Wednesday evening, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow spent her entire opening monologue gushing over the frequency and style of the Biden administration’s array of press briefings. Throughout the obnoxious twenty-minute propaganda segment, Maddow incessantly bashed the Trump administration for essentially not doing enough of journalists’ work for them. Alluding to the fact that the Biden administration was her dream come true, the incredulous

Now they’re coming for the bacon. An Oregon state lawmaker has proposed a bill to eliminate all “processed meats,” including beloved bacon, sausage, and hot dogs, from hospitals, prisons, nursing homes, and other places where people are stuck. This includes not only the patients and inmates but staff and visitors, too. Processed turkey meat? Out.

Here we go again. The Biden family has done very well for themselves with the help of Joe Biden’s name and connections. Now there is another example of a family member cashing in on the family connection. An ad for a Florida law firm featured Joe Biden’s brother Frank touting their relationship. The ad ran

President Joe Biden will receive his daily briefing Friday morning then he will receive an economic briefing, have lunch and visit Walter Reed Military Medical Center. President Biden’s Itinerary for 1/29/21 – note: this page will be updated during the day if events warrant The schedule is comprised of information available from the public schedule

Most scholars believe that the Constitution allows Congress to impeach former officials, including former presidents, but Stanford law professor Michael McConnell points out that isn’t the question facing the Senate today. McConnell writes to Eugene Volokh at Reason: Whether a former officer can be impeached is beside the point. Donald Trump was President of the

I remember a conversation in South Florida in January 2020 with Johnny Burtka, then the executive director of The American Conservative. Before the pandemic transmogrified American life, the peculiarities of the coming presidential election seemed to loom larger than anything. Given this publication’s heterodox history, the continued rise of Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders was seen

Matthew Foldi at the Washington Free Beacon reported NBC News on Wednesday retracted an article by intelligence reporter Ken Dilanian, telling readers that it “fell short of our reporting standards. In order to warrant publication, it needed on-the-record quotes from critics, rather than anonymous ones.” That’s fascinating, since anonymous sources were appropriate for Dilanian’s stories on

Climate Czar John Kerry held a press conference on Wednesday ahead of President Joe Biden signing an executive order that will cause every department and every member of the Cabinet to be thinking a lot about the weather for the first six months of their jobs. It creates new task forces, requires in-depth strategic plans,

It’s hard to argue with his conclusions. As Brooks points out, there’s a big price being paid by children who are not attending school: The broader data on school closure is horrendous. Mental health problems have increased. Many children have simply vanished from official oversight. Schools in Hillsborough County, Fla., started the year missing 7,000 students. The children who

There are many annoyances that come with living through a pandemic, but perhaps one of the most aggravating experiences is going to a store only to learn that they are completely sold out of the product you came to buy. Whether we’re talking about masks, hand sanitizer, or even toilet paper, shortages can be a

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres addresses the media during a joint news conference with German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas in Berlin, Germany, December 17, 2020. (Michael Sohn/Pool via Reuters) U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres hasn’t said much about the topic of authoritarian influence within the international organization he leads, and he seemed to sidestep a question about