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Blood on the UN podium: Iran’s president just defended genocide to an empty room

Blood on the UN podium: Iran’s president just defended genocide to an empty room

While Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian stood before the United Nations lying on behalf of Tehran’s executioners, he attempted to mask a historic...

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Erfan Fard

I’m a disabled Air Force vet. Here’s why I’m glad I never joined the VFW

I’m a disabled Air Force vet. Here’s why I’m glad I never joined the VFW

As an Air Force veteran who serviced aircraft that flew to Vietnam, I got to see a side of our military that most people don’t know about. I am...

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Emery McClendon

America’s AI rival comes to our home turf. Here’s why electricians, not algorithms, will decide who wins

America’s AI rival comes to our home turf. Here’s why electricians, not algorithms, will decide who wins

This week, as Chinese President Xi Jinping arrives in Washington to discuss economic competition, technology, and artificial intelligence, America’s...

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Kirk Offel

Redefining traumatic brain injury sounds compassionate. It’s actually a disaster

Redefining traumatic brain injury sounds compassionate. It’s actually a disaster

As the Senate considers Bill 2898 (the Dennis John Benigno Traumatic Brain Injury Program Reauthorization Act), brain injury advocacy faces a critical...

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Brason Lee

Religious liberty is measured by freedom in practice

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Kelly Shackelford

Trump just locked down America’s front line. Now he must build the wall on ice

Trump just locked down America’s front line. Now he must build the wall on ice

Greenland is indisputably the front line of American homeland defense. For decades, Washington relied on a passive 1951 security framework that left...

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Jose Lev Alvarez

Congress created a ‘phantom tax’ on imaginary winnings. It’s time to end the IRS stickup

Congress created a ‘phantom tax’ on imaginary winnings. It’s time to end the IRS stickup

The Facilitating Useful Loss Limitations to Help Our Unique Service Economy, or FULL HOUSE Act, a bill that would correct an inequitable new gambling...

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Johnny Kampis

I spent 33 years at Microsoft. Don’t force families to subsidize AI

I spent 33 years at Microsoft. Don’t force families to subsidize AI

A family can use less air conditioning, switch off lights, and cut its electricity use. Those efforts mean less if its utility bill also includes the...

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David W. Falls

‘AI will end humanity’ — the most successful PR campaign in history

‘AI will end humanity’ — the most successful PR campaign in history

In the space of one week, the people building artificial intelligence told the world it could end all of humanity. This month, Evan Hubinger, lead of...

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Jacqueline Cartier

The Left’s climate crusade fuels the affordability crisis they claim to fight

The Left’s climate crusade fuels the affordability crisis they claim to fight

Two years removed from the train wreck of the Biden-Harris era, the American Left still has a major credibility crisis. Stinging from the generational...

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Daniel Turner

Passing the ROAD Act won’t build a single house. The real fight begins now

Passing the ROAD Act won’t build a single house. The real fight begins now

Throughout American history, housing has been one of the clearest expressions of opportunity, stability, and community. But every generation has faced...

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Robert Pinnegar

The Iran war is a political catastrophe for Republicans

The Iran war is a political catastrophe for Republicans

When the Iran war began in February, CBS News conducted a prescient poll in the first week of the campaign, probing immediate support for the military...

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Conn Carroll

Right-wing network to challenge the Left with new ‘conservative entertainment experience’

Right-wing network to challenge the Left with new ‘conservative entertainment experience’

It is well known that the Left controls the spheres of influence in this country, and in doing so, maintains a vice-like grip on the nation’s...

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Christopher Tremoglie

America’s next oil boom is floating in thin air

America’s next oil boom is floating in thin air

The shale revolution made the United States the world’s largest oil producer. Horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing turned once-uneconomic...

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Charles Cadieu

Brad Lander hijacked Yom Kippur to cheapen the word ‘genocide’

Brad Lander hijacked Yom Kippur to cheapen the word ‘genocide’

I spent Yom Kippur doing what Jews have done for generations. I fasted. I prayed. I stood alongside other Jews and declared God King. I asked...

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Warren H. Cohn

Don’t give Trump an ‘AI force’ until it can stop a rogue agent

Don’t give Trump an ‘AI force’ until it can stop a rogue agent

The Washington Examiner reported Saturday that President Donald Trump plans to create an “AI Force” led by an artificial intelligence czar. The...

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Burak Oktenli

Nuclear weapons end wars. Kim Jong Un’s AI will start them

Nuclear weapons end wars. Kim Jong Un’s AI will start them

For decades, North Korea’s military power has largely been measured in numbers and firepower.  More artillery. More missiles. More ammunition. ...

