#The GOP can win without Trump and other commentary

#The GOP can win without Trump and other commentary

“#The GOP can win without Trump and other commentary” From the right: GOP Can Win Without Trump Republicans have “a real chance to take back power in the House, Senate and White House,” but they must divorce the “toxic” President Trump to do it, argues Joe Concha at The Hill. “If you’re the kind of…

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#Biden’s big tech ties and other commentary

#Biden’s big tech ties and other commentary

“#Biden’s big tech ties and other commentary” From the right: Biden’s Big Tech Ties President-elect Joe Biden is building an administration with ties to all five Big Tech firms that “clamped down this week on President Trump and Parler, a social-media site popular with conservatives,” reports the Daily Caller’s Chuck Ross. At least 14 of…

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#Stop comparing riots and other commentary

#Stop comparing riots and other commentary

“#Stop comparing riots and other commentary” From the right: Stop Comparing Riots The fact that “a lot of people seem very keen on litigating whether the attack on the Capitol was worse than last summer’s rioting” sends a “depressing” message about this country’s “political polarization,” laments National Review’s Robert VerBruggen. “Both events were horrific, with…

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#Lessons from Georgia and other commentary

#Lessons from Georgia and other commentary

“#Lessons from Georgia and other commentary” From the right: Lessons From Georgia After Republicans lost both Senate seats in a runoff that will go down as “the most consequential in history,” the party must “have the courage to face the depth and scale” of what happened in Georgia, advises ex-Speaker Newt Gingrich at Fox News….

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#Americans don’t want ‘change’ and other commentary

#Americans don’t want ‘change’ and other commentary

“#Americans don’t want ‘change’ and other commentary” Conservative: Americans Don’t Want ‘Change’ Whenever Democrats manage to pick the “electoral locks” and “find themselves in control of the White House,” snarks Kyle Smith at National Review, they claim “the People have spoken” and want “Profound and Lasting Change!” Yet voters in November, as in past elections,…

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#Stop politicizing the pandemic and other commentary

#Stop politicizing the pandemic and other commentary

“#Stop politicizing the pandemic and other commentary” Libertarian: Stop Politicizing the Pandemic “There is an all-too-familiar gracelessness in politicized conversations about the coronavirus,” sighs Reason’s Matt Welch. Anti-lockdowners and dour mask fanatics alike “feel surrounded by murderers and denialists,” who “are either intentionally trying to make things worse or just too blinkered to admit there’s…

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#Wokeness is no mere academic threat and other commentary

#Wokeness is no mere academic threat and other commentary

“#Wokeness is no mere academic threat and other commentary” Liberal: Wokeness Is No Mere Academic Threat “You may have assumed that woke activism was a sideshow” affecting academe and the media, writes Mickey Kaus at Newsweek. But we learned recently that “it had penetrated an important, once-revered government scientific agency,” touching “basic questions of life and…

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#2020’s 10 most buried stories and other commentary

#2020’s 10 most buried stories and other commentary

“#2020’s 10 most buried stories and other commentary” Media watch: 2020’s 10 Most Buried Stories At RealClearPolitics, retired editor Frank Miele — who used to help choose AP’s top 10 stories of the year — is so fed up with journalism that he is offering his first annual “Last Chance to Wake Up and Smell…

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#Democrats’ battles have just begun and other commentary

#Democrats’ battles have just begun and other commentary

“#Democrats’ battles have just begun and other commentary” Left watch: Dems’ Battles Have Just Begun With President-elect Joe Biden’s “centrist outlook” and similarly minded Cabinet nominees, the Democratic left knows that “it will have a tough battle to get action on its priorities” over the next four years, notes The Hill’s Niall Stanage. It’s a…

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#Beware Section 230 repeal and other commentary

#Beware Section 230 repeal and other commentary

“#Beware Section 230 repeal and other commentary” Speech watch: Beware Section 230 Repeal Those on the left and right calling for a complete repeal of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act need to realize it would “return us to the legal no-man’s land” that prohibits even “good Samaritan” censorship, explain Sen. Ron Wyden and…

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