COVID's Worst Victim: America's Trust

COVID's Worst Victim: America's Trust: In 1969, Elizabeth Kubler-Ross published a seminal work, On Death and Dying, where she described five stages of grief that individuals experience after a profound emotional loss, such as the death of a loved one. Today, Americans are grieving...

The New York Times Hasn’t Always Cared About Ukrainians

The New York Times Hasn’t Always Cared About Ukrainians: At his CPAC speech on Saturday, former President Donald Trump could not have been clearer in his denunciation of Vladimir Putin.

American Appeasement of Russia Led to War in Ukraine

American Appeasement of Russia Led to War in Ukraine: As I write this, the first shells are exploding in Ukraine in what promises to be the bloodiest war in Europe since 1945.  The most frustrating part is that this was all preventable.  This was not an unseen, spontaneous natural di...

Sunday, February 27, 2022

The COVID narrative continues, regardless of facts

The COVID narrative continues, regardless of facts: Very early in the pandemic, I started comparing what was happening nationally to the movie Idiocracy. I once thought it a terribly dumb movie. Turns out, it wasn’t—because now we’re living a present-day version of some aspects of th...

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other green energy zealots have Ukrainian blood on their hands

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other green energy zealots have Ukrainian blood on their hands: Now that Russia has invaded Ukraine — forcing over 50,000 Ukrainians to flee their country or seek shelter underground amid the shelling of major cities — the Green New Deal can now officially be renamed the Red New Deal.  At th...

Leftist Journalism is Coming to a Town Near You!

Leftist Journalism is Coming to a Town Near You!: For years, local journalism has been collapsing.  Between 2018 and 2020, nearly 6,000 journalism jobs and 300 newspapers vanished, a longstanding trend which accelerated with the COVID pandemic. But, not to worry, help is on the way. Enter Re...

Joe Biden says delusional Americans are imagining inflation

Joe Biden says delusional Americans are imagining inflation: Hard-left podcaster Brian Tyler Cohen interviewed Biden. The topics were what would expect—Biden’s race- and sex-based Supreme Court nominee, claims that Trump and other Republicans support Putin, boasts about his strategic genius, etc.&m...

President Trump in 2018 called out the factors that led Putin to invade Ukraine

President Trump in 2018 called out the factors that led Putin to invade Ukraine: A few years back in 2018 (which seems like the age of innocence considering what the world has devolved into currently), President Donald Trump had a meeting with NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg. Unlike most meetings where polite banter oc...

The bombs are real, but what's coming out of DC is theater

The bombs are real, but what's coming out of DC is theater: I thought and hoped Putin was posturing or that, even if he wasn't posturing, NATO would get its act together and either promise to keep Ukraine neutral or become so threatening that Putin would decide that invading Ukraine was too risky. &n...

John Kerry reminds us that he too would have been an awful president

John Kerry reminds us that he too would have been an awful president: There are few more unattractive public figures than John Kerry (although I've been told that, in private settings, Kerry can be quite charming).  He probably would have been as bad a president as either Obama or Biden (although Biden...

Ukraine: The left spews an amazing banquet of stupidities

Ukraine: The left spews an amazing banquet of stupidities: As had been said in the aftermath of 9/11: ' The world has changed.' And much of the left's response?  To just keep on living in the pre-02-22-22 world where they'd felt so comfortable in their cocoons...

Biden's Press Conference a Total Disaster, Completely Blows Up in His Face - World Sees How Weak He Is

Since Biden crippled the US energy sector on his first day in office, the US has been buying 600,000 barrels of oil daily from Russia. Yes, Russia! In essence, the Biden Regime is financing Putin's invasion of Ukraine. This is how corrupt Democrats are. The only Russian Collusion taking place involves Democrats. Stand up for your country. Vote out every Democrat on the November ballot.

Biden's Press Conference a Total Disaster, Completely Blows Up in His Face - World Sees How Weak He Is: Biden's press conference to address the Russian invasion of Ukraine made him look weak and laughable. Meanwhile, Putin is bombing Ukraine.

The 2020s are calling, and they say pay attention to China

The 2020s are calling, and they say pay attention to China: The armchair generals, the MSM pundits, and the social media experts are debating passionately about the Russian invasion of Ukraine.  We should fight for Ukraine!  We should not fight for Ukraine!  Putin will go after a...

How do Democrats deal with Joe Biden? They've quit reading the news

How do Democrats deal with Joe Biden? They've quit reading the news: Joe Biden is about as hideous a failure as any president has ever been in United States history.  He bests Jimmy Carter, he bests Barack Obama, he bests Warren Harding, he bests Franklin Pierce and James Buchanan for his sheer cowardice, co...

