The Senate voted to confirm retired Gen. Lloyd Austin as Secretary of Defense, making him President Joe Biden’s second Cabinet nominee to be confirmed. Austin was confirmed by a bipartisan 93-2 vote and will be the first black person to serve in the role. Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley and Utah Sen. Mike Lee were the
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Chief Justice of the United States John Roberts departs the Trump impeachment trial in Washington,January 29, 2020. (Brendan McDermid/Reuters) I am so grateful for Dan’s column today, which pores over questions about the imminent impeachment trial that have been bouncing around my head, too. To borrow Dan’s terms for dividing the competing camps on the
After four years under tacky Trump, the Biden administration is bringing celebrity back to D.C. God help us. US Singer Lady Gaga looks at US Vice-President Kamala Harris as she arrives to sing the US National Anthem during the 59th Presidential Inaguruation on January 20, 2021, at the US Capitol in Washington, DC. (Photo by
Not even a full day had gone by in President Joe Biden’s administration, and Big Tech had already taken to Twitter to do public relations for his leftist agenda. Twitter, Amazon, IBM, Apple CEO Tim Cook, Google CEO Sundar Pichai and liberal billionaire and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates all converged on the Twitter platform to express their giddiness
To paraphrase Richard Nixon, we won’t have Ali Khamenei to use to kick Twitter around any more. Maybe. After enduring accusations of hypocrisy for weeks in editing and finally banning Donald Trump while allowing Iran’s Supreme Leader unfettered access to its platform, Twitter finally suspended Khamenei earlier this morning. Ironically, the reason involves Donald Trump: The
President Joe Biden will deliver remarks on the economy on Friday and sign two executive orders. According to White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki, Biden will also call Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. The call is likely to apologize for scrapping the economically important Keystone XL Pipeline. We do not have a complete picture of
President Donald Trump gestures as he speaks during a rally to contest the certification of the 2020 presidential election results in Washington, D.C., January 6, 2021. (Jim Bourg/Reuters) Some illiterate jabroni over at RedState is in a lather about my farewell to Trump, so mad that he’s holding down the shift key and writing in
Against the surreal backdrop of sometimes violent nationwide protests, one alarming story as reported by The New York Times seems to have slipped under the radar. Law enforcement arrested a 21-year-old Idaho man on suspicion of firing a semi-automatic rifle at the White House. Several days prior to the arrest, the Secret Service had responded
CNN was caught in an awkward situation Thursday after they first touted anonymous sources within the Biden administration as having told them they planned to rebuild COVID vaccine distribution “from scratch.” But shortly thereafter, Dr. Anthony Fauci blew up their story. Apparently, CNN’s reporting was so ridiculous that even PrimeTime host Chris “Fredo” Cuomo says he doesn’t
On Thursday night, Politico published horrifying photos showing hundreds of National Guard troops forced to sleep in a parking lot after they had been mysteriously booted from the U.S. Capitol. It seemed as though the National Guard had served their purpose for Democrats’ post-riot photo ops only to be shoved aside after the Inauguration went off
Thousands of National Guardsmen descended on the Capitol and surrounding buildings after the riots at the Capitol earlier this month. They were there as a show of force and to discourage anyone who was thinking about a repeat performance during the inauguration. You probably remember seeing photos of guard members packed in various hallways and
Dr. Peter Daszak described how easy it was to manipulate bat-based coronaviruses in an interview filmed just weeks before the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan. Daszak has close ties to the Wuhan Institute of Virology and reportedly pushed back against a National Institute of Health request that he arrange an outside inspection of the lab. Daszak
Yuval Levin wrote here this morning about the Biden administration’s PR game on COVID vaccination. It gave CNN a story that it was having to “build everything from scratch” to distribute the vaccines. In reality, we’re already on pace to hit the Biden team’s vaccination goals, which have been set low so that they can
Last-minute pardons were Trump’s best chance to stick it to the deep state. Instead he caved to Washington interests. As Donald Trump departed Washington and his presidency on Wednesday, civil libertarian journalist Glenn Greenwald wrote, “Trump left the White House about as weak, cucked, and submissive as it’s possible for a grown adult to scamper
The liberal media and Hollywood left are telling you the Capitol riots were “atrocities,” an “armed insurrection” and “violent sedition against our government” and trying to link all Trump supporters to them. But last summer they were praising, defending, and donating to the Black Lives Matter movement which led to more violence against innocent Americans
