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The Falsehoods Biden Keeps Telling : Is the president dishonest or just confused?

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Tony Bobulinski and the Biden Family Business: Hunter’s former partner tells Congress how Joe & Co. sold influence.

Biden’s Green-Energy Price Shock: The cost of electricity has climbed by 29.4% since January 2021.

Shutting Down the Political Right: A case study in why voters distrust Europe’s liberal elites.

IRS’s Most Wanted: The $200,000 Man: Sixty-three percent of new audits last year were aimed at middle-class filers

The U.S. Already Soaks the Rich: In 2021 the richest 1% paid 45.8% of income taxes, up from 33.2% in 2001.

Student Aid March Madness: Biden’s Fafsa rewrite keeps getting worse, if that’s possible. Thank Richard Cordray.

All the President’s Medicare Taxes: Including state taxes, tax rates under Biden would hit nearly 60%.

The Next Biden Tax Increase: He made clear Thursday night that he wants to raise taxes even more in his second term than he has in the first.

Google’s Artificial Intelligence: The search giant’s woke Gemini AI fiasco shows the company’s vulnerability to AI competitors.

Elon Musk and Donald Trump Cases Imperil the Rule of Law: American prosperity rests on equal justice. Delaware and New York judges have called it into question.

Black Lives Matter, Now at Home Depot: A ruling will force employers to permit political sloganeering.

No Task Force Can Save Harvard: What hope is there for an institution where nobody can be fired for promoting antisemitism and other stupid and wicked ideas?

From ‘Never Trump’ to ‘Encore’: In 2019 I wanted him impeached. Now I’ve become convinced that Biden is worse.

How Climate Policy Went Wrong: A scientist’s aerosol research hints at why America’s energy suicide isn’t helping.

Why In-N-Out Burger Is Out of Oakland: The city cuts back on police to pay for public-worker pensions. Result: surging crime.

The Penalty for Opposing Global Warmists: A whistle-blower says he was told to keep quiet about the cost of carbon policies.

Alan Sokal’s Joke Is on Us as Postmoderism Comes to Science: Articles in hard-science journals increasingly read like the 1996 hoax, and dissenters are suppressed.

Biden Tempts Judicial Fate With ‘Whole of Government’ Plans: Without congressional approval, many of the administration’s efforts violate the law.

How ‘Antiracism’ Becomes Antisemitism: Demonizing people in racial terms because they’re successful turns out to have consequences.

What Universities Have Done to Themselves: They ‘have gone from being centers of excellence to institutions pushing political agendas.’

University Presidents Flunk Out: What six-syllable word describes the testimony of Claudine Gay and Liz Magill

‘Net Zero’ Fails the Cost-Benefit Test: As COP28 opens, two new studies show that extravagant climate promises are far more wasteful than useful.

Inside Ohio State’s DEI Factory: I obtained 800 pages of ‘Diversity Faculty Recruitment Reports.’ Here’s what I found

Car Dealers to Biden: EVs Aren’t Selling: Some 3,900 sellers ask for a reprieve from his onerous sales mandate.

The Global Toll of Biden’s Green Enthusiasm: The energy shift will drive inflation and affect living standards around the world.

Iran Pays No Price for Bad Behavior: The ayatollahs won’t stop funding terror until someone makes them stop.

U.S. CEOs on the Chinese Menu: Business leaders give Chinese President Xi Jinping a standing ovation for showing up

The Black Left’s Allies From Stalin to Hamas: Totalitarian regimes have long sought propaganda opportunities in America’s racial tension and unrest.

Biden Keeps the Billions Flowing to Iran: Choosing not to enforce oil sanctions finances Tehran’s terrorism.

How Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act Killed a Cancer Study: Price controls made a therapy’s potential new application for bladder cancer uneconomic.

Moving the Goal Posts on the Hunter Biden Investigation: The president’s defense keeps changing as new evidence emerges

Democrats Won’t Let Crisis Go to Waste: With conflict overseas, the White House sees yet another opportunity to increase domestic spending.

