Congress is gearing up for a rare and potentially consequential vote this week on a pair of bipartisan war powers resolutions aimed at reining in President Trump's military operations in Iran.

Democrats, isolationists, and other Israel obsessives like to blame Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for all the wars of the Middle East. They found a new opening for their hobby horse yesterday with an out-of-context snippet from Secretary of State Marco Rubio. “We knew that there was going to be an Israeli action,” Rubio told […]

California Democrats view parents as more likely to be abusers than caretakers and, thus, think schools should be able to secretly transition students without their parents’ knowledge. It should not be overlooked that the Supreme Court itself has had to step in to address this insane view. The Supreme Court has temporarily blocked a California […]

Iranian drones and missiles have been slamming into cities across the Middle East for three days. Gulf states with some of the best air defense arsenals are discovering the difficulty in dealing with cheap, slow drones arriving in waves. A single THAAD anti-ballistic missile interceptor costs $13 million. The Shahed drone costs roughly $20,000. Ukraine […]

The Trump administration is framing the killing of cartel leader “El Mencho” as a major victory in the war on drugs. Decades of drug enforcement tells another story. Within hours of El Mencho’s death, affiliates set fires to banks and storefronts and blocked major highways across roughly 20 Mexican states, demonstrating continued operational reach as authorities […]

The Constitution clearly grants Congress, not the president, the power to declare war. Thus, most defenders of President Donald Trump’s unauthorized war against Iran point to the 1973 War Powers Resolution and claim the law allows the president to wage a war for 60 days without any congressional approval. Here’s a Republican member of Congress […]

TRUMP, FOREVER WARS, AND IRAQ SYNDROME. For many years in the 1970s, 1980s, and into the 1990s, discussions of the use of U.S. military force suffered from an effect known as Vietnam Syndrome. Many Americans simply could not consider any proposed U.S. military action without seeing visions of a Vietnam-style quagmire in which American troops would […]

With Americans’ utility bills climbing by 21% in just the last three years, President Donald Trump is rightly focused on the affordability crisis and the urgent need for price relief. Solar energy is one of the nation’s lowest-cost and fastest-to-deploy energy resources — that’s why red states and a majority of Republican voters support its […]

Senate Armed Services Chair Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) criticized the Pentagon’s National Defense Strategy (NDS) blueprint Tuesday, saying it ignores the implications of the Russia-Ukraine war and does not say much about Washington’s interests in the Middle East given the Iran war. Wicker in opening remarks at a hearing with Pentagon policy chief Elbridge Colby listed...

If the mission is defense, say that. If it’s deterrence, define it. If it’s regime change, own it. But shifting goals in real time, while lives and markets hang in the balance, is not strategy, it’s uncertainty. And uncertainty is a dangerous place to wage war.