Andrew McCarthy

Impeach Biden over the Security Catastrophe He’s Caused at the Border

The president’s dereliction of duty has created a crisis. Congress must either impeach him or fix it.

James Freeman

The Costs of a Closed Society

U.S. kids pay a staggering bill for government’s suppression of Covid debate.

Ann Coulter

Happy Kwanzaa! The Holiday Brought to You by the FBI

Kwanzaa came not from Africa, but from the FBI's COINTELPRO and is celebrated exclusively by idiot white liberals. 

Glenn Greenwald

Reflecting New U.S. Control of TikTok's Censorship, Our Report Criticizing Zelensky Was Deleted

For years, U.S. officials and their media allies accused Russia, China and Iran of tyranny for demanding censorship as a condition for Big Tech access. Now, the U.S. is doing the same to TikTok.

Julie Kelly

What Did Nancy Pelosi Know and When Did She Know It?

The January 6 select committee never intended to act as a truth-seeking mission but rather perform a cover-up for what actually happened.

50 Years of Failed Eco-pocalyptic Predictions

Alex Berenson

Do Covid mRNA vaccines damage our ability to control the coronavirus after a booster shot?

"A new peer-reviewed paper has troubling news for anyone who has received multiple mRNA shots, suggesting the immune system paradoxically weakens a crucial part of its Covid response after the third jab.

The immune shift causes the body to make relatively more of a less potent kind of antibody to Covid, displacing antibodies that attack the virus more aggressively. The change could heighten the risk of Covid infection and mean that people who are infected suffer longer and more serious cases."

National Review 

The Labor-Force Participation Rate Is the Economic Indicator of Our Day

"Our goal must be not only maximum employment of those looking for work, but also that more people who are able to participate in the labor force actually do so. A society of self-government that values human dignity does not encourage late entry to or early exit from the labor force. A labor-force participation rate equal to our pre-2008 levels is attainable, but not without a resurgence of values focused on productivity. The end result would be far more meaningful than what we find in a GDP calculation."

WSJ Editorial Board

The Christmas Electric Grid Emergency

Strain caused by the libs' climate policies left too many Americans shivering over the weekend. Worse is coming.

Law Prof William Jacobson: Higher Education cannot be reformed from within

National Review

Twitter Suppressed Valid Information from Medical Experts about Covid-19

Did Orthodox Jews, like the Amish, quickly achieve herd immunity by ignoring government lockdown orders?

In just a few minutes, Joe Rogan leads Dr. Peter Hotez, one of the libs favorite pro-vaxxers, into inadvertently showing the world exactly what has gone wrong with our medical system and why his endless push for more vaccines will never create health (video).

David Zweig - The Twitter COVID files

HOW TWITTER RIGGED THE COVID DEBATE

 – By censoring info that was true but inconvenient to U.S. govt. policy 

– By discrediting doctors and other experts who disagreed 

– By suppressing ordinary users, including some sharing the CDC’s *own data*

Epoch Times: Is Ivermectin safe and effective, after all?

Jonathan Turley

It's Time to Reform the FBI

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

America is now the target of a massive propaganda cyberattack by our own spy agencies to obliterate criticism of foreverwars and mass vaccination

National Review

The latest episodes in Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s Netflix series exemplify the modern trend of abandoning family pieties.

Matt Taibbi

Twitter Files: What We've Learned So Far

The bottom line? Federal law enforcement asserted primacy over all media distribution, a situation normally only found in tinpot regimes

New York Post

The age of ‘mavericks’ like Elon Musk, Donald Trump and Kanye West is over

Blue states saw the largest population declines in 2022, while red states topped the list with the most population growth, United States Census Bureau figures reveal.

National Review

Will the January 6 Committee’s Work Backfire?

Matt Taibbi

The Twitter Files Part IX: Other government agencies participated in suppressing Twitter content.

Andrew McCarthy

The Theater of Sam Bankman-Fried’s Catch and Release

SBF gets to go home for the holidays, while prosecutors get to pretend that he had to put up $250 million for the privilege.

Jonathan Turley 

Why the Arrest of a British Woman Praying Outside of an Abortion Clinic is a Wake Up Call for Free Speech

Matt Taibbi

Twitter’s Silicon Valley colleagues: Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, LinkedIn, even Wikipedia, are the new principal intelligence outposts of the American empire.

