By: Jack Butler – nationalreview.com – June 29, 2025 There was a germ of radicalism even in arguments for gay marriage that presented themselves as conservative.  Would Edmund Burke have supported gay marriage? Andrew Sullivan thought so. Making what the New Republic called “a (conservative) case” for same-sex unions in 1989, Sullivan described them not as “a denial of family values” but rather...

By: Heather Mac Donald – wsj.com – June 19, 2025 A judge shrugged off ‘some stray violent incidents.’ Los Angeles police sources tell a very different story. The day before, according to the commander I interviewed, a mob of several dozen surrounded two ICE agents taking an illegal alien into custody on Vermont Boulevard. Six men jumped out of a...

By:  Deane Waldman, M.D. and Vance Ginn – rodmartin.org – June 25, 2025 The biggest and most obvious source of federal waste is bureaucratic overhead in healthcare, doubled by Obamacare to over 50% of all healthcare spending. When President Donald Trump formed the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), he chose Elon Musk to lead the charge. The mission: eliminate $2...

The meteoric rise of a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, running as a Democrat, has caused a nervous breakdown among some in the national party.

‘The Islamic Republic was victorious and, in retaliation, delivered a hand slap to America’s face,’ Khamenei said.

The judicial insurrection worsened as Judge Brian Murphy issued a ruling apparently defying even the Supreme Court itself.

Exploring Robby Starbuck’s views on children’s issues in modern culture. But I’m skeptical about his new movie, “The War on Children.”

By: Jonah Goldberg – thedispatch.com –  June 25, 2025 Applying a cost-benefit analysis to the Iran strike. When events are moving fast, it sometimes makes more sense to talk about how to think about events rather than what to think. Washington is full of people desperate to win the argument about what to think about the last couple weeks. Trump...

By: Noah Rothman – nationalreview.com – June 25, 2025 The ‘deep state’ abides, in a different form. No one at the Pentagon who compiled the Defense Intelligence Agency’s (DIA) preliminary, “low confidence” assessment of the battle damage done by the United States to Iran’s nuclear facilities intended that analysis as a political document. Those who leaked this highly classified review...

The concession comes after reports of a U.S. intel assessment which found that the strikes did minimal damage to Iran’s nuclear infrastructure.