Mexican nationals, likely cartel members, recently crossed the border and shot and wounded an American hiker. Did they assume that Joe Biden was still president, and so it was still a veritable open season on Americans without consequences?

By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – January 29,2025 Trump’s pause on federal grants wasn’t illegal and didn’t even affect most spending. It’s well within Mr. Trump’s executive authority to pause disbursement of discretionary funds to ensure they comply with the law and his priorities. But the White House didn’t help itself with a lack of clarity on the details,...

President Trump ripped the Federal Reserve and the man he appointed to lead it Wednesday after the central bank kept interest rates steady. In a post on Truth Social, the president accused the Fed …

President Donald Trump accused leading U.S. banks of debanking conservative clients over their political views, a claim that financial institutions have pushed back on.

Within days of his return to the White House, President Donald Trump addressed the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. In typical fashion, Trump didn’t mince words when describing problems with big business and big government pressure. 

By: Scott Patterson and Ken Thomas – wsj.com – January 18, 2025 DOGE and Republican allies in Congress want to help the incoming president cut 10 rules for every new one. Trump’s fellow Republicans say lighter regulation will unleash the economy. Some businesses and consumer groups are planning to push back in court, however, echoing legal disputes over executive actions...

By: Allysia Finley – wsj.com – January 12, 2025 Gavin Newsom promised to ‘Trump-proof’ the Golden State. If only he’d fireproofed it instead. Start with its environmental obsessions. The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power in 2019 sought to widen a fire-access road and replace old wooden utility poles in the Topanga Canyon abutting the Palisades with steel ones...

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ADF attorneys represent South Carolina health official in case before high court he U.S. Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to hear Kerr v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic, a case that could decide whether pro-life states like South Carolina can direct Medicaid funds—funds intended to help low-income individuals obtain necessary medical assistance—away from abortion providers like Planned Parenthood.

By: Roger Kimball – thespectator.com – December 19, 2024 It operates by subverting legislative responsibility for the sake of pork, on the one hand, and partisan interdiction, on the other. In the 1870s, Gustave Flaubert assembled Le Dictionnaire des idées reçues, a humorous collection of “received ideas” and clichés then current in French society. A new version needs to be produced...