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Hunter Biden has moved his family to a stylish $5.4million canal-front home in Venice, California, DailyMail.com can reveal. The president's son moved into the three-story property with wife Melissa and their 10-month-old son Beau toward the end of last year and the family is now under 24-hour Secret Service protection. It's believed the father of five, who turned 51 on Thursday, is paying $25,000 a month to rent the property owned by Sweetgreen co-founder and CEO Jonathan Neman.

Democrat Joe Biden was sworn in as the 46th president of the United States on Wednesday during a ceremony at a heavily protected U.S. Capitol, ending the tumultuous four-year presidency of his Republican predecessor Donald Trump.

This morning I went to TJ's only to see the sidewalk in front of the store loaded with young people holding signs that read "Traitor Joe's", "Duquesnes Students for Fair Food", and "Fair Wages, Fair Food". I thought "WTH?" and as i approached the entrance, I was confronted by two college students (one wearing a North Face jacket) who told me that the "workers in Florida who pick the tomatoes sold by Trader Joes, like, don't get paid enough, like hardly anything". I told this little punk that most of those "workers" are in the U.S. illegally, that he should...

Retired ambassador Joe Wilson went into his disclaimer that it's "a sad day for our democracy" if senior White House aides get indicted, but it was happy hour to his listeners at a Wednesday night reception in the Sorrento Hotel. "Yeah, baby!" shouted one fan, words not often associated with a diplomat's discourse. The cheering came when Wilson repeated words, first spoken before a crowd in Shoreline two years ago: "Wouldn't it be fun to see Karl Rove frog-marched out of the White House in handcuffs?" In fact, Wilson credited this corner of America's left coast for having "resurrected the...

The New York Times is reporting that Patrick Fitzgerald intends to indict Scooter Libby for making false statements to his grand jury. The Times says that Fitzgerald will not indict Karl Rove, but will keep that part of the investigation open. Great: maybe Fitzgerald can keep this going for another couple of years. If the Times' sources are correct, it will be a major disappointment for the Democrats. What seems most notable is that there apparently will be no indictment on the original "offense," the supposed "outing" of Valerie Plame. I have said for a long time that this was...

AS THE SEEMINGLY ENDLESS SPIDERWEB OF LIES SPUN BY former Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV unravels, the media has gone out of its way to question the credibility of…Karl Rove. Despite Rove’s demonstrable non-leak of Valerie Plame’s non-secret identity, the dogs continue to gather, hungry for a second term scandal, while the Wilsons’ blatant self-promotion erodes whatever basis they had for a story in the first place. Perhaps Joe Wilson’s two biggest whoppers were his claim to have spoken out because of his deep, non-partisan commitment to “truth,” and his inconsolable remorse that his wife’s closely guarded anonymity had become...

AS THE SEEMINGLY ENDLESS SPIDERWEB OF LIES SPUN BY former Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV unravels, the media has gone out of its way to question the credibility of…Karl Rove. Despite Rove’s demonstrable non-leak of Valerie Plame’s non-secret identity, the dogs continue to gather, hungry for a second term scandal, while the Wilsons’ blatant self-promotion erodes whatever basis they had for a story in the first place. Perhaps Joe Wilson’s two biggest whoppers were his claim to have spoken out because of his deep, non-partisan commitment to “truth,” and his inconsolable remorse that his wife’s closely guarded anonymity had become...

WASHINGTON - Sen. Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., revealed Friday that two years ago he discussed the blown cover of CIA operative Valerie Plame with then CIA director George Tenet and that Tenet "was furious." Tenet promptly called the Justice Department to demand an investigation into who in the Bush administration leaked Plame's identity to columnist Robert Novak, Schumer said at a hearing held by House and Senate Democrats. Novak revealed Plame's identity in July 2003 in a column in which he said she played a key role in having her husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, sent to Niger to investigate...

An interesting post by Cliff May: "This morning, I have a piece up elsewhere on NRO showing that The Nation’s David Corn--not syndicated columnist Bob Novak--was the first to reveal that Valerie Plame was an undercover operative. It further suggests that David did so based on information provided to him by none other than Joseph C. Wilson IV. While working on that piece, I had an exchange with David and, with his permission, I thought I’d share that with you. Dear David: I have a question--one you may not be willing to answer but I’m curious so let me try:...