2+ hour, 37+ min ago  (452+ words) Rich Lowry, syndicated columnist Michigan Democrats had to choose between a Hezbollah-sympathizing radical and a perfectly respectable former Barack Obama attorney. Given the drift of the party, it wasn't a difficult choice " it was the virulently anti-Israel extremist all the…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (862+ words) Watching Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth lead us to war against Iran reminds me, as war stories often do, of a scene in one of my favorite war movies. I'm talking about the unforgettable Lt. Col. Bill Kilgore, brilliantly played…...

2+ week, 2+ hour ago  (359+ words) PARIS " When President Donald Trump vowed to neutralize the warmongering neocon establishment in Washington, hardly anyone imagined his master plan would involve hugging it so tightly that he couldn't tell where it ended and he began " and then politically self-immolating…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (329+ words) Today is Friday, April 10, the 100th day of 2026. There are 265 days left in the year. On April 10, 1998, the Northern Ireland peace talks concluded as negotiators signed the Good Friday Agreement, a landmark settlement to end 30 years of bitter rivalries and bloody…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago  (211+ words) I am an Iran hardliner. But I'm struggling to understand how other hardliners can be so credulous about President Donald Trump's leadership of this war. It's as if you were stranded by the side of the road and accepted a…...

3+ week, 2+ hour ago  (669+ words) Rich Lowry, syndicated columnist It's not just Israel. One of the least convincing arguments of opponents of the Iran war is that it is a conflict initiated by the Jewish state for its own benefit " the U. S. is just along for…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago  (434+ words) PARIS " Let's face it, the United States has regime changed other countries for far less than Trump is now doing. Where's the pushback against sending troops to Iran in Operation Epic FUBAR " er, Fury? Did all the sensible Pentagon brass…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago  (495+ words) Cal Thomas, syndicated columnist We Americans are an impatient lot. If we must engage in warfare, we would prefer it be wrapped up in weeks, not months, and certainly not years like World War II, Korea and Vietnam. In those…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago  (257+ words) In this fraught moment, this calendar convergence feels like quite a bit more than mere serendipity. It is a visceral reminder of the shared moral and theological inheritance that undergirds Judaism and Christianity " the common foundation that has molded and…...

1+ mon, 4+ day ago  (613+ words) Rich Lowry, syndicated columnist The reason why we have the Fifth Fleet, one of the most awesome naval forces ever assembled in the history of mankind, is to protect the sea lanes in the Middle East. That the Strait of…...