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Jim Geraghty / National Review:
Why Were Authorities So Evasive About the Synagogue Gunman's Motive?  —  Actual statements from our president, midday Sunday: … Biden says the gunman's motivation was a mystery, and then mentions that he was “using anti-Semitic and anti-Israeli comments.”
Juliette Kayyem / The Atlantic:
A Synagogue Shouldn't Be a Fortress  —  Security experts maximize defenses.  But places of worship need to remain welcoming.  —  About the author: Juliette Kayyem, a former assistant secretary for homeland security under President Barack Obama, is the faculty chair of the homeland-security program …
New York Times:
11 Hours of Fear, Negotiation and Finally, Relief
Jack Newman / Daily Mail:
FBI finally admits Texas synagogue siege WAS an anti-Semitic terror attack after first claiming it was ‘not specifically related to the Jewish community’
James McAuley / Washington Post:
The Texas synagogue hostage situation reminds us that we must prioritize combating antisemitism
Discussion: Forbes
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
U.S. Political Party Preferences Shifted Greatly During 2021  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — On average, Americans' political party preferences in 2021 looked similar to prior years, with slightly more U.S. adults identifying as Democrats or leaning Democratic (46%) than identified as Republicans or leaned Republican (43%).
New York Times:
Who Is King of Florida?  Tensions Rise Between Trump and a Former Acolyte  —  A spat over Covid has exposed friction between the former president and a rising G.O.P. governor unwilling to curb his ambitions.  —  For months, former President Donald J. Trump has been grumbling quietly …
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Jonathan V. Last / The Triad:
Ron DeSantis Is Going to Get Trump Trucked  —  1. Fake Versus Real  —  I wrote about the brewing Trump-DeSantis feud back in July, when it was clear that DeSantis was Single White Female-ing Trump to a degree that was going to get super uncomfortable.  —  Now the fight is almost out in the open …
Discussion: Townhall and IJR
David Reaboi / Newsweek:
Ron DeSantis Welcomes You to Florida, America's New Texas
Discussion: The Guardian and Raw Story
Jeff Stein / Washington Post:
The left dreamed of remaking America.  Now, it stares into the abyss as Biden's plans wither.  —  In 2020, prominent liberals promised major changes to the safety net and climate policy  —  Just three years ago, as they vied to lead the country, the Democratic Party's presidential candidates competed …
Discussion: Instapundit, Fox News and BizPac Review
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
School Closures Were a Catastrophic Error.  Progressives Still Haven't Reckoned With It. … Recently, Nate Silver found himself in the unenviable role of main character of the day on Twitter because he proposed that school closures were a “disastrous, invasion-of-Iraq magnitude (or perhaps greater) policy decision.”
Discussion: Joanne Jacobs
Apoorva Mandavilli / New York Times:
The C.D.C.'s New Challenge?  Grappling With Imperfect Science  —  The Omicron coronavirus variant is moving much faster than researchers can, worsening a longstanding problem: The agency must make tough decisions with scant data.  —  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention …
Discussion: Breitbart
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Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic:
How Manchin and Sinema Completed a Conservative Vision  —  The decision by Senators Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin to block their fellow Democrats from passing new federal voting-rights legislation clears the path for years of tightening ballot restrictions in Republican-controlled states.
Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill:
‘Morning Joe’ hosts mock Trump  —  “Morning Joe” hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski mocked former President Trump for sending a statement Monday morning attacking the MSNBC show.  —  “Will ‘Morning Joe’ be canceled?  He and Mika's ratings are very low—they are having an extremely hard …
Discussion: Raw Story and Twitchy
Ed Morrissey / HotAir:
New on this season of Veep: Harris comms director has comms problems with Hispanics  —  Kamala Harris brought in Jamal Simmons as her new communications director in order to reverse the public perception of a stumbling, bumbling, fumbling Vice President.  Instead, Simmons' hiring might end up confirming that assessment.
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David Siders / Politico:
Kristi Noem's on a Political Rocket Ship.  But Don't Rule Out a Crash.  —  SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — One Saturday last fall, around the opening of South Dakota's pheasant hunting season, a crowd of businesspeople and political benefactors who'd come to meet and hunt with the state's governor …
Joint Chiefs of Staff:
Statement by Joint Staff Spokesperson Col. Dave Butler on Gen. Milley testing positive for COVID-19  —  Office of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Public Affairs 0  —  WASHINGTON - Joint Staff Spokesperson Col. Dave Butler provided the following statement:
Elizabeth Cohen / CNN:
CDC's suggestion to cancel football, band in nearly every US school called ‘unrealistic’  —  (CNN)If the scientists at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had their way, to curb the spread of Covid-19 right now, nearly every US school would cancel football, wrestling, band and loads of other mainstay school activities.
Discussion: TheBlaze
Natalie Colarossi / Newsweek:
Trump Claims White People ‘at the Back of the Line’ for COVID Vaccines, Treatments  —  Former President Donald Trump on Saturday claimed that white people are being discriminated against and sent to the “back of the line” when it comes to receiving COVID-19 vaccines and treatment.
Russell Contreras / Axios:
Book bans are back in style  —  School districts from Pennsylvania to Wyoming are bowing to pressure from some conservative groups to review — then purge from public school libraries — books about LGBTQ issues and people of color.  —  Why it matters: A pivotal midterm election year …
Discussion: The Left Place
Marisa Schultz / Fox News:
Rep. Burgess Owens: Biden agenda doesn't represent MLK's hopes, ‘dreams’  —  Martin Luther King ‘was about unifying us,’ Owens tells Fox News Digital  —  Husband of Emanuel Nine victim remembers MLK's forgiveness, legacy  —  Rep. Burgess Owens, R-Utah, remembered the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr …
Discussion: NBC News and IJR
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Jose Pagliery / The Daily Beast:
The Trump Org Stiffed a Hotel.  His Kids May Pay the Price.  —  The D.C. attorney general wants to drag the Trump Organization back into a lawsuit.  His evidence?  An unpaid $49,000 hotel bill.  —  Former President Donald Trump and his family company have a long history of stiffing contractors …
Discussion: HillReporter.com and Alternet.org
Salvador Rizzo / Washington Post:
Bipartisan Senate delegation arrives in Ukraine to show support amid tensions with Russia  —  A bipartisan group of U.S. senators is in Ukraine to show solidarity with the Eastern European country as it faces ongoing tension with Russia.  —  The seven U.S. senators plan to meet …
 
 
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Miranda Devine / New York Post:
Dems are using the Capitol riot to hunt political foes, not real threats
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Philip Rotner / The Bulwark:
It's Long Past Time to Prosecute Phony GOP Electors
Discussion: Raw Story and Al Jazeera
Sam Brodey / The Daily Beast:
Liz Cheney's Wyoming Nemesis Is an Oath Keeper Who Was at Capitol Rally
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Emma Colton / Fox News:
Los Angeles DA Gascon ripped over sentencing for transgender woman who sexually assaulted girl
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Jordan Schachtel / The Dossier:
‘270 doctors’ called out Joe Rogan, but the authors of the letter and the vast majority of its signatories are not medical doctors
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American Greatness:
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Democrats see good chance of Garland prosecuting Trump
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Jennifer Van Laar / RedState:
While the House Passed ‘Build Back Better’ Ted Lieu Was Boarding Luxury Cruise in NYC; Yea Vote Cast by Proxy
Discussion: Breitbart
Casey Schwartz / New York Times:
Marianne Williamson: A Politico or Apolitical?
Discussion: Althouse
Axios:
Electoral act reform picks up growing bipartisan support