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President Joe Biden once again started yelling and rambling about the future of democracy, misstating one of his favorite talking points about democracies backsliding around the world. “Well guess what? In the last ten years there’s fifteen fewer democracies in the world,” Biden said, before raising his voice. “Fewer. Not More, FEWER!”

Biden unleashed.

I have no idea what was in the heart of Mel Gibson when he made his comments, but what I am about to say, I believe, is felt by many Americans. I love Israel. I support, without condition, the actions it has taken and will continue to take to preserve its integrity. I also love Jews of a conservative political bent. In a community that is overwhelmingly liberal, these men and women have courage, and they have overcome a liberal political mindset that I believe is poisonous. Jews typically only give 25% of their votes to Republicans or conservatives. Still,...

ON THE WAR IN THE PERSIAN GULF January 12, 1991 (from the Congressional Record) MR. BYRD: Mr. President, this is my thirty-ninth year in Congress. This is my thirty-third year in the U.S. Senate. I have cast a total of 12,822 votes during these thirty-nine years in Congress. This vote today troubles me. I have cast difficult votes before: For example, in the case of the Panama Canal treaties and the Civil Rights Act of 1964. There are three or four votes that I regret having cast, one of them being my vote in opposition to the 1964 Civil...