Rich Lowry

Biden’s Disgraceful Border Evasions

A pair of cardiologists are warning people to stop getting mRNA coronavirus vaccines because the more doses a person takes, the more likely they could suffer heart damage.

Dr. Aseem Malhotra and Dr. Peter McCullough say the vaccines have done more harm than good and that a large percentage of people who have taken the jabs have suffered enduring health problems, in particular with their hearts.

John McWhorter / NYT: When a racist joke does not merit cancellation

New York Post: How feds use charities to hide the true cost of the US border crisis

Jonathan Turley

"It is not clear what is more chilling: the menacing role played by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in Twitter's censorship program or its mendacious response to the disclosure of that role."

Ann Coulter

Engineering a foreign invasion of our country has been redefined as a “humanitarian mission.”

Jonah Goldberg

The language police are out of control.

National Review

The value of welfare and government-provided health insurance for some U.S. households in certain blue states exceeds six figures, exacerbating the labor shortage that has plagued the U.S. economy in the wake of the Covid pandemic, according to a newly released study entitled “Paying Americans Not to Work.”

National Review

‘Set Up to Fail’: House GOP Report Blames Dems, Capitol Police Leaders for January 6 Security Failures

Dan Henninger

Immigration and Biden’s Title 42 Catastrophe

Democrats entered office with one fixed idea: Reverse everything Trump. Then the border collapsed. 

Ann Althouse

So we are committed to an endless war... with Russia?!

Andrew McCarthy

Don’t close the border because of Covid. Close the border because the national security of the United States demands it.

 The Biden Administration lied saying 1,000,000 jobs were created during the second quarter when only 10,500 jobs were created, so says the Philadephia Federal Reserve.

Althouse

Joe Biden had to correct himself after spontaneously saying Trump had written him a "very gracious" letter during the presidential transition

Andrew McCarthy

The January 6 Committee’s Final Act: Pointless and Deficient Criminal Referrals of Trump

If anything, the referrals could undermine the DOJ’s building of a successful prosecution.

David French

The mere fact that the government asks a corporation to remove speech from its platform does not automatically convert compliance into a violation of the First Amendment. Public officials have free speech rights as well.

Alex Berenson

Two new studies show mRNA-jabbed people have a much higher risk of getting Covid than unvaccinated people

Vaccine-driven original antigenic sin: it's real and it's getting worse.

Just The News

Nunes accuses DOJ of seeking blackmail material during Russia probe after bombshell revelation

Legal expert Alan Dershowitz says DOJ use of subpoenas to target House Intelligence Committee staff phone and email records is likely unconstitutional.

‘Twitter Files’ Show Company ‘Directly Assisted’ in US Military Psychological Operations

The Twitter Files Part VII - Michael Shellenberger

How the FBI & intelligence community discredited factual information about Hunter Biden’s foreign business dealings both after and *before* The New York Post revealed the contents of his laptop on October 14, 2020

 Elon Musk: The Government Paid Twitter Millions of Dollars to Censor Info from Public

Mark Hemingway / The Federalist

Are FBI And CIA Agents ‘Sheep Dipped’ At Twitter And Other Tech Companies?

Zero Hedge

Elon Musk asks wackdoodle Adam Schiff if he approved hidden state censorship via Twitter

Jonathan Turley

The J6 Referral Falls Short of a Credible Criminal Case

Paul Sperry

The FBI relied more extensively on Christopher Steele’s debunked dossier in their Russiagate investigation than has been revealed, inserting key parts from it into their applications for warrants to spy on the 2016 Trump campaign.

National Review

The DeSantis Delusion

The Florida governor is not going to free the GOP from Donald Trump’s toxic embrace.

"But when Republicans nominated a game-show host in 2016, they signed up for a lifetime of histrionics. The GOP may look far and wide for a new leader, but the former president is not going away. DeSantis may win the primary, but if the former guy is still around, he will preside over the burning rubble of a political party."

WSJ Editorial Board

A Judicial Coup in North Carolina

Four Democratic Justices again reveal their partisanship.

