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[ad_1] The British are coming! England fans have descended on Dallas ahead of Wednesday’s England World Cup opener against Croatia. Almost 15,000 England supporters are expected to have journeyed to the Lone Star State, with fans enjoying all they can of southern America—cattle drives, rodeos, Texas beer, and baseball—according to The Times. But while England fans are free to sample Texan hospitality, they are still subject to speech restrictions reminiscent of the United Kingdom. As The Times reports, FIFA, the global governing body that runs the World Cup and sets the stadium rules, has warned rowdy fans not to chant…

[ad_1] While votes are still being counted, it appears that D.C. Councilmember Janeese Lewis George has won a commanding victory in the city’s Democratic mayoral primary.  The initial count shows her earning 52 percent of the vote, while former D.C. Councilmember Kenyan McDuffie trails with just 36 percent support. A handful of minor candidates’ vote totals are running in the low single digits.    Barring either a dramatic pro-McDuffie shift in the votes yet to be counted, and nothing short of a miracle in the general election, the self-described socialist Lewis George will be the district’s next mayor.  She’s not…

[ad_1] Six years ago, Richard Hershey was distributing religious leaflets on a public sidewalk in a public park surrounding a public arena in Bossier City, Louisiana, when he was accosted by police officers who insisted that he stop. Hershey, who was promoting the views of the Christian Vegetarian Association outside a Christian rock concert at the Bossier City Arena, pointed out that he was exercising his constitutionally guaranteed freedom of speech and freedom of religion. He also noted that the officers had not interfered with another leafleteer, who was advertising a local radio station. The cops were unmoved. If Hershey…

[ad_1] “You want to defend the United States of America, then defend it with the tools it supplies you with—its Constitution. You ask for a mandate, General, from a ballot box. You don’t steal it after midnight, when the country has its back turned.”—Seven Days in May (1964) Who is actually running the government? That is no longer a rhetorical question. As America’s war with Iran lurches from escalation to ceasefire to renewed threats of military force, Americans are being asked to trust that someone, somewhere, knows what they are doing. But who? The president who boasts one moment of imminent…

[ad_1] Greenpeace and its activists allies have blocked for more than two decades the adoption of Golden Rice, which is genetically enhanced to produce the vitamin A precursor beta-carotene. The result, according to new calculations by DC Abundance founder and research director at the Golden Gate Institute for AI Abi Olvera, is that “delay has killed about 106,000 children and left another 210,000 to 425,000 blind.” Her conservative calculations of the deaths and disabilities caused by Greenpeace’s scientifically ridiculous opposition to Golden Rice are focused on 11 countries in which the consumption of rice makes up a significant proportion of…

[ad_1] So argues Prof. Jack Goldsmith (Harvard) in his Executive Functions post. An excerpt: The United States in the MOU pledges “immediately” to “issue waivers for export of Iranian crude oil, petroleum products and derivatives, and all associated services, including banking transactions, insurances, transportation, etc.” (Emphasis added here and throughout.) These waivers presumably include waivers of U.S. statutory sanctions against Iran. I don’t think the president has the authority under domestic law to issue these waivers. The Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act (INARA) of 2015 applies here and temporarily bars a president from waiving sanctions against Iran. The executive branch has counterarguments, to…

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[ad_1] Elon Musk became the world’s first trillionaire June 12, his net worth rocketing to $1.2 trillion when his space exploration firm SpaceX became publicly traded, valued at more than $2 trillion. The historic wealth milestone renewed calls from some politicians to address wealth inequality and raise taxes on the richest Americans. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., said Social Security taxes are capped for ultra-high earners like Musk. “Today, Elon Musk, a trillionaire, pays the same amount into Social Security as someone making $184,500,” Sanders said in a June 12 X post, calling the situation absurd and in need of reform. …

[ad_1] Victor Davis Hanson argues that the key difference between Trump’s Iran dealand the Obama-era deal is that Iran is now far weaker militarily and economically. He pushes back on criticism from the left and the anti-interventionist right, saying the war may help Trump politically if the Strait of Hormuz reopens and oil prices fall before the midterms. VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: There’s a lot of confusion, controversy, and disagreement about the latest phase of the Iran war. Remember, we bombed kinetically 38 to 40 days, then we had 60 days of negotiation, then here we are in mid-June, in which…