Trump Bottles it

I agree with Jonathan Sacerdoti. And with others on the right who think this is a shocker of a “deal”. Because it is. It just is.

The MOU with the “religious maniacs” (Marco Rubio) in the Iran regime is not a “ceasefire” or some wonderful Donald Deal. It’s a shameful capitulation. It’s an embarrassment. It’s a shocker. It’s the end of Trump’s legacy. 

That’s how bad it is. IMO. And yes, I have read the very few Republicans who praise it. But there’s nothing praiseworthy here. Trump has finally got some bipartisan agreement: it’s a shocker of a deal. An embarrassment. A failure. A loss.

Gloom… 

Trump Capitulates | Dan Schueftan

Sad but true. There were signs of this tendency when he stopped Israel from crushing Hamas.

This “deal” may change. We can hope. But for now, it’s giving in to the crazies in Tehran. Capitulation. Appeasement. 

World peace, regional peace, aside, this may he Trump’s worst legacy.

In Islam, a Hudna, a ceasefire, a cessation of hostilities, is only so Muslim forces can regroup and ready themselves for more attacks on the enemy.

Islamist Iran

Too bigoted?…  Pig faces to mock islam? How dare we!?

Well, the  pig-face on the other side for a change. Usually it’s used to taunt Jews.  

TBF we could add more piglets to the cartoon. Piglets like the Palestinian Islamic Jihad. The Palestinian Authority. The PLO. The Houthis. Syria. Iraq. The Muslim Brotherhood and its jungle of offshoots.

Iran: “An Islamic terrorist theocracy that worships death” | Lisa Rosen

Iran’s Supreme Leader Khomeini proudly states that never-ending bloodshed and mass executions are divine Islamic worship, the very essence of “the teaching of Islam.”

This is the open glorification of human sacrifice.

This is why the Ayatollah regime publicly executes opponents, protesters, journalists, rape victims, and gay people with medieval brutality.

This is also exactly why Iran arms and funds Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Houthis in Yemen, and Shiite militias in Iraq and Syria.

The regime is not interested in “resistance.” It is building a barbaric Islamist empire that spreads its savage Sharia laws by fire and sword across the region and beyond.

The world must stop pretending Iran’s Islamic Republic is a normal country. 

It is an Islamic terrorist theocracy that worships death. It must be confronted, isolated, and ultimately defeated.

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Refugee crises since 1900

I asked Grok for a list of world refugee crises since 1900. 

It came up with 54 countries that have suffered refugee crises since the first one, in Armenia, in 1915.

All but one are resolved. The one not resolved is highlighted below: Palestine. Just one. Out of 54. The Palestinians. 

The Palestinian refugee crisis remains unresolved because we let it. It was we, the west and the United Nations, that allowed this. The Arabs in the Levant (i.e.”Palestinians”) made maximalist demands, with maximum denial of compromise. And we accommodated them. We went along with it.

We, the United Nations, allowed:

1.  UNWRA: the only U.N. refugee body specifically for one people, the Palestinians. All the rest are handled by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.

2.  We allowed 1948 refugees to pass on their refugee status to their descendants. No other group of refugees, not a single one of the other 53, is allowed to do this. Thus the number of Palestinian refugees has increased from 700,000 to well over 2 million today. All looked after by UNWRA.

3.  We allowed the surrounding Arab states, those surrounding Israel, to refuse to accept or give citizenship to fellow Arab refugees from the 1948 Israel-Palestine war. 

4. We allowed UNWRA to become a creature of Hamas. It runs Hamas schools that are violently anti-Jew. It helps and covers for Hamas theft of food and foreign aid. So much that Hamas leaders are billionaires living in Qatar. UNWRA even had staff taking part in the October 7th killings, rapes,looting and kidnapping. 

An alternative history is this: the Palestinian refugees handled in the same way as all the others refugee groups in the last century. We should jabs said “NO” to the maximalist Arab demands. No, to all of the above accommodations. 

We would not now be facing the calls to “globalise the intifada”, to “kill all Jews”, to “destroy Israel”

In this alternative history, everyone would be better off. Economically and politically. Also mentally. This region could be a hub of innovation and growth. With peace. And a logical, realistic, handling of the “Palestinian Refugee Question”.

