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Thanks heavens. The bombs, missiles, planes and guns of every size, shape and lethality have gone silent in the middle east. What could have imminently and rapidly mushroomed into a full bore Demolition Derby among the Persian Gulf oilfields, petroleum and LNG processing plants, helium and sulfur extraction operations, loading terminals, desalinization facilities and the vast range of civilian infrastructure which support them has thus been (temporarily) averted. Indeed, had the 76-day shutdown of the world’s energy and commodities mother lode been prolonged much longer it would have also brought unspeakable worldwide economic disruption and carnage. So you can at…

Tuesday, June 16th on RealClearPolitics – Joined by RCP National Correspondent Susan Crabtree and RCP White House Reporter Carolina Lumetta:00:00 Newsom Unde… Source link

A rare cross-party, pre-primary U.S. Senate debate unfolded June 16 in Massachusetts, with Democratic U.S. Rep. Seth Moulton and Republican trial attorney John Deaton making their case to voters as they try to unseat frontrunner Democratic Sen. Ed Markey in November. Markey did not participate but agreed to meet Moulton in an Aug. 3 debate and an Aug. 20 debate, the latter co-hosted by PolitiFact partner WCVB Channel 5. Massachusetts’ primary is Sept. 1. Both Moulton and Deaton are U.S. Marine Corps veterans, with Moulton serving four tours in Iraq and retiring as a captain, and Deaton serving domestically as…

Trump and his administration are hailing the new MOU to end the Iran war. But no one outside the small circle of negotiators has seen the document. Source link

Elon Musk and the American Spirit Source link

A Welfare Trillionaire Is Born Source link

Gaza requires urgent international attention. What is happening in the besieged and devastated Strip at the moment by far exceeds an unfolding humanitarian disaster; it is a calculated geopolitical reshaping. Israel is actively executing a plan to permanently occupy the vast majority of Gaza, with consequences that require little elaboration considering what we already know about the ongoing genocide. Currently, much of the international debate centers on a single official: Bulgarian diplomat Nickolay Mladenov. The former United Nations Special Coordinator has been designated by the United States as the Executive Director of the Trump administration’s newly established ‘Board of Peace’…

This is part of 1776 All-Stars, a series about Reason’s top American Founders. Read more here. Joanna Andreasson George Mason was not the greatest, the most admirable, or the most influential of the Founding Fathers. But he made enormous contributions that are often underrated. And I’m not saying that just because I teach at the university named after him. Mason was the principal drafter of the 1776 Virginia Declaration of Rights, which became a key model for the other state constitutional bills of rights, and eventually for the federal Bill of Rights. Later, he was one of three members of…

A response to Onramp’s paper about the risks of Digital Credit, and how it can be replicated using a “simpler trade” of Bitcoin and US treasuries. The scale up of STRC and SATA has drawn in many detractors.  Recently Onramp published a paper highlighting some issues of Digital Credit. There were some errors and the paper was clearly AI-generated in most places. My favorite error actually had little to do with Digital Credit, and it appeared in the preface of the report (imagine you haven’t even started reading the actual paper and you already see a factual error, this is the level of AI…

The city of Loveland, Colorado, will pay $675,000 to end a lawsuit against a police officer for shooting a family’s dog—a record settlement for the police killing of a pet in the state, the family’s attorney says. Wendy Love and Jay Hamm filed a civil rights lawsuit in 2021 accusing Loveland police officer Mat Grashorn of recklessly killing their 14-month-old dog, a Staffordshire terrier and boxer mix named Herkimer, in a 2019 incident. The lawsuit alleged that Grashorn’s shooting of Herkimer was an unreasonable seizure under the Fourth Amendment and violated their constitutional rights. Now Loveland has agreed to pay…