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Photo by John Warg Most American interpretations of our history have been triumphal.  From the use of atomic weapons against Japan in 1945 to the justifications for war with Iran in 2026, politicians and pundits have largely accepted the triumphal nature of the use of force and denied the criticism that accompanied these actions.  Interpretations of the past and present have been a battleground at the heart of American politics.  Revisionists and critics have been for the most part on the outside looking in. The dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 is the best example…

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 Hey all, I recorded this yesterday while out exercising. There was a meteor shower a few days ago and I wanted to go out and see if any impacts were on the sidewalks or trails. I noticed that impacts on the cement didn’t leave marks as much as impacts on the blacktop trails and roads. I found a lot of impacts on a bike trail and they were all going the same direction from right to left streaks, so I can confirm they are meteorites. I have also seen these in other cities, people have mistakenly thought for years that…

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Governor Shapiro’s unseemly rush to Lancaster County to convene a national press conference and his giddy delight in announcing two measles deaths was a morose commentary on the contemporary political dialogue. The performance was a replay of the Democrats’ COVID playbook:Read Full Article ⟶ Source link

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Dave Marsh at the Stony Pony club in Asbury Park, extolling the virtues of Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes. (Screen capture from video posted to YouTube.) They like to get you in a compromising positionThey like to get you there and smile in your faceThey think they’re so cute when they got you in that conditionWell I think it’s a total disgrace I fight authority, Authority always winsI fight authority, Authority always winsI’ve been doing it since I was a young kidI come out grinnin’I fight authority, Authority always wins – John Mellencamp, The Authority Song Writing is fighting,…

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Thursday on the RealClearPolitics podcast, Carl Cannon, Tom Bevan, and Emily Jashinsky look back at the six months since the start of the war with Iran, assess HHS Secretary Kennedy’s accusation that Pennsylvania has overstated the number of people who have died from measles, and debate why Los Angeles seems to be falling apart. Plus, a tribute to Dolly Parton: was she the last great American icon? And was San Francisco 49ers owner Jed York’s arrest entrapment? Listen live weekdays at 11:00 a.m. Eastern on SiriusXM’s Megyn Kelly Channel 111, or on Apple, Spotify, YouTube, or other platforms.00:00 — Opening:…

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Critics said the designation, based on a Bush-era 9/11 executive order, puts pro-Palestine civil disobedience on equal footing with Al-Qaeda, Julia Conley reports.  Protesting the banning of Palestine Action using anti-terrorism laws, Parliament Square, London, July 5, 2025. (Steve Eason, Flickr, CC BY-NC 4.0) By Julia ConleyCommon Dreams A top First Amendment advocacy group on Wednesday warned of the “broad speech implications” of the Trump administration’s sanctions on the British anti-genocide group Palestine Action, which it designated an international terrorist organization for leading direct actions in opposition to the Israeli government. Under the designation, Americans will be blocked from doing business…

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In our latest ‘Behind the Grail’ video we went deep with our thoughts on AI – check it out! Free for everyone to watch, but please consider becoming a supporter for as little as $1/month, to help the Daily Grail survive the AI a-slop-alypse… Can the existence of an afterlife be proven? The scientists looking for God. A study claimed UFOs orbited Earth in the 1950s – then scientists checked the math. This rock art in China has remained bright red for nearly 2,000 years – the secret ingredient might be blood. Also: Scientists find unexpected ingredients in ancient Egyptian…

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This side of the border, French Canadians don’t tend to make political waves. Despite a sizable population in northern New England, they have collectively only once played a significant role in American politics. This was in February 1972, when the so-called “Canuck Letter” helped scuttle Ed Muskie’s shot at the Democratic nomination for president. (The letter, now widely believed to be the work of Nixon staffers, alleged that Muskie had drawn a derisive parallel between New Englanders of French-Canadian extraction and southern blacks.) But last weekend, the heirs of Champlain and Frontenac found themselves involved in matters of state below…

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