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Centrists: We Must Name the Radical Threat
A “Lebanese-born U.S. citizen” whose brothers, “members of the Iran-backed terror group Hezbollah,” had been killed by an Israeli air strike, introduced the conflict “home” when he tried to blow up a Michigan synagogue Thursday, be aware the editors of The Free Press. But the “media chose to report the story” as if “the brothers were merely innocent victims of Israeli violence.” Despite three different Islamist terror assaults in the similar week, “so many struggle to see what is in front of their own faces,” specifically that world “militant movements” are waging conflict towards “Western societies, Jews, and liberal democracy.” This conflict “cannot be won by pretending it does not exist,” as a result of “a society that cannot name its enemies cannot protect itself against them.”
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Libertarian: Self-Defense Is Essential
“People at the scene who were willing and able to end the threat without waiting for police to arrive” stopped each terror assaults final Thursday observes Reason’s J.D. Tuccille. At Temple Israel in West Bloomfield, Mich., Ayman Ghazali “drove his incendiaries-laden truck into the synagogue” solely to be “confronted by security.” Under fire from two guards and with the truck jammed in a hallway, he killed himself. At Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Va., ROTC college students took down Mohamed Bailor Jalloh after he opened fire on their class. With “political violence of various flavors” rising nationwide, “it’s a good time to take your own safety seriously,” since “government officials can’t always be in place to defend us when malicious people attack.”
Men examine a website of in a single day Israeli airstrikes in the southern suburbs of Beirut on March 16, 2026. AFP through Getty Images
Left Coast watch: It’s Newsom’s Gas-Price Spike
“Who’s rooting harder for higher oil prices — Gavin Newsom or” the liberal press? snarks The Wall Street Journal’s Allysia Finley. Newsom blasts the “Iran price spike,” but California gasoline-cost surges beneath him outpace the US average, with the hole now at $1.80. “Call it Mr. Newsom’s price spike.” Cali’s “anti-fossil fuel policies” have triggered oil manufacturing to plunge 40% and a quarter of the state’s refining capability to “shut down.” Even now Newsom’s regulators are “trying to drive through a major increase in the state’s cap-and-tax allowance prices,” which might spark even more shutdowns and better costs — with national affect: “The U.S. will become more dependent on foreign jet fuel and more vulnerable. Maybe the press could start raising alarms about that risk.”
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Conservative: China Explains Trump’s ‘Chaos’
Look past the seeming chaos of “President Trump’s second-term foreign policy” to see a single organizing logic,” argues Scott Taylor at The Hill: Trump “is systematically repositioning American geopolitical power in anticipation of a confrontation with China.” From the Panama Canal to Greenland to Venezuela to Iran, he’s shaping a “new geopolitical reality.” With Maduro’s “removal from Venezuela” and Iran’s “leadership decapitated,” China must fear the place will its oil imports “come from now.” Other strikes have “laid waste” to all of China’s “scheming” to “exploit” US “vulnerabilities that make Taiwan’s defense politically unsustainable.” “The post-1945 liberal international order is gone,” however Trump is guaranteeing that America writes “the next world order the same way it wrote the last one.”
Liberal: Detoxifying the Democratic Brand
Their “party’s brand has become so toxic to overcome in so many places that Democrats” appear shut out of states like Nebraska and Montana, explains Matt Yglesias at The New York Times. Why not “try to change their brand”? “Abandon unpopular issue positions while sticking to their guns on more popular ones,” as Donald Trump did in 2016 and since — shifts that “helped to turn former swing states like Iowa and Ohio into solid red states.” For Dems now, polling reveals that “dropping support for the use of race as a factor in college admissions” together with “embracing merit pay for K-12 teachers,” “being more open to fossil-fuel production” and culture-war moderation can rating large. “Rank-and-file Democrats” do “want fighters, but the point of fighting is to win.” Be prepared “to cross some of today’s progressive ideological taboos.”
— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board