Grok:

Here is the list of 54, sorted alphabetically, with the earliest major refugee crisis for each group (focusing on well-documented, large-scale events):

•  Afghans: 1979–1980 (Soviet invasion)

•  Albanians: 1990s (post-communism/Kosovo conflicts)

•  Armenians: 1915 (Armenian Genocide)

•  Azerbaijanis: 1988–1990s (Nagorno-Karabakh conflict)

•  Bangladeshis: 1971 (Bangladesh Liberation War)

•  Bosniaks: 1992 (Bosnian War)

•  Burmese (Myanmar): 1962–1980s (military coups/ethnic conflicts)

•  Burmese Chin/Karen: 1980s–1990s (ethnic insurgencies)

•  Cambodians: 1975 (Khmer Rouge takeover)

•  Central Africans: 1990s–2000s (civil wars)

•  Chechens: 1994 (First Chechen War)

•  Chinese: 1949 (Chinese Communist Revolution) / earlier waves in 1930s–40s

•  Colombians: 1980s–1990s (drug war/insurgencies)

•  Congolese (DRC): 1960s (post-independence conflicts) / major in 1990s

•  Cubans: 1959–1960 (Cuban Revolution)

•  Czechs/Slovaks: 1938–1939 or 1968 (Prague Spring)

•  Eritreans: 1961 (war for independence from Ethiopia)

•  Ethiopians: 1970s (Red Terror / Ogaden War)

•  Georgians: 1990s (post-Soviet conflicts)

•  Germans (post-WWII): 1944–1947 (expulsions from Eastern Europe)

•  Guatemalans: 1960s–1980s (civil war)

•  Haitians: 1950s–1960s (Duvalier dictatorship) / major in 1990s

•  Hungarians: 1956 (Hungarian Revolution)

•  Indians: 1947 (Partition of India)

•  Iraqis: 1980s (Iran-Iraq War / Anfal campaign) or 1991

•  Kazakhs: 1920s–1930s (Soviet collectivization/famine)

•  Kosovars: 1998–1999 (Kosovo War)

•  Libyans: 2011 (Libyan Civil War)

•  Malians: 2012 (Tuareg rebellion / Islamist insurgency)

•  Nicaraguans: 1970s–1980s (Sandinista Revolution / Contra War)

•  Nigerians (Boko Haram affected): 2009–2010s

•  North Koreans: 1950–1953 (Korean War)

•  Pakistanis: 1947 (Partition of India)

•  Palestinians: 1948 (Arab-Israeli War)

•  Poles: 1939 (WWII invasion) or earlier partitions

•  Romanians: 1940s–1950s or 1989

•  Rohingya (Myanmar): 1978 or 1990s (major 2017)

•  Russians: 1917–1922 (Russian Revolution & Civil War)

•  Rwandans (historical): 1959–1961 or 1994 (Genocide)

•  Salvadorans: 1970s–1980s (Salvadoran Civil War)

•  Serbs/Croats (Yugoslav wars): 1991–1995

•  Somalis: 1970s–1980s or 1991 (civil war)

•  South Sudanese: 1955 or 1983 (civil wars) / 2013

•  Sri Lankan Tamils: 1983 (start of civil war)

•  Sri Lankans (beyond Tamils): 1980s

•  Sudanese: 1955 or 1983 (civil wars)

•  Syrians: 2011 (Syrian Civil War)

•  Tibetans: 1959 (Chinese annexation / uprising)

•  Ukrainians: 1930s (Holodomor) or 1940s / 2022

•  Uyghurs: 1930s or 1950s / major 2010s

•  Venezuelans: 2014–2015 (economic/political collapse)

•  Vietnamese (boat people): 1975 (Fall of Saigon)

•  Yemenis: 1960s or 2014–2015 (civil war)

The Ugly Truth about Palestine

I've followed Einat Wilf for some time. (My posts about her here)

What I didn't know, till the vid above, is that she made the same mental journey in life as I have: moving from the crazy left to.... Not the Left.

If you can hack it, she goes into detail about the Israel-Palestine issue, its history, its current affair; its "then", its "now". From the POV of an insider, as she was to the Oslo Accords process, with Yasser Arafat, Bill Clinton, and Yitzhak Rabin in 1993. 

