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Rich Lowry

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Talk loudly and swing a yuge stick: Trump does Teddy Roosevelt one better

Donald Trump is practicing not deterrence but 'compellence,' making a threat to coerce foreign actors into doing things we want.

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Yes to Robots

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A Tale of Two Executive Orders

26.01.2025 1

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Trump’s bold strike against DEI ends 60 years of discrimination — and makes history

Trump’s bold strike against DEI ends 60 years of discrimination — and makes history

We’re only days into the Trump administration, and we can already identify one of his top five achievements.

25.01.2025 70

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Trump Threatens Russia

24.01.2025 10

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Disco never died, it was waiting for Trump: How new prez won the political and cultural center

Disco never died, it was waiting for Trump: How new prez won the political and cultural center

How did a Democratic Party that has long prided itself on its hipness lose the culture fight to Donald J. Trump? Voters concluded that he made more...

21.01.2025 6

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Whatever Coca-Cola’s politics may be, the drink’s a gift to the world

Whatever Coca-Cola’s politics may be, the drink’s a gift to the world

In 1942, the Nazi apparatchik Otto Dietrich sniffed, “America never contributed anything to world civilization but chewing gum and Coca-Cola.”

18.01.2025 3

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Gender doesn’t matter to an inferno: LA fires lay waste to DEI agenda

Gender doesn’t matter to an inferno: LA fires lay waste to DEI agenda

Los Angeles for years has been in the grips of a bizarre obsession with recruiting more women firefighters, as if gender diversity somehow makes it...

15.01.2025 6

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Google Search Didn’t Want Me to Write Today’s Column

15.01.2025 4

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Location, location: Why Trump’s Greenland push is smart geopolitics

Location, location: Why Trump’s Greenland push is smart geopolitics

To understand the world, and to a large extent the behavior of nations, you need to look at a map — which is why Donald Trump is talking up...

11.01.2025 30

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Forget Biden’s shameful drilling ban — energy will be Trump’s superpower

Forget Biden’s shameful drilling ban — energy will be Trump’s superpower

Rarely has there been a more concerted effort by a country’s leadership to eliminate a source of national strength than the Biden administration’s...

07.01.2025 60

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The College Football Playoffs Finally Deliver

The hope for the playoffs is that you’d have some March Madness–type drama. Instead, every weak team you’d expect to lose has lost (small sample...

04.01.2025 2

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Johnson Survives

It never made any sense to take down Speaker Mike Johnson, and after some dramatic arm-twisting to bring back a couple of defectors, Johnson got...

04.01.2025 3

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The Great Ozempic Debate 

I have a piece up on the home page on the tension between Elon Musk (pro) and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (basically anti) on obesity drugs. I really...

03.01.2025 2

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Three Cheers for the Pop Tarts Bowl

I’m a sucker for almost any sports phenomenon, so count me emphatically in on the Pop Tarts bowl. It is not quite the granddaddy of them all, but...

02.01.2025 3

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We Don’t Need More Legal Immigration to Get More Geniuses

Anybody who hasn’t been under a rock is aware of the battle that has taken place the last several of days over legal immigration and H1B visas,...

31.12.2024 3

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Trump Endorses Mike Johnson

Speaker Johnson literally has no margin for error, but a full-throated Trump endorsement was going to be the most important factor in his favor,...

31.12.2024 20

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Biden’s horrific commutations are a grotesque abuse of the US justice system

President Biden, or whoever is running the White House, has grotesquely abused the pardon power, yet again.  Biden commuted the sentences of 37 out...

24.12.2024 70

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Hey, Thanks for All the Boring First-Round Playoff Games

Well, that was disappointing. I take the point that there were blowouts even in the old four-team format and that other sports end up with...

23.12.2024 3

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GOP’s budget revolt a hopeful sign of fiscal sanity — but it’s just a start

It feels like 2013 again.  Back then, a beleaguered Republican speaker of the House was forced into a government shutdown by firebrands in his...

20.12.2024 30

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A Most Pleasing Defenestration on the Way

Justin Trudeau is teetering, and it’s great to see. All you needed to know about his prospects was established a couple of months ago in this...

