The Aporia · Eric Wargotz

2026-08-25 · Washington Examiner

Trump didn’t abandon Ukraine — he just forced Kyiv to play to win

🔮 Only time will show whether this highly disruptive approach has true merit in this time, this place, and this matter. assertive

2026-08-31 · Washington Examiner

Stop calling Iran a ‘forever war.’ It’s a pressure cooker about to blow

🔮 They claim more pressure will yield the same stagnant results. assertive

2026-09-06 · Washington Examiner

Oman played both sides — until it didn’t. How a secret shipping deal ignited the Strait of Hormuz

🔮 Under the framework, inbound commercial vessels would navigate exclusively through Iranian territorial waters. assertive

2026-09-13 · Washington Examiner

They counted the crashes wrong: The real threat on the road is staring you in the mirror

🔮 Ask people about the biggest threat on the road, and they will usually name drunk drivers or speeders. assertive

2026-09-14 · Washington Examiner

If schools won’t teach the truth about 9/11, TikTok will teach the lies

🔮 These groups fear that teaching the realities of Islamic extremism will weaponize classrooms against Muslim students. assertive

2026-09-18 · Washington Examiner

The Fed is sacrificing the American dream to fix a problem it can’t solve

🔮 They argue that letting inflation run unchecked does far more damage to working-class families than higher borrowing costs ever could. assertive

2026-09-19 · Washington Examiner

Trump’s AI strategy will defeat America before China even tries

🔮 Johnson explicitly noted that Congress will not lead the charge on regulating AI safety, warning that strict restrictions could cause us to cede technological dominance to our adversaries. assertive

2026-09-19 · Washington Examiner

The experts laughed at Trump’s Greenland plan. Beijing isn’t laughing now

🔮 The pact will function as a collaborative security partnership rather than a unilateral American command. assertive

2026-09-19 · Washington Examiner

Putin isn’t trying to win an election. He’s trying to freeze time

🔮 We must understand what these processes truly mean, why Russian President Vladimir Putin still demands them, and what the final counts will inevitably reveal about the current state of modern geopolitics. assertive

2026-09-20 · Washington Examiner

I’m a judge. Big tech just turned public truth into a subscription service

🔮 The views expressed may not represent those of his affiliates. assertive

2026-09-22 · Washington Examiner

In New York, Trump must decide: Let Tehran rot or wipe it out

🔮 The question is how President Donald Trump will deploy his upper hand. assertive

2026-09-23 · Washington Examiner

The media forgot about Panama — Trump didn’t. Now we’re evicting China from the canal

🔮 Panama’s leaders have explicitly stated to local media that they will not tolerate permanent U.S. military bases, flatly rejecting any public perception that they have ceded sovereign control of their crown jewel. assertive

2026-09-23 · Washington Examiner

Cut the oil, leak the secrets, feed the people: Trump’s blueprint to break Havana

🔮 This realistic strategy achieves maximum leverage while completely avoiding the operational and humanitarian quagmires that a direct military conflict would inevitably trigger in our own backyard. assertive

2026-09-23 · Washington Examiner

Bombs were loaded, warplanes were ready — but Trump was right to say ‘no’

🔮 Bowing to Riyadh’s pleas would only perpetuate a dangerous cycle of codependency. assertive

2026-09-26 · Washington Examiner

You got $3.47. Your lawyer got $30 million. Welcome to the class action scam

🔮 A company might overcharge a million customers by ten dollars each. assertive

2026-09-26 · Washington Examiner

Your $2,000 phone is being safety-tested with 1996 radiation science

🔮 Without updated, state-level lifecycle protocols, federal regulatory negligence will risk creating a severe hazardous bottleneck in municipal landfills. assertive

2026-09-27 · Washington Examiner

Montana just found the legal cheat code to kill Citizens United

🔮 Yet, grassroots advocates are looking to the state’s unique political heritage to advance proposals that could radically alter the political landscape. assertive

2026-09-29 · Washington Examiner

Trump dines with Xi while the Pentagon starves the tech that could defeat him

🔮 Watching the diplomatic pageantry, one could easily forget that the United States and China are locked in a tense, existential cold war over the ultimate military high ground: Earth’s orbit. assertive

