The Inescapability of Inflation

By: Jim Geraghty · Jim Geraghty — June 7^th 2024 at 10:21

Inflation is inescapable; your only hope to mitigate or overcome its effects is to get a raise that keeps up with or surpasses the rate of inflation.

Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis president Neel Kashkari speaks during an interview in New York City, March 29, 2019.

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That Proposed Deal with ‘Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves’ Looks Pretty Shaky

By: Jim Geraghty · Jim Geraghty — June 6^th 2024 at 10:59

A week ago, President Biden assured us that the Arab world was eager to start the rebuilding of Gaza.

President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the Middle East in the State Dining room at the White House in Washington, D.C., May 31, 2024.

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What Did Biden Know, and How Long Did He Remember It?

By: Jim Geraghty， NRO — June 5^th 2024 at 14:04

Biden's never going to be as young and sharp-minded as he was yesterday.

What Did Biden Know, and How Long Did He Remember It?

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Contemplating Biden’s Ukraine Policies, or, ‘Why Isn’t Jake Sullivan Working at Chipotle?’

By: Jim Geraghty · Jim Geraghty — June 5^th 2024 at 10:49

A chat about Ukraine, featuring the question, ‘Why isn’t [Biden’s national-security adviser] Jake Sullivan working at Chipotle?’

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President Biden to Time Magazine: ‘(Unintelligible)’

By: Jim Geraghty · Jim Geraghty — June 5^th 2024 at 10:39

Biden said both that Netanyahu would ‘do about anything’ to get the hostages released and that people have reason to believe Bibi is prolonging the war.

President Joe Biden meets Romanian president Klaus Iohannis in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C., May 7, 2024.

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White House Belatedly Decides to Send Kamala Harris to Ukraine Peace Summit

By: Jim Geraghty · Jim Geraghty — June 3^rd 2024 at 10:44

President Biden will be busy raising money with Jimmy Kimmel, but Vice President Harris will attend a big Ukraine summit in Switzerland later this month.

Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at the Treasury Department in Washington, D.C., October 4, 2022.

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Fauci: ‘It Sort of Just Appeared, That Six Feet Is Going to Be the Distance’

By: Jim Geraghty · Jim Geraghty — June 3^rd 2024 at 10:10

It’s not quite that ‘everything you were told during the pandemic was wrong.’ But a whole lot of it was.

Dr. Anthony Fauci speaks during a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing in Washington, D.C., July 20, 2021.

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Shockingly, Hunter Biden Isn’t the Most Responsible Ex-Husband

By: Jim Geraghty · Jim Geraghty — June 1^st 2024 at 13:35

Go figure, the stripper-impregnating deadbeat dad who deducted the money he spent on prostitutes as a business expense isn’t a responsible ex-husband.

Hunter Biden walks with family members in Nantucket, Mass., November 24, 2023.

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Did Robert De Niro Forget Who Michael Cohen Is?

By: Jim Geraghty · Jim Geraghty — May 28^th 2024 at 13:09

Actor Robert De Niro declared of Trump, ‘The fact is whether he’s acquitted, whether it’s hung jury, he is guilty — and we all know it.’

Robert De Niro and Ben Stiller on <i>Saturday Night Live</i>, April 14, 2018

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Chinese Government Shocked to Learn They Can’t Trust the Taliban

By: Jim Geraghty · Jim Geraghty — May 23^rd 2024 at 14:29

Chinese diplomats complain that the Taliban stabbed them in the back by failing to restrain terrorist groups that have killed Chinese workers in Afghanistan.

Taliban fighters celebrate the first anniversary of the fall of Kabul on a street in Kabul, Afghanistan, August 15, 2022.

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Trump’s Veep Pick: It Won’t Be Pence Again but Could Be Pompeo

By: Jim Geraghty · Jim Geraghty — May 22^nd 2024 at 10:44

While a third Trump-Pence campaign is unthinkable, Mike Pompeo would represent a Trump running mate for a turbulent world.

Then-president Donald Trump addresses his administration's daily coronavirus task force briefing as  Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Vice President Mike Pence listen at the White House in Washington, D.C., March 20, 2020.

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Biden: Do You Think Trump Will Appoint Any Supreme Court Justice Who Has a Brain?

By: Jim Geraghty · Jim Geraghty — May 21^st 2024 at 10:48

Scoffing about Donald Trump and the Supreme Court, President Biden asked whether his rival would appoint ‘anybody who has a brain’ on the court.

President Joe Biden speaks at a Detroit Branch NAACP annual Fight for Freedom Fund Dinner in Detroit, Mich., May 19, 2024.

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Trump vs. Biden, in One Simple Chart

By: Jim Geraghty · Jim Geraghty — May 20^th 2024 at 09:10

If you look at Americans’ household net worth, adjusted for inflation, you see two dramatically different stories for Trump and Biden.

Left: President Joe Biden  in Washington, D.C., February 23, 2024. Right: Former president Donald Trump in Greenville, S.C., February 20, 2024.

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The Detail About Pelosi’s Attacker That Everyone Chose to Ignore

By: Jim Geraghty · Jim Geraghty — May 18^th 2024 at 14:54

No, Paul Pelosi’s attacker was not just ‘a Canadian citizen who moved to San Francisco in his 20s.’

David Wayne DePape appears at U.S. District Court before U.S. Magistrate Judge Alex Tse in San Francisco, Calif., November 15, 2022.

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Beware Assassins from the Movement ‘Against Violence’

By: Jim Geraghty · Jim Geraghty — May 16^th 2024 at 10:06

The man who shot the Slovakian prime minister founded an anti-violence movement in his hometown.

A man is detained after the shooting of Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico, Slovakia, May 15, 2024.

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Biden to Trump on Debates: ‘Make My Day, Pal!’

By: Jim Geraghty · Jim Geraghty — May 15^th 2024 at 08:04

Biden offers to do two debates with Trump this year. For decades, the tradition had been three presidential debates.

Left: President Joe Biden holds a campaign rally ahead of the state's Democratic presidential primary, in Las Vegas, Nev., February 4, 2024. Right: Former president and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump participates in Greenville, S.C., February 20, 2024.

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Biden Continues to Lie That the Inflation Rate ‘Was at 9 Percent When I Came In’

By: Jim Geraghty · Jim Geraghty — May 14^th 2024 at 14:21

For the second time in five days, President Biden has claimed that the inflation rate was 9 percent when he took office. It was just 1.4 percent.

President Joe Biden speaks about the economy during an event at Union Station in Washington, D.C., April 9, 2024.

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More Evidence That Nevada Isn’t Really a Swing State in 2024

By: Jim Geraghty · Jim Geraghty — May 13^th 2024 at 09:37

In Nevada, the New York Times poll has Trump enjoying a double-digit lead over Biden, among both registered and likely voters.

Former president Donald Trump holds a campaign rally ahead of the Republican caucus in Las Vegas, Nev., January 27, 2024.

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No, Mr. President, Inflation Was Not 9 Percent When You Took Office

By: Jim Geraghty · Jim Geraghty — May 10^th 2024 at 10:03

Biden remembers an altered version of events that always makes him look better.

President Joe Biden delivers remarks at the National Association of Counties Legislative Conference in Washington, D.C., February 12, 2024.