Author: Jeremy Lott, Washington Examiner

President Joe Biden is arguably America’s chief executive with the sweetest tooth since Ronald Reagan, who kept a bowl of jelly beans on his desk long before the Jelly Belly brand was de rigueur. Biden is also the snackiest president since Bill Clinton. So when he read reports that potato chip and candy bar manufacturers were…

John Spellman vacated the Washington governor’s mansion, a Georgian-style structure on state Capitol grounds in Olympia, in early 1985. Since then, no Republican has gone to the residence of the Evergreen State’s chief executive except to visit. GOP legislators occasionally grouse about the stinginess of invitations. Democrats have owned the chief executive office for going…

American farmers are not happy. The Ag Economy Barometer is a joint survey by Purdue University and the CME Group that measures the mood of farmers nationwide. It found plummeting confidence as winter approaches. “These were the weakest barometer and future expectations readings since March 2016, when the farm economy was in the throes of…

Over the last several years, Dallas-based Southwest Airlines has been plagued with operational issues, including staffing and fleet problems. These difficulties have caused the carrier to pull out of some airports and have plummeted its bottom line. One solution Southwest is looking at to help right things financially is assigned seating. The airline announced on…

During a 2017 television appearance, then-Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), eyeing a long-shot bid for the Democratic presidential nomination three years on, declared, “Everybody needs to be woke.” In his three serious runs at the White House, former President Donald Trump has campaigned as an anti-woke, tough-on-crime candidate. At a Sept. 29 rally, for instance, the…

Hawaii has been in a funk. A huge swath of locals are talking about it, from drivers to barkeeps to wonks to business owners to clergy, the Washington Examiner found early this year while visiting the most populous of the state’s eight main islands, Oahu, home of capital city of Honolulu. Throughout the island chain,…

As Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) prepares to debate Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) in their Oct. 1 vice presidential bout, Vance will privately debate a Walz stand-in. Advisers will analyze that exchange and give feedback about what to say, how to say it, and what to avoid like the pandemic. Those advisers who look to the…

Democratic President Harry Truman popularized the term “do-nothing Congress” and rode that taunt to an unexpected victory in 1948. Truman, a vice president who rose to commander in chief after President Franklin D. Roosevelt died in 1945, didn’t simply beat his Republican opponent, New York Gov. Thomas Dewey, that year. His party also came roaring…

Vice President Kamala Harris crowed when the federal government released its monthly jobs numbers for June. “The latest jobs report shows America’s economy added 206,000 jobs in June, continuing record job growth,” Harris said on Facebook on July 5 in celebration of that month’s Bureau of Labor Statistics release. “That’s more jobs created in June…

As the Democrats made their pitch for Vice President Kamala Harris at the national convention in Chicago in August, one question weighing on many voters could be stated: “Can we afford four more years of this?” The Biden-Harris administration hasn’t been all bad economic news. On the upside, the United States dodged a recession that…