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By: Ed Whelan – nationalreview.com – May 3, 2022 I see no reason to doubt that the draft opinion in Dobbs that Politico has published and reported on is indeed what Politico says it is: a proposed majority opinion that Justice Alito circulated to his colleagues, evidently (according to the stamp it bears) on February 10, 2022. As Politico notes:…

If the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade, as suggested by a draft opinion that was leaked Monday, 26 states are certain or likely to restrict abortion.

After Roe v. Wade, many people think abortion is off limits to democracy. It isn’t. Source: The Texas Abortion Law Is Unconventional Because It Had to Be – WSJ

By Sarah Parshall Perry & Abby Kassal – heritage.org – April 11, 2022 This year marks the 50th anniversary of the passage of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, the federal law prohibiting sex-based discrimination in any educational program that is federally funded either directly or indirectly. But in a painful twist of irony, that same rule is now…

By: David Harsanyi – nationalreview.com – April 28, 2022 A Federal speech czar? Just as the Founders imagined it, no doubt. Earlier this week, Department of Homeland Security secretary Alejandro Mayorkas told Congress that his agency is creating a “Disinformation Governance Board” to combat “misinformation” coming from Russia as we near this year’s midterm elections. The Biden administration’s new Committee on Public Information will be led by…

When Rachel Maddow got her hands on the first page of one of former President Donald Trump’s tax returns it was a “STOP THE PRESSES!!!!” moment for the leftist media.

There is an old Spanish saying: “Camarón que se duerme se lo lleva la corriente”. Basically, it means if you snooze, you lose. This pretty accurately describes what’s occurred to the Democrat Party with Hispanic voters.

By: Karl Rove – wsj.com – April 27, 2022 Even Democratic strategists now admit the midterms will be disastrous for their party. “It’s going to be a terrible cycle for Democrats,” Doug Sosnik, one of the party’s best grand strategists, recently told the New York Times. The question is how big the calamity will be. A freeway pileup? Category 5…

By: Jim Geraghty – nationalreview.com – April 28, 2022 It isn’t going to get as much attention as this morning’s really bad GDP number, but note that the national average price for a gallon of regular gasoline continues to linger at more than $4 per gallon, after hitting the highest-ever recorded average price on March 11, at $4.33, according to…

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and the state’s Republican-controlled legislature are taking some heat for revoking Disney’s special carve-out privileges. As Politico explains: The more high-profile proposal signed by DeSantis, FL SB 4-C, calls for eliminating six special districts in Florida, including the Reedy Creek Improvement District that has since the 1960s granted Disney privileges like the ability to build its own…

Every time President Joe Biden’s knee jerks and he proposes a new policy to offset the economic backlash from one of his previous policies, he sets the stage to have to fix his latest fix.