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Park Joonhye

China stole our AI. Now Xi has to face Trump

China stole our AI. Now Xi has to face Trump

On Sept. 8th, American security agencies issued a joint advisory accusing six Chinese companies of extracting the capabilities of our nation’s most...

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Janet Kelly

Al Green’s Trump impeachment stunt fails — his own party just admitted it was theater

Al Green’s Trump impeachment stunt fails — his own party just admitted it was theater

I ran the 400-meter in high school and college, so I know sprinting the first turn doesn’t win the race. Rep. Al Green (D-TX) never learned that. On...

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Jay Rogers

Bombs were loaded, warplanes were ready — but Trump was right to say ‘no’

Bombs were loaded, warplanes were ready — but Trump was right to say ‘no’

To the casual observer of geopolitics, the security crisis in the Middle East looks like an exercise in passivity. Our wealthy Gulf “allies,”...

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Eric Wargotz

Cut the oil, leak the secrets, feed the people: Trump’s blueprint to break Havana

Cut the oil, leak the secrets, feed the people: Trump’s blueprint to break Havana

In the realm of modern geopolitics, a secret is rarely exposed by accident. When granular details of classified American operations suddenly flood...

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Eric Wargotz

The media forgot about Panama — Trump didn’t. Now we’re evicting China from the canal

The media forgot about Panama — Trump didn’t. Now we’re evicting China from the canal

National newsrooms have developed a dangerous blind spot at our own doorstep: the Panama Canal. While the legacy media remain utterly consumed by a...

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Eric Wargotz

Military force? Democrats love it if it’s aimed at Trump

Military force? Democrats love it if it’s aimed at Trump

President Donald Trump is frequently ridiculous, as almost everyone knows. The latest evidence is his absurd name-changing, his orders that Lake...

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Hugo Gurdon

Proof Trump’s economy is better than they’re telling you

Proof Trump’s economy is better than they’re telling you

People have every right to be upset about gasoline prices. They also deserve to know that the economy underneath those prices is booming. Both things...

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Cesar Conda

France kowtows to Putin and removes EU sanctions on Russian mobster

France kowtows to Putin and removes EU sanctions on Russian mobster

President Emmanuel Macron of France deserves heavy criticism for removing European Union sanctions on one of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s top...

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Tom Rogan

They saved American lives, from Saddam to ISIS. Now, Trump must arm the Peshmerga

They saved American lives, from Saddam to ISIS. Now, Trump must arm the Peshmerga

For years, pundits and policymakers in Washington criticized the Kurds for their political divisions, particularly the long-standing division of the...

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Entifadh Qanbar

One hundred seventy-three condemnations for Israel, 80 for the rest of the world: Time to end the United Nations

One hundred seventy-three condemnations for Israel, 80 for the rest of the world: Time to end the United Nations

The U.N. General Assembly has opened its 81st session with the usual invocations of peace, cooperation, and shared human values. Unfortunately, the...

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Joan Leslie McGill

To the Trumps, it’s a tower. To Georgia’s oligarchs, it’s a stamp of approval

To the Trumps, it’s a tower. To Georgia’s oligarchs, it’s a stamp of approval

In an interview The Real Deal published on Sept. 16, Eric Trump said Trump Tower Tbilisi has “nothing to do with the influence of a government.”...

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Emzari Gelashvili

Ukraine’s long war

Ukraine’s long war

KYIV, Ukraine — On a central Kyiv street, people hurry to afternoon meetings as their phones alert them to incoming drones. Seconds later, the heavy...

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Ani Chkhikvadze

Trump should pressure Russia, not Ukraine, on energy prices

Trump should pressure Russia, not Ukraine, on energy prices

President Donald Trump is understandably concerned that rising gas prices are harming American households and weakening the Republican Party’s...

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America doesn’t have an energy shortage. We have a lawsuit problem

America doesn’t have an energy shortage. We have a lawsuit problem

America does not have an energy shortage. We have an infrastructure problem. The United States is the world’s largest producer of natural gas, with...

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Rep. Laurel Lee

The Associated Press fearmongers about nonexistent lynchings

The Associated Press fearmongers about nonexistent lynchings

Supposedly prestigious liberal media outlets are more focused on inciting racial panic and spreading left-wing racial ideology than they are on...

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Zachary Faria

How do Republicans deal with el Sayed?

How do Republicans deal with el Sayed?