Lesson from Ukraine -- Don't Give Up Your Guns (or Nukes)

Lesson from Ukraine -- Don't Give Up Your Guns (or Nukes): Ukrainians are being urged to arm themselves to resist the unprovoked Russian invasion of their country. The immediate question is,

We won't soon forget Trudeau's affair with totalitarianism

We won't soon forget Trudeau's affair with totalitarianism: What in the world is going on in Canada?  Just last night, P.M. Trudeau revoked the Emergencies Act that he'd been using since last Monday to crack down on protesters.  But the Parliament had approved those

It's no surprise that Putin invaded during Obama's and Biden's presidencies instead of Trump's

It's no surprise that Putin invaded during Obama's and Biden's presidencies instead of Trump's: Russian President Vladimir Putin remembers how cooperative Obama and Biden were during their eight years in office, no matter what he did. In 2009, Obama backed out of a promise to put up missile shields in Poland and the Czech Republic, which cer...

Failing cable news nets CNN and MSNBC poised for a bidding war over Psaki as their ratings savior

Failing cable news nets CNN and MSNBC poised for a bidding war over Psaki as their ratings savior: There is a certain symmetry to the notion that the spokesmouth for the failing Biden administration reportedly is being assiduously courted by the two failing cable news networks, CNN and MSNBC, both of which have endured near-catastrophic ratin...

Bombs rain down on Kiev, America gets ready for Putin's wrath, and Hunter Biden enjoys his money

Bombs rain down on Kiev, America gets ready for Putin's wrath, and Hunter Biden enjoys his money: It finally happened, and everyone should have seen it coming: Russian bombs are now raining down on Kiev — and Donetsk, Luhansk, Kharkiv, Odessa, Ivano-Frankivsk, and Mariupol — making Ukraine a full-blown war zone&nbs...

Doddering Biden volunteers America for higher energy prices to defend Ukraine's borders

Doddering Biden volunteers America for higher energy prices to defend Ukraine's borders: After failing to plan for the obvious contingenies, a doddering Joe Biden turned up late to his own press conference and announced that he's volunteering America for higher energy prices as a result of his feeble bid to defend...

The Treason of the Ruling Class

The Treason of the Ruling Class: Because of the egocentrism and megalomania of the current ruling class, our country is inexorably and stealthily marching toward a tyrannical one-party socialist oligarchy beholden to a globalist agenda.  These elites, in their determination to ...

An unstoppable peaceful protest on 18 wheels

An unstoppable peaceful protest on 18 wheels: Americans are ticked off at the shenanigans going on in Canada.  Martial law for a few thousand truckers protesting mandates?  Seizing bank accounts?  Trampling peaceful protesters with horses?  All this to for...

The left is obsessed with extending problems

The left is obsessed with extending problems: I was thinking about racism in America and how we hear the complaints that America is racist, but we rarely hear solutions. The same tactic is being used with COVID-19. What happened when somebody tested positive? Such people were sent home ...

Canadian police ‘on the wrong side of history’?

Canadian police ‘on the wrong side of history’?: The Ottawa Police Department (OPD) recently received many phone calls protesting its abhorrent abuse of peaceful protesters surrounding the Freedom Convoy. The department apparently did not like the calls. Ergo, it took to Twitter to tweet:  &ld...

More evidence of the terrible harm masks do to children

More evidence of the terrible harm masks do to children: In ancient times, there was Moloch, reviled by God in the Old Testament for the children who were burned alive as a sacrifice to the idol. One of the crowning glories of the Jewish faith is the moment when God asks Abraham to sacrifice his son Isaac ...

The Democrats Are Turning America into the New Venezuela

The Democrats Are Turning America into the New Venezuela: The Bill of Rights is very clear and does not have any stipulations pertaining to the Second Amendment.  There are no conditions attached to the Second Amendment, such as the type of firearm, number of bullets in the magazine, caliber size, manu...

Putin is Playing Biden like a Fiddle

Putin is Playing Biden like a Fiddle: Vlad Putin, the evil though very calculating chief oligarch of the shriveled nation of Russia (when stacked against its predecessor, the Soviet Union), is playing chess over the fate of Ukraine, while our figurehead president and his gaggle of admini...

Capital punishment drops, murder rates jump. Coincidence?

Capital punishment drops, murder rates jump. Coincidence?: Early this month, New York City police stood 20 rows deep as the hearse carrying the body of Officer Wilbert Mora, 27, passed.  Mora and his partner, Jason Rivera, 22, had been ambushed and killed by a repeat felon. Their murders, t...

