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[ad_1] Henry Kissinger famously (if apocryphally) said, “It may be dangerous to be America’s enemy, but to be America’s friend is fatal.” This may be the year the world finally got the message. President Donald Trump said he wanted his legacy to be “the wars that we end—and perhaps most importantly, the wars we never get into.” It won’t be. Instead, he will be remembered by history as the president who squandered trust in and respect for Washington and brought the post–Cold War era of American hegemony to an end. Trump’s America leads by threats, punishments, and broken promises. It…

[ad_1] Canada is not alone in believing that to resist the Trump regime’s aggressions, lawful or otherwise, on the field of battle or at the mahogany table, is what must be done.  Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney meeting President Donald Trump in May 2025, in the Oval Office. (Official White House Photo by Daniel Torok) By Patrick LawrenceSpecial to Consortium News The thing I loved first and most about those evidently vicious trade talks the Canadians recently attempted with the Americans is how they blew up in the Trump regime’s faces at five minutes to 12 (almost literally) last Friday night. …

[ad_1] L.A. city councilman Hugo Soto-Martinez comes up with a fantastical euphemism for the drug-addicted homeless. [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] I remain amused at the outrage expressed over the revelations from Dr. Anthony Fauci’s diary and his behavior in front of a U.S. Senate committee. After all, Dr. Fauci fulfilled his role in exactly the manner the administrative state designed it. In the end , we should have only been surprised if he did not act in a self-serving manner. From an institutional and public choice perspective, the behavior revealed in Dr. Anthony Fauci’s journal entries and his statements to Congress align with predictable administrative incentives. Public choice economics treats high-ranking officials not as dispassionate public servants, but as…

[ad_1] Were the Bombs of August 1945 'Demonic'? [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] Trump Is Right About Data Centers [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] As the prognosticators and planners inside the Acela corridor were rolling out of bed last Wednesday morning, the votes in Alaska’s open Senate primary were still being counted. The former Democratic congresswoman Mary Peltola had opened a commanding lead over the Republican incumbent Sen. Dan Sullivan, notching 48.1 percent to Sullivan’s 42.7 percent (a margin that, with most of the votes now counted, has continued to hold). Last week’s race doesn’t determine who gets Alaska’s Senate seat; rather, the nonpartisan primary simply narrows a crowded field to the top four vote-getters, who will then advance to a November general…

[ad_1] Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith, by JD Vance, HarperCollins, 304 pages. In 1990, the CNN founder Ted Turner called Christianity “a religion for losers.” Though compelled by a prudent regard for public opinion to apologize for this statement, it must be conceded the late media mogul had a point. Christ ministered to the poor and the sick, the widow and the orphan, the publican and the prostitute. His Kingdom was famously not of this world; condemned by His own countrymen, the Son of God died the agonizing death of a common criminal. And in the ensuing two…

[ad_1] The basic issue is not whether the Iranian economy is sinking into the abyss – it certainly is – but whether the regime will collapse [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] Strip away the diplomatic briefings, Congressional hearings and the endless cable news loops about centrifuges, regional proxies and cyber attacks, and you hit a raw unvarnished nerve. What truly disturbs the United States about the Islamic Republic is not its policies, its rhetoric or even its nuclear ambitions.  It is Iran’s audacity to exist completely outside the American orbit; and make it work. When diplomatic pretenses are scrapped, we see that a major power does not spend billions of dollars, conduct regional wars and upend global markets out of pure legalistic devotion to global rules or nonproliferation treaties. The…