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Rich Lowry

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Sports gambling is out of control — the NBA scandal is just the tip of the iceberg

Sports gambling is out of control — the NBA scandal is just the tip of the iceberg

We’ve created, out of nothing, an enormous industry that is inherently corrupting and ruins lives — and the criminal cases are adding up.

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Depending on China for rare-earths is one of our dumbest mistakes — and must be corrected PRONTO

Depending on China for rare-earths is one of our dumbest mistakes — and must be corrected PRONTO

In the 1960s, the conservative intellectual James Burnham wrote a book arguing that the decline of Western civilization was a self-imposed...

21.10.2025 3

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Phil Murphy’s foolish obsession with wind power has carved a huge opening for Jack Ciatarrelli

Phil Murphy’s foolish obsession with wind power has carved a huge opening for Jack Ciatarrelli

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy’s obsession with wind power is one of the reasons the state’s gubernatorial race is competitive and Republican Jack...

17.10.2025 20

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Trump’s Knesset rally — a ringing endorsement of Israel and a US pledge for peace

Trump’s Knesset rally — a ringing endorsement of Israel and a US pledge for peace

Donald Trump’s speech was a raucous, celebratory affair as lawmakers in Jerusalem showered him with adulation — and he delivered the most lavishly...

14.10.2025 10

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Thank Trump’s useful, ‘gonzo’ foreign policy for the Mideast cease-fire — and other wins

Thank Trump’s useful, ‘gonzo’ foreign policy for the Mideast cease-fire — and other wins

The “cease-fire now” crowd finally got its cease-fire, although not the way it hoped. 

10.10.2025 4

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Democrats have only themselves to blame for Trump’s National Guard patrols

Democrats have only themselves to blame for Trump’s National Guard patrols

Leftist leaders' incendiary rhetoric has whipped followers into an anti-ICE frenzy — but if we’re in the run-up to another Civil War, they're in...

07.10.2025 2

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Pete Hegseth’s demand that troops be fit — not fat — is essential to US military readiness

Doesn’t Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth realize that push-ups are passé?

03.10.2025 5

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Mississippi’s reading triumph is no miracle — it’s the future of education

Mississippi recognized its reading crisis and took action to solve it — proving to big-spending blue states like New York and California that...

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The left is waging a sustained domestic-terror campaign against the Trump presidency

Donald Trump’s second term has been met with a sustained, low-level campaign of domestic terrorism.

26.09.2025 3

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Human Umpiring Is Terrible for Baseball 

25.09.2025 4

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Trump’s Anti-Putin Turn

25.09.2025 9

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Charlie Kirk is our first pro-trans assassination victim — here’s why he won’t be the last

The trans cause has been infused with an irrational fervor from the beginning, its ethos deeply illiberal and even threatening — and its zeal...

23.09.2025 20

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Media can’t handle the truth about Tyler Robinson — and foolish Jimmy Kimmel fell for the spin

It's nearly impossible for the media to process the concept of “pro-trans militancy,” let alone pro-trans violence — so reporters and hosts...

19.09.2025 20

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Charlie Kirk’s normal morality made him deviance culture’s deadly foe

Let's stop pretending that meeting the demands of trans activists is the great civil rights issue of our time, and stop denigrating as bigots those...

17.09.2025 20

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Charlie Kirk lived out the mission that our universities betrayed

Leftist universities abandoned their roots when they rendered opposing views illegitimate. Charlie Kirk punched through their obstacles — and...

14.09.2025 40

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Charlotte’s mayor underplays murder of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zaruska – when city is to blame

In her response to the murder of Iryna Zaruska on a light-rail train in Charlotte, North Carolina, the city’s mayor demonstrated the mindset that...

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Why a liberal senator confuses Thomas Jefferson and Iran’s ayatollahs

Tim Kaine needs to report to a remedial civics class as soon as possible.

06.09.2025 60

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Tariffs, crime, now housing — Trump pushes ‘emergency powers’ to the max

President Trump's government-by-emergency is dangerously unstable, putting his agenda under a legal cloud — and risking future partisan retaliation.

04.09.2025 4

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The Fed’s Lisa Cook doesn’t get the joke: Trump can fire her for ANY reason

Uncharacteristically for him, President Donald Trump is being too modest in asserting his power over the Federal Reserve. 

31.08.2025 10

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Trump’s National Guard patrols are a big winner — but not remotely a cure-all

For Trump, the Guard deployments are an emblem of the restoration of public order — and better yet, they generate over-the-top reactions from his...

