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Trump owes fallen soldiers victory against murderous Iran regime

Trump owes fallen soldiers victory against murderous Iran regime

Six Americans are dead, and there may be more before the end of Operation Epic Fury. Before strategy and political debate, there are families whose...

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Meaghan Mobbs

It’s tax season: Hold the IRS accountable for moving compliance goalposts

It’s tax season: Hold the IRS accountable for moving compliance goalposts

As the public prepares to file their taxes this year, they are confronting more than deadlines and paperwork. No two tax seasons are the same, and...

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Chuck Flint

When a murder becomes a musical: The Left’s celebration of Luigi Mangione

When a murder becomes a musical: The Left’s celebration of Luigi Mangione

The trial for alleged killer Luigi Mangione is set for this summer. By that time, it will have been approximately a year and a half since...

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Kimberly Ross

How our enemies are dividing US college campuses

How our enemies are dividing US college campuses

Most Americans seem to agree higher education is broken. A Pew poll from last fall found that as many as 70% of people believe the system is heading...

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Reagan Dugan

Newsom’s disgraceful pander to anti-Israel Democrats

Newsom’s disgraceful pander to anti-Israel Democrats

Democratic presidential primary voters have taken a hard left turn on many issues, including Israel. Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) is following them, as...

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Tylenol autism lawsuits show why judicial gatekeeping is essential

Tylenol autism lawsuits show why judicial gatekeeping is essential

When claims are made that one of the most widely used medications during pregnancy may cause autism, the public understandably pays attention....

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Tom Giovanetti

California Democrats prepare to jack up gas prices again

California Democrats prepare to jack up gas prices again

They say that doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result is insanity. Some of us say it’s just California Democratic...

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Zachary Faria

Regime change in Tehran is the only path to stability

Regime change in Tehran is the only path to stability

For more than four decades, American policymakers have wrestled with the same question: Can the Islamic Republic of Iran be moderated through...

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Heyrsh abdulrahman

Ken Paxton’s deafening silence on growing antisemitism

Ken Paxton’s deafening silence on growing antisemitism

A troubling trend is emerging among some who cloak themselves in the MAGA mantle. The conservative movement is in peril of being overrun by...

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Sen. John Cornyn

Conservatives must embrace pro-family energy abundance ahead of midterm elections

Conservatives must embrace pro-family energy abundance ahead of midterm elections

Recent affordability polling should be a wake-up call for the Right heading into the 2026 midterm elections: Americans believe Democrats care more...

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Chris Barnard

On This Day: General Howe orders his troops to retreat from Boston. The Siege is over

On This Day: General Howe orders his troops to retreat from Boston. The Siege is over

The following is an installment of “On This Day,” a series celebrating America’s 250th anniversary by following the actions of Gen. George...

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Salena Zito

Trump’s Big Tech pledge is a great first step to end the taxpayer-funded free ride

Trump’s Big Tech pledge is a great first step to end the taxpayer-funded free ride

Wednesday at the White House, President Donald Trump looked the world’s biggest technology companies in the eye and told them the free ride is over....

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Sam romain

Partisan energy gridlock is holding the US back from much-needed ‘all of the above’ approach

Partisan energy gridlock is holding the US back from much-needed ‘all of the above’ approach

In an era of geopolitical turbulence and technological revolution, the U.S.’s energy and economic security stands at a crossroads. Energy policy has...

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George David Banks

Trump gets the last laugh

Trump gets the last laugh

It’s a truism that President Donald Trump loves attention. Even among politicians, a species not known for shunning limelight, he’s in a league of...

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Hugo Gurdon

Too many children!

Too many children!

The Power of Rude was the title of Rebecca Reid’s nonfiction book, so it shouldn’t have surprised anyone that the liberal novelist attacked a mom...

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Timothy P. Carney

Contra the New York Times, falling birth rates are not good for women

Contra the New York Times, falling birth rates are not good for women

Rush Limbaugh used to tell a joke about New York Times headline writers. If the world were ending, Limbaugh would say, the New York Times headline...

