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[ad_1] Republican politicians love to talk a good fiscal conservatism game, but they’ve been quick to throw out their penny-pinching playbooks when pro sports team owners come calling.  In states like Indiana, Kansas, and Ohio, elected officials are offering increasingly massive public subsidies for new stadium projects, using a variety of convoluted mechanisms to hide the ultimate cost to taxpayers and communities. We can start with the story of the Chicago Bears’ replacement stadium in either Illinois or Indiana. The drama here features the deeply unusual casting of Illinois Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker as the nominal voice of fiscal sanity…

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[ad_1] Alright, you caught me red handed! I missed last week’s email. I did, however, spend a solid hour, hour and a half, writing an article about how the film The Prince of Egypt framed 90s kids’ first impressions of Israel. But I very quickly realized the topic was too complex for a 500 word email article. And constraints on my time just won’t allow for that kind of a deep dive. Suffice to say, as an all-American, Jesus-loving, Sunday school attending 90s kid, I loved The Prince of Egypt. I was and always have been fascinated with ancient Egypt.…

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[ad_1] Still from Steven Spielberg’s “AI.” I have written before on the AI bubble. The stock valuations we are seeing now look a lot like the valuations we saw before the Internet bubble began to crash in 2000. Even a quarter century later, people miss much of the story of that bubble. It’s true we had companies that never made a profit, like Pets.com, with valuations in the billions. But the story went far beyond some flaky companies having ridiculous market capitalizations. The irrational exuberance, to use Alan Greenspan’s great term, infected everything. Ford’s stock price more than tripled from…

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[ad_1] “This investigation continues,” Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, declared last Wednesday, referring to the criminal probe of Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell that she launched in November. “I am going forward. We are appealing the decision of Judge Boasberg.” Pirro was referring to a March 11 ruling in which James Boasberg, chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, quashed two grand jury subpoenas seeking information about the over-budget renovation of the central bank’s Washington, D.C., headquarters and Powell’s allegedly dishonest testimony about that project during a Senate Banking Committee…

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[ad_1] German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said that Iran has humiliated the US during the negotiating process. The US and Iran have held a round of talks and exchanged messages through Pakistan, but have been unable to reach an agreement.  “The Iranians are obviously very skilled at negotiating, or rather, very skilful at not negotiating, letting the Americans travel to Islamabad and then leave again without any result,” the German leader said Monday. “An entire nation is being humiliated by the Iranian leadership, especially by these so-called Revolutionary Guards. And so I hope that ⁠this ends as quickly as possible.”  The…

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[ad_1] Executive Director Curt Mills joined Harry Cole Saves the West to talk about whether Trump is losing his base Curt Mills appeared on the podcast of the Middle East Council on Global Affairs to talk about the Iran War Responsible Statecraft quoted Curt Mills on Trump and the neocons The post TAC Media Appearances: 4/20–4/27 appeared first on The American Conservative. [ad_2] Source link

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