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Why the Republicans Started Panicking This Week

Conservative talk show host Steve Deace wrote earlier this week, “Iowa House Republicans were informed by their own pollsters that if you are in a ...

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If Only Nikole Hannah-Jones Knew Someone in the New York City School System

The saga of New York Times writer Nikole Hannah-Jones and the subpar education of her daughter in a lower-rated New York City public school is no...

22.09.2026 7

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JD Vance might as well admit it: The GOP failed

JD Vance might as well admit it: The GOP failed
22.09.2026 30

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Trump’s Familiar, and Legally Dubious, Move to Revoke White House Press Passes

When you see that the Trump White House has revoked the press passes for correspondents of MSNOW, CNN, and Politico, it is understandable if you feel...

21.09.2026 4

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The Distinct Shift in the Kamala Harris 2028 Buzz

Back in July 2025, Kamala Harris decided to not run for governor of California, and I expressed some skepticism that she would run for president, and...

21.09.2026 9

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Why Is There Any Donald Trump Jr. 2028 Buzz?

As noted on today’s edition of The Editors, besides Donald Trump Jr.’s abysmal judgment in who he accepts lavish wedding parties from, and general...

15.09.2026 10

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The Not-So-Cheery Outlook for the GOP in the Senate

Back in 2018, President Trump’s job approval rating was around 43 percent, but despite doing badly in U.S. House, gubernatorial, and state...

15.09.2026 10

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Data Centers, the Hot New Target for Taxation Next Year

Out in Iowa, Republican incumbent governor Kim Reynolds is not seeking a third term, and Republican Zach Lahn is in a tough race against Democrat...

14.09.2026 10

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President Trump’s 9/11 Exaggerations

President Trump, speaking on the Ellipse, Tuesday at a ceremony honoring the victims of the 9/11 attacks: For three months after September 11th, the...

09.09.2026 10

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Draining the Swamp, Continued

Anyone with even a slim majority of the five senses likely sensed that Corey Lewandowski was exceptionally bad news and you wouldn’t want to trust...

08.09.2026 10

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Sniping ex-staffers. Party politics. John Fetterman could lose.

08.09.2026 30

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Trump Continues His Willful Blindness with Putin and Russia

We can question whether the U.S. wanted to see Indian prime minister Narendra Modi attending the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Summit in Bishkek...

02.09.2026 10

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Chicago Violence Is . . . Actually Much Better Than Four Years Ago

This is really Jeff Blehar’s beat, but last week in the Morning Jolt, I noted, “after a troubling spike during the pandemic and immediately after,...

01.09.2026 10

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Oh, the irony: A MAGA influencer gets deported by ICE

01.09.2026 20

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This Is a Bad Time of Year to Have Two Passenger Airliners Flying Low

Look, maybe I’m just showing my age, but we’re rapidly approaching the 25-year anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, and I cannot imagine anyone...

31.08.2026 10

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No, We’re Not Going to Fill Up the Strategic Petroleum Reserve with Venezuelan Oil

The first week of Joe Biden’s term in 2021, the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve had had 638 million barrels of oil. The first week of President...

31.08.2026 10

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Finally, ICE Catches and Detains the Worst of the Worst

Reasonable people can have disagreements about the the effectiveness of the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement policies, but the news...

29.08.2026 20

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Trump Administration Threatens to Demolish the Kennedy Center

You don’t have to care about the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington. But the president clearly cares a great deal about it, and...

26.08.2026 10

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Trump says he’s ‘the affordability president.’ That’s rich.

25.08.2026 40

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Schrödinger’s White House Ballroom

From the U.S. National Park Service’s court filing before the Supreme Court in defense of the continuing construction of the White House ballroom:...

24.08.2026 20

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Trump: North Korea ‘Has 57 Very Powerful Nuclear Weapons’

A point about President Trump and North Korea’s Kim Jong-un that didn’t fit in today’s Morning Jolt: On Wednesday, Trump said: I get along with...

20.08.2026 10

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Our troops are exhausted. The answer isn’t to buy a key chain.

18.08.2026 20

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For AOC, the Time Is Now

I have very little to say about Alexandria Ocasio Cortez’s decision to freeze her eggs, other than to say parenthood is one of the great joys and...

14.08.2026 20

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The Trump Administration Picks the Kennedy Center Name Fight Again

The Trump administration remains the undisputed world champion and a first-ballot hall-of-famer in the category of picking stupid fights with little...

13.08.2026 20

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Alberta Isn’t Likely to Become Independent . . . At Least Not Anytime Soon

Way back in the early 1990s, when we rode dinosaurs to school, I remember a college professor looking at the breakup of the Soviet Union, and...

13.08.2026 20

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In Your Dreams, Mike Lindell

With 100 percent of precincts reporting, in the Minnesota Republican gubernatorial primary, state house speaker Lisa Demuth has 179,545 votes, and...

