We’re a looooooong way from this moment. Remember? [embedded content] Eight years and a thousand lifetimes later, Senator Mitt Romney just uncorked a family welfare plan so progressive that various lefty commentators are comparing it favorably to Joe Biden’s. Biden’s own chief of staff took to drumming up interest in it online this morning: Really

Edward Banfield, in his book The Unheavenly City, explained why criminals perform illegal acts, by explaining that they are unable to foresee any punishment for their breaking the law, so they do illegal things spontaneously and repeatedly because of their lack self-control and an inability to connect cause and effect. So they continue to commit

President Joe Biden speaks at the White House in Washington, D.C., January 22, 2021. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) The Biden Effect at the border is gaining steam faster than I’d expected. My colleague Todd Bensman (whose new book is just out) went to the South Texas border this week and reported that “Border Patrol and ICE are

US President-elect Joe Biden puts his facemask on as he leaves after announcing key nominees for his economic and jobs team at The Queen theater in Wilmington, Delaware on January 8, 2021.(Photo by JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images) Boris Johnson spent his entire adult life roleplaying as Winston Churchill, yet he’ll almost certainly go down

On Thursday’s episode of the White House press briefing, Press Secretary Jen Psaki refused to apologize for having mocked the Space Force a day earlier and skimped on funding schools that teachers unions have kept shuttered, and falsely claimed that Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg was the first openly gay cabinet secretary. And yet, no one

Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin issued a military-wide stand-down order for the armed forces to have “needed discussions” about extremism in the ranks. The order involves a staggered pause of operations across every branch over the next 60 days, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby announced on Wednesday. “We don’t know how we’re going to be able

Allahpundit looked into this on Tuesday, but the story behind Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s massively popular Instagram video where she describes her experience during the January 6th Capitol Hill riot keeps growing more convoluted. Despite claiming that she thought she “was going to die” and at least insinuating that rioters were attempting to break into her

People who are leaving Russia and Belarus want out of the repressive regimes, an immigration consultant told the Daily Caller News Foundation.  Despite repercussions such as jail sentences and fines, over 100,000 Russians participated in demonstrations in support of the anti-Kremlin opposition leader Alexei Navalny.  In Russia, discrimination against religious and ethnic minorities are by

(Michael Burrell/Getty Images) I’m old enough to remember that there used to be quite a few Republicans and even some sober Democrats who said that the federal government needed to live within its means. Apropos of the Vietnam war, they told LBJ that we couldn’t afford both guns and butter. Sadly, voices of fiscal sanity

If the GOP is to be saved, it must reject both the delusions of Q and those who have wrecked our public policy. Of all the crackpot things believed by Marjorie Taylor Greene—the kosher space laser blowing holes in California, the cabal of Jews trying to, as Jews are wont to do, flood Europe with

Sister Toldjah at RedState reported CNN head of “strategic communications” Matt Dornic on Wednesday “thought he’d play gotcha games with Fox News media reporter Brian Flood by pointing out how Flood sometimes goes about trying to obtain quotes from sources via LinkedIn.” The strategy didn’t end well.  Dornic noted CNN employees forwarded their emails from

For reasons unknown, there are still raging debates over whether or not to reopen schools. Simultaneously, schools in states like Georgia and Florida have been open since the fall and managed to keep the children whose parents want them to attend school in-person open most of the time. Where they have not been prohibited, private

National Geographic Documentary Films released a trailer for its upcoming documentary of Dr. Anthony Fauci. The longtime director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIH) is getting the full star treatment in a feature documentary. Fauci gives the film’s directors exclusive access to his career and life as a public servant. This

Parler’s board of directors, headed by Rebekah Mercer, fired CEO John Matze from the company last week. “On January 29, 2021, the Parler board controlled by Rebekah Mercer decided to immediately terminate my position as CEO of Parler. I did not participate in this decision,” Matze wrote in a memo to employees. “I understand that

Governor Gina Raimondo, then-President-elect Joe Biden’s nominee to be secretary of Commerce, speaks at Biden’s transition headquarters in Wilmington, Del., January 8, 2021. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) Rhode Island governor Gina Raimondo’s nomination to lead the Commerce Department sailed out of the Senate Commerce Committee in a 21-3 vote Wednesday morning, in spite of her refusal to

