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Epic Fury is highlighting the utter brilliance of ‘Drill, baby, drill’

The Western hemisphere stands to gain from the Iran crisis, as the closure of the Strait of Hormuz underlines the inherent risks of reliance on Middle...

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So Close to Our Final $175,000 Goal — Please, Help Us Get There

Here we go again! Once again, we’ve run a webathon. Once again, you’ve responded in an amazing fashion. And, I’m hoping, once again, you’ll...

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Trump’s defiance of assassins shows why he’s so exceptional a history-maker

President Trump's omnipresence, ambition and willingness to exercise power are making him one of the most dominant figures in American political...

29.04.2026 20

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Hasan Piker’s ‘cool crimes’ chatter exposes the left’s toxic rage

Is robbing the Louvre a good idea?

24.04.2026 10

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Michigan’s ‘Dearborn Democrats’ herald the Islamization of US politics

The trend will tie the Democratic Party even closer to campus radicalism — and will leave many Jewish Democrats politically homeless.

21.04.2026 9

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Can You Help Us Reach $100,000?

I’m guessing that our occasional webathons aren’t your favorite product here at NR, but they are very important to us and it’s always amazing...

21.04.2026 8

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Here’s what Code Pink and Pope Leo get wrong about war

Military conflict is, at times, necessary and highly consequential; it can achieve beneficent ends, as well as awful ones.

17.04.2026 7

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Pope Leo needs to brush up his Bible — and its lessons on war and peace

The Bible is not an injunction for pacifism, and it doesn’t entail a condemnation of the Iran war.

14.04.2026 8

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How San Francisco is licking crime — and offering hope forAmerica

Unlike some of the city’s other adventures, this one is actually working out.

11.04.2026 20

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Why Trump’s huge $1.5T defense budget is worth every penny

It reflects a correct assessment of what should be the federal government’s priority — not funding social services, but providing for the common...

07.04.2026 10

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Why the Artemis II mission is exciting everyone so much

BBC science editor Rebecca Morelle, who was covering the launch of Artemis II, couldn’t contain her enthusiasm when the first plumes of smoke spread...

04.04.2026 20

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Gulf states’ Iran battle scars push them closer to Trump — and Israel

There’s no insurance policy against having a fanatic millenarian state as a neighbor.

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What Jimmy Kimmel gets wrong about ‘plumbers’ like Markwayne Mullin

The late-night host took a shot at newly confirmed Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin, who used to run a plumbing business.

27.03.2026 10

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Why rescuing Christopher Columbus redeems America, too

Happy ending: An act of destruction seeking to change our public landscape and the story we tell about ourselves has been resisted and reversed.

23.03.2026 10

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Nobody owns Donald Trump — including his Israel-hating ex-allies

We have never had a president who is so thoroughly his own man as Donald Trump.

19.03.2026 10

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Why freeing the Strait of Hormuz is America’s burden to bear

Guarding the safe passage of commerce has been a core Anglo-American commitment for a couple of centuries, so this fight is on us.

17.03.2026 20

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I Love America, but . . .

. . . that call to end the game last night was a total disgrace. To have a Dominican hitter, Geraldo Perdomo, fight one of the best relievers in...

16.03.2026 20

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Damn Strait

This, from the New York Times, captures the problem with the Strait of Hormuz in a nutshell: At a meeting in the Oval Office last week, a frustrated...

16.03.2026 20

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Dire Strait

The CNN report the other day that the administration didn’t properly plan for a closure of the Strait of Hormuz has come in for heavy criticism. My...

14.03.2026 20

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Trump is obliterating Obama’s Iran-appeasement plan — to America’s benefit

But perhaps no Trump undertaking runs so directly counter to Obama’s approach than the Iran War.

13.03.2026 20

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Mamdani gets mugged by reality — after ISIS bombers target NYC

The mayor’s narrative of Islamic victimhood runs so deep that it's presumably hard for him to process that two Muslim men were more hateful than...

09.03.2026 30

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‘Self-serving glory hound’ Kristi Noem got the heave-ho she deserved

Incompetent and preposterously self-promoting, Noem took a serious role and made it like something out of the HBO political spoof “Veep.”

05.03.2026 20

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Bring on the Golden Dome — with Iran war, the age of missile defense is here

The conflict with Iran is putting US and Israeli missile defenses to the ultimate test.

03.03.2026 10

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Candace Owens hits new low with ‘depraved’ Erika Kirk conspiracy madness

It’s impossible to discredit Candace Owens — because she's not in the credibility business to begin with.

27.02.2026 20

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Patriotism and its enemies — the Jack Hughes-Eileen Gu Olympics debate

The Olympics bring athletes around the world together, but the Games themselves are testament to the enduring power of patriotism.

25.02.2026 60

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Amid Olympics, new documentary recalls America’s Miracle on Ice — and what ‘The Boys of ‘80’ won for red, white and blue

Amid this year’s Winter Olympics, Netflix's new documentary, “Miracle: The Boys of ’80,” recalls the victory of the gold-medal-winning US...

