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The Death of Deterrence Fatigue
Twelve days ago, Iran was a nuclear threshold state. Today, it’s a state of denial. The regime that spent decades waving missiles,...

Rick de la Torre
Jun 23, 20253 min read


The Soft Coup of Nice People
It starts with a whisper. Not a scream. Not a charge. Just a whisper dressed as virtue. “Equity is justice.” “Health at any size.”...

Rick de la Torre
Jun 18, 20253 min read


Let's End the Iranian Nuclear Fantasy
Tehran is burning. Not metaphorically—literally. Its centrifuges are mangled scrap. Its air defenses are rubble. And its regime, long...

Rick de la Torre
Jun 18, 20253 min read


This Is What Domestic Terrorism Looks Like Now
If two Black civil rights lawyers had been gunned down outside the Smithsonian’s African American History Museum by someone yelling...

Rick de la Torre
Jun 2, 20253 min read


The Illusion of Joe
The real scandal isn’t that Joe Biden has Stage 4 cancer. It’s that no one told the American people—because the people running the show...

Rick de la Torre
May 20, 20253 min read


Marco Rubio is Right
The CBS News article attempting to fact-check Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s warning about Tren de Aragua’s presence in the U.S. isn’t...

Rick de la Torre
May 19, 20253 min read


Trump’s Saudi Gambit
President Trump’s visit to Saudi Arabia this week wasn’t just another diplomatic courtesy call—it was a signal flare across the...

Rick de la Torre
May 14, 20254 min read


Make America Clone Again
So apparently, scientists just cloned a dire wolf using DNA from a 13,000-year-old tooth and some genome sorcery involving gray wolves...

Rick de la Torre
Apr 13, 20254 min read


Brian Thompson Was Murdered by AI
Credit where it’s due: this piece was sparked by a much smarter man than me, over one drink and one sentence. He looked me dead in the...

Rick de la Torre
Apr 11, 20254 min read


The Kill Switch We Imported from China
America didn’t just outsource its factories—we outsourced its future. And for what? A couple decades of cheap microwaves and TikTok...

Rick de la Torre
Apr 8, 20254 min read


The Left’s Group Chat Meltdown
Only in Washington could an encrypted messaging app spark a media firestorm. The Left’s latest manufactured crisis? A Signal group chat....

Rick de la Torre
Mar 25, 20252 min read


Deport the Cartel
President Trump’s invocation of the Alien Enemies Act to expel Tren de Aragua (TdA) gang members from U.S. soil is not only the right...

Rick de la Torre
Mar 17, 20252 min read


Zelenskyy’s Political Autopsy
Volodymyr Zelenskyy came to Washington expecting to secure U.S. support, finalize a minerals deal, and walk away with a renewed...

Rick de la Torre
Mar 4, 20252 min read


Hamas’s Death Cult on Parade
Hamas’s atrocities go far beyond cold-blooded murder—they are acts of unfiltered, premeditated cruelty. These aren’t mere war crimes...

Rick de la Torre
Feb 24, 20254 min read


The CCP’s American Infiltration
The latest congressional report on the Chinese Communist Party’s espionage operations in the United States should erase any illusions:...

Rick de la Torre
Feb 18, 20252 min read


Security Clearance Limbo
The United States is facing a national security crisis that few in Washington seem willing to acknowledge—the dwindling number of...

Rick de la Torre
Feb 16, 20254 min read


The “Steady State” Wants to Protect the Swamp, Not National Security
A collection of former intelligence officials calling themselves The Steady State is outraged—outraged that the CIA is undergoing reforms...

Rick de la Torre
Feb 16, 20253 min read


The FCPA: Handcuffing Americans, Bankrolling Beijing
The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act was born out of a well-meaning but ultimately naïve vision of American virtue. It sought to impose a...

Rick de la Torre
Feb 12, 20253 min read


The Vanishing West
Western civilization is drifting into a demographic crisis. Marriage is increasingly dismissed, birth rates are collapsing, and the...

Rick de la Torre
Feb 11, 20253 min read


The Algorithm is Watching
The world of espionage has always been an arms race, a ceaseless battle between deception and detection. For centuries, human...

Rick de la Torre
Feb 10, 20252 min read
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