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By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – August 5, 2025 Few do partisan gerrymanders better than Springfield liberals. Texas Democrats have fled to Illinois to escape having to vote in Austin on the Republican plan to gerrymander the Lone Star State’s Congressional district map. The destination is amusing since no one knows more about partisan gerrymanders than Illinois Democrats. Thanks…

Donald Trump’s far-ranging counter-revolution, to quote the old Star Trek mission statement, seeks “To boldly go where no one has gone before.” Because no conservative president has dared to question…

I think the scenario of a triple-term Republican presidency is perfectly plausible, and I do think it would be highly consequential culturally this time.

The U.S. is quietly ramping up defense spending to nearly $1 trillion, despite claims to the contrary.

By: Dylan Tokar – wsj.com – August 5, 2025 The president recounted his experiences when asked about an executive order the White House is preparing. The White House is preparing an executive order that threatens fines for banks that deny services on political grounds, citing the experiences of conservative groups and crypto companies, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday. In…

Democrats have excelled at gerrymandering in states such as Illinois and California — they have no cause to complain when the GOP does it, too.

The facts of war in the 21st century. ‘Ukraine Attacks Russian Air Bases in Far-Reaching Drone Strikes,” the Washington Post reported on June 1. “How Israel’s Mossad Smuggled Drone Parts to Attack Iran From Within,” the Wall Street Journal reported two weeks later. And just like that, the future of warfare has become today’s headline news.

By: Miranda Devine – nypost.com – August 3, 2025 Despite the best efforts of Russiagate-complicit media to dismiss as “Russian disinformation” the latest revelations in this escalating scandal implicating President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton in the treasonous “years-long coup” against President Trump, the public is paying attention and wants heads to roll. According to a Rasmussen poll released Monday, nearly…

By: Noah Rothman – nationalreview.com – August 4, 2025 The fact that the Court is prepared to review what the left regards as a foundational element of anti-discrimination law may come as a shock to some. It shouldn’t. The Supreme Court dropped a tantalizing tease last Friday when it indicated that it would take up the constitutionality of majority-minority congressional…

By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – August 4, 2025 Congress could limit the mutual assured political destruction as partisans move to redistrict more than once a decade. Dozens of Texas Democrats skedaddled on Sunday, fleeing the state to prevent Republicans from passing a new U.S. House map that’s intended to net the GOP as many as five seats in…

Exploring racial tensions and violence in Cincinnati’s recent events.