Author: Keith Lamparter

The Democratic Party was supposed to enjoy permanent rule due to its [...]

The Corporate Press desperately wants to pivot. don't let them. [...]

Outside a Jewish museum, one man's descent collided with young Israeli Embassy staffers [...]

When future generations read about Gaza with horror and wonder how we allowed a livestreamed genocide to happen, what will you say? [...]

This is the Senate hearing they never wanted you to see. [...]

We've seen false advertising in naming laws before - the Democrats' 2022 Inflation Reduction Act jumps to mind. Yet no legislation has been as misbranded as the Republican tax and spending cuts that President Trump, the branding aficionado himself, is pushing along a tortuous path in Congress. [...]

JMC's Elliott Drago discussed with JMC Fellow Dr. J. Michael Hoffpauir political philosophy and what the ancients teach us about civic education [...]

Police beefed up security at schools and religious buildings across Washington Friday as the US capitol reeled from the fatal shooting of two Israeli embassy staffers outside a Jewish museum. The 31-year-old Chicago man accused of Wednesday's attack shouted "Free Palestine" as he was taken away by police -- exacerbating fears over rising anti-Semitism since Israel's invasion of Gaza following the unprecedented Hamas attack. [...]

The United Arab Emirates registered a sizzling 50.4 degrees Celsius on Friday, the highest on record for May, following weeks of sweltering temperatures in the desert nation acutely vulnerable to climate change.Worshippers at Friday prayers reported feeling faint and some residents appeared unsteady on their feet, even in a country that is accustomed to extreme temperatures.The highest temperature was recorded in an area of Abu Dhabi, the capital of the oil-rich Gulf state that lies in one of the world's hottest regions. [...]

Tom Barrack's dual role is likely to give Trump more direct finger on the pulse of his Syria policy as the president has vowed to lift decades of US economic sanctions to give the country's people "a chance at greatness." [...]

Tom Barrack's dual role is likely to give Trump more direct finger on the pulse of his Syria policy as the president has vowed to lift decades of US economic sanctions to give the country's people "a chance at greatness." [...]

Turkey's main opposition leader criticized the detentions of new individuals including key aides of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu.  [...]

Turkey's main opposition leader criticized the detentions of new individuals including key aides of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu.  [...]

With Iran's supreme leader skeptical of reaching a nuclear deal with the United States, former Israeli officials doubt the wisdom of Israel striking Iranian facilities without US buy-in. [...]

With Iran's supreme leader skeptical of reaching a nuclear deal with the United States, former Israeli officials doubt the wisdom of Israel striking Iranian facilities without US buy-in. [...]

Iranian and US negotiators closed on Friday a fifth round of nuclear talks in Rome with "some but not conclusive progress", mediator Oman said, after a public disagreement over Tehran's uranium enrichment.The talks, which began in April, are the highest-level contact between the foes since the United States quit a landmark 2015 nuclear accord during President Donald Trump's first term.Since returning to office, Trump has revived his "maximum pressure" campaign on Iran, backing talks but warning of military action if diplomacy fails. [...]

Before they were killed by a gunman outside a Washington Jewish museum, Yaron Lischinsky had planned to make a formal proposal of marriage to Sarah Milgrim in Jerusalem next week.As their deaths late Wednesday intensify the international spotlight on the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza, here is what we know about the two Israeli embassy staffers shot dead after attending a networking event for young professionals.- Yaron Lischinsky -The 30-year-old had worked as a researcher at the Israeli embassy in Washington since 2022. [...]

Barry Ritholtz, The Big Picture There have been many winners and losers over the past few months. Perhaps none have been revealed for having furious, unbridled power more than the U.S. equity [...]

Thomas Kolbe, Am. Thinker On Friday, Moody's downgraded the U.S. credit rating, sending shockwaves through the bond market. Japan, in particular, is under intense pressure, with yields on its [...]

John Tamny, RCM Meta used to be Facebook. Why state the obvious? The answer is that what's obvious very much calls into question the FTC's antitrust case against Meta, the corporation [...]

Arvin Patel, RCM "Humans won't be needed for most things." This shocking declaration from businessman Bill Gates on NBC's "Tonight Show" in February [...]

Andrew Prokop, Vox Trump is promising tax cuts and a new golden age. Here's what's really inside it. [...]

Larry Behrens, The Hill When President Trump returned to the White House, he immediately set out to reverse [...]

Roben Farzad, BusinessWeek September is that cruelest month for the stock market. It's the only month that has dropped on average since the Roaring Twenties. Come Monday night, when Wall [...]

Carla Fried, CNNMoney Income-starved investors looking to amp up their portfolios have been turning to foreign bonds -- for obvious reasons. The 4.2% payout on the average foreign [...]

