By: Allysia Finley – wsj.com – December 1, 2024 His NIH nomination, years after being maligned for questioning lockdowns, is a boon for real science. Francis Collins, the NIH chief between 2009-21, derided Dr. Bhattacharya as a “fringe” scientist for urging the government to focus on protecting the vulnerable while letting others go about their lives. Dr. Bhattacharya, Martin Kulldorff,...

By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – November 29, 2024 They kick in 40.4% of income taxes, nearly double their income share. These figures are from the Tax Foundation’s analysis of the IRS data, which is worth a read. But allow us to highlight a few points, starting with why this matters for the political debate. The GOP’s 2017 law...

Former Education Secretary Betsy DeVos says Donald Trump should follow through on his plan to close the Department of Education. In the decades since the U.S. Department of Education was created in 1979, taxpayers have spent hundreds of billions of dollars and not gotten much in return.

By: Rich Lowry – nationalreview.com – November 26, 2024 And unlike Trump’s enemies, the public doesn’t fear enforcement of laws that have been systematically ignored for much too long. There is about to be an outbreak of lawfulness in the United States, and Democrats and the press can’t handle it. President-elect Donald Trump’s talk of “mass deportation” is being treated as a clear...

‘Mass deportation’ starts with the removal of illegal aliens who break the law inside our borders, whether on the streets or on campuses

By: Mike Gonzalez and Armen Tooloee – wsj.com – November 25, 2024 End DEI, take control of museums, eliminate Census racial categories and defund public media. We first have to define it. Woke means believing America is riddled with inequities, where not only its people but the system itself is racist and in need of systemic overhaul; where society is...

Federal prosecutors also announced they would drop their classified-documents case against Trump in Florida. A federal judge has granted special counsel Jack Smith’s Monday motion to dismiss all felony charges against president-elect Donald Trump in relation to the January 6 election-interference case in Washington, D.C.

In the wake of President-elect Donald Trump’s historic electoral victory earlier this month, media pundits and talking heads have focused on his significant gains among traditionally-Democratic voting blocs, such as young voters and both black and Hispanic men; but a new study is suggesting that it was Christian voters who were the decisive factor in Trump’s win.

The Trump administration is expected to take a strong stance against dictatorships in Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Cuba, with a focus on promoting peace through strength and ensuring democracy in the …

By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – November 24, 2024 Democrats still refuse to admit that their policies caused inflation—and cost them the election. Election defeats are never easy to accept, but the Bidenomics rear-guard action now underway among Democratic economists takes the denial stage of grief to a whole new level. The argument is two-fold: What the Biden Administration...