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[ad_1] Photo by Andreas M …the next great division of the world will be between people who wish to live as creatures and people who wish to live as machines. –Wendell Berry, Life Is A Miracle The old world is running up like “parchment in the fire,” and nobody who wants to be part of the new one can be seen to defend it. –Paul Kingsnorth, Against the Machine The culture has been damaged…by an idiotic distrust of all ideas, religions and literature handed down to us by elders and ancestors. –Robert Bly, The Sibling Society  The right kind of warrior takes on…

[ad_1]  If men do not have sleep, they go mad. — G.K. Chesterton A full week has passed since Lindsey Graham’s funeral, and the debate over whether or not President Donald Trump dozed off during the festivities has yet to subside. Claims that he did catch some Zs “spread across multiple platforms,” Snopes reports, “with videos of different lengths showing the same moment.”  Yes, for a few seconds there, Trump can be seen to close his eyes, but anyone spinning this for political purposes should be ashamed of himself. There’s an innocent—in fact, heartwarming…

[ad_1] For much of recent history, China has sought to shed the more onerous aspects of its old command economy. After the disastrous failures of the Great Leap Forward and Maoism further impoverished an already poor nation, a new crop of leaders like Deng Xiaoping pursued market-oriented reforms intended to bring China the prosperity that capitalism had delivered for Western countries like the United States. Now, nearly five decades on, politicians in the United States—including, remarkably, many conservatives—seem interested instead in going down the path from which Beijing seems to have turned. Impressed by China’s recent economic and technological progress,…

[ad_1] Image by Dylan Shaw. The events in Tell, southwest of Nablus, were not an isolated act of violence. They were a warning. For years, Israel has treated Palestinian villages in the occupied West Bank as open spaces for military raids, settler invasions, land theft and collective punishment. The expectation was that Palestinians would endure the violence, bury their dead and return to the same unbearable routine. In Tell, however, that carefully maintained equation was briefly disrupted. The confrontation began when armed Israeli settlers entered the area near the village, attempting to attack Palestinian homes. Villagers confronted them. Israeli soldiers…

[ad_1] J.D. Vance has been taking fire of late. From the left, of course—but also from the right, whose remaining “zombie Reaganites” have launched an effort to call his conservative bona fides into question.  Much of this criticism purports to find in Vance nothing more than a camouflaged leftist. Writing of Vance’s appearance on the Joe Rogan Experience last month, commentator Ben Shapiro said he heard the vice president articulate “Bernie Sanders’ economics, Barack Obama’s foreign policy, and Ro Khanna’s conspiracy theories,” adding that Vance seemed to be “mirror[ing] the Democrats.”  But of these critiques, it is the second—foreign policy—that…

[ad_1] Binance co-founder CZ backed crypto license passporting across ASEAN to simplify approvals, reduce compliance costs and encourage competition. Binance co-founder Changpeng “CZ” Zhao backed crypto license passporting across ASEAN, arguing that firms regulated in one market should be able to enter others through a simplified approval process rather than applying from scratch. Speaking Tuesday during the “One ASEAN, One Digital Economy” fireside chat at the ASEAN Tech Summit Manila 2026, Zhao backed an idea raised by FinTech Alliance PH founding chair Lito Villanueva for regulatory passporting or license portability. Zhao said regulators could still review applicants but should not…

[ad_1] 8/7/2010: Justice Elena Kagan takes oath. Justice Elena KaganThe post Today in Supreme Court History: August 7, 2010 appeared first on Reason.com. [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] Playground at the Schliemann Museum, Ankershagen, Germany. Photo: David Yearsley. On a Sunday morning in the middle of July we left Berlin on bicycles for Copenhagen—700 kilometers in seven days. The route is almost exclusively on bike paths, mostly paved but also with stretches of gravel, dirt and sand. We cycled through fields and forests, along rivers, canals, marshes, dunes and countless lakes; over bridges; through villages, and baroque towns. We made it out of the Müritz National Park in the German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, just before a massive wildfire closed the route there. Beyond the forests, wheat and…

[ad_1] From Doe v. T.T., II, Inc., decided yesterday by Judge Dale Kimball (D. Utah.): Defendant T.T. … is an escort service … When Plaintiff agreed to work as an escort in conjunction with Defendants, she signed an agreement indicating that her services as an escort would involve nudity in the presence of customers…. As part of her intake process, the parties discussed that she would need to engage in some advertisement activity directed at attracting male customers and that this would also include nudity. Defendants maintain a website advertising their services and providing photographs of their escorts. The photographs…

[ad_1] From Judge Carlos Mendoza (M.D. Fla.) in U.S. v. Joudeh: Defendant is charged with one count of transmission of an interstate threat to injure or kill another person in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 875(c). The facts alleged in the Indictment state that Defendant violated this statute via “an online comment that included the statement, ‘I wish someone would in alive him.'” The Indictment provides no further information as to where or why this comment was posted, to whom it was communicated, or who the referenced “him” is in the comment. The “him” was, however, apparently identified in this…