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Kimberley Strassel on Tucker Carlson: Trump Campaign Set Up

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Watch the latest video at foxnews.com “I’m 99.9% sure that I know who this person is. I did not get that from any Congressional sources, but I also cannot get them to confirm it, so I haven’t used the name. But the funny thing is Tucker, is that one of the reasons I’m so monumentally […]

RIP Bernard Lewis–the Scholar Who Refused to Deal in Falsehoods

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One of the great scholars of our time died this past weekend at age 101. Bernard Lewis, writes Jay Nordlinger at National Review, was an historian of the Middle East as well as an elegant writer. In a long teaching career, he had hundreds or thousands of students, some of whom called him “the Imam” […]

What Causes School Shootings? Join the Discussion

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My friend Tim Jones, a.k.a. the Stissing Mountain Man, who I profiled for you last month, has a unique take on school shootings. Tim asked on his Facebook feed, what has changed at schools? In the 70s when he attended, students would bring their guns to school and store them in their lockers until they […]

U.S. Military is One Step Closer to Releasing the Gremlins!

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Dynetics, Inc. has been selected for Phase 3 (the demonstration phase) of DARPA’s $64 million-dollar Gremlin program. The Phase 3 contract is a 21-month program worth $38.6 million dollars. Dynetics will look to demonstrate airborne launch and recovery of Gremlins from an AC-130. A stabilized capture device from an AC-130, much like an air refueling […]

Washington’s Best Strategy with North Korea

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Harry Kazianis, director of defense studies at the Center for The National Interest, examines the possibilities that may emerge from the potential U.S./North Korea summit in Singapore. Kazianis believes there’s a deal to be had, and that using containment, the strategy that successfully defeated the Soviets, is a better track than using “regime change,” or “kinetic […]

Pompeo Can’t Afford His Own Version of the Iraq War

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Writing at The National Interest, Curt Mills hints that because of his future plans for higher office, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is driven to make a good showing of his time at Foggy Bottom. Mills writes: The scuttled Trump administration ambassador to South Korea, Victor Cha, told a small crowd in Washington earlier this […]

Syrian Admission: Russia Was Essentially Right?

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Writing in The National Interest, John Mueller suggests that the best course of action in Syria today may be admitting that the Russians were right, and supporting a peace effort that leaves Bashar al-Assad in control of the nation. He writes: Two unpleasant propositions about the lengthy civil war in Syria have been substantially absent […]

The American Conservative, 15 years of Getting It Right

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In The American Conservative’s 15 year anniversary issue, Andrew Bracevich, a frequent contributor, explains the magazine’s principled stance against the establishment, and how it was founded to oppose and denounce the “fantasies of global hegemony.” In those fifteen years, the magazine has often been correct in its analysis, though, as Bracevich says “presidents and those who […]