Tag: January 6

The Jan. 6 Committee Is After More Than Midterm Votes

Commentary Everyone knows the common adage that “those on the left think that the right is evil, whereas those on the right just think that the left is wrong.” Our current political landscape might be better summed up as a battle between those who constitute the Washington-ruling class establishment—including members of both parties—versus those who…


What the January 6 Committee Might Have Been

Commentary Congress should investigate fully the January 6 riot at the Capitol—and similar recent riots at iconic federal sites. But unfortunately, it never will. Why not? The current committee is not bipartisan. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) forbade Republican nominees traditionally selected by the House minority leader to serve on the committee. No speaker had…


Democrats’ Selective Outrage Over ‘Insurrections’

Commentary To listen to House Democrats’—and Liz Cheney’s and Adam Kinzinger’s, but I repeat myself—shrieks of hysteria from the opening nights of the Jan. 6 House Select Committee dais is to hearken back to the Soviet-era show trials of yesteryear. Vladimir Lenin, as the veteran conservative commentator Roger Kimball reminds us, referred to them as…


January 6 Committee: Trump Put Pence’s Life in Danger

During its third day of hearings, the House January 6 Committee focused on the ways that it claimed President Donald Trump put Vice President Mike Pence’s life “in danger” during the January 6 Capitol breach, particularly emphasizing behind-the-scenes debates about using an ambiguous clause of the 12th amendment to halt certification of electors from contested…


Facts Matter (June 16): Capitol Police Chief Debunks J6 Committee Conspiracy Theory Claim Through Official Letter

The prime-time Jan. 6 hearings in Washington are now underway. While there are many aspects of this hearing that are worthy of discussion, I want to focus on one specific claim: that a congressman from Georgia was helping to do reconnaissance for the people that eventually entered the building. This was the implication against Rep….


Republican Coalition Blasts Treatment of Jan. 6 Prisoners in ‘DC Gulag’

During a June 15 press conference, a small band of Republican lawmakers blasted the treatment of “political prisoners” in the “D.C. gulag,” discussing disturbing cases of mistreatment of defendants charged in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol breach and calling on other lawmakers to join them in decrying the situation. In the wake of the Jan….


Republican Coalition Decries Treatment of Jan. 6 Defendants in ‘DC Gulag’

During a June 15 press conference, a small band of Republican lawmakers blasted the treatment of “political prisoners” in the “D.C. gulag,” discussing disturbing cases of mistreatment of defendants charged in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol breach and calling on other lawmakers to join them in decrying the situation. In the wake of the Jan….


Liz Cheney and Jan. 6 Committee Demonstrate How Hate Makes You Stupid

Commentary Hate is a dangerous emotion for a variety of reasons, not the least of which is that it interferes with, often even destroys, your ability to think rationally. It can turn your personality inside out to such a degree you will spend your life regretting what you did. And it all will have been…


Capitol Report (June 14): Which Policies Causing Economic Downturn? Bill Passed to Protect Supreme Court Justices’ Families

The House broke a month-long delay and passed a bill to ramp up security for Supreme Court justices, as protests continue in anticipation of the Roe v. Wade ruling. A heated exchange over who’s to blame for inflation—what is President Joe Biden saying about the economy, and how are Republicans firing back? Lawmakers react to…


Luke Coffee Says God Told Him to ‘Stand in the Gap’ on January 6

Luke Coffee was warned that a storm was coming. As he walked along the perimeter of the U.S. Capitol grounds on Jan. 6, 2021, the 41-year-old filmmaker was approached by three breathless men. One of them said, “There are people dying inside the Capitol! We need patriots!” Coffee distinctly recalls his first reaction: “Bull [expletive].”…