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2026-09-06 · Washington Examiner

The US-Saudi nuclear deal needs improvement

🔮 On July 22, the White House announced that the two nations had reached an agreement that would allow the U.S. to export nuclear technology to the desert kingdom. assertive

2026-09-17 · Washington Examiner

America must confront the Axis of Aggressors

🔮 President Donald Trump has repeatedly warned the Islamic Republic that “every time Iran kills an American soldier, they will pay for that killing many times over.” assertive

2026-09-18 · Washington Examiner

Brett Kavanaugh gets Trump’s mail ballot rules right

🔮 USPS would then use that information to verify the outgoing ballot mail before accepting it. assertive

2026-09-19 · Washington Examiner

The Fed just ended Washington’s cheap-money era

🔮 For years, lawmakers could run enormous deficits while interest rates were kept artificially low. assertive

2026-09-20 · Washington Examiner

Income is up, poverty is down, but Trump’s economy still needs improvement

🔮 The Census Bureau’s annual report on income delivered the kind of numbers any White House would be eager to celebrate. assertive

2026-09-21 · Washington Examiner

Putin tests Trump’s hopes for a Russia reset

🔮 To restore deterrence and prevent a wider war against the West, the Trump administration must finally end its delusional thinking that commercial ventures will sate Putin’s imperial ambitions or influence him to adopt a more moderate course. assertive

2026-09-22 · Washington Examiner

Teachers unions, not racism, are failing New York City’s black students

🔮 Convinced that segregation caused educational inequality, Hannah-Jones believed that families such as hers could improve a school by enrolling their children in it. assertive

2026-09-24 · Washington Examiner

Trump gets his Greenland deal, but at a cost

🔮 The president called the territory “vital” for U.S. missile defense and NATO and warned that “if we don’t get it, Russia or China will.” assertive

2026-09-25 · Washington Examiner

Newsom’s pathetic energy rebate

🔮 A manufacturer using 1 million kilowatt-hours a year would pay roughly $116,000 more for electricity at California’s average industrial price. assertive

2026-09-26 · Washington Examiner

Trump should force the District of Columbia to allow police pursuits

🔮 In a normal capital city, those words would approximate how a police dispatcher would respond after a child was struck by a hit-and-run driver. assertive

2026-09-27 · Washington Examiner

This is what Democrats’ immigration policy would be

🔮 Rep. Delia Ramirez (D-IL), who has declared herself a “proud anchor baby,” is not the first Democrat to introduce legislation that would abolish the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency. assertive

2026-09-28 · Washington Examiner

Netanyahu’s warning to a declining West

🔮 New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani spent weeks threatening to arrest Netanyahu as a “war criminal” responsible for “genocide,” only to acknowledge later that he lacks the authority to put the Israeli premier in cuffs. assertive

2026-10-01 · Washington Examiner

Yes, DEI can violate civil rights law

🔮 Again, the city stressed that the caucuses “are completely voluntary and no one will be turned away,” but then added that employees are encouraged to join “the caucus that aligns with how they identify racially.” assertive

2026-10-02 · Washington Examiner

Preserving due process on college campuses

🔮 We may never know exactly what happened on a October 2024 night in a Cornell University fraternity house, but we should be thankful that the factual disputes and criminal liability will be sorted out in criminal court. assertive

2026-10-03 · Washington Examiner

Trump just made cars more affordable

🔮 On Sept. 28, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration lowered the projected 2031 fleet requirement from approximately 50 miles per gallon to 35. assertive

2026-10-04 · Washington Examiner

A bipartisan deal to get America building again

🔮 It is unfortunate for Republicans that it won’t pass until after the November elections, but the bipartisan permitting reform deal announced hours before the Senate adjourned this week could be the most historic and consequential legislative accomplishment of Donald Trump’s presidency. mixed

2026-10-05 · Washington Examiner

Climate policy belongs to Congress, not Colorado

🔮 But none of this science or logic would matter in a courtroom run by a far-left Democratic judge before far-left Democratic jurors. assertive

2026-10-06 · Washington Examiner

Spanberger is already making Virginia unaffordable

🔮 But her existing energy policies are poised to make electricity more expensive for ratepayers next year, and the full energy plan she released last week would make energy more expensive for decades to come. assertive

2026-10-07 · Washington Examiner

The two legacies of Oct. 7

🔮 It was an orgy of violence and nihilism that would ultimately cause not only the reordering of the entire Middle East but also the transformation of one of America’s political parties. assertive

2026-10-08 · Washington Examiner

Our healthcare system shouldn’t depend on fraud

🔮 Vice President JD Vance recently announced that the Trump administration would end subsidy payments for 760,000 fraudulent health insurance enrollments made through the federally administered Affordable Care Act exchanges, saving taxpayers $2.2 billion a year. assertive

2026-10-09 · Washington Examiner

Latin America turns right as Democrats turn left

🔮 The final result won’t be known until later this month, but if the first round of Brazil’s election is any indication, it will soon become the latest Latin American country to turn back to conservatism after socialism led to crime, inflation, and stagnant economic growth. assertive

2026-10-10 · Washington Examiner

Iran shows Trump’s opportunity in escalating Hormuz attacks

🔮 Restored energy flows may somewhat shield Republican candidates from public anger over high energy costs and inflation in the run-up to the midterm elections. assertive

2026-10-11 · Washington Examiner

A red-green warning from France

🔮 But when President Donald Trump said what is obviously true and blamed the mayhem on mass migration, France’s leaders reacted by pretending that this latest display of unassimilated alien violence was about spending cuts. assertive

2026-10-12 · Washington Examiner

Biden’s immigration failures went far beyond the border

🔮 The report attributes the limited enforcement to a Sept. 30, 2021, memorandum written by Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas that directed ICE to focus its resources on threats to “national security, public safety, and border security.” assertive

2026-10-13 · Washington Examiner

Trump’s worse-than-useless Russian diesel deal

🔮 Rising gas and diesel prices are a major reason Republicans risk losing the House and possibly the Senate in November, but President Donald Trump’s energy deal with Russia will not fix that. assertive

2026-10-18 · Washington Examiner

Parents don’t want the childcare Democrats are selling

🔮 Universal pre-K and childcare were part of President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better agenda, part of Vice President Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign, and a centerpiece of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s promise to voters. assertive

2026-10-19 · Washington Examiner

The $2 trillion deficit candidates don’t want to discuss

🔮 And that is before you get to the even bigger concern that, at some point, America may not be able to pay its debts. mixed

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