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[ad_1] The crisis in the Strait of Hormuz is not even close to being resolved, and global oil supplies continue to get tighter and tighter. The world has been running an “oil deficit” for months, and we have been able to do that by running down commercial oil inventories and strategic national reserves. There was hope that traffic through the Strait of Hormuz would return to pre-war levels before things got really hairy, but that isn’t happening. In fact, in recent days only about 30 to 40 commercial vessels have been traveling through the Strait each day. Before the war,…

[ad_1] Image by Ian Hutchinson. While the world’s attention has been consumed by the Iran war, the fragile Lebanon ceasefire, and Trump’s reality show — AKA the “Board of Peace” — in Gaza, Israel has been executing a methodical, largely unreported Jewish apartheid program in the West Bank. It is ethnic cleansing in slow motion: intentional, documented, and normalized by journalists too timid, media outlets too embedded, and editors too biased to cover it honestly. The numbers tell the story that Zionist-managed Western media outlets will not. The West Bank is experiencing its largest forced population transfer since 1967, according…

[ad_1] When most of Florida’s Republican gubernatorial candidates gathered in Fortt. Lauderdale recently to debate, they spent a good bit of time discussing the governor’s role in regulating AI data centers — at least, when they weren’t throwing barbs at the one candidate who didn’t show.  The July 2 debate, hosted by conservative podcast host and entrepreneur Patrick Bet-David, brought together Florida Lt. Gov. Jay Collins, former House Speaker Paul Renner and investor James Fishback to make their cases to Florida voters. GOP gubernatorial frontrunner Rep. Byron Donalds declined to debate.  At one point, Renner and Fishback both took aim…

[ad_1] Stay-at-home moms: Reader, let me take your hand and guide you to a realm of the internet that I inhabit, which you probably don’t even know exists. Welcome to Mom Twitter, where the discourse vacillates between dumb and enlightening. Today’s topic? What exactly the term “stay-at-home mom” means, and whether “work”—presumably meaning formal participation in the labor force—disqualifies you. moms on TikTok that are like “SAHMs what are you doing to make income from home 🥺 I need to make $200 a week” and the comments are all giving them suggestions…..idk how to tell them that they aren’t SAHMs.…

[ad_1] The U.S. government came to like the work of historian David Kahn, who passed away in 2024. The National Security Agency (NSA) honored him three times for his research on cryptography and espionage: with a “scholar-in-residence” title in 1993, a ceremony making his personal library part of the National Cryptological Museum in 2010, and a hall of fame induction in 2020. But decades before, the U.S. government considered that personal library an alarming security threat. The FBI has declassified its files on Kahn, which Reason obtained under the Freedom of Information Act. Although it is publicly known that the…

[ad_1] “Opera for All” at a Fourth of July performance of Wagner’s The Valkyrie at the Bavarian State Opera. Photo credit: David Yearsley. A few weeks before all four operas of Richard Wagner’s Ring des Nibelungen were premiered as a complete cycle in a purpose-built theater on a green hill in the sleepy Bavarian town of Bayreuth in the summer of 1876, George Armstrong Custer was marking America’s centennial by getting himself scalped half a world away at the Little Bighorn. Both events were reported globally and resound down the century-and-a-half to their shared 150th birthdays this summer, even as…

[ad_1] With affordability in the spotlight, President Donald Trump and his administration have sought to tie rising housing costs to illegal immigration under his predecessor, President Joe Biden. On July 8, a reporter on Air Force One asked Trump what lessons could be learned from a March working paper by Federal Reserve economists about the impacts of unauthorized immigration on U.S. labor and housing.  The president responded, “What’s happening is housing costs are going down because — and rental costs are going down — because we’re getting so many illegals out of the country. But Joe Biden raised the cost…

[ad_1] From today’s opinion by Magistrate Judge Jennifer Willis (S.D.N.Y.) in Dixon v. Cartagena:On June 1, 2026, Roc Nation filed a motion for sanctions against Defendants Dixon, Blackburn, and T.A. Blackburn LLC …. This Court set a briefing schedule requiring Defendants’ opposition to be filed by June 30, 2026. On July 1, 2026, Blackburn filed Defendants’ opposition motion. Counsel for Roc Nation filed a motion to strike the filing because it was “untimely, exceeds this Court’s word limit, and contains what appear to be AI-hallucinated citations.” On July 7, 2026, Blackburn filed a response to the motion to strike in…

[ad_1] Iran has emerged stronger after the United States and Israel started a war on February 28th of this year. Now that the conflict appears to be winding down, the US has taken a beating while Iran is visibly the winner in all ways that matter. The US didn’t achieve a single stated military goal of the war. Sure, the Strait of Hormuz will reopen, but it was open before the joint US-Israel attack that kicked off the fighting. None Of The Most Important Issues Have Been Resolved By The Memorandum Of Understanding Iran is already aware of this fact,…

[ad_1] Six weeks ago, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced the creation of COGE, the Commission on Government Efficiency. While the commission’s name might sound like Elon Musk’s now-dead federal DOGE and conjure up an image of a chainsaw-slashing, afuera-style attack on the city’s $125.8 billion budget, the commission has thus far been a typical governmental task force.  Before proposing changes to the city’s charter, COGE is holding a series of 11 meetings to gather input from elected officials and the public about improving government efficiency. On Wednesday evening, I went to the penultimate COGE meeting in the auditorium…