Biden Administration
January 19, 2025 — John Hinderaker
Last night I was on the Outsiders TV show on Sky News, Australia. As always, it was a fun appearance. We talked about Trump’s nominees and their confirmation hearings, in particular Pete Hegseth, about the end of the disastrous Biden Administration and the imminent inauguration of Donald Trump. I am impressed to see that the YouTube version of the interview has already gotten 53,000 views: I’ll be doing the Bolt
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January 19, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Last week Free Press founder/editor Bari Weiss interviewed House Speaker Mike Johnson for her Honestly podcast. In the clip below, Johnson testifies to his observation of the mental incompetence of “President Biden.” John draws on the New York Post story reporting Johnson’s testimony in his post “It isn’t funny.” Eli Lake posted the video and reported on it in his Free Press story here. EXCLUSIVE: @SpeakerJohnson tells @BariWeiss that President
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January 18, 2025 — John Hinderaker
We and many others had fun yesterday at Joe Biden’s expense. He tweeted an announcement: the Equal Rights Amendment has been adopted! It’s the law of the land! No one took it seriously; if a president really tried to change the Constitution via executive order, he would be impeached and driven from office. Personally, I doubt Biden has any idea that he tweeted the supposed adoption of the ERA. I
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January 17, 2025 — John Hinderaker
The last week of Joe Biden’s sorry term in office is turning out to be even worse, and even more bizarre, than what preceded. Today Biden decreed, apparently by tweeting about it, that the Equal Rights Amendment has now passed: Today I'm affirming what I have long believed and what three-fourths of the states have ratified: The 28th Amendment is the law of the land, guaranteeing all Americans equal rights
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January 16, 2025 — Scott Johnson
President Biden gave his farewell speech last night. He promised it was his final such address near the top of his remarks. The White House has posted the video below on YouTube, but has not yet posted the text. The New York Times has posted a transcript here for those who might prefer to take it in without the full Madam Tussauds effect. Behind the Resolute Desk in the Oval
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January 12, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Reading serious reference to President Biden’s “legacy” as though it is anything but an unprecedented catastrophe presents a challenge to my progress in anger management. Joe Biden — this is the guy who opened our borders and invited the world to “come on down,” like someone trying to find his calling as a game show host. This is the guy who deployed the forces of the Department of Justice to
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January 10, 2025 — John Hinderaker
Meta announced today that it is saying goodbye to DEI. Its memo to employees, which I take it was signed by Mark Zuckerberg, is here. It begins: Hi all, I wanted to share some changes we’re making to our hiring, development and procurement practices. Before getting into the details, there is some important background to lay out: The legal and policy landscape surrounding diversity, equity and inclusion efforts in the
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December 27, 2024 — Scott Johnson
According to “the dominant view” of the American intelligence community, the presence of the Wuhan Virology Institute in the town where the Covid virus originated was just a big coincidence. That’s how I would paraphrase this paragraph from the Wall Street Journal “Exclusive” “Behind Closed Doors: The Spy-World Scientists Who Argued Covid Was a Lab Leak.” The Journal reports: The dominant view within the intelligence community was clear when Avril
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December 23, 2024 — Scott Johnson
The New York Post has the story of the New York subway murderer who was apprehended today after burning a woman to death on the F train. The Post reports the story under the narrative headline “Fiend accused of burning woman to death on NYC subway is illegal migrant from Guatemala who sneaked into US after he was deported.” Bill Melugin adds this footnote on X: Per DHS sources, the
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December 16, 2024 — Scott Johnson
President Biden set a record this past Thursday. He commuted the sentences of 1,499 convicts and pardoned 39 more. The White House has posted Biden’s brief statement in support of his exercise of the pardon power here. There is more to come (“I will take more steps in the weeks ahead”). According to this Politico story flagged by Rick Moran, Biden did not consider the specifics of one of the
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December 14, 2024 — John Hinderaker
I usually don’t write about a topic unless I think I know something about it and have something to say. That doesn’t apply to the drones swarming over New Jersey. I have absolutely no idea what is going on. However, it seems clear that something is going on, and the Biden administration’s usual gaslighting–nothing to see here!–inspires zero confidence, as always. The New York Post has several stories on the
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December 13, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Earlier this week President Biden wandered up the street from the White House to the Brookings Institution. At Brookings Biden regurgitated the talking points he has cited in support of his economic record. The White House has posted the text of his speech under the groaning title Remarks by President Biden on His Middle-Out, Bottom-Up Economic Playbook.” I have posted the Reuters video at the bottom. Biden was introduced by
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December 7, 2024 — John Hinderaker
That is energy expert Robert Bryce’s title for his depressing Substack piece: On Monday, the Biden administration issued new restrictions on the export of key semiconductor equipment and software to China. On Tuesday, China retaliated by banning the export to the US of three strategic elements — antimony, gallium, and germanium — that have multiple military and civilian uses. It also restricted the export of graphite to the US. The
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November 29, 2024 — John Hinderaker
I had never listened to or watched a Joe Rogan podcast, mostly because they are three hours long. And I believe he produces one most days, so keeping up with Rogan is like having a part-time job. It would be a parallel universe where I could do that. But on Tuesday, Rogan interviewed tech entrepreneur Marc Andreessen. I was intrigued by this very short clip: This is insane… Marc Andreessen
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November 22, 2024 — Scott Johnson
In a brutal allusion to the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale, Matt Taibbi declares in a paywalled Racket News post that “The emperor has no brains.” He’s referring to Joe Biden. Less tartly, Byron York observes in his Examiner column “With raging wars and an addled president, it’s a perilous moment.” They both cite Biden’s public statement in the Amazon (White House transcript here, video below). According to Biden, “History
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October 22, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Too bad if something were to happen to it. You can tell how badly Trump’s McDonald’s coup worried Democrats by the fact that they immediately threatened the fast food chain. Senators Ron Wyden, Bob Case, and Elizabeth Warren sent this letter to McDonald’s CEO Chris Kempczinski. I won’t go through it line by line, but here are some observations. The left-wing senators write: We write with concern regarding increases in
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October 21, 2024 — Scott Johnson
One big weekend story suggests that someone inside the United States government “leaked” intelligence documents — is “leak” the right term? — bearing on Israel’s impending strike on Iran. CNN’s story describes the documents as follows: They describe preparations Israel appears to be making for a strike against Iran. One of the documents, which says it was compiled by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, says the plans involve Israel moving munitions
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