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The Art of Hormuz

Kharg Threat Forces Iran Back to the Table Well, here we are — once again witnessing realpolitik deliver where prolonged diplomacy alone had stalled. Just hours after President Trump’s Truth Social declaration that the United States would hit Iran very hard and move toward seizing Kharg Island and controlling their oil and gas markets, he called off the immediate strikes. High-level Iranian leadership approved key points for a framework agreement. Documents are in “pretty final shape,” with a potential signing as soon as this weekend in Europe — Vice President JD Vance expected to attend. The naval blockade remains firmly in…

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Trump’s Hammer on Kharg

Half-Measures No More: Kharg Island Falls, The Spice Flows, and America Secures the Future Well, here we are at last. President Donald J. Trump laid it out plainly on Truth Social today: The United States is hitting Iran very hard tonight. Their Navy, Air Force, radar, anti-aircraft systems, and much of their offensive capability—gone. And in the not-too-distant future, we will be taking Kharg Island and other critical oil infrastructure points, assuming total control of their oil and gas markets. Just as we have done with Venezuela, where the model is working out brilliantly for both nations and the broader cause…

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The Incoherent, Inauthentic Brute

Why Democrats Own Graham Platner Democrats spent years perfecting the art of the skin suit — wearing the outward appearance of working-class grit, moral clarity, and principled outrage while the underlying reality was privilege, grievance, and raw political calculation. They draped themselves in the language of #MeToo, “believe all women,” and fighting fascism. Then they nominated Graham Platner for U.S. Senate in Maine — a direct sequel to the themes explored in last month’s “The Skin Suits.” He won the primary decisively. The party that once purged its own for far lesser offenses has now strapped this incoherent, inauthentic brute to…

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Beyond Debate

Moral Clarity, Historical Truth, and the Longest Hatred Sam Harris’s essay “Why It’s Futile to Debate Israel’s Enemies” lands with unusual force. I live less than two miles from major mosques and witness daily the rapid demographic, linguistic, and cultural transformations reshaping neighborhoods, parks, schools, and playgrounds. As a father, a conservative commentator, and someone who has spent decades in security and risk analysis, I recognize the patterns Harris exposes. Consequently, the ancient hatred many believed the Holocaust had consigned to history books now walks openly in streets, on campuses, and even in statements from elected officials. Harris, the prominent atheist…

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I Am a Patriot

I Refuse to Apologize for Loving My Country I stand in the same east Plano neighborhood where my wife and I built our life together more than two decades ago. The streets I walked with my kids still carry the echoes of Friday night football lights, backyard barbecues, and the quiet rhythm of working families putting down roots. The mosques have multiplied nearby, the languages in the parks have shifted, and the familiar anchors — the corner stores, the churches where generations were baptized and buried, the schools that once felt like an extension of home — have changed in ways…

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California’s Engineered Election Opacity

How the Democrat Machine Protects Itself and Why Election Day Must Mean Election Day It’s Sunday, June 7 — five full days after Election Day on June 2 — and LA County officials continue counting ballots in the Los Angeles mayor’s race. Incumbent Karen Bass maintains a solid lead at roughly 34.8% and advances to the November runoff. The real contest for second place continues: Independent outsider Spencer Pratt still leads progressive Councilmember Nithya Raman by about 7,500 votes at ~78% counted. Yet each new batch of late mail and provisional ballots narrows that gap. Raman will almost certainly overtake Pratt…

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American Families Gain Ground

How Trump’s H-1B Crackdown Is Delivering Discounts for American Families and Breathing Room in the Job Market From the parks and school drop-off lines in east Plano to the new-build subdivisions stretching through Frisco, Prosper, and Celina, the rhythm of daily life in Collin County has shifted noticeably in recent months. For Sale signs linger longer. Conversations at neighborhood gatherings carry a different tone. The rapid cultural and linguistic changes that defined the post-pandemic boom years have slowed, replaced by something more measured—a suburban rebalancing long overdue. The New York Post and Bloomberg captured it sharply in early June 2026: President…

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Mine Alone: The Weight of Command

Eisenhower’s Absolute Accountability on D-Day Last year we honored the raw courage of Rudder’s Rangers at Pointe du Hoc and the big guns of the Battleship Texas pounding the Normandy beaches. This anniversary, let us look higher in the chain—to the supreme commander who carried the loneliest burden of all. On the evening of June 5, 1944, at Greenham Common airfield in England, General Dwight D. Eisenhower walked among the paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division. The iconic photograph captures the moment: Ike in simple uniform, surrounded by young men in full jump gear, faces darkened with camouflage, some with chalked…

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Poppy’s Witness

A Father’s Heart, a Mother's Stand, and the Sanctity of Every Life I need to talk about this raw, the way I write when the curtain gets yanked all the way back. No polish for the sake of comfort. No slogans that let us off the hook. Just the naked testimony of a father who has walked the road the culture now debates in headlines and Instagram Stories. When Jesse and Ashley Ridgway, the YouTubers behind McJuggerNuggets, announced they had terminated their pregnancy after learning their child had Trisomy 21—Down syndrome—they described the condition as “objectively s---ty from a health perspective.”…

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Everybody Knows a Platner

The Man Everyone Warns You About There’s a certain type of man many women — and men — have encountered in life. Charming at first. Articulate. Full of big ideas and intensity. Then the mask slips. What starts as passion turns volatile, demeaning, controlling, and sometimes worse. Unfaithful. Heavy drinking. Threats. Emotional whiplash that leaves people walking on eggshells. Graham Platner is that guy. And everybody knows a Platner. The New York Times recently published a detailed piece on Platner’s past relationships that should end any lingering illusions about his fitness for higher office. Multiple women described unsettling, toxic, and volatile…

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