About which, by the way, Bill Clinton felt betrayed by Arafat and has talked about his bitterness at the betrayal. 

The betrayal served to wake Clinton up to the reality that the Arabs of the Levant (aka the "Palestinians") do not want any deal, any "land for peace", any "Two State solution", any "recognition". No, what they want, what their dream is: death to Israel and death to all Jews. 

That’s the truth. And of course it’s ugly. That your neighbour wants you dead. No ifs, no buts. No negotiations. Wants you dead. 

Bill Clinton: "They don't want a State. They want dead jews". 

Why I still support Israel

There are too few young Americans like Jacob Smith. Able to analyse and think for himself. And have the same conclusion as me. “He agrees with me! He must be right!”. 

The conclusions being: that Israel has the right to exist; that it has the right to continue to exist; that it has the right to defend itself from genocidal attacks. That it has the right to stop a regional theocratic-tyranny from invading, occupying, bullying and converting “infidel” states throughout the world. 

Jacob labels himself a “Christian Zionist”. I’m not, because I’m not Christian. I’m atheist. But still Zionist. So I identify as an “Atheist Zionist”.

Using  “Zionist” in an updated sense of the term. Not that Israel simply has a right to exist. Because that’s a done deal. Israel exists. Updated “Zionism”: Israel has the right to continue to exist. Against the surrounding Arab-Muslim states that seek its destruction. Which destruction, were it to happen, would be the first and only state to be liquidated since the founding of the United Nations. 

From Smith’s Show Notes:

I'm a Christian American. I'm not Jewish. I have no personal stake in the Israel-Palestine conflict. And yet I've spent years debating anti-Zionists online, sitting across people whose mission is to delegitimize Israel and dehumanize the Jewish people — while receiving death threats daily across every platform I'm on. This video is my answer to the most common question I get: why do you even care?

My journey started on October 7th, 2023. I was in class when a Reuters notification came through about the Hamas attack. Within minutes I was watching people online cheer for it, spreading ahistorical narratives and anti-Zionist propaganda. I started responding. I haven't stopped.

 

The core of my argument is this: anti-Zionism is not a principled political position. It is a double standard applied exclusively to one people. If you scrutinize Israel's founding but not how the United United States was created, how Arab states were drawn up, or how any other nation in history was created, you don’t have a standard. You have a bias. And Israel’s independence is actually one of the most legally and morally defensible positions in modern history. 

My favourite city in the world: Jerusalem

Phil does a good job of a day or two around Jerusalem. A city I visited only in 2017 and loved. I think this Phil guy, who I didn’t know until today, does a pretty good job of showing us around, without any gratuitous politics or religion. 

The city is multi-ethnic, multi-religious, multi-cultural. All of which is not known by the Hamas-nicks in the U.S.. In American colleges. In the western media. Who continue to push the “apartheid” lie, and that it’s a story of White Oppression against the Brown Oppressed. Look at the people! They’re from all over. 

It’s Jerusalem that’s the melting pot of the world. Where people make a successful effort to be tolerant and kind to each other. It’s something they have to work at. And doesn’t come easy. But it does come and it does show the bright side of Israel. 

Israel, especially Jerusalem: a place in the Middle East I could live. Whereas there’s nowhere else I could actually live, as opposed to visiting. Not Egypt. Not Jordan. Nor Lebanon. And certainly not Syria. Not even Turkey. All of which I’ve visited and enjoyed. Great to visit. But to live? No way. But I could absolutely live in cosmopolitan Israel, especially magical Jerusalem. 

Ask any person, ask any Muslim living in Israel, where they’d rather live. If Israel is a choice, then they’ll choose Israel. People are not stupid. They can see how much better Jews run a country than Muslims do. Fact. Uncomfortable as it may be. Fact.

Phil does Tel Aviv. Another place I’ve been to, and could live in. Where I would live in preference to other places I’ve lived in: Rome, Tokyo, Beijing, Shanghai, New York, London, Sydney. ‘Nuff said?

Defending the West | Dennis Prager

Dennis Prager is a brave man. Paralysed below the neck in a horrific fall in the shower… he still speaks up with passion and erudition.

Above he talks of Israel as the tip of the spear in defending the west. And western values of the enlightenment.

Something I’ve banged on about here over many years. It is true. 

