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☆ Joe Manchin for President?
  + stars: | 2023-03-09 | by ( Daniel Henninger | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
If Joe Biden and Donald Trump weren’t running, the race to the 2024 presidential election would be the wide-open, competitive contest many Americans say they want and, on the available evidence, aren’t going to get. Joe Biden looks to have decided he didn’t spend a half century trenching through politics to become a lame duck two years after replacing his I-get-around Corvette with Air Force One. Even most Democrats don’t want him to run, but Mr. Biden has frozen his party’s field—for now.
☆ Post-Pandemic Americans Try Political Sobriety
  + stars: | 2023-03-02 | by ( Daniel Henninger | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Americans are in a sour mood. Most of those willing to talk to a pollster say the country is going in the wrong direction. Republicans were supposed to win big in the midterm elections, but voters declared a pox on both parties and kept the win small. There is a more positive way to view the nation’s dark mood. What’s emerging instead is an active dissatisfaction with the political and cultural status quo in America, with the intention growing to replace it.
☆ Joe Biden’s Unexplained UFO Silence
  + stars: | 2023-02-16 | by ( Daniel Henninger | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
A half week after the U.S. government used fighter jets firing Sidewinder missiles to shoot down three “objects” over North America—an event with no precedent—and more than a week after the destruction of a large Chinese spy balloon, it’s obvious the Biden White House isn’t going to tell the American people what this is all about. On Tuesday, the White House’s national-security spokesman, John Kirby said the Alaska, Yukon and Lake Huron shootdowns really were about protecting civilian air traffic, notwithstanding that nothing like this fantastic statistical anomaly has happened in the days since.
☆ Joe Biden Is Bernie Sanders
  + stars: | 2023-02-09 | by ( Daniel Henninger | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
When Mr. Biden finally announces his re-election bid, he will be running as a democratic socialist. That is the clear takeaway from the more than 70 minutes Mr. Biden spent describing his plans to push federal spending and mandates into every nook of American life. What a welcome departure this is from the misrepresentation Rep. Jim Clyburn perpetrated on voters to get Mr. Biden elected as a centrist in 2020. Recall how the South Carolina congressman endorsed Mr. Biden before his state’s primary, explicitly warning on ABC’s “This Week” against the insurgent campaign of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders: “I do believe it will be an extra burden for us to have to carry. This is South Carolina, and South Carolinians are pretty leery about that title ‘socialist.’ ”
☆ The Democrats Deepen the Washington Swamp
  + stars: | 2023-02-02 | by ( Daniel Henninger | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Here’s one way to divide America’s politics. Republicans and conservatives think the Washington Swamp is real. Democrats and progressives don’t believe it exists. This division of belief matters more than the existence of UFOs because whether the Swamp is real looks likely to be an issue in the 2024 presidential election. President Biden gives his State of the Union speech next week, and no doubt he’ll describe his Washington as a city of bounty and benevolence.
☆ Debt-Ceiling Madness
  + stars: | 2023-01-27 | by ( Daniel Henninger | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
There comes a point in every politician’s life of doublespeak when he has to tell the truth. John Kerry ’s came this year in Davos. Asked how to achieve the always-receding goals of climate control, he said, “Money, money, money, money, money, money, money.”The Kerry money quote rang a bell. It wasn’t “The Color of Money.” Mr. Kerry was channeling the unforgettable “money, money, money” chorus from the O’Jays’ 1973 funk song “For the Love of Money.” This column’s intention isn’t to revisit the history of soul but to pull you in to reading about the Biden-McCarthy debt-ceiling fight, which is about real money. To survive that, I recommend you first watch the YouTube video of the O’Jays’ performance.
☆ The Biden Classified-Document Payback
  + stars: | 2023-01-19 | by ( Daniel Henninger | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
You know that a country’s politics has become unhinged when its politicians forget one of the fundamentals of their profession: What goes around comes around. All that stuff about “my friend” and “the gentlelady” flows from knowing that if a politician overdoes the torment, his opponent will spend years waiting for the moment of payback. Exhibit Z is a sitting president saying about his predecessor: “How could anyone be that irresponsible?” Now comes the Democrats’ predictable crucible with everyone’s former good friend, Joe Biden.
☆ Why Federal Spending Exploded
  + stars: | 2023-01-12 | by ( Daniel Henninger | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Congress likes to wear its history on its sleeve and so we were reminded during last week’s House speaker fight of long votes back to the 19th century. Before camera-ready minds wander, we offer some history you didn’t hear to explain what sent our politics to such low ebb. This fight is about spending. Conservatives, from Kevin McCarthy on the right to Matt Gaetz and Lauren Boebert on the over-the-cliff right, have legitimate grievances with the Pelosi-Biden $1.7 trillion omnibus spending bill, coming atop the trillions outputted through the pandemic.
☆ An Economic New Year’s Resolution: Sober Up, America
  + stars: | 2022-12-29 | by ( Daniel Henninger | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Looking back at a mess of a year, it seems possible to blame the Covid pandemic for just about everything. The pandemic pushed many off their A-game, and in public life most of the bad things that happen are caused by bad judgment. Sam Bankman-Fried ’s customers thought that with cryptocurrency, money was finally growing on trees. Republican primary voters heard voices and nominated too many losers. Vladimir Putin lost his mind in the ethers of Great Russia nationalism.
☆ The Moral Vanity of Sam Bankman-Fried
  + stars: | 2022-12-01 | by ( Daniel Henninger | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
The Covid-19 pandemic may have ended in the U.S., but there is no vaccine yet for this country’s pandemic of moral vanity. Its latest victim is FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried . As his cryptocurrency company’s value soared into vaporous billions, Mr. Bankman-Fried said he wasn’t in it for the money. He described himself as a proponent of “effective altruism,” or high-return charity, an idea he learned while at MIT from a philosophy graduate student. Mr. Bankman-Fried, 30, said he might keep 1% for himself and give the rest away through his FTX Foundation.
