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Silver tetradrachm (4 drachmas) of the island of Rhodes depicting Sun god Helios, 205-190 BCE. Courtesy Ebedokle Collection, Numismatic Museum, Athens. Prologue A Greek friend from Canada, Dr. Nikos Chrystodoulou, sent me an article about an American company, Cambrian Nuclear, working with Athlos Energy, a Greek nuclear company founded in 2024, and the Greek government, potentially planning to build a nuclear power factory in Greece. But because Greece is not free of earthquakes, most likely these companies are recommending to Greek government officials a floating nuclear power plant on the waters of the Aegen Sea. Dr. Chrystodoulou, a nuclear power…

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The Supreme Court has a history of facilitating the war on drugs by whittling away at civil liberties, to the point that critics have long perceived a “drug exception” to the Bill of Rights. But last week, when the justices unanimously upheld the gun rights of cannabis consumers, they made it clear that there is no drug exception to the Second Amendment. The Court’s consensus reflects the blatant illogic of a federal law that makes it a felony, punishable by up to 15 years in prison, for an “unlawful user” of “any controlled substance” to possess a firearm. That policy…

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Not long ago, new kinds of jobs appeared: app-based gig work. They include jobs like dog walking on Rover, Taskrabbit work, DoorDash food delivery, Uber and Lyft driving. Lots of people like gig work. It’s flexible. You work when you want to work. But “workers’ rights” activists and governing socialists don’t like that. Gig workers rarely join unions. They don’t get a minimum wage. “Uber and Lyft exploit their workers” is a headline at MS NOW. “We can’t ignore it.” The Democratic Socialists said they had a solution. Seattle’s city council imposed a $26 delivery driver minimum wage. What could…

The U.N. inquiry finds that Israeli forces’ widespread shooting and killing of children and destruction of neonatal and maternity-care facilities is key to establishing genocidal intent, Stephen Prager reports. A Palestinian man mourns his family members who were killed in the Israeli bombing of the Nuseirat refugee camp, Gaza Strip, Aug. 10, 2024. (UNRWA /Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0) By Stephen PragerCommon Dreams About 30 percent of those killed by Israel in Gaza since Oct. 7, 2023, have been children, according to a United Nations inquiry, which found the “deliberate” targeting of kids to have furthered a genocide against Palestinians.…

The Declaration of Independence of July 4, 1776, embraces two value sets. The first is natural rights, and the second is limited government. After 250 years, neither value has survived, and the opposite of each currently prevails in America. Thomas Jefferson drafted the Declaration in three days while staying at a rooming house in Philadelphia. He had been greatly influenced by the British philosopher John Locke. Locke is the godfather of the theory of natural rights, which he extrapolated from the natural law teachings of Aristotle, Augustine and Aquinas. Aristotle (384-322 B.C.) did not argue that humans have inherent natural…

Peru appears to have kicked a habit that many suspected was ingrained: It has almost certainly elected Keiko Fujimori as the next president by a narrow margin. Although the counting up of the final votes and the recounts will go on for some time, by all appearances Keiko has secured a knife-edge victory—her margin of victory will probably be less than half a percent. The victory marks a welcome reversal for Peru’s highest profile politician: Keiko herself has lost the past three presidential elections, the most recent two by less than half a percent. The trend had many speculating that…

If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or, being lied about, don’t deal in lies, Or, being hated, don’t give way to hating…–Opening lines to Rudyard Kipling’s poem, If The lizard leaps up I was riding my bike to work, a fun 7-mile commute in a city with bike lanes and a general respect for those who bicycle. Still, a bike vs…

Trump has left an unusually large amount of drama in his wake after last week’s G7 conference in Europe. The festivities seem to have culminated in a dust-up between the president and Italy’s prime minister—and one-time Trump fangirl—Giorgia Meloni. The origins of the spat are still a bit mysterious, but it appears Meloni was trying to play the “outraged girlboss” with Trump in the hope that he would recommit to Europe’s failing war in Ukraine. Trump responded by going to the Italian media and saying that Meloni was “begging” him to take a photo with him and that he “felt…