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Gen. Mattis: America Doesn’t Lose Wars, it Loses Interest

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Jon Basil Utley, a friend of mine and publisher of The American Conservative, highlights the thoughts and ideas he gleaned from a speech by General James “Mad Dog” Mattis to the Jamestown Foundation. Mattis is likely to be America’s next defense secretary. Jon’s comments are in italics. –America doesn’t lose wars, it loses interest. –We […]

Jeff Sessions Attorney General an A

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The National Interest tells readers the Sessions appointment could be a historic appointment moving away from a PC straight judicial jacket. Jeff Sessions has compiled a record that suggests he will be a decisive and constructive leader of the Justice Department. Sessions is potentially a historic appointment, sending encouragement to law enforcement agencies not to […]

Shocking Upset in France Demolishes Polls

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If possible, the French polls got their conservative primary election even worse than did America’s. Bordeaux Mayor Alain Juppé had been the clear leader. WSJ summarizes results: Less than a month ago, polls credited Mr. Fillon with less than 15% of the first-round vote. On Sunday, results from 9,347 of the 10,229 polling stations across […]

My Report Card on Trump’s Advisor and Cabinet Choices

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I am assembling a running catalog on names being considered, and my company will evaluate each finalist in terms of what Donald Trump said he was going to do for Americans. I do not want to get into specific names here, but rather kick off this lengthy task by saying that my initial impressions are […]

Republican Hardliner Nicolas Sarkozy Resonating

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French voters come out Sunday to select a presidential candidate on the Republican side. The media is putting the spin on Muslim assimilator Alain Juppe. Taking the hard line on the near total lack of Muslim assimilation is former French president Nicolas Sarkozy. Sarkozy has gotten the wet finger in the air and is going […]

Many of Obama’s Rule by Decree Cases Will Go Away

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The Cato Institute’s Ilya Shapiro brings some welcome news to conservative Americans. Although the vacancy left on the Supreme Court by Justice Antonin Scalia’s passing—and judicial nominations more broadly—didn’t play as big a role in the campaign as leaked videos and emails, this issue is now at the forefront of the new administration’s transition plan. […]

Mr. Trump, It’s Time to Empower Small Business Owners

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Forget all the downstream issues and get America’s small business owners supercharged to launch a tsunami of innovation and job creation. Everything else is secondary until you deliver on your promise to make America great again with jobs and innovation. Yes, Americans want you to nominate a Scalia-like Supreme Court justice (do so on inauguration […]

A Trump War Room: Bannon, Priebus, Gingrich, Giuliani

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Donald Trump has assembled an “A list” of street fighters to facilitate the mission of freeing America from the progressive, liberal yoke of foreign intervention, income redistribution and constitutional disregard. Here latimes.com details the Trump roll out: The tension between passion and pragmatism played out vividly with Trump’s selection of his often-provocative campaign operative, former […]

Save the Republic by Facilitating an All Out Shia vs. Sunni War

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Mike Scheuer, former CIA bin Laden Unit Chief, has a vision for the Middle East, which he explains to readers: [T]he willingness of prominent Americans to advocate the election of a felon, to behave disloyally in favor of a foreign country, and to seek to involve America in endless war is deeply disturbing. That said, […]