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Radical Islam Is the Wedge Issue in Michigan’s Democratic Senate Primary

CNN asks this morning whether Democrats are ready to embrace a “moderate” with a track record of “winning in Trump country,” like Michigan...

09.04.2026 5

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Mamdani Hopes Racial Agitation Succeeds Where ‘Affordability’ Has Failed

Zohran Mamdani wouldn’t be the first mayor of New York City to harbor contempt for the municipality and its residents. He may, however, be the first...

09.04.2026 4

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The Strait Hype

“A single regime has decided to exert control over a 21-mile passage, and as a result, we are living through the worst energy crisis the world has...

08.04.2026 7

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The Obvious Flaw in JD Vance’s Expansive Definition of Election Interference

Vice President JD Vance dropped a bombshell in his remarks to reporters during his swing through Hungary on Tuesday. The Trump administration is, he...

07.04.2026 9

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Another Windfall for the Bottomless ‘Blue Texas’ Money Pit

According to the New York Times, Texas Democratic Senate nominee James Talarico is a powerhouse fundraiser. “In the first two months of the quarter...

06.04.2026 9

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A Serious Answer to a Silly Question

Arizona Representative Yassamin Ansari is, by her own admission, confused: https://x.com/RepYassAnsari/status/2041005005822689528?s=20 It’s a...

06.04.2026 7

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It Was Funny While It Lasted

Unfortunately, the president violated one of the cardinal rules of combat: Never interrupt your opponent while he’s making a mistake. Even as Donald...

06.04.2026 7

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Where Is the Mass Outpouring of Anti-War Sentiment?

The invasion of Iraq was still five months away when an estimated 100,000 Americans poured into the streets of several major cities to protest the...

01.04.2026 6

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The Definition of Bigotry

The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) “working definition” of antisemitism, to which the U.S. government and 30 other...

31.03.2026 6

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Iran’s Terror Cells Are Active and Dangerous

French police knew exactly what kind of plot they had interdicted over the weekend. According to prosecutors, the man they arrested with a homemade...

30.03.2026 4

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‘No Kings’ May Be Largely Peaceful, but the Peaceful Are Giving Cover to the Violent

Like the last two similar exhibitions of nationwide anti-Trump protests, the third in a series of coordinated “No Kings” protests against Donald...

30.03.2026 6

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The New York Times Reads My Mind

I like to think that I’m honest about what I write. Unfortunately, I have been exposed as a duplicitous liar — in the pages of the New York Times,...

27.03.2026 10

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A Portrait of a Failing Civilization

Noelia Castillo Ramos is dead. In the mere 25 years she spent on this earth, nearly everyone in her life except for her immediate family failed her....

27.03.2026 10

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JD Vance’s Allies Drive a Wedge Between Israel and America in Wartime

One month into the U.S.-Israeli war against the Islamic Republic of Iran, a theocracy soaked with American blood, as well as the viscera of so many...

27.03.2026 9

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The Attempted Domestic Terror Attack on a U.S. Air Force Base

Domestic American law enforcement is on high alert as the U.S. and Israel execute combat operations against the world’s chief state sponsor of...

26.03.2026 10

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Can Anyone Tell the President to Stick to the Teleprompter?

It has been said so many times -- and will be said again here, because it’s worth saying: The war against the Islamic Republic is a national...

26.03.2026 10

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The Tide Turns for Ukraine

You’ve probably heard cynical observers of the U.S.-Israeli war against the Islamic Republic of Iran insist that the only true victor in this war...

25.03.2026 8

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The Party of Psychological Distress

As Axios reporters Alex Thompson and Holly Otterbein amusingly put it, the Democratic Party’s 2028 presidential aspirants are kicking off their...

23.03.2026 8

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The Eagerness for Trump’s Humiliation

It’s not so much that there is an eagerness abroad in the press for an American defeat in its ongoing war against the theocratic regime in Tehran....

23.03.2026 8

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What Americans Want from the Iran War Isn’t What They Expect to Get

A useful CBS News/YouGov survey released over the weekend reveals a stark divide in American public opinion regarding the ongoing war against the...

23.03.2026 10

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The Promotion of Liberty Is Part of Trump’s Iran War

At least for the time being, the Israeli air campaign over Iran, in particular, seems to have effectively terrorized the Iranian people’s...

20.03.2026 9

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Maybe Trump’s ‘Nixon to China’ Moment Is ‘Boots on the Ground’

Throughout much of Donald Trump’s career in politics, Washington insiders speculated that the president was poised like few others in the GOP to...

20.03.2026 8

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Iran Finds Trump’s Pain Threshold

When speaking extemporaneously about the course the war with Iran is taking, Donald Trump is as stalwart and resolute as he has been since the...

19.03.2026 10

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But Does It Taste Good?

Remember fake meat? For a while, the ultra-processed, over-brined slurry of extracts and concentrates marketed as a healthier alternative to the...

18.03.2026 8

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The Passing of Soviet-Style Communism Is Nothing to Mourn

Thirty years ago, “Poland rationed sugar and flour while its citizens were paid one-tenth what West Germans earned,” the Associated Press reported...

