Insight

“My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.” —Indira Gandhi (1917-1984)

Upright

“As human beings, we do not write the laws of morality. The laws of morality are written by an all-loving and all-just God. The moral law is a gift, given to us so we can truly love.” —Lila Rose

“The [Supreme] Court’s role has never been to represent popular opinion. James Madison and Alexander Hamilton, two authors of the Constitution, explained in the Federalist Papers that the Court’s role would be to check majority rule and, if necessary, strike down popularly enacted laws, in order to safeguard the rights of the individual and protect the Constitution. The irony is that for 60 years, the Left has had a love affair with the Warren court, which defied popular opinion at every turn. … The Left was OK with the Warren Court’s boldness because they liked the outcomes. Now the Left is warning the Roberts Court not to veer far from public opinion. … In 1963, when the Warren Court struck down voluntary prayer and Bible readings in public schools, 70% of Americans said the Court was wrong. … The [New York] Times advised the justices to disregard warnings about jeopardizing the Court’s legitimacy. That advice is still good today, as the Roberts Court begins its term. Do your job — uphold the Constitution and the rights it guarantees.” —Betsy McCaughey

Political Futures

“No president had ever turned 70 in office until Dwight Eisenhower, who turned 70 in October 1960, three months before he left office. Then, in 1980, Ronald Reagan was elected at age 69. He turned 70 early in his first year in office and thereafter was the oldest president ever. He won reelection at age 73 and served until age 77 amid an ongoing conversation over whether he was too old to be president. … From a voter’s perspective, the 2016 election effectively established 70 as an acceptable age for presidents. Had she won, Hillary Clinton would have turned 70 in her first year in office and would assuredly have run for reelection, which, had she won, would have meant serving until she was 77. The question now is whether Biden can establish 80 as an acceptable age for presidents. It’s not going well. … At some point, American voters will have to stand up and say no, there is no reason to test the limits of aging over and over again — it’s time for someone else.” —Byron York

For the Record

“So the Saudis made Joe Biden travel all the way to Saudi Arabia to fist bump [Mohammed bin Salman] & beg for oil only to reduce supply by two million barrels a day before midterms, guaranteeing gas prices go up before the election. Yikes. No one in the world respects Biden.” —Clay Travis

“China & Bill Gates buying all sorts of farmland in America should be way more concerning than Elon Musk buying Twitter!” —Omar Navarro

Yellow Journalism

“DeSantis has been a critic of Biden on nearly every policy front. But he sure does like the president’s wallet. Over the past two years, DeSantis’ admin received billions in federal relief cash, which the governor has used to fund his top priorities.” —Politico (“The only good-faith justification for this is ignorance. The administration and its allies simply don’t comprehend the distinction between the lawful activation and disbursement of national resources — including the Disaster Relief Fund and FEMA — and the president just doing whatever he wants.” —Noah Rothman)

Hurricane Priorities

“No one f***s with a Biden.” —Joe Biden defending his family name with Fort Myers Beach Mayor Ray Murphy, who responded, “Yeah, you’re g*dd*mn right.”

The BIG Lies

“I know from experience … how much anxiety and fear and concern there are in the people. We didn’t lose our whole home, but lightning struck and we lost an awful lot of it about 15 years ago.” —Joe Biden pretending to empathize with those who actually lost homes to Hurricane Ian (Biden’s description of this incident last November: “We had a house burn down with my wife in it. She got out safely.” Fact-check: FALSE. Lightning struck Biden’s home in 2004 causing a small kitchen fire that was contained in minutes.)

“I don’t think we can assume that just because race is taken into account that that necessarily creates an equal protection problem. … The framers themselves adopted the equal protection clause, the 14th Amendment, the 15th Amendment, in a race-conscious way. … I don’t think that the historical record establishes that the founders believed that race neutrality or race blindness was required.” —Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson

“Students need access to healthcare to thrive in school and in life, and that includes reproductive healthcare [read: abortion].” —Education Secretary Miguel Cardona