Source: Fox News
“Unearthed emails as part of a FOIA request show Biden administration agencies scrapping a plan to visit a vessel at an event because it would have required then-President Joe Biden to take too many steps. Records show, as part of a FOIA request by Protect the Public’s Trust obtained by Fox News Digital, that Biden was set to visit a National Security Multi-Mission Vessel (NSMV) while touring a Philadelphia shipyard in July 2023. However, according to the emails, that visit to the vessel was scrapped because of ‘how many steps were involved to get on the ship.’ The emails show that the U.S. Maritime Administration (MARAD) was engaged in a major project at the Philadelphia shipyard at the time that Biden was planning to visit to tout offshore wind and clean energy jobs.” (08/12/25)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/unearthed-emails-reveal-white-house-nixed-biden-visiting-ship-because-how-many-steps-were-involved
Source: Law & Liberty
by Rachel Lu
“As a conservative, I have a natural suspicion of techno-optimists. Large language models are the big newcomer, and they do raise many new concerns. Everyone appreciates this in the abstract, but talking with fellow conservatives (both older and younger), I don’t always find it easy to make common cause. Many seem inclined to shun AI and other new technologies, to ‘just say no’ or at least encourage everyone to use them as little as possible. I understand, but to me that feels like dereliction, a refusal to face up to the task at hand.” (08/12/25)
https://lawliberty.org/a-defense-of-ai-parenting/
Source: The American Prospect
by Whitney Curry Wimbish
“Certain rich lawmakers are losing their minds over a proposed congressional stock-trading ban that a bipartisan group of senators advanced last month. They argue that forbidding them from using their inside knowledge to play the market will make public office ‘unattractive’ and drive those who serve into poverty. ‘Anybody want to be poor?’ asked Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL), one of the richest people in Congress, whose health care company defrauded Medicare and Medicaid in the ’90s when he was its chief executive. ‘I don’t.’ But Wall Street insiders said Scott and his fellow wealthy electeds have little cause to worry. The proposal leaves plenty of room to profit off insider information, so much so that they described it as inadequate and ‘stupid,’ and called carve-outs that can be traded under the terms of the bill, including corporate bonds, ‘insane.'” (08/12/25)
https://prospect.org/power/2025-08-12-lawmakers-profit-proposed-stock-ban-insider-trading/
Source: ABC News
“Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces launched attacks Monday in a famine-stricken displacement camp outside of el-Fasher, the capital of North Darfur province, killing 40 people, local rights groups said. The Emergency Response Rooms group working at the Abu Shouk displacement camp said in a statement on Facebook that the RSF — which is at war with the Sudanese military — raided parts of the camp targeting citizens inside their homes. The community activist group, which provides assistance across Sudan, said at least 19 people were also injured. The Abu Shouk displacement camp outside of el-Fasher, which houses around 450,000 displaced people, has been repeatedly attacked over the course of the war. The Sudanese military has control over el-Fasher despite frequent strikes by the RSF.” (08/12/25)
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/sudans-rapid-support-forces-kill-40-people-north-124559479
Source: Politics Politics Politics
“The 2025 News Stories that Just Won’t Die (with Kevin Ryan).” (08/11/25)
https://www.politicspoliticspolitics.com/p/the-2025-news-stories-that-just-wont
Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob
“President Trump has issued an executive order telling banking regulators to cut it out already. The order, ‘Guaranteeing Fair Banking for All Americans,’ takes aim at Biden-era regulations that pushed banks to ‘debank’ clients who had the ‘wrong’ political viewpoints: supporters of the First Amendment, the Second Amendment, or whatever aspect of individual rights and freedom the Biden administration was most insistently opposed to. … Overall, the order represents a welcome 180 turnabout in very recent policy. The one problem I see, though, is that no clear attempt is made to distinguish between banks that were gung ho about clobbering politically unhip account holders and those that went no further than what they were pushed by Biden regulators to do.” (08/12/25)
https://thisiscommonsense.org/2025/08/11/debanking-disallowed/
Source: SFGate
“Texas Republican leaders said Tuesday that they were prepared to end their stalemated special session and immediately begin another standoff with Democrats in the GOP’s efforts to redraw congressional maps as directed by President Donald Trump. It’s the latest indication that Trump’s push to redraw congressional maps ahead of the 2026 midterm elections will become an extended standoff that promises to reach multiple statehouses controlled by both major parties. Texas House Speaker Dustin Burrows confirmed the plans during a brief session Tuesday morning that marked another failure to meet the required attendance standards to conduct official business because dozens of Democrats have left the state to stymie the GOP’s partisan gerrymandering attempts ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.” (08/12/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/politics/article/texas-republicans-plan-another-special-session-to-20814047.php
Source: The American Conservative
by Eldar Mamedov
“Before applauding President Donald Trump’s meeting with Armenian and Azerbaijani leaders in Washington on August 8, one should ask: Why is America involved at all in a centuries-old conflict 6,000 miles away in a place that offers the U.S. little strategic value? The White House meeting was heralded as a historic breakthrough, but the resulting ‘Joint Declaration’ achieves little beyond creating new potential headaches for American foreign policy. The declaration’s seven points contain only four substantive provisions, none of which meaningfully advance peace.” (08/12/25)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/the-perils-of-americas-new-caucasus-entanglement/
Source: CNBC
“President Donald Trump said Monday that gold will not face tariffs, knocking down a ruling by U.S. customs officials that bars of the precious metal imported from Switzerland would face duties. ‘Gold will not be Tariffed!’ Trump said in a Truth Social post. Gold futures closed 2.48% lower at $3,404.70 per ounce after the announcement. The precious metal hit a record high Friday, after U.S. Customs and Border Protection ruled that 1 kilogram and 100 ounce gold cast bars from Switzerland were subject to Trump’s 39% tariffs on imports from the country.” (08/11/25)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/11/trump-gold-tariffs-futures.html
Source: Lions of Liberty
“Dismantling the Administrative State with Jeffrey Tucker.” (08/11/25)
https://www.lionsofliberty.com/episodes/dismantling-the-administrative-state-with-jeffrey-tucker
