Weekend Beacon 6/29/25

"Their friendship was a romance: passionate, tender and tempestuous, full of longing, riven by jealousy." No, I'm not referring to Trump and Bibi. It's Ian Leslie's take on McCartney and Lennon. Dominic Green returns to the Weekend Beacon with a review of John & Paul: A Love Story in Songs.

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Trump Returns From NATO Summit with a Revamped Nixon Doctrine. Plus, an Ode to Joe Biden's Debate Collapse.

Pulling their weight: At the height of this week's NATO summit, China's ambassador to Nepal lashed out at the European "ass kissers" who made nice with Donald Trump. "His anger is well founded," writes the Hudson Institute's Mike Watson. "Between the bombing raid on Iran's nuclear program and the summit's results, the last few days have been good ones for Americans and their friends."

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Former Intel Officers Assess the Leaked Iran Strike Assessment. Plus, How Qatari Cash Influences Georgetown.

Top-secret toilet paper: The now-infamous Defense Intelligence Agency assessment that cast doubt on the success of Donald Trump's strikes on Iran relied on intercepted communications to do so, CNN reported on Tuesday. One day later, an Axios report cited an Israeli official who revealed "that intercepted communications suggest Iranian military officials have been giving false situation reports to the country's political leadership—downplaying the extent of the damage." Could those communications have made their way into the DIA assessment? It's likely, according to former intelligence officials.

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Daddy spanks, the world gives thanks

Noble Don earns Nobel nod: America's greatest president, Donald Trump, is the prohibitive frontrunner to win the Nobel Peace Prize after ending the 12-Day War with an overwhelming victory for the good guys. Some may try to argue otherwise, but they don't know what the f— they're doing. Do you understand that? Trump knows that true peace can only be achieved with big, beautiful bombs. That's why he ordered a squadron of B-2 bombers to completely obliterate Iran's nuclear facilities as part of Operation Midnight Hammer, an important first step toward achieving lasting peace in the region.

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MAGA Unites Around Operation Midnight Hammer. Plus, Israel Lands Final Blow on Iranian Regime Power Centers.

The great unifier: As soon as the dust settled in Fordow, political data firm GrayHouse got to work asking MAGA voters how they felt about Donald Trump's Saturday strikes on Iran's nuclear program. The results are now in—and overwhelmingly positive.

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Weekend Beacon 6/22/25

If and when the Tehran regime falls, what will happen to the ayatollah's apologists? Will they suffer amnesia and insist they were on the people's side all along? Time to take those screenshots—the reckoning can't come soon enough.

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Let the Airstrikes Roll, Israelis Say While Dodging Missiles. Plus, Iranian Plot To Kill Trump Moves Through Court.

Can't stop, won't stop: Israelis have spent the last week ducking daily ballistic missile barrages as their leaders work to destroy Iran's nuclear weapon capabilities—and they're showing no signs of fatigue. That's according to a new Agam Labs-Hebrew University poll obtained by the Free Beacon's Andrew Tobin in Tel Aviv. It shows that 83 percent of Israeli Jews—and 70 percent of the overall public—"support the campaign to take out Iran's nuclear and missile capabilities." Only 1 percent of Jews and 16 percent of all Israelis "would have preferred continued nuclear diplomacy with Iran."

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Inside Harvard Law Review's Race-Based Article Selection Process. Plus, Israel Scores More Hits on Iranian Sites.

No melanin, big problem: When we published documents showing the Harvard Law Review uses race to select articles, the prestigious journal insisted they were taken out of context. Now, our Aaron Sibarium is back with 500 more of the review's internal documents—and they show that journal editors "eliminate more than 85 percent of submissions using a rubric that asks about 'author diversity.'"

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What a US Attack on Iran's Secretive Enrichment Site Would Mean. Plus, MAGA Voters Cheer for Israeli Strikes.

Bringing in the big guns: On Monday night, Donald Trump abruptly left the G7 Summit in Canada to focus on the Middle East. Emmanuel Macron suggested he did so to work on an Israeli-Iranian ceasefire. Nonsense, responded Trump, who made clear that he left to pursue "a real end" to Iran's nuclear ambitions. By Tuesday afternoon, we learned what Trump thinks could bring such an end: a strike on Iran's nuclear facilities, most notably its secretive underground enrichment site in Fordow. What would that strike entail, and just how badly would it cripple Tehran's chances of producing a nuke?

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