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[ad_1] From the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education Wednesday: After spending 37 days in jail for nothing more than posting a meme, retired Tennessee law enforcement officer Larry Bushart has won a substantial settlement from the county and sheriff behind his arrest. Represented by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression and Phillips & Phillips, PLLC, Larry Bushart filed a federal civil rights lawsuit last December against Sheriff Nick Weems, Investigator Jason Morrow, and Perry County, Tennessee, for violating his constitutional rights in retaliation for his protected speech. Today, the parties announced in a joint statement that Larry will receive $835,000 in…
[ad_1] “The only thing that matters when I’m talking about Iran — they can’t have a nuclear weapon.” —Donald Trump Apparently, the Trump administration has decided that the nuclear-weapon justification for the Iran war is the one that is most appealing to the public, especially their Republican base. But it’s important to remember that the administration has floated at least a dozen different reasons for starting a war with Iran. The Atlantic magazine has documented ten of these claims: (1) to stop an imminent threat to US troops, (2) to prevent Iran from having a nuclear weapon, (3) to prevent…
[ad_1] The University of Michigan’s Consumer Sentiment Index fell in May to its lowest level since it began surveying in November 1952. The index fell 10 percent since April, from 49.8 to 44.8, with an annual change of -14.2 percent. Subscribe Today Get daily emails in your inbox Poor consumer sentiment was driven by heightened inflation expectations in the short and long run, as well as concerns over cost of living which was spontaneously mentioned by 57 percent of those surveyed. Independents and Republicans surveyed gave their lowest ratings of the Trump administration in the survey of consumer…
[ad_1] On Thursday, an effort to eliminate gun-free zones on New Hampshire college campuses fizzled out in the state Legislature, when the Senate voted against a committee of conference to renegotiate the bill with House leaders. Despite the setback, proponents of the legislation say they’re not done. “We’ll be pursuing this with a legal challenge,” says state Rep. Sam Farrington (R–Rochester), who sponsored the bill, which would have also allowed students to carry nonlethal weapons such as pepper spray and mace. Farrington, who graduated from the University of New Hampshire (UNH) last Saturday, says the challenge will be under New…
[ad_1] “The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.” — Ernest Hemingway Thanks to the fiat currency system, governments at war can tap into a nation’s savings by financing conflict through currency debasement. Under a gold standard, governments had to have the gold or impose taxes if they wanted the funds to prosecute a war. When the gold ran out, the war stopped. But not in a fiat currency system. They can continue debasing…
[ad_1] From Judge David Alan Ezra (W.D. Tex.) today in Wilkins v. Seraphin: This case arises from allegedly defamatory statements made by Defendant Kyle M. Seraphin on his podcast show, the Kyle Seraphin Show, about Plaintiff Alexis Wilkins …. Plaintiff Alexis Wilkins [alleges she] “is a patriotic, conservative, Christian, country music artist and published writer, who also works for a conservative advocacy and educational company, PragerU.” Since January 2023, Plaintiff has been in a long-term relationship with Kashyap “Kash” Patel, the Director of the … FBI …. Defendant Kyle M. Seraphin is a U.S. Air Force veteran and former FBI…
[ad_1] Photograph Source: The White House – Public Domain The scenes unfolding in Beijing were carefully choreographed, yet politics can never be reduced to mere spectacle. When US President Donald Trump traveled to China for his summit meeting with Xi Jinping, Western media, as it often does, fixated on spectacle: lavish banquets, honor guards, theatrical gestures that were designed to flatter the US president. Yet beneath all this ritual lay another reality, harder and more consequential. The United States did not arrive in Beijing from a position of confidence; it came in a state of vulnerability. Washington arrived burdened by…
[ad_1] In a Spanish video message to the people of Cuba, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said he wanted to share “the truth” about their suffering and what the U.S. government could do to help. “The reason you are forced to survive 22 hours a day without electricity is not due to an oil ‘blockade’ by the U.S.,” Rubio said in a video posted on X on May 20 — Cuba’s Independence Day and also the day the U.S. charged former Cuban president Raúl Castro in the 1996 Brothers to the Rescue plane shootdown. “As you know, better than…
[ad_1] From today’s D.C. Circuit decision in Butters v. Nat’l Acad. of Sciences, by Judge Douglas Ginsburg, joined by Judges Karen LeCraft Henderson and Florence Pan: This consolidated appeal involves claims of defamation, defamation by implication, and false light invasion of privacy relating to the rescission of Luis Jaime Castillo Butters’s membership in the National Academy of Sciences. Castillo brought these claims against the NAS and its president, Marcia McNutt, after they made statements concerning Castillo’s ouster…. Castillo is a professor of archaeology at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. The NAS, a “private, nonprofit organization of the United States’…