DeSantis vs. Newsom on Violent Crime: New FBI data shows a sharp divergence in their records on public safety.

America’s Business Community Is AWOL in Local Politics: Unions and their left-wing allies meet little resistance as they chip away at the free-enterprise system.

Will the World Bank Choose Climate Change Over Poverty? A new G-20 report calls for raising $3 trillion and spending only a fraction of it to help the poor.

Thomas Sowell on the Trouble With ‘Social Justice’: The eminent economist faults intellectuals who expect equal outcomes and treat individuals as if they were mere ‘chess pieces.’

The Totalitarian Heart of Hillary Clinton: The 2016 election denier calls for “formal deprogramming” of Trump supporters.

Bidenomics Is Unsustainable: Subsidies for unions will drive labor costs up, making the U.S. uncompetitive.

Merrick Garland Ducks the Hunter Biden Questions: The AG demonstrates why appointing a special counsel was a bad idea.

Britain Blinks on Net-Zero Climate Mandates: Economic and scientific realities catch up with a costly political fad.

Biden’s $6 Billion Ransom to Iran: Countries will keep taking U.S. hostages as long as they profit from it.

The Democrats Have Demoted Personal Responsibility: Republican presidential candidates should not stop talking about the culture.

The Census Exposes Bidenomics: Its annual report shows how inflation has gutted real household incomes.

Drug Price Controls Mean Slower Cures: The squeeze on pharma begins, and the effects won’t be what President Biden claims.

The Justice Department’s Politicized Hunter Biden Probe: Evidence of improper interference by Attorney General Merrick Garland’s department keeps piling up.

The Chicago Teachers Union Chief Sends Her Son to Catholic School: Stacy Davis Gates wants choice for her son, but not for everyone else.

A Net-Zero Car Crash in London: Motorists are reminding politicians that gas-powered cars are popular.

New York Came Back in the ’90s—Then It Fell Again: Strong leaders delivered safer streets and better schools. Their successors proved weak or worse.

The U.K.’s Windfall Tax Downfall: Guess what: Higher taxes reduce energy production and security.

California’s War on Uber Continues: The company raises the age of drivers after a trial-lawyer assault.

No Catholics Need Adopt: A Massachusetts couple is denied a foster child because of religious views.

DEI Dies in the Desert: Arizona chooses academic freedom over ideological conformity.

The State Covid Medicaid Scam: The Biden Administration quietly admits that the scare over lost post-pandemic insurance coverage was phony.

Devon Archer’s Full Biden Story: VP Biden mixed the family business with his Ukraine diplomacy.

The Bidens, Burisma, Kerry and Obama: What did Barack Obama’s secretary of state think about the vice president’s role in Ukraine

Biden Still Ducking Documents Probe: At what point will the Justice Department acknowledge he’s not cooperating?

Biden’s Summer Regulatory Onslaught: While Congress and the media sleep, new rules remake the American economy.

The Biden Administration’s Assault on Free Speech: Emails paint a picture of a White House running roughshod over First Amendment protections.

The Climate Policy Implosion Begins: Politicians belatedly realize that costly net-zero ambitions are vote losers.

Hunter Biden Whistleblower: A Special Counsel for Hunter Biden: The Justice Department obstructed the IRS probe of the president’s son

Biden Would Deny Me Health Insurance: The administration’s effort to shunt customers from short-term plans to higher-cost ObamaCare will lead many to go without.

‘Antiracists’ vs. Academic Freedom: A California professor sues over new DEIA performance reviews

The FBI Loses the Public: As Director Christopher Wray faces Congress, a poll shows only 37% support for the bureau. Among Republicans it’s 17%

‘They’re Coming for Your Cars’: Even if politicians can push us all into e-vehicles, they will have to be small and scarce to achieve emissions goals.

