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USS Abraham Lincoln. Photo Credit: Capt. Lee Apsley, Defense Visual Information Distribution Service A sailor aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln sent a message home that his family passed to Stars and Stripes anonymously, fearing retaliation. “Our mental health and physical health is in danger. We need help.” By the time that message surfaced, the Lincoln had been gone from San Diego since late November 2025, redirected from a routine Pacific cruise into a shooting war with Iran and kept at sea for nine months. Her roughly 5,000 sailors and Marines spent 208 consecutive days at sea—more than any carrier in…

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Monday on the RealClearPolitics podcast, Tom Bevan, Carl Cannon, and Richard Porter discuss President Trump threatening Iran with an economic “D-Day” and the trade war with Canada restarting. Also, the president stumped for Republican Sen. Darline Graham in South Carolina over the weekend.Plus, the panel debates news that the Washington Post has been ordered to rehire opinion columnist Karen Attiah after an arbiter found no “gross misconduct,” and the latest culture war controversy in the WNBA.Listen live weekdays at 11:00 a.m. Eastern on SiriusXM’s Megyn Kelly Channel 111, or on Apple, Spotify, YouTube, or other platforms.00:00 — Opening: Trump’s “Economic…

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Ramzy Baroud on the dangerous turning point Colombia’s new government represents for pro-Palestine and pro-Arab positions worldwide. Colombian President Abelardo de la Espriella during his campaign in May. (Wikimedia Commons /CC0) By Ramzy BaroudZ Network Colombia’s decision to recognize Israeli sovereignty over the occupied Syrian Golan Heights marks a dangerous turning point. By becoming only the second country in the world — after the United States — to endorse Israel’s illegal annexation of Syrian territory, Bogotá has signaled a complete reversal of Gustavo Petro’s foreign policy under new far-right President Abelardo de la Espriella. However, Colombia is not an isolated case.…

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I read something awful the other day, and it had to do with Hollywood. It seems a truly ghastly horror movie called Sinners earned all sorts of awards from an industry of such moral corruption that even witless oafs with filthy underwear and filthier minds are appalled. I will get to this abomination in a jiffy, but first a few thoughts about Hollywood past and present. The articulate and smooth-as-silk speech of Clark Gable in Gone with the Wind, the clipped, biting wit of Clifton Webb in Laura, and the earnest but unmistakably American moralism of Dana Andrews in The…

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An Iranian spokesman said Tehran has the right to target US bases in any countries that are used to attack Iran. “There is no justification for any country to fear Iran unless that country opens its territory to the United States for aggression against Iran,” Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei said on Monday. “It is Iran’s right to target the source and origin of any aggressive action against the Islamic Republic.” The US has used bases across the Middle East and Europe to wage its war against Iran. Some European countries, including Italy and Spain, have blocked Washington from using…

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Today, loudly and proudly, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) is a staunch supporter of the Iran War, the state of Israel, and U.S.-led regime change in other countries; he is outspoken against what he sees as rising antisemitism in America, particularly on the right.When he opposed a potential U.S.–Iran peace deal in June, the Washington Examiner reported that “Cruz, considered a possible 2028 presidential candidate” was “positioning himself as more hawkish than the White House.”Other top 2028 Republican presidential prospects include Vice President J.D. Vance, who is considered less hawkish than other White House officials, and also Secretary of State Marco…

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