30 Apr 2021
, is out today.
President Joe Biden is not as radical as conservatives said he would be. He is much, much worse.
The man who was sold to Americans as a “moderate” by First Lady Dr. Jill Biden, and who told voters, “I beat the socialist,” has been the most radical president in U.S. history.
Biden has proposed a staggering $6 trillion in spending, most of it unpaid for, and most of it on big government programs. He has also proposed massive tax hikes, in the midst of what he claims is a historic economic crisis.
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) has called Biden’s first 100 days in office a “bait and switch,” and he’s not wrong. True, Biden promised Democrats he would be the most “progressive” president since FDR, but he also boasted of working across the aisle with Republicans. He devoted his Inaugural Address to the theme of “unity,” to the exclusion of any description of his actual policies. Americans were led to believe that Biden
H.W. Brands Jr., a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist whose latest book focuses on John Brown and Abraham Lincoln, will be among the presenters at the Benjamin P. Thomas Symposium marking the 212th anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln on Feb. 12-13.
The symposium, which is put on by the Abraham Lincoln Association, will be held remotely because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The opening of the Center for Lincoln Studies at the University of Illinois Springfield will kick off the symposium at 10 a.m. on Feb. 12.
Rich Lowry, editor of The National Review and author of a book on Lincoln, will be the keynote speaker.