By: Karl Rove – wsj.com – September 24, 2025 The only certainty is that public trust in Washington isn’t about to improve. It looks as if we’ll have another government shutdown. On Friday House Republicans passed a continuing resolution to fund the government. In response, Senate Democrats demanded that the resolution extend Biden-era ObamaCare subsidies that soon expire. Republicans won’t...

You can’t solve a problem if you refuse to see it clearly.

Government abuses are not mere instances of bad policy. They are driving us towards an age of soft tyranny.

Late on Monday evening, July 7, The New York Times reported that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) officially acknowledged “that churches and other houses of worship can endorse political candidates to their congregations.” The change marks a significant shift, replacing a decades-old blanket ban on “political” activity by tax-exempt nonprofits.

By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – September 24, 2025 Google admits that Biden officials pressed it to silence Covid critics. The outrage flowed righteously on the left when the Trump Administration pressured private companies to suspend anti-Trump TV host Jimmy Kimmel. But there was far less media attention when Google said Tuesday that it will reinstate YouTube accounts that...

By: Jim Geraghty – nationalreview.com – September 24, 2025 What does months of calling ICE agents ‘fascists’ and ‘jackbooted thugs’ lead to? When news broke of the shooting at the Dallas ICE facility Wednesday morning, the shooter’s motive was not initially clear. The shooter killed two detainees and critically injured a third, according to officials, while no law enforcement agents...

By: Ron Johnson – wsj.com – September 21, 2025 The way to do it is to convert to multiyear spending cycles and avoid the constant drama over appropriations. With another shutdown looming, I’ve introduced an even simpler bill, the Eliminate Shutdowns Act, that could end the drama and uncertainty of Congress’s budgetary dysfunction. Some argued the 2019 bill would lead...

It’s okay to mix politics and religion.

Pastors have always had the right to pray, vote, and engage, but now they will also have the freedom to endorse candidates if they choose to do so.

By: Dan McLaughlin – nationalreview.com – September 22, 2025 This was a chillingly calculated attack. The Brett Kavanaugh assassination plot was bad enough as it was originally revealed when the assassin (Nicholas Roske, a man identifying as a woman in court proceedings, a fact first reported in 2022) encountered law enforcement and turned himself in. The assassin has pleaded guilty and will soon be sentenced....