Our Stack of Stuff-June 22
Mike McDaniel – ameicanthinker.com: One would think people whose egos are caught up in “diversity” would appreciate the reality of the variability of human intelligence and talent and the necessity of providing the advanced instruction the gifted and talented need. Sadly, they’re blind to the realities of human nature, among them, envy.
Austin Browne – campusreform.com: Faculty at Dartmouth College sent nearly every dollar of political donations during the midterm election cycle to Democrats and related liberal causes. A Campus Reform analysis of Federal Election Commission data found that the New Hampshire-based Ivy League school’s faculty gave $119,865.93 to the left, representing 99.8 percent of total contributions. Conversely, just $219.14 was given to Republican candidates and organizations.
Charles: Trump Just Slapped Down This Iranian Scheme for Strait of Hormuz
President Donald Trump on Saturday affirmed that there will be no tolls in the Strait of Hormuz for the 60 days following the deal established between the U.S. and Iran to allow more time for negotiations. In a post on Truth Social, Trump wrote: . . .
Utter: Iran: A memorandum of misunderstanding
Still supporting President Trump, but … Let me preface this by saying I am a huge (yuuge!) supporter of President Trump. However, with the joint “Memorandum of Understanding” (MoU), President Trump has effectively declared his — and the United States’s — unconditional surrender to Iran, time, and current conditions. This unilateral capitulation is the more depressing and devastating given Trump’s pre-war actions and words. The events of the past couple of days are eerily reminiscent of 1938, with Neville Chamberlain Donald Trump waving around the MoU, essentially a piece of paper purportedly proclaiming, “peace in our time.” It will likely work out about as well as did the Munich Agreement. Read more.
Petti: Compromise With Iran Isn’t ‘Surrender’
Hawks don’t understand what diplomacy is: Both sides give something up and both sides get something in return. The United States has gotten used to specific ways of ending wars. Sometimes the U.S. military decisively forces the enemy state to surrender, imposes a new political order, and gets it to stick, as in Germany and Japan in the 1940s or Panama in the 1990s. Other times, rebels wear down U.S. resources and willpower before decisively kicking out U.S. forces, as in Vietnam in 1975 or Afghanistan in 2021. But the Iran war is ending with something quite unfamiliar to Washington: compromise. The United States and Iran were unable to defeat each other in the first round, and, staring at an unacceptably costly escalation, they came to the table. While a final deal hasn’t been agreed to, the ceasefire memorandum commits both sides to giving things up. Read more.
Sundance: Trump -v- Meloni
On the heels of the G7 in France, U.S. President Trump and Italian Prime Minister Georgia Meloni have been engaged in a geopolitical spat. The core of the issue centers on Italy’s refusal to allow the U.S. military to conduct flight operations for the conflict against Iran from U.S. airbases in Italy. Read more.
Sullum: Two Senators Offer a Bipartisan Solution to Censorship by Proxy
The JAWBONE Act would let Americans sue government officials who try to restrict their speech by pressuring social media platforms, broadcasters, or AI companies. President Donald Trump and his allies rightly condemn the Biden administration’s censorial meddling with social media, which sought to suppress constitutionally protected speech that federal officials viewed as dangerous. Trump, who issued an executive order aimed at “restoring freedom of speech and ending federal censorship” on the first day of his second term, promised to end such bullying. Yet he has not been shy about using the influence of his office to restrict speech, as illustrated by his demands that ABC punish late-night comedian Jimmy Kimmel for saying things he did not like. Sens. Ted Cruz (R–Texas) and Ron Wyden (D–Ore.) have teamed up to offer a more consistent and principled response to the dangers of “jawboning,” a form of indirect censorship that operates via government pressure on third parties such as social media platforms and TV networks. On Thursday, Cruz and Wyden . . . […] The JAWBONE Act has been endorsed by a bunch of civil liberties groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union, the Knight First Amendment Institute, the Center for Democracy and Technology, the Institute for Free Speech, Public Knowledge, Americans for Tax Reform, the . . . Read more.
Fox News posted on X: More than 250 runners are crossing the country as part of Relay for America, carrying the U.S. flag to Washington, D.C., with the goal of arriving by July 4th. Each mile of the journey is dedicated to a veteran who served our nation. Watch the 3 minute report and interview.
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