MISTER, WE COULD USE A MAN LIKE SNAKE PLISSKEN AGAIN: Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff says he wants Trump to send National Guard to San Francisco; mayor’s office responds.

It’s looking grim on the Streets of San Francisco:

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Related:

U.S. cities are among the most violent in the world.

All top 20 highest-homicide cities are Democrat-run.

The top 20 violent cities (all Democrat-run) represent just 20% of top-100 population but 81% of estimated homicides in these cities.

This is a Democrat-caused CRISIS. https://t.co/QGOlQJPjyK pic.twitter.com/jIxP0kUdHh

— Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) October 14, 2025

ED MORRISSEY: Time Mag: Guess Which Term Was Missing From Trump’s ‘Peace 2025’ Speech?

To even discuss statehood, Trump made clear, the Palestinians will have to earn it — at the most basic level, by respecting the established states in their own region. That means recognizing Israel as a permanent Jewish state, with inviolable borders. It also means respecting the conventions of statehood, specifically the Geneva Convention, while addressing grievances of any nature. In this case, it also will likely require that the Palestinians in both the West Bank and Gaza restructure their public sectors for accountability rather than for graft, systems that put an end to terrorism against Israel as a fallback mechanism for corruptocrats attempting to avoid said accountability.

“We’ll have to see” puts the onus for statehood where it belongs — on the people of Gaza and the West Bank. When they make the choice to act like respectable states, only then should the world consider recognition of a Palestinian state. They are not owed that recognition, especially on the basis of their conduct over the three decades since Oslo. This two-year war was only the latest in a series of intifadas and worse from both territories, and this time the US finally stopped attempting to freeze the cancer instead of excising it.

In other words, the Palestinians will have to overcome the mentality of murdering rock concert attendees, and kidnappers who should – and do – know better:

Former Israeli hostage Tal Shoham says he was held captive by a first grade teacher, a University lecturer, and a doctor in Gaza.

He describes how he was intentionally starved despite there being plenty of food for his captors, who bragged about stealing aid. pic.twitter.com/UPShT1lO0t

— AG (@AGHamilton29) October 14, 2025

Ed adds, “Back to Time Magazine, however, which featured a weird image of Trump on its cover. Trump complained about it on Truth Social:”

Is this a legit gripe? Take a look and decide for yourselves. You may need to click through to see the whole image:

The living Israeli hostages held in Gaza have been freed under the first phase of Donald Trump's peace plan, alongside a Palestinian prisoner release. The deal may become a signature achievement of Trump's second term, and it could mark a strategic turning point for the Middle… pic.twitter.com/0bZDABIDGj

— TIME (@TIME) October 13, 2025

Ed believes that “Except for the hair, it’s actually a great shot. It’s a ‘hero’ pose, one that captures or suggests determination, will, and strength. Given the usual manner in which Protection Racket Media outlets choose images of Trump, it’s a significant improvement, especially with the bold headline, HIS TRIUMPH below it.”

I’m not sure about that – ever since Time founder Henry Luce passed away in 1967, Time magazine covers almost always make it obvious whether the magazine’s editors think their cover subject is a good guy or a bad guy.* And since 2016, it’s been obvious what Time’s editors think of Trump. At a minimum, they know how vain Trump is, and how the emphasis on his sagging chin would make him furious.

* QED: “The first time Mr Trump was named Time’s person of the year in 2016, he was pictured alongside the caption: ‘President of the divided states of America’. Some suggested the placement of the M in the title, positioned behind his head, has been intended to mimic devil horns.”

CRAZY BERNIE: Bernie Sanders Celebrates Release of Palestinian Murderers, Rapists, and Terrorists.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) welcomed Israel’s release of some 2,000 Palestinian murderers, rapists, and terrorists, adding that Monday’s exchange of Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners presents an opportunity for the United States to end its military alliance with the Jewish state.

Sanders, who spent the past two years pressuring Israel to accept a ceasefire deal, said he is encouraged by “the long-overdue release” of Israel’s 20 living hostages alongside “the freeing of almost 2,000 Palestinians held in Israeli prisons.”

Sanders failed to mention that this group includes “hundreds of terror convicts serving life terms,” according to the Times of Israel. One Gaza resident Israel released as part of the deal “raped and murdered a 13-year-old boy,” while dozens of others are “responsible for a series of suicide bombings and other attacks.” Another Palestinian set free on Monday was in jail for lynching two Jews.