18.03.2026 8

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Good Riddance

At first blush, the resignation of America’s Director of the National Counterterrorism Center in wartime — indeed, in protest against a war with...

17.03.2026 10

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The Islamic Republic’s Chief Enforcer Is Dead

In a February 22 New York Times report on Iran’s preparations for the war that would break out less than a week later, Ali Larijani featured...

17.03.2026 10

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Trump Hunts for Allies to Help Reopen the Strait of Hormuz

Typically, a president would assemble an international coalition of the willing, so to speak, before the outset of a fraught military campaign against...

16.03.2026 10

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Paul Ehrlich’s Disastrous Legacy

“I was a college student when I read Mr. Ehrlich’s The Population Bomb,” wrote Wall Street Journal reader Kenneth Emde of “population...

16.03.2026 10

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CNN’s Strait of Hormuz Allegation Makes No Sense

“I’m dumbfounded,” said one unnamed “former U.S. official” who provided CNN with color commentary for its report alleging that Trump...

13.03.2026 10

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Antisemitic Radicalization Isn’t a ‘Dark Web’ Phenomenon Anymore

It’s too early to determine whether the attacker who drove a truck into a Detroit-area synagogue and childhood learning center — before he was...

12.03.2026 10

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Breaking: It’s Illegal to Steal

New York Magazine’s “urban design” vertical, Curbed, has made a discovery: Major retail outlets often have detention centers on the premises for...

11.03.2026 10

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Trump Officials Catch Flak for Preserving Their Own Safety

The New York Times devoted all of twelve paragraphs to the revelation that Attorney General Pam Bondi has “quietly relocated” to a U.S. military...

11.03.2026 10

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It’s Never a Bad Time to Level with the American People

If you’re a Republican, much less a self-described MAGA voter, you don’t need to be persuaded to support the war against the theocratic regime in...

11.03.2026 10

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Suddenly, It’s America That Needs the Kurds and the Ukrainians

The United States, while dominant in the skies over Iran, is not without the need of support from its partners and allies. And we’re not talking...

05.03.2026 9

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The Democrats’ Iran Gamble

It’s not just the progressive activists in Congress who are seeking advice on how to approach the politics of the Iran war from the most unreliable...

05.03.2026 10

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America’s Offensive Might Contrasts with Hegseth’s Defensive Crouch

So far, America and its allies are routing their Islamic Republic foes. Anyone who avails themselves of the briefings provided this week by the...

05.03.2026 9

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Progressives Are Getting Bad Advice on Iran

Congressional progressives must be as disoriented as the Iranians as what remains of the Islamic Republic’s regime convulses in its violent death...

03.03.2026 30

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The Iranian Regime May Have Already Been Decapitated

The war to fatally undermine the Iranian regime will continue for “weeks, not days,” Senator Tom Cotton told CBS News. But, as of hour 13 of...

28.02.2026 10

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Democrats Strike Oppositional Pose to the Iran War

The Canadian government “supports the United States acting to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon and to prevent its regime from further...

28.02.2026 10

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The War to End the Iranian Regime Has Begun

The war began a little after 1 a.m. on the East Coast. It is a war designed to put a definitive end to the Iranian nuclear program. It is also a war...

28.02.2026 10

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A ‘Warning’ or a Threat?

A report in NOTUS this morning offers Democrats a “warning.” “Young Black men are not taking tangible steps to resist President Donald Trump at...

26.02.2026 10

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Trump’s Emerging Case for More Iran Strikes

The president didn’t have much to say about the dozens of American naval assets he has dispatched to the Middle East amid the growing and credible...

25.02.2026 10

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Trump Hands Vance a Ticking Timebomb

Marco Rubio received a prolonged standing ovation when Donald Trump name-checked him during the State of the Union address. But contrary to the...

25.02.2026 10

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The State of the Union: Erika Kirk’s Moment

They say that State of the Union addresses are forgettable partisan affairs, the details of which few will recall in a week’s time. From the...

25.02.2026 10

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An Update on the Attack on Homeland Security in Idaho

Idaho’s Meridian Police Department announced late Monday that it had made an arrest in relation to the attempted vehicle-borne firebombing of a...

24.02.2026 10

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Gavin’s Gaffe May Not Matter

Gavin Newsom is on a quest to make you believe he’s the quintessential everyday American whose challenges and struggles are universally...

24.02.2026 200

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Another Attack on Federal Law Enforcement

It began with a call to a 911 dispatcher. Someone had stolen an ambulance from one of the bays at St. Luke’s Meridian Medical Center in Meridian,...

20.02.2026 20

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Has Contrived Coarseness Jumped the Shark?

I’ve been fighting a losing battle on this front for years. There comes a point at which any act gets stale, and the shtick loses its audience....

19.02.2026 10

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Why Aren’t Texans Insulted by Ken Paxton?

Anybody who spends enough time on social media (which, professional obligations notwithstanding, I don’t recommend) will encounter a disturbing...

18.02.2026 8

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