Joseph Curl
Columns by Joseph Curl
So much for bringing dogs back to the White House
The U.S. media went crazy when Mr. Biden won the presidency, writing breathless stories about dogs returning to the White House after four years of a dogless Trump administration. Published March 9, 2021
Buckle your seatbelt: Is AOC right on the minimum wage?
Maybe Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the former bartender turned top leader of the progressive movement within the Democratic Party, is right about the minimum wage. Published March 2, 2021
Media’s softball coverage of Biden turns absolutely surreal
Don't bother looking for a fact check. Those don't exist any more -- not while Joe Biden is president. Published February 23, 2021
Rocky Psaki: New White House press secretary has bumpy start
Jen Psaki, a veteran political spokesman who served in the Obama White House as a deputy press secretary, is off to a rocky start in her new and improved role. Published February 9, 2021
Unity? Biden can’t even keep his own party together
President Biden said the word "unity" eight times in his inaugural address, but he's already having a tough time unifying his own party and keeping his longtime allies in friendly unions happy. Published February 2, 2021
Biden’s stumbling, bumbling first steps on COVID-19 expose his weak, feeble plan
Right out of the chute, President Biden made a big blunder. Just hours after taking the oath of office, the new president and his family headed over to the Lincoln Memorial for a little nighttime photo-op. Published January 26, 2021
Soon-to-be ex-President Trump wants a 21-gun farewell salute … of course
Donald J. Trump sure is a piece of work, isn't he? Published January 19, 2021
Poof: The day President Trump’s entire legacy disappeared forever
All of President Trump's achievements -- and they were real and significant -- have gone up in a puff of smoke. Published January 12, 2021
Ignore the histrionics; Democrat lawmakers have objected to last three GOP presidents
To hear the mainstream media and bleeding-heart liberals tell it, Republicans who plan to object to Electoral College votes in the 2020 presidential election are all but committing treason. Published January 5, 2021
At Christmastime, George W. Bush was Santa, Obama was Scrooge
This article is a slightly edited version of a column that first ran Dec. 30, 2013. Every year around Christmas, I think about George W. Bush. Published December 22, 2020
Wags on social media and liberals take aim at Trump’s presidential library
With the Electoral College on Monday officially making Joseph R. Biden the winner of the 2020 presidential election, President Trump is going to exit the White House in little more than a month. Published December 15, 2020
Neera Tanden just a sacrificial lamb for other Biden picks
Is Neera Tanden, Joe Biden's pick to become director of the Office of Budget and Management (OMB), the worst nominee in history? Published December 8, 2020
Media go gaga over Biden’s dogs, even calling on a pet psychic for a reading
After four years of a dogless White House under President Trump, Democrat Joe Biden, who appears set to be elected president when the Electoral College votes Dec. 14, is bringing two "friends" with him. Published December 1, 2020
Biden will be the most sheltered, least seen president since FDR
With Joe Biden now well on his way to moving into the White House on Jan. 20, 2021, America is set to go from the most over-exposed president in history to the least seen commander in chief in decades. Published November 24, 2020
Barack Obama bashes America (again)
As if he needs more money, former President Barack Obama is out hawking a new book. But Mr. Obama's latest book is raising eyebrows because he is (once again) bashing America. Published November 17, 2020
Social and mainstream media’s double standard on display (yet again)
Since Election Day 2020, President Trump has claimed, without evidence, that there were some shenanigans in the presidential election -- voter fraud, dead people voting and the like. Social media was having none of it. Published November 10, 2020
Joe Biden’s basement strategy really IS his plan
For the last few months, Republicans have mused that maybe Mr. Biden really did plan to stay in his basement in his Wilmington, Delaware, mansion for the rest of the campaign. Published October 27, 2020
Bookies took a bath on the 2016 election — and they might do the same in 2020
Political pollsters are like weathermen -- they can completely blow the forecast and never get fired. Published October 20, 2020
Biden hiding his plans on whether to pack Supreme Court
To pack or not to pack? That is the question everyone has been asking Democratic presidential candidate Joseph R. Biden regarding his plans for the Supreme Court should he be elected president. Published October 13, 2020
Real news: Liberal media positively giddy when president gets COVID-19
President Trump is back in the White House -- sleeping in his own bed, as he greatly prefers -- after a bout with COVID-19. Published October 6, 2020
