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[ad_1] I’m delighted to report that Michael Auslin, a Distinguished Research Fellow here at Hoover, will be guest-blogging this week about his new book. From the publisher’s description: The inspiring story of the Declaration of Independence—the first to take us from its drafting by Thomas Jefferson to today—charting the many lives of a document that captures the soul of America and has united generations around its defiant ideals, published for the 250th anniversary of America’s founding. Quiet and politically untested, Thomas Jefferson was not the obvious choice to draft a statement of principles explaining why the American colonies were breaking…

[ad_1] One crazed man holds the fate of the world in his hand and his name is Donald Trump. Can his administration, the U.S. system, the War Powers Act, Russia or anybody else stop him? asks Joe Lauria. Attack on IRIB’s Live News Broadcasting Studio in Tehran by U.S.-Israeli forces, June 2025. (Avash Media/Wikimedia Commons) By Joe LauriaSpecial to Consortium News Donald Trump “indefinitely” extended the ceasefire with Iran on April 21 and over the last 12 days the certifiable man in the White House has vacillated between words of peace and threats of all out war as he stands…

[ad_1] After spending the past decade behind the camera with David Icke, Richard Willett is branching off into a hybrid of the True Crime genre mixed with the main players from the conspiracy world. Politicians have always been some of the biggest criminals and mass murderers, but their crimes often go unreported, until now. Richard Willett’s new show, Making Monsters, seeks to truly understand how these prolific killers came to be by taking a deeper look into the esoteric reasons why they do the horrible things that they do. Criminologists fail to account for the occult ties to many homicides…

[ad_1] I’m glad to see Republican-turned-independent Spencer Pratt, former star of reality TV’s ‘The Hills,’ entering the Los Angeles mayoral race. [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] Mark Collins has run Evergreen Wholesale, a 230-acre plant nursery in San Diego, for over 40 years. But this year, he almost had to shut it down after employees from the state agriculture department destroyed more than 32,000 of his citrus plants because of an anti-pest regulation.   Collins is now suing California’s Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) in federal court, claiming the state cost him up to $3 million in damages. Collins’ battle with the state stems from an invasive insect called the Asian citrus psyllid (ACP). The ACP is a tiny speckled brown insect, just one-eighth of…

[ad_1] Israeli leaders are watching events in the Strait of Hormuz closely and preparing to strike Iran. Israel has been pushing for the US to abandon the diplomatic process and greenlight renewed attacks on Iran.  On Sunday, Trump announced “Project Freedom” to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. The operations call for the US Navy to assist vessels out of the Persian Gulf. Tehran has said that it will not reopen the Strait of Hormuz until the US and Israel end the war and lift the blockade of Iranian ports.  Remarking on the situation, an Israeli official told Ynet that Tel…

[ad_1] Image by Mick Haupt. Americans have seen this pattern before. A president moves toward war. Intelligence is stretched. Foreign allies make the hardest push. Friendly media turn selective images into political permission. Then ordinary people pay the price. That is why the debate over Trump’s attack on Iran should not be reduced to one man’s impulse. It was meant to deceive. On one side was a long-running campaign by Benjamin Netanyahu to frame Iran as a problem to be solved militarily, not diplomatically. On the other was an information ecosystem that tried to present military escalation as if it…

[ad_1] Budget carrier Spirit Airlines officially shut its doors Saturday, laying off its employees and cancelling all flights after rising fuel costs pushed the struggling company over the brink. The price of jet fuel has spiked since the American–Israeli war on Iran started in late February, leaving Spirit—which had already declared bankruptcy twice in less than two years—unable to sustain its business operations. “The sudden and sustained rise in fuel prices in recent weeks ultimately has left us with no alternative but to pursue an orderly wind-down of the Company,” CEO Dave Davis said in a statement released Saturday. Davis…

[ad_1] After law enforcement prevented a shooter from entering the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner — the third attempt on President Donald Trump’s life in less than two years — commentators sparred over how common political violence has become, and who was more likely to support it. Conservative broadcaster Ben Ferguson drew criticism from his fellow CNN panelists when he said April 27 that more conservatives will be killed “if the Democratic Party doesn’t wake up and realize that words had meaning and they light the fuse.”  “Twenty-five percent of the Democratic Party believes that political violence is appropriate,” Ferguson…

[ad_1] As a New Republic reader, you’re well aware that 2026 is a midterm year. [ad_2] Source link