In February of 2020, “Bernie Sanders says Trump’s pardons are part of a ‘broken and racist’ system,” and likely has even stronger views about Trump’s pardoning of the January 6th political prisoners. But when it comes to the release of Palestinian terrorists, Joe’s perfectly happy to let the Bolshevism hit the fan.

“I HAVE SOME PRETTY GOOD NEWS ABOUT WHAT’S HAPPENED WITH YOUR STOCKS OVER THE PAST TWO YEARS:”

Absolute perfection. Avinatan Or’s boss at @nvidia writes to him, read till the end:

“Avinatan Or, I hope you have a good excuse for not showing up to work at NVIDIA for 738 days.

But every Sunday morning for two years, the head of NVIDIA Israel’s HR, Gideon Rosenberg, sent an… pic.twitter.com/e0UEqp6ohP

— Yael Bar tur 🤞 (@yaelbt) October 13, 2025

Related: “Avinatan has come home:” Jensen Huang hails release of Nvidia engineer after two years in Hamas captivity.

BOTTOM STORY OF THE DAY: John Oliver Slams Bari Weiss’ Takeover of CBS News: She’s ‘Spent Years Putting Out Work’ That ‘Is at Best Irresponsible and at Worst Deeply Misleading.’

“She’s been given editorial control of a massive news organization even though she’s never run a TV network, has no experience directing television coverage and, as one ’60 Minutes’ producer pointed out, is not even a reporter,” Oliver said. “That is true. She didn’t come up through the news side of a newspaper but through the opinion pages, which are a very different thing.”

Oliver then dissected her publication, the Free Press, which he said enforces a “pronounced theme” that “the left has gone too far.”

“Basically whatever issue you feel that is true for — Israel, campus politics, DEI or police reform — you’ll find articles there to reinforce your opinion,” he said. “And look, I’m not saying the left never goes too far or that it’s immune from criticism at all. But it can sometimes feel like the Free Press’ conclusions can get out ahead of its evidence, which brings us to the fact that some of its pieces can be pretty poorly fact-checked, and in ways that feel important.”

Though Oliver said that “there are many opinion-heavy outlets out there” — of which “Last Week Tonight” is one — he acknowledged that his show is “not the news.”

“I wouldn’t want anyone who led a pure opinion outlet, not even one that I happened to agree with, to suddenly be running CBS News,” he said. “But it is especially alarming to have someone doing it who has spent years putting out work that, in my opinion, is at best irresponsible and at worst deeply misleading.”

Actually, it should be a perfect fit in one sense — CBS has been “a pure opinion outlet” for over a decade longer than Oliver has been alive.

Exit question:

Why can’t liberals admit that they just don’t want people with opposing political opinions to control news organizations? It’s an understandable reaction (I would be saddened if George Soros bought Fox News). But liberals have to dress up their desire for control in noble…

— Bluesky Libs (@BlueskyLibs) October 13, 2025

ZOOLOGY MANIFEST:

What's the charge? Eating a seal? A succulent harbor seal? https://t.co/xpab25D9iV

— jimtreacher.substack.com (@jtLOL) October 13, 2025

Classical reference in Treacher’s tweet:

Mr. Democracy Manifest, the Australian man whose 1991 arrest went viral around the world, has died. Jack Karlson was 82 pic.twitter.com/JCpdAqcQmT

— BNO News (@BNONews) August 7, 2024

IF YOU STRIKE ME DOWN, I SHALL BECOME MORE POWERFUL THAN YOU CAN POSSIBLY IMAGINE:Megyn Kelly to Lead Her Own SiriusXM Channel in New Multi-Year Deal.

Megyn Kelly led one show at a time on the schedule of Fox News Channel and, subsequently, NBC. Soon, she’s going to spearhead many at SiriusXM.

The popular talk host, who has created a new content empire under her own Devil May Care Media production company, will lead her own SiriusXM channel starting November 4. Her “Megyn Kelly Channel” will transmit on Sirius’ channel 111, formerly the home of “Triumph,” a channel that featured Kelly along with shows from Glenn Beck, Nancy Grace and Dr. Laura Schelssinger, among others. Some of those programs will move to Sirius’ channel 123.

The new channel will continue to air Kelly’s “The Megyn Kelly Show,” which is heard first on SiriusXM before becoming available in podcast form, and will also feature new programming, including the debut of an exclusive daily after-show program. Additional series, shows, and specials are expected to be announced in coming weeks.