Canada really is turning into a police state before our eyes

Canada really is turning into a police state before our eyes: One of the hallmarks of liberty is a reliable legal system.  In totalitarian countries, one of the ways you control people is to keep them perpetually off-balance.  The law and its application are utterly unpredictable.  ...

Guest Column: Tom Wolf’s True Legacy of Failure as Pennsylvania Governor

By Lowman S. Henry

Gov. Tom Wolf recently delivered his eighth and final state budget address continuing an unbroken streak of proposals laced with fiscal fantasy. He envisions a 16.6% increase in state spending – totaling nearly $3 billion above projected revenue.

The budget speech marked the beginning of the lame-duck governor’s efforts to frame what he believes to be his legacy. To that end, Wolf has proposed yet another massive increase in state education spending to go along with the hefty annual increases that according to at least one recent report have yielded no improvement in student academic achievement.

Charles Mitchell of the Commonwealth Foundation recently pointed out that during his budget address “Gov. Wolf took credit for shoring up the state’s Rainy Day fund, balancing the budget without raising taxes, public pension reform, putting wine in grocery stores, and potentially leaving a surplus to his successor.” Mitchell correctly noted: “These materialized not because of Wolf’s leadership, but despite his opposition.”

The governor’s true legacy will be none of those things.  Wolf’s legacy will be framed by his handling – or mishandling – of the COVID-19 pandemic. And that legacy is one of ineptitude that inflicted economic suffering and, tragically, death upon the people of Penn’s Woods.

Early in the pandemic, Pennsylvania was one of a number of states that implemented a policy of returning patients still suffering from COVID-19 infections into nursing and personal care homes. The result: in the first months of the pandemic nearly 70% of deaths caused by the virus occurred in such facilities.

In an ABC 27 News report State Senator John Yudichak of Luzerne County termed the situation at nursing homes: “A tragedy of Shakespearean proportion and it begs, begs for accountability.” Unfortunately, neither Tom Wolf nor his complicit former Health Secretary Dr. Rachel Levine, who conveniently moved her own mother out of a personal care home at the start of the pandemic, have been held accountable.

Blame politics for that lack of accountability.  In New York, where former Gov. Andrew Cuomo pursued the same fatally flawed policies as did Tom Wolf the state’s Attorney General, Letitia James, did conduct an investigation. No such investigation has occurred in Pennsylvania where holding accountable a governor his own party would have negatively impacted Attorney General Josh Shapiro’s own campaign for governor.

Tom Wolf’s legacy also bears the stain of killing tens of thousands of businesses through draconian shut-down orders and restrictions. His closing of so-called “non-essential” businesses resulted in mass chaos. In typical fashion the governor failed to consult with the business community, issuing orders with no advance notice and then constantly changing the metrics required for re-opening.

The result was a wave of business failures and a historic spike in unemployment. The problem was compounded by the inability of the state Labor Department to efficiently process unemployment claims – a problem that persists two years later.

Wolf appeared to relish the power. He repeatedly declared the commonwealth to be in a state of emergency utilizing a law basically designed to give governors the ability to deal with natural disasters. He assumed the power to bypass the state legislature and to govern by executive order and regulatory fiat. An activist state Supreme Court effectively re-wrote the law and allowed the governor to continue implementing draconian and ultimately ineffective measures.

Finally, in May of 2021 “We the People” had enough. Fed up with Tom Wolf’s abuse of power voters approved two state constitutional amendments that placed limits on the use of emergency power declarations and gave the General Assembly the clear power to end such orders.  It was an unprecedented rebuke of an autocratic governor whose lust for power had gone too far.  

But, having drunk from the cup of unfettered power Wolf continued issuing orders. After first saying school districts should set their own mask policies he reversed course and had his health department issue an order requiring students in public schools to wear masks. At that point, even Wolf’s allies at the state Supreme Court gave up and ruled he did not have the power to issue such an order.

Blue state governors across the nation are beginning to rescind their draconian COVID-19 policies as polling shows the public is rebelling and the issue is now impacting Democratic hopes for the upcoming mid-term elections. So governors like Tom Wolf are looking to change the focus away from the pandemic.

But don’t be fooled. Tom Wolf can talk about education funding all he wants, but his true legacy is a deadly, destructive epic failure to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic.

(Lowman S. Henry is Chairman & CEO of the Lincoln Institute and host of the weekly American Radio Journal and Lincoln Radio Journal. His e-mail address is lhenry@lincolninstitute.org.)