Babylon Bee

FBI Releases All JFK Documents Except For The One That Says They Killed Him

National Review

FBI Pressured Twitter to Share User Data outside Search-Warrant Process

Matt Taibbi

In a curious exchange, the government expresses annoyance with Twitter for reporting little "recent" foreign activity

35-Year-Old Chief of Canada’s “Vaccine” Rollout Dies Suddenly

Elon Musk tweets that Adam Schiff's brain is "too small"

New York Post

Eric Adams Is Defying Decades of Hands-Off Homeless Policy: ‘The Pendulum Swung Too Far’

NYT

San Francisco has the most deserted downtown in America

San Bernardino County Residents Vote to Study Secession from Far-Left California

Tucker Carlson (video)

"I've been told by a reliable source that the CIA had a hand in the assassination of JFK"

Jonathan Turley

Harvard/Harris Poll: Two-Thirds of Voters Believe Social Media Engaged in Politically-Motivated Censorship and Demand Congressional Action

New York Post

FTX investor and former paid spokesperson Kevin O’Leary refused to condemn Sam Bankman-Fried or classify the doomed company’s meltdown as fraud during a tense Squawk Box appearance.

Henry Kissinger's Proposal for Peace in Ukraine

Jelani Cobb /The New Yorker 

The irony is that Putin, in the most cynical way possible, has demonstrated that Black lives really do matter, by highlighting just how much you can achieve by placing one [Brittney Griner] in jeopardy."

New York Post

The Left's hatred of the accomplished Musk and the worship of the hollow man SBF are sad commentaries on how liberalism has descended into progressivism and ultimately into Stalinism.

New York Post

Twitter’s top ranks were riddled with ex-FBI agents and executives, stitching the company even closer to the federal agency now under fire for leaning on Twitter to meddle in the 2020 elections.

The Australian government should be urgently investigating the “incredibly high” 13% excess death rate in 2022, the country’s peak actuarial body says.

Jonathan Turley: Twitter Files Are Also ‘an Indictment of Congress’ for Failing to Do Oversight, Encouraging Censorship (Video)

Scott Atlas

Twitter Censorship Contributed to Destructive Pandemic Policies and Was Criminal

Matt Taibbi

The Twitter Files, Part Six

TWITTER, THE FBI SUBSIDIARY 

L.A. Times Poll: 65% of Americans Oppose Biden’s ‘Catch and Release’ into U.S. for Border Crossers, Illegal Aliens

NYT

Elon Musk, Management Guru?

Why the Twitter owner’s ruthless, unsparing style has made him a hero to many bosses in Silicon Valley.

Gavin Newsom: Biden’s Migrant Flights a ‘Burden’ for Sanctuary State California

David French

Why I’m Getting More Libertarian Every Day

America seems to want more government, but it needs less.

NYT

After decades of trying, scientists for the first time carried out a nuclear fusion reaction that produced more energy than went into it.

Paul Krugman / NYT

The End of Peace Through Trade

Ross Douthat / NYT

Abortions Are Not Good For Society

Abortions will cause a "world where economic growth has decelerated under the rule of social liberalism, and various forms of stagnation have set in. A world clearly shadowed by the effects of family breakdown and social atomization, with loneliness and despair stalking young and old alike. A rich world whose chief economic problem over the next few generations is population aging, population decline, childless cities and empty hinterlands and a vast inverted demographic pyramid on the shoulders of the young."

National Review

The World Suddenly Realizes China’s Covid Stats Are Totally Made Up

Ann Coulter

Gays, You're Not Black

The only "discrimination" that counts is race discrimination.

In the latest Rasmussen Reports survey, likely voters 46%-23% said that granting amnesty would make the illegal immigration problem in the U.S. “worse.”

Elon Musk Puts Justin Trudeau on Notice over ‘Attempt to Muzzle the Voice of the People of Canada’

Oregon Governor Commutes the Sentence of Every Death-Row Inmate in State

Former National Security Adviser Robert O’Brien said the Russians were committed to freeing U.S. Marine Paul Whelan from prison before President Joe Biden defeated former President Donald Trump in the 2020 election.

Americans responding to monthly Gallup polls this year identified “government” as the nation’s top problem, edging out inflation to win that distinction for the seventh time in the past decade.

NYT Guest Essay

We Can Cure Disease by Editing a Person’s DNA. Why Aren’t We?