“Linear television news is dead. People can’t stand those stilted, censored conversations anymore, which is exactly why this medium is thriving. I’m thrilled to deliver our bold brand of no-B.S. news live on SiriusXM and to be expanding my relationship with such a stellar, blue-chip brand and great partner,” said Kelly, in a prepared statement. “Soon our listeners will have the Megyn Kelly Channel to enjoy and trust for the conversations and content they love.”

As Kelly mentioned last week in an interview with Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, the owner of the L.A. Times, the rushed format of television news meant that she had to prep for a couple of hours for a segment, but the person she interviewed was reduced to largely generating soundbites to fill the limited time available between commercials. Satellite radio allows for much more in-depth conversations:

Classical allusion in headline: Megyn Kelly is being fired because she shone too much light on NBC’s #MeToo problem. “Kelly has made it clear that she will not welcome back abusers. When asked about Matt Lauer, NBC’s lovely, $20 million anchor who had a door lock on his desk to more easily prey on female subordinates, Kelly minced as few words as she could without condemning her employers for their complicity in Lauer’s persistent harassment.”

PRESIDENT BARTLET HAS THOUGHTS ON PRESIDENT TRUMP: Martin Sheen’s blistering anti-Trump speech is branded ‘self-important’ and ‘cringe’ by furious fans.

Martin Sheen didn’t hold back while slamming the Trump administration during a fiery interview with MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace on Monday.

While filming a live-taping of The Best People podcast, the three-time Emmy winner, 85, criticized the president’s inner circle for lacking integrity and failing to meet the public’s ‘great hunger’ for truth.

‘It’s a mighty battle going on. It’s not about winning or losing. It’s about being in touch with your own personal humanity because there’s such a lack of it coming from this administration,’ Sheen said.

The West Wing star, known for portraying a fictional U.S. president, went on to describe the atmosphere he believes surrounds Trump’s cabinet.

‘I’m convinced of this — that when you look at this group of people at the round table in the White House, the cabinet room, every one of those people look across the table and they do not see anyone who is better than they are,’ he said.

He continued: ‘They generally see a reflection of their [worst] selves. There’s no heroes in there. There’s no music. There’s no laughter. There’s no self-effacement. There’s no joy in that room. It smells of ego and fear and false worship.’

Exit quote: “Sheen went on to advise Trump start speaking from his ‘heart and start being human.’”

Beyond the extraordinarily bad timing of Sheen’s meltdown on this of all days, it’s a reminder that the veteran actor has no problem with a president’s inner circle displaying a complete lack of humanity – as long as that president has a (D) after his name:

Flashback: Magical Sorkinism:

Among the worst disasters for progressivism in recent decades has been the work of Aaron Sorkin, whose impossibly articulate ratatat dialogue made it way too easy to imagine sexy technocrats saving the world. It’s great entertainment, but normalized unreasonable expectations of the flawed human beings who happen to have high IQs and impeccable credentials.

As a child of the New Left, I never missed The West Wing: it was irresistible catnip for my adolescent hopes and dreams, and so much more satisfying than whatever was on the news—except for the eloquent public intellectuals on the Bill Moyers show on PBS. Later, as an idealistic policy major at Brown, I was surprised and disappointed to find basically nobody operating on that level.

It was only when I’d lucked into joining the Moyers organization that I began to understand how such Sorkinesque eloquence was manufactured each week—not with deliberate dishonesty, but ever more misleading as years passed and the scene grew shallower.

Or as Megan McArdle reminded leftists at the Daily Beast over a decade ago: Memo: The Aaron Sorkin Model of Political Discourse Doesn’t Actually Work.

DISPATCHES FROM ABC NEWS: Majority of The View’s Cast Refuse to Credit Trump for Ceasefire.

Up next was Sunny Hostin, a very staunch hater of the Jewish state of Israel and staunch supporter of their opponents. Despite being very outspoken and spending two years calling on Israel to accept Hamas’s ceasefires, Hostin didn’t have much to say now; only four sentences:

I think we’ve said it all. It’s just, as a faithful person, it has been my daily prayer that there be peace there. And I remain a faithful person that this truly is the dawn of peace in the Middle East. I truly hope that this is what — this will be a lasting, lasting peace there.

Sunny Hostin, who has been very outspoke in support of Hamas in the conflict, is wearing black and doesn't say much.
Whoopi Goldberg ignores the fact that the Palestinians elected Hamas to lead their enclave. "[R]emember the Palestinians are separate from Hamas," she falsely… pic.twitter.com/xj2yylvisw

— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) October 13, 2025

Before quickly pivoting to spending the rest of the pre-commercial break time on remembering actress Diane Keaton, Goldberg chimed in with misinformation trying to distance the Palestinian people from the terrorist government they knowingly elected to control them. “And also it’s good to be able to say to people, remember the Palestinians are separate from Hamas. Remember they were not able to vote. They could not do anything. They had no rights in their country,” she argued.