Washington and Lincoln Call the American People to Reclaim their Rights from Government

Washington and Lincoln Call the American People to Reclaim their Rights from Government: With the shock and awakening of Americans that the freedoms, rights, and opportunities they had taken for granted for generations have been brazenly stripped away in the last few years, this President’s Day 2022 may well be one of our most sign...

Ottawa: The Charge of the Woke Brigade

Ottawa: The Charge of the Woke Brigade: Remember President Clinton? I remember that, after he left office, he regretted that he'd never be ranked among the top presidents because he didn't have a war on his watch. Kosovo need not apply. There's a

Sunday, February 20, 2022

A school board member wants to arrest a mom who exposes her hypocrisy

A school board member wants to arrest a mom who exposes her hypocrisy: Two videos have been kicking around for a few days but not getting the traction I feel they deserve. They were taken at a school board meeting, apparently in Virginia, and they show a mom shaming a school board member who apparently believes that chi...

National Geographic has become too woke to be taken seriously

National Geographic has become too woke to be taken seriously: “The Science,” which leftists always speak of as an oracle independent from petty human concerns, has spoken: Outside of well-fitted N95 masks, the cloth or loose-fitting paper masks that people have been wearing for almost two years do n...

Religious Intolerance and COVID Vax Mandates

Religious Intolerance and COVID Vax Mandates: In our current age of woke domination and historical ignorance, the words of Joseph Noyes speak to us through the centuries. By the

The Power of the Powerless Is Real

The Power of the Powerless Is Real: One of the most challenging obstacles working against ordinary citizens in the West is the self-satisfying presumption that Western institutions and philosophies are inherently immune from the rise of totalitarianism.  This is an understand...

The false claim that Trump was in wrongful possession of confidential documents

The false claim that Trump was in wrongful possession of confidential documents: The National Archives, which is controlled by a hard-leftist cadre, excitedly announced that President Donald Trump took classified information with him when he left the White House.  The problem — which the AP reluctantly concedes &m...

An American general, Douglas MacArthur, nailed it

An American general, Douglas MacArthur, nailed it: On Sept. 2, 1945, General Douglas MacArthur accepted the formal surrender of Japan aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay, ending World War II. MacArthur was an enigma.  He was a soldier who came from a military family.  He ...

A pandemic driven by politics, not science

A pandemic driven by politics, not science: As we have been dealing with the COVID-19 virus for more than two years, we are now seeing the beginning of its worldwide decline. One fact remains clear: that in spite of the continued exhortation to

A president so bad that even his base is disgusted with him

A president so bad that even his base is disgusted with him: Drew Magary is a San Francisco columnist who comes at politics from a place far, far along the leftist spectrum.  He is the radical base that drives the modern Democrat party.  On the Venn diagram mapping out my political views an...

Thursday, February 17, 2022

The Vanishing American Work Ethic

The Vanishing American Work Ethic: As a result of the pandemic, ‘Now Hiring’ signs proliferate in most restaurants, grocery stores, and small businesses, but most go unanswered.  Large blue-state cities, especially California, are plagued with hordes of homeless encam...

COVID was always about control, it was never about the virus

COVID was always about control, it was never about the virus: COVID was always about control; it was never about the virus. Has anyone noticed that the anti-liberty left has lost the plot?  Almost everyone knows that omicron was the natural vaccine that they didn't have to force down our throat...

The Decline of American Medicine

The Decline of American Medicine: The COVID pandemic has highlighted concerning trends in the way medicine is practiced in the United States.  These trends have been present for long time, predating the appearance of COVID, but their pernicious nature has become more appare...

Durham scandal: The sheer dishonesty of the media is astounding

Durham scandal: The sheer dishonesty of the media is astounding: For more than six years, the media have set out to destroy President Trump with lies. Now, I see a report that Trump is profiting like no other president by getting paid for appearances. Here's the New York Times: Selling Trump: A Profita...

Can the Democrats Undermine the Midterms?

Can the Democrats Undermine the Midterms?: In late January, President Biden told a national TV audience that he was not prepared to say that the coming midterm elections would be legitimate. This startling admission was quickly walked back, but it shone a white-hot spotlight on Democrat effor...

Wednesday, February 16, 2022

Wokester bloodbath: Blue San Francisco throws out three Board of Education leftists by monster margins

Wokester bloodbath: Blue San Francisco throws out three Board of Education leftists by monster margins: It wasn't even close. San Francisco Democrats turned hard on three far-left Board of Education members who kept public schools on lockdown, focused on changing the names of storied old schools, and told Asians to go to hell on merit-based admi...

