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Strangers On Native Soil

Linguistic exile, forbidden feelings of belonging, and the Western surrender of home.

yesterday 9

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Lars Møller

Milei's Foreign Policy: Trump or Xi Jinping?

Donald Trump or Xi Jinping? Capitalism with freedom, or capitalism under the command of the Chinese Communist Party? An Argentina integrated into the...

yesterday 5

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Fernando León

When Antiwar Commentary Reflects the Kremlin’s Narrative

Judge Napolitano’s commentary on Ukraine warrants examination not merely through the positions he articulates but also through the recurring themes,...

yesterday 4

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Mario Alexis Portella

The Second-Worst-Case Scenario For AI

‘Destruction of humanity’ ranks worst. But this outcome would be almost as bad.

yesterday 7

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Guy K. Mitchell

LBJ: 60 Years Of The Not-So Great Society

Lyndon Johnson was not a ‘tragic’ president. He was a bungler and a megalomaniac.

yesterday 6

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Jeffrey Folks

Those Poor, Maligned Rich

Every oligarch is wealthy or powerful, but not every wealthy person is an oligarch.

yesterday 7

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Stephen Helgesen

The agent economy is coming

For most of history, men operated tools. Then they operated machines. Then computers. Then software. Now you state the outcome. An economy of machines...

yesterday 10

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Kyle McClay

Blowhard Obama Is Back to Stoke AI Fears

When Obama tells you to be afraid, he wants something from you.

previous day 10

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J.b. Shurk

The 50-State Strategy for America’s Competition with China

China understands that its national power depends as much on its ability to innovate and build at scale as it does on traditional military power....

previous day 10

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Sean Nottoli

The Mysterious 9/11 Apology By Condoleezza Rice

Does “Operation Bojinka” ring a bell?

previous day 9

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Allan J. Favish

The Smoke of September 11

The consequences of this smoke may be just as lethal as the consequences of the smoke from the collapsing buildings.

previous day 2

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Gamaliel Isaac

The Terrorists’ Real Victory Wasn’t The Towers; It Was Much Worse

The response to the attack was to teach too many Americans to hate their own country—a country that does not deserve this hatred.

previous day 10

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Vince Coyner

In Praise of Constitutions

We should celebrate September 17 because we developed and still live by a document that assures the rule of law and the possibilities of freedom to...

previous day 10

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John M. Grondelski

So, You Want To Marry A Dolphin?

Societies that replace tolerance with compelled affirmation risk losing the shared norms and boundaries that make civilization possible.

wednesday 10

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Allan J. Feifer

It's Not A Bribe When The Dems Do It

The political system runs on promises meant to persuade voters that their lives will improve if they hand someone a ballot.

wednesday 10

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Luis Gonzalez

The $100 Oil Panic: Compared To What?

Oil has crossed the $100 line again, and right on cue, the warnings are back.

wednesday 10

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Mark Minnella

Is High-Voltage Grid Expansion Worth The Cost And The Problems?

The short-sightedness of allowing development to proceed in the hope that problems can be addressed when they arise will prove dangerous—to the...

wednesday 20

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Janet Levy

Never Forget?

What good are all our 9/11 memorial services if we allow sharia law to take over our country?

wednesday 10

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Eileen F. Toplansky

North Korea’s Bridge Of Death

For the North Korean men being drafted into Putin’s military, crossing the Tumen bridge may well be a one-way trip.

wednesday 10

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James Zumwalt

Don’t Give Government Another Buck

Many Americans treat a larger public budget as an obvious social good: if a problem persists, the remedy is another transfer from private production...

wednesday 10

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Jim Cardoza

Polls Are Even Worse In 2026 Than in 2016

Americans who still treat the polling industry as a weather report are flying blind into a midterm general election.

15.09.2026 50

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Joseph Ford Cotto

Lefties Don’t Understand the Market, And They Never Did

Our educated class is the class that lives furthest from the market economy.

15.09.2026 10

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Christopher Chantrill

Lindsay Clancy Trial: Are Women 'Children of a Larger Growth'?

The specter of Lindsay Clancy's trial defenders is a reminder that harridans, termagants, and gorgons are nothing new.

15.09.2026 20

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Selwyn Duke

The Ruins Of Detroit

Industrial collapse, civic abdication, and the making of an American urban wasteland.

15.09.2026 10

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Lars Møller

Kansas Isn't In Kansas Anymore

Parents reasonably assume they know their own children, yet the government is now positioning itself as the authority on whether the genitals Mom saw...

