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More than two years into his administration, President Joe Biden used his veto power for the first time on Monday, killing a bipartisan resolution that would have reversed a final rule from the Department of Labor that pushes woke ESG standards as a priority over profitability for Americans' retirement accounts. In a statement, President Biden sought to justify his veto by claiming that the final rule "allows retirement plan fiduciaries to make fully informed investment decisions" while "ensuring that investment decisions made...maximize financial returns for retirees." "There is extensive evidence showing that environmental, social, and governance factors can have a...

Main stream media and the Biden Administration are playing a game of ‘let’s pretend’, and they really don’t care what you think about it. Every day, the media pretends there is no border crisis, and dutifully works to keep the topic out of print and off the air. In Washington, Joe Biden hasn’t even been to the border one time to see the havoc his policies wreak upon it day in and day out. If you have a problem with any of that, it’s because you’re a racist fascist who hates people of color. See how that works? “He doth...

Huh, now why do you think NBC would pull their own bombshell? You’d THINK if they had a bombshell like this, that Biden could have choosen between Brittney Griner and Paul Whelan, this would be a big story. But then again, if their main goal is to do the bidding of the Democratic Party, and by default, the Biden White House, we suppose the bombshell isn’t worth having to them. Which should be weird but sadly … it’s not. Take a look at this: NBC had a bombshell report that Russia offered America Brittney Griner OR Paul Whelan, citing a...

So just to be safe. No raves for me in Europe. Definitely no sex with monkeys, at least for two weeks. You got to flatten that curve. And it is it is shaped like a banana. Get it out of my system. We're going to be covering a lot of monkeypox. And as far as we know, it's not spreading here. I think. So nearly 70% think the economy is fairly or very bad and 56% disapprove of how Biden is doing his job. And if the election were held today, he'd be in bed at noon. All right. Fair...

Assume the worst. That’s the lesson of Bidenomics in 2022. America’s economy is contracting. The U.S. inflation rate remains above eight percent, with gas prices hitting record highs across the country. And the stock market continues to bleed, undoing the gains of the Trump era. Remember when Americans could expect 13.7 percent annualized S&P 500 returns? How times change—and in under two years, no less. If we’re not in an economic recession already, then it’s not far away either. As a longtime entrepreneur, investor, and job creator, I’ve seen businesses large and small struggle to stay afloat in today’s economy....

resident Biden likes to blame inflation on the COVID pandemic and the war in Ukraine -- or, as he says, "Putin's price hike." But the fact is, Biden's own actions, and those of his party, have also contributed significantly to the rise in the cost of living that is making it harder and harder for many Americans to make ends meet. And that rise, in turn, is feeding a terrible pessimism among Americans about the state of the country. Even some liberal commentators are admitting that Biden and Capitol Democrats fed inflation by passing enormous spending bills, measures that provided...

PARIS -- With Joe Biden's seemingly tenuous grasp on the cockpit controls, we're currently witnessing the result of U.S. foreign policy governance piloted by establishment civil servants. Is anyone really surprised that we're caught in a death spiral? Sometimes pejoratively referred to as the "deep state", the U.S. foreign policy establishment tends toward interventionism, with few who rise to senior positions favoring a hands-off approach to the rest of the world. It's precisely that attitude -- that the U.S. has to constantly intervene militarily everywhere -- that contributed to the election of former President Donald Trump. The former Oval Office...

Last December, Joe Biden warned of a winter of doom, a plague of Biblical proportions and just as Moses hoisted a brass serpent mounted to a pole, Biden declared that we must look to “the science” and to the great Fauci—the ubiquitous state demanded obedience to the COVID gods. Biden, and statists like him always demand a religious fealty to bureaucracy. COVID and every other crisis are just goads designed to prod us into a cold, seamless line. “We are looking at a winter of severe illness and death for the unvaccinated,” Biden gravely warned America on Thursday, December 16,...

Lent began this week. In the Christian tradition, the Lenten period is a time of fasting and prayer, preparation and reflection in anticipation of Easter, which commemorates the death and resurrection of Jesus. Historically, Lent has been a time to provide instruction to new converts and young Christians as a way to strengthen their faith, as well as a period for believers to spend in reflection in order to become closer to God. Lent allows Christian believers to focus on God rather than on the world. Through prayer and fasting, believers can change the patterns of their everyday lives to...

