🎯 The 2024 campaign was an embarrassment for elite media. From: Matt Welch/Reason. Journalists increasingly see their job as protecting their preferred candidates, not asking tough questions.
2024’s biggest loser was Barack Obama. From: Eddie Scary/The Federalist. From 2024’s vantage point, is there any way to look at Barack Obama’s legacy but as a tragic blight on American history?
👍 Trump and Musk are right: Legal immigrants a boon to US economy. From: Stephen Moore/Creators. This past weekend, President-elect Donald Trump announced his support for expanding immigrant worker visas.
One-third of immigration court aliens are no-shows. From: Andrew R Arthur/Center for Immigration Studies. A court system teetering on the brink of disaster.
🤬 Thank the feds for a million COVID dead. From: Jim Bovard/Libertarian Institute. Last Thursday, The Wall Street Journal exposed how federal agencies helped carry out the biggest scientific con of the century.
Trump’s mixed record on cannabis laws clouds the industry’s future. From: Lauren Taylor/Straight Arrow News. A second Trump administration may be more open to cannabis legalization as voter attitudes are changing.
⭐️ Why fossil fuels, not renewables, are key to lifting billions out of poverty. From: Austin Gae/Daily Signal. Rather than trying to reduce net greenhouse gas emissions to zero, leaders should unite behind the more important goal of ending poverty and promoting economic prosperity.
Clean energy benchmark Is natural gas: today and for the future. From:The Empowerment Alliance/Real Clear Energy. Natural gas is the clear choice when discussing affordable, reliable and clean energy.
🤥 Democrats lied repeatedly in 2024. Don't let them gaslight us again in 2025. From: Nicole Tussell/USA Today. From inflation to President Joe Biden's health and Vice President Kamala Harris' competence as a presidential candidate, Democrats tried to lie their way to the White House.
The Democrats embrace tribalism. From: F H Buckley/Real Clear Politics. That’s the idea that there’s one code for Tribe A and another for Tribe B.
🔎 How to get wokeness out of schools. From: Jordan Adams/Tom Klingenstein. For many American schools today, curriculum is full of critical race theory, historical revisionism, and graphic, sexualized content.
25 tech laws slated to take effect in 2025. From: Elizabeth Nolan Brown/Reason. → There's a lot not to like here.
Some Justice Department lawyers look for protection—and the exits. From: Sadie Gurman & C Ryan Barber/Wall Street Journal. Justice Department lawyers who have angered President-elect Donald Trump and his allies are facing tough decisions about whether to stay in government.
🚩 What New York’s burning woman tells us about our times. From: Brendan O’Neill/Spiked. To film a woman’s barbarous death is a gross betrayal of our common humanity.
Venezuelan prison gang crime, arrests confirmed in 22 U.S. states. From: Bethany Blankley/Center Square. An unknown number of violent Venezuelan Tren de Aragua prison gang members illegally entered the country during Biden’s term.
👉 This is the income needed to join the top 1% in every US state. From: Zero Hedge. In some states, your annual income needs to crack $1 million to be among the state’s income elite—in others, it takes less than half of that to make the cut.
The real definition of EV range anxiety. From: Geoffrey Pohanka/Real Clear Energy. The true definition of EV range anxiety has less to do with how far one can drive between charges and more to do with where the next charge is coming from.