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By: Maggie Haberman, Shane Goldmacher, and Jonathan Swan – nytimes.com – July 8, 2024 The document reflects the former president’s ideological grip on his party, outlining the same nationalistic priorities that his campaign website does. Donald J. Trump told officials on Monday that he supports a new Republican Party platform, one that reflects the presumptive nominee’s new position on abortion…

By: Wilfred Reilly – nationalreview.com –  July 7, 2024 Editor’s note: The following is adapted from Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me, by Wilfred Reilly, with permission from Broadside Books. We often, bizarrely, hear the claim that American history is taught mostly from the political right — and that it presents our nation as bucolic. But, in fact, many of…

By: Ryan Mills – nationalreview.com – July 7, 2024 Activists are spending millions on misleading ads telling voters that Biden could reshape the Court for generations. Frustrated by recent decisions on guns and judicial deference, and still stinging from the 2022 ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade, left-wing activists and media are ramping up calls for Democrats who aren’t enthusiastic about President Joe Biden…

By: Allysia Finley – wsj.com – July 7, 2024 They ignored the president’s obvious cognitive troubles and then attacked anyone who pointed them out. Asked last week by CBS News’s Major Garrett whether President Biden had the “vigor and mental capability” to continue serving, Anthony Fauci equivocated: “In my interactions with him, I have no doubt.” Did the former National…

George Stephanopoulos’s interview of President Biden was painful to watch—unless, probably, you’re Donald Trump. Even partisan Trump supporters could feel sorry for the president—though that would be…

Although news articles often call Donald Trump a “liar,” I don’t think I have ever seen that term used when discussing Joe Biden. Following the first presidential debate in June, fact-checkers at the New York Timesand the Wall Street Journal accused Trump of numerous falsehoods. But they couldn’t find a single Biden falsehood.

By: Gerard Baker – wsj.com – July 1, 2024 Mr. Biden succeeded because he made toeing the party line his life’s work. Like all politicians whose egos dwarf their talents, he ascended the greasy pole by slavishly following his party wherever it led. In the 1970s and 1980s, the Democrats were a party of post-Vietnam peacenik activists, seeking accommodation with…

What was democracy-corroding MAGA “misinformation” only a couple of weeks ago is now the accepted narrative of the entire political media.

That staffers are trying to hide Biden’s true condition from the public is not just a family issue or a conundrum for Democrats.

By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – June 30, 2024 A 6-3 majority rules that Presidents have ‘presumptive immunity’ from criminal prosecution for their official acts. Partisans on the left and right are reacting to Monday’s Supreme Court decision on presidential immunity based on how it affects the fate of Donald Trump. That’s a blinkered view that ignores the long-run…

By: Andy Kessler – wsj.com – June 30, 2024 When did it become expected to shell out a 25% gratuity for soggy takeout fries? The screen reads: “Add a tip: 18%. 20%. 25%.” For a takeout sack of burgers and soggy fries? C’mon. It takes extra taps to change it to 10% or zero. Instead, we sheepishly tip and feel resentful….