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AOC’s ignorant slam of Marco Rubio’s Munich speech proves she’ll never be ready for prime time

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez did a star turn at the Munich Security Conference, and her appearances went about as well as you’d expect of a celebrity...

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Olympian Eileen Gu’s decision to snub US and ski for China is nothing short of a hypocrisy

It isn’t easy being Eileen Gu.

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Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl 2026 halftime show made history — in all the wrong ways

For the first time ever, the NFL gave its stage to a performer who sought to put the country in its place.

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Virginia Democrats aim to ‘protect’ democracy — by screwing voters

Virginia is the new Illinois. Democrats there are moving to go from a congressional delegation with six Democrats and five Republicans — broadly...

07.02.2026 50

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Billie Eilish was just doing her job as a pop star – showing ignorance on US history

Billie Eilish can be forgiven for being thoughtless — as a pop star, it’s practically part of her job description, but her anti-ICE declaration at...

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Alex Pretti was no protester — here’s who bears blame for his death

If Alex Pretti was an “observer,” in the euphemism preferred by anti-ICE politicians and activists, he was observing how much unhinged behavior he...

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Tim Walz, ICE and Thomas Jefferson’s very WORST idea

Minnesota's Gov. Walz isn't a supple political thinker on the order of Thomas Jefferson, but his ICE lawsuit draws on the Founder's ideas about...

28.01.2026 30

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Master of evasion Bill Clinton may finally be held to account as Congress probes contempt

The former president and practiced political escape artist is on the verge of being held in contempt of Congress for ignoring a congressional subpoena...

24.01.2026 40

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Trump can learn a lot from this forgotten president as he sizes up Greenland

Like Trump, James K. Polk was a cold-eyed American expansionist — but even he compromised with allies to add to US territory.

22.01.2026 30

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How Minneapolis rioters are forcing Trump’s hand with the Insurrection Act

Minnesota’s elected officials can’t help themselves — they keep portraying federal law-enforcement officers as an alien, invading force,...

16.01.2026 30

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Erase Jimmy Carter’s Iran shame

As the Islamic Republic totters, the United States may soon experience a bookend of a terrible national embarrassment: the 1979 Iranian Revolution. 

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Why Trump’s audacious $1.5T ‘Dream Military’ budget is just what America needs

President Trump's historic defense build-up would meet the moment of looming Great Power conflicts — and match the predilections of a president who...

09.01.2026 20

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How Trump can get Greenland — without grabbing it by force

A lightly armed contingent of American crossing guards could probably take the Arctic island over in a couple of days — but the Greenland challenge...

06.01.2026 10

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RFK Jr. actually embraces the science on trans kids

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. isn’t always very careful about evidence — but when it comes to "gender affirmation" treatments, the most painstaking...

31.12.2025 20

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The latest anti-Israel conspiracy theory is decades old — and stupid as ever

An old and debunked claim that the Jewish state deliberately attacked a US Navy spy ship during the Six-Day War has renewed currency on the...

24.12.2025 40

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Bernie Sanders’ poisonously stupid anti-AI crusade would doom America’s future

The Vermont socialist wants us to take our chances ceding a technological advantage to China — and hoping everything turns out OK.

19.12.2025 20

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After Bondi Beach terror attack, the West must face Islamist ideology with clear eyes

The fundamentalist version of Islam is, at its root, hostile to Jews — yet mainstream political parties across the West have refused to cast a...

16.12.2025 60

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Bad influencer: Candace Owens’ toxic Charlie Kirk slanders are poisoning the right

Influential voices on the right have become more and more conspiratorial in recent years — and now, the paranoia is being wielded against its own.

12.12.2025 10

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The ‘Trump Doctrine’ isn’t just branding — it’s a crucial update for US power

Since the 1990s, we’ve let down our guard in the Western Hemisphere. Trump aims to right the power balance in America's backyard.

10.12.2025 10

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Three cheers for President Trump for letting motorists choose gas-powered cars

This uneconomical push for electric vehicles over gas-powered ones ignored consumer preferences and relied on high-handed executive overreach. 

08.12.2025 20

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Ungrateful Ilhan Omar and the Somali scammers are the immigrants we DON’T want

Rep. Ilhan Omar stands for everything we shouldn’t want an immigrant to be — petulant, hostile to the American system as such, and perhaps not...

03.12.2025 20

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Ukraine peace deal exposes feckless Europe’s total irrelevance

Once-great European powers can’t even dictate the end of a war in a European country whose fate they deem crucial to their own future.

27.11.2025 10

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Ken Burns’ ‘childish canard’ makes a woke mockery of America’s founding

Ken Burns says he wants to strip away 'the barnacles of sentimentality' around the American Revolution — but his film creates new barnacles...

25.11.2025 20

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President Trump’s tariffs are making US manufacturers shudder

Ronald Reagan famously said the most frightening words in the English language are: “I'm from the government, and I'm here to help.” US...

22.11.2025 10

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