Fact-Check: True

“If the Democratic Party was run by the people in it … it would be the party of labor unions. It would be the party of taxing the rich.” —Senate candidate Graham Platner (D-ME)

Letting the Mask Slip

“I hate the city. I hate the bachelorettes. I hate the pedal taverns. I hate country music. I hate all of the things that make Nashville. … I hate it.” —Tennessee congressional candidate Aftyn Behn (D) in 2020

Defamation

“Isn’t it obvious … that Trump was involved with Epstein?” —"The View" co-host Joy Behar

Mea Culpa

“Our guests have a right to be upset. … We messed up.” —Cracker Barrel CEO Julie Felss Masino

Re: Mass Migration

“Mass migration poses an existential threat to Western civilization and undermines the stability of key American allies. [T]he State Department instructed U.S. embassies to report on the human rights implications and public safety impacts of mass migration.” —State Department

“There is a difference between Little Italy, Little Tokyo, and Little Mogadishu. Not all cultures are equal. Some exist in a state of civilization, others exist in a state of barbarism. Choose wisely.” —Christopher F. Rufo

“If you want to stop socialism in this country, you have to do more than condemn it. For starters, maybe stop importing millions of third-world socialists, who are the entire reason Mamdani was elected in New York City.” —Sean Davis

Re: The Left

“The problem with a party line is that it is deductive, not inductive. Ideology makes facts fit dogmas, rather than evidence leading empirically to conclusions. So inflexible cults like climate-change orthodoxy, DEI, and Trump Derangement Syndrome make their adherents look utterly ridiculous.” —Victor Davis Hanson

“It is incredibly cruel of so many judges to push murderous thugs on the innocent public! And double shame on anyone who funds them to do so.” —Elon Musk

For the Record

“It’s not your imagination. Traveling has become more uncivilized!” —Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy on the sorry state of air travel

“I met with Nigeria’s National Security Advisor and his team to discuss the horrific violence against Christians in their country. Under POTUS leadership, DOW is working aggressively with Nigeria to end the persecution of Christians by jihadist terrorists.” —Secretary of War Pete Hegseth

“The [Epstein] files, of course, will never be enough. There will be hundreds of ghosts to chase. If conspiracists don’t get what they’re after, they’ll simply claim that other files are being hidden.” —David Harsanyi

Upright

“The cultural identity of the United States — the religiously imbued habits, values and expectations that enable our national creed, ‘E Pluribus Unum’ — has never been infinitely malleable. America has always had a dominant public ethos shaped by a historical Protestant-majority culture.” —Josh Hammer