Best Townhall Review Conservative Commentary Podcasts (2025)

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Chris Stigall: Trump's Tariffs: Both Legal and Necessary 1:00

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President Trump’s tariffs are legal, strategically necessary and crucial for preventing an economic crisis in America. Under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) crafted by Congress in 1977, the President holds clear authority to declare a national emergency against any unusual or extraordinary foreign threat to America's securit…

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Carol Platt Liebau: For Once, Our Government Is Shrinking 1:00

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Ronald Reagan, one of our greatest presidents, once quipped that “The closest thing to eternal life on earth is a government program.” But when it comes to government employment, the Trump Administration is turning that truism on its head. Thanks to DOGE, the US government will have three hundred thousand fewer people working for it. That’s the lar…

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Seth Leibsohn: Health Professionals Harm Reduction Is Really Enabling 1:00

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Tom Wolfe once postulated there are times it seems we go back to the Year Zero—where we unlearn everything we have learned about life, health, civilization. For years now, major cities and so-called health professionals have been doing under the euphemism of “harm reduction” what actually should be called “enabling” when it comes to illegal drug us…

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Chris Stigall: An Open Letter to President Trump 1:00

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I recently penned an open letter to President Trump. Here’s an abbreviated version: Dear President Trump: I want to express my heartfelt gratitude for your unwavering dedication to our nation. Your leadership has profoundly strengthened Americans in the face of relentless challenges. Your sacrifices inspire millions. The FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago was …

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Hugh Hewitt: Free Traders Debt Hawks and Tariffs 1:00

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The new report from the Congressional Budget Office is surprising, even stunning. Yes: Questions always arise from “supply-siders” about the CBO scoring mechanism. Whatever the agency’s methodology, the new report on Trump’s tariffs ought to have received more attention: Phillip Swagel—the CBO’s director wrote: “We project that increases in tariffs…

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Carol Platt Liebau: Our University Students: Pressured to Feign Left-Wing Views 1:00

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It’s not an easy time to be a college student. According to a study of roughly fifteen hundred undergrads at Northwestern University and the University of Michigan, over the last two years, fully eighty-eight percent pretended to hold more left-wing views than they actually had in order to succeed socially or academically. In other words, the atmos…

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Ed Morrissey: Trump Corners the Political Market 1:00

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Back in 2016, Salena Zito warned that Donald Trump should be taken seriously, not literally. Democrats are still not listening to her sage advice. Bill Clinton employed a triangulation strategy to co-opt Republican voters. Now, Trump has spent the first seven months of his presidency employing a cornering strategy—using his bully pulpit to force De…

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Albert Mohler: Send Harvard's Chinese Students Home 1:00

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“Send Harvard’s Chinese Students Home.” That’s the title of a recent piece at the Wall Street Journal. And it ought to have our attention. It comes from Mike Gallagher, former member of Congress, and now Chief of Defense for Palantir Technologies. He writes out of a sense of concern for America’s national defense. He writes this, “President Trump b…

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Albert Mohler: Dr. James Dobson 1936-2025 1:00

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Dr. James Dobson defender and friend of the family, died in Colorado Springs, Colorado. His public life began as an associate clinical professor of pediatrics at the University of Southern California School of Medicine, which he joined after completing his doctorate in psychology, He saw the permissive models of parenting then gaining ground, and h…

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Seth Leibsohn: The Dark Impulse to Blame Trump 1:00

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Curiously, more media attention has centered on President Donald Trump’s peace brokering between Russia and Ukraine than one might have imagined. I say curiously, because media largely ignored the war for most of the past two years—when the carnage was most severe … when Joe Biden was president and under whose watch the war began. After the Zelensk…

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Carol Platt Liebau: Canada's Death Culture Gains Momentum 1:00

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Canada has embraced “medical assistance in dying”—or “MAID”—with unseemly enthusiasm. It was legalized in 2016 only for very sick people already at the end of life. It was then extended to those with serious medical conditions. Now, in just two years, it will be available for people just with mental illness. Certainly, no decent person wants termin…

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Jerry Bowyer: A Vibe Shift in Corporate America 1:00

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Since President Trump’s victory corporate America’s had a vibe shift—and it’s long overdue. DEI quotas: getting rolled back. Debanking: facing real pushback. Companies are waking up and getting back to business. J.P. Morgan Chase and Citigroup say “no” to politicized debanking. Target and IBM are backing off DEI. Even BlackRock, the ESG poster chil…

