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For half a decade now, America's media elite have been obsessed with former President Donald Trump and the Republican Party's conversion to Trumpism. Press and TV are daily consumed with his actions and prospects and the future of the party he captured in 2016. Perhaps it is time to consider the prospects of President Joe Biden and the political future of his embattled presidency. What are the odds that Biden, like Bill Clinton and Barack Obama before him, will run again in 2024, win reelection, serve out a second term and transfer his office to the 47th president on Jan....

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,...

Socialists, communists, and leftists of every stripe get triggered by Let’s Go Brandon and anytime someone adds to the saying, its more than just an issue of insulting slow Joe. Word has it that the Alabama Department of Revenue is threatening to revoke a man’s truck registration because he must have triggered a hidden lefty who lost it when (they/them who/what it/is) figured out what LGBF JB meant. The story has it that Many people deduced these letters were meant to stand for the anti-Biden phrases “Let’s go, Brandon” and “F*** Joe Biden,” a conclusion seemingly supported by the “Let’s...

Joe O'Biden to Make Guest Appearance in Sequel to 2019's Irishman Gangster Movie (satire and pic)The 2019 gangster movie Irishman directed by Martin Scorsese was a fan favorite, but not a commercial success. The story is based on a Irishman (played by Robert De Niro) who worked for the Mafia and had Jimmy Hoffa assasinated With a huge budget of $159 million, Irishman's U.S. box office was only $8 million, so the the chance of a sequel to Irishman looks rather slim. Yet a reported 17 million Americans saw the movie within the first week of its release, suggesting there's...

When a president's poll numbers are tanking, as the most recent Washington Post/ABC News poll shows they are for President Biden -- 37 percent approval -- he needed to do something spectacular, even radical, to keep him from sinking further. Unfortunately for Biden and his party, he did nothing that is likely to stem his free fall. Washington Post columnist Henry Olson said Biden's re-hashed agenda is "dead on arrival" in Congress. The opening part of the State of the Union address about Ukraine seems to have been tacked on to a speech that had already been written. The words...

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...

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...

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...

White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Biden left for Delaware because he wanted to attend a funeral service for the mother of the president’s daughter-in-law, Hallie Biden, the widow of his son Beau Biden. He plans to remain at home for the rest of the weekend.

A serious president would look to dynamic solutions to confront a power hungry realist like Vladimir Putin. But Joe Biden has so-far proven to be incapable of leveraging U.S. power abroad, and Kamala Harris is by no means up to the task either. Since the start of his presidency, Biden has leaned hard into what could be called a radical environmentalist agenda, essentially declaring war on American energy that isn’t wind or solar. We saw this when Biden canceled the Keystone natural gas pipeline, issued moratoriums on oil and gas leases, and with the administration's emphasis on Environmental Social Guidance...

resident Joe Biden has repeatedly claimed the U.S. economy is in good shape, even arguing that it is “stronger than before the pandemic.” However, Americans are not experiencing the "strong" economy Biden describes. Instead, inflation is running rampant and increasing prices for American families and small businesses across the country. In January, the consumer price index increased by 7.5 percent on an annualized basis, a 40-year high. This marks a sharp increase from January 2021, before Joe Biden took over the presidency, when annual inflation was at a stable 1.4 percent. In 2021, the average U.S. household spent $3,500 more...

There are reasons aplenty to think the current nominee to head the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Dr. Robert Califf, is the wrong man for the job. His coziness with Big Pharma which has lavished him with consulting fees, his official approvals on chemical abortion, and his apparent willingness to indulge any enthusiasm from the public health intelligentsia are sparking broad antipathy. Outside the Beltway, there’s another major complaint – Califf’s obstinate, boneheaded opposition to nicotine vaping. More than ten million Americans are vapers, by all estimates, most of them in a laudable effort to quit cigarettes. And they...

Washington, DC. – Joe Biden likes to talk about how “unions built this country.” And, up to a point, he’s right. From FDR to Nixon, the American labor movement held considerable sway over the nation’s economic destiny. Since the 70s, a decade marked by economic extremes Biden’s policies are causing us to revisit, unions have been in decline. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports participation in the labor movement to be down across the board. Unionized private sector workers represent just 6.1 percent of the labor force, an all-time low, while the total number of those in unions dropped...

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...

Some politicians seem to act like the laws that apply to average Americans don’t apply to them. Take for example resident Biden’s nominee to be Ambassador to India, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti. He made some news this week when pictures came out indicating that the mayor was maskless at the NFC Championship game between the Los Angeles Rams and San Francisco 49ers NFL game. All the paying fans at that game were mandated by law to wear a mask, but the mayor acted like those laws did not apply to him. He was quoted in the Los Angeles Times...

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...

Editor's note: This piece was authored by Jeff Luse.Progressives are so determined to get a win in Congress that they’re willing to gamble on America’s economic future. After failing to garner the support of Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema for his Build Back Better plan, resident Biden is narrowing the scope of his social spending, bringing the total cost down to a (still) astounding $1.75 trillion. To many, $1.75 trillion is too much to spend. But to Democrats, who are convinced that the only way to reverse climate change is by spending our way out of it, this price tag...

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...

When resident Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden spoke with children and NORAD authorities monitoring Santa Claus on Christmas Eve, things went awry. "Let's Go Brandon," a slogan that has become an online phenomenon this year, was stated by a father named Jared Schmeck from Oregon at the end of his family's chat with the Bidens. If anyone believed this joke was going to die soon, Biden breathed new life into it with only two words that followed Schmeck's message: "I agree." Jokes have a short shelf life in the age of the internet. Typically, these jokes, or memes,...

Washington -- Accuracy is making a comeback. The plagiarist in chief gave a long off-the-cuff press conference, complete with misstatements and canards, and now his listeners around the world are apprehensive that the Russians may take him at his word and launch an invasion of Ukraine. White House spokesmen have spent days walking back the plagiarist in chief's misstatements, but he happens to be the president of the United States and, as he himself has said, his words matter. The electorate elected in 2020 a 77-year-old man with a lifelong record of plagiarism, lying about his achievements (and other people's...