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The vice president’s first trip to the early caucus state saw him defending the White House’s response to a sputtering economy with an eye towards his own presidential ambitions. Source link

Project Freedom was over before it started. On Sunday night, President Donald Trump announced the U.S. military initiative to guide ships out of the Persian Gulf, where they have been trapped since the U.S.-Iranian war closed the Strait of Hormuz a month ago. On Tuesday night, Trump declared that Project Freedom was “paused” and the U.S. would keep up its blockade of Iranian ports. The next morning, Trump confusingly wrote that the blockade will be lifted if “Iran agrees to give what has been agreed to, which is, perhaps, a big assumption,” and threatened bombing “at a much higher level…

Representative Stephen Lynch (D-MA) saw the possibility of gangsterism at the start of the second Trump administration when he warned that the United States could “join the ranks of gangster nations,” but there is a growing sense in Congress that the day has arrived. At a congressional hearing last month, Representative Joaquin Castro (D-TX) asserted that the Trump administration is exploiting the U.S. military to take Latin American resources for U.S. corporations. Castro seemingly channeled the anti-war critiques of Smedley Butler, the U.S. military hero of the early twentieth century, who condemned war as a racket and lamented his exploitation as a racketeer…

Last month the Justice Department filed criminal charges against Dr. David Morens of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) for using his private email to conceal official activities from the public.Read Full Article ⟶ Source link

James Comey’s tenure heading the FBI is defined by his dishonesty and wildly irresponsible behavior. Source link

Discord between Western allies — ostensibly due to contrasting views towards Islam and Israel — has recently escalated to a new height. Its core most likely consists of a deep-seated envy that a handful of scruffy, hunted people managed to transform a land of sand dunes, deserts and malarial swamps into a gleaming superpower — all while defending themselves against unrelenting neighboring countries trying to snuff them out. Such an achievement must, of course, be punished.Read Full Article ⟶ Source link

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First edition official poster. Photograph Source: Cyril S – Public Domain The jury at the Venice Biennale Art Exhibition have outdone themselves.  Few juries at any art or literary festival can be trusted at the best of times, their judgment likely to be swayed by factions, self-interest and the ethically sapping succour of the gravy train (the global art scene is an enormous racket after all), but to see such figures take a moral stand is a peculiar thing indeed. The stand in question, which took the form of a mass resignation, was initiated in response to the decision to permit…

Citadel CEO Ken Griffin responded to NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani singling him out in a campaign to ‘tax the rich,’ saying after the video of the mayor pointing out his apartment, “We went to Miami and revised our plan to make it a much bigger office building.””What is no longer a point of discussion is that when we moved from Chicago, there was a debate between New York and Miami.””And now, and now what the mayor of New York has made clear to my partners and principally my New York partners, my New York partners is that we need to…

It goes without saying that any tool or power government acquires for addressing some crisis of the moment will eventually—often, almost immediately—be deployed against the general public. So it is with border enforcement and the crackdown on immigrants. Surveillance technology ostensibly intended for the enforcement of laws regulating migration is being turned against Americans. You are reading The Rattler from J.D. Tuccille and Reason. Get more of J.D.’s commentary on government overreach and threats to everyday liberty. “In the battle against illegal immigration, the U.S. is spending hundreds of millions of dollars on tools that give federal agents easy access…