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Not long ago, Iran was described as an imminent threat.AdvertisementNow we are told it wasn’t a threat at all.What changed?AdvertisementNot the facts. The politics.That shift is playing out in real time as the narrative around the Iran war evolves. A recent Rasmussen Reports poll found that a majority of likely U.S. voters believe the conflict has been successful so far. Under normal circumstances, that would invite a sober reassessment.AdvertisementInstead, it has produced something closer to denial.AdvertisementImage created by ChatGPT AdvertisementFrom the beginning, critics warned that confronting Iran would spark chaos across the Middle East, destabilize global markets, and drag the...

Feckless blue states are spending like there is no tomorrow, but tomorrow will come, and they’ll be demanding red state money to pay their debts. I begin by presenting three trends. One might even call them inevitabilities, and one might argue they’re not trends at all, but present realities that are intertwined and will tend to collapse in on each other, inevitably leading to the third inevitability. The first trend is a Congress of feckless fools: I’ll get to Lippencott’s final question momentarily, but our Congress does seem unable to accomplish anything of consequence, such as the SAVE Act, which...

The elephant in the room grows bigger after a look at the latest violent crime statistics: blacks are the greatest perpetrators, and the greatest victims, of criminal violence. First, let’s look at a new stat, from AFPost on X: AF Post @AFpost Follow There have been nearly 19,000 suspected shooters recorded in New York City since 2006. Only 1.5% were listed as White. That means just 285 suspected shooters were white, while a whopping 18,715 were non-white. When we cross-reference that data with numbers from the city, we see more of the whole picture. The latest report from the NYPD...