Author: nick

Trump Can Still Salvage Midterms If He Acts Quickly

Media Bias

[ad_1] Not even so media-savvy a president as Donald Trump gets to write his own headlines, as he undoubtedly mutters to himself whenever he picks up a newspaper. But a president’s power to shape events can influence the headlines, no matter how contentious his relationship with the press. Thus the headlines recently read: “Inflation has biggest drop since 2020;” “Inflation drops at fastest pace in six years;” “Core inflation drops to 2.6% in June;” “Inflation drops to 3.5% in welcome sign for mortgage rates”; “Inflation dropped 0.4% in June.” It was such good news that Trump mentioned the latest inflation…

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Does The “Aloha Spirit” Violate The Establishment Clause?

Political Spin

[ad_1] In an update to my post on the Hawaii Supreme Court’s lawlessness, I pointed out that the Hawaii legislature actually imposed a duty on all state officials to abide by the “Aloha Spirit.” In my post, I joked that Texas should just instruct all of its officials to contemplate and reside with the life force and give consideration to “Christ’s Spirit.” Of course the response is that such a law would violate the Establishment Clause. But why should the Hawaiian statute fare any differently? This statement has all the hallmarks of a traditional religion. I realize Hawaii used the…

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No Peace In Middle East Until Israel Stops Its Killing Spree

Geopolitics & War

[ad_1] On July 17, NBC News televised portions of a lengthy investigation proving that Israeli military forces had attacked medics at least 116 times in South Lebanon over the last several months. On that same day, Reuters reported that eight people were killed and 20 others were wounded when Israeli planes carried out an air strike against mourners attending a funeral in Gaza. Most of the military equipment, guns, bullets, planes and tanks used to kill defenseless people over the last several years have been paid for by U.S. taxpayers. According to AI, Israel has killed over 4,200 people in…

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Crypto IPO market stalls as capital rotates to AI and macro uncertainty weighs

Conspiracy Theories

[ad_1] Funding constraints and investor caution, not regulation, are delaying crypto IPOs, according to Cohen & Company Capital Markets’ Christian Lopez. The market for crypto initial public offerings has slowed sharply as investors rotate capital into other sectors and growing macroeconomic uncertainty dampens appetite for risk assets, according to Christian Lopez, head of blockchain and digital assets at investment bank Cohen & Company Capital Markets. “The IPO market is a bit slower in the crypto space for obvious reasons,” Lopez told CoinDesk in an interview, pointing to last October’s liquidity event as a turning point that drained capital from the…

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Texas Tech’s vague restrictions show you don’t have to ban speech to silence it

Politics & Policy

[ad_1] Nine years ago this summer, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously in my favor in Matal v. Tam—the case about my band’s trademark that most people remember as a fight over offensive speech. It wasn’t, really. The government never argued I couldn’t call my band The Slants. It argued that officials, not I, got to decide what the name meant. The Court rejected that claim to interpretive authority: “Speech may not be banned on the ground that it expresses ideas that offend.” That fight didn’t end in 2017. Once again, public officials are trying to restrict speech protected by the…

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