Mushroom clouds over Jerusalem. The Tucker “imminent threat”

The wolf really is there. 

So, No.

We cannot allow Iran’s “imminent nuclear threat” be a mushroom cloud over Jerusalem. Or Tel Aviv. 

No matter how much the Jew-hating Hamas and Jew-hating Western Hamasnics may pine for it. To “liberate Palestine”. To “globalise the intifada”.

Emily Schrader of JNS TV explains why in the above vid. And how much Israel has done to stop Iran’s nuclear threat. A threat to the world, by the way, not just to Israel.

It’s not “crying wolf “. You see the wolf in a distant copse. It’s approaching. You fire warning shots and build defences. It keeps coming. You keep firing and defending. That’s why the wolf hasn’t arrived. Not because it’s not there. But because you kept it at bay. Then comes the day you must kill it. Which is where we are today.

Aid to Israel is not a thing

Emily destroys the furphy that a few billions a year in U.S. tied aid is somehow critical to Israel. It’s not. It’s been steadily reduced over the years, with no ill effect on Israel. Bibi Netanyahu has announced he will stop it entirely. Good. 

Emily shows Tucker Carlson predicting this or that. I remember Carlson making wild predictions about all sorts of things, which turned out just as wildly wrong. 

• How Israel would collapse without U.S. aid. 
• Trump killing arch-terrorist Qasem Soleimani in 2020 was going to lead to regional war. 
• Trump’s “Midnight Hammer” operation in June 2025 was going to lead to World War III. 
• The “Epic Fury” operation would fail at the cost of tens of thousands of American lives. 

None of Carlson’s perfervid imaginings is true. None is acknowledged. None apologised for. 

Tucker Carlson is a foolish empty vessel. He is loud only because his very emptiness echoes and reverberates his delusions. 

Why support this barbaric theocracy?

Kavya K asks “ How can anyone claim to care about women while supporting this barbaric theocracy?”

My answer:

• Because the progressive Left hates Trump more than they love women.
• Because they hate Trump more than they love freedom 
• Because they hate Trump more than they’ll defend the west against Islamist encroachment 
• Because they hate Trump more than allowing nuclear weapons to genocidal theocratic tyrants 
• Because they hate Trump more than any effort to crush terrorism in the world 
• Because they hate Trump more than they want to constrain the world’s largest supporter of international terrorism.

In short, Because they hate Trump more than anything. 

“Ifyou support Iran’s regime, you’re not anti-war.  

You’re anti-woman.” Listen to Kavya K expose the massive hypocrisy of those who defend the Iranian regime.

She reveals the brutal truth: women in Iran have zero freedom. They are beaten, arrested, raped, and killed for daring to oppose the regime simply for wanting basic human rights.

This is not “resistance.” This is one of the most misogynistic regimes on Earth. 

How can anyone claim to care about women while supporting this barbaric theocracy? 

Video clip here

This war has revealed a bitter truth | Ahmed Khalifa

This war has revealed a bitter

truth for us Arabs & real Muslims

in the UAE & the Gulf:

Europe is no longer the Europe

we used to know.. The Europe of

beauty, culture, humanity & art

the one we looked up to, studied in

& learned so much from, is gone !

Now it feels like a third-world

country a refuge for failures

a safe haven for extremists

run by the Muslim Brotherhood

IRGC agents & every terrorist who

got kicked out of the Middle East!

Europe has sadly lost its identity.

Soon the the native European will

feel like strangers in their own land

watching their society get worse

& worse all with the blessing of their

own leaders!!

It’s a painful, pathetic joke..

I’m sorry, but I have to post this

warning (Video) again. It was from

10 years ago. I don’t know if it’ll make

any difference anymore, but I’m

sharing it for the fifth time anyway!

Greens (and BBC) deny Reality of Islam

 

Watch. And Marvel.

Anti-semitism is caused by… the fact that “We’re living in Rip-off.Britain”. 

Apparently…. Rising price of eggs … leads to anti-semitism. Apparently…

According to Greens leader Rachel Millward.

This is the Green-Red alliance. Where…

Green = Hamas, etc. The whole panoply of Islamic supremacism. 

Red = the Greens. Confusing, I know. But you get the picture. 

