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National Columnists

Iran’s people should be desiring peace

After decades of the Iranian terrorist dictatorship voicing grave threats to global security, Israel and the United States have ultimately resolved to take decisive action to mitigate the threat posed by Iran’s nuclear weapons program. What was once perceived as a suicidal scenario for our ...

Let’s be clear what Iran strike debate is about

Even Americans who loathe President Donald Trump should be capable of seeing that the U.S. and the world are safer without a nuclear-capable Iran. But Trump derangement is blinding them. Saturday night, Trump and the U.S. military executed a “spectacularly successful” precision bombing of ...

Even ‘established’ theories can be questioned

Last week, science writer Christopher Plain published a story in the online magazine The Debrief (which describes its subject matter as “Science, Tech and Defense for the Rebelliously Curious”) about fossilized human footprints found in a desiccated lakebed in White Sands, New Mexico. ...

Secure borders win wars like this one

The Iran crisis of the past two weeks isn’t just about nuclear weapons — it’s also an urgent reminder that border security is national security. Tehran’s terrorist agents are a weapon with a much longer reach than any of the mullahs’ missiles. They’ve been a threat to Salman ...

Iran bombing won’t be ‘another Iraq’

After a short and successful war with Iraq, President George H.W. Bush claimed in 1991 that “the ghosts of Vietnam have been laid to rest beneath the sands of the Arabian desert.” Bush was referring to what was commonly called the “Vietnam syndrome.” The idea was that the Vietnam War ...

Government should stay away from AI race

At the birth of the internet age in the early 1990s, the U.S. and Europe took opposite approaches to advancing this new economy-changing technology. Europe tried the approach of industrial policy: They allowed government to regulate, subsidize and then tax the swarm of new tech companies that ...