President Biden wants to change the trajectory of the country. He’s off to a good start.
By Jonathan Alter
Mr. Alter is a journalist and the author of “The Defining Moment: FDR’s Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope.”
April 12, 2021
That doesn’t require Mr. Biden to transform the country before May 1, the end of his first 100 days, the handy if arbitrary marker that Mr. Roosevelt (to the irritation of his successors) laid down in 1933. But for America to “own the future,” as the president promised last month, he needs to do amid the pandemic what Mr. Roosevelt did amid the Depression: restore faith that the long-distrusted federal government can deliver rapid, tangible achievements.
The president’s ATF nominee reminds us of a dark episode of law enforcement lawlessness.
APRIL 13, 2021|
12:01 AM
JAMES BOVARD
Chipman was a 25-year ATF agent and a key official at the 1994 federal trial of the Branch Davidians who survived the ATF and FBI assaults the prior year. Many federal agents posed for grisly “victory photos” in the rubble of the Branch Davidians’ Waco, Texas, home after it burned to the ground during an FBI assault. One photo allegedly shows Chipman proudly holding a rifle in front of the wreckage where scores of children died shortly before. The White House and Chipman’s current employer, the antigun Giffords organization, did not respond to repeated email requests to confirm or deny that Chipman is the federal agent in that photo; the Daily Mail and many online sites have tagged Chipman as the agent. In a Reddit public question and answer session in 2019, Chipman sought to spur support for an assault weapons ban by falsely claiming that the Davidians shot down two federal helicopters that were attacking their compound.
Just like FDR.
wipes tear
https://archive.ph/CFmIH https:// www. nytimes. com/2021/04/12/opinion/biden-fdr-new-deal. html
https://archive.ph/pBkgW https:// www. theamericanconservative. com/articles/biden-re-ignites-the-waco-fire/
Absolute comedy.
Utter madness.