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[ad_1] Oil prices surge: Yesterday, Houthi terrorists struck two Saudi oil tankers in the Red Sea, sending oil prices up to $99 a barrel. The strikes “threatened to broaden the conflict by creating a second choke point on global shipping, in addition to the Strait of Hormuz, which Iran has effectively closed,” per The New York Times. President Donald Trump, too, is escalating: “From this point forward, any time the Islamic Republic of Iran shoots at a ship in the Strait of Hormuz, whether it be by Missile, Rocket, Drone, or any other device or weapon, the United States will…

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[ad_1] Austin Sarat ScheerPost Judges write like judges. The opinions they produce are for lawyers, law professors, and other judges, not for ordinary citizens. Reading them is hardly a pleasant or edifying experience. But occasionally doing so is worth the effort. I commend to you an opinion written by Federal District Judge Kathleen Williams. It is nothing short of a blockbuster. On the surface, Judge Williams’s decision seems technical. It involves the question of whether President Trump and his lawyers tried to pull a fast one on the judge. They did so  when they asked her to dismiss the…

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[ad_1] The Department of Homeland Security is preparing to spend $125 million on access to a vast commercial database containing personal information on millions of Americans—including names, addresses, Social Security numbers, geolocation data, and social media activity. Officials argue they don’t need a warrant because they aren’t seizing the information—they’re buying it. That distinction rests on one of the most consequential—and increasingly controversial—legal doctrines in modern constitutional law: the third-party doctrine. Built on Supreme Court decisions from the 1970s, it holds that information voluntarily shared with banks, phone companies, and other private entities loses Fourth Amendment protection. In this…

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[ad_1] It’s bad enough that Zohran Mamdani has become the leader of the new Democratic Party, having been anointed by none other than its King, Barack Obama. But now, their shining new star, Hasan Piker, is not even bothering to hide behind the words “Democratic Socialist.” He’s gone full-blown Commie. Read Full Article ⟶ [ad_2] Source link

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[ad_1] Edward Curtin By Edward Curtin and Sophie Michel “A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.” – A Chinese Proverb The titular question appropriately arose as our spirits rose during a sumptuous Easter dinner celebrating the triumph of life over death and love over hate. My granddaughter Sophie and I – she, three weeks shy of her eighteenth birthday – discovered that we both love sad songs and wondered why. Sophie, already an accomplished actress, singer, dancer, and writer on the cusp of a brilliant career, said such songs made her…

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[ad_1] At this late date, it is hard to take anything Mr. Trump says or does seriously. He seems not only out of touch with reality but also unable to make that reality conform to his narcissistic wishes. It has taken him a lifetime of defiant egoism to arrive at a condition which is universal to the human experience and especially to human learning: helplessness. War in the Middle East ties him in knots, drives up the price of gasoline, and brings him closer to midterm defeat in Congress with its almost certain legal reckoning of his graft and deceit.…

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