Another Sad Story of Covid Fraud: Plus, the debate over ‘gender-affirming care.’

Carter, Biden and American Malaise: A combination of domestic morass and bumbling leadership ties two presidents together across the decades

American Wokeness Invades Britain’s Schools: Katharine Birbalsingh, principal of a ‘free school,’ says identity politics makes it hard to educate minority youths.

Hottest Days Ever? Don’t Believe It: ‘Average global temperature’ is a meaningless measure, and comparisons to 125,000 years ago are preposterous

Covid Censorship Proved to Be Deadly: Government and social-media companies colluded to stifle dissenters who turned out to be right

That Other Bidenomics Disaster: Another government report shows the president’s success in blocking reform.

Democracy Dies Again in California: Democrats retaliate against business with a new wage-fixing board to stop a ballot measure.

A Landmark for Racial Equality at the Supreme Court: The Justices revive the plain meaning of the 14th Amendment in barring discrimination by race at Harvard and the University of North Carolina.

At Ford, Government Is Now Job One: The auto maker gets a $9.2 billion low-cost loan—along with orders on how to use it.

The American Left’s Fantastic Threats: Book bans? Jim Crow redux? A crackdown on gay vacationers? Joe Biden and his party are seeing things.

Why Barack Obama Is Afraid of Tim Scott: The left doesn’t want voters exposed to black candidates with different political opinions.

Biden’s March to State Capitalism: The message being sent to John Q. Public is clear: You now work for us, the government.

Charter Schools: New Evidence of Student Success: A nationwide Stanford study shows huge learning gains over union schools.

Activists Attacking Art: Climate hysteria strikes again.

The FDA Commissioner Gets Political: Robert Califf’s job is safety and efficacy, not drug prices.

SPLC Puts Moms on Its ‘Hate Map’: The outfit likens us to the KKK for asking questions about what our kids are taught.

Why the Durham Report Matters to Democracy: It is a damning account of the corruption of the FBI and its accomplices.

Durham Exposes Robert Mueller’s Failure: The new report exposes how the original Russia probe covered up the FBI’s offenses.

Biden’s Bleak Story About Race in America Is False: His warnings of ‘white supremacy’ would suit 1960 Alabama. In 2023 they’re merely demagogic.

The Left’s War on the Rule of Law: There’s no greater threat to our form of government than attacks on the Supreme Court and the judiciary’s legitimacy.

Biden Creates Problems, Then Walks Away: The progressive way of governance is that no policy mistake can change—ever.

Biden’s CIA Assist in the 2020 Presidential Election: The agency, not only retirees, turns out to have worked on the Hunter excuse letter.

An EPA Death Sentence for Fossil-Fuel Power Plants: The Biden agency's new rule means the end of natural gas-fueled electricity.

Randi Weingarten’s Incredible Covid Memory Loss: The teachers union chief tries to rewrite the pandemic history of school closures.

‘Progressives’ Want to Go Back to the 1950s: Biden envisions a restoration of the era’s strongly regulated national economies.

The U.S. Navy’s Bud Light Moment: Amid a recruitment crisis, the military brass are preoccupied with woke identity politics

The College Board’s Secret Apology: Private emails show it wasn’t honest about Ron DeSantis and African-American Studies.

The ‘Hurtful’ Idea of Scientific Merit: Ideology now dominates research in the U.S. more pervasively than it did at the Soviet Union’s height.

Medicaid Expansion Won’t Stop Rural Hospital Closures: But it has disastrous consequences for state budgets and fosters high levels of dependency.

The Tennessee Bullhorn Isn’t Democracy: Biden and Schumer now say it’s heroic to disrupt a legislative proceeding.

Socially Engineering the Suburbs: A new HUD rule would dole out cash based on race and ‘equity.’

Is Work for Welfare ‘Wacko’? Biden trashes a modest GOP reform he’s voted for in the past.

