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Trump’s approval rating is better than meets the eye

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Howard Husock

The Trump economy is delivering for American workers

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Howard Husock

Trump is moving in the right direction on colorblind banking

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Howard Husock

New York City would make a grave mistake electing Mamdani

Zohran Mamdani, son of a politics professor and a Disney director, is a child of immense privilege, so it’s easy to dismiss his ideas about...

yesterday 3

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Trump is right, the Ukraine war should never have happened

President Donald Trump’s assertion that the war in Ukraine “should never have happened” is an accurate one. It was August 1991, just weeks before...

yesterday 3

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Mike Gonzalez

Gene editing and pedophilia, not so far apart

Another new in vitro fertilization startup has emerged, this one with explicit intelligence parameters to play with as a feature of its website....

yesterday 3

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Emma Fuentes

Experiment confirms what Ben Franklin knew about poverty

Experiment confirms what Ben Franklin knew about poverty

“If the government wants poor children to thrive, it should give their parents money.” That simple idea, the New York Times reported, has fueled a...

yesterday 2

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Mike Gonzalez

The hostages need stronger sanctions on Hamas and Iran

It has been more than 22 months since my son, Itay, a U.S.-Israeli citizen, was taken hostage by Hamas. He remains in the dungeons of Gaza to this...

yesterday 3

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Mike Gonzalez

Ukrainian corruption debacle illustrates strength of its democracy

When Volodymyr Zelensky was elected to Ukraine’s presidency on an anti-corruption platform in 2019, he embodied the country’s youthful desire for...

yesterday 2

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Mike Gonzalez

Is the woke tide turning in American universities?

The student giving a tour at an elite American university this summer hit all the right points: what the core and elective courses are, how hard...

yesterday 2

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Mike Gonzalez

Democrats want to unmask the ICE agents they are putting in danger

Democrats are grasping for any ledge in the illegal immigration debate that could give them some support as they fight to keep all illegal...

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Zachary Faria

The many reasons Kamala Harris is never running for public office again

When you see the name “Kamala Harris,” what’s the first word that pops into your mind? A) Historic B) Winner C) Loser D) Inauthentic E) Both C...

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Zachary Faria

If Muslims behead Catholics in a church, does it make a sound with legacy media?

All was initially well for Catholics at Sunday night’s mass at the Parish of Blessed Anuarite in Komanda, Democratic Republic of the Congo. They...

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Ian Haworth

From ‘He’s crashing the economy’ to ‘It’s a mirage’

FROM ‘HE’S CRASHING THE ECONOMY’ TO ‘IT’S A MIRAGE.’ Go back three months, when the government released gross domestic product numbers...

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Ian Haworth

Israel can do better, but Hamas should not get a state

More food aid is flowing into Gaza after Israel‘s authorization of new United Nations aid transit routes. This is a welcome development amid a...

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ICE Tracker: Police shooter and ‘America’s Most Wanted’ suspect arrested 

As liberals, Democrats, and their left-wing accomplices in the legacy media and political punditry vilified illegal immigration enforcement...

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Christopher Tremoglie

Macron’s gift to Hamas terrorism

In the wake of the most barbaric massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, French President Emmanuel Macron has decided to reward its progenitors,...

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Ian Haworth

America is developing a free speech problem

Britain, as every American knows, has a free speech problem. As a Brit, though, I am starting to wonder whether the United States might be...

previous day 4

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Ian Haworth

Zohran Mamdani wants you to stop talking about how he hates police

Democratic New York mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani could have responded to the murder of a New York City Police officer in any number of ways. He...

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Ian Haworth

The youth-quake: How Democrats lost a generation

A new poll released by Pew Research this morning reveals a seismic shift: younger Americans have swung toward the Republican Party at historic...

previous day 4

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Peter Laffin

The harrowing effects of screen time on children’s brains

A new, large-scale study published in the Journal of Human Development and Capabilities reveals how smartphone ownership in childhood may be...

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Debra Soh

Anything boys can do…

Anything boys can do…

There is a genre of online video and social media post that is revealing of our time. In one such video, an online fitness influencer posts herself...

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Debra Soh

What it means for Russia’s fight in Ukraine to be a ‘holy war’

What it means for Russia’s fight in Ukraine to be a ‘holy war’

The Russian Orthodox Church is supposed to bring people closer to God, not to Russian President Vladimir Putin. And yet, that seems to be just what...

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Emily Hester And Ivana Stradner

Rescissions are not a White House ‘fade on soft power’

Congress recently approved President Donald Trump’s request to claw back $9.4 billion in previously approved funding. Although the rescissions bill...

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Emily Hester And Ivana Stradner

Who’s afraid of Sydney Sweeney?

Who’s afraid of Sydney Sweeney‘s double-decker décolletage? Apparently, vast chunks of elite left-wing media, given its widespread apoplexy in...

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Tiana Lowe Doescher

The Senate tries to do what the Fed cannot: Solve the housing crisis

Though Washington laments the slow demise of civility within Congress, bipartisanship, at least when it comes to legislating, is usually a bad...

