Publication: Wall Street Journal

Wall Street Journal

Mrs. Thomas’s text messages are embarrassing but amount to an outsider kibitzing and commiserating with the White House chief of staff. They are no reason for Justice Thomas to recuse himself from cases involving the Trump Administration.

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Population then, climate change now—the scare tactics are the same and the predictions equally outlandish.

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Rebecca Sugar: I had refused masks before, forgoing a night at the opera and entrance into a store.. But in a moment of decision when convenience and conviction collided, I chose the former. Shame on me and on everyone who feels as I do and acts as I did. We are the reason that mask mandates still exist.

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The administration refused to impose sanctions in the lead-up to Mr. Putin’s invasion, naively trusting diplomacy. Yet even after Russian tanks rolled—and despite having months to prepare—the response has been slow, timid, hostage to feel-good “multilateralism” and unwilling to attack the real engine of the Russian economy: energy.

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An anxious world is looking for American leadership in a dangerous new era. Instead Mr. Biden offered a rehash of his first-year domestic agenda that has brought him to his low political ebb. It’s dispiriting that a White House facing so many daunting challenges could come up with so little.

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His father invoked emergency powers in 1970—but that was against terrorists, not peaceful protesters.

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The annual loss has been decreasing in the past decade even as the globe continues to warm.

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The acceptance of restrictions was difficult to watch. But even Canadians are fighting back now.

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Liz Cheney: Those who do not wish the truth of Jan. 6 to come out have predictably resorted to attacking the process—claiming it is tainted and political. Our hearings will show this charge to be wrong. We are focused on facts, not rhetoric, and we will present those facts without exaggeration, no matter what criticism we face.

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Mr. Pence stands out as a rare Republican these days willing to stand up to Mr. Trump’s disgraceful behavior after the election. Too many in the GOP seem to have lost their constitutional moorings in thrall to one man.

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Mr. Rogan’s existence ought to make you feel better about our society, though. His success speaks to a desire by his large audience for contradictory, dissenting, off-kilter, even absurd views.  Audiences seek controversy not just to open their minds, not just to annoy their betters, but because to hear impertinent, unapproved talk feels like freedom.

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As Russia and China build up their stockpiles, Washington is replacing weapons one-for-one.

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If he chooses a radical to replace Breyer, it will stimulate GOP turnout in November.

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Vaccines were wasted on those who didn’t need them, and people who posed no risk lost jobs.

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It’s past time to shift focus from trying to stamp out all new infections to protecting the most vulnerable from severe disease directly through vaccination and other evidence-based measures and alleviating hospital staffing shortages. Ending mask mandates, de-emphasizing isolation and encouraging vaccination ought to be a compromise most of us can live with.

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it’s obvious that when the president pounds on the lectern and flails his arms, the overstated drama deprives his communication of any authenticity. It seems as if there are a director’s cues in his text: “It’s time to raise your voice, Mr. President.”

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Left-wing political activists want to destroy America’s long tradition of private philanthropy.

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A perfect storm in the Democratic Party is making a once-unfathomable scenario plausible: a political comeback for Hillary Clinton in 2024. Several circumstances have created a leadership vacuum in the party, which Mrs. Clinton viably could fill.

Wall Street Journal (Flashback: Jan. 11, 2021)

Inflaming emotions isn’t a crime. The president didn’t mention violence, much less provoke it.

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Peggy Noonan: Everything living wants to live, including this stupid little virus. It will shape-shift, find new entry points—anything to stay alive. But what we’re seeing now is the pandemic in its death throes. It’s going at everyone’s throats, in a frenzy, but it’s weaker than it was and knows it.

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Joe Manchin’s decision on Sunday to oppose the Build Back Better Act is a service to the country, sparing it from huge tax increases and new entitlements that would fan inflation and erode the incentive for Americans to work. Paradoxically, it is also a blessing for Democrats if they get the message, and it offers President Biden a chance to reboot.

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The Salvation Army’s International Social Justice Commission published a discussion guide called “Let’s Talk About Racism.”…But its radical woke overtones against American Christians seem to make such gracious discussion impossible.

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Activists who insist on a relationship between climate change and twisters can’t explain the deadly storms of yesteryear.

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The French far-right candidate is presenting his vision in a manner that is attuned to the French elite.