Mexico Bans Fracking In Key Shale Basin

Court Rules For WaPo Reporter In Major Win For Press In National Security Case Authored by Jonathan Turley, There was an important ruling last week by Magistrate Judge William B. Porter of the Eastern District of Virginia in favor of the press regarding the handling of files and materials taken in a search of the home of a Washington Post reporter. Judge Porter ruled against the Trump Administration in what he called an “unsupervised, wholesale” search of the files of Hannah Natanson, who covers the federal government for The Post. Instead,...

Reports Of Deadly US-Israeli Airstrikes On Iran's Port Of Bandar Abbas As Trump Issues Enriched Uranium Demand Summary Reports: Fighter jets attacked two boats in the port of Bandar Abbas, killing four people Iran has reportedly lifted its nationwide internet ban after nearly 90-days. Israel dramatically ramps up war and bombing of Lebanon, citing Hezbollah drones on its territory. Al Arabiya claims Tehran ready to transfer highly enriched uranium to China. Trump urges all countries join post-deal Abraham accords, including Iran: Negotiations with the Islamic Republic of Iran are proceeding nicely! It will only be a...

The Telephone, Political Entrepreneurship, And Theodore M. Vail Authored by Joshua Mawhorter via Mises Institute, Originally, this article was intended to be an exploration as to how-after a period of initial patent monopoly and an all-too-brief episode of freer market competition-cronyism reestablished a telephone monopoly that would last for decades. While such an article is worthwhile and hopefully forthcoming, I was struck by the influence of one man's leadership strategy as president of AT&T/the Bell System and how open he was about limiting competition in his industry, inviting regulation, and seeking...