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☆ Analysis: Why Republicans are likely to win the Senate this year
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-18 | by ( Harry Enten | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

Senate Democrats (including independents who caucus with them) hold 23 seats up for election this year; Republicans hold 11. Positive signs for DemocratsBut is the race for the Senate really over if Republicans just win West Virginia? Democratic Senate candidates seem to be at least tied or ahead in Arizona, Michigan, Montana, Nevada, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Of course, Democratic Senate candidates outrunning the top of the ticket is nothing new. For Democrats to have any chance of holding the Senate, Republicans would have to lose all these Senate races.

Persons: we’ve, Donald Trump, Trump, Democratic Sen, Joe Manchin, Simone Pathe, it’s, we’re, Joe Biden, Biden, Sens, Bob Casey of Pennsylvania, Tammy Baldwin, Kari Lake, Lake, Nevada’s, Missouri’s Todd Akin, Mehmet Oz, Mark Kelly, Larry Hogan, I’m, ” Organizations: CNN, White, Senate, Republicans, Democratic, Republican, Republican Senate, Democrats, Florida, GOP, West Virginia, New York Times, Siena College, Biden Locations: nonjudicial, West Virginia, Texas, West, Arizona , Michigan, Montana , Nevada , Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Arizona, Nevada , Pennsylvania, Senate, Maine, Arizona , Nevada , Montana and Ohio, Montana, Ohio, Michigan , Pennsylvania, Maryland –

☆ Arizona Dem says state is bluer 'not because Arizona is necessarily a blue state,' but from distaste for GOP 'extremism'
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-27 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

"The Republican party has become extreme in the age of Trumpism," the state senator told Politico. President Joe Biden won Arizona in 2020, the first time that a Democratic presidential nominee had carried the state since 1996. Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly won a special election for his seat in 2020 and then won a full term in 2022. Advertisement"The trajectory of Arizona has been steadily trending bluer on a statewide level," state Sen. Priya Sundareshan recently told Politico. "It's not because Arizona is necessarily a blue state but it's because Arizona has rejected extremism and the Republican party has become extreme in the age of Trumpism."

Persons: —, Joe Biden, Democratic Sen, Mark Kelly, Katie Hobbs, Ruben Gallego, Sen, Kyrsten Sinema, Republican Kari Lake, Priya Sundareshan, that'll, Biden, Donald Trump, Hobbs, Roe, Trump Organizations: Republican, Politico, Service, GOP, Arizona, Democratic, Democrat, Republicans, Wade Locations: Arizona, Phoenix , Arizona, dszc Arizona, Tucson, Maricopa County

☆ NASA’s space shuttle program reimagined rocketry. What went wrong?
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-05 | by ( Jackie Wattles | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +17 min

The CNN Original Series “Space Shuttle Columbia: The Final Flight” uncovers the events that ultimately led to disaster. Deemed an “engineering marvel,” the first of five winged orbiters — the space shuttle Columbia — made its inaugural flight in 1981. Crews aboard the recovery ships Liberty Star and Freedom Star retrieve a reusable right solid rocket booster (below) after a space shuttle mission. Space Shuttle Columbia launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 10:39 a.m. NASA Space Shuttle Columbia lifts off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on January 16, 2003.

Persons: ”, Sean O’Keefe, Casey Dreier, Crews, O’Keefe, Scott Andrews, NASA's, Michael P, Anderson, William C, McCool, Rick D, David M, Brown, Laurel, Ilan Ramon, Kalpana Chawla, Joe Skipper, Karl Ronstrom, Ramon, NASA Chawla, Clark, Chawla, Robert Giroux, Kathryn O'Neill, Zachary, Brett Coomer, Florida Sen, Bill Nelson, Matt Stroshane, Tommy Peltier, Eric Gay, Smiley, Gene Theriot, Sean O'Keefe, George W, Bush, Ron Dittemore, Joe Cavaretta, O'Keefe, Mannie Garcia, NASA Sandy Anderson, Carlos Noriega, Michael L, Coats, Evelyn Husband, Thomas, John Raoux, Glenn Benson, Kim Shiflett, Rodney Rocha, Columbia’s, Rick Husband, “ Roger, Sen, Mark Kelly, “, ” Kelly Organizations: CNN, Shuttle Columbia, Sunday, NASA, Columbia, America’s, Planetary Society, European Space Agency, Space, International Space, Hubble, Liberty Star, NASA’s Ames Research Center, Space Shuttle Columbia, Kennedy Space Center, Reuters Space Shuttle Columbia, Scott Andrews People, Control Center, Getty, NASA Space, Israeli Air Force, Space Shuttle, Red Team, Blue Team, Johnson Space Center, Former, Houston, Houston Chronicle, People, US Navy Corps, Columbia Reconstruction, NASA Workers, Astronauts Memorial Foundation, Reuters, Bannock, Bannock Junior, Senior, Bannock High School, Johnson Space, Challenger, Shuttle, East Texas Locations: Columbia, America’s Soviet, Florida, Houston, Israel, SPACEHAB, New York, Laguna Hills , California, Texas, San Augustine , Texas, Washington ,, Shoshone, Fort Hall , Idaho, New Mexico, East

