My essay in today's Washington Post on what conservatives should stand for ... and against: washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/…

I like Scott Yenor personally, and working with him has always been pleasant. I also think that his views on women are extreme and reasonably cause offense, and I think it's clear that he puts them in the public square very deliberately, enjoying the role of enfant terrible. He's

BREAKING: SCOTUS temporarily pauses lower court injunction on Texas’ new congressional map. Sotomayor, Kagan, and Jackson dissent. The Federalist

Winkleigh (Torridge) Council By-Election Result: 🔶 LDM: 42.3% (+8.7) ➡️ RFM: 32.8% (New) 🌳 CON: 24.9% (-23.7) No LAB (-17.8) as previous. Liberal Democrat GAIN from Conservative. Changes w/ 2023.

Stapleford South East (Broxtowe) Council By-Election Result: 🏘️ BA: 34.6% (New) ➡️ RFM: 21.9% (New) 🔶 LDM: 13.3% (-10.6) 🌹 LAB: 11.4% (-17.6) 🌳 CON: 9.6% (-11.6) 🙋 Ind: 9.2% (New) No Ind (-14.7) or GRN (-11.1) as previous. Broxtowe Alliance GAIN from Labour. Changes w/

Tudor (Watford) Council By-Election Result: 🔶 LDM: 51.6% (+4.3) ➡️ RFM: 27.2% (+17.8) 🌳 CON: 9.3% (-10.5) 🌹 LAB: 7.0% (-16.4) 🌍 GRN: 4.8% (New) Liberal Democrat HOLD. Changes w/ 2024.

Inez Stepman ⚪️🔴⚪️ I read Henry Olsen's piece and watched Yenor's recent ISI debate w/ Erika Bachiochi. Thoughts: 1. Olsen did not equate Yenor with Fuentes who is a garbage human being. 2. Yenor's views on women in the workplace are sexist and primitive. He believes women should be mothers

Exmouth Halsdon (East Devon) Council By-Election Result: 🔶 LDM: 35.9% (-4.0) ➡️ RFM: 28.5% (New) 🌳 CON: 25.6% (-4.1) 🌍 GRN: 10.0% (New) No LAB (-30.4) as previous. Liberal Democrat HOLD. Changes w/ 2023.

The Trump administration's new National Security Strategy includes this portentous line: "Our broad policy for Europe should prioritize... ▪️Cultivating resistance to Europe’s current trajectory within European nations" whitehouse.gov/wp-content/upl…

Trump's Nat Sec Strategy re: Ukraine: "It is a core interest of the United States to negotiate an expeditious cessation of hostilities in Ukraine, in order to stabilize European economies, prevent unintended escalation or expansion of the war, and reestablish strategic stability

Overnight on Thursday, at around 7:30pm, the French Navy opened fire on a swarm of five drones spotted flying over the Île Longue Strategic Submarine Base in Finistère on the coast of Brittany, which houses France’s fleet of nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines operating

The Conservatives are polling at 20% for the first time since the Local Elections - with Reform and the LDs at recent lows. ➡️ RFM: 29.3% (Lowest since Jul) 🌹 LAB: 20.5% 🌳 CON: 20.0% (Highest Since Apr) 🔶 LDM: 12.5% (Lowest Since Feb) 🌍 GRN: 12.2% electionmaps.uk/polling/vi

Je salue l’adoption de la partie recettes du projet de loi de financement de la Sécurité sociale par l’Assemblée nationale. Cette étape importante reflète le travail de concertation mené avec les différents groupes et les compromis proposés. Le débat parlementaire se poursuit

To stop premiums for older workers with pre-existing conditions from suddenly leaping by $10,000, Congress needs to extend some additional funding. But in return, it should allow healthy Americans to purchase better value insurance with their own money. thehill.com/opinion/health…

"The survey finds slightly higher levels of Anti-Jewish sentiment among Democrats—20%, compared to 17% among Republicans. And despite these internal differences, both Core Republicans and New Entrants remain overwhelmingly favorable toward Donald Trump and Vice President JD

"Special election shifts do, however, generally predict the direction of the following year’s midterm." The #GOP’s 2026 outlook improves from worse to bad

This is 100% correct: "Europe remains strategically and culturally vital to the United States," but “the larger issues facing Europe include activities of the European Union and other transnational bodies that undermine political liberty and sovereignty, migration policies that

Westminster Voting Intention [Great Yarmouth]: GYF: 44% (New) LAB: 17% (-15) RFM: 16% (-19) CON: 13% (-12) GRN: 5% (+1) LDM: 5% (+2) Oth: 1% (=) GYF: Rupert Lowe's Great Yarmouth First. Via Find Out Now, 2-4 Dec. Changes w/ GE2024.

As I wrote some months ago: Those who take Trump’s position generally acknowledge that they are arguing against the long-dominant understanding of the Fourteenth Amendment’s citizenship clause, an understanding derived from the Court’s 1898 ruling in United States v. Wong Kim

Once again, Robert George Robert P. George eloquently & forthrightly articulates the sine qua non of American conservative thought. That his article appeared in The Washington Post is a happy irony. Here is the full article outside a paywall. "THIS IS WHAT WE BELIEVE!" archive.ph/TW5xJ