In 1805, President Thomas Jefferson ordered the U.S. Navy and Marines to stop Barbary pirates from disrupting shipping in the Mediterranean Sea. This successful measure is captured in the Marine Corps Hymn stanza “…to the shores of Tripoli….” When he takes...
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Thu, 16 Jan 2025 04:20:59 +0000The Federal Reserve’s premature victory lap over inflation reveals a worrisome misunderstanding of the predicament we still find ourselves in. Unprecedented government spending and debt, combined with mounting fears that the debt can’t (or won’t) be repaid, played a misunderstood...
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Thu, 16 Jan 2025 04:20:57 +0000John Goodman, Billy Crystal, Anthony Hopkins, and Jeff Bridges lost homes in the Los Angeles fires, and as Malibu resident Mel Gibson told reporters, “I have never seen a place so perfectly burned. You could put it in an urn.”...
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Thu, 16 Jan 2025 03:06:15 +0000There is a certain intoxication with winning that tends to border on insanity. A sports team, for instance, is much more likely to run risky plays if it has won the last five games; a politician is much more likely...
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Thu, 16 Jan 2025 03:06:13 +0000SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The American Spectator might not be at the top of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s reading list, but had it been, he would have known that California’s teetering insurance system was just one particularly bad wildfire away from disaster. Sure,...
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Thu, 16 Jan 2025 03:06:12 +0000I’ve been saying for a while that Pete Hegseth’s confirmation process was going to mark a major change in American politics that was facilitated and caused by the election of Donald Trump on Nov. 5. It’s pretty clear that the...
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Thu, 16 Jan 2025 03:06:09 +0000Pete Hegseth, who President-elect Donald Trump selected to lead the Defense Department, underwent his Senate confirmation hearing on Tuesday. Hegseth faced various attacks — especially from Democratic women — about his personal life. (READ MORE: Grilling Hegseth: Democrats Expose Their...
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Wed, 15 Jan 2025 23:18:36 +0000Take it from a sociologist and journalist: sociology is a science that is not really a science, and journalism is a professional activity that does not have a specific professional activity. Sociologists and journalists share some vices, if we leave...
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Wed, 15 Jan 2025 03:40:31 +0000Seeking something light to read following the Christmas doldrums I decided to look into what I remembered as one of the funniest of Evelyn Waugh’s comic novels, Black Mischief. I discovered that my local library, a large well-stocked one, did...
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Wed, 15 Jan 2025 03:40:29 +0000Why would 24 conservative Republican senators recently vote for a $200 billion Social Security bonus for the already rich retirement accounts of government employees — who, as civil servants, did not pay into Social Security during the time of their...
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