Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has made clear the United States is preparing a new round of economic measures against Iran that he describes as unprecedented in the history of isolating a country. The goal is straightforward: cut off the remaining revenue streams that keep the regime solvent, fund its proxies, and sustain its nuclear and […]
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Voters in Florida will head to the polls to elect partisan representatives in races that could determine the balance of Congress in November. Florida is one of 10 states across the country that has participated in rare mid-decade redistricting in order to favor a particular political party. With a Republican trifecta in state leadership, Florida […]
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The Democratic Socialists of America website called deceased Cuban dictator Fidel Castro a “stalwart symbol of anti-imperialist struggle and self-determination,” while denouncing Secretary of State Marco Rubio as genocidal. In a tribute to Castro on what would have been his 100th birthday Thursday, the DSA website commemorated the “historic significance of both this day and the man.” DSA commemorates […]
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“Woke 1” is a term AOC invented in a recent interview when she flashed that big bartender smile and casually said that Woke 1 came at a time when we had a health crisis and that “no one really believes that radical stuff anymore.” Obviously, it was a panic-driven fib, but a number of radical-left […]
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Paul Krugman remains one of the left’s most influential voices. In his latest column, he argues that President Trump avoids taking credit for the drop in murders because Trump’s ultimate goal is cruelty rather than public safety. Krugman contends that Trump’s policies have made crime worse than it otherwise would have been. But if Trump’s […]
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At its summer meeting in Austin, the Democratic National Committee approved a resolution urging Democratic lawmakers to abolish Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The vote came alongside a competing reform resolution, reflecting the party’s internal split. Party chair Ken Martin stressed that official platform language is set at the national convention, not at these meetings. The […]
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At an Arctic Council meeting in Rovaniemi, Finland, in May 2019, Mike Pompeo asked whether the world wanted the Arctic Ocean to become another South China Sea. Many Arctic specialists regarded the comparison as overwrought. China’s visible presence amounted to one working icebreaker, a second still fitting out, and a research station on Svalbard. The idea […]
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Michigan Democrats nominated Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed (Now called Abdul El-Sayed) for U.S. Senate. Let’s look at what he actually said, what he actually is, and what he scrubbed from the internet before asking for their votes. Michigan Democrats just nominated Abdul El-Sayed for Senate. He oversaw Detroit’s animal shelter where the kill rate hit 74%, […]
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Almonds demand an extraordinary volume of water in California’s arid Central Valley, locking the state into a permanent, high-stakes thirst that annual crops can simply avoid. Each almond kernel carries a water footprint of roughly 3.2 gallons. Scaled across more than a million acres of orchards, the crop consumes 4.7 to 5.7 million acre-feet annually—about […]
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Sami Winc: So, Victor, let’s look at some of these primaries. We already talked a little bit about Francesca Hong, who lost to David Crowley, which was a good thing, but I think it was by a very small margin. And I don’t know the hope for the GOP in that primary, but you’ve suggested it’s not […]