USA Politics
Raiding Pensions for Short-Term Spending
Delaying pension contributions may ease immediate pressure on New York City’s budget, but the shell game reveals deeper weaknesses in the city’s finances.
Marsha Blackburn: ‘Root Out the Rot’
The spate of such incidents has fueled bipartisan alarm on Capitol Hill, where lawmakers have questioned whether the agency is structurally equipped to protect its principals at a moment when threats against the president are, by Blackburn’s account, escalating.
Rubio Meets With the Pope
If they had a nuclear weapon, make no mistake, when they consider the time is right, they would not hesitate to use it. The religious terrorists will stop at nothing in order to achieve their aims.
Make ‘Never’ Actually Mean Never for Iran
By building resistance first – youth leaders shielded, networks professionalized, and Artesh pragmatists flipped – and then enabling a decisive operation at Isfahan, the United States can finally make “never” mean never.
Soros Pumped $204M Into Groups Badgering Charities
Be wary anytime a collective push from the left to protect their bottom line springs up like this. It’s never organic or grassroots.
This Disturbing Reaction to a Would-Be Assassin
As Voltaire observed, a few decades before the bloody French Revolution, “Certainly anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.”
The Report That Bhattacharya Would Not Publish
It would be useful to know how many of the other studies that were used to prop up the continued rollout of the Covid-19 vaccines used the test-negative design.
The Justice Department Indicts the Ministry of Love
To avoid ending up on the Hate List, people watch their words, meaning they watch their thoughts. If we accept the premise that we want to stamp out hate, we acquiesce in this erosion of our freedom of thought, which is ultimately an erosion of our very humanity.