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Dems Closer Than You Think To Upending Electoral College Source link

GOP Shouldn't Dismiss a Harris Comeback in 2028 Source link

Our unhinged megalomaniacal POTUS was at it again today, claiming to Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo that his first year was nothing short of spectacular: Trump: “I had the greatest year, the greatest opening year. I ended 8 wars. The greatest economy ever. But even when you have a great president, they tend to lose the midterms. It doesn’t make sense to me. We’ve had the greatest year in the history of the presidency, first year. We should be given credit.” We’d say, hold yur horses, POTUS! Them ain’t close to the facts. Not at all. When it comes to triumphant…

At the recent oral argument in perhaps the most consequential case on the Supreme Court’s docket, the birthright citizenship case of Trump v. Barbara, Chief Justice John Roberts made a telling and illustrative quip. In an exchange with Solicitor General John Sauer concerning the problem of birth tourism, the chief justice responded to Sauer’s concern that 8 billion people around the planet are a “plane ride away from having a child who’s a U.S. citizen.”  “It’s a new world,” Roberts said. “It’s the same Constitution.” Roberts had, in so summarily distilling the worldview of the American legal conservative movement, revealed…

Why is it so important for the U.S. to take and retain control of the Strait of Hormuz? No matter what else, why is this the only real nonnegotiable with Iran? At first glance the nonnegotiable seems to be Iran’s nuclear program. This raises the question of what might be left of the program after massive bombing by the U.S. and Israel. The media makes much of the fact that some enriched uranium is supposedly still buried under one of the ruined sites, and of course no one should simply write off radioactive material in the hands of an adversary.…

Liberal justices stalled the release of the Dobbs ruling for weeks, putting the justices’ lives at increased risk, a new report reveals. Source link

CBS’s “60 Minutes” reports on what it would take for the U.S. to forcibly seize Iran’s stash of highly enriched Uranium, speaking with former national security official Andrew Weber, former WH nuclear adviser Dr. Matthew Bunn, retired Vice Admiral Robert Harward, and former Energy Department official Scott Roecke. “In Iran, we couldn’t send a team in to do this unilaterally without great risk,” Weber said. “You would need to set up in the middle of the country a secure perimeter. It would probably take thousands of U.S. troops to secure the facility while our experts excavated the HEU that’s located…

Trump’s war with Iran is not popular – and that’s no surprise. Critics of the war are correct about one very important thing: It is messy. The Strait of Hormuz remains dangerous. Oil markets are volatile. The risk of escalation has not disappeared. Even after weeks of air strikes – and now a U.S.-led blockade aimed at restoring control of the Strait – Iran retains the ability to disrupt shipping and rattle the global economy. All of that is true. But what critics have yet to show is that there was a better alternative. For years, American policy toward Iran…

The night before l voted against going to war in Iraq, my sister, Beverly, told me that a Knoxville television station had run a poll and found that in East Tennessee, 74 percent were in favor of going to war, 9 percent were against it, and 17 percent were undecided. In very sharp contrast, the New York Times said only 41 percent favored going to war in Iran, and several polls showed even less support, in the 20-30 percent range, before the war started. In comparison, the Times survey said 97 percent favored going to war after Pearl Harbor, 92…

No, Iran Isn't Being Honest About Opening the Strait Source link