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Left-wing political violence won’t end unless it’s actively stopped. We are not going to argue our way to peace. Source link
Some social media users seized on footage from the April 25 White House Correspondents’ Association dinner to investigate the shooting that disrupted the event, but using artificial intelligence to review the video caused more confusion, not less. An unedited video from the dinner first appeared online in the hours after the shooting when President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social low-quality security footage of a person running through a security checkpoint at the Washington Hilton hotel as Secret Service agents rushed behind him with guns drawn. Cole Tomas Allen has been charged in the incident with attempted assassination. Others used…
The Illinois Democrat takes aim at a third term, Trump, and perhaps the presidency Source link
Kind of scary, isn’t it? But wait, there is more, as they say in cheap commercials selling steak knives. Have you ever heard of super phosphate? Oh, the mere mention of it reminds me of the good old days on the farm in New Zealand all those years ago. Spreading fertiliser with an old Bedford truck. You never forget the distinctive smell of “super,” nor 2-4-D, 2-4-5-T, or Paraquat for that matter. Yes, 2-4-D and 2-4-5-T combined was essentially Agent Orange — that horrid defoliant used in Vietnam. Super phosphate is the backbone of fertilisers used on farms. Superphosphate and…
Barack Obama’s tacky, hyperpartisan post-presidency is welcome insofar as it serves to remind the public of his tacky, hyperpartisan leadership style. Source link
And check out our past episodes: Speech, Not “Conduct”: Supreme Court Rules on Conversion Talk Therapy Equal Time, Stephen Colbert, and the Future of Political Broadcasting Student Speech, Threats, and the First Amendment Can Journalists Be Charged for Involvement in Protests? The Don Lemon Dilemma 2025: The Year In Free Speech Does the First Amendment Protect Supposedly “Addictive” Algorithms? Defamation Law in the Age of AI with Lyrissa Lidsky Free Speech and the Future of Legal Education From Brandenburg to Britain: Rethinking Free Speech in the Digital Era with Eric Heinze Kimmel, the FCC, and the Government’s Power Over Broadcast Speech A Conversation with FIRE’s Greg Lukianoff A…
The Strait of Hormuz is the kind of choke point people talk about in theory, right up until it closes and the whole global economy starts to feel it. We’re joined by Ambassador Chas Freeman, a veteran American diplomat, to make sense of the US-Iran ceasefire drama and the bigger reality underneath it: Iran is not looking for a new ultimatum, and Washington is struggling to offer anything that resembles real negotiations. We dig into why “maximum pressure” often produces the opposite of its stated goals, including the risk that repeated attacks convince Tehran it needs a nuclear deterrent. We…
Watching GOP lawmakers trip over themselves to say President Trump’s White House ballroom is the most important issue facing America is … weird. Source link
Graham Platner’s comments about rape more than a decade ago are the subject of a new ad attacking the Democrat trying to oust U.S. Sen. Susan Collins, a Maine Republican, in a nationally watched contest. “Graham Platner blames Maine’s women for getting raped because he says they get f—– up drunk,” the April 26 ad by Pine Tree Results PAC says. (A similar ad from the PAC makes the same claim.) The attack echoes previous ads by Maine Gov. Janet Mills, Platner’s main rival in the June 9 Democratic primary. The winner will face Collins, the 30-year incumbent. The PAC…
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) this week indicted former FBI Director James Comey on two felony counts of threatening the president. The case stems from a May 2025 Instagram post, in which Comey shared a photo of seashells arranged to spell “86 47″—86 being a slang term for getting rid of someone or something, and 47 a reference to Donald Trump, the 47th president of the United States. The case is meritless. It appears to be a vehicle for settling a personal grudge—Comey has been a target of Trump’s ire for nearly a decade—and is so deficient that the former FBI…