By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – July 9, 2024 The House Speaker rejects U.S. decline and retreat from global leadership. “While democracy is not perfect, the burden of self-government is certainly far lighter than the yoke of tyranny,” Mr. Johnson said. “But right now, absent American leadership, we’re looking at a future that could be” defined by “communism and...

The latest official employment report finds once again that the federal government and state-local hiring spree is still in full gear. Over the past year, health care and government hiring has outpaced every private sector industry.

By: Jeffrey Blehar – nationalreview.com – July 9, 2024 Democrats are falling into despair as they realize that, in slow steps over the past four years, they have unwittingly consummated a suicide pact with Biden. You all know the ending of Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove, right? Surely this remains a universal American cultural reference point. Slim Pickens and the boys in...

“Boy, let me tell ya, an empty wagon makes a lot of noise.” My Dad, US Army Corporal, World War II Veteran, Herman West Sr.

A map pops up now and then on the internet that speaks volumes about the Middle East. It shows Israel amid its Arab neighbors, which number 22 countries with a combined population of nearly half a billion people on more than 5 million square miles of land.

By: Charlie Spies – wsj.com – July 8, 2024 He can’t legally shift his campaign war chest to Harris until he’s the official Democratic nominee. Democrats are in a panic. President Biden’s disastrous debate performance has members of his own party debating whether and how to move him off the ticket. The more important question might be when. Campaign finance...

By: Maggie Haberman, Shane Goldmacher, and Jonathan Swan – nytimes.com – July 8, 2024 The document reflects the former president’s ideological grip on his party, outlining the same nationalistic priorities that his campaign website does. Donald J. Trump told officials on Monday that he supports a new Republican Party platform, one that reflects the presumptive nominee’s new position on abortion...

By: Wilfred Reilly – nationalreview.com –  July 7, 2024 Editor’s note: The following is adapted from Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me, by Wilfred Reilly, with permission from Broadside Books. We often, bizarrely, hear the claim that American history is taught mostly from the political right — and that it presents our nation as bucolic. But, in fact, many of...

By: Ryan Mills – nationalreview.com – July 7, 2024 Activists are spending millions on misleading ads telling voters that Biden could reshape the Court for generations. Frustrated by recent decisions on guns and judicial deference, and still stinging from the 2022 ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade, left-wing activists and media are ramping up calls for Democrats who aren’t enthusiastic about President Joe Biden...

By: Allysia Finley – wsj.com – July 7, 2024 They ignored the president’s obvious cognitive troubles and then attacked anyone who pointed them out. Asked last week by CBS News’s Major Garrett whether President Biden had the “vigor and mental capability” to continue serving, Anthony Fauci equivocated: “In my interactions with him, I have no doubt.” Did the former National...