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Townhall Review | Commentaries
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Townhall Review Commentary brings together political commentary and analysis from Salem Media's leading conservative talk-radio hosts.
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Seth Leibsohn: In Defense of the American Experiment
Every time there is an election, we often are dismissed for saying, “This election is the most important of our lifetime.” We shouldn’t be. Never before has the opposition been more entrenched in, or succumbed to, a radical Marxism and Islamism than it is now. If it wins, it would put asunder...
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Albert Mohler: Rubio and the Defense of the West
Earlier this month, with a majestic view of the Acropolis of Athens behind him, Secretary of State Marco Rubio delivered an address in which he declared the enduring achievements of Western civilization, setting out a defense of the West while warning of the incalculable loss if that prized...
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Carol Platt Liebau: An Ally-or-Enemy Test for Michigan Voters
Michigan voters face a stark choice for U.S. Senate: Mike Rogers, a former congressman, state senator, and FBI agent. Or Abdul El-Sayed, whose radical views should alarm Americans. Consider his hostility toward Israel. In last week’s debate, he repeatedly refused to say whether Iran, our…
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Ed Morrissey: Policies and Platforms Matter
Ken Paxton won the nomination to the US Senate in Texas despite personal baggage from the end of his marriage. His estranged wife, state senator Angela Paxton, took the extraordinary step of endorsing the Republican ticket – and reminded voters what really matters in this midterm cycle. “In a...
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Ed Morrissey: Republicans Must Make Midterms About Marxism
Democrats had one job to do in this cycle: Don't be crazy. But: Rather than offer a rational alternative to Donald Trump, the party has embraced Marxist revolutionaries and sympathizers of radical Islam as endorsed candidates. And voters have noticed. A CBS poll from this summer indicated that 60...
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Carol Platt Liebau: Polls and Predictions Don't Decide Elections
Pollsters and the media are predicting a blue wave. They point to President Trump’s low approval ratings and Democrats’ lead in congressional polling. But this election is no foregone conclusion. For one thing, summer Senate polls in recent election cycles have often overstated Democratic…
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Albert Mohler: Radio and the Things We Take for Granted
There are certain things we just take for granted, or at least those of us of a certain age take for granted. Among those is the fact that when you get in a car, there’s a radio with the AM band. In the United States, that’s not an accident. It is at least partly because of federal mandates—going...
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Seth Liebsohn: Democrat Leaders Submit to DSA Radicals
Now that the Democratic Socialists of America and their allies have engaged a non-hostile take-over of the Democratic party, prepare to see more and more professional Democrats try to deflect and project. This week, Donna Brazile wrote an op-ed saying the DSA is not a concern because House…
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Albert Mohler: The Ugly Face of Islamic Terrorism
The ugly face of Islamic terrorism has showed that face again. I’m referring, of course, to the attempted hijacking of the FlyDubai plane by the co-pilot. It was an extremely close call, averted only by heroism. This is an enormous worldview issue. It comes down to the fact that civilization is…
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Hugh Hewitt: Who Really Leads the Democratic Party
Social media influencer Hasan Piker is now the face of the Democratic party. Piker wears his Mao jacket and hoses his Twitch audience down with absurd political takes. Piker uses social media to monetize the worst impulses of the extremes in American politics. In the course of doing so, he...
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Seth Leibsohn: Yaniv Hayoun: The World Should Know His Name
One week after Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu reminded the United Nations of the Entebbe terrorist attack, an international pro-Palestinian plane hijacking where four Israeli hostages and Netanyahu’s brother were killed, another hijacking of a civilian airliner destined for Israel was...
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Seth Leibsohn: Restoring an Appreciation of the Things That Matter
Ronald Reagan used to quote the philosopher Montesquieu: “The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principle upon which it was founded.” Reagan cited this point to warn us as more and more policies were enacted violating our principles of self- and limited government....
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Carol Platt Liebau: Released and Reassured?
