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At the 49th annual March for Life, thousands marched to defend the unborn. It was a unique year, given that the pending Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization could overturn Roe v. Wade.  

The United States is confronting a pair of ruthless dictatorships in two potential collisions that could change history and leave Americans at enormous risk. The news media focus is currently on Vladimir Putin and his threat to occupy part or all of Ukraine.  

Stephen Breyer is retiring at the end of the current Supreme Court term, at the age of 83, after 27 years on the Court. We wish him good health and a happy retirement. We wish we could be equally cheery about the prospect that his replacement will be faithful to the Constitution and laws of the United States.  

The new year has brought a sudden shift in the so-called mainstream punditry as they reluctantly realize that the ship of the Biden administration has plowed into an avoidable political iceberg, and is sinking fast.  

“The bedrock of the American republic is that elections must be free, fair, accurate and trusted.” So states Mollie Hemingway in her important book, “Rigged: How the Media, Big Tech, and the Democrats Seized Our Elections” (2021). I spoke with Mollie on the radio when her book came out.  

As usual, the media coverage on the Ukraine crisis is largely inadequate. Perversely, most of the aggressive left-wing media want to escalate the feud with Russian President Vladimir Putin to the point of driving Russia into the arms of China. This is the only way Russia (whose GDP is smaller than Canada’s) could seriously damage the West.  

By Tomas J. Philipson – WSJ.com – Jan. 19, 2022 Biden’s first year of handling the pandemic comes to a close, many of his most ardent critics are pointing to the ugly numbers: More Americans have died from Covid-19 under the current president than under the previous one, despite the prevalence of vaccines and the development of other medical innovations….

They burned political capital to question the legitimacy of the next elections and lay the foundation for an assault on our traditions of governance.  

The military-industrial complex and its clients sprinkled throughout both political parties seem to have decided that the next place we need to go and kill people (or at least sell weapons to help others kill people) is Ukraine, assuming that Russia decides to slice off a section of its former province.  

Allysia Finley Follow – WSJ.com – Jan. 17, 2022 Forget about herd immunity. Covid-19 vaccines and prior infection don’t provide lasting protection against infection and transmission, especially with the Omicron variant. That makes it impossible for enough of the population to become immune to stop the virus from spreading. But don’t despair. Omicron will give much of the population what…

President George W. Bush, in his January 2002 State of the Union speech delivered only months after the 9/11 attack, famously referred to what he termed the “Axis of Evil”—Iran, Iraq (still under Saddam Hussein) and North Korea. Well, the Axis of Evil has grown over the past 20 years—and changed. And one of those changes is its hold on…