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The Ritualized Confrontation Between MAGA and the Neocons
If the necons are for it, MAGA is against it; but sometimes even our enemies can be correct, as I think the neocons are about Iran and the danger it poses.
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Can the U.S. and Israel Fully Destroy the Iranian Nuclear Program?
If we want to avoid a quagmire, bringing a battered Iran to the bargaining table is a more reasonable goal than the permanent eradication of Iran’s nuclear program.
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Governors’ Sanctuary Excuses Don’t Add Up
Testifying before a House committee, sanctuary city governors exposed their hypocrisy and false compassion.
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A Minnesota Assassin With a Big Ego, an Inflated Resume, and Unclear Motives
The alleged assassin of a Democratic legislator and her husband left behind a paper trail that shows a massive ego and an unclear political motivation.
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Michael Avenatti is Apologizing to Everyone—Except Brett Kavanaugh
The lawyer famous for his fraudulent claims and support from frauds in the media wants to make amends as he faces more jail time.
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Is the U.S. Vulnerable to a Drone Sneak Attack?
After Israel’s surprise drone attack on Iranian nuclear targets, many are concerned that China could be preparing for something similar in the United States.
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China Caught Playing With Bioweapons Again
Two operatives of the Chinese Communist Party smuggled a biological pathogen into the U.S. in an attempt to make the University of Michigan the next Wuhan.
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WEIRD Protesters Should Stay Home
Europe’s and America’s wannabe white messiahs find out they are not wanted or welcome to interfere in the policies of foreign countries.
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What Really Happened to Pride Month
After a quarter century of bullying from the left, Americans welcome the relief.
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Everything You Don’t Care to Know About ‘Your Friends and Neighbors’
From promising beginnings, AppleTV+ delivers a disappointing series that proves the whole can be much less than the sum of its parts.
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Authorized and Unauthorized Riots
A helpful primer for confused citizens about the differences between sanctioned and unsanctioned political violence.
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Trump Should Take Note of Italy’s Cultural Strides
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has promoted Western civilization through the arts in ways the Trump administration would do well to imitate.
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ICE and the Screams of the Damned
There is no reasoning with the irrational souls who want nothing but for the rest of us to join them in their hell.
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Bureaucratic Masters
A recent book by USAID Insider Mark Moyar shows how bureaucracy works in predictable and corrupting ways—especially when it came to sabotaging the agenda of President Trump.
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Five Years Since the Death of George Floyd: The Damage Continues, Part 2
False narratives perpetuated by the George Floyd/BLM riots of 2020 feed attitudes leading to riots like those in Los Angeles and around the country today.
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LA Is Proof Trump Was Right About Mass Immigration
The current round of LA Riots shows that importing masses of foreign-born migrants into our country was a recipe for disloyalty and disunion.
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Confessions of a Bibliophile in the Twilight of Literacy
The capacity for self-government, which depends on a well-read populace, may die along with books.
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Recapturing the Color-Blind Constitution
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s opinion and Justice Clarence Thomas’s concurrence in a recent discrimination case suggest that the Court is moving in the right direction.
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The Anti-Biden Son of Scranton
Robert Casey, a champion of America’s most vulnerable minority, died without regrets—because Casey was everything Joe Biden was not.
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American Intifada
Violence will keep expanding as long as it’s tolerated in the name of anti-colonialism and other progressive causes.
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Mexico’s ‘Perfect Dictatorship’ and American Resistance
Mexico’s rule under what Mario Vargas Llosa labeled a “perfect dictatorship” has not been seriously challenged by anyone, until the rise of Donald Trump.
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Senator Fetterman Humiliated in Wife’s New Book about ‘Radical Tenderness’
Mrs. Fetterman is right to explore the subject of vulnerability and tenderness, but her understanding—and her own practice—is weak.
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BBB Is a Win For MAGA
Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” budget is as close to as good as it gets without departing from the realm of possibility.
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What Happens if Russia Nukes Ukraine?
The June 1 Ukrainian drone attacks on Russian nuclear assets have invited, but not yet inspired, a nuclear retaliation. Who directed them?
