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If chutzpah could take human form, it would strongly resemble CNN’s Jake Tapper. The recent spectacle of Tapper making the rounds on the interview circuit to promote his latest book, “Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again,” co-authored with Alex Thompson, has such a wolf-in-the-henhouse feel to it that both the interview tour and the five-years-too-late investigation into former President Joe Biden’s cognitive decline simply must involve sinister, ulterior motives. Sure enough, in an interview posted to the social media platform X Friday, Tapper revealed those motives. ... “This applies to Donald Trump,...

Democrats often sound condescending and presumptuous while hurling indefensible insults. Fortunately, at least one talented young staffer in President Donald Trump's administration knows how to deal with her misguided detractors. On Saturday, according to the New York Post, 27-year-old White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt fired back at Democratic Rep. Dave Min of California, who called her a "fake Christian" last month on the social media platform X. "I think it’s pitiful for an elected member of Congress to say that about a woman who he’s never even met," Leavitt said. At her first press briefing on Jan. 28, Leavitt...

Republican Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina has established herself as a flawed-yet-principled advocate for women. Meanwhile, former Democratic Gov. Martin O’Malley of Maryland, who served as Social Security Commissioner for less than a year under President Joe Biden and whom extreme political junkies might remember as an obscure Democratic presidential candidate in 2016, has exposed himself as the latest in a long line of cowardly and spiritually corrupt woke leftists who cannot, or will not, explain the difference between a man and a woman. On Wednesday, at a hearing of the House Oversight Committee focused on the stay-at-home federal...

One can identify individuals whom the establishment fears simply by paying attention to those whom the establishment media attacks. Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of defense, seems to have learned how to handle the lying media. Wednesday morning on the social media platform X, Hegseth posted his letter of acceptance to the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, as a preemptive rebuttal to what he described as a forthcoming hit piece from a leftist news outlet. “We understand that ProPublica (the Left Wing hack group) is planning to publish a knowingly false report that...