The Military Recruitment Crisis Is a Symptom of Cultural Rot: We need new leaders to cultivate the American spirit and restore the integrity of institutions.

Germany’s Energy Self-Sabotage: This weekend Berlin will shut down its last three nuclear power plans.

Tim Scott’s ‘Land of Opportunity’: The Senator’s optimistic conservatism may stand out in the 2024 Republican presidential primaries.

The Smearing of Clarence Thomas: The left gins up another phony ethics assault to tarnish the Supreme Court.

DEI Meets East Germany: U.S. Universities Urge Students to Report One Another for ‘Bias’: Snitches get sheepskins as colleges train student informants.

Who’s Undemocratic in Tennessee? The lawmakers with the bullhorn? Or those who voted to expel them?

Biden’s ‘Democracy Summit’ Is a Partisan Affair: Far from uniting the world against authoritarianism, it alienates vital allies and boosts dubious leaders.

Biden Against Bipartisanship in Congress: Democrats are defying their leader on Covid and green policies.

DEI at Law Schools Could Bring Down America: After the Stanford episode, Ilya Shapiro sounds a warning: The threat to ‘dismantle existing structures’ is an idle one in English class. But in legal education it targets individual rights and equal treatment under the Constitution.

The Military Should Reject DEI and CRT: The Pentagon’s relentless focus on racial differences endangers our readiness to deter, fight and win wars.

Biden’s Failed Deterrence in Syria: Iran’s militias kill an American and get a feeble U.S. response.

The Real Cost of the Inflation Reduction Act Subsidies: $1.2 Trillion: Goldman Sachs says the uncapped tax credits will cost three times what Democrats claimed.

Has ESG Peaked? Now would be a great time to focus on market returns over politics.

The Tyranny of the DEI Bureaucracy: Diversity, equity and inclusion offices become weapons to intimidate and limit speech

Unlocking the Potential of Private School Choice:

Is ESG Profitable? The Numbers Don’t Lie: Corporations that remain neutral on social and political issues outperform companies that lean left.

Covid Worsened America Rage Virus, for Which There’s No Vaccine: Critics of the pandemic response were silenced, permanently damaging trust in institutions.

Biden’s Big Wealth Tax? Unconstitutional: His 25% minimum tax on asset gains runs into the 16th Amendment.

The Stanford Guide to Acceptable Words: Behold the school’s Elimination of Harmful Language Initiative.

Britain’s National Health Service Meltdown: The single-payer system is failing patients, with deadly consequences.

The Climate Crusaders Are Coming for Electric Cars Too: A new report makes clear the ultimate goal: tiny, uncomfortable apartments and bicycles for all.

America’s Workers Need Freedom, Not More Government: Subsidies, tariffs and excessive regulations inhibit living standards more than they raise them.

Biden Turns the U.S. Into a Shadow Member of OPEC: Deliberately constraining U.S. supply helps the cartel keep oil prices high and profits up.

Climate ‘Reparations’ Are a New Name for Foreign Aid: The U.N. proves Donald Trump right about the climate lobby: It’s all about the money.

Public Distrust of Health Officials Is Anthony Fauci’s Legacy: He presented his judgment as beyond reproach, while consistently flip-flopping and silencing dissent.

The Cost of Biden’s Student Loan Write-off: $420 Billion: Congress’s official budget scorekeeper finally offers an estimate of the cost of forgiveness.

How Welfare Left Americans Poorer: A Census Bureau report shows the high cost of transfer payments.

ESG Does Neither Much Good nor Very Well: There’s little evidence that the benefits to mankind make up for lower returns on your investment.

Janet Yellen’s Fantasy Economy: She defends Bidenomics by ignoring inflation and falling real wages.

Chile Saves Its Democracy: Some good news for a change in Latin America: Some 62% of Chileans who voted in a national referendum on Sunday rejected a new constitution that would have empowered the left to restrict property rights and individual liberty.