Russia's war on Ukraine comes at a moment of political weakness for resident Joe Biden. His job approval rating is low, low enough to drag down his party's chances in the midterms, Americans are angry watching their standard of living diminished by inflation, there is lingering frustration about the president's handling of COVID and there are widespread doubts whether the 79-year-old Biden -- the oldest president in the nation's history -- is physically and mentally up to the job. But the war, as emergencies sometimes do, has lent a new look to Biden's presidency. "A presidency transformed," was the headline...

resident Joe Biden just gave his State of the Union Address. Here's what I wish Biden said: "Russia's unwarranted invasion of Ukraine reminds us why it's crucial that America's military remains strong, and focused on defense, not distractions like gender equity. "I stand with the people of Ukraine, and I will help them where I can, but America will not enter this war. "My predecessors involved us in wars all over the world. Today, America posts soldiers in 80 countries: 25,000 in South Korea, 30,000 in Germany, 50,000 in Japan ... "I will bring those troops home. Those countries can...

Tuesday Joe Biden will come to Capitol Hill and give the annual State of the Union Address. No matter how hard he tries, he will not be able to hide the fact that America is in crisis. It’s not just one crisis, either: a war in Europe, the worst inflation in 40 years, the worst violent crime in 25 years, the highest gas prices in 7 years, the most illegal border crossings ever recorded, and the deadly, disgraceful surrender in Afghanistan. Joe Biden created each one of these crises, and they have led to another crisis: a complete lack of...

To quote a screaming John McEnroe: You cannot be serious! Last week, the Biden administration requested another $30 billion for COVID relief programs. Yes, I know that these days, $30 billion is a rounding error in the $6 trillion federal budget. But isn't that precisely the problem? But, as Joe would say: Come on, man! The White House's latest plea for more money on top of the $4 trillion to $5 trillion is an insult. Biden wants $18 billion for antivirals, $5 billion for testing and $3 billion to combat future viruses. Isn't that already the job of the $7...

There are deeper problems to address than Joe since his entire dereliction of duty will be gone in three years. We must eliminate America’s Deep State (DS). The Term “DS” was arguably first coined by Peter Dale Scott, a leftist bent on deflating the Bush II administration, in his 2007 book, The Road to 9/11. He suggests the DS is a hybrid association of elements of government and parts of top-level finance and industry, effectively able to govern the United States without reference to the consent of the people through the formal political process.” The DS is deeper and more...

Washington -- Do not let the Democrats fool you. They are deeply in the glooms. Even smiling, happy-go-lucky Congressgirl Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is in the glooms, at least behind closed doors. It is not just the southern border where there roam more foreign-speaking bipeds than native Americanos. It is not inflation that is eroding the value of the dollar, even late at night when most Americans are asleep. Nor is it crime or the condition of the cities. It is a matter that President Joe Biden once took great pride in, that being his first Black vice president. Kamala Harris is...

Advice and consent for Supreme Court nominees is among the most important roles executed by the United States Senate. Those who are appointed to the federal bench have a generational impact on our society, and ensuring those individuals are respectful of our Constitution and the intent of the founders could not be more vital to our republic. In recent years, it has been a profound disappointment to see how Senate Democrats have politicized and denigrated this important confirmation process. They turned what used to be a nonpartisan duty into a partisan circus, attempting to defame and attack any individual nominated...

resident Joe Biden joined Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and numerous other Democrats this week in a partisan attempt to preemptively delegitimize the 2022 election. Twice the president was asked by reporters whether voters could trust the electoral system, and twice the president contended that a fair election was unlikely unless the Senate was blown up and the Democrats' election power grab was passed -- a maneuver that poses a far more serious and lasting threat to the constitutional order than anything Donald Trump is cooking up right now. "I think it would easily be illegitimate," said Biden. "The increase...

If the left believed that draping the Capitol riot of Jan. 6, 2021, around the neck of former President Donald Trump and the party that refused to repudiate him would sink the GOP, it appears to have miscalculated. For, as the left painted the Capitol riot as an "armed insurrection," "domestic terrorism," "attempted coup," and political atrocity that stands beside Pearl Harbor and 9/11 as "a day that will live in infamy," Republicans were displacing the Democrats as America's first party. Democrats began 2021 as the preferred party of 49% of the country. Only 40% identified as Republicans. When 2022...

The Joe Biden who swore his oath of office on the west front of the United States Capitol one year ago on January 20, 2021, is not the Joe Biden Americans see shuffling around the White House today. Last year, Biden presented his policies as a can't-fail way to "build back better," "shut down the virus," and lead the American economy out of the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic. Flanked by Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer, Biden's party controlled two-thirds of American government, and it seemed, on paper at least, that Biden would be able to do what he wanted. For those...

For the first time in 78 days, Joe Biden faced the media...sort of. For the most part, the conference was a miscellany of nonsense, weirdness, and lies. However, even the most determined, compulsive liars occasionally leak out the truth, and that’s what Biden gave himself the highest marks for: his job performance. If you understand what that performance actually was, rather than what he thinks it was, he did, sadly, exceed all exceptions. Biden’s scariest answers concerned Russia and Ukraine. We’ve currently reached a situation that has no good outcomes: Putin has massed troops on the border and can’t pull...