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52+ min ago (84+ words) What's on your mind? Eugene Volokh | 12.9.2025 3:00 AM NEXT: Second Amendment Roundup: Arms and the Citizenship Issue Webathon 2025: Dec. 2 - Dec. 9 Thanks to 981 donors, we've reached $616,170 of our $400,000 $600,000 goal! Eric Boehm | 12.8.2025 5:00 PM Jack Nicastro | 12.8.2025 4:14 PM Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 12.8.2025 12:11 PM Jacob Sullum | 12.8.2025 10:00 AM Matt Welch | 12.8.2025 9:45 AM...

1+ hour, 9+ min ago (67+ words) Mixing slapstick and schoolyard mayhem, this comedy action film treats chaos like a trusted companion. "Fight Back to School:" A 1990s" Hong Kong Classic NR | 1h 40m | Action, Comedy, Crime | 1991 "Warlock:" A Frontier Built on Shaky Boards "Joint Security Area": A Film That Echoes Today"s Headlines Epoch Watchlist: Recommended Viewing for Dec. 511 "The Last Wagon": Judgment on a Harsh Frontier...

2+ hour, 41+ min ago (538+ words) Anahuac University professor Dr. Ghaleb Victorio Krame analyzes Mexico's turmoil and President Donald Trump's endorsement of striking drug cartels on 'The Will Cain Show.' President Donald Trump warned Monday that Mexico's failure to deliver water owed under a decades-old treaty is harming Texas farmers and could trigger a new tariff if the country does not immediately release a critical share of its required supply. In a post on Truth Social, Trump said Mexico must release 200,000 acre-feet of water through the 1944 Water Treaty before Dec. 31 or face a 5% tariff. "Mexico continues to violate our comprehensive Water Treaty, and this violation is seriously hurting our BEAUTIFUL TEXAS CROPS AND LIVESTOCK," the president wrote. "Mexico still owes the U.S over 800,000 acre-feet of water for failing to comply with our Treaty over the past five years." "The U.S [sic] needs Mexico to release 200,000 acre-feet…...

2+ hour, 42+ min ago (528+ words) (Headline USA)A North Carolina judge on Monday ordered a Honduran man to be held without bond after he allegedly stabbed a man on a Charlotte train who was defending an old lady from him. Oscar Solarzano, 33, wearing an orange jumpsuit and appearing via video link, listened impassively as a translator read charges of attempted first-degree murder, assault with a deadly weapon and others. Mecklenburg County District Judge Keith Smith scheduled his next hearing for Dec. 30. The public defender in the courtroom declined to comment. " Amber Gaudet (@amb_balam) December 8, 2025 Solarzano, also known as Oscar Gerardo Solorzano-Garcia, is charged with stabbing 24-year-old Kenyon Kareem Dobie in the chest during a fight Friday on the city's Blue Line. It was revealed in court that Solarzano " whose address listed in charging documents was a local homeless shelter " had been banned from Charlotte Area Transit…...

4+ hour, 51+ min ago (1244+ words) When it comes, it comes on slowly The day feels holy, a hush falls down Whispered names, remembered faces From desperate places, all gather "round " Tom Paxton,Come on, Holy" Although I have come here to flee for an interlude the sound of the world's anguish and to contemplate its beauty, I am deflected, as usual. How could I not be? Isn't it true as the poet Rilke said, that beauty is nothing / but the beginning of terror," and we, with all our strange thoughts inside us, try to swallow the sobs that accompany all our joys. My brother-in-law died unexpectedly a few days ago. I watch the ducks swim so placidly in circles and I wonder. I have spent many decades lost in beauty and an intense scholar's study of the propaganda the world's rulers use to convince the…...

4+ hour, 51+ min ago (513+ words) By Ron Paul, MD The Ron Paul Institute Last week the Pentagon, under "War Secretary" Pete Hegseth, carried out yet another military attack on a boat in the high seas that the Administration claims is smuggling drugs. That makes 23 boats blown up by the US military in the waters off Latin America " most near Venezuela " and nearly 100 persons killed. To date the US government has provided no evidence to back up its claim that these boats are smuggling fentanyl and other dangerous drugs into the United States. The US Drug Enforcement Administration has reported that Venezuela neither manufactures nor transports fentanyl to the US. In fact, the DEA still concludes that Venezuela is barely a minor player in the drug game. Is this really about drugs? Or is it about "regime change" for Venezuela? When Adm. Alvin Holsey, the commander…...

4+ hour, 51+ min ago (888+ words) To remain competitive, humans must show up. Humans add the most value in high-income nations. In these nations, humans" total fertility rate has been below the replacement level of 2.1 since 1974. On top of that, today"s artificial narrow intelligence is a mixed bag. AI does provide convenient tools for searching, developing designs, and optimizing processes. But even when humans show up, our cognition isn"t as strong. In exchange for gaining quick, broad access to information, we learn less about where to find content. We retain fewer memories. We get less practice at processing information. We lose some of our neural connection strength and width. We feel less that we"re the owners of our work. Also, our motivation isn"t as strong. AI already is an addictive: at prices that are affordable in the near term, it offers continuous…...

4+ hour, 51+ min ago (913+ words) By Eric ZuesseEric's Substack Yesterday, on Friday, a Reuters exclusive news-report about a potentially mega-historic change in America's international relations and the world's future, headlined'Exclusive: US sets 2027 deadline for Europe-led NATO defense, officials say'and opened: The message, recounted by five sources familiar with the discussion, including a U.S. official, was conveyed at a meeting in Washington this week of Pentagon staff overseeing NATO policy and several European delegations. The shifting of this burden from the U.S. to European members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization would dramatically change how the United States, a founding member of the post-war alliance, works with its most important military partners. Hours later, Russia's RT News placed this event into an optimistic historical perspective (for Russia) by headlining'US gives NATO's European members self-defense deadline " Reuters'and reporting: European NATO members are facing a US deadline to take more…...

4+ hour, 51+ min ago (1342+ words) The exponential growth of AI technology is allowing authorities to watch, track, monitor and control us like never before. "If you are not alarmed by this, you might want to check if you are still alive. "The following are 11 signs that our world is rapidly becoming a lot more Orwellian" #1"UK authorities are rolling out'a country-wide facial recognition system'that will use AI facial recognition cameras to watch the entire population" On Thursday, officials in the UK pledged to roll out a country-wide facial recognition system to help police track down criminals. The country's ministers have launched a 10-week consultation to analyze the regulatory and privacy framework of their AI-powered surveillance panopticon " but one way or another, the all-seeing eye is on its way. There's just one tiny wrinkle: the AI facial recognition cameras have a tendency to misidentify non-white people....

4+ hour, 51+ min ago (1295+ words) Stateside, people speak of genocide as though it were an item of foreign-policy, albeit'small mercies'an unwelcome foreign policy event. Whether such crass utilitarians like it or not, the Anglo-Israeli-American genocide in Palestine is a moral matter, not to be subsumed within the confines of foreign policy, but transcending it. Israeli-American devilry has entailed the decimation of Palestinian habitat, the salting of their earth for decades to come; the despoiling and theft of their rightfully owned resources, the elimination of their historical artifacts and records; of thousands of their bloodlines. Gone are Gaza's institutions of law, of learning of healing; their churches, their mosques, their leadership. All ongoing. We are 790 days into Israel's relentless bloodletting. Trump, corporate media and the political ring leaders sashaying up and down both aisles may call the "new" dispensation under which Palestinians live a "ceasefire." In…...