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We were going to take up the transcendent matters appropriate for the climax of Advent for this back-on-schedule Saturday morning podcast, but the headlines won’t let us! The dam started breaking this week about Joe Biden’s unfitness for office, which, as the Wall Street Journal reported, began during the 2020 campaign. Just who has been president for the last four years? And aside from the perfidy of the complacent and compliant (to Democrats) news media, should there be a serious congressional investigation into what is clearly one of the greatest coverups in American history. Biden’s senior staff and cabinet should have to answer uncomfortable questions about this, and perhaps face charges for decisions and actions they may not have had legal authority to make.

We also review the drama of the last 72 hours over the Continuing Resolution to avoid a “government shutdown,” which I argued was a minor victory for conservatives, but needs to be followed up with more serious steps in the new Congress. (Also noting that Elon Musk is the new Emanuel Goldstein for the left in our time.)

From there, we note the important of Fani Willis getting her fanny handed to her (with good thoughts from John over at Fox News), and then take up briefly some listener reaction to our mid-week show, especially Hadley Arkes’s long note about what we missed about the Commerce Clause and the nearly forgotten case of Hammer v. Dagenhart. We ran out of time for a complete consideration, so next week!

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Meanwhile, I sat in for James Lileks as the host of this week’s Ricochet podcast yesterday, in which Charles C.W. Cooke and the noted seminarian Rob Long did in fact offer some pious Advent reflections, before tacking some of the same news headlines.