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Seth Leibsohn: We Must Do Better on Drug Messaging 1:00

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A new poll from Gallup found the percentage of Americans who drink alcohol has fallen to its lowest level in history. On the other hand: drug use is at an all-time high and young adults use marijuana more regularly than alcohol, while our youth use it at the same rate (which, before legalization, was never the case). This is the result of years-lon…

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Jerry Bowyer: Commonsense for the Capital Markets 1:00

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Conservative members of the State Financial Officers Foundation from Utah Treasurer, Marlowe Oaks to Pennsylvania Treasurer, Stacy Garrity and others, just sent a clear message to financial giants like BlackRock - If you keep attacking our energy industries, you can't do business with us. That's right. These Red State financial officers are standin…

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Carol Platt Liebau: We Need Fewer Drugs, Not More Drugs 1:00

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The Wall Street Journal reports President Trump might reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous, Schedule III drug. The President should reconsider. Marijuana harms our children and darkens their futures. In states with legal “adult use” marijuana, there’s been a 25 percent increase in marijuana use disorder among twelve-to-seventeen-year-olds, comp…

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Jerry Bowyer: Pushing Back on Debanking 1:00

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There's a major shift coming in the finance world that could protect both your portfolio and your principles. As initially reported by Alex Saeedy of the Wall Street Journal, the White House just released an executive order to stop big banks from debanking customers over political views, including conservatives and crypto firms. Why does this matte…

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Seth Liebsohn: Holiday from History 1:00

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Charles Krauthammer identified the 1990s as a “Holiday from History”—where the civilized part of humanity ignored the barbarizing part, namely the rising tide of Islamist terrorism. That holiday ended on September 11, 2001. It is tempting to turn away from that same Islamist terrorism, or pretend it is not our business. But, meantime, tens and tens…

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Jerry Bowyer: Presbyterians for Planned Parenthood 1:00

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In just a few weeks, the PCUSA—America’s largest Presbyterian denomination—is set to pressure companies into supporting abortion. How? By using its pension plan assets to file shareholder proposals demanding that companies support employee abortion access and divest from pro-life states like Idaho. The P-C-U-S-A is using church funds to push aborti…

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Carol Platt Liebau: Left Losing Control of the Narrative 1:00

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Almost everyone has seen the American Eagle jeans ad starring Hollywood starlet Sydney Sweeney. Many on the left have claimed the ad’s play on the word “jeans” was a eugenics dog whistle because Sweeney is white, blonde, and blue-eyed. They insisted that opposing the ad was taking a stand against modern day Nazism. It's nonsense. Those complaining …

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Ed Morrissey: Trump's Influence 1:00

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CNN’s foremost data analyst Harry Enten recently declared Donald Trump the most influential president of this century. Enten backs that up with metrics on tariffs, immigration, and executive orders, but even that may sell short the breathtaking changes over the past six months. But influence goes beyond data and metrics. Trump has entirely changed …

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Seth Liebsohn: Time for a Great Re-Learning 1:00

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NBC recently reported the U.S. fertility rate has dropped to an all-time low. More women “are waiting longer to have children or never taking that step at all.” This is another social decline, especially as attached to historically low marriage rates and declining church attendance. The forces of composition in civil society are losing to the force…

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Carol Platt Liebau: Don't Trust These Papers 1:00

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New documents released by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard have shattered the legacy media’s narrative about Russiagate. Although Americans have long known Russia didn’t change the election’s outcome and Trump didn’t “collude” with the Russians, there’s still plenty of news. Most notably, the new documents prove President Obama order…

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Jerry Bowyer: Fire the Fed 1:00

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The president’s mad at Fed chair Jerome Powell for not cutting interest rates fast enough. But here’s a better idea: Don’t fire the chairman. Fire the Fed. Why should a handful of unelected economists decide the price of money for 330 million people? That’s not a free market. That’s central planning with a necktie. Let the market set interest rates…

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Hugh Hewitt: Promises Made; Promises Kept 1:00

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President Trump ran on closing the border and taming inflation. Done. The borders closed. Period. No new law was needed. Deportations will require years of efforts—but the consequences of President Biden’s open border are being reduced on a daily basis. Trump had promised for more than a decade that Iran would not be allowed to have a nuclear weapo…

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Carol Platt Liebau: A Moral Sense Encoded in Humankind 1:00

