During a recent press conference in Brussels, Joe Biden discussed a coming food shortage that is “gonna be real.” Biden said the sanctions he slapped on Russia would be “imposed upon an awful lot of countries as well, including European countries and our country as well.” Embattled Americans have grounds to be skeptical.
Jennifer Siebel Newsom, wife of California Gov. Gavin Newsom, has posted a TikTok video of “5 Golden State trailblazers to celebrate this Women’s History Month.” The background of her second choice, Angela Davis, may be unfamiliar to many Californians.
As divisive as the political climate appears today, many people are likely to say that, yes, people who voted for candidates other than those they voted for made poor choices. People don’t think they made poor choices at the ballot box. They think other people did.
America’s K-12 schools have been among the biggest winners of COVID relief funds since March 2020. But wasteful spending decisions by administrators are setting public school districts up for big failures when the COVID relief money spigot gets shut off in two years.
Putin has reshuffled European politics by turning some of the bad guys into good guys. Or, to be precise, by rehabilitating some of Europe’s nationalist populists in the eyes of western Europe and the liberal democratic world.
Senator Rand Paul will introduce an amendment to eliminate Dr. Anthony Fauci’s position as head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and establish three new institutes headed by presidential appointees, confirmed by the Senate, and serving a term of five years.
“We’ve learned a lot over the past two years, but one lesson in particular is that no one person should be deemed ‘dictator in chief,’” Paul wrote in a Fox News commentary. “No one person should have unilateral authority to make decisions for millions of Americans.”
Readers of William P. Barr’s One Damn Thing After Another: Memoirs of an Attorney General, new from William Morrow, will recognize the author from the administration of President Donald Trump. Some readers may recall Barr’s stint as A.G. for President George H.W. Bush, a former head of the Central Intelligence Agency. Readers now learn that Barr also served in the CIA.
Recruited in the late 1960s, Barr worked for the agency while attending law school, and as a lawyer, worked for the CIA’s Office of Legislative Counsel. Aside from Stansfield Turner, “a disaster,” Barr is uncritical of CIA bosses, including John Brennan, a special case.
In 1976, John Brennan voted for the Stalinist Gus Hall, candidate of the Communist Party USA, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Soviet Union. That disqualified Brennan from any post at the CIA, but by 2013 the Gus Hall voter was running the place.
On March 6, 1457, King James II and the Scottish Parliament banned golf and football (soccer) because, according to authorities, the sports distracted men of fighting age from perfecting their military archery skills. Fighting age in 1457 Scotland started at 12 years old. The bow and arrow were the primary weapons of war then, and the King feared another invasion by England and demanded protection by his subjects.
Things aren’t going well for President Joe Biden. He’s pretty obviously grasping for straws at this point in trying to present any kind of positive news. But did you catch this gem about cutting the budget deficit from the President’s 2022 State of the Union Address?
“By the end of this year, the deficit will be down to less than half what it was before I took office. The only president ever to cut the deficit by more than one trillion dollars in a single year.” Biden proclaimed. Let’s rephrase that claim like the joke it really is: “What’s the fastest way to cut the U.S. government’s deficit by one trillion dollars? Start with a budget deficit of two trillion!”
