Opinion

Barely beginning his second year, President Joe Biden is already in the running for the most damaging administration to U.S. interests in quite some time.

Under his watch, the terrorist-led Taliban has regained power in Afghanistan and Vladimir Putin has directed an unprovoked invasion against Russia’s innocent neighbor in the most unjustified, brazen and destabilizing act of European aggression since World War II.

Next up, President Biden is alarmingly renegotiating the ill-advised, Obama-era nuclear deal with the Iranian terrorist regime.

When the New York Post broke its “Hunter Biden Laptop” stories in October 2020, mainstream media tried to ignore it.

On the social media side, Twitter banned linking to them and Facebook used its algorithm to minimize discussion of them pending “fact checks” that apparently never happened.

The Streisand Effect -- a tendency toward keen public interest in anything that looks like a cover-up -- came to the rescue.

If you were the least bit interested in presidential politics, you knew as much as you wanted to about the matter (and then some) in short order.

Every March, America recognizes and celebrates the accomplishments of women throughout history.

Among these figures are pioneers, scientists, politicians, and often athletes. Now, it seems our country is straying from this ideal.

Women cannot make history in sports if they’re not the ones in the arena.

“Every event that transgender athletes competed in was one spot taken away from biological females throughout the meet,” Reka Gyorgy, collegiate swimmer from Virginia Tech, recently wrote in a letter to the NCAA.

We are currently looking at the best budget numbers in the entire history of our state. Last month, the Board of Equalization certified that the Legislature would have more than $10.4 billion available to appropriate for Fiscal Year 2023, which begins this July 1.

A lot of people are very excited about that figure, including me. But when we start drilling down into those numbers, what we’ve learned from past budget years and how we prepare for those to come, it’s clear we need to take a thoughtful, conservative approach.

Two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, as the U.S. approaches -- according to the official statistics -- 80 million confirmed cases and a million deaths, most Americans seem to finally understand that America's “public health” institutions were the opposite of helpful in combating the disease.

U.S. Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) has a solution: Triple the number of such institutions at the top.

America is no longer buying energy or vodka from Russia. Russians can no longer buy a McDonald’s hamburger.

They can’t pay for their gasoline with a Visa, Mastercard or even an American Express card. One thousand Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurants have ceased operations in Russia.

How tough can life become?

For a better picture of a tough life, watch some of the news clips played daily on most television stations. See what the Russians are doing each day to Ukraine.

Whenever and wherever too much government power produces bad policy and terrible results, U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) can be counted upon to pop up with the same proposed solution: More government power and more bad policy. Surely that will fix it.

Current case in point: Oil prices.

“Putin’s war is causing gas prices to rise,” she tweeted on March 8, “but this is no excuse for large oil companies to pad their bottom line with war-fueled profits. Senate Democrats are watching closely -- and already working on a windfall profits tax.”

The global establishment press has spilled metric tons of ink trying to paint Canada’s freedom convoy as a gaggle of racist pinheads holding up progress for the heck of it.

In reality, it looks like most of that protest’s participants and supporters are ordinary Canadians who have finally reached their breaking point with vaccine mandates and other attempts to condition their livelihoods on asking how high every time Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says jump.

The phenomenon seems to be catching.

I’m a life-long conservative Republican and proud American. Our Republic has survived, in part, because We the People could separate fact from fiction when engaging in political discourse.

Sure, we’ve fought along the familiar lines of left versus right ever since our country’s founding, but these were differences of opinion. We all still agreed that the sky is blue, and the Constitution is the law of the land. However, today some elected officials want to tell you that the sky isn’t blue.