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Freedom and Fireworks: President Trump, Iran, and Vietnam

Fireworks for America are a metaphor for freedom. After all, it takes a great deal of explosive power to free a people from a tyrant. Dropping ...

yesterday 30

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Rev. Jim Harden

Democrats Gone Wild

Democrats suffering from severe cases of Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) are now displaying another symptom: staging ill-conceived confrontations...

yesterday 20

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Robin M. Itzler

American Celebration

It was once a day of unfettered celebration -- a proud recognition of where we, the People had taken this nation: to the highest tier of human...

yesterday 10

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Rick Mcdowell

After All is Said and Done, American History is Human

The New York Time’s 1619 Project, a series of essays launched on August 18, 2019, sought to “reframe the country’s history” by placing slavery...

yesterday 10

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Susan Lehman

Happy Birthday USA: A Simple Fix for Healthcare Fraud, and Healthcare Too!

The DoJ just announced an historic bust of a $14.6 billion (with a “b”!) scam charging more than 300 hundred healthcare bureaucrats with multi-year...

yesterday 10

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Deane Waldman, M.d.

Rise, Lofty Column: Joseph Warren and the Battle for Liberty

On the morning of June 17, 1775, a physician in his mid-thirties stood near a rough earthen redoubt overlooking the Charlestown Peninsula. He had...

yesterday 10

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Charlton Allen

Treasure Your Inheritance This Independence Day

Two hundred forty-nine years ago, a series of events culminated in America’s Declaration of Independence from Great Britain.  On June 7, Richard...

previous day 10

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J.b. Shurk

With Zohran Mamdani On The Cusp of Becoming Mayor, NYC Embraces Its Own Demise

As a child of the Cold War with the Soviets as America’s enemy, when the wall came down and the threat of Communism faded, I was under the illusion...

previous day 20

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Vince Coyner

The Problem with Mamdani Is Not Socialism

On Tuesday, June 24, Zohan Mamdani, a Democratic Socialist, won the Democrat party’s nomination for mayor of New York City.  He received 432,000...

previous day 7

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Robert Weissberg

Congress Surrenders to Trump

Something profound is occurring, unnoticed. On July 1, 2025, the first day of the second half of this year, as we begin the year-long countdown to...

previous day 5

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Douglas Schwartz

Taxing Renewables

As usual, the mainstream media is losing its collective mind over the idea of taxing solar and wind power, due to a provision included in the...

previous day 3

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John F. Di Leo

Israel Won a New Middle East; Gazans Should be Resettled

In 2012, I published  The Last Israelis  to serve as a cautionary tale to prevent Iran, the world's most dangerous regime, from acquiring nukes. In...

previous day 3

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Noah Beck

Israel vs. Iran: The Edge Iran Will Always Lack

It sometimes takes a while before the actual cost of a successful military operation in terms of lost lives is revealed, but all indications are...

previous day 2

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James Zumwalt

No Victory Laps

Weekend before last, President Trump threaded the needle. On his orders, not one but three Iranian nuclear weapons development installations were...

wednesday 20

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J. Robert Smith

In Failing to Support BBB, Congressional Democrats Turn On Blue-Collar Workers and Retirees

Sometimes I wonder if anyone with an IQ above room temperature has been guiding the leadership of the Democrat party.  Case in point: Last night’s...

wednesday 20

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Ned Barnett

The Life Cycle of a Mail-In Ballot

FBI director Kash Patel recently sent an intelligence report to Senate Judiciary chairman Chuck Grassley.  According to an article by John Solomon...

wednesday 20

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Susan Lehman

The Forgotten Guarantee Clause: Trump’s Constitution Cudgel Against a Radical Mayor

After Justice Barrett completely humiliated Justice Jackson—joined by every justice other than Jackson’s partners in anarchy, Sotomayor and...

wednesday 10

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Huck Davenport

The Problem with a Resistance-Centered Party

Right-wing pundits have diagnosed many on the left with TDS — Trump Derangement Syndrome.  This TDS is supposed to explain the left’s opposition to...

wednesday 6

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Roberta Cole

The Crimson Mask: Harvard’s Institutional Antisemitism Finally Laid Bare

Harvard’s reputation rests on prestige, but its foundation has long harbored—and indeed, has long embraced—exclusion. For generations, Americans...

wednesday 7

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Charlton Allen

Call Her Lawyer: Costs of Cancelation Rising for the Accusers

Alex Cooper’s podcast, “Call Her Daddy,” finished 2024 in second place between “The Joe Rogan Experience” and “The Huberman Lab” in...

wednesday 6

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George M. Perry

Mamdani Hopes to Drive Jews out of New York City

New Yorkers faced the choice of a miscreant former governor and a radical Democrat socialist for the position of mayor in the Democrat primary....

01.07.2025 20

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Susan Quinn

How to keep the Republic this 4th of July

Birthdays typically prompt us to look back on our lives and take stock of how far we have come, where we stand, and what we would like to do with...

01.07.2025 10

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Lathan Watts

Disdain for the Declaration is Disdain for America

Our founding fathers wrote countless letters, essays, and diary entries, so we have a pretty good idea what they were thinking 250 years ago. And...

01.07.2025 10

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Jerry Jacover

Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s Thunderclap Heard Around the Republic

Andrea Widburg called it “the nastiest judge-on-judge smackdown I’ve ever seen.” She wasn’t wrong. Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s rebuke of Justice...

01.07.2025 10

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Charlton Allen

Let’s Talk about ‘Proportionality’

Not long ago, I ran into a long-lost acquaintance who always assumed — always incorrectly — that I was simpatico with her leftist...

01.07.2025 10

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Joan Swirsky

Zohran Mamdani Represents The Democrat Party’s Inevitable Drift Left

While the Democrat party mayoral primary in New York is stealing the headlines, those who have watched Marxist-Hegelian hybrid ideology overtake...

01.07.2025 7

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Steve Mccann

Mexico has no Right to U.S. Territory

James K. Polk was our most underrated president. A protégé of Andrew Jackson, Polk, a Democrat, won an improbable victory when he beat the Whig...

30.06.2025 30

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John M. Contino

Caroming Towards a Liberal Land Acknowledgement

I think we have just witnessed a rare instance in human history of a triple bunk shot carom. First, there was Donald Trump’s bunker buster carom...

30.06.2025 5

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Christopher Chantrill

Trump Strikes Back at Canadian Digital Tax

Now the cards are on the table. Amid the heated phase of trade talks with the U.S., Canada is introducing a digital tax that will burden American...

30.06.2025 3

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Thomas Kolbe

Trump’s Path to World Peace: American Strength and Economic Partnership

Despite having overseen both the obliteration of Iran’s nuclear ambition and a cessation of hostilities in a war that had been raging between...

30.06.2025 30

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William Sullivan

A Republic, If You Can Reform It: Dismantling Party Gatekeeping

The United States was not founded on a system of entrenched political parties. The Founders explicitly warned against them. Yet today, citizens are...

30.06.2025 20

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Danielle Cassase

Birthright Citizenship: Anchor Babies v. Anchor Parents

The Supreme Court’s June 27 Trump v. CASA et al. decision about birthright citizenship turned on a legal technicality: Could one federal district...

30.06.2025 10

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John M. Grondelski

Can RFK Jr. Break the Prior Authorization Bottleneck?

  Preauthorization, also called prior authorization (PA), is a process where healthcare insurance companies must approve before paying for...

30.06.2025 20

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Brian C. Joondeph, M.d.