Political Futures

“How do you bring together a country where millions believe liberty comes from God and millions don’t even believe in a god? How do you bring together a country where millions believe in the sanctity of life and millions believe an innocent baby is nothing more than an appendix to be disposed of at whim? How do you bring together a country where millions believe in biological reality and more and more openly deny it? … Don’t bother asking candidates what their plan is to bring us together. The left isn’t interested in finding common ground. It means to crush us! The question should be, ‘What is your plan to stop the left’s fundamental transformation of America?’” —Gary Bauer

“Students of history will recall that, while the American people are instinctively anti-Communist, voters nonetheless rejected conservative anti-Communism for decades because they found it too aggressive and too conspiratorial. Republicans must be careful lest their anti-woke messaging trigger the same response. Focus, execution, and competence are what’s important. When Republicans champion parental rights in education, or challenge and constrain politically correct institutions, they tend to succeed and be rewarded. When they veer into details unfamiliar, strange, and off-putting to most Americans, or when they act like a character in a post-apocalyptic television drama, voters run in the other direction.” —Matthew Continetti

For the Record

“Seven days after Biden boasted that inflation, food, and gas prices are falling and that take-home pay is rising, new numbers arrive showing that inflation, food, and energy prices are jumping back up again, and real take-home pay is falling. … As I mention more and more frequently, this administration has many bad habits, but one of the worst is its inclination to spike the football in victory at any glimpse of good news, only to be quickly overtaken by bad news.” —Jim Geraghty

“A president who was true to the standards of George Washington would keep partisan baiting out of the State of the Union. And one who had the respect for Congress [Thomas] Jefferson had would forgo an in-person delivery altogether. But that’s not going to happen in our age of image, when public relations, not the public interest, dictates that presidents play to the cameras. The State of the Union address is part of the pageantry of the modern presidency.” —Daniel McCarthy

“In its 65 year history [NORAD] never shot down an aircraft over U.S. airspace. Over the [last] 10 days they have shot down 1 balloon & 3 ‘objects.’ Americans need to hear directly about this from their President today.” —Senator Marco Rubio

The BIG Lies

“We were able to determine that China has a high-altitude balloon program for intelligence collection that’s connected to the People’s Liberation Army. It was operating during the previous administration, but they did not detect it. We detected it. We tracked it.” —National Security Council spokesman John Kirby

“If you make a billion or a million dollars, God love you. But just pay something. No, I mean it sincerely. Just pay something.” —Joe Biden

Non Compos Mentis Award

“You may lose your wife, you may lose your dog, your mother may hate you. None of those things matter. What matters is that you achieve success and become free. Then you can do whatever you like.” —entrepreneur Kevin O'Leary

And Last…

“No other country on Earth is ridiculous enough to permit different racial groups to perform their own national anthems before major events.” —Matt Walsh