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Iran: "The Clock Is Ticking" " The American Spectator | USA News and Politics
1+ hour, 43+ min ago (161+ words) As President Trump has clearly stated, Iran cannot be allowed to have a nuclear weapon and cannot be permitted to block or control passage through the Strait of Hormuz. Further, until it is evident who in Iran is authorized to…...
AOC's Gloomy World " The American Spectator | USA News and Politics
12+ hour, 33+ min ago (26+ words) [caption id="attachment_700021" align="alignnone" width="2160"] "AOC's Gloomy World," editorial cartoon by Yogi Love for'The American Spectator on May 18, 2026. [/caption]...
Tale First, Facts Later " The American Spectator | USA News and Politics
2+ day, 2+ hour ago (753+ words) All stories are not equal. But we all equally live in stories. Who we are we know by the story we tell ourselves. We spin the points of meaning we meet into a yarn, and the yarn we weave into…...
The World's Most Controversial Scrap of Skin " The American Spectator | USA News and Politics
6+ day, 2+ hour ago (1061+ words) In economics, things take longer to happen than you think they will," the economist R'diger Dornbusch discerned, and then they happen faster than you thought they could." Financial crises intrigued him. Jew-hate behaves differently. It takes less time to ignite…...
The Cease-Fire Fiction " The American Spectator | USA News and Politics
1+ week, 1+ day ago (696+ words) The most current laughable thought is that the cease-fire with Iran is holding. It is a cease-fire in name only. Let's call it a "CFINO." The only question about it is when " or if " President Trump will call a halt…...
Power, Islamism, and the Crisis of Western Rationality " The American Spectator | USA News and Politics
1+ week, 2+ day ago (449+ words) This has been a major issue taken up by serious thinkers outside of Islam. And it is not stuck in the past. Among many other moderns, C. S. Lewis criticized what he called "scientism," the unscientific assumption that the present state of…...
Trump's Iran Strategy: Economic Strangling Is Not Enough " The American Spectator | USA News and Politics
1+ week, 3+ day ago (605+ words) In the spring of 2026, following Iran's closure of the Strait of Hormuz and the U. S. imposition of a naval blockade on April 13, President Donald Trump doubled down on a strategy of indefinite economic coercion rather than immediate military escalation or swift…...
Leaks, Bureaucracy, and the Battle Over US Foreign Policy " The American Spectator | USA News and Politics
3+ week, 2+ day ago (277+ words) Yes, some certainly " honorably conduct themselves, but these unauthorized disclosures illustrate that too many do not merit that trust. State's press office should warn those journalists who traffic in unauthorized disclosures that in so doing they are endangering their continued…...
Get Rid of Habiba Soliman " The American Spectator | USA News and Politics
11+ mon, 2+ week ago (1298+ words) In the aftermath of that attempted mass murder in Boulder, Colorado, when a crazed illegal alien from Egypt with alleged Muslim Brotherhood ties named Mohamed Sabry Soliman used a makeshift flamethrower and Molotov cocktails to set ablaze 12 people staging a…...
Israel Should Annex Land in Gaza, Judea and Samaria " The American Spectator | USA News and Politics
9+ mon, 2+ week ago (158+ words) Annexation of Gazan territory by Israel is not as far-fetched as some might think. Israel annexed eastern Jerusalem in 1980, and President Trump later recognized Israeli sovereignty in unified Jerusalem during his first term. Israel annexed the Golan Heights in 1981, and…...