🔥 No water? No funding? Democrats have failed LA. From: Nicole Russell/USA Today. As parts of Los Angeles burn, it's worth asking: Where are its leaders?
The Los Angeles wildfires: an avoidable tragedy. From: Jonathan A. Lesser/City-Journal. State efforts to prevent them have been costly and impractical, with grim results.
😮 They could have prevented them. From: Michael Shellenberger/X. Governor Newsom cut the funding for preventing forest fires and failed to build sufficient water resources for fighting fires.
Democrat supermajorities are destroying the great state of California. From: Tim Hains/Real Clear Politics. Stop voting for people who can't keep water in fire hydrants.
⭐️ Sen John Fetterman slams fellow Democrats for not supporting Laken Riley Act. From: Post Millennial. Laken Riley was the nursing student killed by an illegal alien. The Act seeks to deport any illegal alien who commits a serious crime.
Why California wildfires are NOT climate driven. From: Anthony Watts/Watts Up With That. A historical and meteorological perspective.
🤐 How Trump plans to take on censors -- and they plan to take on Trump. From: Ben Weingarten/Real Clear Investigations. “The fight for free speech is a matter of victory or death for America – and for the survival of Western civilization itself,” Trump said in announcing his initiative.
New Biden water heater ban will drive up energy prices for poor, seniors. From: Ryan King/NY Post. “Forcing low-income and senior customers to pay far more upfront is particularly concerning. DOE’s decision to go ahead with a flawed final rule is deeply disappointing.”
🤬 Taxpayers paid $3 billion for radical DEI kickbacks under Biden. From: Victoria Manning/American Greatness. The Democrats' Marxist equity agenda was costly and prioritized dismantling American exceptionalism over national security and economic prosperity.
Biden's infrastructure bills leave a legacy of big spending and little payoff. From: Joe Lancaster/Reason. The outgoing president's signature legislative achievements spent tens of billions of dollars with little to show.
👏 Biden administration admits defeat by withdrawing 7 woke rule changes. From: Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell/The Daily Signal. “It means these bad policy proposals by the Biden administration will not go into effect.”
Who really started America’s culture war? From: Frank Furedi/Spiked. 'Progressive' elites have been fighting a silent war on the American way of life for decades.
🏅 We must end the sham of presidential medals of freedom. From: James Bovard. Ironically, the individual who poses the greatest threat to freedom has sole discretion to designate the purported best friends of freedom.
NYC drivers devise clever ways to conceal license plate numbers as congestion toll takes effect — including James Bond-style ‘plate flipper’. From: Yang, Campanile & Nesi/NY Post. Drivers are charged a $9 per day fee to drive in high traffic areas in peak hours.
🚗 The federal government is spending over $15 billion to push electric vehicles. From: Jeff Luse/Reason. Despite the wasteful spending, E.V.s remain unpopular with large portions of the country.
Young men who don't leave home? Is mama a reason? From: Froma Harrop/Creators. Perhaps their mothers like having their boys around.
🇨🇦 With Trudeau on his way out, can Canadians get their free speech back? From: Jonathan Turley. The question is whether anyone will look for the remnants of Canadian free speech in the wreckage of the Trudeau government.