Dean Phillips, the Minnesota congressman challenging Joe Biden for the Democratic Party’s nomination, is a grandson of the late Abigail Van Buren, the advice columnist known as “Dear Abby.” How appropriate that Phillips’ run is sending Democrats some valuable guidance: 1. Joe Biden is too old and could lose to Donald Trump. 2. The much-lauded cohesion in […]
Joe Biden is fighting the Fed. That’s the takeaway from the most recent report on the economy, showing that the third quarter grew more rapidly than expected in spite of rising interest rates. One reason is obvious: the president and his Democrat allies continue to pump up government spending, boosting growth, even as the Federal Reserve says […]
Let me get this straight: the culture warriors say it’s not OK to wear a sombrero on Halloween, but it’s OK to spew antisemitic tropes and back Hamas? We’re not allowed to celebrate Christopher Columbus, but we can celebrate the thugs who burn teenage girls alive? You can be canceled for getting a pronoun wrong, but you’re […]
In a new CNBC poll, only 31 percent of respondents approved of Joe Biden’s handling of foreign policy. Is anyone surprised? When Biden took office, the world was at peace and our enemies on guard. Today, the U.S. is embroiled in two wars — in Ukraine and Israel — and nervously awaits Chinese aggression against Taiwan. The White House, according to Axios […]
Joe Biden’s presidency is tracking Jimmy Carter’s four years in the Oval Office so faithfully it must give his campaign team hives. Recent events in Israel create even more parallels. It was a Middle East crisis that brought down Jimmy Carter’s presidency; the current conflict in the region could prove Biden’s undoing as well. In 1979, more […]
