I spent a lot of time dealing with the victim of violence. That betrayal only a lover can express, the sinister switch from affection or at least the performance required to invent love, to twist into a tantrum of rage. The bruising and cuts, a secondary blistering to...
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The Surveillance State Found Its Philosopher
There is a line in the Fourth Amendment that was supposed to settle this. The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures shall not be violated, and no warrant shall issue but upon probable...
Trump Says House War Powers Vote Is ‘Meaningless’
President Donald Trump dismissed a War Powers Act resolution that aimed to end the war against Iran as meaningless. “Yesterday, in a meaningless vote, the House voted, 4 bad Republicans and all of the Dumocrats, to limit my War Powers, right in the middle of my final...
Hezbollah, IDF Reject Trump-Backed Ceasefire in Lebanon
Officials in Hezbollah and the IDF said that their forces are not engaging in the ceasefire that is backed by President Donald Trump. Lebanon announced the ceasefire on Wednesday after Washington mediated talks between Tel Aviv and Beirut. The truce came after Israel...
Khamenei: US-Israeli System of Domination Has Been Defeated
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyed Mojtaba Khamenei said that the US and Israel had suffered a humiliating defeat. In a statement published on Thursday, Khamenei said the US and Israel’s “system of domination” has suffered a historic defeat. He explained that...
Mousetrapped: Trump Takes the Bait
The mousetrap motif plays a major role in tales and literature, from Shakespeare’s Hamlet who set one to find his father’s murderer, to Agatha Cristie’s famous play, The Mousetrap, that opened in London’s West End in 1952 and is still running today 30,000 performances...
Copernicus at 500
Famed for his contributions to the hard sciences—most notably his theory of heliocentricity—the sixteenth-century astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus was also an acute analyst of monetary policy. To that end, Ralph Benko has done us all a great service with this new...
The Kyle Anzalone Show: Trump Meeting in Situation Room to Decide on Iran Deal
A deal with Iran sounds simple until you read the fine print. We dig into the reports of a memorandum of understanding that would reopen the Strait of Hormuz and lift parts of the pressure campaign, then ask the uncomfortable question: is this “freedom of navigation,”...
Iran Drones Damage Kuwaiti Airport in Response to Attack on Iranian Tanker
Kuwait reports that its airport suffered significant damage during an Iranian drone attack. Iran launched the attack shortly after the US targeted an Iranian ship. “A number of hostile drones targeted today the passenger building (T1) at Kuwait International Airport,...
Netanyahu: Trump Greatest Friend Israel Ever Had in the White House
Amid reports of a rift between Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump, the Israeli leader said the current President is the “greatest friend that Israel has ever had in the White House.” When asked about a recent report in Axios that described a tense call between...
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