Nate Cohn / NYT

2022 Review: How Republicans Lost Despite Winning the Popular Vote

Wall Street Journal

Biden's climate industrial policy is costing 1,350 Jeep Cherokee workers their jobs at a Stellantis plant in Illinois.

Ann Althouse

Elon Musk posted a tweet saying only "The Branch Covidians"

"Is Musk comparing Fauci et al to the sect that abused children?  I suspect he is."

Victor Davis Hanson

The Breakdown of Basic Society

Twitter Files: Donald Trump Was Blacklisted Despite Being Cleared by ‘Trust & Safety’ Review Team

Business Insider

"I thought it was a data-driven company but actually it is one man's gut feeling and emotions-driven. Nobody can overwrite his decision."

Elon Musk or Mark Zuckerberg.

Jay Bhattacharya

I spent the afternoon yesterday at Twitter HQ at the invitation of Elon Musk to find out more about the trend "blacklist" that twitter placed on me & more. A short thread on what I found out follows.

National Review

Remembering the Journalists and Elected Dems Who Dismissed the Twitter Shadow-Banning ‘Conspiracy Theory’

Elon Musk 

Under pressure from hundreds of activist employees, Twitter de-platforms Trump, a sitting U.S. President, even though they themselves acknowledge he did not break the rules

The Twitter Files: Part 5

Jonathan Turley

Musk Forces a Free-Speech Reckoning for Politicians and Pundits From Shadow Bans to Black Lists

J.D. Rucker

A retired Navy SEAL who became famous nearly 10 years ago after coming out as transgender announced he is detransitioning and called on Americans to “wake up” about how transgender health services are hurting children.

Charles C. W. Cooke

Elon Musk Is Right

Jonathan Turley: Dupe or Designated Defendant? The Possible Criminal Case Against Jack Dorsey

New York Post

Elon Musk says old Twitter was ‘Democratic Party activist machine’

Michael Shellenberger

Last year, Germany paid South Africa $800 million to stop using coal. Since then, German imports of South African coal increased eight-fold. Now, Germany is producing more carbon emissions per unit of electricity than South Africa. This is climate imperialism.

Viktor Bout, The Merchant of Death

"Drugs & Woke Ideology Are Destroying The West"

Babylon Bee

Brittney Griner Flees Back to Russia in Terror After Seeing American Flag

Dan Henninger / WSJ

From day one of the Ukraine war, the purpose of Vladimir Putin, and of the ideologues who surround him, has been to eliminate Ukraine’s national identity.

New York Post

Twitter execs vowed to ‘hit’ conservative accounts ‘hard’ but were hands-off with pro-Biden tweets

Flopping Aces

In a moronic move, the American hating, National Anthem kneeling, Brittney Griner was released from a Russian prison in trade for a….wait for it…a convicted arms dealer nicknamed the “merchant of death.”

The Blaze

Federal court blocks Biden administration from forcing Christian doctors to perform transsexual mutilation surgeries

60 Minutes Archive (video): Victor Bout - Russia's Merchant of Death

WSJ

Biden Bails Out the Teamsters Pension Fund

The $36 billion he delivered to the union’s pensions this week was sold as Covid ‘relief.’

Andrew McCarthy

How Russiagate Was Used to Justify FBI Election Interference

The surest Public Enemy No. 1 in the Russiagate saga is Julian Assange. 

Jonathan Turley: 

New Documents Show How Twitter “Trust” Executives Misled Congress and the Public

Alex Berenson: The Twitter files: leftist censorship revealed

Elon Musk confirms political candidates were subject to 'shadow-banning' by Twitter

100 Times New Dem House Leader, Election Denier Hakeem Jeffries Declared Election Results Were Fake, Artificial, Illegitimate

Politico

The United Methodist Church Is Fracturing. According to History, That’s a Very Bad Sign.

If history is any guide, it’s a sign of sharper polarization to come.

Politico

How Demographic Shifts Fueled by Covid Delivered Midterm Wins for Democrats

Althouse

Did Jack Dorsey lie to Congress when he denied Twitter engaged in shadowbanning?

Oldest DNA shows Greenland once was home to forested ecosystem

Newsweek Opinion

Russia has unleashed its Gen. Sherman and will destroy Ukraine

Victoria Toensing

I was a target of Justice Department and FBI weaponization of the criminal process against political opponents

"The process is the punishment."