R. Ponnuru, Bloomberg While the Romney and Obama camps have made increasingly bitter accusations about each otherâ??s plans for Medicare, a bipartisan consensus on entitlements has emerged [...]

Doug Schoen, Forbes It's a testament to how bad the American employment market has gotten that the most recent jobs report was met with applause. The Labor Department's July jobs figures [...]

Each week, our inbox runneth over with news of gear, apparel and tech releases from around the world. In this feature, we’ll parse through the best of it. Today: New seltzers from -196 drop, some shiny new ALD x New Balance sneakers go live and custom Casetify truks hit the market. We've put in the […] The post Products of the Week: Seltzers, Sneakers and Houndstooth Bags appeared first on InsideHook. [...]

Over the past five years, Hong Kong was struck by a double whammy of strict pandemic protocols and sociopolitical upheaval, leaving many international visitors wondering if the city they knew and loved would be able to maintain its vibrancy. If the bar world is your measuring stick — and considering the Western-leading attitudes of such […] The post How Hong Kong’s Cocktail Bar Scene Has Thrived Despite Its Challenges appeared first on InsideHook. [...]

Airbnb has declared Oneonta, New York, one of the next “it” dining destinations, and I have thoughts. As a proud graduate of the State University of New York at Oneonta, I feel uniquely qualified to share them. “This summer, travelers are avoiding the summer crowds and swapping culinary capitals for more local, affordable foodie destinations,” […] The post Is This Small New York Town Really Among the World’s Best Food Destinations? appeared first on InsideHook. [...]

How much do you really know about the Scottish Highlands? It’s a valid question, even amongst Brits. It’s easy to conjure images of tartan, midges, whisky distilleries and the Loch Ness monster. But the remote wilderness is huge, accounting for 11.4% of the landmass of Great Britain. Instead of jumping on a tour bus, the best […] The post Inside Scotland’s Most Beautiful (and Brutal) Trail Race appeared first on InsideHook. [...]

Chances are, you’ve owned — or currently rock — a pair of Ray-Ban Wayfarers. And for good reason. The iconic silhouette flatters nearly every face shape and remains a forever mainstay of classic cool. Alongside the Aviator and cult-favorite Clubmaster, Ray-Ban’s lineup boasts several OG styles. But even sunglasses have micro-trends, and lately, you’ve probably […] The post Ray-Ban’s Balorama Are the Deep-Cut Shades to Wear This Summer appeared first on InsideHook. [...]

Men are capable of doing a lot of cringey things that us women are pretty put-off by. They’re not asking women questions about themselves on dates, they won’t leave us alone at the gym, but the mannerism that I’m most uncomfortable with? Hearing them refer to groups of women as “females.” There are, unsurprisingly, many […] The post Please Don’t Refer to Women as “Females” appeared first on InsideHook. [...]

The price of high-quality protein has never been on the accessible side, so we feel compelled to let you know when you can get a little more bang for your buck in the grocery department. Right now Vital Choice, the online fishmonger, has a few deals lasting throughout the Memorial Day Weekend (and beyond) that […] The post Vital Choice’s Frozen Fish Is on Sale appeared first on InsideHook. [...]

The biggest challenge when making miso at home is patience. According to this how-to article, the fermented soybean paste takes “two days of active time and six months of inactive fermentation time.” And there’s no way to speed up that process. “The essence of miso-making is time — it’s an ingredient in itself,” says Sebastian […] The post The Homemade Bar: It’s Time to Embrace Miso in Your Cocktails appeared first on InsideHook. [...]

I’ve spilled coffee on myself on two commutes in the last two weeks. I’m about to turn 30 — what the hell is wrong with me? Maybe I’m filling the Yeti a little too aggressively. Maybe the drink holsters on my backpack (which is about to turn five) are starting to give way. Maybe I […] The post The Cognitive Benefits of Using Your Non-Dominant Hand appeared first on InsideHook. [...]

Pedro Pascal stepped out on the Cannes carpet this week in a brazenly sexy, black cutoff tee and set the vibe for the summer: Arms. I’ve had some arguably unconventional takes on the styles of tops I’d like to see men wear. Crop tops are one of my long-held male style beliefs about which I […] The post Take It From a Woman: It’s Cutoff Season. Here’s How to Not Look Like a Douche.  appeared first on InsideHook. [...]

Peter Zablocki, Warfare History Network By Peter Zablocki The fog that descended over the Westerplatte peninsula in the Bay of the Free City of Danzig, Poland, on August 31, 1939, refused to [...]

Joseph Patrick Kelly, The Conversation The 1798 rebellion aimed at creating a secular state with equal rights regardless of religion. [...]

Sophie Hardach, BBC The chestnut trees of Europe tell a hidden story charting the fortunes of ancient Rome and the legacy it left in the continent's forests. [...]

