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Former Sen. Ben Sasse (R–Neb.), who previously served as president of the University of Florida, revealed in late December that he had been diagnosed with Stage 4 pancreatic cancer. “Advanced pancreatic is nasty stuff; it’s a death sentence,” he observed. He’s right. Patients diagnosed at that late stage currently have a five-year survival rate of about 3 percent and often less than a year to live. Researchers, however, have recently reported some good news about advanced treatments that significantly increase the life expectancy of patients and, in some cases, even appear to cure the illness. In fact, Sasse is enrolled…
The Iran War is bringing trustless payments back to the forefront. The market is reacting. Since the U.S. and Israel began striking Iran on February 28, 2026, markets have had to wrestle with the financial and economic implications. The IEA described the disruption through Hormuz as the largest supply shock in the history of the global oil market. The strait normally carries about a quarter of maritime oil trade and is involved in about a fifth of global petroleum liquids consumption. The Iran war has made monetary infrastructure visible again The Strait of Hormuz is obviously a physical chokepoint. However, trade also…
The Yale committee looked at a 2025 Pew Research Center survey that found 70% of Americans say higher education is heading in the wrong direction. Source link
Far-left Reps. Ro Khanna and Ilhan Omar, and right-wing firebrand Marjorie Taylor Greene are suddenly best friends. Khanna and Greene appeared together on CNN last week, while Omar went on Pod Save America and praised Greene, along with far-right commentator Candace Owens, for breaking with President Trump. She said Democrats should “put our arms around” them. Something important is happening here that will shape the future of the No Labels movement and our country. On the surface, these figures on the far right and far left would appear to have nothing in common. In fact, in 2024, then-Rep. Greene tried to…
My good friend Paisios Wainwright joins me to discuss his struggles and path to Orthodoxy. Wainwright Ceramics Source link
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair I don’t care much for politicians and their works. Political government is a stupid and evil way of doing things. It makes us all less happy, less healthy, less prosperous, and less safe than we’d be if we abandoned it for voluntary means of living together. Nonetheless, I occasionally try to “give credit where credit is due” when a politician departs, for even a moment, from evil and stupidity. At other times I seek the most charitable explanations I can find for that politician’s actions. This is one of those latter times, and the question…
American citizenship is a covenant between the people of this nation, and when it is obtained through fraud, it is null and void. Source link
Insider on Justice Who Is 'Emotionally Abusive' to Clerks Source link
Thomas once went a whole decade without asking a single question. When he decides to speak, however, people take notice. Source link
The Supreme Court’s emergency docket ruling in Mirabelli and denial of certiorari in Foote will send conflicting signals. On the one hand, the Court blocked California’s policy on the shadow docket. On the other hand, the Court allowed a similar policy from Massachusetts to go into effect. I received an email from a lawyer indicating that his school district was maintaining their “secret transition” policy, notwithstanding Mirabelli. A question arises. Would this school district retain qualified immunity? Does Mirabelli, as an emergency docket ruling, create “clearly established” law? I know the Supreme Court has told us that emergency docket rulings are precedential.…