2026-09-30 · Washington Examiner

Trump drama exposes the media’s dark secret: You’re paying their West Wing rent

🔮 If public records ever revealed that corporate media outlets slipped through the cracks, it would be a major scandal. assertive

2026-10-02 · Washington Examiner

Media got Iran dead wrong: Trump isn’t capitulating — he’s starving the beast

🔮 The media continually misreads the administration’s willingness to engage with international mediators in Doha as a sign of weakness. assertive

2026-10-03 · Washington Examiner

Taxpayers socialize the stadium, professional sports privatize the game ball

🔮 The tracking chips might give us cool graphics on our TV screens, but they turn a spontaneous moment of fan joy into a corporate property dispute. assertive

2026-10-03 · Washington Examiner

Your doctor’s blood pressure cuffs are bruising you into a misdiagnosis

🔮 Arguments like this must be thoroughly backed by facts, and the fact here is clear: until regulators force manufacturers to fix these aggressive, outdated algorithms, the standard blood pressure check will remain a painful distortion of medicine. assertive

2026-10-03 · Washington Examiner

Stop walking 10,000 steps: You’re falling for a 60-year-old Japanese marketing lie

🔮 Missing that metric feels like a failure of personal willpower. assertive

2026-10-03 · Washington Examiner

Stop telling Americans the economy is booming — living here has become a luxury

🔮 If you talk to young couples in our communities, they will tell you that buying a home feels entirely out of reach. assertive

2026-10-04 · Washington Examiner

Warhol was a genius for using assistants. Why was Peter Max called a fraud?

🔮 The critics omitted this step because the results would have disrupted their narrative. assertive

2026-10-04 · Washington Examiner

Washington isn’t broken. It’s just run by insiders who don’t care about you

🔮 You cannot hide behind an ideological playbook or an army of insulated advisers when a budget needs balancing or a project stalls; your neighbors will call you out at the local hardware store. assertive

2026-10-04 · Washington Examiner

Legacy media is committing cultural suicide by gutting opinion pages

🔮 Every single time I hit “send” on a new draft, a cynical voice in my head asks the exact same questions: Will the editor accept this, as they’re overwhelmed with tons of these a day? assertive

2026-10-04 · Washington Examiner

The FDA fortified white bread, but left Hispanics exposed to birth defects

🔮 When we look at this disparity under the microscope, we find that it is neither a failure of individual willpower nor a consequence of an isolated genetic pool. assertive

2026-10-05 · Washington Examiner

Stop calling it AI. Trump’s ‘super intelligence’ Cold War has begun

🔮 Meanwhile, Trump boldly cut through the bureaucratic panic, signaling that the White House has no appetite for heavy-handed domestic regulations that would cripple our edge and stating that our primary guardrails remain the rule of law and the Department of Justice. assertive

2026-10-07 · Washington Examiner

America isn’t having a civil war. Cable news is just desperate for ratings

🔮 If your only window into the American soul is the nightly cable news broadcast, you would assume we are a nation completely irreconcilable, locked in a permanent cultural cold war. assertive

2026-10-09 · Washington Examiner

The climate war’s dumbest lie: Jobs vs. nature

🔮 National surveys published by the Pew Research Center Climate Pessimism Study document that roughly 60% of Americans express deep anxiety that global actors will fail to mitigate the worst environmental impacts due to political division. assertive

2026-10-10 · Washington Examiner

Your party losing is not an existential threat. Your temper tantrum is

🔮 When we — whether ordinary citizens or high-level officials — flirt with systemic collapse simply because we despise the current administration, we play with a fire that will consume everyone. assertive

2026-10-11 · Washington Examiner

Modern science can reverse heart disease. Washington prefers cheap statins

🔮 A highly active, independent 85-year-old with multiple risk factors might experience significant, long-term survival benefits from continuous lipid management. assertive

2026-10-12 · Washington Examiner

A doctor’s diagnosis: Is Trump politically constipated on Iran?

🔮 But right now, all these conflicting voices in his ear, the domestic polling, and the foreign pressure might just be clouding his judgment. assertive

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