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White House Working On NATO 'Naughty & Nice' List Based On Iran War Support US officials are drafting what diplomats provocatively describe as a "naughty and nice" list ranking NATO allies based on their support for the US-Israeli war against Iran. Fresh reporting in Politico describes the proposal, developed ahead of NATO chief Mark Rutte's visit to Washington this month, as placing member states into tiers while outlining consequences for those refusing to participate in military operations against Iran, according to European diplomats and a US defense official familiar with the discussions. Source:...

The WNBA Is At War With Its Biggest Stars Via The Daily Signal, This is a lightly edited transcript of an Aug. 6 segment of the Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words podcast... Jack Fowler: And the whole trans issue is coming up in the WNBA, and various coaches are like, “I don’t know. Should a she - I can’t say who should be playing.” They will not say that a biological woman should be playing in the WNBA. It’s this absurdity. Victor Davis Hanson: But they know. I think Clay Travis said he was going to buy a franchise ...and...

A new poll of US voters published on Tuesday offers a warning for congressional lawmakers backing a plan to deepen military ties between the United States and Israel, finding that a clear majority of voters oppose the proposal—which some critics have called “treasonous.” The Data for Progress survey of 1,217 likely US voters—conducted August 3–7 for Demand Progress and the Institute […]