FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell vowed that Hurricane Ian relief would be provided to “all communities” after Vice President Kamala Harris said last week that the Biden administration would prioritize aid to minorities “based on equity.”

By: Tevi Troy – wsj.com – September 29, 2022 Hurricanes and other disasters have reshaped the political landscape before. In 2012 New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie was supposed to be a top Mitt Romney surrogate against President Barack Obama. When Hurricane Sandy hit a week before Election Day, Mr. Christie and his state were overwhelmed and in desperate need of federal resources....

By: Nate Hochman – nationalreview.com – September 29, 2022 Judge James C. Ho of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit announced Thursday that he would no longer be hiring law clerks from Yale Law School and urged other judges to follow suit. In a keynote address to the Kentucky Chapters Conference of the Federalist Society, titled “Agreeing...

By: Caroline Downey – nationalreview.com – September 29, 2022 Supreme Court justices have taken to publicly bickering over whether recent conservative majority decisions have undermined the credibility and reputation of the institution. During an appearance last week at Salve Regina University in Rhode Island, Justice Elena Kagan implied that the modern Court’s conservative majority was simply doing the partisan bidding...

Inflation is going to pack a one-two punch for voters and consumers ahead of the midterm elections. The first is inflation itself, …

By: Charles C. W. Cooke – nationalreview.com – September 28, 2022 In the New York Times this week, Bret Stephens complained that, in unholy conjunction with the Department of Justice, the FBI had disgraced itself yet again with its public smear of Representative Matt Gaetz. “I don’t like Gaetz’s politics or persona any more than you do,” Stephens told a...

  If I had to pick the most worrying characteristic of our current dystopia, I would choose the unsettling disconnect between the seriousness of the challenges we face and the public discourse that is supposed to be addressing them.

If the court accepts that this constitutes a legitimate injury, the rest is likely to follow.

Democrats are not without ammunition in midterm campaigning, as Americans broadly reject the U.S. Supreme Court ruling eliminating the constitutional right to abortion.

By: The Editors – nationalreview.com – September 26, 2022 Not for the first time, demonstrators have taken to the streets to challenge the theocratic regime in Tehran, and the ayatollah’s death squads are getting to work. About a week into these protests, the Iranian dictatorship’s very existence is on the line, and a brutal crackdown is expected. President Biden must...