British police arrested five young men near an air base used by American forces. They were suspected of explosives offenses and preparing a terrorist act. Today, all five are out on bail. Authorities call them British nationals but won’t release their names. Police are investigating possible...
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Albert Mohler: Islam or Islamism
25 Years After 9/11 The Americans and British are still wrestling with the big challenge we face and a crucial question: Is the big challenge Islam?—or Islamism? The Economist magazine recently published a notable cover story. Where they argued —and I quote: “Islam poses no serious danger. But...
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Carol Platt Liebau: Corruption of Our Judiciary
We all learned it – or should have – in civics class. Congress makes the laws. The executive branch enforces them. And judges interpret them. But some federal judges in Minneapolis have forgotten it. Patrick Schiltz, until recently chief judge of Minnesota’s federal district court, just gave a...
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Albert Mohler: A Win-Win-Win
In New York City this week, the United Nations is hosting 81st session of the U.N. General Assembly. World leaders, you can count on this, will be discussing the deal President Trump announced with Denmark and Greenland they will allow the U.S. to deploy military throughout virtually all of the...
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Carol Platt Liebau: Death Without Dignity
Canada legalized Medical Assistance in Dying, or MAID, in June of 2016—with promises of compassion. More than 100,000 assisted deaths later, the reality looks far different. Last year, Canada had more MAID deaths than America had gun homicides -- despite America’s much larger population. And now...
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Seth Leibsohn: The End of Hypocrisy
With CNN, Politico, and MS NOW in high dudgeon over being denied access to the White House, you’d think it was the end of democracy. What it is is the end of hypocrisy. For years, CNN and her confederates have been unified in distorting the news when it comes to Donald Trump, and burying news…
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Carol Platt Liebau: Massachusetts' Family-Destroying Legal Move
The Supreme Court has long recognized that parents — not the state — have the primary right to direct their children’s upbringing. But Massachusetts apparently wasn’t listening. In December 2024, the state took a 15-year-old girl named Sophie from her home. Her school had been helping her…
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Hugh Hewitt: Seeing Past the AI Panic Mongers
It seems like every morning lately brings a new warning about artificial intelligence along the lines of, “We’re all going to die!” Dario Amodei—Anthropic’s chief executive—struck the panic chord in a recent essay, arguing AI was advancing too quickly for researchers to continue building it…
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Hugh Hewitt: Leave the Court Alone
205 Democrats voted early this month to leave the door open to packing the Supreme Court. Everyone needs to be paying attention. The original Constitution was silent as to the number of justices on the high court, but from 1866 to 1869, a combination of three statutes and one constitutional...
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Seth Leibsohn: 9/11 Lessons We Did Not Learn
After commemorating the 25th anniversary of 9/11, let’s remember the adage: when you lose something, do not lose the lesson. Did we learn the lessons of 9/11? Those lessons include understanding the difference between good and evil, and never to confuse the two—calling evil good or good evil.…
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Carol Platt Liebau: Lessons of 9/11
Last week, Americans commemorated the twenty-fifth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks carried out by Islamist extremists. Afterward, our leaders rightly emphasized that America’s quarrel wasn’t with Muslims generally. And millions of peaceful, patriotic Muslims have made America their home. But...
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Hugh Hewitt: Who Really Leads the Democratic Party
Social media influencer Hasan Piker is now the face of the Democratic party. Piker wears his Mao jacket and hoses his Twitch audience down with absurd political takes. Piker uses social media to monetize the worst impulses of the extremes in American politics. In the course of doing so, he...
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Carol Platt Liebau: A Legacy Divided
When Gloria Steinem died last week, she was mourned across popular culture as a feminist icon. But her legacy was a mixed one. Many feminist reforms of the civil rights era were necessary and right — including laws against sex and pregnancy discrimination. But Steinem’s brand of feminism also had...