YouTube has removed video footage of a U.S. Senate hearing — at least the second time the platform has censored a Senate hearing. YouTube took down “two videos of doctors testifying under oath,” Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) tweeted on Jan. 27. The testimonies, uploaded to YouTube by Johnson, were during a Dec. 8 Senate Homeland

I suppose if the wacko QAnon conspiracy nut Republican Marjorie Tayler Greene is going to lose her committee assignments, the Loony Tunes Democrat Ilhan Omar should be kicked to the curb as well. Republicans want to strip Omar of her committee assignments due to her nauseating anti-Semitism. The problem with doing that is if you

Immediately after progressive DA George Gascon was sworn in he put in place a series of new rules including one that prevented prosecutors from attending parole hearings. That decision is one of several that have generated controversy. Now LA County Sheriff Alex Villanueva has informed Gascon that in the absence of prosecutors at these hearings,

House Democrats are preparing to force a vote on Thursday that would strip Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene from her committee assignments unless House Republican leadership does so first. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said on Wednesday that he spoke with House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, suggesting that he was leaning towards not removing

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, accused of flouting the terms of a suspended sentence for embezzlement, attends a court hearing in Moscow, Russia, February 2, 2021. (Press service of Moscow City Court/Reuters Handout) Via Radio Free Europe, the courage Alexei Navalny displays in this speech in court is breathtaking: MUST WATCH: #Navalny’s speech from court.

The Golden State has long been a hub of progressivism, but the hell wrought by big tech and big government might yet change that. California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks during a news conference at the California Department of Public Health on February 27, 2020 in Sacramento, California.(Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) California bashing is something

It’s no wonder Sia keeps herself hidden under exotic wigs. In her attempt to showcase a new film featuring a beautiful story of love and family the woke Twitter mob still found a way to clap back over her casting. Now she is blaming white men for her perceived casting mistakes. UPI news reporter Fred

You silly person, you thought that since the kids were sitting at home, glued to their COVID Chromebooks for something like three hours hours a day that snow days would be a thing of the past. In fact, we were assured in September by no less an authority than the thought leaders over at The

As you probably recall, President Joe Biden made good on his promise to shut down the Keystone XL pipeline “on day one.” (Though that move may wind up being blocked in court.) This decision was cheered by the “keep it in the ground” crowd, who have been rather down in the dumps over the past

President Joe Biden will receive his daily briefing Wednesday evening. There is nothing else on his schedule for the day. President Biden’s Itinerary for 2/3/21 – note: this page will be updated during the day if events warrant The schedule is comprised of information available from the public schedule released by the White House and

College professors ought to be able to write their course syllabi and teach as they think best. That’s how things have been since America’s Founding. Unfortunately, there is a new trend, with administrators demanding that they include various statements with “woke” sentiments and requirements that they conduct their classes in specific, “anti-racist” ways. Advertisement In

Congress has impeached a former official before, though it’s also dropped plenty of proceedings following a resignation. What now? It wasn’t even close. After hearing the evidence, 94 senators determined he was such a disgrace that they voted to disqualify him from ever holding another federal office. It was just over a decade ago that

You could feel the unity surging on Tuesday’s CBS Evening News as the network gave a boost to the vile smears from Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY), suggesting the Republican Party was just a bunch of domestic and sexual abusers. On top of that, there was also incredibly lazy reporting from congressional correspondent Kris Van Cleave, who

The Biden administration clearly benefitted from Big Tech censorship in the weeks before the election. Twitter and Facebook actively censored the NY Post’s report on Hunter Biden’s dealings with China, preventing millions of voters from learning true and important information about one of the two contenders for the presidency. Twitter and Facebook have never censored

President Trump offered the nation’s highest civilian honor – the Presidential Medal of Freedom – twice to legendary country music superstar Dolly Parton. She turned his offer down twice. Now it is very likely that she will have to decide if she will accept the honor from President Biden. It’s not what you might have