Author: nick
When, as a young man, I applied to be an English teacher, I recall being asked during interviews why it was so vital to interest my (hypothetical) charges in literature. I felt obliged to respond with what I intuited were the expected answers: “To teach them human empathy via the medium of prose,” or some such pablum. But did I really believe this? Personally, the only reason I have ever read books is because I enjoy reading books. De gustibus non disputandum est; matters of taste are beyond dispute (I read that in a book once). But from looking around,…
The federal government does not possess a general police power to investigate people because of what they think, believe, say, read, write or post, writes Judge Andrew P. Napolitano. An agent of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement during an operation in Northern Virginia on May 15. (DHS /Tia Dufour) By Andrew P. Napolitano When a government agency comes to an internet service provider demanding information about Americans because of what they have said on social media, the provider should discard the demand, close the door or hang up the phone. The government is not entitled to rummage through the political opinions,…
But in a party dominated by crazy women, what’s a guy supposed to do? Source link
Last week was the 28th anniversary of the U.S. government’s bombing of a pharmaceutical factory in Sudan. Scott Horton, director of the Libertarian Institute, observed last week that that wanton assault by the Clinton administration “helped make a folk hero out of bin Laden, drove up recruitment for Al Qaeda and made it more difficult for the Taliban to give him up.” Operation Infinite Reach was a farce of the first order—and may have helped pave the way to the September 11 attacks. That carnage resulted in a federal court ruling that practically gave presidents a license to kill any…
As last week’s Florida primaries suggest, the Sunshine State is the new ground zero for the roiling internal civil wars that have dominated both parties for years. Source link
With 537 federal officials serving 349 million citizens, basic mathematical limits on attention dilute the individual value of your vote. Source link
With no end in sight, the war launched by the United States and Israel against Iran remains deeply unpopular. On the day it started, only 27 percent of Americans supported the unprovoked military operation that interrupted ongoing diplomatic talks. Five months later, that number has changed little, with 35 percent of the 4,505 U.S. adults polled by Reuters/Ipsos in early August saying they approved of the war. Even those in the West who don’t object on moral grounds continue to take issue with the obvious lack of strategy. Few are convinced Iran was really two weeks away from a nuclear…
On the 2024 campaign trail, Donald Trump’s surrogates often highlighted the importance of revamping U.S. foreign policy to focus on the threat of a rising China. After decades of failed nation-building operations in the Middle East, figures like J.D. Vance argued, it was time to shift priorities and secure America’s actual interests. Yet less than a year into Trump’s second term, another war in the Middle East is pulling attention and resources away from the Asia-Pacific region. Trump’s recent decision substantially to reduce joint military exercises with South Korea marks another shift away from the “pivot to Asia” strategy. Trump…
President’s speech, declassification of documents and heightened claims of noncitizen voting have experts concerned Source link
When a government agency comes to an internet service provider demanding information about Americans because of what they have said on social media, the provider should discard the demand, close the door or hang up the phone. The government is not entitled to rummage through the political opinions, associations, criticisms and angry rhetoric of anyone […] Source link