Fauci and Walensky Double Down on Failed Covid Response: Lockdowns were oppressive and deadly. But U.S. and WHO officials plan worse for the next pandemic.

Britain’s Net Zero Lesson for the U.S.: Soaring energy prices may send a third of the U.K. into poverty.

Woke Medical Organizations Are Hazardous to Your Health: If physicians are trained to combat ‘systemic racism,’ their ability to treat disease will suffer.

Biden’s Climate Plans Are Unsustainable: The current White House agenda is so unrealistic it risks a backlash that will hurt the cause for decades.

How the Climate Elite Spread Misery: Most people are more worried about high gas and food prices, which green policies make worse.

Medical Education Goes Woke: Future doctors will be obliged to learn how health relates to ‘systems of oppression.’

The West’s Climate Policy Debacle: Utopian energy dreams are doing great economic and security damage.

Build a Charter School, Get Sued by the Teachers Union: If you’re looking for proof that teachers unions don’t care about the interests of schoolchildren, you can find it in the impoverished Bronx neighborhood of Soundview.

Joe Biden’s Train-Wreck Economy:

The Baby Formula Shortage Was Made in Washington: The politicians tacitly admit that their policies are responsible. Tariffs, government labeling rules and state welfare monopolies all play major roles.

Tell Your Doctor Your Symptoms, Not Your Race: HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra wants to pay me to racialize my medical practice.

The Biden Administration’s New Salvo Against Charter Schools: An Education Department study finds the regular system is failing. The same department seeks to block alternatives.

California’s French Four-Day Workweek: Another labor economics classic: Democrats want to order employers to pay workers the same wages for fewer hours of work.

The Covid Spending Racket: Whatever happened to that $1.9 trillion in supposed virus relief that Democrats passed in 2021?

Democrats for Higher Gas Prices: Senators propose a windfall-profits tax to reduce oil production.

The Perpetual Covid ‘Emergency’: Too many governors won’t give up their new power despite the ebbing health threat.

Freedom Isn’t Quite Dead—the Anglosphere Resists Covid Mandates: The acceptance of restrictions was difficult to watch. But even Canadians are fighting back now.

California Refuses to Learn From Vermont’s Single-Payer Failure: Sacramento’s plan would be even more economically devastating than the one deemed impossible in 2014.

The Trump Boom Lifted Black Americans: Before the pandemic, the economy grew in ways that mostly benefited low-income and middle-class households.

Biden’s Pointless Vaccine Mandate: After another defeat in court, it’s time to end this unpopular coercion.

Blame Voters for the Rising Crime Rate: Perhaps voters are now starting to regret the consequences of electing progressives.

Progressive to Uyghurs: Drop Dead: Joe Biden’s foreign policy is about protecting Democrats’ domestic spending, not U.S. security.

‘Woke’ Is a Bad Word for a Real Threat to American Democracy

Yes, the Crime Wave Is as Bad as You Think: Progressives gaslight the public by claiming things used to be worse.

Kyle Rittenhouse and the Left’s Terrifying Assault on Due Process: They want revolutionary justice. The legal system’s verdict will be supplanted by the people’s judgment.

California Is the Supply Chain’s Weakest Link: Environmental and antibusiness regulations in the deep blue state are backing up port traffic.

The Views That Made Me Persona Non Grata at MIT: I believe academic hiring should be based on merit and that hurt feelings are no reason to ban opinions.

Solar and Wind Force Poverty on Africa: Letting us use reliable energy doesn’t mean a climate disaster.

The Inflation Tax Rises: Real average hourly earnings have declined 1.9% since Biden’s inaugural.

The Patriot Act Wasn’t Meant to Target Parents: The Biden administration is abusing federal laws and agencies as instruments of political repression.

Where Did All the Workers Go?: Bidenomics has led to a labor shortage that is hurting the economy.

-The IRS Wants to Look at Your Bank Account: Its quest for missing revenue would threaten taxpayer privacy.

