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  • Biden’s Energy-Loan Free-For-All. Trump Energy Department officials discover a dubious spending spree.

    05/08/2025 5:54:47 AM PDT · by karpov · 4 replies
    Wall Street Journal ^ | May 7, 2025 | Kimberley A. Strassel
    It’s no secret Joe Biden’s team spent its final days shoveling money out the door, and in ways designed to limit Donald Trump’s ability to claw it back. Officials working under Department of Energy Secretary Chris Wright have now completed a review of the Loan Programs Office (LPO)—the government entity that brought you Solyndra— and the extent of the shenanigans is remarkable. Figures and documents provided to me show a loan free-for-all: More than $90 billion showered on entities in a matter of months, a lot of it to companies of questionable taxpayer value. The highlights of DOE’s review: Unprecedented...
  • A Landslide Against the Media: News organizations tried to prop Biden and Harris up. How did that work out?

    11/07/2024 9:36:22 PM PST · by billorites · 56 replies
    Wall Street Journal ^ | November 7, 2024 | Kimberley A. Strassel
    The recriminations are flying, as Barack Obama’s and Joe Biden’s forces go to war over who’s more to blame for Democrats’ humiliating defeat Tuesday. So long as the left is pointing fingers, let it direct a big, fat digit at the outfit that played the biggest role in losing it this election: the U.S. media. That isn’t the conventional wisdom, which holds that the press’s naked shilling for Democratic candidates amounts to an in-kind campaign contribution. And no doubt the media’s ceaseless attacks on Donald Trump and Republicans did help round up some undecided voters. Yet the boosterism for Kamala...
  • Democrats Have a Waukesha Problem. The massacre at a Christmas parade reveals the dangers of their crime policies.

    11/26/2021 8:16:28 AM PST · by karpov · 31 replies
    Wall Street Journal ^ | December 25, 2021 | Kimberley A. Strassel
    Here’s the common reaction to the Waukesha, Wis., murders: It’s nuts that the suspect, with his long criminal history, was free on $1,000 bail posted days before the automotive rampage. Here’s New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, in a tweet the day after the Waukesha murders: “Today, we sent a letter . . . to NYC’s 5 District Attorneys requesting information on excessive bail in the NYC court system.” The letter was also signed by fellow New York Democrat Carolyn Maloney and Maryland’s Jamie Raskin. That disconnect will haunt Democrats. Waukesha is one of those rare moments when the consequences of...
  • Obama: The CliffsNotes- Decoding The President.

    02/28/2009 2:29:58 PM PST · by Steelfish · 7 replies · 544+ views
    Wall St. Journal ^ | February 28, 2009 | KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL
    FEBRUARY 26, 2009 Obama: The CliffsNotes Decoding the president. By KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL Any high-school kid with a set of CliffsNotes knows Moby Dick is so much more than just a whale. Any American watching the new administration might wish for a similar study guide. Thirty-nine days, one press conference, one congressional address, and one budget into this presidency, Barack Obama is finding his groove. Out of the early chaos has emerged an administration with a set of talking points. The president is now honing these explanations of what went wrong, and how he will make it right. Yet, as...