Miranda Devine

Questions must be answered on ex-Twitter lawyer James Baker’s role in censorship scandals

Biden-Harris Regime Trades America-Hating WNBA Brittney Griner for Russian ‘Merchant of Death’, Leave Ex-Marine Behind

RedState

Matt Taibbi Drops More Information on the 'Twitter Files' and Exposes an Attempted Cover-Up by Jim Baker

Matt Taibbi

Be it Resolved: Don't Trust Mainstream Media

Jonathan Turley 

Why the Public is Not Buying the Latest Media Campaign Against Twitter

Jonathan Turley

Six Degrees from James Baker: A Familiar Figure Reemerges With the Release of the Twitter Files

James Freeman / WSJ

Joe Biden withheld info re his family's business during the 2020 campaign

ZeroHedge

Elon Musk’s annexation of Twitter is the most terrifying development in recent history because only a fascist would seek to impose free speech on humanity.

Sen. Ron Johnson: FBI 'Preplanned' Sabotage of Hunter Laptop Story

Babylon Bee

Nation Relieved To No Longer Have To Pretend To Like Soccer

Daily Caller

Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch asked Monday whether Colorado baker Jack Phillips was forced to undergo “a reeducation program” after refusing to bake a cake for a gay wedding.

Charles C. W. Cooke

When Trump Promises to Be a Tyrant, Take Him at His Word

American patriots do not recommend the suspension of the United States Constitution.

Eric Lendrum

According to the “Twitter Files” released by Elon Musk and journalist Matt Taibbi, the same FBI agent who played a crucial role in conducting illegal surveillance on Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign also played a part in censoring the Hunter Biden laptop story during the 2020 election.

Miranda Devine

FBI warned Twitter during ‘weekly’ meetings of Hunter Biden ‘hack-and-leak operation’ before censoring The New York Post

‘Malcolm X’ Finally Screens in Saudi Arabia 30 Years After Historic Filming in Mecca

California, a Free State Since 1850, May Pay $233k in Reparations per Slavery Descendant

Althouse rips NYT's biased reporting of Taibbi Twitter files

New York Post

Twitter simply invented a reason to censor the Post’s reporting of the Hunter Biden laptop bombshell

Jonathan Turley

Censorship by surrogate: Why Musk’s Twitter document dump could be a game changer

Miranda Devine

Missing from the Taibbi Twitter files are details of specific warnings we know the FBI made to Twitter about a Russian “hack and leak operation” involving Hunter during their weekly meetings with top executives of the social media giant in the days and weeks before The Post published its exclusive bombshell.

Secession movements gain traction in US amid deepening political rifts: 'A long-standing problem'

Recent polls suggest that many Americans support some form of political divorce amid widening ideological divides

Jonathan Turley

The Mob Turns on Matt Taibbi

Elon Musk Releases Twitter’s Internal Convos on Hunter Biden Laptop Censorship Through Matt Taibbi

Wells King/American Compass

Silicon Valley’s Public Garages

The indispensable and effective role of public policy in building the digital age

Jonathan Turley

Law firm partner fired after 44 year career for expressing views re Dobbs decisions at "safe place" staff meeting.

Ann Coulter: Media Torture Americans With Soccer News

U of Michigan

Cancer Weakness Discovered: New Method Pushes Cancer Cells Into Remission

Babylon Bee

Experts Warn That If You Stop Listening To Them They’ll Feel Sad

Elon Musk: Twitter Interfered In Elections

Arthur Brooks (video)

"We need to tell CEOs...3% of your employees are activists...blowing up your Slack demanding that you get involved in a culture war and make political statements. Don't do it. The rest of your employees are feeling bullied as well..."

Babylon Bee

Celebrities Cut Ties With Balenciaga After MyPillow Spotted In Photo Shoot

William Jacobson

The incoming House of Representatives should hold hearings on the destructive racialization of medical schools and medicine

“Medical School education is in crisis, with ‘social justice’ and race-focused activism being imposed on students, faculty, and staff.”

Babylon Bee

China Taps Governor Gretchen Whitmer To Lead Lockdown Enforcement

WSJ

Last week, the yield on the 10-year U.S. Treasury note dropped to 0.78 percentage point below that of the two-year yield, the largest negative gap since late 1981, at the start of a recession that pushed the unemployment rate even higher than it would later reach in the 2008 financial crisis.