☆ Can Trump Change His Stripes?
  + stars: | 2022-11-17 | by ( Daniel Henninger | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Until Wednesday, my favorite New York Post headline of all time ran above the obituary for the owner of the Elvis-sighting tabloid National Enquirer: “National Enquirer Owner Goes to Meet with Elvis.” It will be hard to top the hed they ran along the bottom of Wednesday morning’s front page: “Florida Man Makes Announcement. Page 26.”The day before the midterm elections, Donald Trump promoted the speech as a “very big announcement.” Mr. Trump must have assumed he’d be surfing atop a red Republican wave, his hand-picked Senate and gubernatorial candidates in tow.
☆ The Trump Liability for the GOP
  + stars: | 2022-11-10 | by ( Daniel Henninger | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Within 24 hours of Election Day, former President Donald Trump said, “Not to detract from tomorrow’s very important, even critical, election,” and then added: “I’m going to be making a very big announcement on Tuesday, Nov. 15 at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida.” Well, it looks like something did detract from the election. Let’s cut to the chase: If Mr. Trump announces next week that he’s running again, the 2024 presidential election ends that day. It guarantees a wipeout for Republicans.
☆ Putin’s Nonnuclear War in Ukraine
  + stars: | 2022-11-04 | by ( Daniel Henninger | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Nearly any conversation about Ukraine in recent months has become preoccupied with whether a desperate Vladimir Putin might use a tactical nuclear weapon. That possibility, however concerning, should not deter us from staying focused on the higher stakes Mr. Putin put in motion by invading Ukraine. Across the more than four decades of the Cold War—a struggle between the ideological opposites of Western freedom and Soviet communism—the great fear, other than nuclear war, was of a ground war between Russia and the U.S.-led forces of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Cold War military doctrine held that this war likely would start with a massive Russian tank invasion through Germany’s Fulda Gap.
☆ John Fetterman: The Midterms’ October Surprise
  + stars: | 2022-10-27 | by ( Daniel Henninger | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Daniel Henninger's weekly column, “Wonder Land,” appears in The Wall Street Journal each Thursday. Mr. Henninger was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in editorial writing in 1987 and 1996, and shared in the Journal's Pulitzer Prize in 2002 for the paper's coverage of the attacks on September 11. In 2004, he won the Eric Breindel Journalism Award for his weekly column. He has won the Gerald Loeb Award for commentary, the Scripps Howard Foundation's Walker Stone Award for editorial writing and the American Society of Newspaper Editors' Distinguished Writing Award for editorial writing. He is a weekly panelist on the "Journal Editorial Report" on Fox News.
☆ The Biggest Midterm Election Issue Is Chaos
  + stars: | 2022-10-20 | by ( Daniel Henninger | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
What’s happening to the stock market? Will Vladimir Putin go nuclear? Mystification has become a permanent state of life, and for the next three weeks the big mystery is: Who’s going to win the midterm elections? Answer: The Republicans. It’s going to be a red wave.
☆ The Great U.S. Migrant Embarrassment
  + stars: | 2022-10-13 | by ( Daniel Henninger | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Other than the open hydrant of federal spending, no issue more reflects the complete collapse of responsible government than the migrant mess, which now extends from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard. The immigration problem has run in the background of U.S. politics for years as an unsolvable, second-tier issue. In late summer, an NPR/Ipsos poll asked if there was an “invasion” at the southern U.S. border. A majority of respondents said yes, it’s an invasion. If it isn’t, “invasion” has no meaning.
☆ Migrant Flights Obscure the Real DeSantis Divide
  + stars: | 2022-09-22 | by ( Daniel Henninger | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
The list of contenders is long but we have a winner—political outrage. The past week produced faux political outrage for the record books when Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis flew 50 migrants to Martha’s Vineyard. Gavin Newsom called it “almost monstrous,” adding, “I say that quite thoughtfully.” White House spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre likened the governor to Guatemalan smugglers. Unsurpassable is a long piece by six CNN staffers that says flying 50 migrants to the Vineyard “has revived memories of strikingly similar tactics employed by southern segregationists 60 years ago.”
☆ Daniel Henninger — Opinion Columnist, Wonder Land at The Wall Street Journal
  + stars: | 2022-09-19 | by ( Daniel Henninger | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Daniel HenningerDaniel Henninger's weekly column, “Wonder Land,” appears in The Wall Street Journal each Thursday. Mr. Henninger was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in editorial writing in 1987 and 1996, and shared in the Journal's Pulitzer Prize in 2002 for the paper's coverage of the attacks on September 11. In 2004, he won the Eric Breindel Journalism Award for his weekly column. He has won the Gerald Loeb Award for commentary, the Scripps Howard Foundation's Walker Stone Award for editorial writing and the American Society of Newspaper Editors' Distinguished Writing Award for editorial writing. He is a weekly panelist on the "Journal Editorial Report" on Fox News.
☆ They Want to Shut You (and 303 Creative) Up
  + stars: | 1791-12-15 | by ( Daniel Henninger | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Lorie Smith , meet Elon Musk, Donald Trump and millions of other Americans who for more than 200 years have been able to say what they think, protected by the First Amendment. Thursday, in fact, is the Bill of Rights’ 231st anniversary, the law of the land since the Virginia Legislature’s ratification vote Dec. 15, 1791. Colorado, which joined the Union in 1876, wants the Constitution’s free-speech right to be significantly altered and is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to create a list of First Amendment exceptions.
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