Author: nick
[ad_1] Hurricanes. Terrorism. Identity theft. DOGE’s year-long campaign of destruction has left all of us more vulnerable to threats. [ad_2] Source link
[ad_1] Republicans Are Making the Same Mistake Democrats Did [ad_2] Source link
[ad_1] In 2003, when the U.S. Commission for Assistance to a Free Cuba was formed its objective was presented bluntly: to “hasten the regime’s downfall.” Their second report revealed in 2006 similarly concluded that the “implementation of the CAFC II recommendations will hasten the day Cubans will be free to elect their leaders.” This also included calls in “planning support for a Cuban Transition Government.” By 2008, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) had committed more than $11 million to the Cuban Civil Society Support Program in an effort to implement the recommendations laid out five years earlier. The…
[ad_1] When, as a young man, I applied to be an English teacher, I recall being asked during interviews why it was so vital to interest my (hypothetical) charges in literature. I felt obliged to respond with what I intuited were the expected answers: “To teach them human empathy via the medium of prose,” or some such pablum. But did I really believe this? Personally, the only reason I have ever read books is because I enjoy reading books. De gustibus non disputandum est; matters of taste are beyond dispute (I read that in a book once). But from looking…
[ad_1] The federal government does not possess a general police power to investigate people because of what they think, believe, say, read, write or post, writes Judge Andrew P. Napolitano. An agent of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement during an operation in Northern Virginia on May 15. (DHS /Tia Dufour) By Andrew P. Napolitano When a government agency comes to an internet service provider demanding information about Americans because of what they have said on social media, the provider should discard the demand, close the door or hang up the phone. The government is not entitled to rummage through the political…
[ad_1] But in a party dominated by crazy women, what’s a guy supposed to do? [ad_2] Source link
[ad_1] Last week was the 28th anniversary of the U.S. government’s bombing of a pharmaceutical factory in Sudan. Scott Horton, director of the Libertarian Institute, observed last week that that wanton assault by the Clinton administration “helped make a folk hero out of bin Laden, drove up recruitment for Al Qaeda and made it more difficult for the Taliban to give him up.” Operation Infinite Reach was a farce of the first order—and may have helped pave the way to the September 11 attacks. That carnage resulted in a federal court ruling that practically gave presidents a license to kill…
[ad_1] As last week’s Florida primaries suggest, the Sunshine State is the new ground zero for the roiling internal civil wars that have dominated both parties for years. [ad_2] Source link
[ad_1] With 537 federal officials serving 349 million citizens, basic mathematical limits on attention dilute the individual value of your vote. [ad_2] Source link
[ad_1] With no end in sight, the war launched by the United States and Israel against Iran remains deeply unpopular. On the day it started, only 27 percent of Americans supported the unprovoked military operation that interrupted ongoing diplomatic talks. Five months later, that number has changed little, with 35 percent of the 4,505 U.S. adults polled by Reuters/Ipsos in early August saying they approved of the war. Even those in the West who don’t object on moral grounds continue to take issue with the obvious lack of strategy. Few are convinced Iran was really two weeks away from a…