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Iran, a second-rate power in a state of economic collapse, just fought the U.S. to a standstill in a major military conflict.

The disappointing outcome has echoes of Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan, in that a major world power hasn't been able to impose its will on a militarily inferior foe.

The problem comes when we run into an enemy that has...Read more

Democrats take great offense at being accused of being unpatriotic, but the data doesn't lie.

A new NBC News poll captured the partisan gap over pride in America. Overall, 56% of Americans are extremely or very proud of the country, but only 29% of Democrats, compared to 90% of Republicans.

That's a yawning gap, and about a matter that ...Read more

The spirit of Buchenwald lives on, we are supposed to believe, in the Israeli military operation in Gaza.

It's nearly mandatory for progressive Democrats to denounce Israel for its alleged genocide, while Tucker Carlson and Hasan Piker -- radical influencers on the right and left respectively -- say that the moral offense is the same as the ...Read more

In 2016, the conservative writer Mike Anton made a galvanizing case for Donald Trump in his famous "Flight 93" essay, arguing that the stakes in the contest between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton were existential.

His contention that a Clinton win would cement Democratic electoral dominance forever, such that Republicans needed to charge the ...Read more