Peter Van Buren's Blog, page 9

New Challenges to the First Amendment from the Biden Administration

The great irony is despite all the fear mongering spewed out about Donald Trump ending democracy, it is mostly the Democrats who are taking shots at its most sacred freedoms, those of the First Amendment. The House recently passed a bill, HR 7521, seeking to “ban” the popular app Tik Tok from America’s smartphones. The […]

Biden, Humanitarian Parole, and the Border

Joe Biden could reduce the number of migrants coming into the United States by a million a year, no Congressional action (except cheering by Republican members) necessary. More than one million people have been allowed to enter the U.S. under Biden administration programs, based on humanitarian parole authority. Since 2021 Biden has used parole on […]

Open Letter to Democrats About Facing Reality

Speaking as a friend now, Democrats, it is time to face reality. Your candidate is going to have to beat Donald Trump at the polls in November fair and square. You impeached our guy twice without lasting affect. None of the banana republic tricks and lawfare have worked. There was a real Republican primary which […]

Social Media vs. Conservative Thought; Who is a Publisher?

The Supreme Court heard oral arguments in late February on the fate of conservative thought in mainstream social media. It doesn’t look good for our side. The Court expressed skepticism about Florida and Texas laws (Moody v. NetChoice, NetChoice v. Paxton) enacted in response to social media platforms censoring conservative views after the January 6 […]

Racial Discrimination (For a Good Cause!) is OK at America’s Best High School

Racial discrimination (if for a good cause you understand!) is OK at one of America’s best high schools. Other schools can be expected to follow suit. The Supreme Court declined certiorari (it will not hear the case) in Coalition for TJ v. Fairfax County School Board, where a group of parents and students at the […]

I Don’t Want to Vote for Michelle Obama

I don’t want to vote for Michelle Obama. Joe Biden is, as a candidate, a dead man walking. Forget about doctors; anyone who is caring for an aging parent with cognitive decline can see all the signs and knows what is coming next. Joe can’t remember words or names, or dates, and walks stiffly with […]

Why Journalism is Going Extinct

Is journalism going extinct? asks The Atlantic in an article of roughly the same name. The numbers are deadly: the grimmest news was from the Los Angeles Times, the biggest newspaper outside of the east coast. The paper announced it was cutting 115 people, more than 20 percent of its newsroom. In June of last year […]

Joe Biden Parody Songs

Did you know there was a whole genre out there of Joe Biden parody tunes? Most are quite professional, and riff off popular songs to mock the president. Some focus on Joe himself, falling here, sniffing a little girl’s hair there, while others prey on poor Hunter Biden, forced to make sleazy deals with Ukraine […]

Harvard is Historically Anti-Semitic

Not every critic of Israel is anti-Semitic, but the clown Harvard chose to co-chair its new task force on anti-Semitism certainly is. The only question post-Claudia Gay is whether the University is fully incompetent on matters like this, or historically anti-Semitic. The new co-chair of the task force on anti-Semitism (a sister task force was […]

Why Trump Will Win

Gloom consumes America. Some 73 percent of respondents say the United States is on the wrong track, the highest portion since 1989, when that polling question was first asked. In similar polls, there’s been a prolonged downward trend in Americans’ satisfaction with the direction of the country, from a peak of 71 percent in 1999 […]