Joe Biden fashions himself a champion of the middle class, but his long record as a tax-hiking liberal does not match his supposed everyman persona.
Publication: The Washington Examiner
Rusty Gaffe-Machine Joe Biden Enters the Race
Former Vice President Joe Biden wants to remove the “former” and “vice” from his title. Good luck. He is going to need it.
Elizabeth Warren Is the Trump Gift That Keeps on Giving
Desperately seeking momentum in the crowded 2020 Democratic presidential primary race, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., keeps offering free new deals. But the more Warren embraces leftist statism, the more she builds President Trump his road to reelection. It’s political moderation, stupid.
Mueller Report Contains Claim Russia Taped Bill Clinton Having Sex with Monica Lewinsky
Special counsel Robert Mueller’s report mentions a claim that Russians recorded President Bill Clinton having phone sex with White House intern Monica Lewinsky — but the reference was redacted from the version released to the public. The redaction is likely to anger Republicans, because the allegation has been known since at least 2001 and the Mueller report’s reference to a claim that President Trump watched prostitutes urinating in a Moscow hotel room was not struck out.
Only Fracking and Nuclear Power Can Save Planet Earth
Nuclear technology is advancing quickly. If global warming is the big problem, then there would be no excuse for the U.S. not to adopt it on a grand scale.
Media Credibility Also on the Line When Mueller Report Is Released
Once the report comes out, after the initial blast of news, media critics will be able to go back and look at the nearly two years of coverage about the Mueller investigation and determine whether stories based on anonymous sources were accurate. If not, it will be another major blow to the media’s credibility, and a boost to Trump’s efforts to dismiss every negative story about him as “fake news.”
Trump’s Lies and Insults Pale Next to Truman’s, Jackson’s and Roosevelt’s
Trump is far from the first politician to use political insults. His predecessors also bad-mouthed their opponents, albeit in a more intellectual manner.
Pete Buttigieg’s Father Was a Marxist Professor Who Lauded the Communists
The elder Buttigieg was best known as one of the world’s leading scholars of Gramsci. Gramsci thought cultural change was critical to dismantling capitalism. Nevertheless, although critical of certain aspects of Bolshevism, Gramsci endorsed Vladimir Lenin’s “maximalist” politics and identified within the Leninist faction of the Italian communists.
Joe Biden’s Al Franken Problem
The problem for Biden is similar to the one faced by Franken when he was forced to resign from the Senate: Descriptions of misconduct are more believable when consistent with visual evidence.
Save the World and Have More Babies
So if you are considering the morality of having more children because you care about the planet, don’t let Ehrlich, Malthus, or Ocasio-Cortez scare you. Go home tonight and make a positive difference in this world.
The Touchscreen Revolution Tilts the Playing Field to the Elites
The elites who usher in these rapid changes typically benefit from them. The rest of society often finds itself as a stranger in a new land.
The Unbearable Lightness of Beto
Beto O’Rourke is the Democratic front-runner today because he stands for nothing.
Howard Schultz Knows Nothing About Politics and Trump Supporters Should Beg Him to Run
This is the person who thinks he can beat President Trump, who at least anticipated he’d be scrutinized to some degree, even as no one could have foreseen the hostile reception he got from all of the Democratic Party, the Republican Party, and the national news media. In his first major political speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference in 2011, Trump was as clear-eyed as Schultz is oblivious.
AOC Lied About Reagan
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., lied at this weekend’s South by Southwest Conference when she implied that former President Reagan was a racist. Her claim that Reagan”pitted” white working class people against minorities in order “to screw over all working-class Americans,” particularly African-Americans and Hispanics, is both false and malicious.
Yes, Trump Is a Target of Presidential Harassment
Trump is the target of an extraordinary combination, not just of federal and congressional probes, but a long list of less-discussed but potentially consequential investigations by state and local prosecutors and regulators. Together, it adds up to a pile-on of unprecedented proportions, mostly the work of blue-state Democrats who stand to gain if their investigations cripple the president.
Democrats Increasingly Embrace the Bigotry of Low Expectations in Defense of Omar
As Democrats scrambled to defend Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., for her relentless and unrepentant anti-Semitism, a few settled on a truly horrific defense: that she’s an immigrant and that’s all you can expect from her.
The Cohen Hearing Proves Congress Is Broken
The House Oversight Committee, the premier investigative body in Congress, devolved into a group therapy session on Wednesday as one of the nation’s leading legislators openly accused another of racism during the testimony for Trump fixer-turned-foe, Michael Cohen.
Michael Cohen Is Incapable of Not Humiliating Himself
If you were going to prison for multiple years after pleading guilty to a slew of crimes, including tax evasion and bank fraud, what would you do? A) go away quietly and hope everyone forgets, or B) appear in front of Congress on national television to confess all of the ugly details about your life?
No AOC, Our Border Wall Is Not Like the Berlin Wall Because It Wasn’t Built to Imprison Americans
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., may be the heroine of the Democratic Party’s left, but she needs to read more history.
California’s “Crazy Train” Goes Off the Rails
If you live in Bakersfield, Calif., and you’re looking for the most expensive way possible to travel to Merced, 164 miles to the northwest, well then, did you ever just luck out.
SOTU: If Only Trump Would Do That More Often
If he wants to remain president beyond 2020, he needs to study what he did right Tuesday night and stick with it.
Why the Democrats’ 2020 Announcements Have Been So Bad
For all the anti-Trump anger and energy in their party, the Democrats’ 2020 campaign announcements have largely been weird, underwhelming, and immediately forgettable.
Convicted Sex Criminal Migrant Caught Re-Entering US with Human-Shield Son
Anytime President Trump or Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen says there are criminals crossing from Mexico into the U.S. illegally, major media outlets eye them with the most severe suspicion, as though it can’t possibly be true.
Someone Please Handcuff the Global Food Police
Is food the new tobacco? Most people would recognize the obvious difference. But a new report in the British science journal the Lancet is calling for a global treaty to tackle the “negative health and environmental effects of the food system,” citing the World Health Organization’s framework for tobacco control as a model.