Americans want an autonomous Ukraine to survive. They hope the West can stop Russian President Vladimir Putin’s strangulation of both Ukraine and NATO.

Yet Americans do not want their troops to venture across the world to Europe’s backyard to fight nuclear Russia to ensure that Ukraine stays independent.

With Putin’s nemesis, Trump, gone, Russia assumes the appeasement years of the Obama-Biden administration are back again. As in 2014, once more Putin is moving against his neighbors.

Where does this entire mess leave America? In trouble.

Can Republicans move beyond just completing the original, necessary Trump agenda on closing the border, legal-only immigration, deterrence against China, energy production, immunity from optional military engagements in the Middle East, industrial and manufacturing resurgence in the Rust Belt and conservative judicial appointments?

What would such a new Contract with America entail, if it were indeed wise before the midterms to advertise such a confident Newt Gingrich-like strategy for regaining the House? And should a menu be more rather than less detailed? What about the follow-up for a later Republican presidency?

Here are the Ten Commandments worth running on, some new, some old. Not all are official policy positions. Some are recommendations for action even when the federal government is not directly involved.

If you’ve been wondering about the extent of voter fraud in America, we may be seeing a staggering amount of either fraud or grotesque negligence in Wisconsin voter rolls. A review of the state’s voter roles showed that 569,277 voters registered on January 1, 1918.

Yes, 1918.  Of that number, 20% of these people, all of whom must now be at least 124 years old, voted in November 2020. Biden “won” in Wisconsin by 20,682 votes....

Ultimately, there are three ways to account for the fact that 20% of people who registered to vote on January 1, 1918, showed up to vote in November 2020, none of which is good for election integrity:

One of the most memorable lines from the 1995 movie “The Usual Suspects” is this: “The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he did not exist.”

With just a little tweak, this statement could be applied to the last presidential election: “The greatest trick the Democrats ever pulled was convincing the voters they did not steal the 2020 election.”

Consider the number of things the Left has been willing to lie to the American people about in recent years. After going to alternative sources to discover facts and weigh evidence, we have stirred a vibrant mistrust of those in whom, just a decade ago, most Americans trusted to tell us the truth.

So why has this leap of faithlessness not jumped over to the obvious facts of the 2020 election?

The Dem/Leftmedia hysteria over Ukraine and the possible incursion into that country by Russia would be akin to a “Wag the Dog” SNL sketch if it were not our reality.

Suddenly, all those talking heads in Congress and on TV are apoplectic over the notion that Ukraine's border might be breached.  They want to send thousands of American troops thousands of miles away to protect Ukraine's border with Russia while our own southern border is being breached by over two million migrants since Biden took office.

The U.S. is enduring an invasion while our Left is drumming up a war to protect another nation's border.  Putin is surely laughing at Biden's upside-down leadership that is benefiting every country but ours.

This story is not for cynics, nor folks who lack imagination or national pride.

After nearly 40 expensive years of dreaming, planning, designing, building, congressional whining, testing, and hoping, NASA and its army of very smart people have placed into solar orbit a powerful new seven-ton telescope.

The new telescope’s success so far is just one of our nation’s numerous recent space achievements: Landing robots to explore Mars. Flying a research robot through the Sun’s aura. Snatching a scoop of primordial soil from a distant asteroid and bringing it back in the fall of 2023.

Yet this latest achievement, successfully launched one month ago today, is simply astonishing.