President Joe Biden said Thursday that 74 U.S. citizens with dual citizenship have left the Gaza Strip, announcing the development as he dispatched his top diplomat to the Middle East for consultation with Israeli and Jordanian leaders concerning the Israel-Hamas war.

Republican senators announced legislation to double the potential prison sentence for anyone caught leaking sensitive taxpayer information, saying the current law is woefully weak.

Democratic leaders in Washington, D.C., are already losing their resolve to support Israel in its war against a terrorist organization that slaughtered Israeli civilians and uses Palestinians as human shields. Somehow, Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) is the only prominent Democrat with a spine and a moral conscience on the issue.

There is no good, substantive reason for the Senate to insist on bundling aid to Israel with aid to Ukraine and with Mexican border security. Then again, there is no excuse for House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) to avoid giving Ukrainian aid a prompt, fair vote on the House floor.

For some reason, known only to the wokest of the woke and the absurdly radical of radicals, it’s been decided that bird names are inherently racist and must be changed. Apparently, some of these names are triggering and a form of a microaggression that offends people who aren’t white. That’s the gist of an article published by NPR, which detailed why the American Ornithological Society will change the names of bird species.

All politicians have bad ideas. Former President Donald Trump's bad ideas take on a particular character — they lack a conservative disposition in key respects. His proposal for a federally funded, "anti-woke," free university is rooted in all of these typical Trumpian errors: over-centralization, lack of prudence about the future, and a simplistic concept of both government finance and education.