Author: nick

Photograph Source: NASA – Public Domain The Earth is in a fine mess, but human beings sealed in laboratories full of energy and vigour, attached to screens, and running tests about conditions in space, have another reason to cheer.  Between April 1 and April 11, the Artemis II undertook a flyby of the Moon and returned safely.  News bulletins, life stream feeds and podcasts afforded it saturating room and coverage.  This was the first Moon mission with a crew in over five decades.  Cue, then, for the grand claims, the exaggerated hopes, the silliness of it all. Absurdly, the effort is being heralded as…

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche announced Thursday that the Justice Department has reclassified “FDA-approved marijuana and state-licensed marijuana” from Schedule I controlled substances to Schedule III controlled substances. The move, which does not legalize marijuana, will facilitate the use of the drug in medical research. Schedule III substances are still subject to numerous legal restrictions, including on transportation across state lines. Blanche also announced that the Justice Department would hold expedited hearings to reschedule marijuana as a whole. The reclassification fulfills an executive order signed by President Donald Trump in December 2025 directing the administration to move the drug to…

It is much easier to complain about how the Supreme Court handles interim orders on the “Shadow Docket” than to propose meaningful and acceptable reforms. That is, if one is concerned about the process and practice of the Court (and not just its jurisprudential tilt), one must confront the trade-offs inherent in any reform of how interim orders are sought, considered, and addressed. This is one of the lessons of Garrett West’s important new paper “Taming the Shadow Docket,” just published in the Virginia Law Review. Here is the abstract: The Supreme Court’s shadow docket is causing a supposed legitimacy crisis.…

We’re surrounded by redcoats. They might not be part of King George’s military, but their mindset, what they support and what they’re willing to impose, is everywhere. The founders didn’t just fight an army. They fought a long, bloody war to secede from a system built on a set of views they considered as a fate worse than death. Here are 6 ways to spot a redcoat without ever seeing a uniform. LOYALTY The quickest way to spot a redcoat is one question: where does their loyalty lie? Loyalty to a single person isn’t patriotism. It’s a complete rejection of…

Absolutely. Olive branches that were ignored: Source link

Every time there’s a headline that the war in Iran may be winding down, bombs go off and wind it right back up again. So maybe I shouldn’t say that the president has cooled his jets when it comes to the pope, but he has taken a break from going off on the Holy Father. If you read Donald Trump’s Truth Social posts, you’ll see that the war with Iran continues to preoccupy him; of course it does. But his messages don’t show a man who engages and then moves on, ever. Instead, he doubles back as reliably as the surf, refreshing beloved grievances and…

U.S. Navy/PhoM1 Brien Aho – Public Domain Reports of food shortages on naval ships deployed to the Middle East. Video footage of disabled military veterans—some in wheelchairs, others leaning on canes—being zip-tied and dragged out of the Capitol Rotunda for staging a peaceful, anti-war protest. Sixty-six veterans were arrested while conducting a flag-folding ceremonyin recognition of the 13 military servicemembers who have died so far in Trump’s war with Iran. A growing number of active-duty military service members asking how to end their service, become conscientious objectors, and refuse unlawful orders. And a president openly threatening to commit war crimes by targeting civilian infrastructure…

A former Supreme Court clerk compared Kagan to Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in a new book. Source link

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is entering his influencer era as US health secretary. Source link

This interesting case was reported in the literature in 2007. For some reason it was then widely published in the mainstream media in 2015. Now it is making the rounds again on social media to support a false narrative about brain function. The story is of a 20 year old German woman who suffered a traumatic brain injury in a car accident. Over the next several months she started to slowly lose her vision – which is an important detail, it was not a sudden loss as a result of the physical trauma. After evaluation she was diagnosed with psychogenic…