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A brief flashback. “The average reporter we talk to is 27 years old, and their only reporting experience consists of being around political campaigns,” Ben Rhodes gloated. “That’s a sea change. They literally know nothing.” Rhodes, the White House’s “Obama whisperer”, was explaining how he had pulled the wool over the media’s eyes on the Iran…

Biden, or the guys and gals pulling his strings, couldn’t think of a better time to appoint a top banking regulator who wanted to destroy the oil and gas industry than when gas prices are already horrifyingly high. Until, once again, Senator Manchin stepped in to save Biden and his party from themselves. After Manchin came…

On this week’s episode of shameless virtue signaling, guest stars, including Apple and Microsoft, took out an ad in The Dallas Morning News falsely accusing Texas of discriminating against gay people for investigating the sexual mutilation of children as part of the “transgender” movement. Here’s what Governor Abbott’s letter to the Texas Department of Family and…

Being an American is a wonderful thing. It means inhabiting a vast nation whose habits, inventions, and tastes shape the world. But that creates an illusion that everything in the world is about us. And it’s not. Especially these days when we often resemble a declining power. The battle between Russia and Ukraine is not…

The Biden administration keeps touting electric cars even though hardly anyone can afford them and the chip shortage continues because of our dependency on Asia in general and China specifically for tech components. If you loved the previous disruptions of China’s COVID shutdowns, enjoy this latest one. Mainland China is facing its worst Covid-19 outbreak…

From the department of inevitable consequences. Following the American exit from Afghanistan, China’s move to claim the country’s vast mineral wealth is centered on a mountain south of Kabul. The mountain and the barren surrounding valley, in Logar province, a two-hour drive from the capital, contain one of the world’s biggest untapped reserves of copper. China…

China. It’s the gift that keeps on taking. And then taking some more. More than 262,000 pounds of prohibited meat products have been seized from the Los Angeles/Long Beach seaport so far this year. 262,237 pounds of pork, chicken, beef and duck have been seized so far by agriculture specialists with U.S. Customs and Border…