The White House has had a very bad week — so bad, in fact, that they’ve been struggling to keep up with the ongoing classified documents scandal. For example, one Democrat strategist wants Jean-Pierre off the Garage-Gate beat entirely, so it won’t be a distraction at daily briefings. “The White House should consider appointing a separate
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A number of years ago, I met Kathryn and Galen. They’d won a contest sponsored by Woman’s Day magazine. The prize? A money makeover and financial coaching with … me! From our first meeting, we became fast friends. Not only were they drowning in debt but Galen was also dealing with a protracted season of
Finally, finally after two recent stories about California Congresswoman Katie Porter first pondering and then announcing her bid for the U.S. Senate, Politico has at last gotten around to revealing the already well known embarrassing employee scandal in her office. A scandal almost as embarrassing as pretending it doesn’t exist as Politico absurdly tried to
Sen. Kyrsten Sinema’s defection from the Democratic Party back in December was widely seen as problematic for Senate Democrats and their slim majority. But in reality, it was an attempt at self-preservation for Sinema, whose political viability amongst Arizona Democrats has cratered thanks to her marginal independent streak that has helped block key elements of
The U.S. and allies in the Pacific region are stepping up defense cooperation and allowing the U.S. to increase military presence, setting the stage for a potential conflict involving China or North Korea, experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation. Japan understands it is close to both North Korean and Chinese flashpoints and needs to
New York Times media reporter Michael Grynbaum pouted about Florida’s governor and potential Republican presidential candidate thumbing his nose at the “national nonpartisan” (!) media, in “Can Ron DeSantis Avoid Meeting the Press?” on Wednesday. None of these people have the faintest idea that skipping a beating from the national press endears you to GOP
Next month, residents of Chicago will go to the polls to vote for mayor. With eight major candidates in the race, it’s a near certainty that no one will get 50% of the vote. That means there will be a runoff on April 4 to determine who will win the booby prize of running the
On December 20th a handful of Republican senators shuffled before an audience of reporters prepared to issue fiery polemics on the year-end omnibus bill which sat, heavy and ponderous in all its eight-ream absurdity on a wheeled cart before the five-senator assemblage. “DANGER: $1.7 trillion of hazardous debt” read one of the mock-hazard signs decking the cart.
Author and host of the ABC true crime podcast Truth and Lies: The Informant, Dick Lehr joined Good Morning America on Saturday to discuss the case behind the podcast, a foiled bombing of Somali immigrants in Garden City, Kansas, in 2016. Not content to tell a compelling and true story of undercover law enforcement thwarting
A medical official from China’s National Health Commission (NHC) told a press conference in Beijing on Saturday that close to 60,000 people had died of COVID-19 and illnesses where COVID was an underlying factor from Dec. 7, when “zero-COVID” restrictions were lifted, to Jan. 12. While that number represents a 12-fold increase in the “official”
Fox News host Tucker Carlson praised House Speaker Kevin McCarthy for promising to release 14,000 hours of video footage from the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol building. “I think the public should see what happened on that day,” McCarthy told reporters during a press conference Thursday. “I watched what Nancy Pelosi did, where she politicized
A pattern is emerging in the liberal media regarding Biden’s classified documents problem. In one corner, liberal talking heads bend over backwards to distinguish Biden’s case from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago documents: apples and oranges! Completely different! False equivalency! But on the other hand, there is acknowledgment that — as unfair as they claim it would be —
This week may have been the worst week politically for Joe Biden since his botched withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021, which sent his approval ratings underwater — where they have remained ever since. It is too early to say how (or even if) this will impact Biden’s poll numbers, but that might be clearer in
Blue states have recently introduced restrictive gun laws that aim to remove firearms from the streets, but numerous states are now seeing massive increases in gun sales as Americans begin to “vote with their wallets,” according to data from the Firearm Industry Trade Association (NSSF). Gun sales in Oregon, Washington and Illinois jumped either before
HONOLULU – If one discounts Alaska’s Aleutian Islands, Hawaii is about as far – geographically and politically – from Washington, D.C., as one can get. There are just six Republicans out of 51 in the State House of Representatives and two out of 25 in the Senate. One of them is Rep. Gene Ward, who
