The response of the Broward County sheriff’s department to the Parkland, Fla., shooting has been an utter failure. By: The Editors – nationalreview.com – February 25, 2018 It is impossible to imagine circumstances under which Broward County sheriff Scott Israel could attempt to perform his duties with the confidence of the public. He should resign immediately, and if, as he...

By: Brandon Morse – redstate.com – February 22, 2018 “A gun free zone to a killer…that’s like going in for the ice cream.” Gun free zones are soft targets that inspire shooters to walk in and begin their murder spree, knowing that they won’t receive any immediate retribution. This is a solid point that President Trump brought up recently that...

By: David French – nationalreview.com – February 22, 2018 A rage more personal than political exists on both sides, and poses real danger to the ties that bind us as a nation. Last night, the nation witnessed what looked a lot like an extended version of the famous “two minutes hate” from George Orwell’s novel 1984. During a CNN town...

By: Merrill Matthews – thehill.com – February 20, 2018 The good news is that the Republican tax reform passed in December will end the mandate to have government-approved health insurance coverage beginning in 2019. The bad news is that, unless Congress acts — or unless states decide to work around the law — individuals won’t have any good policies to...

  By: David French – nationalreview.com – February 21, 2018 Banning them would gut the concept of an armed citizenry as a final, emergency bulwark against tyranny. Arguments about guns tend to suffer from two distinct problems. The first — and most obvious — is they quickly get screechy. The arguments devolve into shouting matches and temper tantrums. The goal...

By: Michael D. Shear – nytimes.com – February 20, 2018 The president asked the Justice Department to propose regulations that would ban “bump stocks,” which can convert a semiautomatic gun into an automatic weapon. President Trump — under pressure from angry, grieving students from a Florida high school where a gunman killed 17 people last week — ordered the Justice...

By: John Kass – startribune.com – February 17, 2017 Whatever happened to liberal Democrats, with their concerns about civil liberties and government surveillance of American citizens? Liberals once hated the CIA. And they loved the Russians. You can look it up. Their liberal friends in Hollywood made movie after movie about the dangers of The Deep State and its awesome...

By: John Fund – Nationalreview.com – February 18, 2018 In the wake of the Florida school shooting, can we now have a real conversation about what is wrong with the FBI? Howard Finkelstein, the Broward County public defender whose office is representing Nikolas Cruz, the suspect in the mass shooting in Parkland, Fla., puts it bluntly: This kid exhibited every...

By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – February 15, 2018 Trump will never get a victory if he won’t “take the heat.” President Trump may need a refresher course in deal-making after the Senate on Thursday rejected his take-it-or-leave-it offer on immigration. He could start by recalling who’s President, and stop giving adviser Stephen Miller a policy veto. The Senate considered four...

By: Arthur Schaper – townhill.com – February 11, 2018 My Congressman Ted Lieu (D-Torrance) hosted another error-ridden town hall in Hermosa Beach last week. On immigration, he claimed to support two parts of President Trump’s proposed(?) plan: granting legal status to 1.8 million young illegals; and enhancing border security (although Lieu called the border wall “stupid”). He differed on ending...