It’s hard for anyone after a lifetime of work to know when it’s time to hang it up. Biden is having to come to grips with that now. Whatever he decides, unlike the rest of us, he has to do it in front of an entire nation.
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Froma Harrop: Actually, Biden is ‘polling’ really well
Mainstream punditry continues to place enormous importance on that Times/Siena poll “finding” that Biden is in trouble. Both legal political prediction markets, PredictIt and Iowa, say it’s quite the contrary.
Cal Thomas: No fooling the voters
Democrats may be hoping that Donald Trump’s legal problems will tank his re-election prospects, but they may be betting on the wrong horse. Their focus on Trump becoming the GOP nominee and easy to defeat again ignores the perception among a majority of voters — including Democrats — that Joe Biden is weak and too old for a second term.
Austin Bay: The global cable and pipeline war under the sea
Offshore infrastructure, transoceanic infrastructure and even seaports are very vulnerable to relatively simple types of disruptive and destructive sabotage by well-trained operatives.
Clarence Page: Democrats ride abortion issue to victory while GOP struggles to navigate
In elections since last year’s Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision, in which the Supreme Court overturned the nearly 50-year-old constitutional right to abortion, Democrats clearly turned their own outrage into a rallying cry — and votes.
Rich Lowry: Ta-Nehisi Coates is a moral idiot
As a high priest of woke progressivism, Coates was always going to be a fierce critic of Israel. He is a particularly instructive instance, though, of trying to take the Left’s racial categories here at home and apply them to a conflict with its own fraught dynamics established long ago.
Bob Neal: The Countryman: Truth and reconciliation, American style
Keeping with our American model of individualism, each of us can look into our own hearts and ask whether we have done enough to move toward racial justice.
Rich Lowry: Trump’s immigration policy is a necessary corrective
Donald Trump is formulating his plans at a time when we’re experiencing a crisis at the border and witnessing an unprecedented surge of illegal immigrants into the country because the Biden administration refuses to enforce the law.
Froma Harrop: Republicans can’t do anything about the abortion issue
What Republicans have proved is that they can’t be trusted on this issue. Their leadership is beholden to radicals whose views on reproductive rights in no way match those of even most of their conservative electorates. And so you had voter uprisings in places like Ohio, Kansas, Montana and Kentucky over Republican efforts to take away all or almost all rights to end a pregnancy.
Cal Thomas: Attitudes of gratitude and ingratitude
The height (or depth) of ingratitude is being exposed in large demonstrations across the world. As the anti-Israel and anti-Jewish protesters say vulgar things about the Jewish people and call for the elimination of the democratic Jewish state, they might benefit from having the contributions of Jews explained to them. Those contributions have contributed to a better society and world.