I wonder if today’s lame showing at the U. of Michigan commencement and the umbrella non-resistance at UVA will mark the beginning of a downward path for the college protests? If so, the successful and skillful liberation of Hamilton Hall by the NYPD will have been a key moment.

“So I would never say the issue [of the campus protests] doesn’t matter to the presidential race. It matters quite a bit…The story is contributing to the sense of chaos and failure that is harming Biden and helping Trump.” nymag.com/intelligencer/…

“Polls of voters who switched from Biden in 2020 to Trump now [show] more than half identify as moderate, one-third as conservative, and only 14 percent as liberal. The phenomenon of far-left voters looking to punish Biden exists, but its scale is tiny.”

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Well, okay, so who's responsible for creating the conditions under which a bunch of country-loving patriots decided the country-loving patriotic thing to do was to besiege the Capitol to try to take Congress by force?

As a Christian, Sandy from Utah can never support Trump again.

“I refuse to have my strong Christian faith manipulated and distorted…The savior I follow didn’t preach chaos, hate, and vengeance…That’s why Donald Trump is never going to get my vote again.”

Russia is one of America's top geopolitical adversaries and Moscow has shown no desire for peace talks. Luke Coffey lays out why it's time for the US and its allies to be bold and supply Ukraine for victory.
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You can oppose the policies and viewpoint of Nancy Pelosi till the cows come home. For the life of me, I don't understand the merriment over the brutal physical assault on her husband. Actually, I do understand it -- and to understand it is sickening.

Seems to me if you disobey a police order to move you are putting yourself out there for more force to be applied, no matter how cute you look in your keffiya or how melodious your chants.

Me, a dumb out of touch lib: I don't really see how ruining some random theatre school's graduation is at all helpful or related to the cause.

You, a righteous genius (who is most likely an academic):
You just don't get it. This is the same thing as the Civil Rights movement

We should not be scared of Russia's collapse. Instead we should accelerate it by helping Ukraine regain its full sovereignty. Russia can become a normal country, living within its own borders. European security will be better for decades. Prepare for it, don't be scared of it.

'The event took 20 minutes, but it will be with me forever. It is, without a doubt, one of the hardest things I’ve ever done, but it was also an honor. I’m proud that I could be there for that family.'
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Everything about this chart should make Ds uneasy, but the most striking part about the right column is that the one significant Biden gain from 2020 is a screw-up--should show a 13 pt move toward Trump. Piece even devotes a paragraph to it. brookings.edu/articles/presi…

Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton writes in his book that Trump encouraged the Chinese dictator to continue building concentration camps used to detain millions of Uighur Muslims:

“At the opening dinner of the Osaka G-20 meeting in June 2019, with only…

Maybe she also had a ghost-narrator?

Hello All, Just released my weekend update. It builds on what Mykola Bielieskov and I talked about in the podcast. That the Russian army is not about to collapse the Ukrainian line, their advances are small and at great cost. Indeed, the update goes into what the most important…

Trump is not a conservative.

His tariffs and economic policies will increase inflation.

America has an upset stomach. Trump offers a bowl of jalapeños. Expensive jalapeños!

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About Russia, China, North Korea, and Iran, Fred Kagan says this, to Bill Kristol: 'These countries disagree about a lot of things. They don't share a common ideology, but they do share a common enemy: us.' conversationswithbillkristol.org/conversation/f…

This was at the U. of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance commencement. The protestors are harming their cause.

But they must think, with Lenin, 'the worse, the better,' and want to see Trump win?

Democrats need vocally to be on the side of most parents and students.