By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – January 1, 2024 After reports that some service members participated in the Jan. 6 riot, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin ordered an independent study to get “greater fidelity” on extremism in the ranks. The think tank tasked with the report, the Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA), “found no evidence that the number of violent...

By: Abigail Anthony – nationalreview.com – January 2, 2024 Harvard president Claudine Gay announced her resignation on Tuesday, culminating weeks of mounting pressure that began after Gay’s widely criticized appearance before Congress and escalated due to high-profile reports of plagiarism in the embattled academic’s published work. Gay served as the Harvard president for six months and two days, and her...

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FNC’s Laura Ingraham commented Thursday that the decision by Maine’s secretary of state to boot Donald Trump off the 2024 ballot is “almost not worth talking about it’s so stupid.””So who is the autocrat now? Where is the autocratic behavior coming from? I would submit it’s coming from the left,” she said.

The Democrat says that if federal cash does not arrive to support the costs of illegal immigrants, his city’s residents will suffer.

Maine found Donald Trump ineligible to hold office because of his actions after the 2020 election. California said his name would remain on the ballot there.

By: Ryan Mills – nationalreview.com – December 27, 2023 Dallas mayor Eric Johnson was forced to confront the Democratic Party’s failures when he became responsible for a major American city. Now, he hopes to inspire a GOP urban renewal. To see this article in its entirety and to subscribe to others like it, please choose to read more. Source: Dallas...

By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – December 27, 2023 After the terrorist group brushed aside an Egyptian proposal over Christmas weekend, Hamas Politburo member Izzat al Rishq explained, “There can be no negotiations without a complete stop to the aggression”—an end to the war. On Dec. 20, in rejecting an Israeli offer, Politburo member Ghazi Hamad said Hamas is...

2023 was a rather bad year. Not as bad as 2024 is likely to be, or as 2020 was.

By: Kimberley A. Strassel – wsj.com – December 21, 2023 Less than a month from the Iowa caucuses, the high court faces the prospect of deciding whether Colorado—and other states—can scrub Donald Trump from the ballot on grounds that the leading candidate for the Republican nomination engaged in “insurrection.” It’s also being asked to rule on whether special counsel Jack...