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The Pentagon’s 60-day game of chicken over aircraft carriers

The Pentagon’s 60-day game of chicken over aircraft carriers

When President Donald Trump issued an executive memorandum directing Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to draft a plan to rip the Electromagnetic...

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A doctor’s diagnosis: Is Trump politically constipated on Iran?

A doctor’s diagnosis: Is Trump politically constipated on Iran?

As a physician, a judge, and a political animal, I know a blockage when I see one. In medicine, when a patient’s system is completely backed up,...

12.10.2026 6

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Slammed on the brakes to save a life? Your insurance app just penalized you

Slammed on the brakes to save a life? Your insurance app just penalized you

To a consumer dealing with inflation, the pitch sounds great: download an app, let your insurer track your driving, and watch your premium drop. Major...

11.10.2026 8

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We built a Frankenstein Congress: Thirty-four laws, 2,000 hearings, and ‘gotcha’ politics eating us alive

We built a Frankenstein Congress: Thirty-four laws, 2,000 hearings, and ‘gotcha’ politics eating us alive

The public is exhausted, and rightfully so. We are witnessing a systemic failure of our federal government, driven by a legislature that has entirely...

11.10.2026 5

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Modern science can reverse heart disease. Washington prefers cheap statins

Modern science can reverse heart disease. Washington prefers cheap statins

A quiet algorithmic coup recently reshaped American medicine. The American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association released their...

11.10.2026 4

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‘The dip’ is a lie: How institutions engineer retail panic to buy your shares cheap

‘The dip’ is a lie: How institutions engineer retail panic to buy your shares cheap

When a mega-cap market leader suddenly drops a few percentage points on a seemingly minor headline, the financial press rushes to find fundamental...

10.10.2026 5

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Your party losing is not an existential threat. Your temper tantrum is

Your party losing is not an existential threat. Your temper tantrum is

We live in an age of fractures. Our politics are tribal, our communities are atomized, and our public square is a battleground. As the next election...

10.10.2026 4

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Forget your model: The ‘blue wave’ is a fantasy. The Republican ‘firewall’ is a lie

Forget your model: The ‘blue wave’ is a fantasy. The Republican ‘firewall’ is a lie

With the midterm elections fast approaching, a familiar story has taken hold of Washington. Driven by falling approval ratings for President Donald...

10.10.2026 10

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The climate war’s dumbest lie: Jobs vs. nature

The climate war’s dumbest lie: Jobs vs. nature

Living on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, the environment isn’t an abstract scientific white paper — it is the bedrock of our regional economy, our...

09.10.2026 7

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If you trust elections only when you win, you’re the one destroying democracy

If you trust elections only when you win, you’re the one destroying democracy

A constitutional republic is only as stable as the public trust inside its structural guardrails. When that trust erodes, the entire architecture of...

08.10.2026 5

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I’m a lifelong NRA member and a doctor. America’s gun debate is a scam

I’m a lifelong NRA member and a doctor. America’s gun debate is a scam

The right to feel safe in your own home, to walk down your local street after dark, and to send your children to school without a knot of anxiety in...

08.10.2026 5

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America isn’t having a civil war. Cable news is just desperate for ratings

America isn’t having a civil war. Cable news is just desperate for ratings

If your only window into the American soul is the nightly cable news broadcast, you would assume we are a nation completely irreconcilable, locked in...

07.10.2026 8

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Rising interest outpaces national defense. It’s eating America alive

Rising interest outpaces national defense. It’s eating America alive

We have entered an era where our national debt figures have grown so astronomical that the human mind simply tunes them out as abstract noise. But the...

07.10.2026 8

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I’m a doctor, and I’m sick of watching my patients go bankrupt just to stay alive

I’m a doctor, and I’m sick of watching my patients go bankrupt just to stay alive

Decades spent practicing medicine have given me a view of healthcare that you simply cannot get from a political platform. I don’t look at this...

06.10.2026 7

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The stock market is lying: Wall Street booms, your bank account drowns

The stock market is lying: Wall Street booms, your bank account drowns

The health of the American economy is too often evaluated by metrics that mean absolutely nothing to a family trying to stay afloat. Stock market...

