Daniel McCarthy

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  • Nov 12, 2025
    President Trump is being misled into a regime-change war close to home. Few Americans nowadays find much to celebrate in the Iraq War or the intervention that overthrew Libya’s...
  • Nov 6, 2025
    When George W. Bush chose Dick Cheney as his running mate in 2000, conservatives let out a sigh of relief—even some paleoconservatives did so. Word was that Pat Buchanan...
  • Oct 28, 2025
    President Donald Trump's slogan has long been "America First," and his movement is all about making America great again -- language the president's foes misunderstand as meaning...
  • Oct 21, 2025
    President Donald Trump is in a fight for the destiny of the Americas.  
  • Oct 14, 2025
    The magnitude of Donald Trump’s success in giving peace a chance in Gaza can be gauged by the headlines and coverage of normally fiercely anti-Trump mainstream media outlets.
  • Oct 13, 2025
    Battles over Columbus Day aren't really about Christopher Columbus at all -- they're about whether America should exist.  
  • Sep 16, 2025
    Is Great Britain on the brink of a Trump revolution?  
  • Aug 27, 2025
    Some conservatives are up in arms about President Donald Trump’s decision to have the government buy shares in Intel.  
  • Aug 20, 2025
    More than anyone else, Ron Paul channeled the founders’ vision of American foreign policy into the twenty-first century.  
  • Aug 7, 2025
    Surely at some point gravity must triumph over the tightrope-walker? Don’t count on it  
  • Jul 16, 2025
    The former congressman showed what an anti-establishment campaign within the GOP could achieve  
  • Jun 26, 2025
    President Trump may be a second-term president now, but he hasn’t lost his penchant for surprising critics and supporters alike. No one could be sure what he would do about the...
  • Jun 17, 2025
    When gray-haired white liberals take to America’s streets for “No Kings” protests, the only danger they’re exposing themselves to is ridicule.  
  • Jun 14, 2025
    The basic fact of the Israel-Iran war is that Israel is much stronger than its opponent. Iran’s retaliatory capabilities are limited, though not trivial.
  • Jun 12, 2025
    The riots that kicked off in Los Angeles last weekend aren’t just about illegal immigration — they’re part of a revolutionary movement.  
  • Jun 4, 2025
    At home and abroad, the question is no longer ‘which system is best?’ but ‘whose land is this?’  
  • May 14, 2025
    President Trump is an America Firster, but he has an undeniable affinity for the Arab world. He would have made a good sheikh – he doesn’t drink, he loves developing...
  • May 2, 2025
    Fifty years ago, on April 30, Saigon fell to the North Vietnamese, and the defeat was America’s, too.  
  • Apr 1, 2025
    Elections are supposed to be decided at the ballot box, not in the courtroom -- unless you're French, or, in this country, a liberal.  
  • Mar 27, 2025
    What’s the scandal when Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, is included in a Signal group chat of Trump administration officials discussing an attack on...
  • Feb 25, 2025
    President Trump has a plan to save Europe, and the results of Sunday’s election in Germany show it’s working.  
  • Feb 22, 2025
    The president claimed that Zelensky was ‘a dictator without elections’ who started the war with Russia  
  • Feb 21, 2025
    Elbridge Colby is Donald Trump’s nominee to serve as under secretary of defense for policy, but Sen. Tom Cotton is thinking about derailing his nomination. Colby not only has...
  • Feb 4, 2025
    Donald Trump knows exactly what he's doing with tariffs.  
  • Jan 30, 2025
    Tulsi Gabbard is a courageous woman. Her decorated bravery as a combat veteran is something even her opponents can’t deny. But she also has political courage, which...
  • Jan 21, 2025
    The 45th and 47th president has articulated a renewed vision of the American way of life.
  • Jan 18, 2025
    Whether with neoliberalism or neoconservatism, the last four presidents helped to squander the peace. And now a new era begins.