By: Lance Morrow – wsj.com – August 24, 2023 I watched the first Republican presidential debate hoping, like the Dickens character Wilkins Micawber, that “something will turn up.” Or someone. Vivek Ramaswamy turned up and made himself unexpectedly conspicuous. Someone should speak to him, however, about his sideburns. No one trusts a politician with the sideburns of a riverboat gambler....

By: Caroline Downey – nationalreview.com – August 24, 2023 Native New Yorkers who’ve lived in Manhattan for decades say recent migrant arrivals are bringing lawlessness into their formerly peaceful Upper West Side neighborhood and disrupting a residential building that’s home to elderly people with special needs. The Stratford Arms hotel on W. 70th Street used to function as a student...

By: Noah Rothman – nationalreview.com – August 24, 2023 It was Vivek Ramaswamy’s night in Milwaukee, but not necessarily in a way that advances his presidential ambitions. Not in the long term, anyway. The upstart Millennial candidate picked every fight he could with his fellow Republican aspirants. He struck out a number of untenable policy positions, all of which he...

By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – August 24, 2023 Without Trump, the candidates could fight about their policies. Donald Trump ducked the first Republican presidential debate Wednesday night, and his absence did the party and country a favor. Voters were able to hear eight other candidates and size up their policies, sparring abilities and differences. GOP voters who want...

By: Charles C. W. Cooke – nationalreview.com – August 22, 2023 The president’s responses to tragedies almost always involve butchering the truth to make them about him, rather than their victims. For the living, the news of a death brings with it a peculiar mixture of the transcendent and the mundane. There is shock to absorb, anguish to process, and...

By: Mike Gallagher – wsj.com – August 21, 2023 America’s greatest geopolitical threat, then and now, is the Chinese Communist Party. Under Hu Jintao the party had already launched a new cold war against the West in 2012, initiating the Scarborough Shoal crisis as part of its systematic militarization of the South China Sea. The Chinese were also stealing hundreds...

The 2024 race is not that race. Donald Trump is the consistent, growing, going-away favorite, despite (or perhaps because of) his criminal indictments.

Democrats’ reckless spending programs and expansion of the government have caused significant harm to millions of families.

With Trump likely absent from the stage in Milwaukee, the margin of error for DeSantis, Ramaswamy, Scott, and the rest of the 2024 field has narrowed.

Leftists were fine with the agenda by the state of Colorado to force a Christian baker who declined to violate his faith by promoting same-sex marriage to undergo a training program on the leftist state’s “rights” agenda.