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Millions were transfixed by video of a couple caught cheating at a Coldplay concert. Some are surprised by the widespread fascination — but perhaps we shouldn’t be. What made the video compelling was how the cheating couple reacted when the kiss cam found them. It wasn’t rational behavior—they’d have stood a greater chance of getting away with it i…

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Ed Morrissey: Trump’s Bully Diplomacy 1:00

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Bill Maher spoke the words that no one else in the mainstream media will say: Donald Trump was right about tariffs, and he was wrong. Not one other Trump critic has thus far made a public record of their error or even acknowledged that the stock markets never crashed, as they predicted. Nor have Trump’s critics recognized the value of his “bully di…

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Chris Stigall: Dismantling the Abusive System 1:00

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Our political landscape is sharply divided. On one side we have the Clinton-Obama-Biden Democrats, who have wielded the extensive machinery of government as a weapon against opponents and citizens to retain power. On the other, we have Donald Trump, who’s dismantling that same system. And the contrast couldn’t be more clear. The Obamagate story we …

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Ed Morrissey: Columbia Gets a Babysitter and Harvard's Next 1:00

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In the end. Columbia University chose to do the right thing. But only after almost every other option got exhausted. After abdicating authority for months while agitators targeted Jewish students and faculty for intimidation, the Trump administration suspended access to nearly a half-billion dollars in federal funds. Columbia finally threw in the t…

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Hugh Hewitt: 2024: The Democrats' Nightmare 1:00

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Josh Dawsey, Tyler Pager and Isaac Arnsdorf are out with a new book on last year’s tumultuous presidential campaign. Titled simply “2024,” the volume has within it much that is familiar, as well as many blasts of new details. The short of it is this: The 2024 election is the stuff of nightmares for Democrats, nightmares that are not going to away a…

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Carol Platt Liebau: A Win for Parents 1:00

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The Supreme Court has allowed President Trump to continue dismantling the Department of Education. Parents across the country should be celebrating, and here’s why. Between 1950 and 2009, the student population in public schools grew by ninety six percent — but non-teaching staff skyrocketed by an amazing seven hundred percent. They explode school …

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Seth Liebsohn: Remembering Ed Feulner, 1941-2025 1:00

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Mentioning Townhall is not to say it was always with us, or inevitable. Townhall was birthed into the nascent online community of news and commentary in 1995, by the dint and work of a giant in the conservative community—Edwin J. Feulner. Dr. Feulner passed away last week. Just as Townhall was not inevitable, neither was the intellectual and puissa…

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Carol Platt Liebau: It Was a Lie 1:00

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Former CIA Director John Brennan and Former FBI Director James Comey are under criminal investigation for potential wrongdoing. Together, they drove the Russiagate narrative that undermined the Trump 2016 campaign and derailed half his first term. Neither is likely to see the inside of a jail cell. The statute of limitations has run on most of the …

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Seth Liebsohn: An Alien Ideology Entering American Politics 1:00

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An alien ideology is entering American politics, and its threat cannot be dismissed. While our Constitution guarantees us a republican form of government, the tools of democracy can be exploited to render that asunder. Two major cities—New York and Minneapolis—now have candidates for Mayor running as avowed socialists under the Democratic party. Th…

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Carol Platt Liebau: Our Entitled Government Class 1:00

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About thirteen hundred workers were recently laid off from the State Department. X was full of emotional videos, recording diplomats gathered in the lobby to applaud, hug, and weep with their departing colleagues. Americans might wonder where similar coverage was for private sector workers when Joe Biden shut down construction of the Keystone Pipel…

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Albert Mohler: John McArthur, Jr 1939-2025 1:00

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He was the towering preacher of his age. John Fullerton MacArthur, Jr., known to so many as “Pastor John,” has died, after more than a half-century of faithful preaching. John McArthur was the son and grandson of preachers. He became pastor of Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, California just as the state was exploding. John was a master exposi…

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Ed Morrissey: The Pardons Are Only the Entree 1:00

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Did Joe Biden decide who received pardons and commutations? The New York Times cast fresh doubt on the legitimacy of thousands of clemency actions this week. Biden refuted allegations that he didn’t authorize the auto-pen for every pardon issued at the end of his term. However, the Times reviewed e-mails during the post-election period, and discove…

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Seth Liebsohn: Is Elon Musk the Next John Anderson 1:00

