Iran Fires On Third Ship In Hormuz Chokepoint, Says US Navy Blockade 'No Different Than Bombing'

Houthi Attack On Aramco Facility Kills Two; US Prepares More Diplomatic Evacuations In Riyadh Update(1540ET): A corrective from Reuters saying that the earlier alert for some diplomatic staff and their families to depart from the Gulf region actually only pertains to Saudi Arabia, amid the Houthi assault: Earlier, Reuters reported said the US State Department is preparing to issue an ordered departure of some personnel and family members at US embassies across the Gulf. Note, this update says just from Saudi Arabia, not the entire Gulf. Meanwhile, more has emerged on the fresh...

Carbon Neutral, Speech Negative: Amsterdam Bans Ads Featuring Meat & Fossil Fuels Authored by Jonathan Turley, In “The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage,” I write about how censorship often becomes an insatiable appetite once countries go down the road of speech regulation. There is no better example than the Dutch and their recent ban on public ads for meat and fossil fuels. Activists have imposed similar limitations on advertising for products in the United States, from alcohol to tobacco. However, the Dutch law reflects how this tendency can metastasize into...

“This Is the midnight – let no star“Delude us – dawn is very far.“This is the tempest long foretold“Slow to make head but sure to hold.” Rudyard Kipling, England’s greatest poet of Empire, who then became the unwilling prophet and witness of that empire’s catastrophe and coming dissolution, published that frightening warning in 1932, the […]