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There have been troubling developments in both parties regarding antisemitism in the last few years, but I found this one especially perverse and disturbing. And of course, it shouldn’t be just Jews who are worried about it, not only because everyone should oppose antisemitism, but because antisemitism on both left and right is based within the growing illiberal constituencies in both parties. In short, you don’t have to be worried about antisemitism to wonder what the heck’s going on when the Democrats nominate a supporter of a radical Islamist, Iran-allied anti-American terrorist group that has murdered hundreds of Americans, weeks…

A report by the Washington-based think tank Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) found that the US depleted half of its missile interceptors.  According to CSIS, the US military had 2,330 Patriot interceptors before the conflict, and used an estimated 1,430 missiles. A similar trend followed for THAAD, SM-3, and SM-6 interceptors. The US had 360 THAAD, 410 SM-3, and 1,160 SM-6, and used 290, 250, and 370 of the missiles, respectively.  The US has also depleted large portions of its stockpile of offensive missiles, including Tomahawks, PrSMs, and JASSMs. CSIS estimates it will take the US years to…

Greetings and welcome to the latest edition of the Injustice System newsletter. There is a lot of news swirling around the U.S. Supreme Court this week and these two stories in particular are worth noting. You’re reading Injustice System from Damon Root and Reason. Get more of Damon’s commentary on constitutional law and American history. The New York Times managed to get its hands on a cache of private memos written by members of the Supreme Court to each other about a hugely important 2016 case. A leak of this sort would be a big deal in and of itself,…

The public health establishment lost America’s trust during the COVID-19 pandemic with its bureaucratic incompetence, “noble lies,” and authoritarian mandates.  It was about time. Agencies like the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have been failing the American public for decades. But the agency with the worst track record is the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which, long before COVID, caused Americans to lose hundreds of thousands of life years by slowing down drug development. After COVID, the American public had finally started to catch on. President Donald Trump put a new…

John and I continue the reading and commentary on Rules for Radicals Source link

The pale-throated sloth, from Marshall, Annales du Muséum national d’histoire naturelle, via Wikipedia. David Lat (Original Jurisdiction), whose newsletter I very much recommend, writes about this: Tonight brings huge news out of Sullivan & Cromwell. We can add now add S&C, truly one of the world’s most prestigious and profitable firms, to the AI “Hall of Shame”: the list of law firms that have submitted court filings containing AI-generated “hallucinations.” … [Ironically], as noted by Joe Patrice of Above the Law, Sullivan & Cromwell is the law firm that … advises OpenAI on the “safe and ethical deployment” of artificial intelligence (a representation S&C…

Donald Trump sure has a strange approach to making housing more “affordable”. He apparently wants lower costs for buyers and higher prices for owners and sellers!  “I don’t want to drive housing prices down. I want to drive housing prices up for people who own their homes.” Needless to say, as the Donald’s scrambles about seeking housing affordability “solutions”, we’d rather suspect that higher house prices are not quite what the economic doctor ordered. That is to say, during the last 55 years the number of hours an average worker needed to put on the clock in order to afford a median…

From today’s by Judge George C. Hanks, Jr. (S.D. Tex.) in Patel v. Figliuzzi, which stemmed from his exchange on MSNC’s Morning Joe with defendant Cesare Frank Figliuzzi, Jr., “the former assistant director for counterintelligence at the FBI”: Host: “So, Frank, let’s turn to FBI Director Kash Patel, who has sort of taken a surprisingly backseat role—at least to this point, in the first 102 or 103 days, wherever we are right now. What do you make of that, that he’s just been a little less visible than I think a lot of people and Trump observers expected him to…

I believe that the Democratic Party’s hostility to Israel represents a deeper and more dangerous shift away from the center and toward a radical approach that is bad for America and the free world. Source link

And there you have the twisted logic. Source link