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Hegseth: Iโ€™ve faced fire before. I wonโ€™t back down

On these pages 18 years ago I penned an article titled โ€œMore Troops, Please.โ€ I was a young U.S. Army lieutenant who had just completed a combat tour in Iraq, and believed we needed more troops and a new strategy to turn the war around. I had seen a lot, been through a lot, and believed in my troops and the mission.

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Mamet: Decline and fall of America? Not yet. Trump may have averted a destructive revolution

For the past four years Israel has been the leader of the free world. The Jewish state has been the Westโ€™s sole protection against Islamist terror, fighting while reviled by the people and countries it was protecting. Its position was similar to that of Donald Trump โ€” demonized, persecuted, targeted for violence.

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Musk and Ramaswamy: The DOGE plan to reform government

Our nation was founded on the basic idea that the people we elect run the government. That isnโ€™t how America functions today. Most legal edicts arenโ€™t laws enacted by Congress but โ€œrules and regulationsโ€ promulgated by unelected bureaucratsโ€”tens of thousands of them each year. Most government enforcement decisions and discretionary expenditures arenโ€™t made by the democratically elected president or even his political appointees but by millions of unelected, unappointed civil servants within government agencies who view themselves as immune from firing thanks to civil-service protections.

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Videos show police at Trump rally airing frustration with Secret Service

Local Pennsylvania police complained in the moments after last monthโ€™s attempted assassination of Donald Trump that they warned the U.S. Secret Service days in advance that the warehouse where the shooter was positioned needed protection, according to new videos obtained by The Wall Street Journal.

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