Publication: Wall Street Journal

Wall Street Journal

House Speaker McCarthy’s decision to launch an inquiry is fine, but the bar for removing President Biden from office should be high.

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His low standing in the polls is finally alarming the party about the political risks for 2024.

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Biden is two months from his 81st birthday, and aging can go the same way Hemingway described bankruptcy: gradually and then suddenly.

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Mike Pence: For decades, conservatism’s ideological rival has been liberalism. The radical left has now taken the Democratic Party into the abyss of progressive socialism under the guise of the woke climate agenda. But today another strain of this ideology challenges conservatism from within and for control of the Republican Party.

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Banning Trump from the ballot under Section 3 of the post-Civil War constitutional amendment would harm U.S. law and democracy.

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It would be calming to have Trumpless Thursday, on which we could be free of any mention of his name. On Trumpless Thursday, we wouldn’t have to see that face or contemplate that hairdo.

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Karl Rove: He has no government experience, but plenty of conspiratorial demagoguery to sell.

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Without Trump, the candidates could fight about their policies.

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One goal of her South American trip was to learn how to succeed in censorship.

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The only way to give Donald Trump a real challenge is to consolidate the field early.

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The prosecutions ensure U.S. political bitterness for years and payback against Democrats.

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The fourth indictment of fTrump reads like an exercise at throwing everything at the jury to see what might stick. Fani Willis, the Democratic district attorney in Fulton County, Ga., has assembled a 98-page charge sheet with little fresh evidence regarding Mr. Trump.

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Merrick Garland’s appointment Friday of David Weiss as a special counsel is best understood as political damage control after the Attorney General’s sweetheart plea deal with Hunter Biden blew up under judicial questioning. The result may be worse for the President’s son but better for Joe Biden’s re-election campaign.

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When Trump violated his oath of office after the 2020 election by attempting to overthrow the constitutional order, Republicans faced their worst choice yet between fact- and faith-based decision making: Banish him from office, or keep wishing, harder than ever. It wasn’t really a contest.

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They want the election to be all about the former President, all the time.

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His conduct is hard to defend, but a conviction for fraud would set a dangerous precedent.

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Yet the indictment offers no new evidence to establish a connection between the riot and Mr. Trump beyond his well-known tweets and public statements. Surely Mr. Smith would have added this to his conspiracy charges if he had found such evidence.

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It turns out the percentage of the globe that burns each year has been declining since 2001.

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Alarmist stories about the weather, not the warm air itself, are behind the left’s anxiety and dread.

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Karl Rove: If the third party puts a conservative atop its ticket, it could lure Republican voters.

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When revenue is declining anyway, it doesn’t help to alienate half your audience with political posturing.

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He boosted the fortunes of blacks who were already better off but he has done little to help the black poor. Worse, by advocating an ever-larger welfare state that creates incentives not to work and subsidizes counterproductive behavior, Mr. Jackson and his political allies have inadvertently helped to keep the black poor impoverished.

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The Continent is experiencing a tentative revival of conservatism. Spain, which goes to the polls on July 23, could be the next country to do that most unusual of things these days: Elect a mainstream party of the center-right.

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“Average global temperature” is a meaningless measure, and comparisons to 125,000 years ago are preposterous.