Nate Cohn / NYT

Black Turnout in Midterms Was One of the Low Points for Democrats and Probably Cost Mandela Barnes a Senate Seat

New York Times: John McWhorter on Racial Tokenism

Thomas B. Edsall / NYT

How a ‘Golden Era for Large Cities’ Might Be Turning Into an ‘Urban Doom Loop’

New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) announced the city’s new plan to address mentally ill residents by hospitalizing them against their will, even if they do not pose an immediate safety risk to others.

Andrew McCarthy

Is the Biden Family’s China Scandal Warping Biden’s China Policy?

Jonathan Turley

Survey of colleges finds 61 Republican professors across 65 departments at seven universities and 667 Democrat professors.

Even MSNBC is now admitting, "Illegal immigration in the southern border is crazy right now...There is such a humanitarian crisis there and the numbers are just unbelievable."

Netherlands to close up to 3,000 farms to comply with EU rules

Don Surber

Ads featuring middle-class black people living the American dream are a great improvement in race relations because they show we share the same aspirations

The Federalist

Wisconsin Children’s Hospital Is Stacking Its Bench Of Chaplains With Trans Activists

Glenn Greenwald

The Media's Deranged Hysteria Over Elon Musk's Promised Restoration of Free Speech

Just The News

Donald Trump was originally ridiculed as president when he suggested the Chinese-owned TikTok social video app was a national security risk, only now to be validated two years later by the intelligence community.

American Thinker

Protests spread as China descends into a COVID lockdown hellscape

 Jonathan Turley

Dem Staffers Fear J6 Report Turning Into "Cheney for President 2024" Campaign Commercial

Andrew McCarthy

Time to Get Serious about Preserving and Protecting America

The holiday from history is over.

The Editors of National Review

The Border Crisis Is About to Get Worse

The Editors of National Review

A Strategic Roadmap for House Republican Investigations

Jason Riley

School Choice Made Big Gains During the Covid Pandemic

Nearly 6 in 10 parents preferred learning pods to remote learning and traditional public schools.

Elon Musk Says He’d Back DeSantis in 2024 Presidential Race

Babylon Bee

In Huge Black Friday Sale, Store To Sell Everything For Price It Was Before Biden Became President

The Federalist

Unimpressive candidates like John Fetterman are the new normal within America’s mail-in ballot apparatus.

Matt Taibbi

YouTube Censors Reality, Boosts Disinformation

Pat Buchanan

The greatest stake in this Russia-Ukraine war is not who ends up in control of Luhansk, Donetsk or Kherson, but that we not be drawn into a military conflict that would put us on the escalator to a war with Russia, a world war and perhaps a nuclear war.

Alex Berenson

Goodbye Sars-Cov-2

Ann Coulter

This Thanksgiving, Joy-Ann Reid Has Much To Be Thankful For

Babylon Bee

Karine Jean-Pierre Insists It’s Not Her Job To Answer Questions Like Some Sort Of Press Secretary

Are the COVID 19 vaccines causing immune suppression and the explosion of RSV cases?

WSJ Opinion

For all our social discord we remain the longest enduring society of free men governing themselves without benefit of kings or dictators.

Ann Coulter: A New Dawn: The End of Legal Discrimination?

WSJ Opinion

The Inflation Reduction Act Comes for Medicare

It will cut benefits and increase premiums, upsetting millions of elderly voters.

Babylon Bee

Turkey Denied Presidential Pardon After Photos Emerge Of It Attending January 6

Babylon Bee

13 Billion Dead After Trump Unbanned From Twitter

Swiss doctor sent to a psychiatric hospital and medicated because he opposed Covid lockdowns

Althouse:

"It's the new normal: inconclusive results. That seems awfully discordant with the denouncement of "election denial" we've heard for the last 2 years. . . The election was 13 days ago. It does not inspire confidence!"

Jonathan Turley: What Elephant? AP Denies that There is Any Evidence That Joe Biden Discussed Hunter’s Business Dealings

Jonathan Turley 

Clinton-Linked Dark Money Group Targets Advertisers to Stop Musk From Restoring Free Speech Protections

Jonah Goldberg

In Praise of Competence

The midterms showed that relatively normal Republicans are a better bet than novice Trumpy minions.

