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The Washington Post reports that: After pardoning a pair of turkeys, an annual White House tradition, Biden delivered some stern words for the small...
I want to endorse Jim Geraghty’s rejection of the idea that, if Donald Trump wins a second term next year, he is likely to become a dictator. He is...
In recent weeks, Twitter has been full of insalubrious examples of Democratic Party-adjacent journalists mocking people who complain that things are...
Dominic notes: Harvard president Claudine Gay’s plagiarism has been publicly readable for years, and nobody noticed until now. She was getting...
Axios reports on the toll that Hunter Biden’s shenanigans are taking on his father: In private, no issue is more likely to anger or sadden President...
It looks as if we’re going to get that Hunter Biden v. Joe Biden Second Amendment case after all. Here’s Axios : The gun charges against Hunter...
About the Washington Post’s union, Dan writes: While I’m generally pretty skeptical about private-sector unions (let alone public-sector ones), I...
On episode 49 — so called because there have been 48 others — I talked to Russ Roberts, the host of the EconTalk podcast and the president of...
Over at the Atlantic, McKay Coppins writes about the prospects of a second Trump term, and includes this paragraph in his assessment, as if its...
Yesterday, I wrote that the debate between Ron DeSantis and Gavin Newsom was pointless. Today, Noah illustrates why: Newsom often retreated from the...
Phil writes: The simple reason why Trump has been so formidable is that he keeps getting indicted. This is crazy. Don’t get me wrong: I’m not...
At CNN, Dominic Erdozain offers up a ridiculous piece titled, “America once valued life more than guns. How did that change?” As one might...
There is no particularly nice way of saying this, so I’ll say it without being particularly nice: If, this Thanksgiving, you cannot find an enormous...
One of the key reasons that Republicans have done so well in Florida in recent years is that their state party has remained sane and competent. Sure,...
On episode 48 of The Charles C. W. Cooke Podcast , I celebrated the Jacksonville Jaguars’ 34-14 victory over the Tennessee Titans, and then talked...
In his post on the newfound Osama bin Laden craze that has taken TikTok by storm, Jim writes that: Robert Frost once said, “A liberal is a man too...
Nikki Haley wants to force social media companies to verify each and every one of their users: “The second thing is, every person on social media...
On episode 47 of The Charles C. W. Cooke Podcast , I tried to work out why some of the anti-Israel protests have bothered me so much. Then I talked...
Tim Scott has dropped out. Who will be next? I’m not sure that anyone will — at least not until it’s too late. Tim Scott and Mike Pence dropped...
I see that Joe Biden is restoring norms and decency once again: https://x.com/Jordanfabian/status/1722690456398549458?s=20 For those who are...
Meditating upon the results in Kentucky, John McCormack asks: Again, the abortion issue was probably a contributing factor in the race, but if the...
Jeff’s take on the debate last night is touch too dismissive for my taste, but one line jumped out at me nevertheless. Lamenting correctly that,...
If I may be permitted to agree with Dominic’s post agreeing with my post, I’d like to add a note on Kentucky. Dominic writes: In Kentucky, voters...
A couple of weeks ago, I observed how quickly the reactions to the atrocities of October 7 had exposed the entire progressive speech-policing...
Last night was obviously not good for the Republican Party — which isn’t in a good place, and which won’t even begin to be until it ejects...
Noah asks: So, what is the point of Biden’s endorsement of a cease-fire by another name in such a highly conspicuous venue? Was it really all just...
I admire Noah’s relentless attempt to analyze the 2024 Republican primary, with its various dissections of the coalitions, demographic groups,...
On this week’s episode of The Charles C. W. Cooke Podcast , I talked to Dan Senor about Hamas’s atrocities in Israel on October 7. Among the...
There are certain moments in our politics at which it is important to achieve a certain outcome simply to prevent a bad precedent from being set. This...
On episode 45 of The Charles C. W. Cooke Podcast , I admit that I missed the podcast’s anniversary. Then I talked to Yascha Mounk about his new...
Yesterday, Donald Trump said something stupid and grotesque about the attacks in Israel, and so, today, of course, his acolytes are running around the...
This statement from Ben Sasse, the president of the University of Florida, is pretty much perfect in every way: Dear Jewish Gator Alums, Many of you...
On episode 44 of The Charles C. W. Cooke Podcast , I talked to NPR’s Steve Inskeep about his excellent new book on Abraham Lincoln, Differ We...
Abigail notes that: The Oregon Food Bank, a non-profit which annually receives millions in government funds, may be violating civil-rights laws by...
I argued yesterday that the mainstream press is beginning to realize that Joe Biden is unpopular, but that it has not yet grasped that he deserves to...