When Joe Biden announced on Twitter in August 2020 that Kamala Harris would be his running mate, the pronouncement was met with fawning from a gleeful legacy media. Seemingly overnight, Harris was anointed as the future of the Democratic Party…
It’s hard to imagine that Joe Biden could have had a worse year than his inaugural one as president in 2021. In case anyone needed a reminder of just how dreadful it was, that was a year under his “leadership”…
We normally think of bureaucracies as those dull gray buildings in Washington, D.C., full of career civil servants pursuing the interests of their bureaus and looking forward to retirement, certain that they cannot be fired or disciplined beforehand as long…
Ya just gotta love the utter cluelessness over there at — yet again — the Washington Post. Just last week, the paper was standing up for voter fraud denial by opposing the raft of GOP candidates running on a platform of…
I first met Aram Bakshian in the fall of 1961. We were both Washingtonians. He was a senior at Woodward Prep, a Washington day school about one block west of the White House. I was a senior at a simply…
Despite recent calls for the United States to end its policy of “strategic ambiguity” over Taiwan, the Biden White House continues to talk out of both sides of its mouth on the issue, thereby producing not strategic clarity but confusion….
I never would have expected that I’d be one of those codgers who tools around in a vintage automobile, but circumstances dictated that I am. I drive a Limited Edition Eddie Bauer Ford Explorer. Which sounds like I’m bragging. I’m…
Hostages No More: The Fight for Education Freedom and the Future of the American Child By Betsy DeVos (Center Street, 320 pages, $29) Horace Mann (1796–1859) famously commented, “We who are engaged in the sacred cause of education are entitled…
The Bureau of Labor Statistics released two reports Wednesday morning that confirm the fiscal incompetence of the Biden administration and its confederates on Capitol Hill. The BLS reported that the Consumer Price Index rose yet again in June: “Over the…
For those who were not around in the day, step in the time capsule and rocket back with me to the early months of … 1968. The incumbent Democrat president of the United States was Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas,…