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By ignoring all the bright thinkers and conventional analyses the President’s genius strategy has placed us in the driver’s seat. We are now the world’s top source of oil and gas and control major distribution flows of petro supplies from around the world.Read Full Article ⟶ Source link

Over at Executive Functions, Jack Goldsmith offers a sharp critique of the way that the New York Times presented and spun the content of the leaked Supreme Court memos concerning whether to stay the Obama Administration’s Clean Power Plan. From the beginning of his post: The CPP order was unusual, but not because the Court temporarily decided a very important issue via an interim order with no explanation. That had happened quite a lot, even outside the death penalty and election contexts. See for example these two interim orders from 2014 on abortion and same-sex marriage. The CPP order was novel at the time,…

Iran said Monday, the 13th day of a two-week ceasefire, that it still has no plans to participate in a new round of negotiations with the U.S. In a press conference on Monday morning, Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei said, “So far, we have not made any decisions regarding the next round of negotiations,” adding that Iran cannot ignore the “very costly experience” of the past year in which the U.S. “betrayed diplomacy twice” and carried out attacks against Iran during negotiations. “We see no signs that the U.S. is serious about advancing diplomacy. Multiple signs point to the…

Three unions comprising 68,000 Los Angeles education workers stuck to their guns and, with a strike only 4 ½ hours away, the Los Angeles Unified School District agreed to terms–a decisive victory for labor. Whenever a teachers union strikes or threatens to strike, we face an avalanche of criticism from conservative and big business media as well as many billionaire-funded anti-union advocacy groups. These anti-union forces will say either: The union(s) got way too much money, we’re bankrupting the school system and robbing the taxpayer. The union(s) caused all that disruption and trouble and didn’t even get their members much.…

Robert Skidelsky, the award-winning British author and economic historian, died last Wednesday of a brain infection. He was 86. Subscribe Today Get daily emails in your inbox Skidlesky, best known for his widely acclaimed three-volume biography of John Maynard Keynes, was a professor of international studies and political economy at the University of Warwick. A founding member of the Social Democratic Party, he was elevated to the peerage in 1991 and sat in the House of Lords. Of Russian extraction, Skidelsky in his later years relearned the language and advocated for a better British understanding of Russia. He…

After President Donald Trump announced the U.S. had attacked an Iranian ship trying to pass through the Strait of Hormuz, social media users shared a video they said showed the strike’s aftermath. Trump said April 19 that the U.S. Navy intercepted the Iranian-flagged cargo ship Touska after it failed to heed the strait’s U.S. blockade. A U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyer struck Touska’s engine room and U.S. Marines seized the ship, Trump said. Hours after Trump posted about the attack on Truth Social, one X post shared footage that showed flames shooting and smoke billowing from the center of a ship.…

In recent weeks, a growing number of Democrats and progressives have called on federal officials to invoke the 25th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution to remove President Donald Trump from office. Even some of Trump’s most stalwart onetime allies are joining in. While it may feel good to wishcast about booting Trump from the presidency, the 25th Amendment is perhaps the most unlikely strategy possible. Adopted after President John F. Kennedy’s assassination, the 25th Amendment addresses how to replace a president or vice president who dies, resigns, or becomes otherwise incapacitated. It also establishes how to remove a president who…

If there is a mantra among progressive American political and media elites, it would be “our democracy,” usually preceded by what they believe to be a threat from the Right. For example, progressives deemed the recent reversal of Roe “a threat to our democracy” because it removed laws regulating abortion from Supreme Court jurisdiction and returned the issue to democratically elected legislatures. It would seem inconsistent to invoke the democratic electoral process to deal with a contentious issue like abortion, but progressives are nothing if not inconsistent. But even in challenging logic on political issues, progressives at least try to stick to the language of…

Dr. Cory Franklin is not anti-vax, but he thinks health bureaucracies owe Americans (and Canadians) the truth about who is really getting sick. I agree. Source link