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Libertarian Grandstanders Target Trump’s Big, Beautiful Bill
President Trump never promised to eliminate the $36 trillion national debt that took us decades to accumulate. So what gives?
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How Democrats Can Stop Alienating Young Men: Some Unsolicited Advice
When it comes to courting young male voters, policy matters more than syntax.
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A Counterintuitive Source of Rising Anti-Semitism
When Jews support left-wing movements and causes, they should not be surprised by the resulting anti-Semitism.
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Florida Delivers a Stunning Defeat to DEI
Santa Ono, the DEI fanatic and former president of the University of Michigan, was rejected by Florida’s Board of Governors in his bid to become University of Florida’s new president.
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Five Years Since the Death of George Floyd: The Damage Continues, Part 1
There is no evidence that Floyd’s death had anything to do with race, but that fact doesn’t stop the narrative from being promulgated.
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Shutting the Door on a Biden-Era Immigration Cheat Code
Trump has ended the Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela (CHNV) parole program with the blessing of the Supreme Court and the free rides resulting from Biden’s deception end now.
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‘Bring Me Water’: An Appreciation of the Editor’s Art
As AI and a general lack of curiosity takes hold in our culture, we’d do well to remember that the editor’s art is to draw art out of his writers.
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The Democrats’ War on Small-Town Values and Property Values
Democrats are taking aim at small-town living, calling it “segregated” and “snobby” and attempting to regulate it out of existence.
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Why ‘Tit for Tat’ Lawfare Is Necessary
Public trust in the judiciary is collapsing. To restore it, conservatives need to stop restraining themselves in the face of leftist lawfare.
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Fur Babies Are Replacing Actual Babies
Is America’s growing deep affection for pets correlated to increased abortions and birth rate declines?
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Amid Courtroom Spectacles, Senate Should Confirm Emil Bove
Bove’s nomination should be embraced by conservatives and endorsed by Republican senators.
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DEI: The Democrats’ Concrete Shoes
Young men of all racial and economic backgrounds know they’re the losers in DEI and are not interested in voting for it anymore.
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Yes, President Trump’s Tariffs Are Legal
Congress long ago delegated to the executive branch much of its power to regulate foreign trade, and it is a good thing it did.
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Futurism, AI, and the Destructive Power of Speed
With an indifference to all things that came before, AI Futurists seek to level and sever all connections with the past.
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Poland at the Crossroads Between America and Brussels
Polish voters face a strategic and civilizational decision about their country’s future.
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American History and the Lecturer’s Art
Walter McDougall’s Gems of American History is that rare academic work teaching that history is not a puzzle to be solved or a grievance to be aired, but a trial to be endured.
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Robert Novak and the Problem of Contemporary Conservative Media
In a landscape of hot takes, memes, and secondary reactions to legacy media reporting, it pays to recall the real conservative journalism of a figure like Robert Novak.
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Musk’s Worthy DOGE Spotlight and the Fiscal Path Forward
Republicans and Democrats are going to have to come together and put our 1960s-era entitlement programs—above all, Medicare and Social Security—on a long-term path to sustainability.
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Saving the Court from Itself
Checking the current “corps of sappers & miners” as Thomas Jefferson once called the judiciary, may be the only way to save the Constitution and America.
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Is Florida Still Where Woke Goes to Die?
New University of Florida presidential pick could sink Ron DeSantis’s legacy and political future.
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The Extreme Tolerance for Black Racism
Democratic Party leaders seldom comment, let alone push back against, the ugly and racist rhetoric of black politicians and activists.
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The Latest ‘Mission Impossible’ Is a Movie That Missed the Vibe Shift
The poorly conceived product of liberal creators painting populism as the enemy of the future is, in fact, a sad outburst from a time that is already gone.
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Greed, Vice, Deception, and Memory
A new novel exposes the emptiness of postmodernism’s tropes by allowing them to play out in the city that embodies them best: Las Vegas.
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Trump Strikes a Nerve With White Genocide Talk
To the left-wing media, South Africa is not repressing its white population (but it would be good if it did).
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Keeping the Pressure on Woke Retailers Like Target
As left-wing activists try to counter recent conservative victories on DEI, Christians and conservatives need to keep fighting.