Tuesday, December 31, 2024

Former President Jimmy Carter dead at 100

Former President Jimmy Carter dead at 100: Jimmy Carter, the 39th President of the United States, who served one term, from January 1977 through January 1981, has died at 100. He was the first presidential candidate for whom I ever voted, and I will always be grateful that my vote did not hel...

Jimmy Carter: His image vs. the reality I experienced covering his 1976 campaign

Jimmy Carter: His image vs. the reality I experienced covering his 1976 campaign: As a young freelance journalist and photographer in Washington, D.C. in the mid-1970s, I covered Georgia Democrat Gov. Jimmy Carter’s successful campaign for the presidency in 1976. I was on the press bus when he campaigned in the primaries ...

Ask the Venezuelans how great an ex-president Jimmy Carter was

Ask the Venezuelans how great an ex-president Jimmy Carter was: There's a persistent truism out there that while Jimmy Carter was an execrable president, he was nevertheless a great ex-president. It's balderdash. He may have done some worthy deeds around the eradication of disease and the building o...

Wednesday, December 25, 2024

Stolen valor: Another downward revision in the Biden jobs numbers and it's a doozy

Stolen valor: Another downward revision in the Biden jobs numbers and it's a doozy: Ahead of President Trump taking office on Jan. 20, Bidenomics is still with us. Joe crowed about all the 16 million jobs he'd 'created' in his speech five days ago, patting himself on the back. Here's the White House public rela...

Friday, December 13, 2024

This is what happens when bureaucrats who have never run a business make rules for the rest of us

This is what happens when bureaucrats who have never run a business make rules for the rest of us: The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is a bureaucracy created out of thin air by socialist Elizabeth Warren. Democrats pretend the bureau is just there to protect consumers which is B.S. Their budget is not controlled by Congress or anyone. They ...

A running list of ‘intelligence community’ screwups

A running list of ‘intelligence community’ screwups: Below are just some of the things that the Democrat intelligence community under Joe Biden has screwed up on: A Chinese spy balloon was allowed to fly over the U.S. gathering information. Large drones have been flying around the Northeast for w...

Thursday, December 12, 2024

The Cult of Credentialism

The Cult of Credentialism: I once saw a celebrated American author give a class of literature majors one of the best lessons they could learn.  He was speaking about the English language when he noticed that all of the students were busy taking notes rather than list...

Sunday, December 8, 2024

IRS' Armed Division Expands To Largest Level In A Decade

IRS' Armed Division Expands To Largest Level In A Decade: The Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) division, the armed enforcement wing of the IRS tasked with combating financial crimes, has expanded its workforce by nearly 11 percent, bringing staffing levels to their highest in nearly a decade and boosting the division’s conviction rate to 90 percent, according to the IRS-CI’s latest annual report. The […]

Friday, December 6, 2024

FEMA packs up from North Carolina, leaving behind a whopping 19 trailers for survivors

FEMA packs up from North Carolina, leaving behind a whopping 19 trailers for survivors: Is it that hard to deliver small trailers for survivors of a monstrous hurricane? Well, to FEMA, Joe Biden's emergency management agency it is. Here are the sorry leavings: 🚨#BREAKING: FEMA was caught on tape saying that the reaso...

Monday, December 2, 2024

Flashback: Adam Schiff said pardons in which the president is directly implicated could be an ‘obstruction of justice’

Flashback: Adam Schiff said pardons in which the president is directly implicated could be an ‘obstruction of justice’: As Adam Schiff said in 2018, we wouldn’t want a president abusing the pardon power in order to “shield himself from liability” because such circumstances could very easily amount to an “obstruct[ion of] justice.” Schiff ...

Birthright Citizenship: The 14th Amendment Does Not Apply to Illegal Aliens

Birthright Citizenship: The 14th Amendment Does Not Apply to Illegal Aliens: America is about to go to war over whether the government has the power to deport entire families of illegal aliens. That question involves “birthright citizenship”—that is, whether a child born in the U.S. to illegal alien parents ...

Birthright Citizenship: The 14th Amendment Does Not Apply to Illegal Aliens

Birthright Citizenship: The 14th Amendment Does Not Apply to Illegal Aliens: America is about to go to war over whether the government has the power to deport entire families of illegal aliens. That question involves “birthright citizenship”—that is, whether a child born in the U.S. to illegal alien parents ...