By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – November 20, 2022 Poor countries have long sought to force wealthy countries to pay for the “loss and damage” they suffer from natural disasters that are supposedly climate-related. This is separate from the $100 billion a year that rich countries have promised to help poor countries reduce emissions and adapt to climate change....

By: Isaac Schorr – nationalreview.com – November 17, 2022 The White House has responded to House Republicans’ announcement that they would be opening a probe into Joe Biden’s involvement with his son Hunter’s business interests by casting the probe as an exploration of “long-debunked conspiracy theories.” “President Biden is not going to let these political attacks distract him from focusing...

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The elections may have solved the GOP’s Trump problem and made the Democrats’ Biden problem worse.

By: David L. Bahnsen – nationalreview.com – November 10, 2022 The midterm-election results are full of inconvenient truths and, as is often the case, just ambiguous enough to allow for ample spin depending on one’s partisan leaning. The Republicans are probably taking back the House majority, but it will be by much less of a margin than the GOP hype machine was...

By: Ann Coulter – townhall.com – November 10, 2022 On an otherwise disastrous night for Republicans, who were the biggest winners? ANSWER: Gov. Ron DeSantis in Florida and Gov. Brian Kemp in Georgia — the two Republicans Donald Trump hates with the hot, hot hate of a thousand suns. Which Republicans most underperformed? ANSWER: Doug Mastriano in Pennsylvania and Herschel Walker...

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: 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...