Joe Biden
March 21, 2023 — Scott Johnson
With a single subpoena to Bank of America, House Oversight Committee James Comer has advanced the story of the Biden family business. Comer has posted a memo breaking down the apparent distribution of part of the suspect $3 million payment from a Chinese energy company among Biden family members and associates. I discussed the story and linked to Comer’s memo in “Hallie Biden in family business.” White House scandal attack
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March 20, 2023 — Scott Johnson
Nicholas Meyer had Sherlock Holmes overcoming The Seven-Per-Cent Solution. Last week President Biden fabricated the billionaires’ three percent solution to the federal income tax burden. Citing an incredibly misleading release from the Biden administration, I found Biden’s three percent solution to be “Biden’s lie of the day.” Elon Musk has now responded to Biden’s lie of the day on Twitter and readers “have added context they thought people might want
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March 18, 2023 — John Hinderaker
Yesterday Joe Biden made the mistake of listening to a question from a reporter at the White House, and briefly trying to answer. I understand that the reporter was from another country; I don’t suppose a liberal American “reporter” would be so bold as to question Slow Joe on the subject of his China connections: Two points to note. First, even in this very brief clip, Biden’s mental and physical
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March 16, 2023 — Scott Johnson
President Biden is a pathological liar. His account of the epiphany that led him to support gay marriage is only the most recent example, though it was classic and blatant. Indeed, it was so blatant as to be laughable. I have a high level of confidence that Biden lies every time he speaks in public. Take yesterday’s Remarks on Lowering Prescription Drugs Costs in Las Vegas — please. It is
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March 15, 2023 — Steven Hayward
First, Biden claimed in an interview this week that he has supported gay marriage since 1960 (when he was in high school), even though as a U.S. Senator he voted in 1996 for the Defense of Marriage Act, which defined marriage in federal law as a union between a man and a woman (that’s back when liberals could tell the difference between a man and a woman without a degree
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March 9, 2023 — Scott Johnson
We learned this week that the National Archives has retrieved nine more boxes of official documents from the Boston office of President Biden’s lawyer. We have yet to learn whether any of the documents were classified. Former Trump adviser Stephen Miller has also succeeded in obtaining emails bearing on the Biden family business. The National Archives has posted records responding to Miller’s FOIA request via this site. I don’t find
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March 8, 2023 — John Hinderaker
Happier with their government, anyway? I find this Rasmussen poll finding inexplicable: A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 28% of Likely U.S. Voters rate Congress’ performance as good or excellent, up from 25% in December and the highest approval in more than 15 years of polling this question. Thirty-nine percent (39%) think Congress is doing a poor job, down from 45% in December, and the
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March 4, 2023 — Scott Johnson
“What price Churchill?” was the question famously posed by the poster that appeared in the Strand in the last week of July 1939. The Daily Mirror asked: “The writing on the wall? This giant poster is causing considerable comment.” The poster was a plea for Churchill’s leadership. He was finally summoned to serve as Prime Minister upon Neville Chamberlain resignation on May 10, 1940. Churchill recalled in his history of
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March 3, 2023 — Scott Johnson
I commented on the oral argument held by the Supreme Court in Biden v. Nebraska in “Giving it away” earlier this week. It’s an important case. The Biden administration should go down in flames in it. Based on the oral argument, I thought Missouri’s alleged standing in the case deriving directly or indirectly from the state’s student loan administrator (MOHELA) is tenuous. If a majority of the Court reaches the
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March 1, 2023 — Scott Johnson
The White House has posted “Remarks by President Biden on Protecting Americans’ Access to Affordable Healthcare.” It makes for painful reading. I can’t afford the loss of brain cells necessary to take something like this in: Folks — and, by the way, you know, you hear ads of “Big-Spendin’ Joe Biden.” In two years, I reduced the debt $1.7 billion [trillion]. (Applause.) $1.7 billion [trillion]. The largest deficit reduction in
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February 28, 2023 — Scott Johnson
The Supreme Court hears oral argument at 10:00 a.m. (Eastern) this morning in two consolidated student loan giveaway/HEROES Act cases. The Associated Press purports to report on the issues in this story this morning. The live stream of the hearing is accessible here. The cases come before the Court on review of the Eighth Circuit’s preliminary injunction putting a hold on the loan giveaway program. The Eight Circuit opinion is
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February 26, 2023 — Scott Johnson
The constitutionality of President Biden’s student loan giveaway under the HEROES Act comes before the Supreme Court for oral argument in the cases consolidated for hearing in Biden v. Nebraska this week. The cases raise an incredibly important issue. John’s and my friend and former congressman, John Kline, has filed an amicus brief in the case with Buck McKeon. They wrote the bill. Their lawyer wrote a letter to the
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February 25, 2023 — Scott Johnson
Dr. Jill Biden wants it to be known that President Biden is running for reelection. The AP’s Darlene Superville reports on her interview view with the doctor in Nairobi: U.S. first lady Jill Biden gave one of the clearest indications yet that President Joe Biden will run for a second term, telling The Associated Press in an exclusive interview on Friday that there’s “pretty much” nothing left to do but
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February 24, 2023 — Scott Johnson
Washington Free Beacon reporter Alana Goodman appeared for a three-minute segment on Tucker Carlson’s Fox News show this past Wednesday evening. Her appearance followed up on reporting that we noted two weeks ago in “China contributes.” The Free Beacon posted a summary of Goodman’s reporting along with video of the segment (below). This remains something like a deep secret: The University of Delaware has received $6,704,250 in donations from China
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February 23, 2023 — John Hinderaker
It is a frightening thought, but Joe Biden’s administration may yield depths of incompetence that have not yet been plumbed. The derailment of a Norfolk Southern train carrying hazardous chemicals should have been an easy opportunity for the administration. It was, after all, an environmental disaster, and Democrats think they own environmental issues. The fire, the smoke plume, the derailed cars, the worried citizens–all offered easy photo ops. And yet
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February 23, 2023 — Scott Johnson
Did Joe Biden order and preside over the destruction of the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines? Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Sy Hersh argued on his Substack site that Biden did it. Lee Smith hilariously argues that he did not in the long Tablet column “Sy Hersh Swings and Misses Big.” The derision begins at the top and runs through Smith’s column. Here Smith is just warming up: As Vice President,
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February 23, 2023 — Scott Johnson
President Biden’s physical and mental infirmities are the least of his defects, but they are real. What exactly is the problem with walking up the steps of Air Force One? That is apparently one question that won’t be asked or answered by the Democrats’ media adjunct so long as the future is Joe’s. Biden tripped again as he boarded Air Force One in Poland this week. Biden’s physical infirmity is
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