Month: June 2024

U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon shut down efforts by Republicans to get involved in former President Donald Trump‘s case involving his alleged mishandling of classified documents. On Monday, Cannon rejected a motion from 24 Republican attorneys general across the nation that sought to have the court avoid granting Special Counsel Jack Smith a gag order against Trump. “PAPERLESS ORDER denying 623 Motion for …

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This book is an invitation for you the reader—Mr. Smith, Mrs. Smith, and Ms. Smith—to come to Washington or support those who can.  Our goal is to assemble an army of aligned, vetted, trained, and prepared conservatives to go to work on Day One to deconstruct the Administrative State. This book is the product of …

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First published Wed Feb 24, 2010; substantive revision Wed Sep 21, 2022 The Greek word skepsis means investigation. Literally, a “skeptic” is an inquirer. Not all ancient philosophers whom in retrospect we call “skeptics” refer to themselves as such. Nevertheless, they all embrace ways of life that are devoted to inquiry. Ancient skepticism is as much concerned …

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Executive Summary The conflict in Tigray, Ethiopia between the government ofEthiopia and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), withinvolvement from Eritrean military forces and numerous ethnoregional militia groups, has been marked by widespread conflictrelated sexual violence. Reports of conflict-related sexual violenceas a significant element of the conflict surfaced both beforeand after the signing of the …

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The Berlin Wall’s fall was a unique moment in geopolitical history, ushering in an era of unipolarity as the United States became the world’s hegemon. But it also heralded an unprecedented economic phenomenon: convergence. As early as the fifteenth century, formerly prosperous societies from Mesoamerica to China suffered reversals of fortune, falling—or being pushed—behind the …

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Netflix viewers got an introduction, this spring, to a famous physics experiment: the three-body problem. A magnetized pendulum suspended above two fixed magnets will swing between them predictably. A third magnet, however, randomizes the motion, not because the laws of physics have been repealed, but because the forces involved are too intricate to measure.  Read …

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Excuse me, Mr. President. As the country awaits a decision on the imprisonment of a former president, would you consider using the presidential power to pardon?  Leaders seldom show magnanimity toward political rivals. Romulus killed Remus, Brutus stabbed Casear, Henry the VIII murdered Thomas More, Stalin poisoned Trotsky. In recent years, Argentina, Brazil, Egypt, Israel, South …

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Abstract: Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment forbids holding office by former office holders who then participate in insurrection or rebellion. Because of arange of misperceptions and mistaken assumptions, Section Three’s full legal consequences have not been appreciated or enforced. This article corrects those mistakesby setting forth the full sweep and force of Section Three. …

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