By the way. Come the revolution. Come the victory of Islam, the first to be lined up and shot will be the Lefties. The Greens. As per Iran in 1979. When the Ayatollah came to power and killed his erstwhile allies, 30,000 of them. The Iranian leftist leaders. 

Israel controls America…

 

Not.

Jeremy Boreing touches many of the points I’ve made on this here blog. (Jeremy, fwiw, is Christian).

I’ve been asked by Occasional Readers why I still support Israel. 

My answer: Because it’s still right. Because it’s still good. While Hamas is still wrong. Hamas is still bad. While Iran’s tyrannical theocracy is still wrong. Is still bad. 

All the noise, all the constant repetition of hate on Jews and hate on Israel, doesn’t make it right. It’s just proof, yet again, of Joseph Goebells “Big Lie” theory. Tell a big lie. The bigger the better. And tell it often. People will believe it. And today, weirdly, the Big Lie is coming from both Left and Right. (The latter now called the Woke Reich).

Well, I don’t believe the Big Lie. Nor the one about Israel. And the Jews. Or about how Hamas are brave “resistance fighters”. 

I still support Israel. Unequivocally. Staunchly. 

For reasons I’ve often repeated here. Which Jeremy handily summarises for me. 

Jeremy’s take down of Tucker Carlson’s ludicrous claim that America has “no strategic interest” in Israel is spot on. If Israel, if the Middle East is not strategically relevant, then the term has no meaning. Of course it’s relevant. Hugely so. Israel is very much the bulwark against a major victory for extremist Islam. 

Jeeemy doesn’t mention the economic benefits to America and the world of israel. It’s inventions and investments. On the high tech NASDAQ index, for example, Israel has the third highest number of companies listed, after only China and America itself. 

On a recent YouTube talk, Ambassador Mike Huckabee listed the number of Israeli-Jewish inventions that have benefitted mankind. Tell me a similar list from the Arab-Muslim world. Heh… 

Here’s a list from AI:

•  Drip irrigation system

•  USB flash drive (Disk-on-Key)

•  PillCam (capsule endoscopy)

•  Waze navigation app

•  Israeli emergency bandage

•  Mobileye driver assistance system

•  ReWalk exoskeleton

•  Cherry tomato

•  Polio vaccine (Jonas Salk)

•  Ballpoint pen (László Bíró)

•  Oral contraceptive pill contributions

•  ICQ instant messaging

•  Firewall technology (initial versions)

•  Solar water heater advancements

•  Copaxone (multiple sclerosis treatment)​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

But, you know, “Jews be Bad”…

Exonerating the Iranian regime. Why? | Eliza Le Bon

 

Click above for the X post by Elica Le Bon, Iranian-American activist 

Reza Pahlavi goes ballistic on the EU media

The Shah of Iran, Reza Pahlavi’s father, ruled Iran for 30 years. He modernised Iran. Focussed on education, health, women’s rights…. He also had Savak, his secret police arrest and torture opponents of his rule. A flawed leader. All the west can remember is the bad stuff. They recall nine of the good stuff. 

Meantime the western media seem unable to recall a single bad thing done by the Islamist theocracy since it overthrew the Shah in 1979. And proceeded to murder 30,000 of its leftist supporters. And commit even greater evils recently.

If it’s a choice between someone flawed and someone evil, you go for the flawed. So why is the western media like this? I don’t get it. 

Reza Pahlavi has words for the supine western press. Enamoured as it is with violent extremist Islam, in the shape of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps and the Mad Mullahs.

Here is Reza Pahlavi:

I want to speak DIRECTLY to the people of Europe. In the past two weeks I held TWO MAJOR press conferences — one in Stockholm, one in Berlin. Over 150 JOURNALISTS showed up. We spent MORE THAN TWO HOURS with them…

And guess what? 

NOT ONE SINGLE of those 150 journalists asked about the 40,000 IRANIANS SLAUGHTERED on the streets of my country on January 8th and 9th! 

NOT ONE asked about the 19 political prisoners EXECUTED in the last two weeks.

When I told them 20 more are currently sentenced to death — CRICKETS. Not a damn question.

I stood right next to a grieving mother and father who lost their sons in that massacre and begged them to listen to their stories… 

NOT A SINGLE ONE of those 150 journalists asked them a thing.

Let that sink in.

