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At the order of President Trump, the United States has eliminated by military strike the top general of the Quds Force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, Qassem Suleimani. Here are a few points and questions to consider. The decision to kill Qassem Suleimani when we did and in the context we did is jaw-dropping for a few reasons. SuleimaniÂ’s significance was massive and taking him out now will have far greater effects than when the United States killed Osama bin Laden.Killing OBL was righteous, and the decision to send U.S. special operators into Pakistan to conduct the kill operation...

Radical changes imposed on our military by progressives, begun in earnest during the Obama administration, are negatively impacting our combat readiness and jeopardizing the lives of our men and women in uniform and, ultimately, our national security. In Stand Down: How Social Justice Warriors Are Sabotaging America’s Military, author James Hasson elucidates how Barack Obama fundamentally changed military culture to make our nation less secure. Hasson, a former Army captain, Army Ranger School graduate, and Afghanistan veteran, argues that military readiness was sacrificed for identity politics and progressive rhetoric. He lists examples such as policies that established “safe spaces,” prohibited...

Imagine taking your family to Easter Sunday services to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus when -- bam! -- a psychopathic suicide bomber blows the church to pieces. This happened in Sri Lanka at two Catholic churches -- St. Anthony's Shrine in the capital city of Colombo and St. Sebastian's Church in Negombo -- as well as an evangelical church in Batticaloa. Hundreds died. The size of the death toll and the holy-day church bombings were dramatic enough for the news media in America. Politicians began tweeting their thoughts and prayers, which normally draws abuse from some of the more radical...

The AP has a story today about all the achievements Trump has racked up, all the things he’s accomplishing here that are substantive and meaningful — and all of them are the unraveling of things Obama did. It’s a long story, takes three pages to print out, and you can just tell that there is anger seeping out of this story. Because while all of this is going on, while the media and the Democrats try to prove Trump’s illegitimate, Trump is unraveling as much of Obama as he can and is succeeding wildly — and he isn’t finished by...