Biden Administration
April 13, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Before the advent of the modern environmental movement, National Review founder Bill Buckley used to proclaim with a glint in his eye that a liberal is someone who wants to reach into your shower and adjust the temperature of the water. Man, oh, man, was he right. The liberals’ environmental agenda brought Buckley’s satirical thrust uncomfortably close to reality. See, for example, the 2010 Wall Street Journal article “A water
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April 4, 2025 — Scott Johnson
One of the Lilliputian judges tying down President Trump’s efforts to undo the Biden flood of immigrants, legal, illegal, and perhaps somewhere in between is San Francisco’s Edward Chen. Judge Chen is a senior federal judge appointed to the bench by President Obama. You don’t need a little birdie to whisper in your ear that forum shopping might have had something to do with the venue selected by plaintiffs to
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March 31, 2025 — Scott Johnson
In the video below Elon Musk introduces his colleague Antonio Gracias — profiled here by the Times earlier this month — to talk about what he has discovered inside the Social Security Administration. This is the transcript included in the X post: GRACIAS: “In 2021, 270,000 non-citizens got social security numbers. In 2024, 2.1M non-citizens got social security numbers. We went in to find fraud and found this by accident.
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March 28, 2025 — Scott Johnson
The quote of the day comes via EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin’s X feed, but I found it in Steven Nelson’s New York Post story “Feds investigating Stacey Abrams-linked group’s ‘insane’ $2B EPA grant, Zeldin says.” Query whether NPR covered this particular Biden scandal (apparently not, according to Google). Congratulations to Mr. Zeldin on the quote of the day: “I have terminated the $2 BILLION Biden EPA grant to this Stacey
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March 23, 2025 — Scott Johnson
James Freeman’s online Wall Street Journal column strikes a note of incredulity: “Joe Biden’s writing another book?” Freeman is triggered by the NBC News story reporting that that Biden is writing a memoir. Freeman quotes the story: “As Biden develops a theme for his memoir, he has been consulting former senior administration officials, including Secretary of State Antony Blinken, national security adviser Jake Sullivan and senior White House advisers Mike
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March 17, 2025 — John Hinderaker
The story of stranded NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore deserves to be much better known. Williams and Wilmore have been stuck in the International Space Station since June 2024, nine months ago. They were scheduled to be in the space station for just eight days. One can only imagine the horror of being stranded in space for nine months, with no imminent hope of rescue. Boeing equipment that
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March 12, 2025 — Scott Johnson
I interned in the office of then Minnesota Senator Walter Mondale in the summer of 1969. Mondale kept a so-called first-name file of friends and supporters under the jurisdiction of office administrator Mike Berman. I worked for Mike. When letters came in with the salutation “Dear Fritz,” I was assigned to check them against the file and make sure that responses were not signed with the office autopen. My job
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February 11, 2025 — John Hinderaker
The Rocky Mountain Institute is a far-left, “environmentalist” organization that is best known for leading the campaign to ban gas stoves. But there is more to the organization’s radicalism than that, as energy expert Robert Bryce notes: RMI is pushing these policies even though 69% of voters oppose bans on gas stoves. However, the gas bans are only one aspect of RMI’s radical agenda. In 2023, it published a report
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February 8, 2025 — John Hinderaker
During the last months of Joe Biden’s presidency, he obviously was not fit to serve as president. So who ran the White House during that time? Lindy Li is a former Democratic National Committee insider who was heavily involved in Kamala Harris’s campaign. Li answers that question: According to Li, Joe Biden, already staggering from public scrutiny, effectively lost control of the White House after that fateful debate [with Donald
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February 2, 2025 — John Hinderaker
The Democratic Party press is working feverishly to chronicle the Trump administration’s many sins. Thus, in just one morning’s New York Times email: For them, it’s going to be a long four years. They may want to pace themselves. At the top of the left’s current list, of course, is the trade war that President Trump supposedly has ignited by imposing 25% tariffs on goods imported from Canada and Mexico.
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January 29, 2025 — Scott Johnson
President Trump’s opposition to illegal immigration had more than a little to do with his stunning defeat of Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election and may have been the leading issue (after the economy) that accounted for his stunning reelection in in 2024. President Biden’s opening of the borders and invitation to come on up proved not to be hugely popular among likely voters. Biden’s invitation was a shot heard
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January 27, 2025 — John Hinderaker
On his way out of the White House, Joe Biden pardoned or commuted the sentences of around 2,500 “non-violent drug offenders.” But drug users don’t get incarcerated; the drug offenders in federal prisons are dealers. And anyone who thinks drug dealers who are worth a federal prosecution are “non-violent” is deluded. But it came out a few days ago that one of the “non-violent drug offenders” whose sentence Biden commuted
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January 26, 2025 — John Hinderaker
The New York Post reports on another immigration crackdown: Federal agents rounded up dozens of members of Tren de Aragua [Ed.: around fifty] in an overnight raid on a “makeshift nightclub” in Denver — after the vicious Venezuelan prison gang terrorized the city and the suburb of Aurora. The DEA said agents in Colorado interrupted an “invite-only party” where dozens of the gangbangers were cutting loose in Adams County —
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January 21, 2025 — Scott Johnson
With less than 20 minutes before his term in office expired, the head of the Biden crime family preemptively pardoned his three siblings: James Biden, Francis Biden, and Valerie Biden Owens. He also pardoned his in-laws, John Owens and Sara Jones Biden. This was in addition to the pardon that the family boss had previously conferred on his son, Hunter Biden. I’m referring, of course, to “President Biden.” “Biden” also
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January 20, 2025 — John Hinderaker
As Steve’s chart shows, the sheer number of pardons issued by Joe Biden shatters all previous records. There has been much outrage over the pardons given to members of Biden’s family who shared in his bribery enterprise, to Anthony Fauci, and the January 6 committee members. But perhaps the most outrageous of such actions was Biden’s commutation of Leonard Peltier’s life sentence for murdering two FBI agents. The murders happened
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January 20, 2025 — Scott Johnson
“President Biden” probably won’t be done inflicting harm on the United States until he leaves office later today. There is yet more to come. At the moment, we have today’s preemptive pardons. Biden’s “presidency” already seems like a strange interlude in our history. One might have thought that only an avowed enemy of the United States would open our borders and invite the rest of the world to come on
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January 19, 2025 — Steven Hayward
Down to the last few hours of the Biden interregnum, and the scene is almost enough to make this near-geezer giddy. First, who would imagine you’d ever see this: Now, is that a Village Person, or is it Elon Musk in costume doing his patented X-dance? I’m good either way. But the New York Times isn’t: While we’re talking about the Times, it is worth gong back to savor how
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