My 40,000 BRAVE INNOCENT COMPATRIOTS who were butchered fighting for liberty? They don’t give a damn.

They are too busy criticizing America and Israel for taking out the dictator who’s been slaughtering our people for 47 YEARS — instead of going after the regime that’s actually doing the killing!

They’d rather dig up Iran’s history than talk about what’s happening RIGHT NOW or the free democratic Iran we’re fighting for. 

One EU parliament member even had the nerve to say Iranians aren’t ready for democracy. To that coward and to every fake journalist in the room I say this:

Iranians aren’t just “ready” for democracy… 40,000 of them just DIED for it! And I will NOT let their blood be in vain. 

SO HEAR ME LOUD AND CLEAR:

Whether Europe stands with us or not…

Whether your journalists do their damn jobs or not…

Whether your politicians grow a spine or not…  

I WILL FIGHT FOR MY PEOPLE AND MY COUNTRY. 

Even if we have to do this ALONE — we are fighting until IRAN IS FREE! 🇮🇷💪

#RezaPahlavi‌ForIran 

@PahlaviReza

H/t Neo

"THE ISLAMIC SLAVE TRADE IS WORSE THAN YOU THINK" | Ali Tabrizi

 

Ali Tabrizi is an Iranian-Australian YouTuber and everything he says on here about the Islamic slave trade is true and verifiable. 

Slavery in the Islamic states lasted far longer, and was far higher in number, than ever the Atlantic slave trade was. It was those hated European colonialists who stopped the slave trade in the Islamic middle east. 

It is revealing that the Left in the west refuses to acknowledge, let alone condemn, the Islamic slave trade. Which continues to this day. Eg, openly and legally in Mauritania. 

Just more hypocrisy. And wanting to highlight anything that weakens the West, like the now-defunct slave trade, while ignoring anything nasty about the Islamic world, like the still-continuing slavery. 

America is winning in Iran. And the Left hates it

 

Historian, Classicist, Stanford Hoover Institute Fellow, Victory Davis-Hanson, talking of the winning going on in Iran. 

But the wish for losing -- of America losing, of the West losing -- the wish for "Gleeful Defeat" amongst the Left and other Trump haters. Who hate a man more than they love their country. 

Saudi Arabia will attack Iran …

Click above for the Short. Prince Faisal in his perfect English accent

 Saudi Arabia will attack Iran …

… if attacks against Saudi continue. But Iran “doesn’t want diplomacy” says Saudi Prince Faisal, above. “I’m doubtful they have the wisdom” to stop war and negotiate instead. 

Arab nations are united against Iran. They support U.S. and Israeli actions against the Iranian regime. 

As the Riyadh Statement shows. Not just Arab, but nearby Islamic nations as well. 

The Prince Faisal Short, above.

Iran Crumbles...

 

... and it's good news for the West. 

I am most certainly aware that that's not the view of the legacy media. That they're taking every opportunity to big up any perceived negatives against America; and to diminish any of the achievement of Operation Epic Fury. 

I find it disgusting that the European West, the American media, the media in Australia, the UK, the EU, can be against winning a defensive war on Iran -- defence against a burgeoning Islamist caliphate -- because they don't like the man waging it. 

I'm fully on side with winning this war. I know that America and Israel are trouncing Iran. But also that Iran's is not a finished regime. And that the main battle now is against the headwinds from the West itself. Weird and disturbing. And should not be so. 

Shame on pusillanimous leaders like France's Macron, Britain's Starmer, Italy's Meloni, Germany's Mertz and the Spanish socialist shill whose name I can't be bothered to remember. But who seems happy to have the Modern Moors reconquist Andalusia. Which, bottom line, is what this war is all about. Pushing back Islamist Jihadi attacks, of which Iran, its Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps, are just the tip of the spear. 

Is that too tough to read? Too difficult to acknowledge? So be it. 

00:00 Long View on Iran War 03:02 Iran Weakened Militarily 04:24 Winners and Losers Russia Gulf 06:22 Global Fallout China Europe NATO 09:16 US Outlook and Conclusion

Victor Davis Hanson is an American classicist, military historian, and political commentator. He has been a commentator on modern and ancient warfare and contemporary politics for the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the National Review, the Washington Times, and other media outlets.