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Trump’s Iranian Gamble

The conventional view among antiglobalist conservatives is that President Donald Trump’s nixing of the Iran nuclear deal, coupled with the much-heralded relocation of the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem, is bad news.

Requiem for a Remainer

Ralph Berry

It is time to ring down the curtain on the troubled rule of Theresa May. May became Prime Minister as the result of a series of flukes, which a scriptwriter would have dismissed as too implausible to work.

Monumental Stupidity

Tony Outhwaite

There is a scene in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1959 classic North by Northwest in which the characters look out at a brooding Mount Rushmore from the dining-room terrace of the Sheraton-Johnson Hotel in Rapid City, South Dakota.

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Why the Left Fears Division
Ralph Berry | June 20, 2018
'Divisive': the Left denounces the term. Good. It means that the enemy is running scared.
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Trump and the Invasion of the West
Pat Buchanan | June 19, 2018
[St]riking down the policy will leave America's immigration crisis still unresolved. Consider. Since 2016, some 110,000 children have entered the U.S. illegally and been released, along with 200,000 Central American families caught sneaking across the border.
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Ubuntu!
W. James Antle III | June 18, 2018
William Murchison gets right to the point in his eloquent account of mainline Protestantism’s near-terminal degeneration, written poignantly from an Anglican’s perspective.
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Infinite War
Andrew J. Bacevich | June 14, 2018
“The United States of Amnesia.” That’s what Gore Vidal once called us. We remember what we find it convenient to remember and forget everything else. That forgetfulness especially applies to the history of others.
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