06.10.2026 5

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TikTok didn’t destroy 9/11 history. Our classrooms did

TikTok didn’t destroy 9/11 history. Our classrooms did

Around the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, I wrote a piece for the Washington Examiner focusing on the critical state of 9/11...

06.10.2026 6

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The border crisis is a choice, not a culture war

The border crisis is a choice, not a culture war

To listen to national talk radio is to believe that the immigration debate is purely an ideological proxy war. But strip away the campaign theatrics,...

05.10.2026 9

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Meta knew it was hooking our children. Now 42 states are coming for the check

Meta knew it was hooking our children. Now 42 states are coming for the check

A legal reckoning has arrived for Big Tech. A massive multistate lawsuit targeting youth social media addiction recently escalated to trial...

05.10.2026 6

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Stop calling it AI. Trump’s ‘super intelligence’ Cold War has begun

Stop calling it AI. Trump’s ‘super intelligence’ Cold War has begun

We have entered a new, terrifying, and deeply awe-inspiring epoch. If you feel like the ground beneath the global artificial intelligence race is...

05.10.2026 8

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Washington isn’t broken. It’s just run by insiders who don’t care about you

Washington isn’t broken. It’s just run by insiders who don’t care about you

Public cynicism regarding Washington isn’t just a mood; it has become the default setting for American citizenship. When a tiny fraction of the...

04.10.2026 10

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Warhol was a genius for using assistants. Why was Peter Max called a fraud?

Warhol was a genius for using assistants. Why was Peter Max called a fraud?

The late American artist Peter Max (Peter Max Finkelstein) was a true pop culture pioneer of the 1960s. He was born in Berlin to a Jewish family that...

04.10.2026 7

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Legacy media is committing cultural suicide by gutting opinion pages

Legacy media is committing cultural suicide by gutting opinion pages

For nearly 25 years, I’ve had one foot in medicine as a pathologist and the other in the political arena. Over that time, I’ve written commentary...

04.10.2026 9

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The FDA fortified white bread, but left Hispanics exposed to birth defects

The FDA fortified white bread, but left Hispanics exposed to birth defects

When the U.S. Food and Drug Administration mandated the folic acid fortification of enriched cereal grains in 1998, it was celebrated as one of the...

04.10.2026 8

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Socialism for CEOs, inflation for you

Socialism for CEOs, inflation for you

The American taxpayer is trapped in a multi-billion-dollar cycle of state-sponsored economic distortion. Under the banner of national security, green...

04.10.2026 10

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Zuckerberg can’t buy his way out of this one: A Santa Fe jury handed Meta a $219 billion reckoning

Zuckerberg can’t buy his way out of this one: A Santa Fe jury handed Meta a $219 billion reckoning

A Santa Fe jury just sent a shockwave through Silicon Valley. On Sept. 25, 2026, First Judicial District Judge Francis Mathew presided over a landmark...

04.10.2026 10

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Stop telling Americans the economy is booming — living here has become a luxury

Walk into any grocery store in Queen Anne’s County or drive up to a gas pump anywhere in Maryland, and you immediately feel a heavy weight in your...

03.10.2026 10

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Stop walking 10,000 steps: You’re falling for a 60-year-old Japanese marketing lie

For decades, millions of Americans have strapped on fitness trackers, driven by a singular, obsessive daily goal: hitting 10,000 steps. Missing that...

03.10.2026 10

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Your doctor’s blood pressure cuffs are bruising you into a misdiagnosis

An accurate blood pressure reading is the most vital baseline data point in modern medicine. It dictates heart care, surgery safety, and long-term...

03.10.2026 10

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Globalism is dead. Isolationism is suicide. Here’s how we survive

We’ve arrived at a rare intersection of human history. The past isn’t safely behind us in textbooks. Instead, it’s actively colliding with our...

03.10.2026 10

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Taxpayers socialize the stadium, professional sports privatize the game ball

I still remember going to baseball and hockey games as a child, leaning way over the railing with my glove. When a foul ball rattled into our section...