HOW DO REPUBLICANS DEAL WITH EL SAYED? On Tuesday morning, Abdul el Sayed, buddy of Hasan Piker, DSA-adjacent, and Democratic candidate for Senate in...

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Byron York

EU to AI businesses: Invest in America, not Europe

EU to AI businesses: Invest in America, not Europe

The U.S. economy has grown at nearly double the rate of the EU economy over the past 10 years. Per capita U.S. gross domestic product is now around...

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Tom Rogan

The blockade is fighting the wrong war

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Ron Maccammon

Trump is fighting Canada on trade — so why are we letting it rob our waters?

Trump is fighting Canada on trade — so why are we letting it rob our waters?

President Donald Trump is in an escalating trade fight with Canada over a simple principle: American workers and industries should not be...

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Whit Fosburgh

Polls show Republicans are staring down a midterm election reckoning

Polls show Republicans are staring down a midterm election reckoning

This past spring, I examined public polling that was already flashing danger signs for Republicans ahead of the midterm elections. Months later, those...

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Guy Benson

Stop treating election night like the season finale — it’s really the series premiere

Stop treating election night like the season finale — it’s really the series premiere

Americans are asked to follow elections as though they are an endless competition: Who is ahead, who stumbled, whose clip went viral? The question...

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Ariella Noveck

Trump can’t stand what football does to America

Trump can’t stand what football does to America

Sunday’s Chicago Bears game served as an unexpected allegory for everything wrong with President Donald Trump’s Republican Party.  Nearing...

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Filipp Velgach

We have the energy, we have the demand. Now we just need permission to build

We have the energy, we have the demand. Now we just need permission to build

America has the energy resources to meet rising demand. The challenge now is building the infrastructure needed to deliver that energy. A commonsense...

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Patrice Douglas

Inherit a million? You can invest. Have an economics doctorate? The SEC says you’re too dumb

Inherit a million? You can invest. Have an economics doctorate? The SEC says you’re too dumb

Are some people simply not rich enough to build the American dream? America’s capital markets are the most dynamic in the world. They are ripe with...

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Rep. Troy Downing

It will face legal hurdles, but Trump’s media ban is unquestionably warranted

It will face legal hurdles, but Trump’s media ban is unquestionably warranted

Remember the “hands up, don’t shoot” hoax? How about the “Russian collusion” lie? Do you recall Nicholas Sandmann from Covington Catholic...

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Christopher Tremoglie

California can fix its women’s prison rape crisis now. Why won’t they?

California can fix its women’s prison rape crisis now. Why won’t they?

Bodily autonomy is a cornerstone of women’s rights in California. But behind prison walls, incarcerated women can face a very different reality in...

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Adelle Nazarian

The UN has a cartel blind spot. The ‘Shield of the Americas’ is the reality check

The UN has a cartel blind spot. The ‘Shield of the Americas’ is the reality check

As world leaders gather in New York this week for the 81st United Nations General Assembly, the Western Hemisphere has an opportunity to elevate a...

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Duggan Flanakin

If humanity can’t survive an AI blackout, we’ve already lost

If humanity can’t survive an AI blackout, we’ve already lost

Mark Whittington asked in these pages whether artificial intelligence might become the only way humanity can survive. It is a question worth taking...

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Burak Oktenli

Six weeks after Obama’s fundraiser, a $172 million tech case was quietly killed. Can Trump expose why?

Six weeks after Obama’s fundraiser, a $172 million tech case was quietly killed. Can Trump expose why?

Did Obama administration officials use government power to influence a private patent dispute involving a corporation co-founded by one of former...

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Jeff Parker

No, Israel isn’t ‘stolen land’ — it was purchased at astronomical premiums

No, Israel isn’t ‘stolen land’ — it was purchased at astronomical premiums

Inside libertarian circles, critics attack anyone defending Israel as “collectivists” peddling broken ancestral claims. Their intellectual...

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Hushang Manuchehri

Novo Nordisk sued over weight-loss drug spin. Now it’s doing the exact same thing

Novo Nordisk sued over weight-loss drug spin. Now it’s doing the exact same thing

Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly are battling for dominance in one of medicine’s largest and fastest-growing markets: drugs for obesity and weight loss....

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Arie Blitz

Trump saved one pastor from Xi. Now a dying man needs him to do it again

Trump saved one pastor from Xi. Now a dying man needs him to do it again

When President Donald Trump sat down face-to-face with Chinese President Xi Jinping in May, he proved that his personal intervention can yield real...

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Todd Nettleton