It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Administration!

It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Administration!: Witnessing events as the currently installed regime does its best to manage the mess it’s made, I’m reminded of the 1963 movie, “It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World,” which employed an ensemble cast of actors and comedians w...

Two intriguing points about the Durham allegations

Two intriguing points about the Durham allegations: There are few people who have followed the Russia collusion hoax as closely as Dan Bongino.  That's why I made sure to listen to his podcast the Monday after the story broke regarding John Durham's allegations about the Hillary camp...

The Silent Coup

The Silent Coup: Ever since President Trump came down the golden escalators to announce his candidacy for president of the United States, many professional and even casual observers of politics and history have wondered just what was going on in the events that follo...

The Biden blues

The Biden blues: Not long ago, it seemed that all the experts, including some Republicans, were saying the Democrats just had too much demographics on their side.  What happened?  Now it seems that the demographics argument is not what they p...

And Rice Makes 30 ... Democrat Rep. Kathleen Rice from New York's 4th District Announces Retirement

Democrats are deserting the sinking ship in record numbers. 30 incumbents Democratic House members are too embarrassed to face voters in November after their party's destruction of the US since Biden took office.

And Rice Makes 30... Democrat Rep. Kathleen Rice from New York's 4th District Announces Retirement

Helping people handle the 'forever COVID' future the Biden admin promises

Helping people handle the 'forever COVID' future the Biden admin promises: (This post is satire.  At least, it's satire for now.) On February 8, White House press secretary Jen Psaki kept a straight face when she told reporters that the entire United States is a high transmission area and that everyone...

Don't Get Sick in a Blue State

Don't Get Sick in a Blue State: There is no lack of stark contrast between the way conservative/red states and liberal/blue states have handled the COVID crisis over the past two years. I live in Massachusetts, Land o' Warren, home to the biggest destructively phony RINO of ...

Both the left and the right are seeing Justin Trudeau as a pure tyrant

Both the left and the right are seeing Justin Trudeau as a pure tyrant: For those who, like me, value freedom, the valiant protest in which the Canadian truckers are engaged is inspiring.  We've also been thrilled to see the thousands of Canadians who turned out to support the truckers.  Meanwhile...

Washington’s COVID Scam Killed Medical Freedom, and Americans

Washington’s COVID Scam Killed Medical Freedom, and Americans: Medical freedom or autonomy gives people the right to choose with respect to their bodies; physicians the freedom to do what is best for a patient; and bio-scientists the freedom to communicate with, well, everyone.  Washington...

Our Founding Fathers Would All Be Driving Trucks Today

Our Founding Fathers Would All Be Driving Trucks Today: For two years, Western governments have embraced COVID-1984 totalitarianism, and now a group of minutemen truckers is having its say.  It is a recurring theme throughout history that the fight for freedom doesn't really begin ...

Biden’s Popularity is Sinking Like the Titanic

Biden’s Popularity is Sinking Like the Titanic: President Job Biden is beginning his second year in office. Just over a year ago when he was elected, or selected, tears of joy flowed in blue cities. Political experts like Taylor Swift expressed, “Quiet, cautious elation and relief.&rdqu...

Saturday, February 12, 2022

We Are All Truckers Now

We Are All Truckers Now: As momentum from the Freedom Convoy in Canada mounts and works its way into the US, and similar convoys spring up in Europe, Australia, and New Zealand, people are collectively standing up to two years of COVID restrictions, lies, misery, and abuse a...

The great Democrat COVID pivot is approaching

The great Democrat COVID pivot is approaching: Having watched the COVID Propaganda Theater for two years, one would conclude that the Democrats have the answers but cannot reveal them, under threat of Double-Secret Probation or worse.  They exude confidence in error-prone spokesmen and ...

The bad inflation numbers are even worse than the government says

The bad inflation numbers are even worse than the government says: You couldn't miss the headlines: the annual percentage increase in inflation clocked in at 7.5%, making it the worst increase in 40 years.  For anyone on a fixed income, living off savings, or in a low-paying job, this is a disaster.&nb...

Putting Joe Biden's inflation in perspective

 

Families are forced to spend $276 more each month on necessities. That doesn't mean much to the Party of the Rich (Democrats) but it's another severe blow to the shrinking American working class.

Lunacy: Biden calls for huge new government spending to ... beat inflation

Lunacy: Biden calls for huge new government spending to...beat inflation: We see no awareness of how inflation builds from the supply chain — that when a producer has higher input costs for raw goods, he needs to pass on his costs to the next guy down the line buying it — the factory, the retailer, the broker 

Time to worry: The Biden government is redefining core principles

Time to worry: The Biden government is redefining core principles: Two odd little reports appeared in the past couple of days, both of which involve the federal government redefining things that, before the Biden administration, had mostly agreed-upon definitions that were not hostile to ordinary Americans and that ...