I look forward to Alyssa Farah Griffin not keeping her word on this promise:

Alyssa Farah on The View last January:

"If he gets the Israeli hostages out, I promise I will wear a MAGA hat for one day on this show."pic.twitter.com/qdr4oBy7y0

— Greg Price (@greg_price11) October 13, 2025

CHRISTIAN TOTO: Why RiyadhGate Spells Bigger Problem for Trump-Era Comics.

This isn’t Cancel Culture redux. It’s the Strange New Respect comedians are receiving across the cultural landscape. And it comes with serious strings attached.

Just ask Bill Burr, one of many comics hounded by fans and fellow stand-ups for performing at the recent Riyadh Comedy Festival in Saudi Arabia. The hard-charging Burr is part of a rebellious stand-up class, the truth tellers who thumb their noses at the woke mob … and thrive.

Why would he cash in on a gig funded by a suffocating regime?

Fellow participants, including Aziz Ansari, have faced similar heat. The host of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” pressed Ansari on his inclusion in the festival.

Burr remains defiant about his critics, calling them “sanctimonious c****.” Jessica Kirson, an openly lesbian performer, took a different approach. She belatedly returned the money she made from participating in the event.

Saudi Arabia’s record on gay rights is less than stellar.

Others who took the money and yukked it up? Dave Chappelle, Andrew Schulz, Jo Koy, Mark Normand, Louis C.K., Kevin Hart, Whitney Cummings, Jim Jefferies, Sebastian Maniscalco, Tom Segura and Jeff Ross.

Marc Maron, who seems to always find fault with fellow comics, and David Cross skewered their peers for performing at the festival. Suddenly, picking up a fat paycheck isn’t as simple as it once was.

What’s a comic to do? More importantly, why are we suddenly holding comedians to a higher standard?

Read the whole thing.

THIS IS CNN: Watch: CNN’s Christiane Amanpour Says Starved and Tortured Israeli Hostages Were Treated ‘Better Than the Average Gazan.’

TO THE WOODS-SHED:

Donald Trump is at this very moment securing world peace, while you, sir, are still trying to get the taste of Harvey Weinstein out of your big mouth.

Sit down and shut up. https://t.co/QPm2zlAxCS

— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) October 13, 2025

WHO SAYS MINIMUM WAGE JOBS CAN’T LEAD TO RAPID CAREER ADVANCEMENT?

Like all she had to do was go to McDonald's and do the fries. Instead she went on the view and it actually ended her campaign.

— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) October 13, 2025

Still hard to believe that last year, Biden was jettisoned by his party because he was too infirm to handle basic retail politics, only to be replaced by a candidate who couldn’t manage them herself.

As I wrote in November, the media were furious in October of 2024 that Trump was doing Retail Politics 101, because it simultaneously undermined all of their efforts to portray him as Orange Hitler, and because it demonstrated that Kamala couldn’t or wouldn’t do these sorts of basic campaign stunts. Biden never thought he’d get called on his plagiarism by the media in the 1980s, and curiously, in the 21st century, Kamala never thought anyone would call her on inventing a job at McDonald’s to grab some populist street cred, as the Washington Free Beacon did in August of 2024. Even so, it’s a safe bet that numerous local Mickey D owners, particularly in California, would have been thrilled to have her spend an hour or two posing at making fries. That she couldn’t be bothered to do so speaks volumes about her overall failure as a presidential candidate.

AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD ONCE AGAIN DOING STRAIGHT-UP REPORTAGE:

People Who Have Been Calling For A Ceasefire For Two Years Denounce Ceasefire https://t.co/UqtfP2zdQ0 pic.twitter.com/2uwD8Pp2VO

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) October 13, 2025

QUESTIONS ASKED: Can the Gaza peace plan hold and what’s next for the Middle East?

The ceasefire and the release of hostages and prisoners are pivotal steps in the first stage of an ambitious peace proposal Mr Trump put forward late last month.

The halt in fighting and the releases have been met with widespread relief on both sides.

But whether this becomes a permanent truce will depend on progress on the rest of the US president’s peace plan, which requires Israeli troops to withdraw, and for Gaza to become a “de-radicalised terror-free zone that does not pose a threat to its neighbours”.

