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Politics makes for strange bedfellows — and dinner companions. On Tuesday night, Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas posted a photo of himself enjoying dinner with former President Donald Trump at Trump's Mar-a-Lago property. "Had a great dinner tonight with President Trump at Mar-a-Lago," Cruz wrote. "He's in great spirits! We spent the evening talking about working together to re-take the House & Senate in 2022." This candlelit dinner may come as a surprise to anyone who's been following the relationship between the pair over the years. Neither has been shy about expressing his utter disgust about the...

Gaming, Gambling, Security, and Latency See more videos like this on StreamingMedia.com. Learn more about sports streaming, stream security, and latency at Streaming Media East Connect 2021. Read the complete transcript of this clip: Jeff Jacoby: Keeping this pattern on with gaming and esports and tournament play for purses for, because for whatever reason, it's that much more nervousness, Jef, what have you done in terms of protecting the product for your clients regarding gaming and esports with big purses? Jef Kethley: Well, we have to do our due diligence on site. We'r...

Biden’s blunder in Afghanistan Jeff Jacoby © JIM HUYLEBROEK Children pass members of a Taliban unit in the Alingar District of Laghman Province in Afghanistan, March 13, 2020. Because Union troops didn’t stay long enough in the defeated South after the Civil War, Reconstruction was prematurely aborted and the freed slaves’ political rights were brutally extinguished. Because the United States withdrew its troops from Indochina in 1973, South Vietnam and Cambodia were helpless against the communist conquest and totalitarian nightmare that followed. Because Barack Obama...

The Kosher Gourmet by Nick Malgieri: Chocolate molten delight with creme anglaise is a simple yet elegant make-ahead dessert "The power to tax," asserted Chief Justice John Marshall in McCulloch vs. Maryland, a landmark 1819 Supreme Court decision, "involves the power to destroy." It is a timeless truth. As a tax assessor under Ivan the Terrible, one of the ruthless oprichniki, recorded in his diary: "I did no harm to anyone today; I was resting." Taxes destroy in many ways. When they are too high, too intrusive, or too complex, taxes can destroy businesses, jobs, and the value of work. The...

In a democracy worthy of the name, the mentally invalid are not judged. But in a true democracy, one is... However, many would probably be interested—and certainly very surprised—to learn just when realization dawned on the Palestinian Arabs that this territory supposedly comprised their yearned-for motherland. Indeed, long before Israel held a square inch of “the West Bank”—before there was any “occupation” or “settlements”—the Arabs claimed all the territory of pre-1967 Israel (i.e. within the Green Line)—as “Palestinian” territory, and threatened to reclaim it by ...