Joe Biden might not seem all that smart to you. But he’s smart enough to follow the example of Harry Truman and Bill Clinton, and they both won second terms. Source Views: 0
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Pinkerton: Florida’s DeSantis vs. Michigan’s Whitmer and the States as ‘Laboratories of Democracy’
Two governors—Republican Ron DeSantis of Florida and Democrat Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan—have emerged as national champions for their respective parties. While they differ on just about everything, their activism reminds us that the greatest energy is in the 50 states, which is exactly as the Founders intended. Source Views: 0
Pinkerton: New York Times Continues Its Long History of Covering for Commies with Gorbachev Obit
You can always count on the New York Times to put its liberal spin on events. For instance, this breaking news headline: “Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet leader who transformed the map of Europe and presided over the end of the Cold War, has died at 91.” We can see the spin here: the Times gives Gorbachev […]
Pinkerton: The Bud McFarlane I Knew
Robert C. McFarlane served his country in actual combat in Vietnam and later in political combat in three White Houses, where he helped defeat the “evil empire” without firing a single shot. He deserves to be remembered as a hero, not as a left-wing media target. Views: 0
Pinkerton: Carter 2.0 – Media Runs Interference for Joe Just Like They Did for Jimmy by Claiming He’s the Best We Can Hope for
In the 1970s, the media gave President Jimmy Carter a free pass. Now, the establishment media is giving President Joe Biden the same free pass. Unfortunately for them, the American people didn’t buy it then and aren’t buying it now. Views: 0
Pinkerton: Joe Biden Wages World War E While Putin Wages War in Ukraine
Green Business as Usual President Biden says he’s doing all he can to help Ukraine. “We are inflicting pain on Russia and supporting the people of Ukraine,” he declared in his State of the Union address last week. “Yes, we the United States of America stand with the Ukrainian people.” That was nice to hear, but the real […]
Pinkerton: Biden’s ‘Big Shift’ on Climate Change Is the ‘Great Reset’ by Stealth
From “Pen and Phone” to “Pretty Big Shift” Remember back in 2014 when President Barack Obama said that he would conduct his presidency by “pen and phone”? He said that after he had lost control of Congress and was no longer able to pass legislation. His new idea was that he would continue to advance progressive […]
Pinkerton: NYC’s Woke District Attorney Is Creating the Real-Life Sequel to ‘Escape from New York’
Did you ever see movie Escape From New York? The crime-news of today bring that decades-old film back to mind. Starring Kurt Russell, Escape From New York, released in 1981, had a wild premise: Manhattan had become so crime-ridden that authorities simply built a wall around it, turning the island into a giant prison. That […]
Pinkerton: Carter 2.0 — Biden Blames Others for His Own Energy Failures
Joe Biden is the gift that keeps on giving. The gift, that is, of parallels with fellow Democrat Jimmy Carter. Most Americans have no memories of the actual Carter presidency, from 1977 to 1981, but this Baby Boomer sure does. As for you youngins, you can can look him up, and you’ll see too: He was […]
Pinkerton: The Last Time Nancy Pelosi Persuaded House Democrats to Jump Off a Cliff
By a narrow margin, the Democratic majority in the U.S. House of Representatives voted on complicated and controversial legislation. Inside-the-Beltway observers, always attuned to political technique, were duly impressed by the muscle used to get the bill through the House. In the words of Politico, “Despite the tough path to passage, the legislation is a […]
Pinkerton: Joe Biden and John Kerry’s Green Great Reset Punishes America, Rewards China
Western Guilt and the Great Reset Here’s the bottom line on the just-ended COP 26, the international climate change conference that’s been meeting for the last two weeks in Glasgow, Scotland. The Biden administration, speaking for the United States, has committed itself to substantial cuts in carbon dioxide emissions in the coming decades; as President Biden […]
Pinkerton: Trouble in Bidenville – 6 Takeaways on Biden’s Infrastructure Bill
The passage of Joe Biden’s $550 billion Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework (BIF) is a game-changer—although it might not change the game in the way that Democrats want. Here are six takeaways on BIF: 1. The bill is a poisoned chalice—because Democrats poisoned it. On November 6, the morning after BIF passed the U.S. House, the lead […]
Pinkerton: The Destructive Left-Wing Logic Behind Biden’s Embrace of $450K Reparations for Border Crossers
Sweet Money From Uncle Sugar? Did you hear the one about the Biden administration’s plan to pay illegal aliens $450,000? It’s not a joke, even if President Biden, on November 3, called it “garbage” and “not true.” And yet as we shall see, the plan was true, and it did come from his administration. So while […]
Pinkerton: Democrats Confront the Mysteries of Afghanistan as They Run Interference for Biden’s Debacle
The Last Mistake in Afghanistan? Probably a lot of Americans thought that the death of 13 American servicemen and women at the Kabul airport on August 26 would be the last tragic debacle of our Afghanistan misadventure. Indeed, perhaps some Americans felt a little better when they heard the news that the U.S. military had […]
Pinkerton: Time for the U.S. Government to Keep Faith with Those Who Do and Die
October 23, 1983 Thirty-eight years ago, a suicide bomber stunned America into defensive action. I’m referring, of course, to the 1983 terrorist truck-bombing of the Marine barracks in Lebanon that killed 241 American servicemen. I was living in Washington, D.C., at the time, and I remember that within hours — as most of us […]
Pinkerton: What Would Reagan Do? Five Lessons the Gipper Could Teach Biden After Afghanistan Debacle
In view of the ongoing Kabul Debacle, it’s obvious that Joe Biden needs some pointers on leadership and management of foreign policy and national security. Even if one agrees that it was time to get out of Afghanistan—and 70 percent of Americans did, at least until a few days ago, though the polls have since softened—it’s […]
Pinkerton: 6 Things Joe Biden Could Do About Covid if He Is Serious
Joe Biden has been doing everything he can to encourage Americans to get vaccinated and to eradicate the coronavirus pandemic. Or has he? Speaking from the White House on August 3, the president sure seemed emphatic: “The best line of defense against the virus is the vaccine. It’s as simple as that. Period.” Tightening his jaw to […]
Pinkerton: What the Tech Tycoon Space Race Means for the Rest of Us
So Richard Branson beat Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk to be the first billionaire to go to space. Much of the worldwide coverage of Branson’s space jaunt was bubbly enthusiasm. For instance, the Asia-based Wionews headlined, “Richard Branson realises his lifelong dream with Virgin Galactic spaceflight.” Indeed, critics tweet-pounced on coverage deemed fawning: “Almost everything that […]
Pinkerton: A Bad Romance — How Republicans Fell Out of Love with Big Tech
The Old Right Fusionism Here’s a data point deserving of attention: More Republicans than Democrats want to restrain or even break up Big Tech. According to a new poll by Vox and Data for Progress, 70 percent of Republicans think “Big Tech’s economic power is a problem facing the U.S. economy.” At the same time, 59 percent […]