Aid has already started flowing into the territory, which will be rebuilt and be governed by a temporary “technocratic, apolitical Palestinian committee” supervised by an international committee. Hamas will not play a role.

Only the very earliest parts of this are already happening.

Ahead of the release of the hostages, Israeli troops have already withdrawn to an agreed line that has left them in control of 53 per cent of Gaza.

A multinational force of around 200 troops overseen by the US military will monitor the ceasefire, according to a senior US official. It is believed the force includes troops from Egypt, Qatar, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates.

Jim Geraghty dubs today, “The Greatest Day of Trump’s Second Term So Far,” but concludes, “Think Hamas is going to go gently into that good night? Heck, if Trump can make that happen, give him two Nobel Peace Prizes next year.”

BYRON YORK: Trump triumph is bad news for his adversaries.

If Alvin Bragg, the Democratic district attorney of Manhattan, had his way, Donald Trump would have spent Monday in a New York state correctional facility. Instead, Trump — President Donald Trump — spent the day in the Middle East, first in Israel and then in Egypt, presiding over the peace he negotiated to end the war in Gaza. To say Trump received a hero’s welcome in Jerusalem would be an understatement.

Trump’s successes make for bad days for his most zealous opponents. And Monday in the Middle East was one of Trump’s greatest successes, perhaps his greatest so far — and therefore one of the worst days ever for his adversaries.

The triumph in Israel made for a particularly bad day for some in the anti-Trump “Resistance.” How many of them have at some point in the recent past characterized Trump as Adolf Hitler? (The answer is a lot of them, some at the highest levels of establishment journalism.) And yet there was Trump, addressing the Knesset, standing by the Israeli flag, receiving ovation after ovation. Let’s just say it wasn’t a good time for the Trump-is-Hitler people.

Of course, the Resistance will figure out a way around the temporary roadblock of Trump’s current success.

That’s started even before the hostages were released:

pic.twitter.com/fOKbpNOUPK

— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) October 12, 2025

KURT SCHLICHTER: The Well-Deserved, Utter Humiliation of Palestinian Terrorists and Their Friends.

As gruesome as the Hamas degenerates are, it wasn’t just Hamas. The Palestinians elected Hamas, and they still support Hamas. They got what they voted for.

But what they voted for is aesthetically displeasing, at least to some. Their supporters show photographs of the devastation inherent in urban combat, as if this is supposed to be an indictment of Israel. It’s not. If you start a war, you need to be prepared to lose it. The Palestinians should be especially prepared because they always lose. They’ve lost here, completely and decisively, and by agreeing to this peace deal, they’ve accepted total defeat. President Trump and the other participants in the deal must pretend it’s an agreement among equals, but we don’t. Hamas lost and grabbed this lifeline like the craven and cowardly losers they are.

Read the whole thing.

UNBELIEVABLE: Antony Blinken Gives Biden Credit for Gaza Deal, and It Gets Worse From There.

Comparing the terrible ceasefire Blinken and Biden brokered to this one is so disingenuous. That ceasefire was never viable because it left hostages in the hands of Hamas, and it provided no path to disarm and fully defeat the terrorist group, instead demanding Israel essentially surrender. It was the typical warmed-over slop we’ve come to expect from the Obama/Biden axis of foreign policy expertise.

At no point did the Biden administration apply any pressure on the Arab nations to turn against Hamas and end the war. More importantly, they never applied pressure on Iran, which was fueling the conflict in Gaza and propping up Hezbollah in the north as a threat. In short, the entire region was on fire, and it was handed over to Trump in far worse condition than Biden and company found it.

For Blinken to pretend the former administration laid the groundwork and showed the path forward is laughable. But he hadn’t reached peak shamelessness yet. That came later in his thread when he demanded the establishment of a Palestinian state.

To be fair, there’s plenty of blame to share on the left:

The fact that the world did not immediately and consistently call for the unconditional release of the October 7th hostages and the surrender of Hamas will remain a moral and ethical failure of historic proportions.

In that failure, you cost thousands of lives on both sides. You…

— Elliot Steinmetz (@elliotsteinmetz) October 13, 2025

MATT MARGOLIS: Here’s How Trump Forced Hamas to Accept Peace Deal.

LAST LIVING HOSTAGES ALL RELEASED AFTER 738 DAYS IN HAMAS HELL — AS PEACE DEAL TAKES HOLD.

