Whether you love or hate what is being said, if you don’t believe in their right to say it you are a totalitarian. Counter speech you dislike with facts, but don’t try to suppress it.

At the Munich Security Conference, J.D. Vance delivered a bold speech challenging European elites on democracy, censorship, and election integrity, defending free speech and citizen rights.

By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – February 16, 2025 The allies receive bracing, if not always helpful, warnings from the U.S. Start with the Ukraine war. This is the largest military conflict on European soil since 1945, and the Continent’s leaders recognize the stakes for their security. But Mr. Trump’s message is that the U.S. doesn’t care what Europeans...

A president is accountable through the election process. It is the independent federal agencies that are the true threat to democracy.

A federal judge in Washington on Friday handed Elon Musk’s government efficiency team a win by declining a request to temporarily block it from accessing sensitive data from at least three federal agencies.

Their radicalism put them out of step with American voters. One of the notable facts accompanying Donald Trump’s return to the White House is the cratering support among the American people for immigration of all types.

Matt Taibbi’s opening remarks on John Kerry, European speech law, and USAID before the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, February 12th, 2025

Democrats, those stalwart champions of democracy who tried to keep Donald Trump off the ballot, have an endlessly malleable understanding of whose view prevails whenever disputes arise between any combination of Congress, the courts, the president and the states. It’s almost as if they decide based not on any fixed principle, but on whose side they take.

Following the extraordinary joint press conference by President Trump and Elon Musk from the Oval Office, the press went on the offensive against Musk’s claims of transparency and finding billions of dollars in fraudulent or erroneous payments by the US Treasury.

Former President Joe Biden left a terrible legacy: the border catastrophe, chaos and disorder abroad, increased crime, oppressive wokeness. But for today’s purposes, consider the damage done by Biden’s economic policies.