USA Today,
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Cybele Mayes-Osterman
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Zachary Schermele
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The first six days of war in Iran cost U.S. taxpayers at least $11.3 billion in munitions alone, according to Pentagon estimates reviewed by lawmakers, and experts say the final cost will only increase. That total does not include the cost of operating and maintaining the military force engaged in the war or battle damage sustained from Iran’s attacks.
The military used about $5.6 billion in munitions in the first two days of the conflict, according to a person with knowledge of the estimate. The munitions cost was first reported by The Washington Post.
The money spent on munitions, and the added expense of any damage done to U.S. military infrastructure
USA Today,
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N´dea Yancey-Bragg
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All classes have been canceled at Old Dominion University in Virginia after an active shooter was "neutralized" in the area, officials announced.
Shortly before 10:49 a.m., a gunman in Constant Hall opened fire and injured two people, according to university spokesperson Jonah Grinkewitz. Campus police, the Norfolk Police Department and emergency personnel responded and the gunman is now dead, Grinkewitz said. The injured have been transported to a local hospital.
The Norfolk Police Department confirmed they were on scene responding to the "active incident" at the school on social media.
"As of 11:43 a.m., there is no longer a threat at Old Dominion University,"
Red State,
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Ben Smith
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For years, the British £5 note has carried the face of Winston Churchill. The wartime prime minister who rallied Britain during its darkest hour has stared out from wallets and cash registers across the country, a constant reminder of the man who helped lead Britain through World War II.
Now the Bank of England is considering scrapping that tradition.
And what might replace one of Britain’s most consequential leaders says quite a lot about where parts of the country’s cultural establishment think Britain should be headed.
Animals. Plants. Landscapes.
Not the people who shaped the nation’s history. Wildlife.
The idea surfaced after the Bank of England asked the public what themes they
Red State,
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Ward Clark
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Every new military technology, every new weapon, sooner or later, was countered by some other new weapon or technology. Armor was rendered obsolete by the musket. Castle walls were rendered obsolete by cannons. Battleships were rendered obsolete by aircraft carriers.
Today, drones are one piece of new tech that military forces around the world are still learning how to employ, and how to defend against. And now, there's a new counter: A rifle-mounted drone-killer device.
A new chapter in counter-drone defense begins as Nuburu’s Lyocon subsidiary completes initial trials of a next-gen, portable non-kinetic laser system
Red State,
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Bob Hoge
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I’m sorry — not sorry — that I like to see the good guys win.
I live in a blue state where criminals are coddled and let right back onto the streets minutes after committing violent crimes. When I go to a movie, I am not interested in some Hollywood slop about the nuances of criminals and murderers — I want to see the hero take them out and crush Evil.
Leftists would almost certainly call me simple-minded, but a quick look at decades of box office receipts shows that I am hardly alone.
Sometimes it's satisfying to see thugs get what’s coming to them, the consequences they’ve earned through their brutality
Hot Air,
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David Strom
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3/11/2026 9:16:26 AM
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James Talarico is a creep.
I don't say that merely because I think he is wrong on just about everything. I say that because he is, objectively, really really creepy.
As in "check his hard drive," creepy. (X) David French, though, finds Talarico utterly delightful and a model for how a Christian should be. And he is deeply disturbed that evangelicals aren't flocking to this creep and embracing him as the most Christian guy on earth. (X) You will recall that French insisted he was voting for Kamala Harris because of his own pro-life convictions, which he has paraded for decades. He is also a convert on trans issues,
PJ Media,
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Stephen Green
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Schrödinger's Cat is both (or is it neither?) alive and/or dead, but exists in an undetermined state inside a closed box along with a single radioactive atom, a Geiger counter, a hammer, and a vial of poison gas, because there's nothing weirder than a bored physicist.
The point of Erwin Schrödinger's Gedankenexperiment (thought experiment) was to highlight the absurdity of quantum superposition, where subatomic particles can exist in multiple states at once until measured by conscious human beings. The radioactive element might (or might not) decay at any given moment, activating the Geiger counter that's rigged to a hammer that smashes the vial filled with cyanide gas.
PJ Media,
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Matt Margolis
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On Monday night, Scott Jennings asked a simple question to a CNN panel, and it got me thinking. And what I thought about was quite disturbing.
The Department of Homeland Security has been shut down since Presidents' Day weekend. Democrats triggered it, and they've kept it going as a pressure campaign against the Trump administration's deportation agenda, specifically to hamstring Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and use that as a cudgel to force policy changes in enforcement, most of which are absurd.
The Senate voted three separate times on DHS funding bills, and each time, Democrats blocked them — every single one, with the lone exception of Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.).
Townhall,
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Amy Curtis
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Back in February, the U.K. said dogs were an obstacle to its latest diversity scheme, namely turning the "too white" English countryside into a more "diverse" (read: Islamic) place to live. Not long after, a Muslim in New York said she was glad the city was "coming to Islam" when it came to dogs.
Islam believes dogs are filthy and they're haram in many places, of course. But people in the West love their dogs, and the pet industry in the U.K. makes over £10 billion. In the U.S., that figure is $157 billion for 2025. Most of that is driven by dog ownership, so of course the politicians can't come
PJ Media,
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David Manney
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Political commentator Meghan McCain has built a career that began with a powerful advantage: her last name. The daughter of late Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), stepped into the national political conversation for decades because of her father's legacy.
Meghan McCain never hid that connection, and she's defended her father's record with fierce loyalty since he died in 2018.
Despite my thoughts about Meghan, her loyalty deserves respect; a daughter defending her father is hardly controversial, while she protects what she believes was an honorable legacy tied to her father's military service and Senate career.
McCain, however, found his political decisions drifted away from conservative principles
PJ Media,
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Matt Margolis
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Jesse Jackson's funeral was held Friday at the House of Hope on Chicago's South Side. Every major Democrat who still matters showed up: Joe Biden, Bill Clinton, Kamala Harris, Hillary Clinton, Jill Biden, California Gov. Gavin Newsom.
That’s right: sitting with a bunch of other couples, Barack Obama once again went stag. The Obamas themselves issued a joint statement about Jackson's death that made Michelle's absence on Friday all the more glaring. "Michelle got her first glimpse of political organizing at the Jacksons' kitchen table when she was a teenager," the statement read. "And in his two historic runs for president, he laid the foundation for my own campaign
Power Line,
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Scott Johnson
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We have been following the progress of the proposed tax on the wealth of billionaires that theatens to make its way onto the ballot in Callifornia this November. It represents a bald form of “the danger of democratic theft” that John and I discussed in our 2005 essay on the income tax:
"Given that poorer citizens always outnumber the rich, political philosophers have long worried that government based on majority rule could lead to organized theft from the wealthy by the democratic masses. “If the majority distributes among itself the things of a minority, it is evident that it will destroy the city,” warns Aristotle. Taxation can become a way
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The shooter's name was Mohammed.