Biden Administration
October 18, 2024 — Scott Johnson
After Israel announced the IDF’s elimination of Sinwar in Rafah yesterday, Vice President Harris made a congratulatory statement (White House transcript here, video clip below). This statement should fill a normal person with disgust. 🚨 Kamala speaks out about Sinwar. “Know this, we will always bring you to justice” Wait a minute… We? Sinwar was found in Rafah. Wasn’t it Kamala who said going into Rafah would be a “huge
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October 16, 2024 — Scott Johnson
President Biden suffers from serious cognitive decline. The decline continues. We observed it in the course of the 2020 presidential campaign. We commented frequently on it as it was manifested once he took office. We have seen it over and over. Everyone has seen it. Everyone sees it. Everyone knows it. It’s almost unbelievable. In the information age, Woodrow Wilson lives! When the bottom fell out of Biden’s public support
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October 13, 2024 — Scott Johnson
The opening of the border by President Biden and Vice President Harris is an unforgivable act of subversion. During the 2020 campaign, Harris advocated it and on day one of his administration, Biden signed a set of executive orders that began to effectuate it. The dissolution of our border was the policy of the Biden-Harris administration. See this euphemistic White House fact sheet and Byron York’s April 2021 Examiner column
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October 8, 2024 — John Hinderaker
That was Casey Stengel’s famous evaluation of his 1962 Mets team, which lost more games than any major league team until the White Sox bested their record this year. But Casey’s lament could equally well be applied to our federal government. Are all of our agencies incompetent? Is there any federal operation, the most lavishly funded in world history, that can actually get anything done? It doesn’t seem so. I
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October 8, 2024 — Scott Johnson
You may have missed the news that Karine Jean-Pierre has been promoted from the position of White House press secretary to senior adviser. Whom is she advising? As KJP’s predecessor liked to put it, we’ll have to circle back to you on that one. The Biden administration has recently announced that it is sending $157 million in additional funding to Lebanon. Lebanon has no independent government. The government is under
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October 5, 2024 — John Hinderaker
In Memories of Hurricane Katrina, I contrasted press coverage and Democratic Party hysteria over Hurricane Katrina, which effectively destroyed George W. Bush’s second term and contributed to the Democrats’ 2006 election victories, with the muted (if not altogether silent) reaction to Hurricane Helene and the vastly more problematic governmental response thereto. It is a theme worth returning to. On CNN, Scott Jennings makes the point effectively: Joe Biden was at
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October 3, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas announced today that FEMA is running out of money for hurricane relief: The Federal Emergency Management Agency can meet immediate needs but does not have enough funding to make it through the hurricane season, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas told reporters Wednesday. *** “We are meeting the immediate needs with the money that we have. We are expecting another hurricane hitting,” Mayorkas said. “FEMA does
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October 2, 2024 — John Hinderaker
It is no coincidence that, in last night’s debate, immigration was the issue on which the moderators intervened to try to stop the Democratic Party’s bleeding. The Biden/Harris administration’s immigration policies have been disastrous, unless they are actually trying to destroy our country. In which case they make perfect sense. My colleague David Zimmer recaps the Biden/Harris debacle by the numbers. There is more at the link; here are some
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September 30, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Hurricane Helene has devasted a wide swath of the Southeast, especially portions of North Carolina. Of course this has nothing to do with the government. A hurricane is what used to be known, quaintly, as an act of God. But some of us remember with bitterness how the Democratic Party press blamed President Bush for Hurricane Katrina, and used that absurd narrative to destroy Bush’s second term. The idea of
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September 30, 2024 — Scott Johnson
This past Friday Kamala Harris made a rare appearance at the border wall near Tucson. Harris proposed fake restrictions that would have no effect on the invasion of illegal aliens that she invited, facilitated, and then lied about during her years in office as vice president in the incumbent administration. The video below compiled by the Daily Caller includes clips from Harris’s Meet the Press interview in September 2022 (transcript
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September 20, 2024 — Scott Johnson
President Biden invited, aided, and abetted the massive wave of illegal immigration that we have seen — or experienced even if we haven’t been looking — since the first day of his administration. Vice President Harris campaigned in 2109 on the same theme and has served as Biden’s faithful ally in abetting the invasion since her election along with him. The invasion has a panoply of adverse effects that include
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September 19, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley
According to Examining Widespread Fraud in Pandemic Unemployment Relief Programs, a recent report from the House Oversight Committee, taxpayers were ripped off for some $191 billion. A key player in the widespread fraud is Biden-Harris labor secretary Julie Su, former secretary of California’s Labor and Workforce Development Agency in charge of the state’s Employment Development Department (EDD). As the report notes: EDD, under leadership of Labor and Workforce Development Agency
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September 15, 2024 — John Hinderaker
There are several great issues on which the presidential election (and Congressional elections, too) should turn. One is our out of control national debt, which promises to first hamstring our government, then bankrupt us. But no one is talking about it. Another is America’s deteriorating military readiness. The Europeans are scrambling to defend themselves against possible Russian attack; that in itself is a good thing. But they are doing it
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September 15, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Gwen Walz is said to be even farther to the left than her husband Tim. I don’t know about that; there is very little room on Tim’s left. But one thing we know for sure about Gwen is that she chose Communist China, not long after Tiananmen Square, as the ideal place for a honeymoon. Gwen Walz appeared with her husband at a rally and went on this embarrassing rant,
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August 30, 2024 — Scott Johnson
The Dem presidential ticket of Vice President Harris and Governor Tim Walz appeared for an alleged interview by Dana Bash on CNN last night. As I saw it, it should be all over for Harris, Walz, Bash, and CNN. What a pathetic display. The interview in Georgia had been recorded during the afternoon. The questions were lighter than air — as were Harris’s responses. Bash’s lame questions elicited vacuous responses.
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August 29, 2024 — Scott Johnson
When we refer to President Biden at this time, it must be in the metaphorical or Pickwickian sense. Since his defenestration from the race for the Democratic presidential nomination that he had secured, as Mose Allison might put it, what is left of his mind is on vacation. His mouth is not working overtime. We don’t know who is running the show. Some day we may be entrusted with the
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August 27, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Yesterday Mark Zuckerberg wrote a letter to Jim Jordan, Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee. The letter relates to the committee’s investigation of the Biden administration’s war on free speech. This is the most significant language: In 2021, senior officials from the Biden Administration, including the White House, repeatedly pressured our teams for months to censor certain COVID-19 content, including humor and satire, and expressed a lot of frustration with
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