03.10.2026 10

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Think abortion is banned in your state? Medical groups just built the legal workaround

In the years following the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision, the landscape of American reproductive healthcare has undergone a...

02.10.2026 8

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Putin’s Kaliningrad threat is a bluff — and a nuclear trap

In the high-stakes theater of modern geopolitical brinkmanship, the Kremlin has dusted off its favorite prop: the nuclear threat. Today, Moscow...

02.10.2026 10

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Media got Iran dead wrong: Trump isn’t capitulating — he’s starving the beast

The legacy media love a predictable narrative. Mainstream outlets recently flooded the airwaves with anonymous leaks claiming that the Trump...

02.10.2026 8

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Even seashells would make a better national reserve than Bitcoin

Proponents of a federal “strategic Bitcoin reserve” wrap their arguments in futuristic tech jargon. They claim a digital ledger will lead global...

01.10.2026 5

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Iran sent America a 25-page letter. Here is the nuclear lie inside

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps recently released a 25-page open letter to the public. In addition to making a case against President Donald...

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The Fed isn’t fighting inflation. It’s bankrolling Wall Street

Central banks talk about interest rate hikes in very clinical terms. They call them a painful but necessary medicine. The Federal Reserve Board is...

30.09.2026 10

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Trump drama exposes the media’s dark secret: You’re paying their West Wing rent

Recent high-profile battles between the White House and corporate media outlets have resulted in historic bans, courtroom fights over press...

30.09.2026 10

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I spent 24 years on the ballot. Here is my direct warning about 2026

For the first time in nearly a quarter of a century, I am experiencing a deeply unfamiliar sensation. An election cycle is reaching its peak, but my...

29.09.2026 10

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Defund the monster: Why America must kill the United Nations

Just as the League of Nations collapsed because of its structural impotence and inability to prevent global conflict, its successor, the United...

29.09.2026 10

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Trump dines with Xi while the Pentagon starves the tech that could defeat him

The multiday White House extravaganza welcoming Chinese President Xi Jinping to Washington featured an opulent state dinner, a private tea meeting,...

29.09.2026 10

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Your doctor doesn’t work for you anymore. They work for a corporate cartel

When a patient walks into a local medical clinic, they assume the person making the decisions about their care is the physician wearing the white...

28.09.2026 9

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Women fight America’s wars. The military healthcare system fails them at home

Politicians and the public often discuss military and veterans’ healthcare as if they are a single entity. They are not. The Department of Defense...

28.09.2026 7

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Montana just found the legal cheat code to kill Citizens United

When political analysts look at Montana, they see a reliable stronghold of the modern Republican Party. This is a state that President Donald Trump...

27.09.2026 8

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Your $2,000 phone is being safety-tested with 1996 radiation science

The consumer electronics market is experiencing an evolutionary leap, driven by an explosion of consumer excitement over dual-screen and flexible...

26.09.2026 7

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You got $3.47. Your lawyer got $30 million. Welcome to the class action scam

Every few weeks, millions of Americans open their digital inboxes. They look through physical mail to discover a document written in dense, formal...

26.09.2026 9

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A simple blood test could catch cancer early. Washington won’t let you have it

In a recent op-ed, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. laid out a clear, urgent vision for the future of our healthcare system,...

24.09.2026 10

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Beijing thinks Taiwan is the next Hong Kong. That’s a fatal mistake

Every few years, academic circles and state-backed media on the Chinese mainland resurrect the prospect of a “peaceful reunification” under the...

24.09.2026 10

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Bombs were loaded, warplanes were ready — but Trump was right to say ‘no’

To the casual observer of geopolitics, the security crisis in the Middle East looks like an exercise in passivity. Our wealthy Gulf “allies,”...

23.09.2026 10

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Cut the oil, leak the secrets, feed the people: Trump’s blueprint to break Havana

In the realm of modern geopolitics, a secret is rarely exposed by accident. When granular details of classified American operations suddenly flood...

23.09.2026 8

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The media forgot about Panama — Trump didn’t. Now we’re evicting China from the canal

National newsrooms have developed a dangerous blind spot at our own doorstep: the Panama Canal. While the legacy media remain utterly consumed by a...

23.09.2026 10

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