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Why are Senate Dems facing competitive races coming out against Title 42 repeal? As usual, follow the polls. A majority of registered voters (56%) oppose the decision to remove the border controls implemented by the Trump administration, the largest backlash against a Biden administration policy among dozens tracked by Morning Consult since January 2021. The…

The Biden administration keeps claiming that there was some sort of firewall between Joe and Hunter. And yet the repeated pattern of Joe Biden holding meetings with and doing favors for Hunter’s foreign business partners tells another story. President Joe Biden wrote a college recommendation letter to Brown University for the son of a Chinese executive tied to Hunter Biden,…

To mildly paraphrase Inigo Montoya, “Authoritarianism, you use that word a lot. I do not think it means what you think it means.” A few years ago,  “authoritarianism” seemed to have become the default lefty media meme. They couldn’t really define what they meant by authoritarianism except that it involved strong leaders whose politics they disagreed…

Market signals. Household staples are no longer immune to inflation. American consumers are starting to cut costs on mainstays from toothpaste to baby formula as inflation hits a swath of the economy that had thus far proven resistant to substantial price increases. Procter & Gamble Co., Clorox Co., Kraft Heinz Co. and other consumer-products giants have made a bet that…

I was there for and loathed the rise of Jon Stewart. The smug smirk, the mingled sarcasm and outrage, followed by arch deflection helped taint the culture and break the media. Between the Daily Show and Gawker, arguments quickly devolved into sarcasm, tribal sneering, and contempt.  When he finally retired, anticipating a Hillary administration, I wrote…