Author: Peter Roff

Washington, D.C. – A senior FBI official has abruptly resigned, The Washington Times reported late Monday, amidst allegations he showed improper political bias during the bureau’s investigation into information recovered from the hard drive of a laptop left by Hunter Biden in a Delaware computer repair shop. Timothy Thibault, an assistant special agent in charge in the FBI’s Washington field office was “forced to leave his post” the paper reported in an exclusive, saying two former bureau officials familiar with the situation had provided the information and description of his departure. Citing eyewitness accounts provided by one of them, Thibault…

Washington, D.C. – All over America, as millions of children head happily off to school, many for the first time, new data has emerged showing the nation edging closer and closer to a full-blown crisis of confidence in public education. Data released Monday by Rasmussen Reports found more than a third of Americans – 35 percent – rate the nation’s public schools as “poor.” Less than one in ten of the 1,000 U.S. adults surveyed – 8 percent – were willing to give them a grade of “excellent.” The findings are consistent, the polling firm said, with data going back…

Washington, D.C. — Longtime conservative leader Richard Viguerie has advice for anyone who wants to defeat a Democrat running for office in 2022: Tie them to the movement to defund America’s police. In an email sent Friday Viguerie, widely regarded as the founder of the method of fundraising known as “direct mail”, explains “There are many issues that frighten Democrat candidates, but for the average Democrat the No. 1 issue they fear is being labeled as anti-police, defund the police, soft on crime. This issue more than any other, if it sticks to the Democrats, can cause them to become…

Washington, D.C. — National Democrats are no doubt pleased with themselves over the way they put another one over on the American people. The poorly named Inflation Reduction Act, now law, puts in place the framework they need to create their oft-wished-for progressive utopia. It will do many things. Bringing inflation down, unfortunately for us all, is not one of them. Under President Joe Biden’s leadership, the economy has disintegrated to the point prices are rising faster now than at any time since the 1970s. The first thing to do, in a case like that, is to stop spending. The…

Washington, D.C. – The head of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control admitted Wednesday that her agency’s problems, magnified during its mishandling of the COVID pandemic, can only be remediated by what she called an ‘ambitious’ overhaul. Dr. Gail Walensky, former professor at Harvard Medical School and the one-time chief of Infectious Diseases at Massachusetts General Hospital said Wednesday that missteps during the most recent pandemic and the slow response to the spread of the disease known as “Monkeypox” have persuaded her significant changes are necessary. CDC critics have long argued its COVID recommendations were often useless or counterproductive to stopping…

If the former president wants to demonstrate the political power of his MAGA movement, he’ll activate it to pressure Congress to kill Biden’s budget-busting tax hike. Washington, D.C. – It’s going to take time for the dust to settle after the FBI’s unprecedented raid on Donald Trump’s home at Mar-a-Lago. What’s important is how the former president responds to it in the short term, which may be a clue to whether he has a future in American politics or not. It would be easy, even natural, for him to spend the next few days ranting and raving against the machinations of…

Washington, D.C. – For a few weeks now, public polls have shown the gap narrowing between the GOP and the Democrats on the critical question of which party the American people like to see control Congress after the next election. Having led consistently for most of the year, sometimes by as much as double digits, GOP consultants pronounce themselves largely unconcerned. The new polls, they say, are a measure of the views of all adults, not likely voters. As such, they believe, the pollsters conducting those surveys probably oversampled Democrats and soft Republicans by so much as to account for…

Washington, D.C. – There’s something about the way laws are made and the impact they have on the nation that many people may not understand. Oh, they may know what it is intuitively, and that much of how Congress does its business doesn’t make sense, but they can’t explain why. That means they can’t propose ways to fix it. This isn’t a failing on their part and it’s not because they don’t understand the democratic process or how a bill becomes a law. It’s the lawmakers themselves who have made the legislative process so opaque, with so many moving parts, that…

Washington, D.C. – Former senior Trump White House aide Steve Bannon says he will appeal after being found guilty of two counts of contempt of Congress over his refusal to comply with subpoenas issued by the congressional panel investigating the events of January 6, 2021. (RELATED: Steve Bannon Found Guilty) The verdict was not unexpected. Some “Never Trumpers,” like retiring U.S. Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) had strong praise for the D.C.-jury that found Bannon guilty. “It’s good. I mean justice, right? You can plead the Fifth if you want in front of our committee, but you can’t ignore a congressional subpoena,…

Editor’s Note: The original version of this article attributed the phrase “the power to tax is the power to destroy” to former Supreme Court Associate Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Then-Chief Justice John Marshall wrote those words in the landmark case, McCulloch v. Maryland. Washington, D.C. – Minnesota Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar has her eyes fixed firmly on the White House, and, if President Joe Biden chooses not to run again, she’d like to take his place as the party’s nominee. Before she can do that, however, she first has to burnish her progressive credentials. One way she’s trying is by…