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It seems we have lost the will to defend ourselves, as too many of our elites across America and Europe refuse to take this threat seriously.

We hope the Syrian people will find their way to a better future but it should not be one more burden for America to pick up.

Japan’s surprise attack is a reminder that the best intelligence can be misread, people’s hopes can outweigh their common sense, and bureaucratic cultures can ignore inconvenient signals.

President Eisenhower helped show that addressing the crisis can be done rationally and successfully.

When President Trump announced he would create a Department of Government Efficiency and ask Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to lead it, he created a potentially enormous opportunity to rethink and modernize government.

The most frustrating part of the last month of the 2024 presidential campaign was the chorus of supposedly sophisticated analysts who focused on daily campaign activities and highlighting specific actions rather than the big picture.

Many Republicans were stunned when Vice President Harris’s campaign raised $1 billion in an incredibly short time. Now there are indications that a significant amount of that money may have come from illegal sources.

Comparing the 45th president to the German dictator marginalizes the vice president and makes her look desperate and dishonest.

The current system has the wrong principles, philosophy, and culture. It would be more effective to scrap it and develop a new system that works.

On such towering issues as inflation, foreign policy, the border, or energy, the vice president is trapped between most Americans and her militant base.