The Point

And that’s fine because the White House Correspondents Dinner isn’t for America. It’s for the media. The WHCD used to be one of those institutions where politicians and the press came to make fun of themselves and each other. In the Jon Stewart era that devolved into Daily Show pundits showing up to take shots at […]

The only positive economic argument that the media had to make for the Biden administration was that the economy was growing and jobs were being added.  t was a transparently bad argument because when you plunge a nation to the bottom of a well, anything after that is likely to look like growth. Pandemic shutdowns […]

Some arguments are not really worth having. The debate over how much American military equipment had been left behind in Afghanistan is one of those. The real answer is that we don’t know and by ‘we’, I don’t just mean us, but the White House and the Pentagon don’t really know. The sheer amount of […]

A different kind of identity politics. The Survey Center on American Life has a new survey, “The Growing Gender Divide in American Life”. -Republican men are far more likely than Democratic men to identify as traditionally masculine. A majority (54 percent) of Republican men say they are very manly or masculine, compared to one-third (33 […]

Democrats enjoyed a largely compliant Big Tech cartel that was eager to censor conservatives. Now that might change, at least on Twitter, they’re reacting with the grace and dignity that tinpot fascists are always known for. Some key Senate Democrats are considering calling Elon Musk to testify on his plans to remake Twitter, amid broader […]

The gerrymandering midterm election bloodsport has, certainly on the Dem side, been an announcement that the public is going to bounce them no matter what, so all they can do is obscenely rig elections. That has backfired badly in New York where the judges, mostly Democrats, did their job and noted that the gerrymandering clearly […]

Within a few years, Fauci went from an idol to a fallen idol. So in some ways, it really doesn’t matter what he says. But it’s striking that Fauci’s message remains so contradictory after all this time of practically living on TV and doing interviews with everybody. “Here we are. It’s the end of April. […]

From Al Jazeera to Brookings, the scope of Qatari influence over Washington D.C. and America is monumental. And usually, no mention is made of it.  This is a rare exception. Richard Olson, a former U.S. ambassador to Pakistan and the United Arab Emirates, has been criminally charged for his alleged role in an undisclosed lobbying […]

Two emerging questions. 1. Just how fragile is our current economic ecosystem? 2. How big is the shock wave? Consider, Netflix just took a massive beating when its subscriber numbers dropped, leading to a massive stock value drop, followed by a directional shift. Now, another of the FAANG monsters gets its turn in the ducking […]

The world has been watching the siege of Shanghai, starving people in perpetual lockdown and subjected to mass testing in pursuit of Zero COVID. Is Beijing about to join the party? Not the Communist Party.The other party. The lockdown party. Beijing will conduct mass testing of most of its 21 million people, authorities announced Monday, […]

It’s not Putin’s price hike, it’s Biden’s. And he insists on reminding us of that every few days. The Biden administration on Monday reversed a Trump administration plan that would have allowed the government to lease more than two-thirds of the country’s largest swath of public land to oil and gas drilling. The Bureau of […]

Call it the new Age of Aquarius.  While a growing share of U.S. adults are religiously unaffiliated, there is one belief that appears to unite a significant share of them: astrology. YouGov’s latest poll finds that a little more than one-quarter of Americans (27%) – including 37% of adults under 30 – say that they believe in astrology, […]

The party that claims to be all about women’s rights, really doesn’t want them to have even the most basic rights. Like the right to privacy in the bathroom. A Kansas state lawmaker said she isn’t thrilled about having to share a restroom with her “huge” transgender Democratic colleague. Rep. Cheryl Helmer made her stance known in […]

Awesome news from an unbiased source. Nearly 9 in 10 young Americans are in support of the government taking action on student debt. That’s the finding from a survey conducted by the Institute of Politics at the Harvard Kennedy School.  The highest share of young adults interviewed by Harvard – 38% – favor the full cancellation of […]

Much like police defunding, lefties might want to check with the constituency they claim to be protecting. In this poll, a majority of black respondents agreed with most other New Yorkers that eliminating bail was bad for New Yorkers. 60% of white people, 44% of Latinos, and 46% of black people all said that it was […]

Presented practically without comment.  Monday was an emotional day at Twitter — even for its executives. Shortly after billionaire Elon Musk bought the powerful social media platform, top Twitter lawyer Vijaya Gadde called a virtual meeting with the policy and legal teams she oversees to discuss what the new ownership could mean for them. Gadde […]

Elon Musk actually buying Twitter seemed wildly implausible, but we live in a world in which human rights groups protest the lack of censorship, so we certainly live in an implausible world that is anything but the best of all possible worlds. The Left, its activist groups and media outlets (but I repeat myself) keep […]

The problem with equity is who’s more equitable? And who gets the blame for it?  Having learned nothing from San Francisco, another California school boss is in trouble for her remarks about Asians. Superintendent Cheryl James-Ward is reportedly filing a lawsuit against the San Dieguito Union High School District (SDUHSD) after its board placed her […]

American civic life has been held hostage for too long by the fallacy of equating racial disparities with racism, or the now fashionable systemic racism. But racial disparities, even highly negative ones, don’t mean racism.  According to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, suicide is the 10th leading cause of death in […]

Watching France’s election, albeit from behind geographic and linguistic barriers, I have to wonder what the outcome would have been if the Ukraine war had never happened. It’s absurd to think that this would even be a major election issue in France, which isn’t exactly sharing a border with Russia, yet Macron had few arguments […]

The Eurocrats are celebrating, but I’m not sure that they ought to be. Yes, the French will have to put up with more Macron, but Marine Le Pen has been gaining fairly steadily. In 2012, she couldn’t break out with less than 18%. Last time around, she made it to 33% against Macron, and this […]

One is a bunch of hardened sociopaths and the other are the Taliban. While humanitarian aid workers keep claiming that everyone is dying in Afghanistan, it sounds like the Taliban have a lot of spare time on their hands. Taliban on Thursday enforced a ban on TikTok and PUBG in Afghanistan saying that the apps were leading Afghanistan’s youths to go astray. […]

All part of the transformation of “inappropriate content” from non-family friendly material to ideological disagreement. Twitter has taken another whack at free speech by labeling disagreement with its left-wing green political views, declaring that ads that, “contradict the scientific consensus on climate change are prohibited, in line with our inappropriate content policy.” “We recognize that misleading […]

Is there any other word for this? “The vice president had one vocal and unyielding defender in the West Wing: the president’s chief of staff,” the authors write. But even Ron Klain knew something wasn’t working. The book says he told Harris in the fall of 2021 “that she had erred by holding her Latin American […]

We all have red lines. Hard barriers beyond which we will not pass. Democrats are willing to do anything about crime except lock up criminals. Meanwhile, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) has vowed to commit “the full resources” of New York in the aftermath of a subway shooting in Brooklyn earlier this month. “We are sick […]