For six months the same chorus has been on loop: America is losing to Iran. The strait is a mess. Gas is higher. There is no occupation parade in Tehran. Therefore the mullahs won. That is the analysis you get from people who think a war is lost unless CNN gets a hotel balcony in […]
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Rand Paul dropped a short bill with a long fuse. The End Welfare for Noncitizens Act, S. 3670, says federal money may not buy TANF, Medicaid, SNAP, or any other federal benefit, cash, tax credit, subsidy, or service for refugees, asylees, or aliens here illegally. No 400-page “findings.” One prohibition. He is pushing it again […]
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The Supreme Court is not a help desk. It is a court of limited jurisdiction that decides the dispute in front of it, preferably on the smallest hook that will dispose of the case. That design is older than the country. It is also how a nation spends years not knowing whether a president can […]
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If you watch a lot of cosmos videos on YouTube like I do, you undoubtedly know that the universe has a public-relations problem. It advertises itself as unimaginably large and unfathomably old, but when it comes to intelligent life, it appears to have produced only one confirmed customer: the earthly human being. This is the […]
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Victor Davis Hanson: That Turkish player who’s changed his name to Freedom, his last name, and he was there and he was cheering on Sophie Cunningham. And that [Natasha] Cloud player, she went all the way over there and tried to instigate. Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of the latest edition of “Victor Davis […]
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On Wednesday the State Department and Treasury labeled Autistici/Inventati—the A/I Collective—a Specially Designated Global Terrorist. It is an Italy-based tech shop that does not sell widgets. It sells anonymity to people who use it for riots, sabotage, and propaganda. Same week, Washington hit two other far-left networks in the same package. The message was not […]
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Zohran Mamdani sold New York a simple product: child care from six weeks to five years, no fee, no income test, no citizenship test. Campaign price tag: about $6 billion a year, billed to the rich. The city is now discovering that “free” is a waiting list with a hole in the budget. New York […]
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Germany still looks German on a tourist map. The census does not. Official figures for 2025 put the country at about 83.5 million people. Roughly 71 million hold German citizenship. About 12.4 million do not, by the population count; the foreigners register lists more than 14 million. More than a quarter of people in private […]
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Some Democrats have finally noticed they sound like they swallowed a graduate seminar. “Unhoused.” “Birthing person.” “Justice-involved.” “Food insecure.” “Substance-use disorder.” “Assigned female at birth.” The list is long and it all does the same job: replace a word everybody understands with a phrase that signals you went to the right schools. Normal people hear […]
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Sami Winc: We know that in California, Xavier, I think his name is Becerra, is going to win, but he is the most unimpressive of governors I’ve ever seen. Even Kamala Harris said he was not up to snuff, and she is, of course, one of the most unimpressive of mediocrities. Editor’s note: This is a […]