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[ad_1] The Trump administration marked the two-hundred-and-fiftieth anniversary of U.S. independence with a series of statements in support of American empire. Despite the fact that Trump campaigned against endless war and the White House issued a National Security Strategy that rejected “global domination,” the Trump administration celebrated the nation’s two-hundred-and-fiftieth anniversary by glorifying empire as one of the country’s highest achievements. Administration officials praised moments in U.S. history when U.S. leaders embraced empire, such as when Thomas Jefferson and John Adams spoke in favor of an “empire of liberty” and Theodore Roosevelt acted to take Panama. At a time when…

[ad_1] On July 26, Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) wrote a message to Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) in a post on X:  I hereby object to any effort to put the Senate into recess in August—at least until such time as the Senate has passed the SAVE America Act—and hereby request a roll call vote. Do not assume you have my consent. You do not. On August 8, the Senate went into its customary August recess without objection. No roll call vote was held. The SAVE America Act (which would implement stringent national voter ID requirements, and is championed…

[ad_1] Time to face an uncomfortable truth: America lost the Iran War. It’s a development not only discomfiting but world-historical, marking the pitiful conclusion of American primacy and the “U.S.-led international order.” President Donald Trump is in a bind. Escalating the war in hopes of changing the outcome would worsen its deleterious effects and almost certainly fail to force Iranian capitulation. But reaching a peace agreement is difficult, thanks to a near-total absence of Iranian trust in any commitments that Trump might make. The solution to Trump’s predicament, I’ve come to believe, can be found in an unlikely source: a…

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[ad_1] Milla74/Dreamstime A few days ago, I wrote about Trump’s new birthright citizenship executive order and why the vast bulk of it is unconstitutional under the Supreme Court’s ruling in Trump v. Barbara, which struck down his earlier executive order denying birthright citizenship to children of undocumented immigrants and those on temporary visas. Yesterday and today, the first two legal challenges to the new order were initiated. They were filed by the plaintiffs in two of the cases challenging the earlier orders. The plaintiffs in Barbara v. Trump are seeking modification of the injunction against the earlier executive order or a new…

[ad_1] They took her trainers. That is the detail that survives, once the rest is stripped away – the belongings removed from the corpse, the shoes pulled from her feet, the shallow hole in woods sixty kilometers west of Kyiv. Anastasiia Berezovska had been shot in the back of the head, then shot again as she lay on the ground, four rounds in all. She was thirty-nine. Six days earlier she had walked out of a stairwell in Monaco having left a backpack in the lobby of an apartment building, and the backpack had torn three people apart. The distance…

[ad_1] Shipping traffic through the Strait of Hormuz remains at a minimum as President Donald Trump claims the crucial waterway is open.  The tracking agency Kpler reported on Tuesday that 32 ships transited the Strait between Friday and Monday, including just six on Sunday. 17 of the vessels used Iranian-approved shipping lanes, with only 11 using the Omani side of the waterway.  “Traffic through the Strait of Hormuz remained subdued over the past week and weakened further into the weekend,” Kpler posted to X on Tuesday. “From 7 to 9 August, confirmed crossings fell from 15 on Friday to 11…

[ad_1] In this episode of The Sowell Legacy, Justice Clarence Thomas joins Peter Robinson for a wide-ranging conversation about the thinker who transformed his life. Justice Thomas recounts discovering Thomas Sowell’s work as a young lawyer, the friendship that followed, and the lessons in self-reliance, honesty, and intellectual independence that shaped his own journey—from segregated Georgia to the US Supreme Court. Together, they explore race, education, constitutionalism, courage in public life, and why Sowell’s ideas continue to resonate with rising generations. [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] No, that didn’t actually happen, but it is ripe for the Babylon Bee. In reality, the ACLU has filed a “motion to clarify the preliminary injunction” in Barbara v. Trump asking the court to rule that children of aliens who are members of foreign terrorist organizations, including declared Alien Enemies, are birthright citizens. Indeed, the danger of that asserted authority is heightened because the scope of the purported exception is so unclear. The Order says that “alien enemy” is “defined to include” members of certain groups designated as terrorist organizations by the Administration. EO2 § 2(a) (emphasis added). But “include”…

[ad_1] President Donald Trump said that Russia agreed to release Robert Gilman without a prisoner exchange.  “I am proud to announce that American Citizen Robert Gilman, a former United States Marine, is coming HOME!” the President wrote on Truth Social Tuesday. “We appreciate this decision, and the fact that Russia asked for no one in return — No exchange took place.” Trump credited a team, including his son-in-law Jared Kushner, envoy Steve Witkoff, hostage negotiator Adam Boehler, and Director for Counterterrorism Sebastian Gorka.  Reuters reports that Russian President Vladimir Putin pardoned Gilman so he could seek medical treatment in the…