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Trump jokes he didn't tell Japan about Iran strikes because of Pearl Harbor
2+ hour, 57+ min ago (381+ words) President Donald Trump claimed he did not tell Japan and other U.S. allies about the joint operation to launch strikes against Iran because he wanted the element of surprise akin to the attack on Pearl Harbor. "We didn't tell anybody about…...
Trump suggests Iranian Tomahawk missile killed 175 people in school strike
1+ week, 2+ day ago (322+ words) President Donald Trump suggested that Iran obtained a Tomahawk missile for use in a strike that killed 175 people at an Iranian school, but later admitted ignorance on the subject. The Tomahawk is one of the most effective and coveted cruise…...
US predicted 'imminent' Iranian threat in response to Israeli attack: Rubio
2+ week, 2+ day ago (511+ words) Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the United States attacked Iran over the "imminent" threat posed by an Iranian response to an Israeli attack that the U.S. knew was coming. The Trump administration gave out a flurry of explanations for the…...
Trump is wrong about the Gordie Howe International Bridge
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (515+ words) When I first saw President Donald Trump's recent social media comment against the soon-to-open Gordie Howe International Bridge, my first reaction was disbelief. My second was frustration. I am hardly a Never Trumper. In fact, I voted for Trump thrice....
Trump says Putin should be ending war, not ‘testing missiles’ ahead of landing in Japan
4+ mon, 3+ week ago (249+ words) President Donald Trump had strong words for Russian President Vladimir Putin while traveling to Japan on Monday after reports of Russia's recent tests of a nuclear-powered cruise missile." The Russian president touted the weapon's capabilities on Sunday, declaring it "invincible…...
Make America patriotic again
8+ mon, 2+ week ago (300+ words) For decades, we asked students to recite the Pledge of Allegiance but never taught them what the words meant, handing them flags while failing to explain what the flag represented. And in the vacuum left behind, the Left offered an…...
The fifth branch of government needs to go
5+ mon, 3+ week ago (405+ words) The Constitution created three branches of government: the legislative, the executive, and the judicial. For the past century, progressives in Congress have created a fourth branch composed of "independent agencies" and an unaccountable regulatory bureaucracy. This fourth branch is now…...
Netanyahu invokes 9/11 to justify Qatar strike and threatens further attacks despite Trump warning
6+ mon, 1+ week ago (553+ words) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday compared his controversial choice to militarily target Hamas leadership in Qatar to the United States's decision to wage war on the Taliban after the 9/11 attacks. "What did America do in the wake of…...
Celebrating an informed patriotism
6+ mon, 1+ week ago (420+ words) As students get ready to go back to school with fresh notebooks and sharpened pencils, let the first lesson of the school year come from the 40th'president of the United States, Ronald Reagan. In his'Farewell Address'in 1989, Reagan spoke of a…...
Revive civics education for America's 250th
8+ mon, 2+ week ago (617+ words) America is not perfect, but perfection is not its promise. Opportunity is. And as long as we remain faithful to that idea, the American Dream will endure." So wrote a high school student from Illinois, one of the winners of…...