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Image by Philipp Thelen. You can learn something about a culture from its origin myth. Like most boys growing up in Southern California, I believed the founding myth of the United States. Coming to a continent with just a few native tribal people, European settlers took control of an almost empty land, letting the few remaining ‘Indians’ have a chance to live on reservations. ‘The land was ours before we were the land’s’: So the poet Robert Frost famously declared in a poem at the inauguration of President J. F. Kennedy. Even if you don’t know the political history, it’s…
President Donald Trump clearly wants the Iran War to be over, if the Iranians will give him a face-saving way out. He is not yet ready to give any kind of face-saving way out to the Iranians. Should that basic dynamic change, allowing Trump to declare victory and come home, he will quickly learn that the people who cheerled him into this war will turn on him once he wants to end it. Their goals are maximalist. They seek regime change or as close to it as they can get. Trump wants something closer to Venezuela, decapitating the regime but…
The Federal Reserve is yapping too much about the economy, according to Kevin Warsh, the US central bank’s incoming leader. Source link
Sorry, Democrats: 'No Bad Ideas' Is a Uniquely Bad Idea Source link
Bill Cassidy lost his primary but made a winning concession speech against the president. Source link
In the Asian shock, four transmission channels play a role. In the case of oil, elevated risk premium is coupled with physical tightening via Strait of Hormuz disruptions. Lliquefied natural gas (LNG) poses a more severe constraint than oil and thus structural tightening of Asian gas balances. Meanwhile, coal substitution is experiencing a short-term demand surge in Asia, especially in India, China and Southeast Asia. On the economic side, countries are struggling with imported inflation, foreign exchange pressure, and painful policy trade-offs between subsidy support and fiscal stability. The shock is no longer a temporary price spike but a sustained…
Alex Berenson settled with the Trump administration over Covid-era censorship, which bodes well for his ongoing lawsuit against censors. Source link
Why Data Centers Could Be Good for Your Hometown Source link
Reporters, community advocates, EFF, and others have used public records laws to reveal and counteract abuse, misuse, and fraudulent narratives around how law enforcement agencies across the country use and share data collected by automated license plate readers (ALPRs). EFF is alarmed by recent laws in several states that have blocked public access to data collected by ALPRs, including, in some cases, information derived from ALPR data. We do not support pending bills in Arizona and Connecticut that would block the public oversight capabilities that ALPR information offers. Every state has laws granting members of the public the right to obtain records from…
A new report claims teachers’ unions are operating more like Democratic funding machines than groups advocating for their members. Source link