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The carbon tax is back, sort of. A possibility has emerged that the tax will be folded into the budget reconciliation bill. It’s almost certainly a political feint rather than a serious proposal, and we don’t know very much about what sort of carbon tax is under discussion. But political feints have been known to become law—the entire field of sex-based discrimination law is based on one.

Two recent opinion polls indicate that the American public is souring on the Supreme Court. Gallup’s long-running survey on the high court found that public approval of its actions had plunged to 40 percent, the lowest recorded level since it began asking the question in 2000. A separate Marquette University poll also found that 50 percent of Americans strongly or somewhat disapprove of the court’s rulings.

In a crowded field, the months-long “audit” of the presidential votes in Arizona’s largest county may be the dumbest political story of 2021. The extent to which the word audit applies to the zany shenanigans that Arizona has endured this year is a matter of debate. A better term might be a transparent sham, undertaken by bad-faith actors promulgating easily disprovable lies about the legitimacy of the presidential election. The firm conducting the audit was literally named “Cyber Ninjas”—a detail... Читать дальше...

Joe Biden’s rhetoric has reached an inflection point. In recent weeks, the president has been discovering “inflection points” everywhere. And that’s no malarkey. Here is a sampling from just the last two weeks:

In the iconic two-part Star Trek: Voyager episode “Year of Hell,” the fearless crew of the Voyager faces a time ship which is able to erase certain events from history, resulting in an alternate timeline where a foe that was easily dismissed is suddenly an unstoppable force.