☆ Kyrsten Sinema’s exit puts the spotlight on the Senate’s shrinking pool of dealmakers
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-08 | by ( Lauren Fox | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

For months, the two of them had worked tirelessly alongside Republican Sen. James Lankford of Oklahoma to craft a bipartisan deal on immigration. “The base of each party wants individuals who will fight, but not individuals who will reach across the aisle to get things done,” Republican Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah said. “I’ve seen a shift towards basically really not wanting to do anything,” West Virginia Republican Sen. Shelley Moore Capito said. Last cycle alone saw the retirement of Ohio Republican Sen. Missouri Republican Sen. Roy Blunt, another GOP pragmatist, retired after the 2022 election, replaced by Sen. Eric Schmitt.

Persons: Sen, Kyrsten, Democratic Sen, Chris Murphy, Republican Sen, James Lankford of, Sinema, Murphy, ” Murphy, “, ” Sinema, Donald Trump, Mitt Romney, Joe Manchin, he’d, Romney, Trump, ” Romney, I’ve, ” West Virginia Republican Sen, Shelley Moore Capito, Ohio Republican Sen, Rob Portman, J.D, Vance, Trump . Missouri Republican Sen, Roy Blunt, GOP pragmatist, Eric Schmitt, appropriator Sen, Richard Shelby of, Richard Burr of, Bob Corker, Marsha Blackburn, Anna Moneymaker, we’ve, Lamar Alexander, ”, Tim Kaine, “ We’re, Kari Lake, –, Mark Kelly, ” Corker, Kaine, Todd Young, Thom Tillis, It’s, Brian Schatz, ” Sen, Mark Warner, Nathan Howard, Manchin, John Cornyn of, John Thune of, isn’t Organizations: Democratic, Connecticut, Republican, CNN, Senate, ” West Virginia Republican, Ohio Republican, GOP, Trump . Missouri Republican, Intelligence, Senate Foreign Relations, 118th, Democrat, North Carolina Republican, Getty, America Locations: Arizona, James Lankford of Oklahoma, Utah, Virginia, Ohio, Richard Shelby of Alabama, Richard Burr of North Carolina, Tennessee, Indiana, Hawaii, Washington , DC, John Cornyn of Texas, John Thune of South Dakota, America

☆ Biden tries to lay to rest age concerns, but may have exacerbated them
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-08 | by ( Stephen Collinson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

CNN —A probe that spared President Joe Biden from criminal charges paradoxically dealt him a threatening political blow. The president’s defenders often get frustrated when the political conversation is dominated by Biden’s age – rather than Trump’s repeated challenges to the rule of law. In another CNN poll last week, 46% of Democrats were concerned about Biden’s age. Hur’s report rebuked Biden for willfully retaining classified information, including top secret documents after he left the vice presidency. North Carolina Republican Sen. Thom Tillis was kinder but his comments over Biden’s age were also cutting.

