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[ad_1] This is part of 1776 All-Stars, a series about Reason’s favorite American Founders. Read more here. Joanna Andreasson The American Battlefield Trust describes Samuel Adams as “a rabble-rouser and propagandist” for American independence. His tireless advocacy and organizing for liberty, his limited time in major political office, and his disdain for hereditary aristocracy make him the most libertarian Founding Father. You can find a couple of libertarian-leaning legislators wandering the halls of the Capitol, but libertarians often operate outside of elective office, as rabble-rousers and propagandists first and foremost. Albert Jay Nock eloquently expressed as much in his 1936 essay…

[ad_1] In justifying the American attack on Iran a few weeks ago, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth admitted it had nothing to do with nukes, ballistic missiles or the shooting of unarmed, youthful protesters: “When someone tells me for 47 years that they want to kill us, I think I am going to take them at their word.”  If the 45-year-old former TV anchor remembered the Iranian hostage crisis of 1979, it was via epigenetic inheritance. To read this article, log in here or subscribe here. If you are logged in but can’t read CP+ articles, check the status of your access…

[ad_1] Still from the surveillance video included in the Idaho State Journal article. Idaho State Journal (Jimmy Hancock) reports (including video): U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Ryan Douglas Nelson faces two criminal charges [for] {misdemeanor battery and malicious injury to property} after police say he battered a man by swiping the glasses from his face, tossing them across an asphalt lot and stomping on them during an April confrontation over a parking space in Idaho Falls…. The alleged victim says Nelson’s truck was angled into a parking space — the bulk of his truck in one spot with…

[ad_1] InSight Crime, a think tank which claims to fuse “investigative journalism with academic rigor,” accuses Nicaragua’s government of “hiring assassins” to hunt down and kill opponents abroad. This bold accusation is based on no more than “circumstantial” evidence, strongly suggesting political motivation. This fact-impoverished rush to judgment reflects a more general bias of the US-aligned […] To read this article, log in here or subscribe here. If you are logged in but can’t read CP+ articles, check the status of your access here In order to read CP+ articles, your web browser must be set to accept cookies. [ad_2]…

[ad_1] Takimag Fighting the Law An enterprising assisted-suicide practitioner’s great sin: skipping the bureaucracy. TakiMag (Photo by Vuk Valcic/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) There is a certain irony, not to say hypocrisy, in the fact that a man called Kenneth Law, with a history of various occupations, should have been tried in Canada on a charge of having assisted 14 suicides (though he assisted many more, over 70 in England and Wales alone). For Canada is one of the great proponents and practitioners of that enlightened practice. For example, one in 12 deaths in Quebec is now by assisted suicide.…

[ad_1] Last month’s summit meeting between Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping—during which the leaders signed over 40 cooperation agreements and deepened their nations’ strategic partnership—provides just the latest sign that diplomatic, economic, and military cooperation between Russia and China is robust and continues to rise. That trend is profoundly distressing to political and media elites in the United States, most of whom are fervent defenders of America’s fading global hegemony. But they can hardly claim that Russian–Chinese cooperation was unforeseeable, considering Washington’s own clumsy and inept policies have been its chief cause, as many warned would be the case. Hostile…

[ad_1] With a 45-day extension set to expire on June 12, establishment factions of Congress are scrambling to secure a clean reauthorization of FISA Section 702—the provision that allows the government to sweep up communications from foreign targets without first getting a warrant. Often, those conversations are between foreign nationals and American citizens, raising constitutional concerns. The 45-day clean extension that passed on April 30 was the result of a full-court press helmed by Democratic hawks like Rep. Jim Himes of Connecticut, who worked alongside GOP leadership to block an amendment that would have required a warrant for backdoor queries…

[ad_1] Still from the surveillance video included in the Idaho State Journal article. Idaho State Journal (Jimmy Hancock) reports (including video): U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Ryan Douglas Nelson faces two criminal charges [for] {misdemeanor battery and malicious injury to property} after police say he battered a man by swiping the glasses from his face, tossing them across an asphalt lot and stomping on them during an April confrontation over a parking space in Idaho Falls…. The alleged victim says Nelson’s truck was angled into a parking space — the bulk of his truck in one spot with…

[ad_1] From The 2036 Issue: How will Bitcoin fare as the world shifts into a state of increasing multipolarity? By Lyn Alden As I write this in 2026, the world is becoming more multipolar, and I expect that trend to continue over the next decade through 2036. In reality, it was this recent unipolar period that was historically anomalous. Starting from the end of World War II in 1945 and especially since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, the United States has existed as the world’s sole hyperpower. For the first time in history, telecommunications and industry connected…

[ad_1] Story at-a-glance Research links microplastic exposure to chronic diseases like high blood pressure, stroke, and diabetes, ranking among the top 10 predictors of these conditions Communities with higher microplastic levels experienced significantly more chronic diseases, with risk steadily increasing alongside higher plastic concentrations A study found microplastics embedded in artery plaque, and affected patients were over four times more likely to experience heart attacks, strokes, or death Plastic particles trigger inflammation and immune responses when lodged in tissues, raising disease risk even in people without conventional risk factors Effective ways to reduce exposure include filtering your drinking water, avoiding…