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Albert Mohler: Remembering 9/11, Reflecting on America
The morning of September 11, 2001 was stunningly beautiful. It was a promising day as it started, and yet it would end as a day of horror that would be indelibly etched into the American psyche. Those beautiful skies carried mass murder and terror. Through those skies flew airliners turned into...
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Ed Morrissey: When Did We Stop Rolling?
25 years ago this week, radical Islamists slaughtered nearly 3000 people in New York, Washington DC, and Shanksville, Pennsylvania. The deaths took place in Shanksville when a few dozen Americans stood up to fight the Islamist terrorists and thwarted their plans to drive Flight 93 into either the...
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Kevin McCullough: Ground Zero Is Not a Political Stage
September 11 is not a normal day on the calendar. Nearly 3,000 Americans were murdered by Islamist terrorists. Yet 25 years later, retired Port Authority police officers are asking Governor Kathy Hochul and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani to stay away from the commemoration at Ground Zero....
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Carol Platt Liebau: The Danger of Forgetting
As the 25th anniversary of 9/11 approaches, Americans who remember that day also remember its aftermath. Along with the shock, horror, suffering and death, there was resolve: We would never forget what happened. And we would never let it happen again. Thankfully, nothing on that scale has…
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Seth Leibsohn: The Sin of Moral Equivalence
“Some people did something,” one prominent Islamist member of Congress put it. An Islamist candidate for US Senate wrote: those we killed in our response to 9/11 were equally to be mourned as victims just as the Americans killed on 9/11 were. He has also campaigned with a popular broadcaster who...
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Kevin McCullough: Ground Zero Is Not a Political Stage
September 11 is not a normal day on the calendar. Nearly 3,000 Americans were murdered by Islamist terrorists. Yet 25 years later, retired Port Authority police officers are asking Governor Kathy Hochul and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani to stay away from the commemoration at Ground Zero....
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Michael Youseff: Danger of Socialism
Now, you probably grew up knowing that socialism doesn't work. It sees its control and most importantly seeks to replace God with government. But this ideology is now moving to the very center of our nation's political life. I was born under socialist Islamist regime. I remember when my father's...
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Carol Platt Liebau: Remembering 911... Forgetting Everything Else
As the twenty-fifth anniversary of 9/11 approaches, New York Governor Kathy Hochul is among the leftist Democrats who seems to have learned nothing and forgotten everything. Last week, Hochul visited the Islamic Cultural Center School of New York — whose imam blamed Jews for destroying the World...
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Ed Morrissey: Strategic Patience in Iran
Desperate times call for desperate measures. And the IRGC may have never faced a situation as desperate as its predicament at the moment. Yes: The conflict with Iran has gone on longer than Donald Trump anticipated. The shock and awe campaign in March did massive strategic damage, but the regime...
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Jerry Bowyer: The Package UPS Doesn't Want to Talk About
UPS will not ship human embryos. But it will ship the drug designed to destroy those innocent human lives. A shareholder proposal asks UPS to examine the legal, regulatory, and reputational risk of distributing abortion drugs, particularly mifepristone. The company's answer is that a carrier…
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Hugh Hewitt: Watching a Desperate Regime
The Islamic Republic is reeling as summer closes. Operation Economic Outcast is squeezing an already flustered and failing regime. As that regime grows increasingly desperate, there are warnings that Iran may well be considering one or even many “October surprise” attacks on Israel, the United...
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Seth Leibsohn: Islamism in America?
