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Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan. People get into politics for power and money. The former naturally leads to the latter. If you’re a D.C. creature, you get on board with either political lifers, the way Biden was in the Senate, and then jump to a lucrative lobbying gig, or you…

What does a president do when he can’t get Congress to pass anything? 1. Sign executive orders 2. Go on a foreign trip 3. Give speeches 4. Declare an emergency Lefties are pressuring Biden to declare “emergencies” over abortion and the environment. Trying to sideline two of the branches of government with emergency decrees is…

The truism is that if you run for president, you can double your asking price for speeches and someone may actually publish your campaign biography. There are ancillary benefits to running for public office so that people do it even when they don’t seriously intend to win. (There’s a comedy premise buried lightly in there.)…

New York City, like D.C., is experiencing a little of life as a border state after Biden’s unprecedented open borders surge of illegal aliens flooded the city. New York City Mayor Eric Adams on Tuesday demanded the federal government help pay for what he said was a wave of asylum seekers pouring into the city,…

I’m not sure if this one is weaker than the infamous, “The airline didn’t give me a Diet Coke can because of Islamophobia” thing the media was pushing some years back. But after years of terrorizing random underpaid retail employees and middle-aged ladies with the ‘Karen’ racial slur and trying to get them fired via Twitter,…

The annual mass sacrifice to Gaia is underway. At least 350 people have died in Spain from high temperatures during the past week, according to estimates by Spain’s Carlos III Health Institute. In Portugal, health officials said that nearly 240 people died in the first half of July due to the high temperatures, which reached 117…

School shootings may come as a shock, but school shooters are rarely a surprise. From Adam Lanza to Nikolas Cruz to the latest contestant in the Columbine psycho game, they’re exactly who people would expect to shoot up a school. The Uvalde, Texas, gunman gave off so many warning signs that he was obsessed with violence…

This wouldn’t be the first time George Soros lost a lot of money on a bad long shot candidate. And the old monster has cash to burn. American businessman George Soros has donated $1 million to Texas gubernatorial candidate Beto O’Rourke’s (D) campaign.  The Texas Ethics Commission confirmed Soros’s donation to O’Rourke’s Beto for Texas political action…

Sign of the times. Every House Democrat voted for Rep. Nadler’s Respect for Marriage Act, which eliminates the Defense of Marriage Act.  The Defense of Marriage Act, signed into law by Bill Clinton in the 90s, passed the House with overwhelming support, from 224 Republicans and 118 Democrats. This time around, the repeal of the…