By: Noah Rothman – nationalreview.com – January 14, 2025 In the case of the L.A. fires, ‘equity’ would require consigning even more homes to the blaze and spreading around the torment more broadly. Occasionally, proponents of the concept of “equity” forget that they are supposed to emphasize the benefits of the discrimination they advocate on behalf of America’s allegedly marginalized minorities. Instead...

By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – January 14, 2025 The Justices consider a Texas law telling websites to screen for minors. Texas passed a law in 2023 saying that porn purveyors—technically, websites whose content is more than one-third “sexual material harmful to minors”—must start using “reasonable age verification methods.” The roll call on this idea, in the state House...

n a surprising shift, a liberal outlet’s editorial board issued a mass endorsement of 19 of President-elect Donald Trump’s judicial nominees— a move that has so many Democrat bureaucrats resistant to his picks.

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...