CONSERVATIVE: BIDEN COVERUP DEMANDS ‘WATERGATE’ HEARINGS “Missing from the hand-wringing” over “the massive coverup of Joe Biden’s mental decline,” fumes Kenneth L. Khachigian at The Wall

Street Journal, “is a demand for accountability.” No! “If Congress takes seriously that it should act when Americans are cynically hoodwinked,” then “it must begin an investigation into the

coverup that matches or exceeds the Senate Watergate Committee hearings.” Crucially, were decisions with “potentially catastrophic international consequences” made by “an enfeebled President

Biden” or by the “Politburo” aides who hid his true state? Get going: “Each day that an investigation is delayed,” central players “might be destroying records, replacing cellphones and

from +62 to +16, between 2016 and 2024.” Much like white moderates, they “are voting their ideology and political views, not their group identity.” These voters think Democrats “moved too

far left on economic issues” _and_ “cultural and social issues.” Hispanic moderates are “tough on crime,” “support law enforcement,” oppose “gender ideology in public schools,” and “want

cheap, reliable energy.” “Considering that moderates are the dominant ideological group among Hispanics,” Democrats can “either adjust or risk losing even more support among Hispanics who

are no longer content to vote their identity.” FROM THE RIGHT: HAIL ELON’S SPACE EXPLOITS “What makes [Elon] Musk so important” is not his “troubled venture into government,” but how he’s

“reviving a spirit of exploration on a big scale,” cheers the Washington Examiner’s Byron York. The United States reduced then abandoned “space exploration after the peak moment of Apollo”

decades ago. Now Musk’s “hugely ambitious” Starship program, “which is designed to go to Mars,” is “the heart of the American space program.” Yes, “Musk has received the most public

attention” for his DOGE work, a role ” he proved entirely unsuited” for, bringing him “constant attacks.” But “Americans owe him a debt of gratitude for almost single-handedly restoring a

sense of ambition and purpose to” space exploration and exploitation, “a great field of US achievement.” GET OPINIONS AND COMMENTARY FROM OUR COLUMNISTS Subscribe to our daily Post Opinion

newsletter! THANKS FOR SIGNING UP! LIBERTARIAN: DON’T PARDON ‘GOLD BARS’ MENENDEZ With a tweet charging “it was the Democrats who started weaponizing the Justice Dept.,” argues Reason’s

Billy Binion, “Bob Menendez, the disgraced former senator from New Jersey,” is obviously angling for a presidential pardon before heading to prison this month after his conviction for

“accepting almost $1 million in bribes in exchange for, among other things, favors that benefited foreign governments.” No way: The pardon power exists “to give a lifeline to people who may

have been railroaded by the government, which sometimes gets creative and fanatical in its attempts to punish people. It is not supposed to be a get-out-of-jail-free card for well-connected,

powerful people who can flatter the president.” And “Gold Bars” Menendez “as a senator, was one of the most powerful people in the country.” FINANCIAL ANALYST: UNIVERSITIES’ BIG SQUEEZE

“The nightmare scenario for elite universities is here,” warns Semafor’s Liz Hoffman. “Top universities are financial titans,” except “they make a lot of money but spend almost all of it.”

Now the Trump administration threatens not their “federal grants and contracts” but their lucrative “tax-exempt status” and the OK to admit “students from abroad,” who now “make up as much

as one-quarter of undergraduates at elite colleges and tend to pay sticker price, while American students get discounts.” Yes, many have huge endowments — “too much” of that money is “tied

up in assets that can’t be sold quickly” such as “private equity, private credit, real estate, and venture capital.” Now “Wall Street investors are expecting endowments to look to sell

portfolios of these stuck investments for cash in the coming weeks.” _— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board_