Persons: Joe Biden, Robert Hur’s, Biden, ” Biden fumed, Donald Trump’s, CNN’s MJ Lee, “, ”, Hur, Beau’s, ” Biden, he’s, Trump, Kamala Harris, —, Nikki Haley, Nancy Pelosi —, he’d, Trump’s, Hur’s, ” Hur, Beau, Florida Sen, Marco Rubio, North Carolina Republican Sen, Thom Tillis, I’m, ” Tillis, “ I’m, …, I’ve, Arizona Sen, Mark Kelly Organizations: CNN, White, Trump, Republican, Biden, Republicans, GOP, Twitter, North Carolina Republican Locations: Egypt, Mexico, America, Washington, Ukraine, Gaza, Lago, Afghanistan, Maryland, Florida, Arizona

☆ The Politicized EV Charger ‘Revolution’
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-16 | by ( The Editorial Board | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Images: Getty Images/Zuma Press Composite: Mark KellyThe government rollout of EV chargers has been a slow-motion affair, and as you’d expect the reason is politics. The feds are throwing billions of dollars to build charging stations, but they’ve added social-justice and union mandates that make the build-out more complicated than necessary. In a better Washington, there would be no subsidies for EV chargers. The market would meet demand, as it did with gasoline stations. But we live in the age of subsidy, and the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) last week announced $623 million in new awards for charging stations.

Persons: Mark Kelly Organizations: EV, Federal Highway Administration Locations: Washington

☆ Palestinian ‘Pay for Slay’ Keeps Growing
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-16 | by ( The Editorial Board | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Images: AP/Reuters Composite: Mark KellyRecently we told you that Palestinian Authority law requires the Oct. 7 terrorists to be compensated financially for a massacre well done. Now the PA has taken steps toward making that a reality. It acted just in time for Secretary of State Antony Blinken ’s visit to Ramallah. Last Wednesday’s Al-Hayat Al-Jadida , the PA’s newspaper and mouthpiece, announced 23,210 additional “martyrs,” using the Hamas-supplied Gaza casualty figure that includes every dead Hamas terrorist. The PA pays a one-time lump sum plus a monthly stipend for life to the families of any “martyr” killed attacking Israel or in a confrontation with Israel.

Persons: Mark Kelly, Antony Blinken ’, Al, Hayat Al, ”, Israel Organizations: Reuters, Palestinian Locations: Ramallah, Last, Gaza, Israel

☆ Biden Took New Hampshire for ‘Granite’
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-16 | by ( John Fund | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

Wonder Land: Surveying the record of his three years in office, Mr. Biden has decided his re-election turns on two events: the Capitol riot of 2021 and Mr. Trump’s efforts to reverse the 2020 presidential election results in several states. Images: Getty Images/Zuma Press Composite: Mark KellyJoe Biden is running as if he were unopposed for the Democratic presidential nomination, but he may face a comeuppance in New Hampshire. In the name of “diversity,” the Democratic National Committee demoted the Granite State from its traditional status as the first-in-the-nation primary in favor of South Carolina, where Mr. Biden’s 2020 campaign took flight. New Hampshire decided to hold its primary on Jan. 23 anyway, much to the DNC’s chagrin. Mr. Biden decided not to put his name on the ballot, forcing allies to run a write-in campaign against Rep. Dean Phillips and self-help author Marianne Williamson .

Persons: Biden, Mark Kelly Joe Biden, Biden’s, Dean Phillips, Marianne Williamson Organizations: Democratic, Democratic National, DNC, Rep Locations: New Hampshire, Granite State, South Carolina

☆ The Case for the Supreme Court to Overturn Chevron Deference
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-16 | by ( The Editorial Board | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Journal Editorial Report: Paul Gigot interviews pollster Mark Penn. Images: AP/Zuma Press Composite: Mark KellyThe Supreme Court has been trying to restore the proper constitutional balance of power, and its next opportunity comes Wednesday when it hears two cases challenging its own landmark Chevron doctrine (Loper Bright Enterprises, Inc., v. Raimondo and Relentless, Inc. v. Dept. In 1984 in Chevron v. NRDC, the Justices ruled that courts should defer to administrative agencies’ interpretation of laws when the statutory text is silent or ambiguous. In practice this has become a license for Congress to write vague laws that delegate legislative power to administrative agencies. Over the last 40 years the federal register of regulations has grown by tens of thousands of pages.

