The Post-Partisan Emporium

  Pardon my Biden: Drones Over America 2.0 Waiting for the punchline Donald Jeffries Joe Biden’s presidency should be treated as some kind of practical joke played on the American people. A cognitively challenged senior citizen, clearly unqualified for the role he was hired to play. Mumbling incoherently, inventing conflicting whoppers about his past, looking to “Dr. Jill” to literally guide him around the stage. Like leading men who gravitate to character actors as they age, Biden went from war loving, police loving “neoliberal” to the “Woke” monstrosity we’ve come to know and love. He was never the kind of “liberal” that I would been attracted to in my misguided, ACLU-card carrying youth. Ironically, while virtue signaling more than all the previous presidents combined did over the past two hundred plus years, Biden left behind some truly racist remarks on the record. While rightly opposing busing in 1977, the young politician declared that he didn’t want his children to grow up ...

  American Pravda: Propaganda-Hoaxes vs. Chinese Reality  Ron Unz   Last week I published an article discussing former Ambassador Chas Freeman, one of America’s most highly-regarded professional diplomats of the last half-century. Very early in his career, Freeman had been the personal interpreter for President Richard Nixon during his historic 1972 trip to China and meetings with Mao, and that country remained one of his areas of special expertise. During subsequent decades, Freeman served as our ambassador to Saudi Arabia at the time of the Gulf War and was afterward appointed as an assistant secretary of defense. Then in early 2009, the Obama Administration nominated him as chairman of our National Intelligence Council, responsible for assessing and aggregating the findings of our 17 different intelligence agencies, and then providing the final report to our president and other top leaders. But the Israel Lobby regarded Freeman as insufficiently loyal to the foreign na...