By resisting attacks, putting Democrats on the defensive, and confirming Trump’s nominees, Republicans will show they know what time it is.

By: Charles C. W. Cooke – nationalreview.com – January 13, 2025 Even in a state as beautiful as this one, residents can only bear destructive misgovernance for so long. I love California. I’m not just saying that because I’m about to be rude about its government; I really, truly love California. A few years ago, when Scotland was considering leaving...

    Gov. Newsom tilts at carbon emissions, not fire mitigation. Source: California’s Wildfire Climate Excuse – WSJ

By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – January 8, 2025 A Greenland deal has potential if he’s artful. Panama would be a mess, and his Canada trolling could hurt the Conservatives. Donald Trump has always enjoyed talking real estate, but these days instead of hotels or condos his acquisition targets are sovereign nations and territories. At a press conference Tuesday,...

With the release of a new 182-page report by the Department of Defense, it has become clear that China is conducting its largest military build-up since that of 1930s Nazi Germany.

By: Allysia Finley – wsj.com – January 12, 2025 Gavin Newsom promised to ‘Trump-proof’ the Golden State. If only he’d fireproofed it instead. Start with its environmental obsessions. The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power in 2019 sought to widen a fire-access road and replace old wooden utility poles in the Topanga Canyon abutting the Palisades with steel ones...

By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – Jan 10, 2025 Sacramento tilts at reducing temperatures while its cities burn from failure to adapt to a variable climate. Democrats blame the L.A. blazes on the changing climate, which is a convenient excuse as citizens rage against the failures of state and local government. The evidence doesn’t support the climate explanation since...

By: Noah Rothman – nationalreview.com – January 9, 2025 The boutique priorities of the few have crowded out basic good governance — a problem pronounced in California but apparent wherever the ‘blue state model’ is practiced. Nat Glazer had it all figured out decades ago. In a 1993 lecture, the author and social scientist identified the foremost conceptual cul-de-sac that...

On behalf of 10 nationally recognized and credentialed scientists, attorneys with Alliance Defending Freedom and Consovoy McCarthy PLLC filed a petition to compel arbitration Thursday with the Superior Court of California, Ventura County. The attorneys are asking the court to enforce Sage Publications’ contractual obligation to arbitrate the scientists’ claims against Sage after the academic publisher retracted three of their articles and...

President-elect Donald Trump says he won’t rule out the use of military force to seize control of the Panama Canal and Greenland as he declared U.S. control of both to be vital to American national security.