12.08.2026 20

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The Federal Department of Time-Wasting Vendettas

Nearly one year ago, on August 15, Bill Pulte, the director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, sent the U.S. Department of Justice the first of...

11.08.2026 20

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President Trump: Our Munitions Stockpile Is ‘Fine’ and ‘Low’

President Trump in a phone interview with Wayne Allyn Root, yesterday: By the way, they talk about munitions and we’re fine with munitions. You...

11.08.2026 20

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Biden’s sad cancer news explains uncomfortable realities for Democrats

11.08.2026 40

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Once Again, More Evidence That Putin Is Already at War with NATO

The Morning Jolt, reporting from Riga, Latvia, back in May: And a Latvian official who deals with national security issues speculated that perhaps a...

10.08.2026 20

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Rolling Stone Predictably Swoons Over Hasan Piker

“Why Is Everyone Scared of Hasan Piker?” asks the headline at Rolling Stone. Five paragraphs later, correspondent Josh Eells writes: Among his...

10.08.2026 20

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Regarding Those Claims of $20 Burritos . . .

On X, there's been a considerable debate about the cost of living and whether burritos really cost $20. One of our TPUSA college students gave me...

06.08.2026 20

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Will This Year’s Midterms Look Like 2006 All Over Again?

Yesterday, Amy Walter, Editor-in-Chief, Cook Political Report and former editor of National Journal’s Hotline, suggested that this year’s midterm...

05.08.2026 10

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What ruined the Reflecting Pool? Jeanine Pirro had a choice.

04.08.2026 50

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Biden’s Covid Coordinator: ‘It Is More Likely to Have Been a Lab Leak.’

Interviews on the Sunday morning news talk shows don’t generate as much buzz as they used to, but the comments of Dr. Ashish Jha, Biden’s...

03.08.2026 20

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Go Figure, It Turns Out the Iranian Regime Is ‘Unbelievably Duplicitous’

At 10:05 p.m. ET on Saturday, President Trump declared on Truth Social that “the U.S.A. is locked and loaded and ready to go against the Islamic...

03.08.2026 20

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If You Want to Hurt Russia’s Economy, Graham’s Bill Is the Best Option

Last week, former Senator Lindsey Graham's sanctions bill won overwhelming support in the U.S. Senate, with 84 senators voting in favor of a...

03.08.2026 20

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Why Today’s Senate Appearance Is Not Helping Dr. Anthony Fauci

As laid out on today’s forthcoming Three Martini Lunch podcast, it’s understandable that critics of Dr. Anthony Fauci are frustrated by his...

29.07.2026 20

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More Frequent and Detailed Health Updates Would Be Better, Senator McConnell

Kentucky’s Democratic governor, Andy Beshear, wrote to Senator Mitch McConnell and demanded, “as governor of the state you serve, I am calling on...

29.07.2026 10

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Whom will Democrats nominate in 2028? The scales just tilted.

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Own a Piece of National Review History, For Just Under $4 Million

Anyone have a spare $4 million? Then you could be the next owner of William F. Buckley’s home in Sharon, Connecticut: “The Buckleys sold parts of...

27.07.2026 20

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Dr. Anthony Fauci, January 2020: ‘Now We Know the Market Was Not the Source, It Was the Amplifier’

Very few people seem to care much about the origin of the Covid pandemic anymore. But Kentucky Senator Rand Paul is an exception, and on Saturday, he...

26.07.2026 30

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An Early New Hampshire Poll Finds Democratic 2028 Frontrunner . . . AOC

The 2028 presidential cycle has not begun yet. But if you pay attention to the polling in states that are likely to be early in the cycle – the...

22.07.2026 20

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Surprise, surprise. Trump’s Qatar Force One already has issues.

21.07.2026 40

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Oh, Good, More Negotiations with the Iranians

The Wall Street Journal reports that Qatar and other unspecified “mediators” are working Monday to “push the U.S. and Iran into a new...

20.07.2026 20

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Note to Self: Do Not Build Global Critical Infrastructure in the Middle East

A point that didn’t fit in today’s already-long Morning Jolt about data center construction, relating to security concerns… Back in July 2025,...

20.07.2026 30

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Susan Collins, with $11 Million to Take On . . . to Be Determined

I don’t want to say that the U.S. Senate race in Maine is over, but new numbers out today show incumbent Republican Senator Susan Collins has $11...

16.07.2026 30

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No, We Should Not Give Up on the Goal of a 2 Percent Inflation Rate

In response to Tuesday’s Morning Jolt, some readers contended that the inflation rate of 3.5 percent, year over year, wasn’t so bad, and that...

16.07.2026 30

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An agonizing interview failed to end the GOP’s Marx problem

15.07.2026 30

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It Turns Out the New Qatari-Donated Air Force One Isn’t Completely Secure

Last month, President Trump started using his new Qatari-donated version of Air Force One. “The safety and security of the commander in chief is our...

09.07.2026 30

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