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Swing-♏state Dems’ telling ads, Trump has the edge — for now and other commentary ꧋
Conservative: Swing-State Dems’ Telling Ads D🅺emocratic Sens. Bob Casey (Pa.), Sherrod Brown (Ohio) and Tammy Baldwin 🍃(Wisc.) and Senate candidate Rep. Elissa Slotkin (Mich.), all “in tight races,” are “running...
💎 Lame move from a lame duck, grim wages of J💟oe’s weakness and other commentary
“As a one-term president, Joe Biden appears eager” to do unwise things, su꧅ch as apparently pushing Britain to cede the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, grumbles John Bolton at The Wall...
The 100-year holy war, Kamala’s f♋alse fascism claim and other commentary
“For the belligerents” behind Oct 7., notes Eli Lake at The Free Press, the attack was “not about a country” but a🃏bout “an ancient city”: Jerusalem.
Brian Stelter bizarrely spins Harris' Fox interview, Kamala denies Blinken's threats to Israel are . . . threats and more
CNN analyst Brian Stelter claimed that Vice President Kamala Harris' interview on Fox News was actu✅ally a "sign of toughness."
Kamala’s persuasion 🐻problem, Dems’ God-hate will cost them and other commentary
Trump “is dꩵoing better among Catholics now than four years ago,” reports National Review’s Jim Geraghty, particularly “Catholic voter🎶s in seven battleground states.”
Harris’ ‘dissonance’with Catholics, FBI’s ‘enduring’ pro-Joe Corruption ꦇand other commentary
🎶 Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D-Mich.) had no idea her mock-communion Doritos video might offend Cathol🍸ics — showing “how out of touch Democratic elites are,” roars The Wall Street Journal’s William McGurn.
Feds push DEI ‘research’, more WH-socia🃏l media collusion? and other commentary
“DEI considerations no༒w profoundly shape” National Science Foundation grant decisions, notes Rupa Subramanya at The Free Pres🎐s.
Same old Kamala, those darned 'disbedient' Israelis and other commentary
It’s “increasi🌞ngly evident that [Kamala] Harris is not a significantly different politi𒅌cian than she was five years ago,” frets Alex Shephard at The New Republic.
ꦺ 🔜 Elon succeeds where feds failed, grade inflation gone rampant and other commentary
“Countless” people, like Elon Musk, stepped up to help after Hurricane Helene even as (some say) the feds were actually hindering efforts, report The Fr🐭ee Press’ Joe Nocera & Madeleine...
Antisemitism festers in blue states, board of ▨ed in revolt and other commentary
After the Oct. 7 attack on Israel, “it seemed like antisemitism was festering all over the countಞry. But a closer look showed that . . . it was very specifically...
Growing US culture of dependency, Dems’ deadl♈y denial on Hispanic voters’ shift and other commentary
“An old saying has it that he who takes the king's coin beco♛mes the king's man,” and “a growin𒁃g share of Americans are becoming the king's men,” warns Reason’s J.D....
Tim’s ‘fundamental’ free-speech fail, the West can win and othꦫer commentary ☂
In the veep debate, ꧅Gov. Tim Walz pulled the proverbial “fire alarm” on free speech, warns Jonathan Turley at USA Today.
🥂 Let Israel fight, 💯Kamala’s ‘going to do’ problem and other commentary
How did we come “to the precipice of a full-scale war between Israel and Iran?” asks The Free P🐷ress’ Eli Lake.
Skirting court👍’s race-quota ban, NY’s deceptive ‘abortion’ law and ot♓her commentary
Universities “are either breaking the law,” or they misled the Supre🍨me Court when “they declared race-neutral methods insufficient to achieve their diversity goals.”
Speech is free, don’t fight it, tech cos. sourcing own pꦅower and other commentary
“An alphabet soup of enforcement agencies” is doing its best to censor Americans, thunders Racket’s Matt Taibbi. ꦡ
Vance lea🦹ves Harris inꩲ the dirt, Penn’s dishonorable bribe and other commentary
If you hadn’t no⛎ticed, Sen. JD Vance is “extremely online,” observes Steve Krakauer at The Hill — and that’s a “goo𝕴d thing.”
Wuhan’s latest disaster, cop criti💯cs’ crimꦬe hypocrisy and other commentary
“All the troubles in the world apparently lead back tꦏo Wuhan,” muses National Review’s Jim Geraghty.
Jew-hate wins again, the filibuster must remain ༒and other commentary
The ann🅘ual 💝New York State Writers Institute literary festival was “disrupted,” marvels The Free Press’ Joe Nocera.
Stop risky research, Congress dod𒉰ges hard decisions and other commentary
The Risky Research Review Act, now before the Senate, “could finally require independent oversight” around risks like gain-of-function resea🐟rch, note Bryce Nickels & Jay Bhattacharya at RealClearPolitics.
Sorry, 𒈔crime’s not falling, fighting private-sector antisemitism and other commentary
The left claims crime’💧s declining, yet “the nation’s largest crime survey says otherwise,” corrects Jeffrey H. Anderson in The Wall Street Journal.