Nora Gietz, Historytoday The arrival of Napoleon's troops in Venice in 1797 instigated one of the biggest plunders in the history of art. [...]

Becky Little, HISTORY Missionaries influenced the American frontier. [...]

Rebecca Brenner Graham, Politico Thomas Jefferson wanted to donate his personal collection of books to the Library of Congress. But critics thought those books were [...]

Michael Scanlon, SSRN This is a near-author's cut of an essay entitled "Odysseus Lost" that was published by Chronicles on January 26, 2024. The Chronicles version, which benefited f [...]

Sean Durns, Washington Examiner "Someday science may have the existence of mankind in its power," the American intellectual Henry Adams wrote in 1862, "and the human race commit suicide, [...]

Reuters History buffs will be able to stroll close to the spot where legend says Julius Caesar met his bloody end, when Rome authorities open a new walkway on the ancient site on [...]

Christine Chung, New York Times A submersible craft carrying five people in the area of the Titanic wreck in the North Atlantic has been missing since Sunday, setting off a search and [...]

Working people, and the poor, overwhelmingly voted for President Trump. Democrats seemed puzzled that The Deplorables they despise would vote for a candidate who offered lower costs of living. 'Red states use more government assistance' they jeered.That's the problem. As a former poor person, an organic farmer living in poverty before President Clinton made it a government-endorsed grift as a gift for progressive elites, I know cost is everything. Progressives on Twitter think a dollar is only a dollar. To poor people, it matters. read more [...]

Chicago Sun-Times writer Marco Buscaglia used the popular LLM ChatGPT to create the 2025 "summer reading list" they wanted for subscribers and had enough confidence in the result that he didn't check the work. The problem was that LLMs are not really AI, despite claims by companies selling this stuff that they are. They are certainly not Intelligent. So while the list had real authors, half of the books did not exist.read more [...]

A whistleblower revealed a shocking document written by the French Ministry of Agriculture to the European Commission.In response to America retaliating against Europe by placing tariffs on European goods the way European has them on American goods, the French government declared that for the first time this century they wanted 'access to innovation' - which means modern science and technology.They want food sovereignty, and most bizarre of all from the French, fair competition. All things France has historically opposed in the name of the Green Deal and their Farm to Fork Idyll.read more [...]

A new paper suggests that the world's largest polluters remain safe from the environmental damage they help create and the countries least to blame face the greatest threats because of, oddly, violent conflict.This is counter-intuitive but it is the same argument we used to read about "virtual water". Those arguments are fine in a spreadsheet, it gets advocates worked up, but fails in the real world as readily as most economic projections do.(1) The authors argue that they correlate armed conflict and the environment.read more [...]

Richard Garwin, who died on May 13, 2025, at the age of 97, was sometimes called “the most influential scientist you’ve never heard of.” He got his Ph.D. in physics at 21 under Enrico Fermi – a Nobel Prize winner and friend of Einstein’s – who called Garwin “the only true genius” he’d ever met.read more [...]

With a new president in the White House bringing in a former Natural Resources Defense Lawyer and long-time anti-science progressive, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., there is new concern about erosion of American leadership in science and health.If leadership is just spending money on things like theater in foreign countries or paying yourself $100,000 to rewrite data from government surveys on why some people don't trust vaccines, we are not losing much.(1)Hopefully with Republicans agreeing about some of the more ridiculous positions of the left - seed oils and vaccines are bad - acceptance of science will blossom among the nearly [...]

Though organic™ farmers sell bucolic imagery of hoeing by hand and sunsets over fields of corn, it is just marketing to the gullible. All farmers who make more than enough money to pay their real estate taxes(1) are high-tech gurus. They use real-time data on the health of their land and their crops, they want to use just enough product to get the most food with the least environmental strain.It's a long way from the $3 billion environmental imagery of farmers with leaky backpacks drenching plants in science and cackling like Scrooge McDuck on a pile of coins about it.read [...]

In wealthy countries, the richest and the aspirational well-off can afford to pay extra for food only grown using toxic pesticides they are assured are healthy for the planet, but the 99.99999% have to think about affordability.Every time a chemical is removed due to manufactured outrage by environmental groups and the fifth columnists they get implanted inside presidential administrations, it is the poor that pay the price. Cereal crops are a staple for those worried about food security, and are the earliest victims of pathogens and pests. And then the first target for activists in a $3 billion industry devoted [...]

You've heard that you should get eight hours of sleep per night, a whole industry has built up trying to help people who can't do that, but like BMI, organic food, and 'alcohol in moderation is okay', there is no science to it.read more [...]

Almost 2,000 years ago in modern-day Uttar Pradesh, India, someone deposited a cache of gems inside a reliquary (a container for holy relics), along with some bone fragments and ash. The gems were precious, but the bones and ash even more so, for according to an inscription on the reliquary, they belonged to Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha. read more [...]