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...

Throughout the rioting in her city, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass has frequently lashed out at President Donald Trump’s decision to send National Guard and active-duty troops to protect federal buildings and keep the peace. “It makes me feel like our city is actually a test case,” Bass told reporters Monday, “a test case for what happens when the federal...

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 9, 2025 How far astray is the 4-3 liberal Badger State majority? Justice Sotomayor reversed it for a unanimous High Court. “CCB and the sub-entities have not identified how the payment of unemployment tax prevents them from fulfilling any religious function,” the state court held. “Because CCB and the sub-entities have failed...

By: Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. – wsj.com – June 9, 2025 We’re reconstituting an advisory committee to avoid conflicts of interest. That is why, under my direction, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is putting the restoration of public trust above any pro- or antivaccine agenda. The public must know that unbiased science guides the recommendations from our...

President Trump’s One, Big, Beautiful Bill is in the Senate, where Republicans have a more comfortable majority than the House and a more favorable re-election map waiting for them next year.

It’s important to understand how ‘the omnicause’ shapes the sort of civil disturbance that’s raging in Los Angeles.

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...

Yes, enforce the law even at home-improvement stores. Source: Home Depot Can’t Be Off-Limits | National Review

By: Jason L. Riley – wsj.com – June 3, 2025 Blacks and Latinos have the same priorities as everyone else—schools, jobs and public safety. Leftists such as Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez denounce Republicans as “oligarchs,” yet millions of blue-collar voters flocking to the GOP remain unpersuaded. Liberals are in denial about these trends, but the reality, according to the...