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Conn Carroll

Murder in a sanctuary county

Murder in a sanctuary county

FAIRFAX COUNTY, Virginia — This murder is on Steve Descano. There can be no doubt that Stephanie Minter is dead because of the indefensible actions...

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Timothy P. Carney

Iran started this war a long time ago

Iran started this war a long time ago

What do the following countries have in common? Argentina, Australia, Cyprus, France, Germany, Greece, Israel, Kenya, Kuwait, Nigeria, Pakistan,...

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Dan Hannan

The NBA shouldn’t be promoting vice

The NBA shouldn’t be promoting vice

You’re a team in the NBA. You want to have events that honor your community and convince fans, especially families with children, to come to your...

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Zachary Faria

Trump flexing military muscles on Iran in front of the whole world is peace through strength

Trump flexing military muscles on Iran in front of the whole world is peace through strength

For too long, foreign adversaries tested America’s resolve. Those days are over. Since the 1979 revolution, the Iranian regime has fueled terrorism...

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Rep. Sheri Biggs

American detainees in Iran face growing danger

American detainees in Iran face growing danger

Hours before U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iranian military facilities began overnight on Saturday, the State Department designated Iran a state...

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Beth Bailey

California’s high gas prices are self-inflicted

California’s high gas prices are self-inflicted

California is one of the country’s most resource-rich states in the union. Wonderful year-round weather and the historic allure of the West have...

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Caleb jasso

What the Supreme Court’s tariffs ruling says about judicial power

What the Supreme Court’s tariffs ruling says about judicial power

Last month, a 6-3 Supreme Court decision in Learning Resources, Inc. v. Trump, struck down a wide swath of the tariffs that President Donald Trump...

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Jay Cost

A tale of two cities: Why San Francisco is rebounding and Los Angeles isn’t

A tale of two cities: Why San Francisco is rebounding and Los Angeles isn’t

Not every San Franciscan is a fan of Mayor Daniel Lurie‘s prolific online presence. The day after Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents clashed...

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Conn Carroll

Why LNG supply fears are overblown

Why LNG supply fears are overblown

Thank goodness for American ingenuity. Fracking technology has provided the United States with energy independence in both oil and natural gas...

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James Rogan

‘Luigi: The Musical’ and the Left’s growing appetite for violence

‘Luigi: The Musical’ and the Left’s growing appetite for violence

The Left’s favorite alleged killer, Luigi Mangione, is getting off-Broadway treatment this June, just 20 minutes from where UnitedHealthcare CEO...

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Peter Cordi

With the new McDonald’s sandwich, I’m not lovin’ it

With the new McDonald’s sandwich, I’m not lovin’ it

Chris Kempczinski is one of the great male beneficiaries of the #MeToo heyday, winning the internal promotion to replace McDonald’s CEO and...

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Tiana Lowe Doescher

The Iranian Grand Prix

The Iranian Grand Prix

With Iran lobbing suicide drones and ballistic missiles at every military base and apartment complex from Muscat to Tel Aviv, the most important...

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Andrew Bernard

Marco’s moment: It’s time to take a 2028 Rubio run seriously

Marco’s moment: It’s time to take a 2028 Rubio run seriously

February’s Munich Security Conference delivered not one, but two major developments. Beto 2.0: the comical portrayal of 'moderate' James...

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Peter Laffin

The rise of West Asia: How the Iran war will shape the 21st century

The rise of West Asia: How the Iran war will shape the 21st century

It is rare that political pundits wax philosophical, and probably not advisable when they do. Yet in the first week of the revived American-Israeli...

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Dominic Green

Pennsylvania Democrats, in moderation

Pennsylvania Democrats, in moderation

Pennsylvania has become the ultimate swing state, a must-win for both parties in presidential races and a state willing to elect candidates of either...

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Kyle Sammin

The founding fathers’ favorite word for our current political problems

The founding fathers’ favorite word for our current political problems

Ochlocracy. Now, there’s a classic $10 word common from the American founding era that should make a comeback. (But probably won’t). Pennsylvania...

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Andrew Fagal

Will Survivor 50 de-woke-ify?

Will Survivor 50 de-woke-ify?

I have been married for 23 years. Not bad for a man in his mid-forties. Nevertheless, CBS’s Survivor is so old that I watched its first season with...