If DC Fears Trump, He Deserves Four More Years

If DC Fears Trump, He Deserves Four More Years: I do try not to get angry when government actors confirm my belief that they are lowly human beings not worthy of respect.  With age and experience, most people eventually come face to face with enough instances of injustice or straight-up ...

McConnell joins Cheney and Kinzinger in giving aid and comfort to the swamp's denizens

McConnell joins Cheney and Kinzinger in giving aid and comfort to the swamp's denizens: Mitch McConnell obviously has never met a conservative populist (a/k/a Trump supporter) he ever liked.  That clearly is indicated by his gratuitous defense of GOP turncoats Cheney and Kinzinger.  Republican National Committee chair Ronna Mc...

Wednesday, February 09, 2022

Will the Churches Follow Mark Zuckerberg into the Metaverse?

Will the Churches Follow Mark Zuckerberg into the Metaverse?: During the last two years, many if not most churches have been wandering in a wilderness.  Exiled from houses of worship due to COVID-19 mandates and regulations, the retreat of congregations to cyber-space at the onset of the pandemic was ...

What do you have to do to get fired from Joe Biden's Cabinet?

What do you have to do to get fired from Joe Biden's Cabinet?: Outside Cirque de Soleil, there's no bigger collection of clowns than the members of Joe Biden's Cabinet.  It's one thing to have a mental defective for president, quite another to have a bunch of left-wing ideologues with littl...

The Biden family is a criminal enterprise as defined in the RICO Act

The Biden family is a criminal enterprise as defined in the RICO Act: Although the 1970 Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) was initially targeted at gangsters, it equally applies to corrupt government practices involving low-level crooks led by the top players, linked together with a common purpo...

The Capitol Police have been fully weaponized against Republicans

The Capitol Police have been fully weaponized against Republicans: If you visited D.C. in the days before COVID and January 6 madness, and wandered around (or got permission to go into) the Capitol, you saw Capitol Police officers on duty.  They were doing pretty much what all police officers do, which is ...

Across America, teachers are going to war against students

Across America, teachers are going to war against students: (See also Pandra Selivanov's post about students and parents pushing back against Gavin Newsom's mandates about student masks.) The Democrat establishment, recognizing that Americans have had it with masks (especially as studies ...

Congress is about to rob Medicare to 'save' the Postal Service

Congress is about to rob Medicare to 'save' the Postal Service: In the business world, low-performance departments are often audited, reformed, and — if they continue to underperform — eliminated.  It's one of the many ways companies stay competitive — by eliminating dead weight to...

Democrats live in an alternate universe

Democrats live in an alternate universe: There isn't a chasm separating Democrats and Republicans, but an alternate universe.  Hillary Clinton, who probably believes she is president in an alternate universe, accused Trump of living in an alternate reality.  More rec...

The Inconvenient Truth About Electric Vehicles

The Inconvenient Truth About Electric Vehicles: America may be headed for a new type of energy crisis. While fracking technology still gives us relative energy independence, there is a distinct possibility that an electricity energy crisis awaits us. What if the demand for electricity significantl...

FDA Duplicity on Covid-19 Vaccines

FDA Duplicity on Covid-19 Vaccines: Perhaps the most important long-term fallout of the Chinese Coronavirus pandemic has been the exposure of the venality and politicization within the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as well as other federal health agencies such as the Centers for D...

Putting Fauci in the law's crosshairs

Putting Fauci in the law's crosshairs: By now I’m sure everyone has heard of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., an attorney in a New York law firm. and his newest book, The Real Anthony Fauci. His book is widely acclaimed and exhaustively researched and footnoted. On pages 19-20, Kennedy...

Why the Sudden Hostility Toward Off-Label Medicines?

Why the Sudden Hostility Toward Off-Label Medicines?: The US Food and Drug Administration has an exhaustive process, “to evaluate new drugs before they can be sold.” Specifically, this involves the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER). The rationale is sound and for the general goo...

Germany to raze a 1,000-year-old forest in the name of 'going green'

Germany to raze a 1,000-year-old forest in the name of 'going green': Germany, as we well know with its Russian gas capers, is a highly industrialized society in need of a lot of energy.  Fine and dandy. But how they get it presents increasingly bad options. They got rid of their nuclear powe...

