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[ad_1] Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Under Federal Rules of Evidence (FRE) 702 and 703, for evidentiary purposes at trial, lay people ordinarily cannot not offer medical, mental health or psychiatric opinions.[i] These sorts of opinions must be based upon expert testimony.[ii] That said, however, there are certain human behaviors and conditions that, under Federal Rule of Evidence 701, a competent layperson may provide opinions on certain subjects expressly permitted by rule, statute, or case law. This sort of opinion testimony must be based upon the witness’ perceptions, personal observations, and must result from firsthand knowledge.  In these circumstances the…

[ad_1] A Pentagon official argues that "people can no longer take the United States for granted." [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] 1 in 3 U.S. adults believe Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, including nearly half of Democrats polled. Will the Democratic Party listen? [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] Colonel (Ret) Ann Wright, Popular Resistance Save Your Soul, Your Conscience and Your Sanity. Stop the bombings! Nineteen years ago in February 2007 during the Bush administration’s Axis of Evil regime and calls for attacks on Iran from members of Congress including “Bomb, bomb, bomb Iran (to the tune of Beachboys song Barbara Ann)” recitation by Senator John McCain, I wrote an article entitled “An Appeal to Conscience to Those Who WOULD Bomb Iran.” Now almost two decades and four presidential administrations later (Obama, Trump, Biden, Trump), the article is virtually the same, except that U.S. Air Force…

[ad_1] Exit the city to save it… and yourselves [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] Florida’s state wildlife law enforcement agency used a police database to snoop on more than a dozen of its critics, two Florida news outlets reported, raising concerns of First Amendment retaliation. The Orlando Sentinel and the Miami Herald both published stories last weekend revealing that the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) secretly investigated outspoken opponents of the agency’s policies using the state’s Driver and Vehicle Information Database (DAVID), access to which is tightly restricted to legitimate law enforcement purposes. Targets of FWC searches included a documentary filmmaker, Brent Fannin, who accused the agency of failing to protect…

[ad_1] Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright, Black Agenda Report. So Why is the U.S. Climate “Movement” Ignoring Him? The climate crisis is first and foremost a crisis caused by the U.S. denying other nations their sovereignty through imperialist violence, but the U.S. climate movement is more comfortable talking only about emissions. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin has been an absolute menace and major impediment to advancing climate and environmental liberation in the United States. In addition to terminating key EPA departments and staffers, Zeldin’s roll back and undercutting of bedrock environmental laws from the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) to…

[ad_1] Photograph Source: The White House – Public Domain On July 16, inside the Loy Henderson Conference Room at the U.S. State Department, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller stood before representatives of more than 60 countries and declared open season on the global left. Billed as a ministerial on the “resurgence of political terrorism,” the gathering was in reality the launch of a coordinated international campaign to criminalize dissent against U.S. imperial power and its most conspicuous contemporary project: the ongoing destruction of Gaza. Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar was not…

[ad_1] The Trump administration imposed new tariffs of between 10 and 12.5 percent on goods from a slew of countries Friday in an attempt to preserve the president’s tariff regime after the Supreme Court struck down his Liberation Day tariffs. Subscribe Today Get daily emails in your inbox The new tariffs went into effect at 12:01 a.m. Friday, the same time the stopgap tariffs Trump enacted after the Supreme Court struck down his previous tariffs expired. The duties, imposed under the aegis of Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974, target 80 countries for allegedly failing to…

[ad_1] In a recent City Journal article headlined “No, Seriously, Decriminalizing Drugs Kills People,” the Manhattan Institute’s Charles Fain Lehman claimed a recent National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) paper provided conclusive evidence that “should lay to rest the debate over legalization.” I published a rebuttal in Reason, arguing that the study did not close the debate. That provoked a response from Lehman on X. I will respond to each of Lehman’s substantive points and delve more deeply into the research. I communicated with the NBER study’s co-authors, including University of Oregon economist Benjamin Hansen, who told me that the…