Author: nick
There is something almost absurd about a government minting money at a loss. A coin—the most basic unit—becomes instead a confession, not just of inefficiency, but of a deeper fracture between what money is supposed to represent and what it has become. The American penny collapsed under that weight—3.69 cents for every penny minted. Thus, it cost multiples of its face value to produce—a financial contradiction sustained for years out of habit and political inertia. Now the nickel stands in the same position, costing far more to mint than it is worth. This is not a marginal accounting problem, it…
I am happy to pass along this hiring notice from my friends at ADF: Alliance Defending Freedom is seeking Senior Counsel with 10+ years of experience to join our Center for Life and Center for Parental Rights teams. ADF is the largest religious liberty law firm in the world, with 18 Supreme Court wins since 2011 and a growing team of attorneys committed to defending free speech, religious freedom, parental rights, and the sanctity of life. Experienced litigators seeking high-impact, meaningful work should consider applying. Please apply here or reach out to Katie Garrard, Lead Recruiter, kgarrard@adflegal.org. Source link
From Doe v. U.S. Dep’t of State, decided yesterday by Chief Judge James Boasberg (D.D.C.): Plaintiffs are 49 U.S. visa applicants. Their applications were suspended under a January 2026 State Department policy that indefinitely pauses visa issuances for nationals of 75 countries. The Department presents the policy as part of an ongoing review of visa-vetting procedures, asserting that nationals of the designated countries “are at a high risk for becoming a public charge,” and are therefore inadmissible under 8 U.S.C § 1182(a)(4). Plaintiffs contend that this policy violates the Immigration and Nationality Act by authorizing categorical visa denials based solely…
“Our seniors should not pay property taxes,” says Rep. Nancy Mace (R–S.C.). Normally, I’d advise against paying much attention to what Mace says and even less to what she posts on Twitter. Mace is one of the most performative and vapid members of Congress—a tall task, if you’re familiar with her competition. She’s most well-known for having meltdowns in airports, engaging in weird bits of performance art, and terrorizing staffers, all apparently guided by the old axiom that there’s no such thing as bad publicity. But there is such a thing as bad policy, and Mace’s endorsement of expanding property…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he gave orders to the IDF to increase control of Gaza from 60% to 70% of the Palestinian enclave. He went on to suggest that Israel could seize the entire Palestinian territory. “We are currently squeezing Hamas,” the Israeli leader explained at a conference hosted in a West Bank settlement. “We now control 60% of the territory in the Strip. You know, we were at 50, we moved to 60. My directive is to move to … 70%.” 🚨Israel’s PM Netanyahu says he has ordered the IDF to seize 70% of the Gaza Strip…
About a month after federal prosecutors accused former CNN anchor Don Lemon and eight other people of violating civil rights laws by disrupting a Minnesota church service, Timothy Gerber, a special agent at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), sought to support that case by requesting five search warrants. Gerber wanted to obtain information about the YouTube and iPhone accounts used by several of the defendants. But as court records unsealed this week show, his affidavits were so deficient that a federal magistrate judge rejected them twice, after which the government withdrew the applications. That embarrassing episode adds a ridiculous…
In a non sequitur leap so sweeping it is almost beyond comprehension, Pastor Joel Webbon, urging an end to women’s suffrage, asserts, “It’s because we love women—and we know that when women can vote, they vote for being raped.”1 This bizarre assertion is part of a conversation between three Christian Nationalist clergymen, Pastor Dale Partridge, head pastor at King’s way Reformed Church in Prescott, Arizona, Father Calvin Robinson, a British expat cleric, and Pastor Joel Webbon, leader of Covenant Bible Church in Georgetown Texas. In this conversation, the three assert women are guided by emotion rather than intellect. Hence, they argue,…
Europe is now openly discussing restricting Microsoft, Amazon, and Google from handling some of its most sensitive government data, including financial records, judicial files, and healthcare information, and this marks a major turning point in the relationship between Europe and the American technology sector. According to reports surrounding the European Commission’s upcoming “Tech Sovereignty Package,” Brussels is preparing measures that could limit how foreign cloud providers manage sensitive public-sector workloads, specifically targeting the dominant American firms that currently control most of Europe’s digital infrastructure. This is Europe effectively admitting that it no longer trusts the United States to control the…
California’s onerous and easily exploitable environmental review law is being pushed to new levels of absurdity by unionized state workers who are threatening to use it to block Gov. Gavin Newsom’s return-to-office mandate. Since early last year, Newsom’s administration has been in the process of winding down COVID-era telework arrangements for state workers. Earlier this month, the governor’s office issued memos to state agencies telling them to implement a four-day, in-office requirement by July 1. State employee unions have actively opposed Newsom’s return-to-office policies by filing unfair labor complaints with state regulators and agitating for legislative protections for telework arrangements. …
Axios reports speaking with American officials who claimed that Iranian and US negotiators had reached a framework for an agreement to end the war, and that the signing of the document was awaiting President Donald Trump’s final approval. The officials explained that the memorandum of understanding (MOU) would extend the ceasefire for 60 days and open a window for negotiations on Iran’s nuclear program. “This is an agreement to get everybody to the table. We will work out the details in the negotiations,” one official explained. The report published by Axios on Thursday follows a series of articles citing sources…