By: Christian Schneider – nationalreview.com – November 10, 2022 Bidding farewell to Beto, Abrams, Crist — really, you can go now. Texas has around 250 miles of border wall with Mexico, but it seems like the state’s most impenetrable barrier is the one keeping Beto O’Rourke out of statewide office. Even though Republicans performed well below expectations on Tuesday night,...

By: Megan McArdle – washingtonpost.com – November 9, 2022 But politics can’t all be reckless cynicism — that’s how you get Trump. As I and other critics pointed out at the time, screaming that Trump poses an existential threat to American democracy falls rather flat if you’re also helping Trumpist candidates get closer to positions of power, where they might be able...

By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – November 9, 2022 Though the results are split, Republicans are dismayed, and they should be—at themselves. Some 70% of voters Tuesday said they’re unhappy with the state of the nation. With an unpopular President, 8% inflation, falling real incomes, rising crime, and chaos at the border, the GOP should have coasted at least...

By Allen C. Guelzo – wsj.com – November 8, 2022 The news of the great battle at Gettysburg came to Abraham Lincoln by fits and starts. But when it was finally confirmed on the morning of July 4, 1863, that Robert E. Lee’s Confederate army had been forced to retreat, the tidings couldn’t have been more welcome. To a crowd of...

By: Caroline Downey – nationalreview.com – November 9, 2022 President Biden on Wednesday admitted that he plans to do “nothing” differently in the second half of his first term to restore Americans’ confidencein the direction of their country, despite the possibility that Republicans reclaim a majority in the House after an otherwise lackluster midterm performance. Speaking to reporters the day...

Ex-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo warned Sunday that America is more likely to face another 9/11-type attack thanks to President Biden’s disastrous exit from Afghanistan last year.

By: Dan McLaughlin – nationalreview.com – November 9, 2022 What happened? That’s always the question after an election, but especially after one that didn’t go as many people expected. It will take some time to pour through the data and consider what worked and what didn’t, but here are some key early takeaways on what happened and what it means going...

By: Brittany Bernstein – nationalreview.com – November 8, 2022 Rising inflation has dealt American workers their largest pay cut in 25 years, according to the Federal Reserve Bank. Fifty-three percent of workers saw their wage growth dwarfed by the rate of inflation this year, according to an October report from the Dallas Fed. Despite having increased wages, the workers saw...

“Today, my administration announced that this year, the deficit fell by $1.4 trillion — the largest one-year drop in American history.

By: Jason L. Riley – wsj.com – November 8, 2022 One reason Republicans were projected to make big gains on Election Day is that GOP candidates have highlighted crime, which has risen nationally in recent years and in some big cities has hit elevations not seen since the early 1990s. For anyone paying attention, however, the writing has been on...