19.12.2024 2

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Trump’s tough talk on Hamas hostages delivers America’s righteous fury — at last

If they have any instinct for self-preservation, Iran and Hamas should be monitoring President-elect Donald Trump’s communications very closely...

17.12.2024 100

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Elon Musk’s future-forward energy is forging a new Trump brand of populism

It’s a testament to the energy and drive of Elon Musk that he’s now a key adviser to an incoming  president of the United States that he helped...

14.12.2024 7

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Trump Bombshells That Weren’t

I regularly check in at the website Mediate to see what’s going on, and this morning it had a couple of stories about bombshell statements Trump...

13.12.2024 5

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Trump must resist lawfare — to let success be his best revenge

Jack Smith is on his way out, and we don’t need another one.  While serving in Joe Biden’s Department of Justice, the special counsel concocted...

11.12.2024 7

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With Trump facing fewer obstacles today than in 2016, he’s got a lot of green space ahead of him

It’s not 2016 again.  President-elect Donald Trump is off to a strong start with markedly fewer obstructions than the last time he won.  In...

06.12.2024 10

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I Always Had Faith Joe Biden Would F*** It Up

06.12.2024 3

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Ron DeSantis Would Be a Fantastic Cabinet Secretary

05.12.2024 5

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Best news of 2024: The collapse of ‘diversity, equity, inclusion’

DEI is a bad idea whose time came with a vengeance several years ago, but now its continued ascendancy is in doubt. Perhaps the most important...

28.11.2024 20

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Ignore the hysteria: Trump’s deportations will be an outbreak of lawfulness

It's a sign of how perverse the immigration debate has become that defying the law is treated as the norm, but it’s a five-alarm fire if an...

27.11.2024 50

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We Are About $1,000 Away

27.11.2024 4

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Thank You!

27.11.2024 4

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Just $6,000 Away

26.11.2024 2

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Trump and Elon Musk bring American swagger, joyous awe back to space travel

Rockets are an enduring object of human fascination, and Musk's Space X is bringing an appropriate sense of brio to one of mankind’s coolest...

23.11.2024 30

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Hey, Now — $125,000 and Counting

22.11.2024 3

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Donald Trump, Cultural Icon

21.11.2024 3

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Terre Haute Bound

20.11.2024 30

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‘Whispered conversations’ on woke overreach drove pro-Trump election backlash

Donald Trump’s opposition to trans surgeries for inmates and to males playing in female sports aren’t right-wing positions — they’ve only...

19.11.2024 50

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There’s a reason progressives don’t have their own Joe Rogan

Progressives are correct about the power of Joe Rogan and his cohort of bro podcasters, but they don’t understand how thoroughly anathema their...

16.11.2024 40

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The MSG Rally You Didn’t Hear About

30.10.2024 3

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The Madison Square Garden Smear

28.10.2024 10

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Mail-in ballots have made our election tallying a national embarrassment

Elon Musk can land a rocket booster back at the launch tower seven minutes after it takes off, but swing states can’t count votes in a timely...

22.10.2024 10

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Kamala Harris can’t answer for her border disaster because there ARE no good answers

Don't blame Kamala Harris' failure to address her administration's border disaster border on her poor communication skills — fact is, there just...

20.10.2024 90

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GOP candidates follow Trump on transgender politics — and put Democrats on defense

GOP Senate candidates are hitting their Democratic opponents on their trans-radicalism and have them on the run.

16.10.2024 10

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Harris Is Becoming Less Popular

14.10.2024 2

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Biden-Harris CBP One app is a travesty — a false ‘solution’ to the border crisis

Realizing that the border flow was a political problem, the administration figured out a brilliant way to get apprehensions down: by not...

12.10.2024 20

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Next Cancellation Stop — Mercer University

11.10.2024 2

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Journalism Happens — CBS Staffers Cry

10.10.2024 6

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A Blue-Wall Warning for Kamala

10.10.2024 2

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The Democratic Plant Who Could Throw the Wisconsin Senate Race

10.10.2024 10

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