Has the United States become what President Donald Trump recently condemned? Can the president fight any war he wishes? Can Congress fund any war it chooses? Are there constitutional and legal requirements that must first be met before war is...
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Fri, 20 Jun 2025 03:04:26 +0000In 1990-91, the United States sent a large military force to Saudi Arabia and subsequently to Kuwait and Iraq to defeat Iraq’s occupation of Kuwait. Two years later, Islamists reacted to our “desecration” of their land by setting off a...
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Fri, 20 Jun 2025 03:03:56 +0000The annual Reuters Digital News Report found that 54 percent of the world’s population is turning to social media platforms (such as Facebook and X) rather than traditional outlets to get their news. (READ MORE: My Job as a Journalist...
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Fri, 20 Jun 2025 02:11:31 +0000Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and the White House have announced that blue-collar workers saw almost 2 percent real wage growth during the first five months of President Donald Trump’s second term. The occasion represents the first time that any president...
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Fri, 20 Jun 2025 02:10:12 +0000In a virtue-signaling display of institutional Trump Derangement Syndrome, the city of Burlington, Vermont, passed a resolution to spend $3,000 to rename its main shopping corridor from Church Street to Canada Street. The silly effort is premised on the goal...
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Fri, 20 Jun 2025 02:07:19 +0000As impressive as the recent military celebration of its 250-year founding was, it was necessarily focused upon its history, upon its past. The challenge is for the future. The good news is that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth promised Congress...
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Fri, 20 Jun 2025 02:06:13 +0000Here we go again. One of the recurring problems in humanity is that periodically someone (or multiple someones) shows up determined to run all of humanity, or at least all of humanity as understood in their day. A mere sampling...
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Fri, 20 Jun 2025 02:05:13 +0000Google’s profits keep climbing. OpenAI — the same company that fueled a wave of chatbot cheating — now wants to embed AI into every crevice of college life. Not to be outdone, Mark Zuckerberg just announced a new superintelligence lab, backed by nine-figure...
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Fri, 20 Jun 2025 02:04:15 +0000Early next week, there will be a classified briefing to Senators on Iran, in which skeptical Congressional leaders will demand answers to fundamental questions. It will also be incumbent upon the White House to demonstrate to the American people that...
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Fri, 20 Jun 2025 02:02:12 +0000On Wednesday night, SpaceX’s Ship 36 prototype of its Starship and Super Heavy rocket exploded at the SpaceX Starbase launch site in Texas, footage shows. In a statement on X, SpaceX attributed the explosion to a “major anomaly” and reported...
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