If That Laptop Had Belonged to Don Jr …

Anne Applebaum made me laugh last month. The leftist columnist from the Washington Post was speaking at an event at the University of Chicago entitled — you can’t make this up — “Disinformation and the Erosion of Democracy,” when she was reminded of comments she had made in 2020 about Hunter Biden’s infamous laptop.

More Popular than CNN+

Instead of the first name in news, CNN is becoming the first name in bad news about itself. In the first week of the year, the network founded by extreme leftist billionaire Ted Turner attracted just 19% of the viewers it had the first week of 2021.

Bits & Pieces

You could put your kid through Harvard — all four years, tuition, fees, books, and board — with your share of the federal debt in 10 years under President Joe Biden’s budget proposal, according to an analysis by Terence Jeffrey, editor-in-chief of CNSNews.

Musk’s Twitter Bid Put Scare Into Leftist Media

E vents are moving so quickly in the Elon Musk/Twitter saga that there’s no telling where things will stand by the team you read this. But however it ends, let us never forget how this began. Musk, CEO of Tesla and a variety of other firms, had offered $43 billion — $54.72 per share — to buy all stock in Twitter and take it private.

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The Voices of Anti-Americanism

Trevor Noah definitely not being racially polarizing in his reaction to Senate Republicans walking out after Ketanji Brown Jackson was confirmed to the Supreme Court: “Those Republicans ran out of the room like someone was handing out free N-word passes in the lobby, “‘Oh boy, oh boy, I always wanted to say that word, oh boy, in public.’”

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