At one point in the evening, Prof. Ajami noted that when Saddam Hussein used nerve gas on his own people, the UN said nothing. But when Israel uses tear gas, it draws international rebuke.

With one exception, nothing about Oct. 7 surprised me. The one exception was Israel’s unpreparedness.

Dianne Feinstein was the rare Democratic lawmaker who refused to grant teens and tweens undue influence in politics, as a 2019 confrontation demonstrated.

Frederick Douglass was one of the greatest Americans who ever lived. This man began life as an illiterate slave — nearly all slave owners prevented slaves from learning to read — and rose from slavery to become, along with Abraham Lincoln, the greatest orator of his time, and one of the wisest and most eloquent writers in American history.

By: Matthew Hennessey – wsj.com – October 3, 2023 A framed copy of a March 1993 editorial written by Daniel Henninger hangs in the Midtown Manhattan conference room where the Journal opinion staff meets. My colleagues and I refer to the piece with reverence. We frequently use its headline—“No Guardrails”—as a shorthand for the devolution of societal norms, a process...

By: David Zimmermann & Audrey Fahlberg – nationalreview.com – October 3, 2023 The House narrowly voted Tuesday afternoon to oust Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R., Calif.), with Democrats joining a small group of Republican rebels to vacate the speaker’s chair for the first time in history. The vote passed 216-210 with the support of Representative Matt Gaetz of Florida, who introduced...

By: Dan McLaughlin – nationalreview.com – October 2, 2023 The past month has not exactly been the finest hour for Congress. Sure, the institution itself has clanked along and somehow managed to avert a government shutdown. But its members have showcased a really astonishing variety of failures to conform to the most basic standards of behavior. These people seemingly don’t...

By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – September 24, 2023 Could this be a first step in breaking the SAT and ACT duopoly? To see this article in its entirety and to subscribe to others like it, please choose to read more. Source: Florida Takes the Classic Learning Test – WSJ

By: Rich Lowry – nationalreview.com – September 11, 2023 We really don’t need to know anything more. Let’s assume that Representative James Comer and his colleagues discover nothing else about the Biden family business, that the state of play stays exactly the same as it is now. We already know that Joe Biden is corrupt. He may not be Representative William...

Republican presidential hopefuls will line up on August 23 for the first round of primary debates. For conservatives who lived through the late 1970s and the 1980s, Ronald Reagan set a standard for how to behave as a candidate and then how to lead as a president.