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Elon Musk is starting a third party evidently, seemingly out of pique with Donald Trump. About this, a few things. Good luck with it having any traction whatsoever. When a strong conservative’s picking up the pieces and cobbling together a new coalition of conservatives and former Democrats, one John Anderson tried to run against him with a message…

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Ed Morrissey: Time for Accountability on Russia Collusion Hoax 1:00

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For nine years, the people who put together a grand hoax based on a campaign dirty trick, have never been held accountable. A new CIA review concludes that American intelligence knew that the Steele Dossier was baseless, and yet then Director John Brennan insisted on using it to conclude that Russia had interfered with the 2016 election to benefit …

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Carol Platt Liebau: The Left Jumps to Politicize a Tragedy 1:00

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After Texas floods claimed the lives of Americans including seven- and eight-year-old girls, discourse on social media illuminated something about the state of our nation. And it’s not heartening. Some on the left jumped to politicize the tragedy. Commentators like Obama advisor David Axelrod linked the disaster to Trump administration government c…

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Seth Liebsohn: Socialism in America 1:00

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Socialism is planting itself firmly in America—and the Democratic party is its cultivator. The same week Tim Walz said socialism is nothing more than neighborliness, Kamala Harris chose him as her running mate. Today, the Democratic party’s largest rallies are headlines by self-described socialists. In New York City, an avowed socialist is on path …

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Carol Platt Liebau: Supreme Court Reins 1:00

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President Trump’s supporters have been frustrated with lawfare 2.0. Left-wing lawyers slowed his agenda by finding federal judges to impose nationwide injunctions against Trump’s executive orders. That ended with the close of this term. Although the Supreme Court didn’t rule on the merits of the Trump order on birthright citizenship, Justice Amy Co…

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Seth Liebsohn: Taking Up the Challenges of Our Day 1:00

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The great political scientist Harry Jaffa wrote on our bicentennial: In 1776 the United States was nothing, promising to become everything; having become everything, it now promises to become nothing. This is even truer today, on the cusp of our 250th anniversary. A new Gallup poll reveals a record-low percentage of Americans proud of America, drag…

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Hugh Hewitt: America The Best Hope of Mankind 1:00

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The nation goes into this fourth of July holiday weekend at pivotal period of our nation’s history. Next year we’ll be marking 250 years of independence … our "semiquincentennial." Quite an achievement and a word —quite an experiment in democracy it has been. As we mark this day, I don’t need to remind you—but it still bears stating: Our nation is …

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Carol Platt Liebau: A Big Win for Parents Rights 1:00

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What a win for parents’ rights! In Mahmoud v Taylor, handed down last Friday, the Supreme Court affirmed in a 6 to 3 holding, that parents — not schools — have the last word on what their children are going to be taught. The case focused on Maryland’s Montgomery County Board of Education. There, books with LGBTQ themes had been approved for primary…

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Albert Mohler: A New York Political Earthquake 1:00

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This is Albert Mohler for Townhall.com. In politics, there are earthquakes and then there are earthquakes. What took place last week in New York City is a very big earthquake. The Democrats are now nominating Zohran Mamdani, a man identified with Democratic Socialism, a Muslim, born in Uganda, now to be the Democratic Party’s nominee to be mayor of…

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Hugh Hewitt: A Message to the Middle East - and the World 1:00

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Seven B-2 bombers dropped at least a dozen Massive Ordinance Penetrators on to Iran’s nuclear weapons faculty at Fordow, but since the mountain didn’t explode like the Death Star in Star Wars, the mission was deemed a disappointment by some in legacy media and many online keyboard warriors. "Minimal damage causing a month or two delay": That’s a su…

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Chris Stigall: Trump Delivers on What He Promised 1:00

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President Trump’s approval rating soaring above 50%, with polls like Rasmussen showing it at 53%. His handling of illegal immigration, even more impressive at 54% approval. And then there’s his handling of the Iran nuclear threat—90 percent of Trump voters support him. Despite the relentless negativity from the legacy media, it’s no mystery why his…

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Hugh Hewitt: "They Should Have Done the Deal" 1:00

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There are a handful of phrases from the national security crises of the past 50 years that stand out. President Donald Trump has now added his signature line to that list. For the sake of brevity, I’ll just note Mr. Reagan in 1987 saying, "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" George W. Bush in 2001: "I can hear you! The rest of the world hears you.…