Publication: Wall Street Journal

Wall Street Journal

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

Wall Street Journal

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.

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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is threatening to withhold payments to healthcare facilities unless they require the Covid-19 vaccine for their workers. The CMS policy has the potential to backfire and jeopardize patient access, safety and the quality of care for millions of Americans.

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Markets sold off worldwide on Friday after South Africa raised alarm about the new “variant of concern” that the World Health Organization named Omicron. The panic may be driven more by the fear of new government lockdowns and social distancing than by the variant itself…One clear lesson from the pandemic is that lockdowns do more harm than good.

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For the left, it’s become an occasion to air grievances ranging from “colonialism’ to ‘carbon footprints.”

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The left wants to cancel the WSJ’s annual Thanksgiving editorials. One is about the Pilgrims in 1620. The other reports on why we should be thankful for America’s current prosperity…We don’t mind giving critics a chance to make their case, but we won’t bend to political demands for censorship.

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Brad Raffensperger: The Clinton campaign and Stacey Abrams spread falsehoods about vote theft years before Trump’s loss.

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The latest climate confab achieved little, which is for the best.

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Advocates of mandating Covid vaccines equate them with standard childhood shots against diseases like polio…But those decades-old vaccines have gone through the full FDA testing regime. The Covid vaccine has received only emergency-use authorization for this age group, meaning its safety and efficacy have not yet been established to the FDA’s satisfaction.

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Prohibit “diversity, equity and inclusion’”statements at public universities and other institutions.

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Environmental and antibusiness regulations in the deep blue state are backing up port traffic.

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From Seattle to Long Island, Americans voted against public disorder.

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Virginia’s contest was a test of whether Americans like being called racists.

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Journalists credited Gavin Newsom for a similar turnaround but won’t stop vilifying Ron DeSantis…Florida went from having the country’s highest rate of Covid infections to the lowest in about two months.