Biden’s True Misery Index

Featured image Former Enron adviser Paul Krugman keeps demanding to know why the plebs of America don’t appreciate just how awesome the economy is under Joe Biden’s brilliant economic management. In his latest column, “Why Are Americans Still Down on the Economy?,” the Krugster says: It’s true that most Americans have a negative view of the economy. But people don’t directly experience the economy. What they directly experience are their own financial »

Inside the Biden family business

Featured imageTony Bobulinski testified under oath before the House Oversight Committee yesterday. The Democrats of course sought to turn his appearance into a circus. Tox News captures a few of the highlights/lowlights here. Josh Christenson picks up a strand of Bobulinski’s testimony in the Biden family business newspaper of record here. This is classic. The lady reclaims her time. Heated exchange between Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Tony Bobulinski. .@RepAOC: "Did »

Understanding Israel’s war, cont’d

Featured imageRon Dermer is Israel’s Minister of Strategic Affairs serving in the government war cabinet. He is an eloquent spokesman for Israel’s cause. Dan Senor sat down with Dermer for the current episode of the Call Me Back podcast. Dermer will be one of the government’s representatives dispatched to Washington in response to the summons for a meeting with Biden’s brain trust. Senor provides this summary of the podcast: In the »

Biden’s EV mandate

Featured imageThe Biden administration has a problem with the average American who wants nothing more than to be left alone. The administration wants to run our lives. Count the ways. It’s a long list that includes the displacement of cars powered by internal combustion engines by electric vehicles. We love the former and reject the latter. They therefore intend to force EVs down our throat. It’s for our own good! (Not.) »

Up Jumped Spring

Featured image“Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most,” as Scott notes, beautifully rendered by Ella Fitzgerald, was also a favorite of instrumentalists. Check out the version by former Ray Charles sax man David Newman on “Under a Woodstock Moon.” The 1996 album includes a rendition of Freddy Hubbard’s “Up Jumped Spring” along with “Nature Boy,” by Eden Ahbez, and the classic “Skylark” by Johnny Mercer and Hoagy Carmichael. As always, »

Who’s Leaving Where?

Featured imageWe have written about the Great Sort many times, but frankly you can’t emphasize it enough. Americans are deserting blue states and cities in favor of red zones. Liberalism has proved to be a failure by the most reliable measure: fewer and fewer people want to live under liberal regimes. Here are two examples. First, the City of New York, which was thought doomed to dystopia in the 1970s, rallied »

The Left’s Worst Idea This Week

Featured imageAs you may know, the mainstream media is going through massive layoffs, to which a paraphrase of the great Oscar Wilde line comes to mind—one has to have a heart of stone not to laugh at massive media layoffs, given the increasing partisan mendacity and advancing mediocrity of the mainstream media. So guess what is proposed to reverse this dire situation? Behold The Jacobin (which is certainly an appropriate name »

The Daily Chart: Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus

Featured imageWe’ve posted up several times before various measures of the ideological gender gap, all showing women are more liberal than men at just about every age cohort, but especially younger demographics. Another reason to repeal the 19th Amendment if you ask me. Anyway, here’s the latest trans-national comparison of younger people from The Economist. And once again the gender gap is worst in the U.S. (Sigh. At least Australian women »

What the Court Did On Immigration [Updated]

Featured imageA showdown is coming on the conflict between the Biden administration, which is determined to negate federal immigration law, and the State of Texas, which bears the brunt of Biden’s open border policy and is determined to vindicate our immigration laws and protect its own citizens. The case is pending in the Fifth Circuit, but a shot across the bow was fired yesterday in the Supreme Court. This is the »

Spring can really hang you up the most

Featured imageAs a break from the news of the day I’m taking the liberty of reposting this tribute to a great song with an unusual story behind it. Since I first wrote this 18 years ago, YouTube has become a resource that allows me to fill out the story. Stretching from Ella Fitzgerald to Fran Landesman to T.S. Eliot and Geoffrey Chaucer, this is the bare-bones version of the tale: There »

Next Up, Heat Pumps [Updated]

Featured imageIf you’ve wondered how liberals expect you to heat your house after they have outlawed fossil fuels, the short answer is heat pumps. Heat pumps have joined “batteries” as the all-purpose “green” solution. But in reality, they are no solution at all. This article is in the Telegraph, but it applies equally well to the U.S.: Has there ever been a more pernicious lie spread by government and lobbyists than »

The Battle For Congress Shapes Up

Featured imageControl of both the House and the Senate will be up for grabs in November. It would be great for Republicans to take control of the Senate, but it is absolutely vital that they retain, and if possible expand, their grip on the House. Today, Rasmussen Reports released their most recent generic Congressional preference numbers: With less than eight months to go before election day, Republicans have a six-point lead »

It’s Gotta Be the Shoes

Featured imageBiden’s handlers have equipped him with new shoes sporting a wide sole allegedly “great for stability.” This recalls the famous commercial in which Mars Blackmon (Spike Lee) tells Michael Jordan “it’s gotta be the shoes,” and Monty Python serves up another reference. The masked bandit Dennis Moore (John Cleese) tells victims to “Stand and Deliver,” also the title of the 1988 film with Edward James Olmos as math teacher Jaime »

Biden’s guidance for Israel

Featured imageThe Biden administration produced a disgraceful debacle with its exit from Afghanistan. We live with the consequences around the world. Our enemies hold Biden in contempt. The authors of the debacle have suffered no impairment of their self-regard, let alone any detrimental effect on their career. Merrily they roll along. The House Foreign Affairs Committee held a hearing on the debacle yesterday. Retired Army General Mark Milley, former chairman of »

The right to shout “BS” during a pandemic

Featured imageI found the oral argument of the case now styled Murthy v. Missouri this past Monday to be utterly demoralizing. As soon as the oral argument concluded I rashly hazarded my assessment that it portends a victory for the massive censorship-industrial complex represented by the Biden administration. My assessment was a hot take based on the tenor of the argument. The argument seemed to me to reflect a fantasy world. »

Margaret Thatcher, Villain?

Featured imageFrom the London Times: Margaret Thatcher has been listed as a “contemporary villain” alongside Adolf Hitler and Osama bin Laden in a display at the Victoria and Albert Museum. The former Conservative prime minister is named as one of several “unpopular public figures” in the exhibition on British humour through the ages. Thatcher served as Prime Minister for nearly 12 years, the longest such tenure in British history. A casual »

The Daily Chart: Hollywood Inequality Persists

Featured imageAs anyone who suffers the Academy Awards nonsense knows, the new mandate in Tinseltown is “diversity.” There have to be “people of color” in every nomination category now. Meanwhile, no one seems to notice that women keep getting the short end of things when it comes to scripts of Best Picture winners.  (I haven’t seen data for the last eight years, but I doubt there’s been much change.) »