Israel’s missile defense victory was 50 years in the making. Recall Desert Storm’s miss-then-hit Patriot shots against Saddam Hussein’s SCUDs. Beginning with the Reagan administration’s Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), the U.S. and Israel developed “layered” air and space missile defenses.
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Rev. Richard Killmer and Amy Rogghe: The truth about electric vehicles
We now have the rechargeable battery technology to make EVs not only more practical, but more economical and an answer to many existential problems of our time, like the climate crisis and detrimental public health impacts surrounding air pollution.
Rich Lowry: The anti-Israel delusion
The Jewish state has long been singled out for opprobrium and held to a standard different than that of other societies.
Bob Neal: The Countryman: The misuse of religion
Christian Nationalists’ desire to make us a “Christian nation” could make us look a lot like Russia. There may lie a path to the death of democracy.
Froma Harrop: Did legalized abortion lead to lower crime rates?
The abortion discussion should rightfully go beyond a woman’s right to control her body.
Cal Thomas: A taxing time
We must drive a stake in the blood-sucking government’s heart, or we will end up driving one in ourselves, and the country we have known and loved will be no more.
Rich Lowry: No one cares about Joe Biden’s lawlessness
President Joe Biden has, once more, claimed to find astonishingly wide-ranging authority to forgive student loans hiding in minute places deep in the federal code.
Froma Harrop: As Nebraska Goes, so could go Maine
Maine’s House recently narrowly voted to have the state join an interstate compact that would assign its Electoral College votes to whatever presidential candidate won the national popular vote. So far 16 states have joined the compact, which would go into effect only if the members have enough electoral votes to determine the outcome.
Sen. Russell Black: Democrats stole the milk money. They need to put it back
The current prices being paid to farmers under the Maine Milk Pricing Tier System are falling short. That means our farmers are losing money on every gallon they produce.
Rich Lowry: Marjorie Taylor Greene’s bizarre case against the Republican speaker of the House
Greene made her anti-Mike Johnson case on Tucker Carlson’s show last week, and it was — as you’d expect — a stew of conspiratorial thinking and sophomoric ranting.