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Some Call It Influence Peddling, Others Call It the 'Biden Lift'

From the Right / Debra Saunders /

WASHINGTON -- "This is the best guy they can get?" Rep. Stephen Lynch, D-Mass., asked rhetorically at a House Oversight Committee hearing Wednesday to look into President Joe Biden's role in his family's alleged influence peddling.

The "guy" was Jason Galanis, a witness, invited by Republicans, who testified remotely from a Alabama prison ...Read more

USA IOU. Brother, Can You Spare a Trillion?

From the Right / Debra Saunders /

WASHINGTON -- Fiscal restraint is dead. The federal government spends $1.5 trillion more than it takes in. The national debt is $34.5 trillion.

That's more than $100,000 in debt for every man, woman and child in America.

No worries. On Monday, President Joe Biden released a $7.3 trillion budget for fiscal year 2025 that would increase taxes,...Read more

The Documents and the 'Elderly Man With a Poor Memory'

From the Right / Debra Saunders /

WASHINGTON -- "Why did he do it?" House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan asked about President Joe Biden's decision to hang onto classified documents in his garage, Delaware Penn Biden Center office and home office -- rather than in a secure facility.

In the hot seat Tuesday was Robert Hur, until recently the special counsel whose investigation ...Read more

Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Letting Voters Vote

From the Right / Debra Saunders /

WASHINGTON -- The Colorado Supreme Court decided in December that former President Donald Trump did not qualify for the 2024 ballot because he incited the Jan. 6, 2021, "insurrection" in violation of Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. It was an act of judicial overreach. In the 4-3 ruling -- all seven justices were appointed by Democrats -- the ...Read more

Showdown at the Border

From the Right / Debra Saunders /

WASHINGTON -- Thursday always was going to end this way. Former President Donald Trump would show up at the Texas border, and he would be on fire, while President Joe Biden would try and fail to play catch up, having lost the support of voters who think he's botched immigration bigly.

After all, Trump made plans to visit Eagle Pass last week,...Read more

From Trusted Informant in 2010 to Accused Liar in 2024

From the Right / Debra Saunders /

WASHINGTON -- In case any of the characters drawn to Hunter Biden -- back in the years when now-President Joe Biden's son was trolling for dollars by dangling access to his father -- missed the warning federal law enforcement delivered this month, the DOJ sent it twice.

On Feb. 14, the FBI arrested Alexander Smirnov at Harry Reid ...Read more

Special Counsel Indicts Hunter Biden -- and Informant

From the Right / Debra Saunders /

WASHINGTON -- The first question isn't why special counsel David C. Weiss charged longtime informant Alexander Smirnov with making false claims about President Joe Biden and his son Hunter. The question is, why now?

In 2024, an election year.

On Thursday, Weiss unsealed a 37-page indictment that charged Smirnov with making "a materially ...Read more

There Is Chaos at the Border and Finger-Pointing in Congress

From the Right / Debra Saunders /

WASHINGTON -- How bad is the situation at the Southwest border?

I attended a hearing Thursday of the House Subcommittee on National Security, the Border and Foreign Affairs on the consequences of the current "catch and release" policies to observe how members of both parties address an issue that troubles American voters.

The situation at ...Read more

Putin Wants It All. NATO Stands in His Way

From the Right / Debra Saunders /

WASHINGTON -- During an interview with Tucker Carlson, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that he has no interest in expanding the war in Ukraine to Poland and Latvia.

So with former Polish President Lech Walesa speaking at a Friday event put on by the Victims of Communism Museum, I had a chance to get the Polish game-changer's view of ...Read more

President Biden's Recall Is So Weak He Forgot About It

From the Right / Debra Saunders /

WASHINGTON -- President Joe Biden's memory is even worse than it looks.

That's the bad news found in Special Counsel Robert Hur's report on his criminal investigation of Biden's habitual mishandling of classified information.

Hur concluded that Biden "willfully retained and disclosed classified materials after his vice presidency when he was...Read more

After Border Security Fails in Senate, Biden Faults Trump

From the Right / Debra Saunders /

WASHINGTON -- There's been a serious outbreak of finger-pointing at the Biden White House this week.

