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Monday, December 25, 2023

Yes, Talking Heads, We ARE Paying Attention

Frank Miele, Real Clear Politics

The Kate Cox case shows the cruelty of Texas’ abortion law

Jocelyn Viterna, CNN

The College Bubble Is Bursting. Good Riddance

Jason Bedrick and Adam Kissel, Newsweek

The Carbon-Neutral Dumpster Fire

Aidan Harte, Quillette

Trump ruling is judicial comedy

Editorial, The Gazette

The Importance of Anti-War Messaging in Christmas Music

Brendan Mahoney, The Heights

41 Percent: It's Bad That 12 Colleges Represent Half of US Political Elite

NewsMax

Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning

Liz Cheney

Sunday, December 24, 2023

Trending Analysis

41 Percent: It's Bad That 12 Colleges Represent Half of US Political Elite

NewsMax

‘Great Replacement’? Most Voters Suspect It’s Real

Rasmussen Reports

New COVID Shot Uptake Lagging Behind Annual Flu Shot Rates

Gallup

What's behind the recent wave of House retirements?

ABC News

Fox News Poll: Only 14% say they have been helped by Biden’s economic policies

Fox News

Trending Books

Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning

Liz Cheney

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

David Grann

Ghosts of Honolulu: A Japanese Spy, a Japanese American Spy Hunter, and the Untold Story of Pearl Harbor

Mark Harmon, Leon Carroll (With)

No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Saving Aziz: How the Mission to Help One Became a Calling to Rescue Thousands from the Taliban

Chad Robichaux, David L. Thomas (With), Glenn Beck (Foreword by)

Trending Podcasts

Today, Explained

Vox

The Megyn Kelly Show

The Megyn Kelly Show

FOX News Hourly Update

Fox News Radio

Pivot

New York Magazine

百靈果 News

百靈果 News

Trending People

Sandra Day O'Conner

Biography.com

Rudy Giuliani

Biography.com

Scott Perry

House.gov

Political Culture

Midnight's Children (1981)

Salman Rushdie, GoodReads.com

Vice (2018)

Adam McKay, imdb.com

Youth Against Fascism (1992)

Sonic Youth, Lyrics.com

Friday News Dump

PoliticalDictionary.com

Saturday, December 23, 2023

Trending Data

President Approval: 40.0% ➘ 39.7%

Real Clear Politics

Congress Approval: 20.4% ➘ 20.0%

Real Clear Politics

Direction of Country: 25.8% ➘ 24.7%

Real Clear Politics

Party Affiliation: Democrat-27% ➚ 29%

Gallup

Party Affiliation: Republican-27% ➚ 29%

Gallup

Party Affiliation: Independent-45% ➘ 40%

Gallup

Gross Domestic Product: 2.1% ➚ 5.2%

Trading Economics

Inflation: 3.2% ➘ 3.1%

Trading Economics

Unemployment: 3.9% ➘ 3.7%

Trading Economics

Labor Force Participation: 62.7% ➚ 62.8%

Trading Economics

Consumer Confidence: 104.3 ➘ 102.6

CEIC

Fiscal Confidence: 38 ➘ 37

Peterson Foundation

National Debt: $33.8T ➚ $33.9T

US Debt Clock

Media Approval: 34% ➘ 32%

Gallup

Voter Surveys

Should pension payments be increased for retired government workers?

36% Yes 64% No

Should the U.S. remain in NATO?

80% Yes 20% No

Should there be a 5-year ban on White House and Congressional officials from becoming lobbyists after they leave the government?

79% Yes 21% No

Should the federal government institute a mandatory buyback of assault weapons?

40% Yes 60% No

Should the federal government be allowed to negotiate drug prices for Medicare?

76% Yes 24% No

Trending Legislation

To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to eliminate certain fuel excise taxes and impose a tax on greenhouse gas emissions to provide revenue for maintaining and building American infrastructure, and for other purposes.

US Congress

To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act with respect to aliens who carried out, participated in, planned, financed, supported, or otherwise facilitated the attacks against Israel.

US Congress

"Electric and Hybrid Vehicle Battery Management Act."

New Jersey

Responding to growing threats to freedom of the press and expression around the world, reaffirming the centrality of a free and independent press to the health of democracy, and reaffirming freedom of the press as a priority of the United States Government in promoting democracy, human rights, and good governance on World Press Freedom Day.

US Congress

Friday, December 22, 2023

Barring Trump from ballots is a recipe for violence

Ben Shapiro, BPR

Where Are All the Anti-Trump Republicans?

Jonathan Martin, Politico

In 2024, climate will be on the ballot in a way we've rarely seen

Harold Maass, The Week

Think tank fellow: Consider redeploying U.S. tactical nukes to South Korea

Yoshihiro Makino, Asahi Shimbun

I’ve changed my tune on dollar stores, but Black neighborhoods still need full-service grocers

Natalie Y. Moore, Chicago Sun Times

The College Fix’s top 10 most outrageous stories of 2023

Jennifer Kabbany, The College Fix

Fox News Poll: Only 14% say they have been helped by Biden’s economic policies

Fox News

Saving Aziz: How the Mission to Help One Became a Calling to Rescue Thousands from the Taliban

Chad Robichaux, David L. Thomas (With), Glenn Beck (Foreword by)

Thursday, December 21, 2023

The politics of incumbent rejection

Michael Barone, Washington Examiner

What Does the Working Class Really Want?

George Packer, The Atlantic

Biden Has Massively Overdrawn America’s Account with Blank Checks to Ukraine

Justin Logan and Dan Caldwell, CATO Institute

Looming Biden-Trump rematch heralds American Age of Anxiety in 2024

Joseph E. Stiglitz, South China Morning Post

New York’s liberal politicians need to lower taxes if they want more people to stay

E. J. Antoni, NY Post

The dangers of social media censorship

Peyton Keyes, The Kentucky Kernel

What's behind the recent wave of House retirements?

ABC News

No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Wednesday, December 20, 2023

Congress’ ‘Gift’ to America This Christmas

Ron Paul, New American

Why Mitch McConnell Just Might Want to See Biden Reelected

Bill Scher, Washington Monthly

Trillion Dollar Dilemma: Is the US Treasury Market in Trouble?

Alex Gloy, Fair Observer

A judicial insurrection against democracy

Brendan O'Neill, Spiked

Dehumanized McDonald's, a sign of sorry times

Dennis J. Larson, Star Tribune

DEI Bureaucracy Fails the Stress Test

Steve Carhart, The Tech

New COVID Shot Uptake Lagging Behind Annual Flu Shot Rates

Gallup

Ghosts of Honolulu: A Japanese Spy, a Japanese American Spy Hunter, and the Untold Story of Pearl Harbor

Mark Harmon, Leon Carroll (With)

Tuesday, December 19, 2023

Why Is Claudine Gay Still the President of Harvard?

Susan Estrich, NewsMax

A polling turnaround is coming for Biden

John Stoehr, Raw Story

More city hall news coverage isn’t enough to revive local news outlets

Erik Peterson and Josh McCrain, The Conversation

Is America heading towards Civil War?

Freddy Gray, The Spectator

Nearly 50 congressmen and senators are quitting. Can you blame them?

Patricia Murphy, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Berkeley faculty for Justice in Palestine

Editorial, The Daily Californian

‘Great Replacement’? Most Voters Suspect It’s Real

Rasmussen Reports

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

David Grann

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