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Treating populations with a one-size-fits-all approach, stripping away individual rights, and using people as means to societal ends evokes an antidemocratic utilitarianism.
The next director of national intelligence needs courage, political smarts and strong presidential backing to fulfill her duty to oversee and provide advice on covert action.
Whether Trump spoke with Putin or not, it’s high time that the U.S. and Russian leaders communicate to resolve the existential crisis over Ukraine.
Mr. Turley does not believe that further separation or isolation will help this country or these individuals.
People were to be isolated, given only food and some cleaning supplies. They would be banned from participating in any religious services. There were no provisions made for any legal appeals or even the right to legal counsel.
A note on Jimmy Kimmel, Howard Stern, Joe Biden, Stephen Colbert, and others.
Jimmy Kimmel, one of the era’s most infamous sources of misinformation, tearfully addresses a terrible night for “journalism” and “free speech.”
Americans can still do math. $17.9 billion dollars to Israel in one year, and $113.4 billion to Ukraine since 2022, yet no money available to rebuild crumbling infrastructure, reduce medical or educational debt, create affordable housing, fund public transit, or invest in job-creation?
It is despair that is killing us. It fosters what the Roger Lancaster calls “poisoned solidarity,” the intoxication forged from the negative energies of fear, envy, hatred and a lust for violence.
A pet squirrel craze swept colonial America. Everyone who was anyone, including the founding fathers, had a pet squirrel or was friends with someone who did.
Many voters, feeling disillusioned, are searching in vain for narratives that resonate with their experiences.
Lexipol, a private consultancy geared towards providing services to law enforcement in the US, has come up with a recommendation to law enforcement to set up a “Misinformation/Disinformation Unit.”