Cross-Examination

• Conservative wins the media neglected: Tuesday’s election results held some good news for conservatives in areas that didn’t receive a whole lot of national attention. For example, Republicans will hold a 4-3 majority on the Ohio Supreme Court and a 5-2 majority on the North Carolina Supreme Court. Republicans gained a seat on the Illinois Supreme Court as well. Conservatives focused a lot more on local school boards across the country too. Perhaps out of negligence or apathy, these elections have tended to favor activist liberals for decades. National uproar over the indoctrination taking place in classrooms via CRT and gender confusion, however, has increased conservatives’ interest in fixing things. From Maryland to Michigan to Kansas and back to Florida and North Carolina, conservatives either captured majorities on school boards or came close. It will take just this sort of red wave to begin turning schools back toward education and away from indoctrination.

• “The Problem of Whiteness” delayed: Protests led the University of Chicago to delay a course titled “The Problem of Whiteness” … for now. The instructor elected to defer the course until the spring quarter rather than beginning January 3. “This is how people who detest white people think and talk,” said one student. “And they have taken over all universities under the guise of ‘academic freedom.’ No sane professor can oppose it without risking their career.” It’s certainly free speech to offer such a blatantly racist course. But we don’t recall hearing too much about courses titled “The Problem of Blackness” or “The Problem of Gender Dysphoria.” And we probably won’t, either.

Headlines

• Federal judge strikes down Biden’s $400 billion student loan bailout (Free Beacon) | Taxpayers would subsidize vacations with student debt “forgiveness” (National Review)

• Joe Biden, Xi Jinping to hold first in-person meeting Monday in Indonesia (Fox News)

• Biden nominates new IRS chief as the agency prepares to double in size (Daily Wire)

• Herschel Walker hauls in $3.3 million on first day of new campaign (Fox News)

• Trump demands “average” Ron DeSantis duck 2024 run in post-midterm tantrum (NY Post)

• CBS show finale has character accuse DeSantis of being sex offender (Fox News)

• Arizona election results delayed until after weekend, Maricopa officials say (PM) | Arizona’s election administration is an international embarrassment (The Federalist)

• Yoel Roth, the Twitter exec who censored Hunter Biden exposés, quits in latest mass exodus (NY Post)

• Married couple sentenced to over 19 years for espionage-related offenses in plot to sell nuclear-powered submarine secrets (Daily Wire)

• Miss America Organization crowns its first biologically male queen (RedState)

• Woke SNL writers boycott show over Dave Chappelle appearance (PM)

• Humor: Nation excitedly anticipates first funny SNL episode in years after writers boycott (Babylon Bee)

• Policy: A real Republican autopsy (National Review)

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