Author: nick
Last week, President Donald Trump said late-night comedian Jimmy Kimmel “should be immediately fired” for making a “really shocking” joke about him. The next day, the Justice Department charged another prominent Trump critic, former FBI Director James Comey, with committing two federal felonies by posting a photograph of seashells arranged in the sand to form the message “86 47″—a ubiquitous statement of opposition to the current president. Those back-to-back expressions of presidential wrath underlined a striking difference between Trump and most of his predecessors. Although presidents have never enjoyed criticism, Trump is unusual in routinely and openly using the influence…
It has been clear throughout the last 30 months that what has been happening in Gaza will not stay in Gaza, writes Andy Worthington. Gaza is a template for a world of limitless slaughter and surveillance. A displaced person with a disability walks over the rubble of houses in Jabalia camp, Gaza Strip, May 31, 2024. (Hussein Jaber /UNRWA /Wikimedia Commons/, CC BY-SA 3.0 igo) By Andy WorthingtonAndy Worthington.co.uk For the last two and a half years, the State of Israel has unilaterally — and with jaw-dropping illegality — reimagined warfare as a religiously-mandated existential struggle against alleged “forces of…
We noted in Part 1 that when confronted with the failure of 44 days of bombing Iran “back-to-the-stone-age”and, also, thankfully, being reluctant to send American boots into a Gallipoli-scale slaughter on the ground, the Donald turned to his goofy Secy of Treasury for a 4-D chess move. To wit, a blockade of the Gulf of Oman, which commenced on April 13th. The latter was supposed to dry-up Iran’s cash flow from global oil sales and to then fill its oil storage tanks full to the rim, thereby causing the pipelines connecting to its 3.5 million b/d oil production apparatus to…
Last Thursday, President Donald Trump gave a phone call to new Iraqi Prime Minister-designate Ali al-Zaidi to congratulate him on his nomination for the post—a call that came after Trump had publicly opposed former Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s bid in objection to the close ties that he enjoyed with Iran. In a Truth Social post following the call, Trump said he wished Zaidi success in forming “a new Government free from terrorism that could deliver a brighter future for Iraq.” “We look forward to a strong, vibrant, and highly productive new relationship between Iraq and the United States,” he added.…
Rubio Gets Presidential Tryout in White House Briefing Room Source link
Save America Act Runs Into the Senate's Filibuster Wall Source link
The president has no idea that members of Congress can’t be impeached. It’s emblematic of the profound ignorance that continues to undermine his presidency. Source link
My article with the above title has now been published online by the Journal of Law & Civil Governance at Texas A&M. The following is the Abstract: This article concerns how a fake citation has misled courts to uphold “sensitive place” gun bans. New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass’n v. Bruen held that the Second Amendment presumptively protects conduct covered by its plain text. A state must justify its restriction by showing it to be consistent with America’s historical tradition of firearm regulation. The original public understanding at the Founding is key to that question. Post-Bruen, courts have sought…
The very first story on the Drudge Report on both April 23 and 24 was headlined with a quote from Bernard Arnault saying if the Iran war was not quickly settled, it could be a “world catastrophe.” I apparently do not keep up with world business as much as I should, because I did not know that Arnault is one the three richest men in the world along with Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos. They trade first, second and third depending on fluctuating stock prices.Arnault heads a French conglomerate, LVMH, which specializes in luxury brands like Louis Vuitton and many…
Medicare Fraud Uncovered in Ohio, Almost Entirely Somalis Source link