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Revisiting realism in 2018, I realized foreign interventions, meant to ensure American security by “spreading democracy” or “securing stability,” were flawed. The point hit home for me that year when my niece graduated high school, suddenly eligible to fight in a war that started when she was an infant. My idea of realism had turned into a restrained realism, one that I believe still fits my own conservatism. Restraint’s critics, interventionists and neoconservatives derogate “restraint” as “isolationism.” That is just not true. Pundits and the foreign policy establishment recently commemorated NATO’s 75th anniversary and are still considering what the future...

The 2024 Olympics in France opened Friday with a controversial ceremony featuring drag queens and what many described as homages to satanic symbolism, igniting a firestorm of negative reactions on Twitter. “This is crazy,” podcast host Clint Russell said in a tweet. “There are 2.4 billion Christians on earth and apparently the Olympics wanted to declare loudly to all of them, right out of the gate NOT WELCOME.” The infamous re-creation of Leonardo da Vinci’s Last Supper began with a woman in a blue dress and crown, making a heart sign with her hands in front of a DJ deck,...

Former Trump national security adviser John Bolton is joining those criticizing vice presidential nominee JD Vance’s past statement about “childless cat ladies.” Bolton thinks the comment could resonate politically as much as 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s remarks describing some Trump supporters as “deplorables.” “I think these comments by Vance are really the 2024 counterpart of [former Secretary of State] Hillary Clinton’s famous statement in the 2016 election where she called Trump supporters ‘deplorables,’” Bolton said on CNN’s “The Source” Friday. “[I] mean, if politicians can’t learn — it’s one thing to attack your opponent, it’s another thing to...

Donald Trump has ignited alarm among his critics after telling a crowd of supporters that they won’t “have to vote again” if they return him to the presidency in November’s election. “Christians, get out and vote! Just this time – you won’t have to do it any more,” the Republican former president said on Friday night at a rally hosted in West Palm Beach, Florida, by the far-right advocacy group Turning Point Action. “You know what? It’ll be fixed! It’ll be fine. You won’t have to vote any more, my beautiful Christians.” At that point, with a slight shake of...

President Richard Nixon had threatened the head of the CIA, saying: “I know who killed JFK.” When he was driven out of office, Nixon refused the protection of the Secret Service. This recent attempted assassination was according to their proven playbook. Use a claimed lone shoot, kill him to make sure there is never a trial, and the problem is eliminated. I have often said that history is merely a map to the future, for human nature never changes. ... There were assassinations and attempted assassinations of Roman emperors by rivals and sometimes bureaucrats who were trying to weasel in...

Two frontrunners have emerged in the race to be presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris’s second in command: Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro and Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly. Shapiro, 51, and Kelly, 60, each represent 2024 swing states Democrats badly need to win in November. “Shapiro is toward the top,” said one insider familiar with the back and forth. “Locking down Pennsylvania would change the entire trajectory of the race.”

The Olympics and NBC are taking down videos of the controversial Olympics opening ceremony, citing copyright infringement, instead of addressing the criticism. This action has sparked outrage, as many believe these takedowns are a misuse of copyright laws to suppress negative commentary. Under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), fair use allows for commentary and critique, which raises concerns about the legitimacy of these takedowns. The actions of NBC and the Olympics are not only silencing free speech but also acting in an authoritarian manner by preventing public discourse on the event.

In 2016, a historically unprecedented incident took place. And yet, barely anyone even noticed. Even years later, we’ve failed to acknowledge it or to have begun the process of understanding it. Because we still can’t even see it. And that’s because this incident involved a woman. And she was asking for it. The woman was Hillary Clinton. What she was asking for was votes. And what she got was the single biggest outpouring of misogyny in human history. We can now say that. Although no one ever does. But this was an unprecedented previously unimaginable event. Because 2016 was when...

As I write this, Bitcoin is trading at $69,140. Today's high - $69,400. All time closing high is around $73,000. All time intraday high is around $74,000. Bitcoin trades on many different exchanges. CNBC quotes the Coin Metrics price, which reports the trading at many of those exchanges.

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — The San Francisco Department of Public Health is recommending that people begin wearing masks again in some indoor settings. In a post published to X, formerly Twitter, on Friday, the department recommended people “consider” wearing masks in crowded indoor spaces.

Political commentator Bill Kristol said Friday on CNN’s “OutFront” that former President Donald Trump’s running mate, Sen. JD Vance (R-OH), is “weird” and out of the mainstream. Kristol said, “Normally the VP pick doesn’t matter much. The vice presidential pick doesn’t matter much. But Vance is so out of the mainstream, so weird, so self-consciously, so.” He continued, “You know, normally the scandals and we’ve been through this so many times about someone who’s picked this quote, scandal is something someone said 15 years ago or some law enforcement brush, 25 five years ago when they were in college or...

A Catholic Church-owned mountain that towers nearly a mile high near El Paso, Texas - its giant statue of Jesus Christ for decades drawing faithful to the summit - has been turned by Mexican cartels into a human smuggling stronghold where migrants are robbed, beaten and raped while chasing entry into the US. Mount Cristo Rey sits largely on American soil - located just inside the border at Sunland Park, New Mexico, where that state, Texas and Mexico all meet along a now-perilous boundary. The mountain is now totally controlled by Mexican cartels who use it to sneak illegal immigrants...

UKRAINE ON THE ROPES AND BILL BINNEY ON CROWDSTRIKE 24 July 2024 by Larry Johnson 41 Comments I have two video offerings for you today. First up is my discussion with Danny Davis about the increasingly dire situation in Ukraine. He showed a couple of short video clips during out chat — one with John Bolton and the other with retired General Ben Hodges. WARNING — watching those two talk may lower your intelligence by a dozen of points. Proceed with caution. Incredibly stupid comments by those two gentlemen. As you are reading this, the Ukrainian front in the Donbass...

On Friday’s broadcast of “CNN News Central,” Rep. Dan Kildee (D-MI) responded to 2024 Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris’ past praise of the defund the police movement by saying that he thinks she was “focused on not just saying, okay, more and more and more police will solve the crime problem, we have to invest in different aspects of the stability of [the] community. I just helped secure money in my own district in Saginaw, Michigan for a police and community partnership, where money goes in both directions. I think that’s what the Vice President was speaking of,...

Many Super Bowls ago, we developed a theory about "credit.''.... Said Valdes-Scantling: "I helped Aaron (Rodgers) win a couple MVPs. I helped Pat win MVP, a couple Super Bowls. My resume speaks for itself, too. Ain’t a one-way thing, man.'' Did MVS help the Packers and the Chiefs? Of course he did. He was, however, a Chiefs role player, with - for instance, in 2023, 21 catches for 315 yards and one TD... So when he said, "I put up some big numbers with these guys,'' that's a Kansas City inflation of the facts. (And we won't even get into...

Vice President Kamala Harris is coming to Pittsfield, Massachusetts Harris is speaking at a private campaign fundraising event The vice president is expected to be in Pittsfield early afternoon at the Colonial Theatre The event is sold out ...

I did NOT have the Democrats' darling politician and favorite to be Kamala's VP, Astronaut Mark Kelly, as a Chinese spy balloon guy on my bingo card. But, dudes, it's real.

The opening ceremonies of the Paris Olympics, which featured a transgender parody of the Last Supper while highlighting a controversial Muslim performer, have been branded as a national “suicide” by a former French government cabinet member. While the Olympics were supposedly set to mark a political truce in France, which remains in limbo following President Emmanuel Macron’s snap elections that left the country without an actual government, the deeply divided country saw rage and elation — depending on political affiliation — over the opening ceremonies of the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris on Saturday evening.

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