It’s nothing short of a scandal: despite all the pretensions and posturing of woke actors and producers, Hollywood is denying some of the best roles in cinema to non-white actors. And now a Pakistani-American movie star, Kumail Nanjiani, is blowing the whistle. Will his revelation herald an outbreak of sanity in Tinseltown? Or will he
Are you wondering why checking out at the grocery store these days feels like making a mortgage payment? This week’s four-decade-high inflation is a direct result of the Federal Reserve taking its eye off the ball over the last two years. Instead of focusing on its mandate of keeping prices stable, it has been more concerned with
Democrat Rep. Adam Schiff’s office nagged Twitter to censor content it disliked and even suggested law enforcement should be able to track the flagged tweeters, in the latest Twitter Files. In Thursday’s Twitter Files part 14, Matt Taibbi uncovered that Democrats demanded Twitter support the Russian collusion hoax without evidence. Tabbi followed up his report
You know, for a while, I was actually impressed that CNN was even covering the Biden classified documents scandal — which some have begun to call Garage-gate. The notoriously Biden-boosting network even reported how the classified documents contained highly sensitive files labeled “sensitive compartmented information,” or SCI, indicating that the information had been obtained via
Have you ever been bored in school? For most people, the answer is probably yes. Sometimes it’s a particular teacher that goes way too slow through the material. At other times, the curriculum is just too easy. In either case, the result is countless wasted hours that you will simply never get back. Gifted kids
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre faced the press corps Friday to close out a week almost no one saw coming with the revelation that the Biden administration had kept hidden for two months that classified documents were found at a (faux) think tank and his Wilmington, Delaware home. Like we saw on Wednesday and Thursday, some
The fentanyl crisis in America is undeniable, with fentanyl overdoses becoming the number one cause of death for young adults in 2020 and law enforcement seizing enough deadly fentanyl in 2022 to kill the entire U.S. population. But if you thought closing the border to restrict the flow of illegal fentanyl or helping drug addicts
Gary Varvel Gary Varvel is the editorial cartoonist for The Indianapolis Star. Born in Indianapolis, Indiana in 1957, Varvel was drawn to cartoons as a child when he saw a copy of MAD magazine. His freshman year at Danville High School in Danville, Indiana, Varvel won his first cartoon contest held by the school newspaper.
24 hours after dubiously suggesting Republicans may have planted the classified documents in President Biden’s garage in Delaware, racist co-host Sunny Hostin of ABC’s The View refused to walk back that conspiracy theory Friday. Instead, she floated a contrived excuse for why Biden was not transparent with the American people about the documents being found
Whenever I give the left credit for anything, I deeply regret it. When will I learn? It’s happened again, and this time it revolves around “who is allowed to speak out against the gender cult?” According to the TERFs (trans-exclusionary radical feminists), it’s only them and others they allow to speak, and only if they’re
The Supreme Court’s investigation into the leak of Justice Samuel Alito’s Dobbs majority opinion has reportedly narrowed down the suspect list, according to The Wall Street Journal. On May 2, 2022, the majority opinion for the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Center opinion was leaked in an extreme break from precedent, and the following day Chief Justice
Behind the refusal of the House Republican Party’s so-called freedom caucus to vote for Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., is the caucus’s skepticism that he will actually “rein in government spending.” I’ve never quite understood why all Republicans do not belong to the Freedom Caucus. If the Republican Party supports low taxes, light regulations and strong
(Reminder: Every episode is now in the Unwoke section of our new podcast page. I’ll still be doing teaser blurb posts in Columns as reminders that new episodes are up.) New year, new us! Kidding, we haven’t changed at all. It is good to be back though. In this first episode of 2023, Kevin and I dive into
Every president probably stashes away classified documents. The chances of any president being successfully prosecuted for pilfering them are infinitesimal. Nevertheless, Joe Biden has engaged in the same behavior as Donald Trump — perhaps worse, since vice presidents are unable to declassify documents — and precedent and transparency, our very democracy, demanded that Attorney General
In the Monday edition of Amanpour & Co on PBS, host Christiane Amanpour spoke with brand-new Rep. Delia Ramirez (D-Ill.) about Brazil, refugees, the Dreamers, and the House Speaker vote. Amanpour let Ramirez’s personal story as a first-generation immigrant stand in for actual journalism, while both host and guest compared the political chaos in Brazil