The ‘restrainer’ right and the progressives sound an awful lot alike on Israel and Iran — but they are on the margins. Source: Coalition Against Israel on Iran: ‘Restrainer’ Right and Progressives Sound Alike | National Review

Vice President J.D. Vance tried to thread the needle.

By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – June 17, 2025 The President can reverse Biden’s Afghan legacy by helping Israel eliminate Tehran’s nuclear threat. These are the strategic stakes as the U.S. President contemplates whether to assist Israel in bombing Iran’s nuclear sites. Losing the war but still resisting the dismantlement of their nuclear program, Iran’s leaders are hoping Mr....

To negotiate when our strategic objective is within our grasp risks failing to achieve it.

By: Tom Cotton – wsj.com – June 10, 2025 When local police can’t restore order, the federal government has a duty to do so with a show of force. Violent insurrectionists turned areas of Los Angeles into lawless hellscapes over the weekend, with anarchists setting fire to vehicles, throwing scooters and debris at police, and looting businesses—all while waving foreign...

By: Rich Lowry – nationalreview.com – June 11, 2025 The absurd L.A. freak-out. President Trump’s activation of the California National Guard has launched a thousand op-eds warning of his authoritarianism. “This Is What Autocracy Looks Like,” Michelle Goldberg of the New York Times declares. Edward Luce of the Financial Times maintains: “Sending the National Guard into LA is the administration’s...

By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – June 8, 2025 Trump has a mandate, but protests in California show the trouble that might lie ahead. Rounding up and deporting millions of illegal migrants was never going to go down without protest. But President Trump is determined to do it, and no one can say he didn’t tell voters during the...

By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – June 3, 2025 The American homeland is also vulnerable to drone and missile attacks. By now Americans know about Ukraine’s remarkable drone strike on Sunday that damaged as many as 40 aircraft deep inside Russia as strategic bombers sat like ducks in a row on military bases. One urgent lesson beyond that conflict...

Lawmakers released legislation Sunday that includes nearly $25 billion of funding to begin work for President Trump’s Golden Dome initiative.

In the military, we believe that your enemy’s reality must become your own, or it will be at a time of grave disadvantage. Let’s put all silly pretense aside and come to the realization that Communist China is our number one geopolitical foe—they see us as such. China has enacted such egregious actions against the United States since we foolishly...