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Yes, Joe Biden has been quarantined. Yes, Joe Biden is vulnerable to the CV-19 virus as an frail, elderly man - sickened before by several bouts of cancer before serving as Vice President. Yes, Joe Biden could be threatened by being exposed to the general public - one of whom "might have" the virus. But, you see, Joe Biden faces an even more deadly threat than the remote risk of CV-19: He and his handlers are deathly afraid of the public being exposed to Joe Biden. Since 1 Sept, I count less than 8 "public visits" and "open meetings" (or...

As the Republic slowly twists in the wind of the worst American Administration since George III, it is possible that even Team Obama's key kabuki players recognize that their front man, Barack Hussein Obama, Jr., (or II) has been in failure mode since the heady days of Admin I. But, what to do with an Admin II fool who now dangerously believes in the omnipotent legend created for him and thus believes himself free to act on his own, and perhaps even more dangerously, to ignore the basic responsibilities of the post, namely to show up? I am hoping that...

The most damning thing about Obama’s response to the Gulf Crisis (the other Gulf Crisis) is not what it reveals about his lack of competence, but what it reveals about his lack of interest. And it has forced many liberals to recognize, what so many conservatives knew all along. That Obama just doesn’t care.

...On Wednesday, fueled by seemingly limitless liquidity and reports of strong corporate earnings, the Dow Jones industrial average hit a record 13,000. The financial markets seem to have shrugged off their recent anxieties about so-called subprime mortgages, focusing instead on the megabucks being made at the other end of the income distribution scale. A survey by Alpha magazine revealed that three American hedge-fund managers earned more than $1 billion last year. ...Meanwhile, on the other side of the world, Iraq burns. More than 3,100 Americans have died there, the equivalent of 100 Virginia Techs. Nearly 25,000 have been wounded in...

<p>For more than four years, Argentina had asked the United States to detain a French arms dealer, Jean Bernard Lasnaud, who lived in a gated community in South Florida and offered to sell tanks and Scud missiles through a Web site.</p>