The Federal Reserve raised rates by three-quarters of a point, continuing its campaign against inflation. Fed Chair Jerome Powell signaled a rationale for slowing the increases, but markets recoiled when he said it was “very premature” to consider a pause.

By: Gabriella Hoffman – townhall.com – October 31, 2022 While stumping for Virginia congressional candidate Yesli Vega on Friday (D-VA), Governor Glenn Youngkin (R-VA) made non-controversial comments that threw many Democrats into a frenzy. The Recount, a leftist media outfit, posted a clip of Youngkin’s remarks at the campaign rally suggesting he was inciting violence against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her husband, Paul...

US Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) hit the airwaves to connect the recent assault on Paul Pelosi with “fascism” and “white nationalism.”

By: Michael Brendan Dougherty – nationalreview.com – October 31, 2022 Emily Oster, writing at the Atlantic, asks whether we can all just forgive and forget about what we said and did to one another during the Covid-19 pandemic. On the question of masks, school closings, and the efficacy of this or that vaccine, some people got it right, and some...

MIDTERMS, BIDEN’S AGENDA, AND THE FILIBUSTER. On March 2, 2021, when he had been president less than two months, Joe Biden met with a group of liberal historians in the White House East Room.

Americans are worried about inflation, crime, groceries. So Biden talks with a transgender TikTok star.

Senator Rick Scott (R., Fla.), chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, on Sunday predicted Republicans will win at least 52 Senate seats in the midterm elections.

Tuesday night’s debates were an unmitigated disaster for Democrats across the board.

By: Daniel Henninger – wsj.com – October 26, 2022 Mr. Fetterman, Pennsylvania’s lieutenant governor, suffered a stroke in May days before he won the Democratic Senate primary, and a question since has been whether his recovery was sufficient to eliminate the stroke’s effects as a voter concern. The answer on display Tuesday evening is that Mr. Fetterman’s recovery is so...

It appears voters in states that passed what critics called “voter suppression laws” didn’t get the memo that Republicans had made it too difficult for them to vote. News reports say voters are flocking to the polls.