15.09.2026 9

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Jeannie Deangelis

TDS, Vatican Style

For two consecutive papacies, anti-American finger-pointing has been driven by a Vatican drift back to a 60’s-style Latin American liberation...

15.09.2026 8

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Rick Fuentes

When Feminists Trashed Their Bras, They Lost Their Minds

Modern feminism’s principal tenets are about hostility to males, marriage, family, and, yes, children -- unless all bend to feminist edicts.

15.09.2026 10

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J. Robert Smith

Charlie Kirk, Rest In Peace

Just over a year has passed, and Charlie’s absence still hurts.

14.09.2026 10

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Arthur Schaper

The Transgender Mirage Is Cracking

When ideology overrides biology, it isn’t compassion — it’s harm dressed as progress.

14.09.2026 20

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Brian C. Joondeph

The Self-Governing Election Administrative State

Federal judges are getting the DOJ voter roll cases terribly wrong

14.09.2026 6

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Marly Hornik

Bush’s Islamic Appeasement Greatly Damaged America

Islam is an ideology of war and conquest, not a religion of peace.

14.09.2026 10

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J.b. Shurk

High Food Prices and Fake News

Leftist media are desperate to blame Trump, as usual. But look at what they said just a couple of years ago.

14.09.2026 7

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Terry O’brien

A Defense Of License Plate Readers

Should we dismantle a super-valuable law enforcement tool just because it’s theoretically possible to abuse it?

14.09.2026 9

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Tim Hsiao

Green Steel: ArcelorMittal Finally Pulls the Plug

Green steel has no future in Germany, regardless of how much funding may continue to flow through the channels of the green subsidy machine.

14.09.2026 10

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Thomas Kolbe

America And Russia Suffering From Cognitive Fatigue

America’s disorder is visible for all to see, but Russia’s authoritarian system conceals a deeper cognitive fatigue that may leave Putin’s...

13.09.2026 10

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Allan J. Feifer

Can We Transition The Patient To Comfort Care?

Death is hard enough without "health-care" personnel making it even worse.

13.09.2026 10

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Jamaica Plain

Is It Time To Repeal The 19th Amendment?

A semi-satirical look at bringing some level of rationality back to the people who, through their votes, dictate America’s destiny.

13.09.2026 10

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Nodrog Snave

Musk’s Apocalypse Is Worse Than You Realize

In a robot-run world, the ultimate enemy won’t be the robots; it will be us.

13.09.2026 10

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Huck Davenport

Why Trump Should Declare An Election Emergency

Democrats are using every means possible to keep pushing the can down the road to buy time, but there is no time left to return integrity to...

13.09.2026 10

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Ron Wright

We Can Kill Our Enemies Abroad And Fail To Save Ourselves

The failures that led to 9/11 remain unaddressed to this day.

13.09.2026 10

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Clarice Feldman

Virtue Matters

For America to be great again, Americans must first remember how to be good.

12.09.2026 10

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J.b. Shurk

Martians Got the Memo. Baby Martians Did Not.

The problem is that women decided that, in order to survive, the Martians must adapt to Venusian ways.

12.09.2026 10

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Jeannie Deangelis

Massachusetts Madness

The Spirit of America state goes over the edge.

12.09.2026 10

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Richard Kirk

Democrats In Disarray: The Cost Of Success

In the long run, a party that stumbles from one vacuous trendy issue to another for its core identity is doomed to collapse.

12.09.2026 10

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Robert Weissberg

The Learning Recession

How historical amnesia and ideological capture have left a generation defenseless against anti-Western propaganda.

12.09.2026 10

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Lars Møller

The Real-Life Epic of Donald Trump

Victor Davis Hanson has a new book out profiling the president, now undeniably a towering figure of history.

12.09.2026 10

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Terry Scambray

September 11. 2001

A quarter-century ago, the United States was attacked by Islamist terrorists who used planes as their weapons.

11.09.2026 10

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Robin M. Itzler

Remembering That Devastating Day

A quarter of a century has passed since the horrific events of September 11th. As the years passed, people’s memories of that gruesome day have also...

11.09.2026 10

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Elise Cooper

How Terrorists Change History

Terrorist attacks do not only kill people, they change the trajectory of Western democracies.

11.09.2026 30

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W. Galt

Securing The Skies Before The Next 9/11

Following 9/11, we hardened airport checkpoints and flight deck doors, but today’s commercial airliners are no longer just mechanical machines, they...

11.09.2026 10

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Arik Arad