By: Andrew C. McCarthy – nationalreview.com – May 20, 2023 Even FBI officials working the case admitted that it had been opened on the flimsiest of grounds. The vaporousness of the predication for the FBI’s Trump–Russia investigation, “Crossfire Hurricane,” was described Tuesday in our editorial on the Durham Report (and in my post the same day). For years, I have maintained that the probe was opened on false pretenses....

By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – May 19, 2023 Special counsel John Durham’s report on the Russia collusion fiasco deserves more attention than it is getting, and its critics are dismissing it for one big reason: The 306 pages describe the great failure of original special counsel Robert Mueller. Mr. Mueller was named special counsel in May 2017, after...

By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – May 17, 2023 Three times in a row, since 2018, Republicans have been disappointed on election night in November, in large part because they lost the suburbs. More defeats Tuesday for the GOP in Pennsylvania, Colorado and Florida suggest the erosion is continuing. After a special election Tuesday outside Philadelphia, Democrats will retain...

A recent tussle over the Affordable Care Act’s (i.e., Obamacare) requirement that private health insurance cover preventive health care at no out-of-pocket cost raises a long-running policy debate: How effective is preventive health care in saving lives or money?

House Republicans are holding firm as they negotiate a deal with President Biden to raise the debt ceiling—a small miracle for the GOP—and one sticking point is work requirements in welfare.

Let me tell you how it will be There’s one for you, nineteen for me ‘Cause I’m the taxman Yeah, I’m the taxman These are the opening lyrics of the 1966 Beatles song “Taxman,” written by George Harrison. Why did he write it? Here’s my hypothesis. Source: We Need Another George Harrison

By: Ed Meese and Kelly Shackelford – wsj.com – May 16, 2023 The left was able for decades to get through the courts, including the Supreme Court, what it couldn’t get through Congress. Today, however, liberals are trying to subvert the legitimacy of the Supreme Court because it contains a majority of justices committed to the Constitution and the rule of...

In the aftermath of September 11, 2001, when establishment politicians started to make common use of the term “homeland,” they told us the most dangerous threat to Americans was foreign terrorists.

By: Noah Rothman – nationalreview.com – May 17, 2023 In an alternate universe in which Herschel Walker was elected to the United States Senate, we can assume that he has become the subject of near-daily derision in Democratic messaging and on late-night comedy programs. That’s a safe bet if only because Walker was derided in that manner when he was...

Biden’s border deputies welcomed a record number of economic migrants in April, shortly before they lifted the Title 42 barrier on May 11.