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Four Questions About The Iran War That Deserve Clear, Consistent Answers

We’re more than a week into the Iran war and yet we have no clear or consistent objectives, no theory of victory.

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How Israel ‘Chain-Ganged’ The Trump Administration Into War Against Iran

It appears that President Trump allowed Israel, our purported ally, to drag the United States into war against Iran.

03.03.2026 10

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Trump Said We ‘Obliterated’ Iran’s Nuclear Program Last June. So Why Are We About To Go War?

The administration’s justifications for action against Iran keep shifting. Why can’t we get a straight answer?

27.02.2026 4

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Nigel Farage Isn’t Serious About Saving Britain

Any leader on the British right unwilling to consider mass deportations and denaturalization is just controlled opposition.

25.02.2026 10

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Turns Out The Irishman Detained By ICE Was Facing Drug Charges Back Home

The arrest of Irishman Seamus Culleton fueled a false media narrative that ICE is grabbing law-abiding people who have done nothing wrong.

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Eileen Gu Is The Poster Child For The Post-Nationalist Olympics

The American skier enjoys all the benefits of being an American, born and raised, but competes for the communist dictatorship of China.

11.02.2026 2

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Mass Amnesty In Spain Heralds The End Of Nationhood

In Spain and across Europe, the ruling elite are turning to imperial methods of governance to erase their own people.

06.02.2026 8

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Minnesota Democrats Are Creating A Nullification Crisis Over Immigration

States are not allowed simply to thwart or undermine federal laws they don’t like. It’s treasonous, and should be treated as such.

21.01.2026 10

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Top Democrats Are Agitating For Insurrection And Political Vigilantism

Democrats seem to think that laws and policies they don’t like can be thwarted by an angry mob or an insurrectionist governor.

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The Venezuela Raid Was A Win For America First Anti-Interventionism

American military power should be used to secure and safeguard American interests. That’s what happened in Caracas.

06.01.2026 7

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Vivek Ramaswamy Is Wrong About American Identity And Wrong About America

A disembodied notion of American identity means that America is really nothing at all, and no one is really an American.

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‘Birthright Citizenship’ Is A Feudal Relic That Has No Place In America

We used to base citizenship on consent, not birth. In an era of mass immigration, it’s time to get back to that older understanding.

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Democrats Would Like To Suppress Free Speech The Way Britain Does

The American left doesn’t look at the United Kingdom and see a cautionary tale, it sees a template to follow.

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The Pilgrims Were English Ethno-Nationalists

America wasn't 'founded by immigrants' but by English settlers who carried their culture across the Atlantic and established a new nation.

26.11.2025 10

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It’s Impossible To Keep Up With The Fall Of Britain

The United Kingdom is now in a rolling crisis that its leaders can neither manage nor control. We should pay attention.

12.11.2025 7

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The Attacks On Heritage And Kevin Roberts Are Really About Foreign Policy And J.D. Vance

Genuine concern about antisemitism on the right is being hijacked by neocons to attack J.D. Vance in hopes of re-taking control of the GOP.

04.11.2025 4

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American Heritage Is No Myth, It’s The Source Of Our Liberty And Peace

A shared American identity and cultural heritage isn’t some nativist delusion, it’s the only reason we’re not a collection of warring tribes.

23.10.2025 5

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Democrats Are Giving Up On Democracy

It doesn’t matter how unpopular Democrats’ policies are, they are not going to negotiate, they are not going to compromise.

10.10.2025 4

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The Left Has Abandoned Rational Debate And Embraced Political Violence

The aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s murder should leave no doubt: the left has become a political movement predicated on violence and coercion.

03.10.2025 10

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Britain Is Turning Its Back On Western Civilization

By praising cousin marriage, the National Health Service is repudiating Britain’s Christian past in favor of its unassimilated Muslims.

30.09.2025 5

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The American Left Is Resurrecting The Bloody Legacy Of John Brown

We should take the left’s invocation of John Brown seriously. It’s a call to murder anyone who opposes their agenda.

25.09.2025 3

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We Are Not Going To Have A Debate About Free Speech

The cancellation of Jimmy Kimmel’s show doesn’t matter. What matters is the left’s embrace of political violence.

19.09.2025 10

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There Can Be No Peace Or Unity With A Violent, Unrepentant Left

Enough with the false, lazy rhetoric blaming 'both sides' for political violence in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s murder.

16.09.2025 10

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Charlie Kirk’s Assassination Should Herald The End Of The American Left

The left has always been a violent, revolutionary movement, incompatible with ordered liberty. Politics isn’t possible with the left.

12.09.2025 7

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We Need To Bring Back Mass Incarceration And Involuntary Commitment

Senseless violence in our cities isn’t an unsolvable problem. Street psychotics like Decarlos Brown Jr. need to be locked away.

