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The government believes the threat of violence and major civil disturbances is so great, it has quietly created a new category of extremists: MAGA.

By: Rick Scott – wsj.com – Otober 4, 2023 Democrats in Washington love the leadership fight in the House right now. It’s pushing Congress toward enacting another massive omnibus spending bill and threatening to squander the victory Republicans obtained last week when, for a change, they acted in a manner consistent with how they campaign. The normal game plan for…

Newly released data shows that thousands of illegal migrants are heading to the cities that once welcomed them with open arms but are now calling on federal help to combat the flood.

Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley got to the heart of the government shutdown fireworks in her appearance on Fox News Sunday. “Let’s be clear what the Freedom Caucus is really trying to do; they are trying to cut spending.” Source: Kevin McCarthy Is Not the Problem

Frederick Douglass was one of the greatest Americans who ever lived. This man began life as an illiterate slave — nearly all slave owners prevented slaves from learning to read — and rose from slavery to become, along with Abraham Lincoln, the greatest orator of his time, and one of the wisest and most eloquent writers in American history.

Health authorities and policymakers squandered public trust by lying to the American people.

By: Matthew Hennessey – wsj.com – October 3, 2023 A framed copy of a March 1993 editorial written by Daniel Henninger hangs in the Midtown Manhattan conference room where the Journal opinion staff meets. My colleagues and I refer to the piece with reverence. We frequently use its headline—“No Guardrails”—as a shorthand for the devolution of societal norms, a process…

By: David Zimmermann & Audrey Fahlberg – nationalreview.com – October 3, 2023 The House narrowly voted Tuesday afternoon to oust Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R., Calif.), with Democrats joining a small group of Republican rebels to vacate the speaker’s chair for the first time in history. The vote passed 216-210 with the support of Representative Matt Gaetz of Florida, who introduced…

By: Dan McLaughlin – nationalreview.com – October 2, 2023 The past month has not exactly been the finest hour for Congress. Sure, the institution itself has clanked along and somehow managed to avert a government shutdown. But its members have showcased a really astonishing variety of failures to conform to the most basic standards of behavior. These people seemingly don’t…

By: Andy Kessler – wsj.com – October 1, 2023 I first got to know author Michael Lewis, then of “Liar’s Poker” fame, when in the mid-1990s I took him around Silicon Valley in an old beat-up convertible. I told stories and showed him where the first integrated circuit and microprocessor were invented, plus Xerox Parc and its beanbag chairs, Hewlett…

By: Andrew Stuttaford – nationalreview.com – September 28, 2023 A hamstrung green economy would mean a worse future The industrial revolution is not yet canceled, but it has become “problematic.” When delegates arrived in Glasgow, Scotland, for Conference of the Parties 26, the 2021 edition of the U.N.’s climate jamboree, Britain’s then–prime minister, Boris Johnson, welcomed them with a speech in…