By: Dominic Green – wsj.com – February 17, 2025 He confronts a governing class that has abandoned the values America and the Continent share. In Munich, a historic byword for appeasement, Mr. Vance issued a call to arms. The most worrisome threat to Europe, he said, isn’t from Russia or China. It is “the threat from within.” Really, this is a...

By: Audrey Fahlberg – nationalreview.com – February 18, 2025 Trump is ‘shutting down the government already. And so, we shouldn’t enable a further shutdown of services,’ Eric Swalwell said. As congressional Democrats search for a unifying message with which to resist President Trump, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) argues there is “common ground” among her colleagues around the “necessity to refuse...

Frank Luntz is waiting for Democrats to put out something so he can go about his business testing messaging and communications strategies. Thus far, they haven’t done it, and there could be a simple reason: There’s nothing they can really attack President Trump on that won’t end up with massive blowback.

By: Catherine Porter and Steven Erianger – nytimes.com – February 17, 2025 The hastily called gathering was part of a flurry of diplomacy expected to center on Ukraine this week as Trump officials prepare to start talks with Russia on their own. The leaders of many of Europe’s biggest countries came to Paris on Monday in an effort to forge...

New York Gov Kathy Hochul says she will reject the extradition request by Louisiana for a New York doctor charged with illegally providing abortion drugs to a mother who gave them to her minor daughter.

Pro-life advocacy groups say they see newly confirmed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as a man who changed his mind on abortion.

Herzog tells Fox News US president’s proposal to relocate Gazans is a ‘new idea’ that could cause ‘real change,’ but urges wishes of Egypt, Jordan, other Arab nations be respected Source: Incoming US envoy Huckabee says Trump to bring Mideast change of ‘biblical proportions’ | The Times of Israel

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...