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The Constitution requires that a president deliver a State of the Union address to Congress once a year. Since we have a fraudulent occupant in the Oval Office at the moment, it is perhaps not surprising that his take on the State of the Union is equally false. The actual state of the union, today, is much darker, much more vulnerable, than most people want to admit. And in our hearts, we all know it. What is the state of the union today, in 2023? The federal government is joining with the corrupt local administrators of dozens of America’s big...

How can an administration claim to be so committed to the idea of families … and so oblivious to the rights of parents to care for and protect their own? To be sure, the president and his team don’t lack for projects designed, ostensibly, to help the families of America. In his State of the Union speech Tuesday, the president outlined a near-exhaustive list of objectives, including replacing “poisonous lead pipes,” providing “clean water to drink at home and at school,” reducing the costs of energy and pharmaceuticals, cutting the costs of child care, and extending the Child Tax Credit....

Until Democrats are willing to drop truly radical policies like the Equality Act, it’s all smoke and mirrors meant to distract voters.Joe Biden’s ”State of the Union” address clearly marked an attempt by his White House to make their culture war seem like an afterthought. It’s not, of course, as evidenced by the president’s description of abortion as “health care” and his demand that Congress pass the radical Equality Act. But the bulk of Biden’s speech focused on “meat and potatoes,” as Chris Hayes repeatedly claimed during MSNBC’s coverage. It’s true, Biden dedicated much of his address to Ukraine, infrastructure,...

In May 2017, CNN boss Jeff Zucker gave an interview to the "New Yorker Radio Hour" and made waves by proclaiming, "Fox is state-run TV and is extolling the line out of the White House. MSNBC has become the opposition, and I think CNN is seeking the truth." There wasn't a laugh track. In 2022, it's quite obvious that CNN can now be accused of sounding like state-run TV. On Feb. 27, CNN anchor Pamela Brown (whose father, John Brown, served as the Democrat governor of Kentucky) robotically read a Twitter thread from Jill Biden. She introduced it like this:...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) made waves when she shredded President Donald Trump's State of the Union address earlier this month. The next day we learned that she planned to make a scene, as evidenced by video footage. She confirmed her desire for attention during an exclusive interview with CNN on Saturday. "Are you giving a signal that the Democrats will fight back hard, that you will not be constrained by what you believe to be insurgent behavior on the other side, and that this is, you know, a time to go mano a mano?" CNN's Christiane Amanpour asked. "Let me...

We've had enough political news in half a week to last a month or more, but we know the velocity will only increase until the election. On Monday, Republicans and Democrats in Iowa participated in caucuses. President Donald Trump won the Republican caucuses in a landslide (somewhere north of 97 percent). This was not and is not news. The news coming out of the Democratic caucuses involved a myriad of issues that affected how the votes were tabulated. The result: The first partial results were not issued until 5 p.m. Eastern time Tuesday. It's hard to imagine a worse start...

THE PRESIDENT: Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, Members of Congress, the First Lady of the United States, and my fellow Americans: Less than one year has passed since I first stood at this podium, in this majestic chamber, to speak on behalf of the American people and to address their concerns, their hopes, and their dreams. That night, our new administration had already taken very swift action. A new tide of optimism was already sweeping across our land. Each day since, we have gone forward with a clear vision and a righteous mission — to make America great again for...

I was unable to watch President Trump's speech to Congress in real time but heard it was phenomenal. I watched it the next day, and it was even better than I expected. There was enough meat in the first five minutes to satisfy a hungry audience of Americans and fuel an extensive column, but it just kept getting better. I don't agree that Trump became presidential for the first time that evening as so many opined in chorus, because I think he's been presidential since his inauguration and also because I don't subscribe to the commentariat's superficial concept of...

During the Republican primaries, when I was most critical of candidate Trump, I still didn’t believe he was a racist (in general) or an anti-Semite (in particular), yet charges of racism and even anti-Semitism persist against him to this day. After his speech last night, it seems to me that only his most cynical critics can lodge such charges against him. Will you really say that his address to Congress was racist? Let’s start with black Americans. He began his speech by saying, “Tonight, as we mark the conclusion of our celebration of Black History Month, we are reminded...

It was an altogether fitting, albeit pathetic, picture. Shortly before Donald Trump delivered the greatest speech of his life, a speech some pundits called historic in its own right, Rosie O'Donnell “addressed a rain-soaked crowd outside the White House . . . during the ‘Resistance Address,’ an event countering President Trump's speech to a joint session of Congress later that evening. She criticized Trump on his foreign policy, stance towards race, and women's rights, while urging the 100 or so gathered to resist Trump (and the weather) through the night” (my emphasis).And so, as Trump spoke to tens of...

Glenn Beck put together this long list of broken promises that Obama made while on the campaign trail in 2008 and in the White House. Obama forgot to mention these promises in his State of the Union Address tonight.

I started out thinking that I would write how Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin stole the night away from a man who is supposed to out communicate the Great Communicator. It is said that president Barry Hussein Soetoro studied Ronald Wilson Reagan before giving this State of the Union address. A lot of good that did him, President Soetoro address was like Taco Bell meat we don’t know how much of the president’s speech is real and how much of the speech is just filler. Then I listened to Rep. Michele Bachmann make the case for Conservatives as represented by...

Here we go again every time Democrats want to bamboozle the American people they talk about jobs. Well as the American people have discovered talk about jobs is all that it is; just talk, just words! Which brings Americans to tonight's State of the Union address which will be a mixed seated arraignment meant to hide the fact that Americans rejected Democrats and voted them out of office in 2010. There will be much pomp and circumstance and much speechifying about jobs and civility the only thing is the one doing the speaking has shown the American people he knows...

With all of the advance reports of what president Barry Hussein Soetoro will be saying in tonight’s State of the Union address a saying comes to mind. “Too late to close the barn door after the horse is gone.” If President Bush’s spending was bad for America and was criticized by Soetoro and Democrats (and it was) then it would defy all common rational coming from Harvard or otherwise to come into office and out spend Bush wouldn’t you think? The prudent course by those who are the proponents of smarter government would be to come in and immediately cut...

More than 30 Iraq and Persian Gulf War veterans have entered congressional races across the country as Democrats, hoping to capitalize on their military experience to topple the incumbent Republican majority. In Colorado, two former military men, Jay Fawcett and Bill Winter, are vying for the House seats of two strong, entrenched Republicans: Rep. Joel Hefley of the 5th Congressional District and Rep. Tom Tancredo of the 6th Congressional District, respectively. "Do we understand military and foreign affairs? You bet," Fawcett said. "Most of us have been to the point where you get a direct dose of military and foreign...

Bush to make his case Tuesday 01/26/2003 By DAVID JACKSON and G. ROBERT HILLMAN / The Dallas Morning News WASHINGTON - President Bush addresses the nation Tuesday while facing a storm of conflicting crosswinds: rising public doubts cutting into his popularity, a stubbornly sluggish economy - and life-and-death decisions about war and peace. He will use his annual State of the Union message to lay out a case against Saddam Hussein that could lead to war - sooner rather than later - with or without broad international support, aides said. But he will not ask for a declaration of...