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Monday, November 10, 2025

Leader Thune Announces End to Government Shutdown: ‘The deal is coming together’

A deal that would reopen government through January 30 next year. Fox News: There are now enough Senate Democrats willing to back a revamped plan to reopen the government. A source familiar with the newly-unveiled plan told Fox News Digital that there are enough Senate Democrats ready to join Republicans for a key vote Sunday night as Congress readies to reopen the government. The latest development comes after an updated continuing resolution was revealed that would reopen the government until Jan. 30, 2026, reverse firings of furloughed workers carried out by the Trump administration and ensure that furloughed workers get back pay (Fox News). Wall Street Journal reports: “The deal is coming together,” Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R., S.D.) said as he headed to the Senate floor to open the chamber for business…. “We’re close to the finish line,” said Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D., Nev.), a centrist who is one of three Democrats who have repeatedly voted to fund the government (Wall Street Journal). The Hill: A group of centrist Democrats led by Sens. Angus King (Maine), an independent who caucuses with Democrats, and Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.). and Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.), negotiated the deal to reopen government Sunday night with Republicans on the Senate Appropriations Committee led by Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) (The Hill). Scott McClellan: The deal is reportedly three bills to fund the government through Jan. 30, a mini funding bill that reverses the reduction-in-force notices, and fund the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program through next September, a PBS reporter posted on X (Townhall).

‘It’s Still the Economy, Stupid’

That’s the title of the latest from Josh Hammer. The GOP is sorting through the lessons from last week’s election. Hammer: If the GOP wants to regain the public’s trust, it must present a compelling vision of what a sound conservative economic stewardship entails in the 21st century. That redefinition begins with a renewed focus on work, dignity and resilience. The Republican Party must build an economic narrative that centers on taming inflation, boosting wages, rebuilding America’s industrial base, and greater health care security for the paycheck-to-paycheck class…. Our searing cultural battles will continue — and they matter, greatly in fact. But when a family can’t afford its groceries or gas, such debates tend to fade into the background. Republicans must rebuild trust with voters on the most fundamental issue in American politics — the promise of economic opportunity and security…. If they [the GOP] don’t present a compelling economic vision and execute that vision capably and efficiently, there likely will be even greater electoral damage next fall. That could all but doom the remainder of the Trump presidency. And what a disappointment that would be (Hot Air).

Second Circuit Issues Trump a Stunning Ruling in Hush Money Case

The president’s attorneys have long been arguing that the New York court is not the venue for the case from Manhattan D.A. Alvin Bragg. Jonathan Turley: The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit just delivered a significant victory for President Donald Trump and his team by vacating the decision of U.S. District Court Judge Alvin Hellerstein, an Obama appointee, and ordering him to reconsider the motion to remove the case from New York to federal court…. For years, Trump has argued that the criminal hush money case brought by Manhattan D.A. Alvin Bragg in New York state court should have been transferred to federal court due to his claims of presidential privilege and immunity. In May 2024, Trump was convicted of 34 felony counts for falsifying business records, a case before Judge Juan Merchan that I strongly criticized as legally flawed and improperly tried…. I am particularly pleased to see that two Obama appointees and a Biden appointee rendered this decision. In sharp contrast to the highly biased role some state judges have played over the years, the ruling reaffirms the independence and integrity of the courts. The usual attacks on the court will be muted in light of its composition. It cannot be said that these were just robotic or reactionary jurists. This was manifestly the correct decision (Turley).

Trump Administration Further Bolstering Naval Assets Caribbean

Clearly, the targeting of narco-terrorists will continue. But does the administration have more in their sites? Center Square: Last month, it was announced that the newest and largest U.S. Navy Aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald Ford, and its strike group would be transiting to the SOUTHCOM area of responsibility in the Caribbean. Ahead of the Ford’s arrival, several naval ships are already in the region, including the USS Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group, according to the U.S. Naval Institute—the Iwo Jima, a Wasp-class amphibious ship, among the larger classes of ships in the Navy. The Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group deployed in August, carrying over 4,500 sailors and Marines, according to the Department of War. The group includes the Iwo Jima, USS Fort Lauderdale, USS San Antonio, and the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit…. The buildup of navy ships in the region points to the administration’s commitment to prioritizing targeting narco-terrorists. Still, it could also signal the U.S. focusing on potential adversarial threats in Latin America (Center Square). Ward Clark: This is putting a lot of steel between the drug smugglers and the United States. But there may be another motivation for this move. Russia and China have been making some moves in the region as well, with Russia aligning itself with Venezuela, from whence a lot of these illegal drugs flow. My friend and colleague streiff brought us that news earlier in November: The Secretary of War notes that the War Department is watching “near peer adversaries” in the area. The United States only has two near-peer adversaries: China and Russia (Red State).

Reform Rabbi Sounds Alarm on Mamdani: ‘He believes that Israel has no right to exist’

The rabbi is Ammiel Hirsch—a leader in Reformed (liberal) Judaism. He was part of an interview with Mamdani after the nomination and before the election. His bluntness is particularly notable, given that Hirsch is a man of the left himself: He believes that Israel has no right to exist at all as a Jewish state in any territory. This, of course, is the position of Israel’s most implacable foes. It is the ideology of Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran and their supporters in the West. The reason this talented politician with such impressive verbal skills has been unable to convincingly explain away his support for the refrains, “globalize the Intifada,” “free Palestine,” “from the river to the Sea,” is that these slogans represent his core beliefs. He doesn’t hide it. To the contrary, he’s proud of it. “The struggle for the Palestinian liberation was at the core of my politics and continues to be.” he proclaimed in a 2023 keynote speech to the Democratic Socialists of America. None of this is about coexistence. What most of those who shout. “Globalize, the Intifada” mean is October 7th. For most of them, “free Palestine” means October 7th. “From the river to the sea,” means October 7th. Anti-Zionism is an illiberal philosophy at its very core, and it offends me both as a liberal and as a Jew (Hirsch).