UPDATE: Ed Morrissey: Yes, Hamas Caved. Trump Left Them No Choice. “Trump won this war in June, when he made an unapologetic decision to intervene with military strikes in Iran. Those strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities completely shook up the order in the region, which had settled into an Iranian track toward dominance. Israel had already done most of the damage by wiping out Hezbollah’s upper echelons and their banking system, which led directly to the fall of Bashar al-Assad and the rise of a new Syrian regime that detests the mullahs in Iran. However, the strikes by Trump on Iran forced everyone to reconsider their assumptions and recalculate for a president who had no problem ordering military force to defend and protect American interests.”

MORE:

Today’s Jerusalem Post pic.twitter.com/N6eyjewusX

— Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) October 13, 2025

DEVELOPING: Hamas releases seven Israeli hostages after 738 days in hellish captivity as families who never gave up hope gather to welcome them home — and Trump arrives to oversee peace deal.

Related: “Hostages to be released by Hamas on Monday will need to be taught how to eat normally again after being starved in captivity, medics said. Dr Michal Steinman, the chief nursing officer at Beilinson Hospital, said they would have had little to eat in the two years since Hamas launched its Oct 7 2023 attack, triggering the Israel-Hamas war. ‘We have to be extremely careful because we are wary of overfeeding,’ she said. The hospital is one of four centres in Israel due to receive the 20 hostages believed to still be alive.”

MR. FAFO FOUND OUT? Reported Killed By Fellow Gazans in Tribal Dispute.

UPDATE:

Good luck, New York. https://t.co/qiFhVkHZuh

— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) October 12, 2025

AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD:

Authorities Warn Katie Porter Has Grown To 600 Feet And Is Currently Rampaging Through San Francisco https://t.co/EEK3JIYjEX pic.twitter.com/KrR13bM0sY

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) October 8, 2025

On the upside, this would give the long beleaguered city the fresh start it so desperately needs.

POOR JOE BIDEN IS STRUGGLING TO ADAPT TO PRIVATE LIFE:

Joe Biden’s post-presidency has been rough, to put it mildly.

Nearly nine months after Donald Trump reclaimed the White House, Biden is holed up in Wilmington, Delaware, grappling with a reality that must feel like political exile. He’s dealing not just with the sting of losing power, but also the inability to sell access and enrich his family. Though he won’t admit to the latter.

The irony couldn’t be thicker. After years of attacking Trump and using the Justice Department in a desperate bid to put his successor behind bars, Biden now finds himself being told by his own advisers to stay quiet and act like a traditional ex-president. Most of the time, he does—keeping his mouth shut while Trump hits him with personal jabs and sharp policy criticism.

Give him credit for one thing — despite Joe’s myriad ailments, he’s still occasionally capable of making the right decisions on the important issues:

WATCH: Kamala Harris reveals that Joe Biden doesn't pick up her calls.

Eugene Daniels asking about Biden's cancer treatment: Have you talked to him about it?

Kamala: "Yeah. No. I called him earlier."

Daniels: "How's he doing?"

Kamala: "I have not talked to him. I just left… pic.twitter.com/kZ7tcWDDqw

— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) October 12, 2025

SCOTT JOHNSON: A fool’s house.

I recall the late William F. Buckley, Jr. bragging on his ability to identify liberals. Take him to a party, blindfold him, spin him around, take off the blindfold, and he could unerringly point out the liberals.

It’s not bragging if you can do it. I have no doubt Buckley could do it. “Brag” is the wrong word. “Revealing” or “disclosing” would be more like it.

I thought of Buckley’s revelation when we attended the Guthrie Theater’s production of Ibsen’s A Doll’s House this past Wednesday evening. The Guthrie has staged the version of the play adapted by Amy Kellogg Tracy Brigden is the director. Performed on the Guthrie’s Wurtele Thrust Stage in a space that seats 1,100, the play was nearly sold out. The place was packed.

The star of the play is Amelia Pedlow (Ibsen’s Nora). She is a strikingly beautiful actress. The production was professional, but something is wrong when the audience laughs at Nora’s climactic declaration of independence, as it did Wednesday night. I think the audience was obtuse.

We got off on the wrong foot with the Guthrie’s recorded land acknowledgment. The recorded land acknowledgment is read by someone with the sonorous voice of a public radio announcer: “The Guthrie Theater would like to acknowledge that we gather on the traditional land of the Dakota People and honor with gratitude the land itself and the people who who have stewarded it through the generations, including the Ojibwe and other indigenous nations.”

Exit quote: “I wanted to shout out ‘It’s not too late to give it back’ in response to the land acknowledgment.”