Projection

“Every day that our government continues to withhold funding from UNWRA, they are actively participating in these crimes against humanity [in Gaza].” —Rep. Rashida Tlaib (UNWRA was exposed for participating in the October 7 attack and holding Israeli hostages on behalf of Hamas.)

The Long and Short of It

“Hamas considers the agony of Gazans a useful weapon in the narrative war. From this perverted point of view, a famine would be welcome news, perhaps forcing Israel to stay its hand and leave Hamas to fight another day.” —Rich Lowry

“You could make the case that … you’re rewarding Hamas if you [enact Palestinian statehood]. And I don’t think they should be rewarded. So I’m not in that camp, to be honest.” —Donald Trump

Credit Where It’s Due

“I would have thought — and I got to own it — that these tariffs were going to … sink this economy by this time and they didn’t.” —Bill Maher

Make America Win Again

“In his spare time when he wasn’t getting the European Union to agree to a new trade deal, Trump made two phone calls and secured a ceasefire between Cambodia and Thailand. … In fact, President Trump has successfully negotiated either one trade deal or peace deal every month he has been in office!” —Gary Bauer

For the Record

“A lot of these Republicans … say, ‘Oh, you can have a million people plow in. As long as it’s legal, that’s good.’ Is that really good? Doesn’t it depend on why they’re coming in? Like, for example, you have some of these tech companies, they’re laying off all these American workers and then they’re importing H-1B visa people to work for cheaper. I think that’s a total scam.” —Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis

Political Futures

“The gerrymander in California is outrageous. Of their 52 congressional districts, 9 of them are Republican. That means 17 percent of their delegation is Republican when Republicans regularly win 40 percent of the vote in that state. How can this possibly be allowed?” —JD Vance

“The numbers suggest Democrats, who are happy targeting Trump from dawn till dusk, are not convincing voters they can do a better job than the president and his party. That’s where Epstein comes in.” —Byron York

The Bottom Line

“No matter what we would like to believe — this war isn’t ending in a glorious Ukrainian victory without American boots on the ground: a red line that we should never cross.” —Ian Haworth

Upright

“You had a grown man who sucker-punched a middle-aged woman. And where I come from … that person ought to go to jail for a very long time. And frankly, he’s lucky there weren’t some better people around, because they would’ve handled it themselves. … The only way to destroy that street violence is to take the thugs who engaged in that violence and throw their asses in prison.” —JD Vance

Insight

“Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than malice.” —German pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945)