Publication: Wall Street Journal

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Lockdowns can destroy the economy, but it’s starting to look as if they have minimal effect on the spread of Covid-19. After a year of observation and data collection, the case for lockdowns has grown much weaker.

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She’s an inspiration to minorities and women and is under baseless attack.

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The same man hailed only a few weeks ago as an American Cincinnatus is today back to being just another Trump toady. The trigger was an op-ed last week for the Daily Signal website in which Mr. Pence called election integrity a “national imperative.”

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President Biden’s announcement this week that the U.S. should have enough vaccines to inoculate every adult American by the end of May brought hope of a return to normalcy. This apparently is prehistoric thinking…The lockdown lobby persists despite the vaccine rollout.

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Karl Rove: Why the muted enthusiasm from a crowd of Mr. Trump’s most fervent fans? The explanation may be in what the ex-president said and didn’t say in his 15-minute definition of Trumpism. There was no forward-looking agenda, simply a recitation of his greatest hits. People like fresh material. Repetition is useful to a point, but it grows stale.

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Mike Pompeo, Miles Yu: Beijing is obsessed with viruses, but not biosafety. We are paying a high price for its lapses.

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Amazon bans a book as Democrats demand a wider media crackdown.

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His critics called him a racist and about everything else, which was always unfair. His real offense was to gain millions of weekly listeners by mocking the left’s pieties. He dissected environmental scare campaigns, and he ridiculed the news media for finding epidemics of homelessness only during Republican administrations.

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He may run again, but he won’t win another national election.

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One novel, even astonishing, spectacle in President Trump’s impeachment trial has been progressive Democrats singing the praises of Mike Pence…He is probably en route to Walter Reed with symptoms of acute whiplash. For years he has been mocked as a Trump bootlicker, a religious weirdo and bigot.

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Actress Gina Carano falls victim to Hollywood’s new McCarthyism for conservatives.

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Karl Rove: It’s understandable that so many in the media hailed Mr. Biden’s ascension to the Oval Office. They loathed the person he replaced. But looking beyond the paeans, the new president is off to a soggy start, with too many discrepancies between declared intentions and subsequent actions.

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The goal of the Democrats is to banish Mr. Trump from running for office again. The result may instead be his acquittal and political revival.

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President Trump has left office, but peace and harmony have not descended upon the land. Left-wing rioters rampaged in the streets of Portland, Ore., and Seattle on Wednesday, no matter Joe Biden’s unity plea.

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Thomas Spence: Readiness to silence someone is often called the “cancel culture,” but I prefer an older term—blacklisting—whose historical associations expose the ugliness of what is going on. Not so long ago, book publishing professionals would have been horrified to be accused of it. Today they compete to see who can proclaim his blacklist with the fiercest invective.

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

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The best outcome would be for him to resign to spare the U.S. another impeachment fight.

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Trump wants to upend the Electoral College. His VP knows better.

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Dr. Scott Atlas (Trump’s former advisor): Em­pir­i­cal data from the U.S., Eu­rope and Japan show that lock­downs don’t elim­i­nate the virus and don’t stop the virus from spread­ing. They do, how­ever, cre­ate ex­tremely harm­ful health and so­cial prob­lems be­yond a dra­matic drop in learn­ing, in­clud­ing a tripling of re­ported de­pres­sion, sky­rock­et­ing sui­ci­dal ideation, un­re­ported child abuse, skipped vis­its for can­cer and other med­ical care.

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As his days in office dwindle, he’s making everything about him.

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He’s certainly earned the right to leave early. He has been the right man at the right time for that difficult job, with the principles and toughness to make difficult decisions despite bitter Democrats in Congress and a willful President Trump.

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Madame First Lady—Mrs. Biden—Jill—kiddo: a bit of advice on what may seem like a small but not unimportant matter. Any chance you might drop the “Dr.” before your name? “Dr. Jill Biden” sounds and feels fraudulent, not to say a touch comic. Your degree is an Ed.D., a doctor of education.

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Governor Kristi Noem: They’ve called me “reckless” and a “denier,’” but our numbers are much better than those of Illinois, New Jersey and New York.

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We’re open to evidence of major fraud, but we haven’t seen claims that are credible. Now comes Mr. Barr, who has no reason to join a coverup. He likes his job. He wanted Mr. Trump to win. As the election timetable closes, Mr. Trump should focus on preserving his legacy rather than diminishing it by alleging fraud he can’t prove.