Persons: Paul Gigot, pollster Mark Penn, Mark Kelly, Raimondo Organizations: Zuma, Bright Enterprises, Inc Locations: Chevron v

☆ SBF Faces Prison, but ‘Effective Altruism’ Lives On
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-15 | by ( Andy Kessler | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Kim Strassel, Kyle Peterson, Jason Riley and Dan Henninger. I was looking forward to the March trial and seeing the politicians who accepted the convicted fraudster’s donations squirm like worms. Beyond trying to stave off crypto regulations, he was shoveling millions to the effective-altruism movement, which continues to infiltrate governments more than most people realize. With SBF facing a long term in the big house, has effective altruism landed on the ash heap of history? Did you know proponents of the movement basically wrote the Biden administration’s recent executive order on artificial intelligence?

Persons: Kim Strassel, Kyle Peterson, Jason Riley, Dan Henninger, Mark Kelly, Sam Bankman Organizations: Getty, Justice Department, Biden

☆ California Invents a Crazy New Tort
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-15 | by ( The Editorial Board | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Kim Strassel, Kyle Peterson, Jason Riley and Dan Henninger. Images: AP/AFP/Getty Images/wawog_now via Instagram Composite: Mark KellyBusinesses are often sued for selling allegedly faulty products that aren’t actually defective. Last week a California appeals court ruled that businesses can also be sued for failing to develop a product. Some 24,000 patients have sued Gilead Sciences in California state court for failing to introduce an allegedly safer version of an HIV drug. The plaintiffs don’t argue that the drug is defective or lacked adequate warnings.

Persons: Kim Strassel, Kyle Peterson, Jason Riley, Dan Henninger, Kelly, Gilead Organizations: Getty, Gilead Sciences, Drug Administration Locations: California

☆ The FCC vs. the News in Your Neighborhood
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-14 | by ( Holman W. Jenkins | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Journal Editorial Report: Edward Lawrence interviews economic strategist Jason Trennert. Official Washington has Jessica Rosenworcel , the Federal Communications Commission chief. Last seen restarting a needless fight over net neutrality, over the holidays she committed more bureaucracy. The courts pressured her to complete her agency’s absurdly delayed 2018 “quadrennial review” of its extensive media ownership regulations. Of course she found these regulations more urgent than ever despite the internet having obliterated the ostensible electromagnetic scarcity on which they were premised.

Persons: Edward Lawrence, Jason Trennert, Mark Kelly You, Jessica Rosenworcel Organizations: Bloomberg, Washington, Federal Communications Commission

☆ Davos Devotees Deindustrialize Europe
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-14 | by ( Peter Huntsman | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

Journal Editorial Report: Paul Gigot interviews Bjorn Lomborg on COP28. Images: AP/EPA Composite: Mark KellyPolitical, business and security leaders gather in Davos next week under the mantra of “rebuilding trust.” Key topics include security cooperation, artificial intelligence, energy security and job growth “for a New Era.” Undoubtedly there will also be calls to phase out fossil fuels and aspirations for a hydrogen-based green economy. Amid this grand planning for the industries of 2050, leaders likely will pay little attention to how government pressure to reach this utopian vision is destroying the industries that made Europe the envy of the world. Over the past two years, dozens of energy-intensive manufacturers of our most basic materials—chemicals, steel, ceramics, glass and fertilizers—have ceased or slowed production in Europe. As the leader of a U.S.-headquartered chemical company that once had more than 50% of its revenue and employees in Europe, I have witnessed this devolution firsthand.

Persons: Paul Gigot, Bjorn Lomborg, Mark Kelly Locations: Davos, Europe, U.S

☆ Is There a Constitutional Right to Vagrancy?
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-13 | by ( The Editorial Board | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Kim Strassel, Bill McGurn and Dan Henninger. The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear an appeal challenging a judicial ruling that established a de facto constitutional right to vagrancy. ( City of Grants Pass v. A panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in 2022 blocked the Oregon town of Grants Pass from enforcing “anti-camping” laws on public property. The judges said the Eighth Amendment’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment prohibits cities from arresting or imposing penalties on homeless people for squatting on public property if there aren’t enough shelter beds for every vagrant.

