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[ad_1] Cleaning Up Biden's Obamacare Subsidy Fraud [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] Photograph Source: Matt Hrkac – CC BY 2.0 Of the three countries involved in AUKUS, that most draining, useless and even pernicious of security pacts, Australia has been the only country indifferent, even scoffing, about the need for an inquiry into its merits. Unsurprisingly, both the US and UK inquiries have found much to merit the project – Australian taxpayer money has sluiced and soothed the submarine industrial base of both countries – but have also expressed concern about their respective production rates of nuclear-powered submarines. While the first pillar of the agreement promises, with mighty emptiness, that the…

[ad_1] Nithya Raman: From Last-Minute Candidate To Runoff [ad_2] Source link

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[ad_1] Photo by Roger Starnes Sr The climate catastrophe not only kills people with fires and floods, it also bankrupts them by annihilating their homes – many uninsured. Why no insurance? Because of climate change – a perfectly horrible repeating loop. Our inside the Beltway gang may not know about the climate catastrophe, but insurance companies sure do – they know which way the wind blows, and it blows toward a hotter, more inhospitable and downright dangerous planet. By May 22, per the National Interagency Fire Center, “18 uncontained large fires are currently burning nationwide,” requiring over 5000 firefighters to…

[ad_1] Lesser Long-nosed bat at a shaving brush tree flower. Photo: Xochitl Castaño. CC BY 4.0. Bats move through desert night skies with a purpose that is easy to overlook and difficult to replace. As they travel from plant to plant, feeding on nectar, they are also performing one of the most important ecological services in arid landscapes: pollination. For agave plants—long-lived, slow-growing succulents that define much of Mexico’s desert ecology—bats are not just occasional visitors. They are essential partners in reproduction. This relationship is a classic example of mutualism, in which two species depend on each other for survival.…

[ad_1] Photo by Luis Villasmil The May Jobs report was stronger than most people, including me, had expected. The 172,000 jobs created is not exactly earth-shattering, but in a context where immigration has been largely shut off and the labor force is barely growing, it is a lot. Plus, the two prior months’ data was revised up, so the average over the last three months is 188,000. That looks pretty good, but the separate household survey looks less good. The unemployment rate held steady at 4.3%, which by historical standards is low, but it’s almost a full percentage point higher…

[ad_1] Denver Golmon, a police officer in Hammond, Louisiana, is facing federal charges for allegedly exposing the identity of a confidential informant in a cockfighting investigation. Golmon’s uncle was indicted as part of the investigation, which was conducted by the Department of Homeland Security. According to court records, Golmon shared videos of the informant that were provided to his uncle’s attorneys during discovery, telling the recipients not to share where they’d gotten them. He also asked another officer to arrest the informant at his workplace and to conceal his own involvement. Authorities say the informant has since been labeled a “rat”…

[ad_1] The Old Right journalist Garet Garrett, writing in 1952, understood that empires do not arrive with heralds. They come instead through “quiet aggrandizements of power,” accretions so gradual and so dressed in the language of necessity that the citizen scarcely notices the republic he was born into has become something else. The first requisite of empire, Garrett wrote, is that “the executive power of government shall be dominant.” He was tracing the long constitutional erosion by which the war-making prerogative—the power the Framers most deliberately withheld from any single man—migrated to the presidency, where it has resided ever since,…

[ad_1] Astronaut Dave Bowman shuts down or “kills” rogue AI/supercomputer Hal 9000 in Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). Silicon Valley has encountered little public opposition in its 50-year history. — the NY Times, May 26, 2026 One could not invent a more diabolical conspiracy for mass mind control than the one playing out openly, daily, everywhere there is a personal computer or screen-phone and a signal connecting users to the digital matrix. The conspiracy is all-encompassing, world-girdling. It is where this machine envelops the human brain, in the moment of contact between the ape and the screen, that…