Joe Biden's Year of Hoping Dangerously  —  It was a brutal start for the new President.  —  The best thing you can say about 2021 is that it will soon be over.  A year that started with an insurrection at the Capitol is ending with more than eight hundred thousand Americans dead in the covid pandemic …

Omicron has passed peak in South Africa, causing relatively few deaths and hospitalizations, authorities say  —  South Africa appears to have passed the peak of its omicron variant-driven fourth coronavirus wave, the country's cabinet announced Thursday, adding that there was only a …

EXCLUSIVE: AOC Spotted in Miami Beach as NYC Reports Record Covid Cases  —  Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was spotted dining in Miami Beach, Fla. on Thursday, according to a tip received by National Review, on the same day that her native New York City reported a record number of Covid-19 cases.

Retired general warns the U.S. military could lead a coup after the 2024 election  —  As the anniversary of the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol approaches, three retired U.S. generals have warned that another insurrection could occur after the 2024 presidential election and the military could instigate it.

Florida doesn't plan to open COVID testing sites amid surge, Orange County official says  —  Orange County officials said Wednesday the state has balked at opening testing sites amid a tidal wave of demand and denied a request this week for four flashing signs to help provide information to people in miles-long lines.

Putin Warns Biden of ‘Complete Rupture’ of U.S.-Russia Relationship Over Ukraine  —  President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia spoke with President Biden for 50 minutes about the escalating crisis with Ukraine, but his intentions remained unclear.  —  WASHINGTON — President Vladimir V. Putin …

US COVID-19 Cases Hit Record High, Hospitalizations and Deaths Remain ‘Comparatively Low’: CDC  —  New COVID-19 cases in the United States have soared to their highest level on record, as the Omicron coronavirus variant is estimated to have taken over the virus's Delta variant …

POLITICO Playbook: Meet the GOP's new national security power broker  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  TIME TO GIVE UP?  — Every year, one of us makes a resolution to stop biting her nails.  It never happens.  According to CBS, the percentage of Americans making resolutions this year dropped 14 points.

Don't Look Up: Another lazy anti-Trump movie  —  If you thought the Biden era might at least deliver us from lazy anti-Trump comedy, Don't Look Up will reassure you that no one gets off that easy.  —  It's bad.  It's The 1975 featuring Greta Thunberg bad.

The Truth You Never Learned about Watergate  —  The Nixon Conspiracy: Watergate and the Plot to Remove the President  —  373 pages, hardcover $30.00, Kindle $14.99  —  Bombardier Books, Post Hill Press, New York, 2021  —  In 2019, I wrote here and here at American Thinker of the work …

How Presidents Ring In the New Year  —  Jimmy Carter toasted the shah.  Donald Trump tweeted.  —  How you celebrate New Year's Eve can reveal a lot.  Extroverts revel in party and song.  Homebodies remain home as balls drop and corks pop. When it comes to presidents …

U.S. ends case against Jeffrey Epstein's jail guards  —  U.S. prosecutors decided to end their criminal case against two Manhattan jail guards who admitted to falsifying records on the night the financier Jeffrey Epstein killed himself on their watch.  —  In a Thursday filing in Manhattan federal court …

Fox News' Worst Lies About Covid-19 From 2021  —  The cable network is actively harming its audience's health.  —  Alerts  —  Fox News spent the better part of 2021 telling its viewers blatant lies about the covid-19 pandemic.  The network has claimed covid-19 vaccines are dangerous …

A year after a seditious insurrection, why won't federal prosecutors treat it that way?  —  History is full of examples where other uprisings have resulted in charges of sedition conspiracy and insurrection, something that — despite ample video evidence and the admissions of those involved — hasn't happened here.

She Tweeted That Alan Dershowitz Might Be Acting Crazy.  So Yale Fired Her.  —  The strange free-speech case of Bandy Lee.  —  “I think I'll order only a bowl of the New England clam chowder,” Bandy Lee said to me one afternoon several months ago, as we settled in at a restaurant overlooking the Boston Common.

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio's top controversies  —  De Blasio has taken flak on issues ranging from crime and law enforcement to COVID pandemic  —  Fox News Flash top headlines for December 30  —  After serving eight years as the Democratic mayor of New York, Bill de Blasio closed …