9/18/2025

Karl's Latest In

'They' Didn't Kill Charlie Kirk [[link removed]] September 18, 2025

It has been a sad, sickening week for America.

Our country witnessed a terrible event. A young man was gunned down doing what he loved—debating all comers on a college campus on behalf of his passionately held beliefs.

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Karl's Upcoming TV Appearances The Story with Martha MacCallum FOX NEWS CHANNEL Monday, September 22, 2025 | 3:00PM ET America's Newsroom Fox News Channel Tuesday, September 23, 2025 | 9:00 AM ET Kilmeade & Friends Fox News Radio Wednesday, September 24, 2025 | 11:00AM ET America's Newsroom Fox News Channel Thursday, September 25, 2025 | 9:00AM ET The Journal Editorial Report Fox News Channel Saturday, September 27, 2025 | 3:30PM ET

Polling News & Notes

Republican Voter Registration Gains [[link removed]] September 18, 2025

Republicans must grapple with some messaging nuances around entitlement reform and the economy before the Midterms, but NBC News highlighted some good news for the GOP.

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On The Air

Kamala Harris Reveals Why She Didn't Choose Her 'First Choice' for VP [[link removed]] September 18, 2025

Fox News contributor Karl Rove joined 'America's Newsroom' to discuss the major revelations about why Kamala Harris didn't pick her 'first choice' as her VP running mate and Democrats' push for support on college campuses.

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This Week's Recommended Readings

Exodus: Affordability Crisis Sends Americans Packing From Big Cities [[link removed]] September 9, 2025 Joel Kotkin & Wendell Cox | Real Clear Investigations

For much of the past century, in both the United States and elsewhere, the inexorable trend has been for people to move from rural areas and towns to ever larger cities, particularly those with vibrant downtown cores such as New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Seattle, and dozens of other iconic American cities.

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State Capitalism with MAGA Characteristics [[link removed]] September 4, 2025 Veronique de Rugy | Civitas Institue

It is astonishing that in 2025, decades after socialism’s intellectual and practical collapse, America finds itself debating whether Washington should own a piece of Intel.

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AI’s Greatest Trick May Be in the Lab, Not the Office [[link removed]] September 18, 2025 James Pethokoukis | AEIdeas

For all the obsessive nattering and nail-biting about artificial intelligence replacing lawyers, call-center workers, or copywriters—even policy analysts!—the bigger possible impact should be welcomed by all: cracking the frontiers of science.

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250th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence

Democracy in America [[link removed]] September 10, 2025 Alexis de Tocqueville | Library of America

Two centuries on, Alexis de Tocqueville’s brilliant Democracy in America remains the most prescient account of the virtues, and potential dangers, of our politics and culture.

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This week's recommended podcast

Benjamin Franklin: The Greatest American [[link removed]] Roger Ream | Liberty + Leadership

This week on the Liberty + Leadership Podcast, I'm joined by economist and author Mark Skousen, who holds the Doti-Spogli Chair of Free Enterprise at Chapman University. We explore the enduring wisdom of Benjamin Franklin and how his ideas still resonate in today's debates on liberty, economics and civic life.

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