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ICE Is No Gestapo | National Review The agency is enforcing immigration law.

ICE Is No Gestapo

Agents are simply doing their job, which is a function of the legitimate power of the federal government to regulate immigration and to expel those with no legal right to live or work in this country.

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Texas Republicans Play Catch-Up in Gerrymandering | National Review Hardball in Texas isn’t exactly unknown to Democrats.

Greg Abbott and the Republican-controlled legislature have decided to play hardball by redrawing the state’s congressional map.

The predictable Democratic hue and cry about gerrymandering could hardly be more hypocritical.

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Trump Is Shooting the Messenger | National Review The economy itself is what it is, no matter how the statistics are reported.

Trump is shooting the messenger of bad economic news.

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Ending the H-1B Visa Lottery Is a Good Step | National Review Our immigration policies should align with our nation’s interests.

Reforming the H-1B program so that these visas are awarded only to the most valuable potential employees is necessary to align our immigration policies with our nation’s interests.

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Trump Is Right to Point the Finger at Hamas for Gaza Woes | National Review Hamas has long demonstrated that it is willing to put its own population at risk knowing that the world will always blame Israel.

Hamas has long demonstrated that it is willing to put its own population at risk knowing that the world will always blame Israel.

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Trump Wins a Round in the EU Trade War | National Review But that doesn’t mean the war is a wise one for the sake of American prosperity.

Trump has won this round in his trade wars, but this is no reason to think — if American prosperity is the ultimate objective — that these wars are being fought wisely.

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Trump Administration’s Deal with Columbia Is Encouraging | National Review The strategy is a sensible one, and other schools should follow.

To those upset that the federal government has finally intervened to stop rampant discrimination on university campuses across America, we add only that it should never have had to come to this.

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A Great Start for Trump on AI | National Review He has taken three important steps, though his comments on copyright are misguided.

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Republicans Fumbled the Ball on Social Security | National Review They had a chance to institute private accounts 20 years ago but allowed Democrats’ scare tactics to kill the idea. That failure cost us all dearly.

Too risky! Cruel to seniors! Handout to bankers!

The scare tactics about Social Security privatization worked. We are all much the poorer. | @anti-knowledge.com

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Russiagate, Revisited | National Review Trump was the victim of an iniquitous dirty trick in 2016, but Gabbard has presented nothing new about Obama’s involvement.

Donald Trump was the victim of an iniquitous dirty trick in 2016, but Tulsi Gabbard has presented nothing new about Barack Obama’s involvement.

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Trump Shouldn’t Fire Powell | National Review The Fed chairman’s term will be over in ten months. Forcing him out now will mean serious institutional and reputational damage to the U.S.

The Fed chairman’s term will be over in ten months.

Forcing him out now will mean serious institutional and reputational damage to the US.

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A Long Overdue Victory on Public Broadcasting | National Review President Trump and Republicans have finally followed through on something conservatives have dreamed about for decades.

President Trump and Republicans have finally followed through on something that conservatives have dreamed about for decades: defunding the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

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Ed Feulner, 1941–2025 | National Review His passing is a loss for the movement he did so much to build.

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California’s High-Speed Boondoggle | National Review The Trump administration’s move to cut off federal funding for the doomed rail project is well justified.

Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy has terminated the remaining $4 billion of unspent federal funds for California’s beleaguered high-speed rail project.

The move is well justified.

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The Week: Epstein Revisited | National Review Plus: President Trump attacks the Fed chairman that President Trump appointed.

Big Bird applies for unemployment, moves in with Oscar.

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Everything That’s Going On | National Review Something has gone Deeply Wrong in the United States since November of last year.

Presumably, if you follow the news, you’ve heard about what’s going on.

You know what I’m referring to: The situation. Our crisis.

The threat to democracy. | @charlescwcooke.bsky.social

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Defunding NPR Is No Threat to Free Speech | National Review It’s still a free country. If NPR wants free speech, it can have it — just not on the public’s dime without the public’s consent.

It's still a free country.

If NPR wants free speech, it can have it -- just not on the public's dime without the public's consent. | @realbaseballcrank.bsky.social

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The Biden Autopen Scandal | National Review It keeps getting worse.

The day before Trump’s second inauguration, Biden chief of staff Jeff Zients told the White House, “I approve the use of the autopen for the execution of all of the following pardons.”

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Put Food Stamps on a Diet | National Review SNAP exists to guarantee basic nutrition, not to replicate the snacks aisle of a minor-league baseball stadium.

SNAP, a.k.a. food stamps, exists to guarantee basic nutrition, not to replicate the snacks aisle of a minor-league baseball stadium. | @anti-knowledge.com

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Exclusive: Trump Admin to Cut Off Federal Funding to Hospitals That Provide Gender-Transition Services to Minors | National Review The administration is using the rule-making process to cut off culpable hospitals from Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program.

EXCLUSIVE: Trump Admin to Cut Off Federal Funding to Hospitals That Provide Gender-Transition Services to Minors | Audrey Fahlberg

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The Epstein Uproar | National Review AG Pam Bondi shouldn’t have hyped the release of materials in the past, but despite the natural questions about his hideous crimes, the wild theories aren’t justified.

Trump wants the whole thing to go away, and now blames his various political adversaries for creating the Epstein files in the first place.

If there’s one lesson from this episode, though, it’s that we need less conspiracy-theorizing rather than more.

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Joe Biden’s Autopen Folly | National Review Also, Elmo turns to the dark side.

Biden has managed to thicken the cloud of suspicion that hangs over all domestic political acts taken during his presidency. | @esotericcd.bsky.social

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Big Bird Deserves to Lose This Time | National Review The Trump-backed rescissions bill represents the best chance to defund public broadcasting in decades, if not ever.

NPR and PBS provide left-of-center content for left-of-center audiences under the guise of objectivity.

There is a business model there, but it’s not one that deserves or needs taxpayer support. | Rich Lowry

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We Hate Communism | National Review Please help us fight it in all its forms.

Communism is the ideology, hostile not just to capitalism but to our system as such, that NR is wholly devoted to opposing in all its permutations. | Rich Lowry

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Trump’s Dwindling Patience With Putin | National Review We welcome Trump’s new realism and hope that it’s enduring.

After a long stretch of undeserved patience for the bad faith and brutality of Vladimir Putin, President Trump is now conveying, in action as well as words, that he is done being strung along.

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President Autopen Was Always Soft on Crime | National Review Former President Joe Biden’s blanket assurance that he himself made the decision about every pardon is contradicted by his staff.

Biden’s blanket assurance that he himself made the decision about every pardon is contradicted by his staff. | Jim Geraghty

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A Welcome Reversal on Weapons to Ukraine | National Review But there is more to do.

We have, mercifully, not come to blows with Russia or China. The best way to ensure that we continue to avoid doing so is by preserving credible deterrence.

Not abandoning Ukraine is another.

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In Defense of Humans | National Review It is our imperfections that make life tolerable.

As wretched as they can often be, humans make almost everything better.

What meal isn’t improved by a carbon-based dining companion? How many times have you been brought to tears of laughter by a room full of real friends? | @anti-knowledge.com

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Trump’s Reckless New Tariffs | National Review If the courts put an end to this, they would be doing the rule of law, and the markets, a favor.

If the courts put an end to this, they would be doing the rule of law, and the markets, a favor.

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A Rogue District Judge Forces a Confrontation with the Executive Branch | National Review In the conflict over Planned Parenthood funding, the president is duty-bound to defend and implement federal law.

In the conflict over Planned Parenthood funding, the president is duty-bound to defend and implement federal law.

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