10.09.2025 4

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Let’s Stop Repeating The Liberal Line That America Is A ‘Proposition.’ It’s Not

America is a people and a nation, not an idea, and the hard truth is that not everyone can become an American.

04.09.2025 10

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It’s Time To Eradicate Transgenderism From Public Life

We don’t have to tolerate a demonic ideology that destroys lives, tears families apart, and keeps producing mass shooters.

02.09.2025 9

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Civil War Is Coming To Britain

Britain’s political leaders have lost all legitimacy, and the British people have the right to revolt against them in self-defense.

27.08.2025 5

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Disney Wants Ideas For Movies That Will Appeal To Young Men. I Have A Few

Making original films for young men isn’t that hard, but you have to quit pushing gay race communism and appeal to masculine virtue.

22.08.2025 4

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The Ukraine War Was Always Going To End This Way

From the very beginning it was clear that Ukraine’s borders, a relic of Soviet propaganda, would have to change.

18.08.2025 10

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Mass Immigration, Legal Or Illegal, Is Incompatible With National Survival

Mass deportation of illegal immigrants is not enough to save America. We have to recover an insistence on assimilation.

08.08.2025 10

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If An Immigrant Leaves The U.S. Indefinitely, How American Are They?

A Texas Democrat’s sudden departure overseas 'for the foreseeable future' raises important questions about immigration, assimilation, and American...

05.08.2025 5

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We Need To Get Women Out Of Men’s Spaces

It’s not natural or normal for women to be police officers, or soldiers, or firefighters. And we don’t have to pretend otherwise.

31.07.2025 5

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The Russia Collusion Hoax Is Worse Than You Think

New revelations suggest a conspiracy at the heart of the Obama White House to target Trump as a Russian agent.

29.07.2025 4

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The Intelligence Community Needs To Be Dismantled

Revelations about the Russia collusion hoax confirm our intel agencies are incompatible with democratic self-government and the rule of law.

24.07.2025 9

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America Is Not A ‘Nation Of Immigrants’

This insidious slogan is once again being used by Republicans to justify another amnesty bill.

17.07.2025 10

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Biden Was Never Fit For Office To Begin With

Who approved the Biden administration’s 11th-hour clemency decisions and authorized use of the autopen? Because it certainly wasn’t Biden.

15.07.2025 10

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It Should Be Obvious By Now That Not Everyone Can Become An American

We have to reject the toxic multicultural ideology, popular for many decades, that degrades citizenship to mere process neutralism.

11.07.2025 6

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No, The Texas Floods Are Not Some Mysterious Part Of God’s Plan 

Christians are permitted to hate sin and death without explaining how they fit into some inscrutable providence of Almighty God.

08.07.2025 10

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The NYT Interview With Andrew Schulz Is An Indictment Of Legacy Media

The reason the ‘manosphere’ is so popular is because people are genuinely interested in authentic conservations, not liberal propaganda.

03.07.2025 7

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Not Everyone With U.S. Citizenship Is Actually An American

As we approach Independence Day, we should be honest about the forces that are dissolving our American nation.

02.07.2025 10

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Whatever Happens Next, Iran Doesn’t Need To Be Made Safe For Democracy

Escalating our war with Iran by pursuing regime change and nation-building would be a colossal mistake.

23.06.2025 10

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Discredited Neocon Talking Points From The Iraq War Are Back, Lazily Re-Purposed For Iran

All the same regime-change rhetoric used to sell the Iraq war in 2003 is now being used to push us into the Israel-Iran war.

18.06.2025 7

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Brian Wilson’s California Died Decades Ago

Mass immigration from Mexico, legal and illegal, transformed California and created a fractured, riotous, and unstable polity.

16.06.2025 4

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Mexico Is Complicit In The L.A. Riots, And There Should Be Consequences

The appearance of Mexican flags in the L.A. riots is exactly what it appears to be: a declaration of war by a foreign power.

10.06.2025 8

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Under The Guise Of ‘Preventative Medicine’ For IVF, Eugenics Is Back

The libertarian tech bros creating neo-eugenics startups seem totally unaware of the moral monstrosities they are conjuring up.

06.06.2025 7

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European Populism Is Rising Against An Oppressive Political Elite

Europe’s political class has turned its back on the people it was supposed to protect. The people have taken notice.

03.06.2025 6

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The Left Ultimately Just Wants To Throw Conservatives In Prison

The story of a Yale graduate charged for allegedly using a racial slur should stand as a warning about the left’s true intentions.

16.05.2025 10

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Trump’s Riyadh Speech Heralds The End Of Failed Neocon Foreign Policy

Truly looking out for American interests means refraining from trying to remake foreign countries in our own image.

14.05.2025 9

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Why Pope Leo XIV Will Probably Not Be Francis 2.0

For Catholics, the new pope’s disposition toward the Latin Mass will tell us far more about his pontificate than his views on immigration.

10.05.2025 9

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