An Obama photograph proves the lies of ‘climate change’ and COVID

An Obama photograph proves the lies of ‘climate change’ and COVID: The left is built upon a mountain of falsehoods but two of the biggest are that humankind is trembling on the brink of destruction because of ‘climate change’ and that onerous COVID restrictions are the only things keeping us alive. So wh...

It’s time for plain speaking about communism

It’s time for plain speaking about communism: I like political leaders who speak plainly about the dangers of communism. I recall Ronald Reagan calling the communists in Russia an evil empire for the way they oppressed their people and the peoples of Eastern Europe in the 1980s. I liked the way ...

GoFundMe self-immolates on the back of the Canadian truckers' strike

GoFundMe self-immolates on the back of the Canadian truckers' strike: Big Tech's embrace of wokesterism has left it full of idiots. Which brings us to GoFundMe, the popular fund-raising platform, which shut down a $10 million cash haul for the striking Canadian truckers on some kind of political correc...

Avenatti and the Media Swindlers

Avenatti and the Media Swindlers: If you want to feed on fake news, be bombarded by endless praise-filled coverage of scoundrels whose fame is undeserved, and listen to just plain idiocy, keep watching television news. With the latest conviction of former media star Michael Aven...

Justin Trudeau Shows How Manipulative and Pathetic the Global Elites Are

Justin Trudeau Shows How Manipulative and Pathetic the Global Elites Are: “Every word he says he is a lie. A nose as long as the trucker‘s convoy.” Dr. Jordan B. Peterson When thousands of truckers drove toward Ottawa in protest against the vaccine mandates, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudea...

Saturday, February 05, 2022

Has the US Government Declared War on Its Citizens?

Has the US Government Declared War on Its Citizens?: Imagine if the U.S. government targeted a foreign nation-state by devaluing its currency, pushing waves of migrants across its borders, undermining the security of its elections, denigrating the unifying elements of its citizens' shared history, ...

Schweizer Hits Another Home Run on Biden-China Corruption

Schweizer Hits Another Home Run on Biden-China Corruption: Red-Handed: How American Elites Get Rich Helping China Win by Peter Schweizer 352 pages, hardcover $18.25, Kindle $14.95 ISBN-10: 0063061147 Harper, 2022 Peter Schweizer is an Oxford graduate, former Hoover Institution Fellow, and co-found...

Email Hidden for 5 Years Declared Hunter Biden 'Undercut' US Efforts to Fight Ukraine Corruption - Report

Email Hidden for 5 Years Declared Hunter Biden 'Undercut' US Efforts to Fight Ukraine Corruption - Report: George Kent tells two different stories about the effect Hunter Biden's business dealings in Ukraine were having on the Obama administration's efforts to combat corruption in the country.

Biden’s heinous, dishonest speech attacking the Second Amendment

Biden’s heinous, dishonest speech attacking the Second Amendment: Currently, the single most important thing separating America from most of the world’s other so-called free countries is our Second Amendment. Most countries pay lip service to the rights of free speech or free assembly; none acknowledge an inh...

What's the deal with Biden’s 'ghost flights’ of illegal aliens?

What's the deal with Biden’s 'ghost flights’ of illegal aliens?: Is the Biden administration quietly importing large numbers of illegal aliens through midnight flights? That would be a reasonable conclusion based on recent reports about the Biden administration’s resettlement process. The White House is b...

Biden's Rule: Trust me, but don't dare verify because it's none of your business

Biden's Rule: Trust me, but don't dare verify because it's none of your business: President Reagan used to say 'trust, but verify.' Joe Biden has shortened that to everyone just trust. This authoritarian Biden 'rule' was made evident in the course of the Feb. 3 briefing at the Department of State. &ldqu...

Thursday, February 03, 2022

A bad week for Zucker, Whoopi, and the Democrat Party

A bad week for Zucker, Whoopi, and the Democrat Party: February did not greet Jeff Zucker or Whoopi Goldberg with a smile.  On the contrary, Mr. Zucker just resigned from CNN over an undisclosed and

Just how frail is Joe Biden?

Just how frail is Joe Biden?: I must admit that I was very wrong about Biden. I thought he'd be out of office by June 2021 at the latest.  Instead, technically speaking, he's still in office.  But looking at a recent, very disturbing little video of Jo...

Communism's Woke Gods Must Be Crazy

Communism's Woke Gods Must Be Crazy: It's no wonder that one of the first acts of all communist regimes is to round up and murder anybody not hysterically committed to the

Like California, Facebook is losing people. Wonder why

Like California, Facebook is losing people. Wonder why: Facebook is going the way of California.  It's losing people. The news for the social media behemoth was grim. According to CNBC: Facebook earnings came in below expectations for the fourth quarter, and the compa...

