Braying Jenny

“I strongly disagree with the President’s decision on Denali. Our nation’s tallest mountain, which has been called Denali for thousands of years, must continue to be known by the rightful name bestowed by Alaska’s Koyukon Athabascans, who have stewarded the land since time immemorial.” —Senator Lisa Murkowski

For the Record

“The White House has been hinting for weeks that some last minute pardons were happening, but the decision to wait until the inauguration was underway to announce this is impossible to explain apart from an obvious desire to hide this until Biden was off the public stage.” —John Sexton

“Biden pardoning his entire family in the last possible minute is one of the biggest abuses of power we’ve ever seen in this country’s history.” —Caleb Hull

“Trump was impeached for bringing up Biden family criminal corruption. Today, Biden pardoned his family for criminal corruption. One side was right on this, the other was wrong. Now a matter of public record.” —Buck Sexton

“So many of Donald Trump’s reported executive orders are just an undoing of Joe Biden’s madness and a return to sanity. The border should be closed?! No way! Men and women aren’t interchangeable?! What?! Criminals should be punished?! Gasp!” —Ian Haworth

Political Futures

“‘A has power over B,’ said the political scientist Robert Dahl, ‘to the extent that he can get B to do something that B would not otherwise do.’ In Washington’s new power equation, ‘A’ is Donald Trump and ‘B’ is everyone else.” —Matthew Continetti

“As Trump’s power has grown, his public demeanor has changed. He still uses social media to slam his opponents and critics, but his style in front of the cameras has shifted from 2017. Sued, indicted, convicted, and shot, he seems less easily rattled. He speaks more softly. His edgy humor contains fewer insults and more sarcasm. He seems to have a sense of purpose, and he trusts his lieutenants. He often displays the Buddha-like half-smirk, half-smile he had throughout the Republican National Convention in July.” —Matthew Continetti

Praetorian Guard

“Journalism professors love to disdain being ‘stenographers to power,’ but that’s what these networks have been for Biden. Even to the very end, they suppressed negative information about the president’s mental decline as well as negative arguments about his corruption and incompetence. They weren’t objective journalists. They were servile Democrats.” —Tim Graham

“The Washington Post has a new mission statement: ‘Riveting Storytelling for All of America.’ Well, I can’t disagree with that. The Post has been ‘telling stories’ for decades. It just wasn’t telling us the news.” —Gary Bauer

Belly Laugh of the Day

“Trump should tweet out a 29th Amendment that Fauci can’t be pardoned.” —Frank J. Fleming

The Bottom Line

“Hamas exploits the Palestinian people as human shields while they hide in tunnels paid for by western aid dollars. Then Hamas exploits the Palestinian people again by using their deaths as propaganda against Israel, which is repeated on our university campuses and by the growing anti-Israel wing of the Democrat Party. These Islamic supremacist forces must be completely crushed until there is not one gene in their body left that holds out any hope they could succeed in destroying Israel. Then and only then there might be a chance for peace.” —Gary Bauer

Upright

“The same Communist Chinese who are poisoning us with fentanyl shouldn’t be allowed to poison the minds of our young people with TikTok.” —Douglas Andrews

“Addressing TikTok is a good start, but it should only be the initial shot across the bow. Ban ChiCom ownership of U.S. land!” —Jordan Candler