During remarks delivered in the White House State Dining Room Tuesday, President Joe Biden recognized that a Senate border bill was likely to fail.

And it did tank the next day.

Biden blamed former President Donald Trump for pressing Senate ...Read more

Could RFK's Border Spotlight Spare America From 2020 Retreads?

From the Right / Debra Saunders /

WASHINGTON -- There's a video that shows Robert F. Kennedy Jr., presidential candidate, walking in what looks like the California hills with his dog. The Democrat-turned-independent sees a rattlesnake on the ground, picks it up and holds the reptile in a straight line, his fingers strategically placed to avoid any venom.

The message Kennedy ...Read more

GOP Impeachment Stunts and Bad Biden Border Policy

From the Right / Debra Saunders /

WASHINGTON -- The problem with the Homeland Security Committee's vote to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is simple: It was a stunt. It they impeach, it'll be a bigger stunt.

The Democratic Senate won't convict President Joe Biden's point man on the border. So the exercise is a waste of energy and resources, a piece of ...Read more

Senate GOP Sees Antisemitism, Senate Dems See Diversity

From the Right / Debra Saunders /

WASHINGTON -- "Biden nominates union lawyer, Muslim American to U.S. appeals courts," read the Reuters headline in November when President Joe Biden tapped Nicole Berner and Adeel Mangi for federal judgeships.

I lead with the headline because I don't want to be accused of treating either would-be judge as a token. It's Democrats who did that....Read more

The Other New Hampshire Primary: No Debates, No Drama, No Biden

From the Right / Debra Saunders /

WASHINGTON -- The question New Hampshire Democrats have to be asking themselves: Why has the Democratic Party machine been pushing them to vote for a candidate who isn't even on the ballot?

That's part of the argument Rep. Dean Phillips, D-Minn., has pitched as he has challenged President Joe Biden. Phillips doesn't think a Biden nomination ...Read more

'Free Media' for Trump Feels Like 2016 Again

From the Right / Debra Saunders /

WASHINGTON -- When The Associated Press called Monday's Iowa caucus for Donald Trump around 5:30 p.m. Pacific -- a half-hour into the voting and before many Iowa Republicans had cast their ballots -- it must have felt like a slap in the face for the other candidates in the race.

Ron DeSantis campaign official Andrew Romeo wrote on X, "...Read more

Retail Pirates Don't Fear Store Workers or the Law. Enough.

From the Right / Debra Saunders /

WASHINGTON -- Rep. Dina Titus, D-Nev., was in the cosmetics corner at the Walgreens at Eastern and Tropicana avenues when she saw a man come into the store, walk up to where eyelashes were displayed, swipe them into his backpack and walk out the door.

She walked up to a lady who worked at the store and asked, "Did you see what that guy just ...Read more

Biden Urged Oppressed to Cross Border. Now There Are Caravans.

From the Right / Debra Saunders /

WASHINGTON -- Be careful what you wish for, the saying goes. You just might get it.

During a Democratic primary debate in 2019, Joe Biden said that if he were elected president, he would invite migrants seeking asylum to surge at the border. "If you want to flee and you are fleeing oppression, then come."

Many saw it as an invitation for ...Read more

Big Media's Partisan Rush to Defend Ex-Harvard President

From the Right / Debra Saunders /

WASHINGTON -- If The Washington Post treated itself the way it treats conservatives, it would call itself the "liberal Washington Post."

The newspaper's Thursday story on the resignation of Harvard President Claudine Gay repeatedly referred to her critics as "conservative," GOP or Republican, as if that's all readers need to know.

This ...Read more

Backlash Anyone? The Partisan Efforts to Keep Trump off Ballots

From the Right / Debra Saunders /

WASHINGTON -- Former President Donald Trump's legal battle with Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows fits a pattern that played through 2023. It's complicated -- and so in the weeds that it feeds the impression that state and local officials who pursue Trump have a partisan agenda and a tendency to overreach.

As four different prosecutors ...Read more

 

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