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[ad_1] Newly uncovered documents prove that disturbing experiments on kittens continue under the second Trump administration and the watch of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a move that directly conflicts with the values of the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement. Documents revealed via a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit prove that the National Institutes of Health is investing more than $2 million into controversial experiments on cats and kittens at a breeding operation based at the University of Florida (UF). These experiments involve breeding more than 100 cats with Niemann-Pick type C1 (NPC1), a fatal neurodegenerative…

[ad_1] Residents in Tehran on the third day of US-Israeli airstrikes, March 3, 2026. Photo: Avash Media. CC BY 4.0. The February 2026 Iran war cannot be understood as an isolated event; but rather the outcome of over four decades of coordinated American and Israeli efforts to contain and topple the Islamic Republic. Similarly, Iran’s ability to withstand the military onslaught and emerge victorious must also be situated within that historical context. After weeks of U.S-Israeli bombardment, Iran has shown not only that it has been able to withstand an assault by the world’s strongest militaries, but that it could…

[ad_1] In his 2012 page-turner, My American Revolution: A Modern Expedition Through History’s Forgotten Battlegrounds, Robert Sullivan embarks on a journey that will be familiar to the 50-something male of the species, noticing with fresh eyes the historical stuff in his immediate surroundings, steadily expanding the scope and intensity of his search, and ending up in a state so obsessive that he’s sending mirrored sun signals to his blasé teenaged daughter in Brooklyn from George Washington’s winter headquarters in Morristown, New Jersey. Sullivan surfaces some of the flame keepers all around us: the historical reenactors, but also the motley crew that…

[ad_1] Image: Roaring River Comix. This is a year of strange anniversaries. Two hundred and fifty years ago, a band of revolutionaries declared their independence from a king. America’s founders rejected concentrated power. They denounced standing armies. They distrusted government secrecy. They risked their lives to escape a ruler who could tax without consent, wage war without accountability, and govern without meaningful restraint. Twenty-five years ago, after the attacks of September 11, 2001, America embarked on a very different journey. The federal government claimed extraordinary emergency powers. Surveillance expanded. Wars multiplied. Executive authority grew. Constitutional safeguards were weakened in the…

[ad_1] 6/26/2003: Justice Kennedy writes the majority opinion in Lawrence v. Texas. 6/26/2013: Justice Kennedy writes the majority opinion in U.S. v. Windsor. 6/26/2015: Justice Kennedy writes the majority opinion in Obergefell v. Hodges. Justice Anthony KennedyThe post Today in Supreme Court History: June 26, 2003, June 26, 2013, and June 26, 2015 appeared first on Reason.com. [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] You’re three days into a backcountry trip, your filter cartridge just split, and the only water source is a stagnant pond that smells like a wet bag of ass. Or maybe it’s not a trip at all — the tap ran dry after a storm took out the water treatment plant and you’re standing over a 5-gallon bucket of questionable creek water wondering what you actually know how to do about it. Iodine tablets are the answer everybody memorizes and almost nobody actually carries when it counts. They’re slow, they taste like a swimming pool had a baby with…

[ad_1] From Judge Holly Teeter (D. Kan.) Wednesday in Institutional Shareholder Servs. Inc. v. Kobach: SB 375 is known as the Proxy Advisory Transparency Act. Under SB 375, a “proxy advisor” is “a person who, for compensation, provides a proxy advisory service to shareholders of a company or to other persons with authority to vote on behalf of the shareholders of a company.” “Proxy advisory service” is defined as certain “services that are provided in connection with or in relation to a company, or are provided to any person in this state.” This includes “[a]dvice or a recommendation on how…

[ad_1] Senator Chuck Grassley, 92, at a recent town hall. Grassley entered Congress in 1975, after serving in the Iowa state house for 16 years. (Screengrab from video posted X.) It comes, it goes, but seldom does a month go by without the notion of “term limits” popping up in the American political discussion. At the moment — and since Sheldon Whitehouse proposed legislation for it in 2023 — that discussion has mostly revolved around the Supreme Court, whose justices remain in office, according to the Constitution, “during good Behaviour,” generally understood as “for life absent impeachment or voluntary retirement.”…

[ad_1] After complaining about the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool’s appearance, President Donald Trump launched a renovation project to paint the pool’s  bottom “American flag blue.” But the pool once again is plagued by algae, and its coating is peeling — something Trump blames on vandalism. Trump has said vandals slashed the pool with a knife, leaving a cut he has variously described as 150 feet, 250 feet, 300 feet and 350 feet long.  “The 350 foot gash, made by a very sharp knife or razors, is actually numerous slashes over a very long 350 foot length,” he said in a…

[ad_1] Happy June 26th everyone, or as I call it, Justice Anthony M. Kennedy Day. On this day in history, Justice Kennedy decided Lawrence, Windsor, and Obergefell. This is a fitting moment to reflect back on the first decade of Obergefell, and look ahead to that precedent’s future. My new essay in Law & Liberty is titled Obergefell’s Second Decade. Here is the introduction: It has become received wisdom by the legal intelligentsia that the Supreme Court is illegitimate. They charge that the conservative justices are engaging in politicized decisions that advance Republican causes, which have no grounding in law. Critics blast the Court…