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Graham Hillard

The only EV that ever mattered

The only EV that ever mattered

After nearly 14 years on the market, Tesla’s remarkable Model S electric vehicle is being discontinued. There will be no direct successor.  Much...

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Jack Baruth

Nightmarish cringe: A review of ‘Dreams’

Nightmarish cringe: A review of ‘Dreams’

Time can move pretty slowly in dreams, but seldom as slowly as in the consistently interminable, periodically risible new movie Dreams. In an unlikely...

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Peter Tonguette

A welcome change of leadership at DHS

A welcome change of leadership at DHS

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has been fired. Her removal was deserved and should have come after it was revealed that everything she said...

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Book clubbing

Book clubbing

A few years ago, a college friend called me on my birthday. He’d been feeling, he said, a little isolated — not lonely exactly, but cut off. His...

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Rob Long

James Talarico is the Mamdani of Texas

James Talarico is the Mamdani of Texas

With Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) getting edged out by state Rep. James Talarico, the state of Texas is far from safe for Republicans. While Talarico...

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Steven Taff

Trump gives Noem the Waltz treatment

Trump gives Noem the Waltz treatment

President Donald Trump’s demotion of Kristi Noem smells a lot like his decision to can Mike Waltz. Poor optics was the driving factor in both cases,...

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Peter Cordi

On This Day: Washington stuns Gen. Howe, who can scarcely believe what he pulled off

On This Day: Washington stuns Gen. Howe, who can scarcely believe what he pulled off

The following is an installment of “On This Day,” a series celebrating America’s 250th anniversary by following the actions of Gen. George...

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Salena Zito

Trump, Iran, and the midterm elections

Trump, Iran, and the midterm elections

TRUMP, IRAN, AND THE MIDTERM ELECTIONS. Last Dec. 9, this newsletter discussed the feeling, growing at the time, that President Donald Trump had not...

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Byron York

Why would the US or Israel trust Mark Carney’s Canada?

Why would the US or Israel trust Mark Carney’s Canada?

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is complaining about being left out of the loop about the strikes against Iran. Perhaps if he weren’t so busy...

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Zachary Faria

Hegseth should drop the flippant bluster

Hegseth should drop the flippant bluster

Making public statements, War Secretary Pete Hegseth’s job is to inform Americans on the state of the military and its operations. Childish bluster...

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Tom Rogan

James Talarico is the radical Left’s Trojan horse

James Talarico is the radical Left’s Trojan horse

State Rep. James Talarico, the Democratic nominee for the Texas Senate race, was sold to voters as an “electable” moderate. Now that his old posts...

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Peter Cordi

The $4.4 trillion pivot to socialism

The $4.4 trillion pivot to socialism

The mask is finally off. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) are no longer just advocating democratic socialism — they are...

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Steven Taff

We must terminate Tehran’s tentacles of terrorism, not just Iranian leadership

We must terminate Tehran’s tentacles of terrorism, not just Iranian leadership

Iran’s military assets are being obliterated by U.S. and Israeli strikes, but airpower cannot dismantle one of the regime’s most dangerous...

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Nate Sibley

When 7-OH fears drive policy by anecdote

When 7-OH fears drive policy by anecdote

For generations, communities in Southeast Asia have used the leaves of Mitragyna speciosa — kratom — brewed as a drink to relieve pain and steady...

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Jeffrey A. Singer

How US intelligence is guiding the Iran war effort

How US intelligence is guiding the Iran war effort

The success of Operation Epic Fury, the U.S. air and missile campaign being waged jointly with Israel against Iran, depends on two things: precision...

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John Schindler

Beware the Reza Pahlavi boosters

Beware the Reza Pahlavi boosters

Over the weekend, joint U.S.-Israeli air and missile strikes began against the Islamic Republic of Iran. These strikes have, thus far, inflicted grave...

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John Schindler

Oct. 7 is among history’s greatest military blunders

Oct. 7 is among history’s greatest military blunders

It is clear that the Iran-backed Hamas attacks on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, were a blunder of epic proportions for the Islamic regime. Many of...

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Brady Leonard