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Interesting things appear at a website named Law & Liberty . Today there is a review of a book by political scientist George Hawley ent...

I was disappointed yesterday - the first day of the fedgov shutdown - no terminations of federal employees were announced. Politico writes t...

Richard Fernandez does a PJ Media column called Belmont Club , and often has insights COTTonLINE has relished. Today is no exception. Sept...

The Department of War has issued an official transcript of SecWar Pete Hegseth’s speech yesterday to the GOFOs. It is long and, if we are ...

The Schumer Shutdown began at 12:01 a.m. EDT. Let the firings of uncivil servants commence.

Power Line 's Scott Johnson posts a paragraph from The Spectator (behind paywall) written by Chillton Williamson, Jr., in which he chara...

Power Line 's John Hinderaker often plugs Alpha News as the only reliable news source in his home state of Minnesota. Here  Alpha  repo...

An interesting quote by conservative commentator Rod Dreher, posted by Instapundit . I wonder if his statistics are accurate? Stunning, if ...

Check out a light-hearted Spiked essay on the common experience of being hoist on one’s own petard. That being Shakespeare’s phrase meanin...

President Trump has announced a 20 point peace plan for Gaza. He has gotten buy-in from European leaders and islamic leaders in the region, ...

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RealClearPolitics has a long column arguing for the Census to count only US citizens, which hasn't been the practice in the past. I f...

The New York Post reports incumbent Mayor Eric Adams has dropped out of the mayoral race in New York City.  [He was] polling fourth, far ...

Writing for the very leftwing Salon , Amanda Marcotte entitles her column, "Kamala Harris is right: Biden set her up to fail."  We...

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Does Tylenol cause autism? The truth is we don't know for sure. Okay, so what do we know pretty much for sure? That women who took Tylen...

Kevin Roberts, the president of the Heritage Foundation, spoke at the third annual US - Mexico Policy Summit . The National Interest has t...

The story of SecWar Hegseth calling a meeting of all general-level military officers continues to reverberate. It probably will do so until ...

The Biden DOJ repeatedly promised us there were zero undercover FBI agents on Capitol Hill for the Jan. 6, 2020 riots. Now, the Trump DOJ ad...

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