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<h4>Will Trump Win The War With Iran?</h4>
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Game Still On: US Enforces Hormuz Blockade as Pakistan Claims Peace Is ‘Near’ — Ed Morrissey, Hot Air
The Long View Of Iran — Victor Davis Hanson, American Greatness
Why We Fight — Kenneth R. Timmerman, American Thinker
Wondering about Trump and Iran and Everything — American Thinker
Iran is Refusing to Make a Deal to Help the Dems — Daniel Greenfield, Front Page Magazine
Trump has a Carter-style Iran problem as the economy drags before the midterms — CNN, via Archive.today
Iran Shuffles Military Leaders, Prepares for ‘Prolonged Confrontation’ — Breitbart
ICYMI: Americans Remain Sharply Divided Over Military Action Against Iran: I&I/TIPP Poll — Issues & Insights
Democrats Grapple With Party’s Takeover By Socialists
America’s Peak Socialism — Abandoned a Century Ago — Michael Barone, Front Page Magazine
Hillary Clinton Warns Socialists About Label That Could Haunt Them — Daily Wire
Democratic socialists oppose virtually every aspect of American foreign policy — William R. Hawkins, American Thinker
How Cancel Culture Laid The Groundwork For The Left’s Socialist Lurch — The Federalist
‘Woke 1.0’ Was No Joke, And ‘Woke 1.1’ Is An Even Bigger Nightmare — Daily Wire
Hasan Piker Says It Out Loud: DSA Practicing Taqiyya — David Strom, Hot Air
Not Winning? Just Change the Rules — VDH, American Greatness
China Has Become A Thorn In West’s Side
Corporate America’s China Neutrality Trap — The National Interest
Chinese Cameras On British Naval Drones Covertly Transmit Pictures Back To China — OSINTdefender, X
How Xi Jinping broke the China dream — Australian Strategic Policy Institute
China exports its economic problems to the world — Washington Post
Why Does The Left Hate Traditional Families?
Democrats and the Reality of Anti-Family Politics — Emmy Griffin, The Patriot Post
The Empty Baby Carriage — Committee To Unleash Prosperity
Over One-Third Of US Counties Are ‘Maternity Care Deserts,’ New Report Finds — Daily Caller
Women applaud as Massachusetts governor signs bill allowing abortion until the moment of birth — Not The Bee
Europe Faces Death Of Free Speech . . .
Freedom of Speech Dying a Slow Death in Europe — Mises Institute
The European Free Speech Crisis — Derek Lux, Real Clear Books
. . . Just When It Needs Free Speech The Most
Europe is suicidally complacent about the Islamist threat — Fraser Myers, Spiked
Ceuta invasion another step toward a Muslim Europe, And Americans Can Ill Afford To Be Smug — Washington Times
What Was the European Dream? — David Polansky, Fusion
Our Northern Neighbor Goes Hard Left
With No Opposition, Canada Has Become The Most Radically Progressive Nation In The World — Harbinger’s Daily
What’s the (free speech) deal with Canada? — The Eternally Radical Idea
Miscellaneous, But Very Important, Stuff . . .
Colombia quake death toll tops 250 as rescuers race to find survivors — Reuters
The Democrats Gave Us Today’s Inflation — American Thinker
Electoral Science Deniers — American Thinker
The Current Status of American Schools — Larry Sand, Front Page Magazine
WNBA Star’s ‘White Privilege’ Post Raises Questions About Her Flagrant Foul on Sophie Cunningham — PJ Media
How ‘Israeli’ Came to Mean ‘Jewish’ in the American Press — Commentary
Responses to the Data Center NIMBYs — RodMartin.org
The Worst Academic Scandal in 817 Years! — Roundup, Instapundit
Happy 25th Anniversary to Professor Glenn Reynolds and the Instapundit Blog! — Legal Insurrection
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