Persons: Kim Strassel, Bill McGurn, Dan Henninger, Mark Kelly, Johnson Organizations: Zuma, Mark Kelly Good, West, Ninth Circuit Locations: West Coast, Grants, Oregon

☆ WSJ Opinion: The Pandemic Killed Biden’s Presidency
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-13 | by ( Wsj Opinion | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

WSJ Opinion: The Pandemic Killed Biden’s PresidencyWonder Land: Covid-19 disrupted people’s private lives. Biden addressed concerns with a $6 trillion spending spree that's had little effect on them. Images: SMG/Zuma Press/AFP/Getty Images Composite: Mark Kelly

Persons: Biden, that's, Mark Kelly Organizations: SMG, Zuma Press, Getty

☆ WSJ Opinion: Will Trump ‘Destroy’ Democracy?
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-13 | by ( Wsj Opinion | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

WSJ Opinion: Will Trump ‘Destroy’ Democracy? Wonder Land: Surveying the record of his three years in office, Mr. Biden has decided his re-election turns on two events: the Capitol riot of 2021 and Mr. Trump’s efforts to reverse the 2020 presidential election results in several states. Images: Getty Images/Zuma Press Composite: Mark Kelly

Persons: Will Trump, Biden, Mark Kelly

☆ The New Segregation on Campus
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-13 | by ( The Editorial Board | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Journal Editorial Report: Claudine Gay says she is a casualty of "extreme voices." Images: Reuters/New York Times Composite: Mark KellyIf you’ve heard that the diversity, equity and inclusion agenda is going away, don’t believe it. An emerging practice at elite medical schools segregates students by race to teach them about alleged structural racism in healthcare. The University of California Los Angeles School of Medicine requires that first year students take a class called “Structural Racism and Health Equity” as part of the standard curriculum. In one exercise for the course, students divide by racial group and retreat to different areas to discuss antiracist prompts.

Persons: Claudine Gay, Mark Kelly, you’ve Organizations: New York Times, University of California Los Angeles School of Medicine, Equity ”

☆ Gavin Newsom Objects—to Us
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-13 | by ( The Editorial Board | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Wonder Land: Surveying the record of his three years in office, Mr. Biden has decided his re-election turns on two events: the Capitol riot of 2021 and Mr. Trump’s efforts to reverse the 2020 presidential election results in several states. Images: Getty Images/Zuma Press Composite: Mark KellyThese columns caught Gavin Newsom ’s attention this week, we’re delighted to say. The California Governor is upset that we reported on the wealth-tax proposal in the state Assembly because Mr. Newsom says he doesn’t support such a tax. Mr. Newsom on Wednesday presented his budget for the coming year, including ideas to close a $68 billion shortfall. He called us “ideological warriors,” “a broken-clock” and “shameful” for criticizing a wealth-tax bill that was getting an Assembly hearing that day.

Persons: Biden, Mark Kelly, Gavin Newsom ’, we’re, Newsom, ” Locations: California

☆ Why No One Goes Out to Eat in D.C. Anymore
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-13 | by ( Michael Saltsman | Rebekah Paxton | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Wonder Land: Whether it's the migrant crisis, gender identity, shoplifting, student loans or decriminalizing federal laws on cannabis possession, Republican presidential candidates should not stop talking about the culture. Images: Bloomberg News/AFP/Getty Images Composite: Mark KellyWashingtonThe restaurant scene in the District of Columbia is dying, and public policy is to blame. As recently as 2016, the nation’s capital received its first Michelin Guide and accolades from the country’s top food magazines. In 2018 the editor of Bon Appétit declared that Washington was “having a moment,” with some restaurants so popular that patrons would wait an hour to get a bite. Rising crime and last year’s mandated increase in tipped wages have restaurateurs lining up to leave town.

Persons: Mark Kelly Washington, Bon Appétit Organizations: Republican, Bloomberg, Getty, District of Columbia, Michelin, Washington Locations: District

☆ Anthony Fauci Fesses Up
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-13 | by ( The Editorial Board | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

Biden addressed concerns with a $6 trillion spending spree that's had little effect on them. Images: SMG/Zuma Press/AFP/Getty Images Composite: Mark KellyAnthony Fauci has never struggled to speak his mind. For instance, the six-feet rule for social distancing “sort of just appeared” without a solid scientific basis. It’s not news that the six-feet rule lacked scientific rhyme or reason. It noted that the virus’s transmissibility depends on many factors, including ventilation, the host’s viral load and symptoms, and the duration of exposure, among other things.

