Welcome back! We've been experiencing some unseasonably cool temperatures recently in South Florida. I have to say that living here has totally spoiled me, weather-wise—I even used my car's seat warmer with the temperature in the low-mid 60s. Alas, on to the news of the day...

This week, my column broke down the recent and still-emerging scandal pertaining to President Joe Biden's own illicit retention of classified documents stemming from his time as vice president. For me, there are three main takeaways here. First, the fact this has now happened will make it near-impossible for Attorney General Merrick Garland to indict President Donald Trump over his own classified document retention troubles (N.B. I continue to believe Garland will (frivolously) indict Trump on January 6-related grounds). Second, the constitutional distinction between these two classified document retention sagas makes all the difference in the world: President Trump was president and thus had the "executive power" to make any classification decisions he wanted for any reason whatsoever, at any time whatsoever; Biden, as vice president, had no such power. Third, the fact that the discovery of these documents was covered up before the midterms and is only now being unveiled (in painfully slow, "drip-drip" fashion) indicates that forces deep in the bowels of the federal law enforcement apparatus may now see an opportune moment to ditch the doddering dolt from Delaware in advance of 2024. "Cui bono?" we ought to be asking—and it seems the most logical answer is folks like California Governor Gavin Newsom.

In this week's podcast, I was joined by Erick Erickson, the veteran conservative radio host and long-time popular commentator. Erick offered his thoughts on the recent U.S. House speaker fight, in which he was a vociferous foe of Rep. Kevin McCarthy's (R-CA) smooth ascension to the speakership. We then discussed the always-fun topic of 2024 GOP presidential politics, as well as the influence the populist-inclined "New Right" has had in changing the conversation on the political Right. We even touched on Erick's upbringing in Dubai (which I recently visited for the first time). You can listen on Apple, Spotify or here.

In terms of media appearances over the past week, here was my hit last Wednesday on FOX Business's "Mornings with Maria," in case you missed it: We talked House GOP, Big Tech, and Hunter Biden. Last Friday, I was a panelist on my friend Dave Rubin's "Rubin Report" week-in-review roundtable, where we broke down the issues of the week. And here is the most recent episode of the "NatCon Squad" podcast, a product of the Edmund Burke Foundation, and for which I serve as one of the four weekly co-hosts.

Our highlighted right-leaning Newsweek op-eds this week: Alan Dershowitz on President Biden's own classified document retention scandal and how it will assist President Trump's own legal woes; Caroline Glick on the prospects for expanding the Abraham Accords peace to encompass Israeli-Saudi peace; Marjorie Dannenfelser on the need for the U.S. Postal Service and other couriers to stop shipping dangerous abortifacients; Adam Brandon with a postmortem on the recent high-profile House speaker fight; and Nicole Russell with a look at how far off the deep end the modern Democratic Party has gone in desecrating the right to life.

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