Publication: Wall Street Journal

Wall Street Journal

A ticket with a Catholic woman from Queens lost Catholics and woman—and almost lost Queens.

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Gerald Baker: Has there been in recent history a more tendentious, hysterical, data-denying and frankly disreputable exercise in misdirection than the way in which much of America’s media has covered the Covid-19 epidemic?

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With his interventions the president is telling city residents that there’s nothing inevitable about the rising shootings and mayhem that plague their communities. They are the result of the choice made by too many public officials to wink at chaos. 

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The lockdown-as-miracle-cure is a fantasy, as the World Health Organization has now acknowledged. The economic and public-health harm is too great and the virus is too easily transmissible. The public is smarter than the media and can adjust its behavior when flare-ups occur. 

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His voters are more enthusiastic than Biden’s, and may be less fearful of going to the polls.

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Prof. John Hasnas: People who are often the age of my students have kept grocery stores open for me, cooked and delivered food to my home, worked in warehouses, loaded and driven trucks to deliver packages to me…and worked in hospitals so that I can get treatment if I get sick. I would feel ungenerous if I were unwilling to run some risk of infection myself to provide my services to them.

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Lockdown mania continues on campus.

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President Trump delivered one of the best speeches of his Presidency Friday evening at Mount Rushmore…Contrary to the media reporting, the America Mr. Trump described is one of genuine racial equality and diversity. 

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Black Lives Matter would do well to remind whites that they can be victims, too.

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The network colluded with a foreign advocacy group that wanted Google to demonetize The Federalist.

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Mike Pence: Thanks to the leadership of President Trump and the courage and compassion of the American people, our public health system is far stronger than it was four months ago, and we are winning the fight against the invisible enemy.

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Collective bargaining protects too many bad cops from discipline.

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The purge of senior editors at progressive newspapers this weekend is no cause for cheering. Their resignations are another milestone in the march of identity politics and cancel culture through our liberal institutions, and American journalism and democracy will be worse for it.

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Democratic mayors and governors seem unable to stop the destruction of their own cities.

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At best, mass mail voting is a roll of the dice, calculated against the grim reality of the pandemic. If the country is lucky, the 2020 election, whoever wins, won’t be decided by a whisker. Then as the coronavirus is tamed, the temporary measures should end. For ballot security and democratic legitimacy, it’s hard to beat going to the polls on Election Day.

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Another 2.4 million Americans filed for jobless benefits last week…The good news is that as states let businesses reopen, many of these folks should be able to get back to work. But most may have little incentive to, according to a new economic working paper that finds two-thirds are making more unemployed.

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The organization should return to its roots and focus on preventing and countering outbreaks of infectious diseases. If reform fails, there’s no reason for Washington to continue funding the agency at current levels.

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The Justice Department dropped its case against Michael Flynn on Thursday, “with prejudice,” in a legal filing that should echo far beyond this tragedy of justice delayed.

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Representatives can’t do our jobs when we’re stuck at home. So the speaker is writing the laws herself.

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Congress could push it back a few weeks, but the Constitution sets the end of the term on Jan. 20.

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Ordinary Americans protesting to reopen the economy face only contempt from elites…Though it is common to portray the protesters as putting profits over public health, these are hardly wealthy investors worried about their portfolios.

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Despite the economic cost and emotional toll, Americans have heeded orders and practiced social distancing to ensure hospitals aren’t overwhelmed. But the public’s patience won’t last forever, and it is most likely to fray when officials impose arbitrary restrictions that defy common sense.

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European politicians understand their economies have been in lockdown for months already and the economic and social costs aren’t sustainable. No one thinks a big-bang reopening is feasible, but making it past the peak disaster in hospitals or avoiding excessive stress on health-care systems allows for a phased return to whatever the post-virus normal will be.

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At long last our political leaders are considering how they can reopen the American economy they put into a destructive coma.