Peggy Noonan: Take Mamdani ‘both literally and seriously’

Noonan—a New Yorker for the greater portion of her life—sees what, we hope, many are coming to grips with: Mamdani is not like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. He’s a figure to reckon with. Noonan: He’s as serious as a heart attack. He told us in his victory speech. This is a man who six months ago was unknown to the vast majority of New Yorkers and 10 months ago was polling at 1%. Was he humbled by New York’s open-minded, open-hearted embrace? Not in the least. He delivered a declaration of dominance: “To get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us.” Billionaires “can play by the same rules as the rest of us.” “We have toppled a political dynasty.” “We will put an end to the culture of corruption.” “We will prove that there is no problem too large for government to solve, and no concern too small for it to care about.” He declared a “new age.” … He made Barack Obama look modest and self-effacing (Wall Street Journal).

Head of BBC Resigns Over Misleading Documentary Edit of Trump

Tim Davie, BBC’s director general, is stepping aside. The government-funded broadcaster edited Trump’s speech to make it sound like he was advocating for an attack on the Capitol. Melanie Phillips: An explosive memo surfaced last week in the Telegraph. The memo was written by Michael Prescott, who until June 2025 was an independent adviser to the BBC’s Editorial Guidelines and Standards Committee (EGSC). He was utterly appalled at the nature and scale of the BBC’s biased, misleading and untruthful reporting that had been reported to the standards committee but had been brushed aside by BBC executives. The flagship TV current affairs programme Panorama, he said, had spliced together two clips from separate parts of Trump’s speech on January 6 to make it appear falsely that he had exhorted his supporters to go down and fight on Capitol Hill. Panorama reported his comments thus: “We’re gonna walk down to the Capitol and I’ll be with you and we fight. We fight like hell and if you don’t fight like hell, you’re not gonna have a country anymore.” What Trump actually said was: “We are gonna walk down to the Capitol and I’ll be with you. I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.” “We fight like hell” came 54 minutes later (Phillips).

BBC Has Specialized in Bias

The doctoring of the Trump speech will be seen as the straw that broke the camel’s back. Another leading exhibit on the dangerously deceptive reporting comes from Israel’s war in Gaza. Patrick Sawer: The BBC has been forced to correct two stories a week about the Gaza conflict since the Oct 7 attacks on Israel, The Telegraph can reveal. BBC Arabic has had to make 215 corrections and clarifications over the past two years on stories that were found to be biased, inaccurate or misleading. The figures follow a week of revelations by The Telegraph of one-sided reporting at the BBC, disclosed in an 8,000-word dossier compiled by a whistleblower, which also accused BBC Arabic of choosing to “minimise Israeli suffering” in the war in Gaza to “paint Israel as the aggressor”…. The media bias campaign group Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting and Analysis (Camera) obtained the corrections after more than 100 of its complaints over BBC Arabic’s coverage were upheld. They work out as an average of two stories a week. A whistleblower’s 8,000-word dossier accused BBC Arabic of ‘painting Israel as the aggressor’ since the Oct 7 attacks One of its complaints involved a BBC Arabic report in January this year about the treatment of hostages by the Al-Qassam Brigade, in which the Hamas unit was described as “guarding” the hostages and being “responsible for securing the hostages”, rather than holding them captive (Telegraph).

Transgender, Non-Binary Numbers in Freefall

Is it the beginning of the end of what has clearly been a social contagion? Eric Kaufman sums up recent findings: The data were unequivocal: the share of students identifying as a gender other than male or female—that is, as non-binary—peaked in 2023 and has halved in the two years since. This is a stunning reversal in the culture that will reverberate through society and politics in the coming years…. since the 2010s, the rise of trans and queer identity has been umbilically connected to a progressive story of the inevitable progress of marginalized groups remaking the mainstream. Cultural reversals profane the progressive left’s eschatological “arc of history overcoming resistance” narrative. A movement based on millenarian inevitability cannot accept a loss in the court of public opinion without undermining the sacred narrative. Youth gender identity, alongside public opinion toward natal males accessing female spaces, have both moved against the progressive narrative in recent years. This has opened up a cleft between an insurgent anti-woke center-left and the establishment woke left that continues to roil the Democratic Party. (Skeptic).

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The Fallacy of ‘No enemies to the right’

Wise words from Ed Morrissey of Hot Air to Heritage: The value of the Heritage Foundation is that it provides us with rich resources with which to defend and promote ordered liberty in the American sense, in which the true constitutional order constrains government in both law and subsidiarity through federalism in order to promote the flourishing of a free people. Those who sympathize with — or worse, promote — the ideals of Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin are the opponents of liberty and federalism, no less so than those who sympathize with and promote the systems of China, Iran, and Russia today. Not only should we criticize those on the Left who espouse those positions, we should even more passionately oppose those who do so while claiming to be on the Right. That is the purpose of our intellectual institutions — to stand for principle rather than to shrink from debates (Hot Air).

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