The repeated Hezbollah attacks against the IDF, including the strike last night that left a dozen wounded and killed four Israeli soldiers and officers, are not skirmishes. They are part of a deliberate strategy by the Islamic Republic of Iran to use its proxy, Hezbollah, to attack Israel while testing the limits of the agreement it signed with the United States.
It would be very easy for the IRGC to order Hezbollah to stand down, at least for these days, or simply to abide by the terms of the ceasefire signed in 2024. They are choosing not to do that. Instead, they are directing Hezbollah to escalate. When Israel responds they go and threaten the U.S. that negotiations will collapse, blaming Israel.
Tehran wants to humiliate the United States and make sure it can revive its proxy network, and to establish an equation in which Iran enjoys sanctions relief, petrodollars, and reintegration into the global economy while continuing, through its proxies, to kill Israelis, Arabs and probably Americans, just as it has done for decades.
None of this is accidental. It is deliberate. The West does not fully understands that this is the real test; or worse- it does, and does not care. Tehran is trying to determine whether it can enjoy the benefits of normalization while continuing its campaign of terror.
This is correct … and the disproportionate mail in ballots currently coming in for C are mathematically astronomical (something in the 1 in a million range). Sadly, it’s historically expected. Just saying …
This is a question and I’m just getting my head around this California election…the in person ballots were counted and candidates were ranked A,B,C.the top two candidates make the runoff…the only way B(the republican) gets knocked out of the runoff is if the mail in ballots wildly and disproportionately are for candidate C..so even tho on voting day, candidate A outperformed, the mail ins someone switched to candidate C…which is what had to happen to knock out candidate B? It’s really fortunate for the Dems…and defies any reasonable probability distribution but whatever…
More than 1,100 University of California math and science professors are urging UC regents to reinstate college-entrance exams, saying that unprepared students are lowering academic standards and draining teaching resources https://t.co/b0v7Pnvfeh
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Just a friendly warning. We don’t even make $200k per year in Congress despite working nearly 140 days. If we aren’t properly compensated, a lot of us will go to the private sector and you will be left with some real idiots in Congress.
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This is one thing I got horribly wrong as a lazy auto-liberal in 2018. I was vehemently opposed to Kavanaugh's nomination, on the basis there were better alternatives who had not been accused of sex crimes. My blindness and refusal to see the cynical Dem strategy - appalling.
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They responded basically calling me a liar. A shockingly bad operation. Never again. Ever.
This is the ultimate midwit healthcare take.
No, 32 countries have not “figured out” universal healthcare.
The UK has “free” healthcare, and roughly 1 in 3 cancer patients in England still fail to start treatment within 62 days of urgent referral.
Canada has “free” healthcare, and the median wait for neurosurgical treatment is around a year.
Australia has “free” healthcare, and over half the country still buys private insurance despite paying for a public universal system with their taxes.
Switzerland has universal coverage, because residents are required to buy private insurance. There is no government system where benevolent bureaucrats tuck you in at night with a warm blanket and an MRI appointment.
The actual lesson from other wealthy countries is not “they figured it out.”
America’s system has huge problems. Our prices are insane, insurance markets are distorted, and hospital systems are cartelized. Our regulations make care more expensive than it needs to be.
Yet we still guarantee access to even the 8% who don’t have coverage. We give easy routes to qualify for medicaid for those with disabilities.
Pretending the rest of the world solved healthcare because they slapped the word “universal” on a rationing scheme is not analysis.
It is bumper sticker policy for people who think access means having a card in your wallet while you wait a year to see the doctor you need.
Showing you can be the most, and least, educated gen … at the same time. And what of being the 1st true smartphone gen? Welp, that hasn’t helped either. 🤦🏼♂️
It shows the magnitude of success of the massive information operations by Russia, Iran, Qatar/Turkey, CCP and a handful of others besieging the U.S. through various venues, structures and captured institutions.
This is an amorphous fir of warfare that is becoming as civilizationally deadly for the West as the armed attacks last century.
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