Biden. It’s quite a story — a sort of adjunct to the story of Biden’s lawfare against Trump. The Wall Street Journal covered a related story in “White House Preps Order to Punish Banks That Discriminate
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July 22, 2025 — Scott Johnson
If you follow the news related to Israel and the Biden administration, you won’t be surprised to learn that the Biden team funded Israeli nonprofits that were deeply involved in ant-Netanyahu protests. Well, why not? They wanted him out of there. He refused to bend to their strategic genius and tactical wisdom in the aftermath of 10/7. The latest news comes via a memo released by the House Judiciary Committee.
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July 9, 2025 — Scott Johnson
President Biden’s former White House physician — one Kevin O’Connor refused on Wednesday to answer questions as part of the House Republican investigation into Biden’s health in office. According to O’Connor’s own attorney and others, O’Connor pleaded the Fifth Amendment during a closed-door interview with the House Oversight Committee. Short story even shorter — like Melville’s Bartleby, he would prefer not to. National Review’s James Lynch reports here, the AP
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May 21, 2025 — John Hinderaker
As we and everyone else have pointed out, journalists who have belatedly tumbled to the obvious fact that Joe Biden was disabled throughout his presidency (or, at a minimum, most of it) are asking all the questions except the most important one: who ran the executive branch on the Democrats’ behalf, and how did that work? European journalists are perhaps a little less reticent. The London Times headlines: “Meet the
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May 20, 2025 — John Hinderaker
Adding to the controversy over Joe Biden’s mental and physical condition–not now, but during the time when he purported to be president–is the revelation that he suffers from an advanced form of prostate cancer. The cancer, now metastasizing, must have been with Biden for a long time, almost certainly since before he became president in 2021. But his staff claims that it has only now been discovered. I expressed skepticism
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May 14, 2025 — John Hinderaker
I’m so old, I can remember when people thought $100 billion was a lot of money. But not today. “Green” energy may be a bigger source of corruption than anything else. We have written about the EPA scandal, where, in the dying days of the Biden Administration, many billions of dollars went out the door to left-wing nonprofits–like throwing gold bars off the Titanic, as one EPA official said. This
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May 7, 2025 — Scott Johnson
In his recent column “Joe Biden’s decline: The inside story and the outside story,” Byron York writes: There is an inside story of Biden’s decline and an outside story of Biden’s decline. The inside story is the effort by the White House staff, plus its Democratic allies, plus its supporters in the press, to conceal Biden’s problem. The outside story is the many public appearances — moments of Biden appearing
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