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Peter Laffin

AI explains why AI is biased against Republicans

On Wednesday, while writing a story on gerrymandering, I asked ChatGPT, “Which states have congressional delegation partisan breakdowns most...

previous day 3

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Debra Soh

Planned Parenthood has no First Amendment right to taxpayer funding

Democrats are so singularly focused on abortion that the party is now arguing that the First Amendment dictates that Planned Parenthood must be...

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Debra Soh

Four of the top five most gerrymandered states are controlled by Democrats

The Democratic Party is whining about a new Texas Republican Party map released Wednesday that would turn the current 12-seat Republican advantage...

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Debra Soh

Europe is encouraging a new age of terrorism

On July 29, 2025, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer declared that the United Kingdom would recognize a State of Palestine unilaterally unless...

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Emily Hester And Ivana Stradner

Independent Palestine would be a disaster for Palestinians

On July 24, 2025, French President Emmanuel Macron said France would recognize a Palestinian state. For proponents of Palestinian statehood,...

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Michael Rubin

Time to choose: Trial lawyers or Trump’s energy agenda

Time to choose: Trial lawyers or Trump’s energy agenda

Gov. Jeff Landry (R-LA) called tort reform changes enacted at the state legislature a victory. But for anyone who cares about Louisiana’s role in...

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Michael Rubin

Planned Parenthood is not the only choice for women

U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani issued an opinion on Monday that blocks the part of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act meant to essentially defund...

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Timothy P. Carney

Soros-funded prosecutor Steve Descano and Fairfax County’s booming brothel industry

FALLS CHURCH, Virginia — Prostitution is illegal in the state of Virginia, but dozens of brothels nevertheless operate openly in Fairfax County...

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Timothy P. Carney

Red state lawsuits threaten Trump’s energy dominance vision

President Donald Trump’s bold agenda for American energy dominance is in full effect. Summer drivers already see the benefits as summer gas prices...

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Mandy Gunasekara

Heading toward midterm elections, Democrats not up off the floor

Here’s a clue that the off-year elections in November 2026 may not go the way conventional wisdom suggests. That conventional wisdom is that the...

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Mandy Gunasekara

AOC, Crockett, and Mamdani: The scary future of the Democrats is now

AOC, Crockett, and Mamdani: The scary future of the Democrats is now

“Democratic voters have said they want a fighter, and Jasmine Crockett, a former attorney who represents the Dallas area, has spent two and a half...

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Joe Concha

Trump bolsters military’s nuclear readiness to deter Russia

President Donald Trump is often far too trusting of the KGB Red Banner Institute-trained manipulator, Russian President Vladimir Putin. Still, no...

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Tom Rogan

The Manhattan mass shooter was ready for his close-up

A 27-year-old Las Vegas man drove cross-country in a BMW with an M4 automatic rifle. He arrived in Midtown Manhattan on Monday and strode cooly...

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Tom Rogan

The Left’s Caucasophobia on display over Sydney Sweeney ad

The Left has done some utterly absurd, ridiculous, and offensive things in adhering to its political ideologies. This includes a significant amount...

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Tom Rogan

A Palestinian state requires the end of Hamas

“Establishing a Palestinian state today is establishing a Hamas state, a jihadist state,” Israel’s Foreign Minister Gideon Saar declared Monday....

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Michael Rubin

Republicans are in better shape for 2026 midterm elections than 2018

By every conventional historical measure, the Republican Party’s governing trifecta, control of the White House, the Senate, and the House of...

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Jeremiah Poff

California’s pathetic power example

It takes a certain amount of gall to ask the country to follow your state’s lead on energy policy when your state currently has the nation’s...

29.07.2025 3

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No, Sydney Sweeney is not a Nazi propagandist

“That’s Nazi propaganda.” “This is a whole Eugenics campaign! This is how left-wing TikTok influencers described a jeans commercial in videos that...

29.07.2025 2

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Brad Polumbo

Can a Fleetwood Mac song bridge America’s divide?

Can a Fleetwood Mac song bridge America’s divide?

It’s been used by former President Bill Clinton, Greenpeace, and Vice President JD Vance. It has inspired, and annoyed, generations of music fans....

29.07.2025 3

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Mark Judge

The confessional is not a legal loophole for child abusers

The confessional is not a legal loophole for child abusers

The nation is rightly frustrated over the failure to get to the bottom of the Jeffrey Epstein child sexual abuse network. Any child abuser or...

29.07.2025 5

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Mark Judge

The key question about the Epstein issue is: What is the issue?

THE KEY QUESTION ABOUT THE EPSTEIN ISSUE IS: WHAT IS THE ISSUE? Perhaps fearing that without constant reminders the public might lose interest in...

29.07.2025 5

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Jeremiah Poff

Will ‘not anti-gun at all’ Newsom ban handguns in California?

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s (D-CA) yearslong pursuit of the presidency is running into a problem: He is trying to portray himself as a moderate, while...

29.07.2025 2

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Jeremiah Poff

ICE Tracker: The violent illegal immigrants Homeland Security protects us from

For far too long, Department of Homeland Security officials and Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have been vilified by liberals,...

29.07.2025 3

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Christopher Tremoglie

Democrats need to be more than anti-Trump

Democrats need to be more than anti-Trump

The Democratic Party may be planning to campaign against President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act “from now until November 2026,” but...

28.07.2025 6

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