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Most students of history have likely pondered the question: Is it the times that make the man, or is it the man that makes the times? The question, though superficially intriguing, seems to have an easy enough answer: Sometimes it is the times that makes the man, and sometimes it is the man that makes the times. Rarest of all is the man who is...Read more

There is a particular kind of intellectual dishonesty that masquerades as principle and the American left has perfected it. It goes by either "international law" or "norms." These phrases are invoked with religious fervor whenever the United States or one of its allies takes action in the world. They are conveniently forgotten whenever the ...Read more

When you hear liberals complaining about how the media today are in urgent danger of "bending the knee" to President Donald Trump, point and laugh and think about the Kennedy family. Journalists bending the knee to the Kennedys has been mandatory since the 1950s. That's their most obvious form of white privilege.

It's still happening. In the ...Read more

History doesn't always repeat itself, or even rhyme. People sometimes learn from experience, their own or others'.

Example: Woodrow Wilson, a stubborn Southerner, refused to involve any Republicans, all Northerners in those days, in treaty negotiations after World War I. His treaty version, which would require the United States to go to war on ...Read more

At times, you could be forgiven for having thought that Kristi Noem wanted to be a uniformed DHS officer rather than the secretary of the department.

Now, the cabinet member most inclined to glamour shots out in the field is going to have to go back to wearing civilian clothes.

For all his trademark firings during "The Apprentice" and the ...Read more

One of the most pernicious and destructive cultural trends in the United States over the past 30 years or so has been the demonization of men and masculinity.

This has taken many forms. Take, for example, the medicalization of boyish behavior in schools, which resulted in widespread diagnoses of "attention deficit disorder" and "attention ...Read more

Over the past weekend, some apologists for President Donald Trump's recently ordered attacks on Iran argued that because Trump's plans call for a quick strike, the attacks do not constitute a war. George Orwell is vindicated yet again.

These apologists believe that calling a war something else means it is not a war, and so moral and ...Read more

These are no longer theoretical debates confined to policy forums. The conflict is widening. American servicemen have now been lost. Regional nations are absorbing casualties. Retaliation cycles are accelerating. What once appeared contained now carries the unmistakable risk of broader regional war.

Here is the reality: Iran has long advanced ...Read more

America's health care system consistently ranks as the most expensive in the developed world. It's not, as some politicians claim, expensive because markets have failed. It's expensive because the market has been repeatedly blocked from succeeding. Until we're honest about that, any potential reforms will only address symptoms while ignoring ...Read more

The U.S. Senate's resolution aiming to handcuff President Donald Trump, barring him from taking additional military action against Iran, should be soundly rejected: It's an unconstitutional violation of Article II, which makes the president commander in chief of the nation's armed forces.

Every president since 1950 has launched military ...Read more

The United States is winning.

Anyone telling you otherwise is either mistaken -- or rooting for a different outcome.

That may sound blunt. But it happens to be true.

The Iranian regime's best remaining strategy is not military. It is political. Tehran is not counting on its air defenses, which are being shredded. It is not counting on its ...Read more

Following rounds of missile attacks from Iran on Israel, a warhead from one of the missiles was found just hundreds of yards from Jerusalem's Old City.

A few hundred yards' difference could have meant the destruction of one or more of the holiest sites of the three major religions -- the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, site of the crucifixion ...Read more

On March 2, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine held a joint press conference at the Pentagon. They both said achieving the administration's operational military goals would determine the conflict's duration.

"To be clear ... this is not a single overnight operation," Caine said. "The ...Read more

Last year.

The year 2025.

California wildfires.

They destroyed 13,000 homes.

Los Angeles Mayor...

... the mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass...

... she announced:

"We are 100% committed to getting... " she said

"...this neighborhood rebuilt again!"

Gov. Gavin Newsom echoed that, saying his officials were...

"... responding to it at ...Read more

It was a minor story in American newspapers when a riot broke out in the Iranian city of Tabriz in February 1978.

A UPI story that ran on page 11 of the Miami Herald carried this headline: "Calm Restored to Iranian Town After Riots."

"Armored cars and soldiers armed with machine guns Monday patrolled the streets of Tabriz, battered by a ...Read more

The anti-Trump media elites are relentlessly omnidirectional in attacking their target. One day, they'll complain the president's too intolerably present in the limelight. But the next day, he's scandalously inaccessible. When the Trump administration launched its offensive on Iran, they made noise about it being too quiet.

CNN correspondent ...Read more

Should the revenues made by big-time college athletics be "shared" by all the schools? Do we want "revenue-sharing" socialism to come to college football and basketball? Many in Congress are answering yes to that question.

The NCAA isn't the massive moneymaker the NFL and NBA are, but in many ways the product is more exciting than the boring ...Read more