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My young family and I were in Israel when the Israel Defense Forces and Mossad began their offensive operations against Iran on June 13, commencing what President Donald Trump has since called the "12-Day War." Although the Mossad's intelligence and the IDF's rapid establishment of air superiority inside Iran proved to be nothing less than ...Read more

President Donald Trump has finally moved the United States past the traumas of the Iraq War.

With the bombing of Iranian nuclear facilities in Fordow, Isfahan and Natanz, the U.S. made the world a safer place in the long run. But the attack, and subsequent ceasefire between Israel and Iran, also represents a reset of American foreign policy. ...Read more

On Tuesday, in what it labeled an "exclusive," CNN reported that initial intelligence assessments of the Iran bombing suggested Iran had been set back a couple of months in its quest for a nuclear weapon. The report's lead reporter was Natasha Bertrand. In 2020, Bertrand played a lead role in attempting to discredit reports of Hunter Biden's ...Read more

Here's how it's so easy to identify the national media as liberal Democrats: They hate "moderate" Democrats. They love moderate Republicans. They despise disunity in their party, and love to fester disunity in the Other Party.

This week, we've witnessed an outpouring of love for Sen. Lisa Murkowski of (R-Alaska), whom the Institute for ...Read more

Zohran Mamdani's lead in first choices in New York City's ranked-choice mayoral primary, and his inevitable victory when second, third, fourth and fifth choices of trailing candidates are allocated to candidates voters ranked lower, mean that he'll be the Democratic nominee for mayor of the nation's largest city and the likely winner of the ...Read more

There's a reason God created dynamite.

The brutalist federal buildings that have blighted Washington, D.C., for decades deserve the same fate as Carthage after the Third Punic War, and the nation's capital is finally beginning to move on from these concrete monstrosities.

The Department of Housing and Urban and Development just announced ...Read more

We have seen this before.

A foreign entity attacks American persons or property and the government warns that its sleeper cells have infiltrated the United States and it is somehow necessary to expand the powers of the government and shrink protections for civil liberties -- and this shrinkage will somehow keep us all safe.

The premise of this...Read more

After decades of the Iranian terrorist dictatorship voicing grave threats to global security, Israel and the United States have ultimately resolved to take decisive action to mitigate the threat posed by Iran's nuclear weapons program. What was once perceived as a suicidal scenario for our world, a circumstance that could incite a nuclear ...Read more

Considering recent news, you may have missed that the 2025 trustees reports for Social Security and Medicare are out. Once again, they confirm what we've known for decades: Both programs are barreling straight toward insolvency. The Social Security retirement trust fund and Medicare Hospital Insurance trust fund are each on pace to run dry by ...Read more

Last week, science writer Christopher Plain published a story in the online magazine The Debrief (which describes its subject matter as "Science, Tech and Defense for the Rebelliously Curious") about fossilized human footprints found in a desiccated lakebed in White Sands, New Mexico. According to the article, radiocarbon dating places the age...Read more

Even Americans who loathe President Donald Trump should be capable of seeing that the U.S. and the world are safer without a nuclear-capable Iran. But Trump derangement is blinding them.

Saturday night, Trump and the U.S. military executed a "spectacularly successful" precision bombing of Iran's nuclear enrichment facilities with no American ...Read more

On Sept. 11, 2001, Muslim fanatics flew planes into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, killing upward of 3,000 innocent American civilians.

Americans asked why?

We ask again today. We hear from the Iranian regime, "Death to America," "Death to Israel."

Why? The unfortunate answer is, for the fanatics in Iran, our very existence is ...Read more

As I write this column late on June 24, Israel and Ayatollah Iran have stopped their latest battle of long-range missiles and bombs.

A tentative ceasefire holds, a ceasefire more or less personally imposed by U.S. president Donald Trump.

The predicate for Trump's ability to demand a ceasefire? The U.S. Air Force 509th Bomb Wing's jaw-...Read more

Before Robby Starbuck became a problem for leftist companies, alerting consumers to stupid woke indoctrination policies, he directed music videos. He worked with some big names, like Snoop Dogg and Natalie Portman. I remind him that his Snoop Dogg video includes the lyrics: "Set the mood, spoon and groom. ... I can get you high."

He replies, "...Read more

When Texas Gov. Greg Abbott was serving as his state's attorney general in 2005, he appeared before the Supreme Court to argue Van Orden v. Perry.

The question was whether a monument inscribed with the Ten Commandments that had stood on the grounds of the Texas state capitol since 1961 violated the First Amendment.

That amendment says in ...Read more

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is apparently the leader of a menacing conspiracy. The New York Times put this on the June 24 front page: "Under Trump, Ex-MTV Star Pitches Big Families." But he used to be a bad boy on MTV, so the headline underneath was "From a Racy Past to a Key Cabinet Post."

At 25, Duffy starred on MTV's reality show "...Read more

WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump does not want to be a wartime president.

He wants to be the president who, as he did at Mar-a-Lago in 2017, enjoyed "the most beautiful piece of chocolate cake you've ever seen," as he informed Chinese President Xi Jinping that the U.S. had just dropped bombs on Syria.

Trump wants to be the U.S. president...Read more