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  • The Real Iranian Moderates

    The Real Iranian Moderates

    Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, is traveling to the EU (Italy and France) this week in a visit that is supposed to hail a new era of relations with the West. Many have embraced him as a supposed "moderate" within the regime.

  • Sanctions Relief Will Only Aid Iran's Network of Terror

    Sanctions Relief Will Only Aid Iran's Network of Terror

    Whatever benefits the West hopes to achieve from new investments in the Islamic Republic, they don't justify the blood that will stain our hands when we feed such a narrow and dangerous segment of the Iranian economy.

  • When Political Correctness Equals Political Cowardice

    When Political Correctness Equals Political Cowardice

    Political correctness has become one of the constants of our age. Many of the examples are more ridiculous than anything else.

  • 6.3 Million Gun Owners Could Lose Their Licenses in Virginia

    6.3 Million Gun Owners Could Lose Their Licenses in Virginia

    Voters are fickle and often don't pay much attention to races besides the top ones, like president and governor. That must be why Virginians narrowly elected Mark Herring state attorney general two years ago.

  • Stop Terrorists From Killing Americans, Not Americans From Owning Guns

    Stop Terrorists From Killing Americans, Not Americans From Owning Guns

    Another terrorist attack, another refusal by President Barack Obama to tell the truth. Instead of admitting that Islamic terrorists had staged another murderous assault on innocent people, he turned the victims into a political prop. Instead of explaining how he intended to stop terrorists from killing Americans, he launched another campaign to stop Americans from owning guns.

  • Be Compassionate But Cautious When Accepting Refugees

    Be Compassionate But Cautious When Accepting Refugees

    Americans always have welcomed those fleeing danger and oppression abroad. Some of the earliest Americas crossed the Atlantic to escape religious persecution in Great Britain.

  • Attack ISIS, but Don't Help Assad, Putin and Iran

    Attack ISIS, but Don't Help Assad, Putin and Iran

    In leading his country in the confrontation of a unique set of challenges Winston Churchill famously said: "This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure."

  • Why Most Americans Could Soon Be Insured by Only 3 Companies

    Why Most Americans Could Soon Be Insured by Only 3 Companies

    At a recent Congressional hearing, Dr. Mandy Cohen of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services explained that almost 700,000 Americans have lost their health coverage because the insurance co-ops formed under ObamaCare to foster competition couldn't compete with "big, experienced players" in the insurance marketplace.

  • Stop Appeasing Iran's Ayatollahs as They Crackdown on Dissidents

    Stop Appeasing Iran's Ayatollahs as They Crackdown on Dissidents

    Shaqayeq Azimi is an aspiring, joyful girl of 22 with a full life ahead of her. She is also an Iranian dissident, committed to challenging the repressive theocracy that rules her home country.

  • Crony Capitalism Splits House Republicans

    Crony Capitalism Splits House Republicans

    Advocates of crony capitalism just won't give up. Last Friday, a large block of House Republicans joined Democrats in signing a discharge petition to force revival of the Export-Import Bank (Ex-Im) to the House floor.

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