Persons: Biden, that's, Mark Kelly Anthony Fauci, National Institutes of Health potentate Organizations: SMG, Zuma Press, Getty, National Institutes of Health

☆ Biden Strikes the Houthis, at Last
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-13 | by ( The Editorial Board | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

The '2023 Reagan National Defense Survey' highlights China as the greatest national security threat to the U.S. and finds strong support for arming Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan. Images: Zuma Press/AFP/Getty Images Composite: Mark KellyThe press is reporting that Thursday’s U.S.-British strikes against the Houthis in Yemen risk escalating the current conflict in the Middle East. The conflict was already escalating. The question has been whether the U.S. and its allies would respond to Houthi efforts, backed by Iran, to hijack commercial shipping and shoot at the U.S. Navy. The Houthis have been using these weapons depots, radars and launch sites to “endanger freedom of navigation in one of the world’s most vital waterways,” as the White House said in a statement.

Persons: Mark Kelly, Biden’s Organizations: Reagan National Defense Survey, Zuma Press, Getty, U.S . Navy, White Locations: China, Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan, U.S, Yemen, Iran, ”

☆ Wisconsin’s Act 10 Is in Jeopardy
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-06 | by ( The Editorial Board | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Bill McGurn, Kyle Peterson, Allysia Finley, Dan Henninger & Paul Gigot. Images: Getty Images/AP/ Composite: Mark KellyWisconsin progressives went for a judicial abuse trifecta last week, filing a lawsuit to overturn Act 10, the landmark 2011 law that limited the ability of public unions to bargain collectively. The case is part of the Democratic campaign to use the new liberal majority on the state Supreme Court to redraw the state’s legislative district maps and end school choice. Scott Walker , has saved the Badger State from turning into Illinois or New York, where public unions essentially run the state government for their own benefit. According to the MacIver Institute, Act 10 has saved Wisconsin taxpayers $16.8 billion since it was passed in 2011, making public finances more manageable at every level of government.

Persons: Bill McGurn, Kyle Peterson, Allysia Finley, Dan Henninger, Paul Gigot, Mark Kelly Wisconsin, Scott Walker Organizations: Democratic, Gov, Badger, MacIver Institute Locations: Illinois, New York, Wisconsin

☆ The Supreme Court Will Finally Decide What ‘Income’ Means
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-05 | by ( Hank Adler | Lacy Willis | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Wonder Land: Citing the president’s age lets Democrats off the hook for the political failure of his economic policies. Images: AP/AFP/EPA/Getty Images Composite: Mark KellyThe Supreme Court hears oral arguments Tuesday in the most important tax case in decades. Moore v. U.S. will answer the question of whether Congress can tax unrealized capital gains as if they were income under the 16th Amendment. The case has attracted a flood of friend-of-the-court briefs, mostly cheering for the tax collectors. Many argue outright that there is no requirement for profit to be realized—which usually means selling an asset at a profit—for a taxpayer to be hit with an income tax as the Constitution means it.

Persons: Mark Kelly, Moore Organizations: AFP, EPA Locations: .

☆ Higher Ed Has Become a Threat to America
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-05 | by ( John Ellis | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Journal Editorial Report: College presidents are talking tolerance, but few take action. Images: Getty Images Composite: Mark KellyAmerica faces a formidable range of calamities: crime out of control, borders in chaos by design, children poorly educated while sexualized and politicized against parental opposition, unconstitutional censorship, a press that does government PR rather than oversight, our institutions and corporations debased in the name of “diversity, equity and inclusion”—and more. To these has been added an outbreak of virulent antisemitism. Every one of these degradations can be traced wholly or in large part to a single source: the corruption of higher education by radical political activists.

Persons: Mark Kelly America

☆ Congress Takes on the EV Mandate
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-05 | by ( The Editorial Board | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Journal Editorial Report: EV dealers ask Biden where they're supposed to put the glut. Images: AP/Shutterstock Composite: Mark KellyHouse Republicans have teed up a vote this week on legislation to block President Biden’s back-door electric-vehicle mandate. Democrats are spinning the legislation as an attack on public health, innovation and free markets. The Environmental Protection Agency “is not imposing an EV mandate,” says a memo from Democrats on the Energy and Commerce Committee opposing the GOP legislation. But the EPA in April proposed tailpipe emissions standards for greenhouse gases that would effectively require that electric vehicles make up two-thirds of car sales in 2032.

Persons: Biden, they're, Mark Kelly, Biden’s, ” Organizations: Republicans, Environmental Protection Agency, Energy, Commerce, GOP

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