Honestly, I never thought he’d do it. At the age of 80 and showing signs of decline, Joe Biden is actually – no joke – running for re-election. And here’s the kicker: He’s the worst president in recent memory and if he lives long enough, he’ll probably win. As giddy as some are about Donald Trump winning the Republican primary and going on a scorched-earth revenge tour, … [Read more...]

The war in Ukraine is going just fine. Swimmingly, in fact. That’s what President Joe Biden and all the king’s men told us, despite knowing secret intelligence assessments that reported just the opposite. What? The president spins? The military shaves the truth from time to time? That’s a shocking revelation akin to the famous line in Casablanca when Captain Renault takes … [Read more...]

Pushback has finally come for the dumb things we as a society said and did against cops after the murder of George Floyd. First, we’ve rejected the “defund the police” movement. Virtually no community entertains that nutty notion anymore, not even Chicagoans who recently gave their mayor the boot for, among other things, her lousy performance on crime and … [Read more...]

The Washington political class is talking big about the accountability of bank executives after last week’s round of regional bank failures. They want to allow regulators to impose tougher penalties, such as clawing back past compensation and the authority to bar bad bankers from opening another bank after a failure. All this is fine. But, if we want to get serious about … [Read more...]

I disappeared into one of those famous YouTube rabbit holes researching my grandfather’s role in engineering the Burma Road during WWII. I emerged thinking about Jan. 6 and the brazen political attempt to manipulate what happened that day. If you search “Burma Road” you will find dozens of vintage war films, some of them narrated by Ronald Reagan. These films are interesting … [Read more...]

Well, that was quick. Nationally syndicated cartoonist Scott Adams, creator of the popular newspaper cartoon “Dilbert” was dropped enmasse by newspapers last week, including the Las Vegas Sun and its container newspaper, the Las Vegas Review-Journal.) The cultural sin that brought on his cancellation came in a podcast in which Adams commented on a Rasmussen survey that … [Read more...]

I’ve noted this in previous columns. Allow me to underline it again because it is important. After Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto saw her political life flash in front of her in the last election cycle, there’s been a marked increase in press releases from her office extolling the hard work she’s doing on behalf of Nevadans. So the same from our other alleged senator, Jacky … [Read more...]

Instead of watching the State of the Union address, I decided to finish House of Dragons on HBO. I figured what difference could there be, right? The SOTU features an aging president with succession issues and House of Dragons features, well, pretty much the same plot. Nevertheless, it was good to finish House of Dragons, the prequel to Game of Thrones. It’s slower and not … [Read more...]