As Joseph Robinette Biden Jr., the first Roman Catholic president in 60 years, took the oath of office to become the 46th president of the United States, the head of the U.S. Council of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) issued a historic rebuke of Biden’s promised policies. José H. Gomez, the archbishop of Los Angeles and USCCB
Is it time to say auf wiedersehn to the two AUMFs that have underpinned our foreign wars for a generation? It’s not the first time Democrats have tried to repeal the 2001 and 2003 authorizations for the use of military force, and Barack Obama and Joe Biden both campaigned for changes to them — while at
Bill Evanina, who as the U.S. government’s top counterintelligence official sounded the alarm on China’s threat to the U.S., resigned from office on Wednesday. Evanina, who was director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center (NCSC) for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), announced his resignation in a post on LinkedIn on
President Donald Trump boards Air Force One at Valley International Airport after visiting the U.S.-Mexico border wall in Harlingen, Texas, January 12, 2021. (Carlos Barria/Reuters) My colleagues Dan McLaughlin and Andrew C. McCarthy have both written about the possibility that Democrats or progressive lawyers will use Section 3 of the 14th Amendment to disqualify from
About 50 miles northeast of Houston is headquartered a land development company called Colony Ridge. According to the Liberty County Sheriff’s Office, Colony Ridge has about 22,000 residents, and evidence suggests it serves as a sort of landing ground for people who have entered the country illegally. Colony Ridge is owned by the Harris family,
On an Inauguration Day edition of the NewsBusters Podcast, executive editor Tim Graham shares how the morning TV and the morning Washington Post were already boosting Joe Biden and feeling the weight of his task, the poor guy. The Post had not one special celebration section, but two for the day, one for Biden and
While many inaugural addresses have gone down in history for their inspirational rhetoric and bold vision, most inaugural speeches have been snoozers. Biden’s attempt at greatness yesterday did not disappoint anyone expecting a boring, pedestrian address. All the headlines today are glowing tributes to Biden’s call for “unity.” But as Kevin Williamson of NRO points
Joe Biden delivered a rousing speech following his inauguration with a theme of healing the bitter divide in our nation and coming together in the wake of Donald Trump’s “destructive” presidency. He then turned around and immediately demanded that the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) general counsel resign nearly a year ahead of the end
President Joe Biden had been in the White House for just a few hours when he began putting America last with the stroke of a pen. Biden signed a total of 17 executive orders that appeared to be solely focused on undoing the America First policies enacted under former President Donald Trump. Open Borders Biden
President Joe Biden swears in presidential appointees in a virtual ceremony in the State Dining Room of the White House, January 20, 2021. (Tom Brenner/Reuters) According to reports, President Joe Biden shortly will issue an executive order reversing the Mexico City policy, which currently prevents U.S. aid money from funding groups that perform or promote
President-elect Joe Biden and his wife Jill Biden arrive for his inauguration on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol on January 20, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Jonathan Ernst-Pool/Getty Images) If presidential inaugurations are all about symbolism, what to make of this one? There was no grace present as Trump slunk off early
When President Trump took office four years ago and took a pen and a phone to President Obama’s signature policy accomplishments, the liberal media looked on in horror as they decried Trump for dismantling his legacy. But now, they looked on with glee as President Biden set out to “unravel the last four years,” as
On Wednesday, former President George W. Bush — very much an opponent of former President Donald Trump — reportedly identified “the savior” who may have been ultimately responsible for Trump’s defeat: House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-S.C.). “George Bush said to me today, he said, ‘You know, you’re the savior because if you had not
The Texas Democrat Party is calling on twenty-two Texas Republicans to resign from public office or be removed. Texas Democratic Party Chair, Gilberto Hinojosa, said in an interview that the party’s Executive Committee met and agreed to call for the resignations on Monday. The Republicans are accused of trying to overthrow the will of the
President Joe Biden will watch a virtual Presidential Inauguration Prayer Service then receive his daily briefing. Later, the president will deliver remarks on the COVID-19 response and sign more executive orders before receiving a briefing from the COVID-19 team. President Biden’s Itinerary for 1/21/21 – note: this page will be updated during the day if