27.08.2025 5

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A desperate left is now aiming to paint Trump as — get this! —secretly enfeebled

MSNBC's Lawrence O’Donnell thinks he’s on to a scandal: Donald Trump, who held a snap summit with Vladimir Putin in Alaska, and immediately after...

23.08.2025 4

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When Is a Final Order of Removal Final?

22.08.2025 30

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Trump Is Europe’s Daddy, Cont.

21.08.2025 4

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Trump’s war on mail-in voting is futile — and could hurt the GOP

President Trump is threatening to wage war on mail-in ballots — and the GOP has to hope he thinks again before the 2026 midterms.  In a Truth...

19.08.2025 4

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BREAKING: Trump Defines the Republican Party

19.08.2025 5

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Yes, Of Course, Texas Democrats Are Headed Home

19.08.2025 7

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Too Soon to Tell

18.08.2025 3

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Cursed Be the Attempted Peacemaker

18.08.2025 5

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It’s the Age of Trump — and he’s forging a new political era

There’s little doubt we are witnessing something historic: Donald Trump's epic second term may be the most consequential presidency since Ronald...

15.08.2025 4

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Washington, DC has only itself to blame for Trump’s law-and-order takeover

The bumbling local government's failures means that Washington, DC, has never been a worthy seat for the world's greatest and most powerful nation.

12.08.2025 30

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The Naked Gun — 33 1/3 Stars

12.08.2025 4

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Trump is right: US census is a disgrace — but rushing a new one is worse

The census is a core function of the federal government — indeed, mandated by the Constitution — and it's an outrage that the last one missed so...

09.08.2025 10

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Democrats howling at Texas redistrict push should take a look in the mirror

Texas Democrats fled to Illinois to stymie Gov. Greg Abbott's redistricting vote. Next time they should do a hypocrisy check before booking a...

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80 years ago, the A-bomb saved countless lives — but now we must defend against nukes

Next time, it could be an instrument in the hands of an irrational regime, or rival nation bent on the destruction of American power.

02.08.2025 10

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If Only the BLS Commissioner Hadn’t Pursued Such an Erratic Tariff Policy

02.08.2025 3

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Trump Is Europe’s Daddy

30.07.2025 3

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Israel gets the blame — but Hamas controls hungry Gazans’ plight

Hamas considers the agony of Gazans a useful weapon in its narrative war, and has used the distribution of food to build its military capacity.

30.07.2025 30

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Sorry, Jeffrey Epstein truthers, the pedophile was no spy — here’s why

The evidence against it beggars belief — yet influential voices on the right insist Israel might be behind one of the most hideous scandals in...

23.07.2025 6

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I Know Washington is Hot and Humid, But…

19.07.2025 10

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Behind the ‘boondoggle’ of Gavin Newsom’s high-speed rail dream

The idea of high-speed rail has a nearly erotic appeal to progressives. What could go wrong? In California, everything.

19.07.2025 20

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Tired of All the Winning, I

18.07.2025 5

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Tired of All the Winning, II 

18.07.2025 30

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That’s it, Big Bird — time for you, and PBS, to get off the Washington gravy train

Private media entities go out of business all the time. Washington shouldn’t extend taxpayer dollars to a few select outlets — especially not when...

15.07.2025 20

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Malicious critics are scrambling to blame Trump for the deadly Texas floods

Donald Trump has been accused of many outlandish things, but killing children with flash floods has to be among the worst.

08.07.2025 60

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Mom, apple pie and the Savannah Bananas — America at its rollicking best

The madcap exhibition team has made America’s pastime even more American, tapping into the antic spirit of minor-league baseball and the showmanship...

04.07.2025 10

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Trump’s racking up wins — and rewriting the book on diplomacy

Trump has executed a near-complete inversion of the typical diplomatic formula: He’s not nice, he’s not conflict-averse, he’s not euphemistic...

02.07.2025 20

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F1 Is a Great Sports Movie

01.07.2025 3

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Uh, That’s Literal Communism!

01.07.2025 10

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Blast ‘em: Get rid of the blocky brutalist buildings that blight our nation’s capital

President Trump wants to ditch concrete monstrosities like the FBI building that uglify Washington DC — and federal agencies are already paying heed.

29.06.2025 10

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Trump seals his ‘President Badass’ cred — and makes US foes think twice

Trump the TV star has a knack for the theatrical and grand gesture — and when he makes good on a threat, it leaves a mark.

24.06.2025 10

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