Privatize the Private Airport Security Screeners

US Officials Confirm Saudi East-West Pipeline Attacked By Drones, Badly Damaged Summary Saudi oil pipeline attacked: US officials confirmed strikes on Saudi pumping stations, with drones likely launch from Iraq. Houthis expand in Yemen: Houthi forces are gaining control along the Red Sea coast, threatening key shipping routes. Oil and diesel prices rising: Russia’s damaged refining capacity and shipping disruptions are also tightening fuel markets. Stagflation risk grows: Higher energy and shipping costs could push inflation higher while weakening global economic growth. Strait of Hormuz traffic returns to normal by November 30? Yes 13% · No...

Fear Is Overwhelming Us Authored by Guy de la Bédoyère via DailySceptic.org, Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear reason, but to assist it. It should not be suffered to tyrannise in the imagination, to raise phantoms of horror or to beset life with supernumerary distresses. Samuel Johnson in the Rambler (1761) No-one’s disputing that very hot weather can be challenging, even dangerous, for some people. But I’ve been fascinated by the news coverage of the heatwave over the last...

State Department hosted talks between Israel and Lebanon were once again cheered by the State Department today as “productive and positive,” which might explain why the US has cheerfully hosted no less than six rounds worth of such talks despite very little of consequence ever coming out of them. A deal was reached, naturally, though […]