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John G. Malcolm: Welcome, everybody, to our virtual Joseph Story Lecture. My name is John Malcolm. I’m the Vice President of the Institute for Constitutional Government, but more germane for this event is that I’m also the Director of the Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies. Because we are in the midst of a pandemic and these are unusual times, I am interviewing General Meese here in his home.
Ed, I have to tell you, this is a particular pleasure for me. I remember when we first met. It was either 1990 or 1991, and I was a baby Assistant U.S. Attorney in Atlanta and was in charge of inviting speakers to come to the national convention for the Federalist Society. I decided to take a flyer and invite you to come speak at a program on the overfederalization of crime, and to my amazement, not only did you accept, but from the first time I met you, you insisted that I call you Ed. I never dreamed that at some point in my career, I would have t
Man-To-Man: Matching All 45 U.S. Presidents With Their Timberwolves Equivalents By HumdingerTV on Feb 15, 2021, 12:32pm CST 21
The history of the American president is one of cyclical, renewed promise, usually followed by depressing, but predictable, disappointment. Despite the nearly constant letdown, hope springs eternal when our population is given the opportunity to draft a new leader. It is a pattern that is mirrored in the history of the Next Great Hope for the Minnesota Timberwolves. Throughout the decades of their existence, the Wolves have held up new candidates each season to carry the team to the promised land of relevance. Rarely have they reached it.
Given the mental, physical and economic toll 2020 continues to have on the nation’s psyche, it’s amazing that the span between Nov. 22, 1963, and Aug. 9, 1974, didn’t place
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Posted on January 30, 2021. Step by step and on all fronts, the United States sought to drive Russia into irrelevance, accompanied by the European Union in the process. The overreach came in 2013-2014 in relation to events in Ukraine.
According to the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, Russian intelligence services penetrated public and private, military and civilian computer networks in the country for months. This occurred while U.S. attention was focused on trying to protect its electoral system from Russian electronic interference. In fact, the 2016 presidential election showed evidence of an unprecedented level of Russian interference through the manipulation of social networks by way of a systematic hacking operation designed to favor Donald Trump. All that is expressive of an increasingly belligerent Kremlin.
Extending New START is a good start for Biden Eric Gomez January 28 President Joe Biden signs his first executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House on Jan. 20, 2021. (Evan Vucci/AP) The news that the Biden administration will seek a five-year extension of the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, or New START, is a welcome change from the Trump administration’s assault on nuclear arms control. But the Biden team should not be afraid to keep going and push arms control further. Extending New START is an important win for U.S.-Russia strategic stability, which has frayed due to increasing animosity in the relationship. The bilateral agreement places limitations on the number of strategic nuclear warheads and delivery systems for both countries, but just as importantly contains provisions for inspections and information sharing that allow the two countries to keep tabs on one another’s nuclear arsenals and verify that the other is complying with the treaty.