-Climate Policy Meets Cold Reality in Europe: The rush to renewables causes severe energy price spikes and shortages. Biden’s policies would do the same in the U.S.

-Joe Biden (D., Socialist):Biden has said, ‘I am a capitalist’ and ‘I am not a socialist.’ Both statements are false.

-The Destructive Legacy of the Great Society: Government subsidies for antisocial behavior stalled decades worth of black progress.

-Afghanistan Was Lost in the Halls of Harvard: The 40-year ROTC ban sent a deeper message: that American civilization isn’t worth defending.

-Biden’s Price Controls Will Make Good Health More Expensive: Pharmaceutical innovation will suffer and drugs that could save your life may not reach the market.

-Climate Change Saves More Lives Than You’d Think: Eight times as many people die from cold as heat, and the fix for both is access to cheap fuel.

-Europe’s Climate Lesson for America: As wind power flags, energy prices are soaring amid fuel shortages.

-Bernie Sanders Runs Out of Billionaires: Spending plans: $4.5 trillion. Billionaire net worth: $4.4 trillion.

-What Joe Biden Has Wrought in Afghanistan: The U.S. leaves behind weapons for the Taliban to use as they please or sell, arming Islamic terror around the world.

-Democrats Will Ruin the Climate: They’ve wrecked the cities and the border. Why would climate policy be different?

-Biden Is Delivering Obama’s Third Term: A Democrat in the White House is once again discouraging work, growing the size of the welfare state and increasing dependence on government.

-A ‘Death Knell’ Tax Threatens Family Farms and Businesses: Democrats want to dismantle a century-old tax law that has protected American agriculture.

-Government Failure Gave the World Covid: And markets provided the remedy. Economists don’t always appreciate how often that happens.

-Laughter Can Defeat the Left: They make themselves ridiculous as they try to kill comedy.

-A Distorted View of Wealth Inequality: Include pensions and Social Security, and the figures are less stark.

-Why Is the FDA Attacking a Safe, Effective Drug?: Ivermectin is a promising Covid treatment and prophylaxis, but the agency is denigrating it.

-The Cost of the School Shutdowns: A new McKinsey study documents the severe student learning loss.

-A Deeper Look at Critical Race Theory: The neo-Marxist movement rejects equal opportunity, merit and objectivity.

-The Culture War Is a Leftist Offensive: Democrats have become more extreme on social issues, and they aren’t prepared for the backlash.

-It’s the Entitlements, Stupid: The guaranteed nature of Biden’s spending is the real threat to America’s economic future.

-Battle Over Critical Race Theory: Advocates and media circle the wagons and try to conceal the truth about a pernicious ideology.

-Return of the IRS Scandal: Someone leaked the tax information of individuals to serve the left’s agenda.

-America’s Covid Groupthink Functioned Like China’s Repression: Marching in ideological lockstep is less forgivable in a society where one has a choice in the matter.

-A Good Worker Is Hard to Find: The subsidies for not working continue to hurt the labor market.

-Biden’s Gift to Putin on Nord Stream 2: He treats a Russian gas pipeline better than he does the Keystone XL in America.

-The Great State Budget Con: California shows that Democratic claims of fiscal hardship were a political trick.

-Lockdowns Didn’t Stop Covid: A new study finds more virus spread inside homes than work places.

-America’s Welfare State Is on Borrowed Time: Biden has fully embraced the mad goal of giving 98% of the population lavish benefits at no cost.

-Biden Wants Higher Taxes Than China’s: How can a communist country treat capital gains more favorably than the U.S. does?

-The Dumbest Tax Increase: Biden’s capital-gains rate of 43.4% would reduce federal revenue.

-A Revealing Vote on Anti-Asian Bias: Democrats vote to condone discrimination in higher education.

-Media’s Racial Narrative Targets Whites, Harms Blacks: An insistence on ‘systemic’ racism tells minority communities they have no power over their own lives.