Bombshell documents reveal the Big Lie behind the Trump Ukraine impeachment

Bombshell documents reveal the Big Lie behind the Trump Ukraine impeachment: When President Trump called Ukraine’s president in the summer of 2020, he asked—without conditions—that Ukraine investigate whether then-Veep Biden used taxpayer money to force the discharge of a Ukrainian prosecutor who was coming ...

Time to end the witch hunt obsession with Donald Trump

Time to end the witch hunt obsession with Donald Trump: The only thing that's more tiring than the COVID-19 obsession is the ongoing witch hunt obsession with Donald Trump. President Clinton gave U.S. technology and advanced military weapons know-how to China, but no one is obsessing over hunting h...

Colossal incompetence: Biden officials completely unprepared for fall of Afghanistan, leaked memo shows

Colossal incompetence: Biden officials completely unprepared for fall of Afghanistan, leaked memo shows: It's not huge news that the Biden administration was a colossal failure on Afghanistan, or that Joe Biden still thinks there's nothing to apologize for. What's news now is the colossal incompetence that went on inside that administrati...

Tucker Carlson has some very unexpected people watching his show

Tucker Carlson has some very unexpected people watching his show: Monday through Friday, Tucker Carlson is my daily indulgence. I like that he tackles issues other major media types, even the conservatives, shy away from.  I like his sense of humor and his mad cackle.  I especially enjoy his mon...

It’s Time for America to Leave NATO and for Europe to Resolve Their Internal Disputes

It’s Time for America to Leave NATO and for Europe to Resolve Their Internal Disputes: Since 1916 and the First World War, United States foreign policy has been dominated by Eurocentrism. Following the Second World War, America has been the military protector of Western Europe for 73 years through the North Atlantic Treaty Organization...

The Great Climate Rip-Off

The Great Climate Rip-Off: Is the climate changing?  Yes.  Is mankind contributing to the change in climate?  Yes.  Should major national policy respond to this change?  No! Climate changes continuously, both warming and coo...

Justin Trudeau is a Bungler and Menace to His Nation

Justin Trudeau is a Bungler and Menace to His Nation: At the beginning of January, Justin Trudeau, the Prime Minister of Canada, posted a message on Twitter in which he announced that he had just received his Covid vaccine booster and urged others to do likewise. At the end of January, Justin Tru...

Dolly Parton does not belong in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame is a joke. 

Take a look at this year's nominees: Dolly Parton, Eminem, Lionel Richie, Duran Duran, A Tribe Called Quest, Rage Against the Machine, Pat Benatar, Dionne Warwick, Carly Simon, Judas Priest and Beck. 

You could make the argument for Pat Benatar and Judas Priest, maybe even Duran Duran. But the rest? Not even close.

Why don't they just change the name to "Pop Music Hall of Fame" and stop pretending 90% of the potential inductees have anything to do with "Rock & Roll"?

The COVID Narrative is Falling Apart

The COVID Narrative is Falling Apart: Joe Biden claims this is a pandemic of the unvaccinated and wants everyone in the world vaxxed with the “safe and effective” vaccines.  In addition, he plans to distribute millions of

The Lancet surrenders and declares COVID pandemic is almost over

The Lancet surrenders and declares COVID pandemic is almost over: The Lancet, published since 1823, is universally recognized as one of the top medical publications in the world, though it damaged its reputation by publishing and then subsequently retracting a study attacking the use of hydroxychloroquine...

If you wanted proof Biden isn't in charge of his own administration, here it is...

If you wanted proof Biden isn't in charge of his own administration, here it is...: The same media establishment that colluded with the Democrats to cover up Joe Biden's dementia in order to get Donald Trump out of the White House is now providing cover for his obvious status as a puppet for unseen handlers.  This is a...

From COVID to Liberal ‘Groundhog Day’

From COVID to Liberal ‘Groundhog Day’: Dear liberals: are you wondering right now that the walls are closing in? First, it was Trump: bought and paid for by the Russians. Then it was the open and fair election of 2020 that armed insurrectionists, inspired by the defeated President Tr...

It’s Time for America to Leave NATO and for Europe to Resolve Their Internal Disputes

It’s Time for America to Leave NATO and for Europe to Resolve Their Internal Disputes: Since 1916 and the First World War, United States foreign policy has been dominated by Eurocentrism. Following the Second World War, America has been the military protector of Western Europe for 73 years through the North Atlantic Treaty Organization...