Biden Administration
August 22, 2024 — Steven Hayward
In a typical moment for Joe Biden Monday night, he said in his convention/farewell shoutfest that “women have electrical power.” He actually repeated the adjective because he couldn’t get “electoral” out of his mumble mouth, but it is possible it isn’t a mistake after all, and perhaps represents the kind of slip that conveys a deeper belief—namely, that the Biden Administration’s pro-green electricity mania has even reached those beings still
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August 21, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley
The Biden-Harris administration, Fox News reports, has appointed Sneha Nair as a special assistant at the National Nuclear Security Administration. Prior to the appointment, Nair served as a research analyst with the Nuclear Security Program at the Stimson Center. The special assistant earned a masters in geography and international relations from the University of St. Andrews, but there’s more to her. Sneha Nair is co-author of “Queering nuclear weapons: How
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August 18, 2024 — John Hinderaker
On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court denied an emergency application by the Biden Administration for partial stays on orders entered by district courts and affirmed by the Fifth and Sixth Circuits. As usual in such cases, the Court’s order was Per Curiam. The order lays out the procedural history succinctly: The Department of Education recently issued a new rule implementing Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. The rule
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August 18, 2024 — Scott Johnson
John A. Clifford is of counsel at Merchant and Gould in Phoenix. He is a member of the Arizona and U.S. Patent Bars. I got to know and respect Jack on the other side of a case premised on the law of intellectual property.
Jack writes to comment on the claim made by Vice President Harris last week that the Biden/Harris administration is “lowering prescription drug costs.” Jack wants it to
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August 17, 2024 — Scott Johnson
The inflation of the Biden era has inflicted enormous suffering on the American people. With her tie-breaking vote to pass the Inflation Reduction Act, Vice President Harris was instrumental to the outbreak of inflation triggered by the perversely named legislation. Speaking of misinformation, disinformation, demagoguery, and falsehood, I wonder about the title of the law. There oughta be a law. Indeed, Krazee-Eyez Killa Jack Smith could find one that would
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August 15, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Defying her practice, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre actually said something timely, useful, and true at yesterday’s White House briefing (I can’t find the transcript of the briefing posted yet at the White House site). Peter Doocy posed a question referring to a report that Vice President Kamala Harris is “hoping to distance herself from President Biden’s unpopularity on the economy.” Jean-Pierre responded: “Do you know this is the
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August 5, 2024 — John Hinderaker
The current stock market crash might have a silver lining, if it focuses attention back on what should be a key issue in the election, the economy. The country’s fiscal mess is a disaster that could prove fatal, and a growing economy, while only a partial solution, is indispensable. So it is good to see that most voters understand that a Trump economy will be better than a Biden economy.
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August 1, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was the principal organizer of the September 11 attacks that killed around 3,000 Americans. He has been held prisoner at Guantanamo Bay for more than two decades. Yesterday the Biden administration announced that it has reached a “plea deal” with KSM and two high-ranking al Qaeda confederates: “In exchange for removal of the death penalty as a possible punishment, these three Accused have agreed to plead guilty
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July 30, 2024 — Scott Johnson
The White House has posted a fact sheet on President Biden’s big stick-it-to-the-Court plan. His big plan comprises three disparate elements: 1. No Immunity for Crimes a Former President Committed in Office: This would require a constitutional amendment to overrule Trump v. United States. 2. Term Limits for Supreme Court Justices: This would require a constitutional amendment to alter Article III, Section One of the Constitution, but why stop with
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July 24, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley
Joe Biden directed Department of Homeland Security boss Alejandro Mayorkas to assemble an “independent security review” of the attempted assassination of Donald Trump on July 13. The inclusion of Obama DHS boss Janet Napolitano ensures that this review will be anything but independent. Napolitano made her public debut in the 1991 campaign to keep Clarence Thomas off the U.S. Supreme Court. Anita Hill accused Thomas of sexually harassing her and
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July 16, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley
While information awaits on Trump shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks, consider wannabe presidential assassin Oscar Ortega-Hernandez, who praised Osama bin Laden for standing up to the United States. According to the FBI: On November 11, 2011, at approximately 8:50 p.m., Ortega-Hernandez drove southbound on 15th Street NW and made a right turn onto Constitution Avenue NW. Shortly after passing the entrance to the Ellipse, he stopped his vehicle in the middle
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July 14, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley
In “Our Brezhnev, Our Pravda, Our Soviet Union,” Victor Davis Hanson compared the demented Joe Biden to decrepit Soviet dictator Leonid Brezhnev, and the establishment media to Pravda, the Soviets’ worshipful mouthpiece. To drag in “our Soviet Union” might seem a stretch but there’s more to it than people might think. Donald Trump was not from the American political class, so he represented a provisional government that might be compared
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June 30, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley
As “Obama’s narrator” David Axelrod conceded in Believer, even voters who supported Barack Obama found serious problems with his policies. While many consider Obama a bust, in some ways he could be the most successful president of all time. As Barry Rubin noted in Silent Revolution, the president enjoyed great success at selling the idea that the statist, high-regulation policies that had failed so spectacularly in Europe were precisely what America needed.
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June 29, 2024 — Scott Johnson
President Biden is obviously suffering from some form of age-related dementia. Everyone can see it. Thus everyone could see it during the debate with President Trump this past Thursday evening. The Wall Street Journal puts it less bluntly in its editorial this morning: “[Biden’s] blank stare when Donald Trump was speaking suggested a man who is struggling to recall what he has been prepped for weeks to say, but who
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June 25, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Under normal circumstances, a president with Joe Biden’s awful record couldn’t possibly be re-elected. Then, too, he is senile. But, because of the Republican nominee’s unique weaknesses, it may take a third factor to prevent a disastrous second term: the violent crime wave currently being carried out by illegal aliens. Illegal aliens (not “migrants,” as the press has decided to call them) have committed any number of horrific and entirely
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June 25, 2024 — John Hinderaker
I don’t think we have written anything about Tyler Cherry, Joe Biden’s newly-appointed White House Associate Communications Director. Cherry is a worthy successor to Sam Brinton, the gay aide who augmented his wardrobe by stealing women’s suitcases from airport baggage carousels. Well, we all have our quirks. Here is Mr. (I take it) Cherry: You’ve got to hand it to Biden: when he really wants someone on his team, it’s
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June 19, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley
“President Joe Biden is taking executive action to protect undocumented spouses of American citizens,” NBC reports, “a move that would shield about 500,000 immigrants from deportation.” As legal immigrants and legitimate citizens should know, this is old news. “You know, 11 million people live in the shadows. I believe they’re already American citizens,” said Vice President Biden in 2014. As he had to know, according to current law they aren’t American
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