It’s a defeat for Russia and Iran, and it offers openings for Trump. Source: After the Fall of Syria’s Assad – WSJ

By: The Editors – nationalreview.com – December 8, 2024 It’s difficult to shed any tears about the fall of an evil dictator. But our hopes for a new Syria will be tempered by trepidation. In a stunning turn of events, Bashar al-Assad’s Syrian regime has collapsed. As rebel groups celebrated in the streets of Damascus and tore down large posters...

By: Daniel Cameron – wsj.com – December 4, 2024 The corporate giant joins others walking back woke policy. For more than 20 years, the Human Rights Campaign, which describes itself as “the nation’s largest LGBTQ+ civil rights organization,” has used its Corporate Equality Index to advance its progressive agenda in corporate America. The index releases a survey each year that...

With Washington, DC consumed with controversy of a handful of Trump nominees, the American public is looking…pretty comfortable with what they’re seeing from the presidential transition.

Clearly, President Biden didn’t mean it last June when he responded to a question from David Muir of ABC News about whether he would pardon his son, Hunter. “I am not going to do anything, I will abide by the jury’s decision,” the president said.

By: Noah Rothman – nationalreview.com – December 4, 2024 It’s a rhetorical trick designed not to clarify the debate but to muddy the waters. The Supreme Court must be populated by a collection of robed monsters, because the institution seems “likely to uphold a ban on gender-affirming care.” That’s how Axios framed its effort to read the tea leaves on Wednesday as the...

Prelogar inflated the supposed benefits of trans procedures for minors in her brief challenging a Tennessee law banning the procedures.

Sex differences are real. So is the challenge of safeguarding children struggling with gender dysphoria. Tennessee should be able to protect them from risky treatments.

By: Jonathan Zimmerman – wsj.com – December 3, 2024 It’s no joke—universities impoverish themselves by suppressing conservatives. A student came to my office recently and told me that she voted for Donald Trump. She asked me to promise not to tell anyone. I understand why. In 2016, a student at Bryn Mawr College asked on the school’s ride-share site whether...

Government agencies and programs are not called institutions and synonyms such as “the deep state” and “the establishment” for nothing. They continue to exist, regardless of the failure of many to perform well, because they enjoy a political and financial inertia that is difficult to slow down, much less stop or reverse.