Since the election of the first Islamist to Congress eight years ago, few have wanted to speak candidly out about what Ilhan Omar was saying and stood for—lest they be labeled Islamophobic. Since that time, political Islam, Islamism, has grown and grown—from the election of a mayor in New York…
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Michael Youssef: A Troubling Question
While I was visiting the Middle East several years ago, a highly placed government official who's a Muslim himself asked me a troubling question. Why is the Muslim Brotherhood outlawed as a terrorist organization in Saudi Arabia, in Bahrain, in the United Arab Emirates, in Jordan, in Egypt, and…
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Ed Morrissey: The WNBA Banishes Freedom
Freedom stood up for reality—and the crowd went nuts. Enes Kanter Freedom attended a WNBA game with a T-shirt that defined a woman as an “adult human female.” The shirt provoked a profane response from Chicago Sky players, leading the league to eject Freedom from the arena. In every possible…
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Albert Mohler: Smitten by Socialism
The most amazing development on the American political landscape right now is the emergence of socialism. Yeah, I said it, socialism. Just recently, CBS News launched a major investigative study looking into political support for socialism. Among the key takeaways are the fact that among those…
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Hugh Hewitt: Abdul El-Sayed Is Hasan Piker
Abdul El-Sayed is Hasan Piker and Hasan Piker is Abdul El-Sayed. That’s the bottom line for Michigan voters considering the race for the open Senate seat in the upcoming election. El-Sayed is the Democratic nominee. Piker is the progressive, regressive, transgressive Twitch streamer—a vulgar,...
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Seth Leibsohn: Abortion and the Pang of Conscience
Massachusetts recently passed an abortion law, becoming the 10th state that allows for an abortion to take place right up to the moment of birth. Let us step back to consider that the entire abortion movement and language used to justify it is shrouded in lies and code words. The word abortion,...
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Ed Morrissey: Reds Clues: El-Sayed and Marxist Infantilization
“There are no normal Democrat men,” Clay Travis observed about a recent campaign video from Abdul El-Sayed. The Michigan Democrat wants to ensure that. El-Sayed’s campaign produced a “Blue’s Clues” themed video to promote mail-in voting. It reveals something profound about the contempt with which...
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Albert Mohler: The Culture of Death in Massachusetts
August 10, Massachusetts became the 11th state in the union to pass legislation with absolutely no limits on abortion. Democratic Governor Maura Healey hosted a signing ceremony and a lengthy press conference. We need to understand what we’re talking about here: There’s a basic worldview…
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Carol Platt Liebau: What the WNBA Is Lacking
A furor erupted in the WNBA recently, after Indiana Fever player Sophie Cunningham called it “common sense” to ban transgender athletes from competing in women’s sports. The league’s collective bargaining agreement says that only women are eligible to play in the WNBA—but never defines what a...
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Carol Platt Liebau: Corruption Exposed at Cambridge
Americans already suspect that higher education is a politicized grift. And Jason Arday’s story won’t convince them otherwise. Arday was celebrated as the youngest black person ever appointed to a professorship at Cambridge — despite a history of fabulism that defies belief. He’s claimed to have...
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Seth Leibsohn: Beware of Woke 2.0
Representative Alexandria Ocasio Cortez recently told a credulous Jonathan Karl of ABC that “Woke 1.0 was crazy,” when asked about certain Democratic Socialists of America candidate positions from the recent past. She then went on to state “[D]uring Covid, there was a huge opening of the Overton...
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Hugh Hewitt: A Test for Collective Commonsense in Michigan
Abdul El-Sayed won Michigan's recent primary for the United States Senate seat that is open in Michigan. He's the most radical Democratic nominee for the Senate since the Civil War. He'll face GOP congressmen and army veteran, FBI, special agent as well, Mike Rogers in the fall. El-Sayed…
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Carol Platt Liebau: New York City and the Jewish Question
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani recently announced the people will advise him on his judicial appointments. Notably, not even one of the mayor’s 18-person Judicial Advisory Panel is Jewish. This is no small feat in a city where one in eight residents is Jewish – and between thirty-five and…
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Albert Mohler: Brace Yourself
The Democratic Socialists of America want a revolution. They want to eliminate the police, empty jails, socialize medical care and housing, and eventually take their revolution through the entire society. As for the nation's constitutional system, nothing less than a new revolution will do.…
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