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Over X for Friday, there have actually been two competing trends to do with cancer research, with one reminding that there’s a standalone bill that’s been held up.

By: Annie Linskey, Rebecca Ballhaus, Emily Glazer, Siobhan Hughes – wsj.com – Dec. 19, 2024 Aides kept meetings short and controlled access, top advisers acted as go-betweens and public interactions became more scripted. The administration denied Biden has declined. His superior in the Biden campaign quickly chided him. As the three rode in a minivan through the state’s cornfields, Anthony…

By: Jeffrey Blehar – nationalreview.com – December 19, 2024 If the media chose not to explore Biden’s mental decline because of partisan allegiance, then they have permanently forfeited their credibility. I know many of our readers will be eager to claim the earliest date possible, because we’ve all heartily loathed the man as president for four years, and I doubt…

By: Conrad Black – nysun.com – December 17, 2024 That’s something to celebrate given how close America came to careering through the guardrails of its constitutional democracy. As the Christmas holidays and the year end approach, I respectfully take it upon myself to recommend that thoughtful Americans reflect upon how close the United States came in recent years to roaring…

Drone swarms over American cities spark frustration as a distrustful public suspects the Biden administration knows more than it admits. New Jersey is now subject to nonstop and often sensational civilian reports of swarms of nocturnal drones crossing city skies and violating the airspace of airports and military bases.

By: Roger Kimball – thespectator.com – December 19, 2024 It operates by subverting legislative responsibility for the sake of pork, on the one hand, and partisan interdiction, on the other. In the 1870s, Gustave Flaubert assembled Le Dictionnaire des idées reçues, a humorous collection of “received ideas” and clichés then current in French society. A new version needs to be produced…

By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – December 18, 2024 The end-of-year CR is ugly as usual, but please leave town quickly. In lieu of passing a real budget, the House and Senate have agreed on another continuing resolution, or CR, that will extend through March 14 in the new year. The only virtue here is that the government won’t…

Several religious institutions and leaders including the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), Coalition for Jewish Values, Patrick Henry College, and the Association of Christian Schools International have filed “friend-of-the-court” briefs urging the Supreme Court of the United States to reverse a lower court decision that forced Bethesda University to include board members who do not follow their firmly held, religious…

The lawsuit against a New York doctor is the first to challenge “shield laws.”  

Top officials gathered in Washington suggested an openness to backing the vice president again next time.

ABC News will pay $15 million to a “presidential foundation and museum” in a settlement reached with President-elect Donald Trump in his defamation suit against the network and anchor George Stephanopoulos.