Will Wilkinson is an American writer whose work is often published by the New York Times. Before that, he was a research fellow at the libertarian Cato Institute and wrote for their blog, “Cato Unbound.” In short, Wilkinson was no fire breathing radical leftist. Until yesterday, Wilkinson was vice president of policy at the Niskanen

Most of the National Guard troops sent to Washington, D.C. before the Biden inauguration are now being called back home by their governors. Their mission is complete and no incidents requiring their service were reported during the inauguration. Some troops will be held over, though, in case they are needed in the coming weeks. Yesterday

Sen. Chuck Grassley on Friday called on the Justice Department to explain its decision to close an investigation into leaks of information about former national security adviser Michael Flynn with a finding of no wrongdoing on the part of Obama administration officials. The New York Times reported Tuesday that federal prosecutors quietly closed a criminal probe

The Wall Street Journal has an appropriately tough op-ed on the Biden executive order which will push all public schools to open up their girls’ facilities to transgender girls — young men who identify as young women. I’m curious to see what this looks like in practice on a wide scale. The dominance of two

The left has an impulse-control problem and it’s getting worse. The dream of putting the nuclear genie back in the bottle and forgetting how to build the bomb began in the 1950s when some of the same scientists who created the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs proposed the elimination of all nuclear weapons. At that time

Just when you thought things were going to go swimmingly with President Joe Biden’s “new” plan for the vaccine rollout we run into yet another story of someone stepping on a rake and mucking up the works. At Jamaica Plain VA Medical Center in Boston, workers found an unpleasant surprise awaiting them when they arrived

“I think, therefore I vote Republican.” A funny bumper sticker from some years back. The opposite side rings true for liberals, although it is hardly comical. I am emotional therefore I vote democrat. Social issues and emotional issues can be irrelevant to the health of a nation to a large extent at times, except for

The Oval Office decorated for newly-inaugurated President Joe Biden at the White House in Washington, D.C., January 21, 2021 (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) Just as Sir Winston Churchill’s two stints in Downing Street were interrupted by the elevation of a left-leaning chief executive, so too have his stays in the Oval Office. President Biden has removed the

Salazar: The Dictator Who Refused to Die, by Tom Gallagher, (Hurst: 2020), 360 pages. Nobody wants to talk about António de Oliveira Salazar. The left resent him because he doesn’t fit their profile of a right-wing dictator. He despised fascism, which he dismissed as “pagan Caesarism.” Likewise, he said Hitler’s racism was “essentially pagan, incompatible with

Eric Boehm at Reason caused some trouble at The Washington Post for pointing out they had stealth-edited a July 23, 2019 profile (published on the front of the July 24 Style section) to remove an “incredibly cringeworthy” passage about how campaigns were like prisons – which is insensitive to incarcerated Americans. The humanizing profile by

On his first day in office, Joe Biden signed an executive order mandating masks be worn on federal property at all times, declaring: “Wearing masks isn’t a partisan issue — it’s a patriotic act that can save countless lives.” Two days later, Biden is saying “There’s nothing we can do to change the trajectory of

The new rules put in place by District Attorney George Gascon continue to frustrate and amaze crime victims and some deputy DA’s working for him. This latest example of how the new rules play out in real life is one of the worst. In 2004, Ruben Beltran was convicted of raping two young children. Fox

Ok, looking for a simple answer here. in his first day as President, Biden with the almighty pen, did away with thousands of American jobs, which will also result in America being dependant on Middle East oil again, in the middle of a pandemic he has done away with the deportation of illegal immigrants making

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki holds the daily press briefing at the White House in Washington, D.C., January 22, 2021. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) I’ve always enjoyed watching Jen Psaki work, because it seems like it is always her first day on the job. Asked why Joe Biden was flouting his own mask mandate at a

Twitter has been particularly egregious in its censorship in the last few weeks, but sometimes, the platform chooses to ignore particularly egregious content. Now, a recent lawsuit has alleged that the platform may have allowed child pornography to circulate.  The lawsuit alleged that Twitter “knowingly benefited from participation in what it knew or should have

New research predicts that, like the virus that caused the Spanish flu epidemic in 1918, COVID-19 will become another seasonal bug that we build efficient long-term immunity against. Researchers at Emory University and the Department of Biology and Center for Disease Dynamics at Pennsylvania State University published their findings in Science. It provides a hopeful outlook

Meh. They’re all talk. The most immediate threat to Cheney — a push by Trump loyalists to oust her as conference chair — has gained momentum inside the House GOP, although the process is complicated and could still sputter out. But at least 107 Republicans, or just over a majority, have communicated to the leaders

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

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