National Review

‘Where Woke Goes to Die’: How DeSantis Led the Way in the Culture War

Don Surber: Life after Trump

Jim Geraghty: The Magnitude of the GOP Midterm Debacle

New York Post

GOP megadonors ditch Donald Trump’s 2024 White House run

Thomas B. Edsall

The Red Wave Didn’t Just Vanish

On Election Day, a small but crucial percentage of Republican voters deserted their party, casting ballots for Democratic nominees in several elections that featured Trump-backed candidates at the top of the ticket. 

In other words, 2022 produced a significant election that Democrats can legitimately celebrate, but it may have a short half-life.

Michael Wolff / NYT

The Chaos Inside Donald Trump’s Mind

Ann Coulter

The Leech Dismount

You were brave, Trump supporters! But it's time to move on.

The people who gave Trump more primary votes than any Republican in history weren’t idiots, haters or racists. To the contrary, anyone who withstood the slings and arrows to make Trump president in 2016 is not deplorable, but honorable. Not duped, but clear-eyed. They didn’t screw up; they did the right thing.

It may take some of them a little longer to figure out that we’ve gotten everything out of the leech that we’re ever going to get. But they are good and decent people and will realize soon enough: It’s over. We got our parasitic worm, and it’s time to move on. Sometimes the worm turns; sometimes we turn on the worm.

Victor Davis Hanson

Will Trump ride off into the sunset, or play the broken hero?

National Review

The Midterms Showed How the Pro-Life Movement Can Win

Andrew McCarthy

If the former president is no longer a viable candidate for the 2024 GOP nomination, then the Biden DOJ has no incentive not to charge him.

Pollster Scott Rasmussen: 80% of Americans think all ballots should be in, counted by Election Day

Althouse

What a nightmare! I can't imagine wanting an electric car unless circumstances change very dramatically, and the rate of change is pathetic.

New York Post

A YouGov poll, released Friday, found that 42% of Republicans and GOP-leaning independents prefer DeSantis over Trump as the party’s 2024 standard-bearer, while 35% of those surveyed remain in the 45th president’s corner.

If You Don’t Get Enough Sleep, Your Brain Literally Eats Itself

Mary Harrington / UnHerd

American politics is being shaped by the AWFLs (Affluent White Female Liberals)

A sex war is coming

An NBC News Exit Poll found that 68% of Latino voters under 30 voted for a Democratic House candidate on Election Day, even though only 43% of them identify as a Democrat.

Two additional Oregon counties vote to become part of 'Greater Idaho'

Salena Zito

Pennsylvania Trump voters are ‘done’ with ex-president: ‘He needs to disappear’

The ongoing war in Ukraine is “not in the interest” of Europe, a French General has claimed, saying that the continent has aligned itself too much with American interests on the issue.

Matt Taibbi

The FBI's Transformation, from National Police to Domestic Spy Agency.

Part One: "Disruption"

A Florida FBI agent blows the whistle on a Bureau that's stopped worrying about making cases, shifting resources to a vast new mission: domestic spying without predicate.

Kim Strassel

This Week’s Red ‘Waves’

Republicans did well in places where they showed leadership and competence.

What do these state red waves have in common? Their elected leaders didn’t spend the past two years coddling Mr. Trump’s bruised ego. Nor did they spend it simply whining about Biden Democrats. They did the people’s business. 

Corey DeAngelis

The School-Choice Election Wave

Even Democrats are adapting to new political realities.

Babylon Bee: Fox News Calls Arizona For Stacey Abrams

NYT: Uvalde County voters rejected pleas of parents of slain students to elect candidates supporting gun control.

A federal judge in Texas on Thursday ruled that Biden’s plan to cancel hundreds of billions of dollars in student loan debt was unconstitutional and must be vacated

National Review

The Recipe for the Republican Landslide in Florida

A get-out-the-vote effort that sent an army of volunteers to knock on millions of doors across the state, built on the back of a historically-strong-and-getting-stronger party infrastructure.

John Podhoretz / New York Post

Here’s how Donald Trump sabotaged the Republican midterms

Jonah Goldberg

Donald Trump Built This

He was the prime mover of the GOP's faceplant 

WSJ

Trump Is the Republican Party’s Biggest Loser

He has now flopped in 2018, 2020, 2021 and 2022.