The DNA test came back. I’m 100% Piltdown man.
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Elizabeth Warren’s Cherokee heritage was also an error; passed down by what family members told her. See the pattern?
El-Sayed's campaign says his claim of dual citizenship was "an error."
"This was an error based on what he was told by family members secondhand."
But the campaign has declined to say how and when he learned he was not a dual citizen of Egypt.
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Chris Murphy talking about the Houthis as though they are something other than rogue terrorists funded by Iran.
Both nights I have been in Riyadh there have been urgent alerts issued about Houthi missiles heading toward the city.
This is now a full blown regional war - just as every expert predicted if the U.S. attacked Iran. A disaster of Trump’s making.
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The Israeli military says about 4,000 of the 6,000 Hamas terrorists who crossed into Israel on October 7 have been eliminated.
Israel has every right to pursue those responsible and protect its people from another massacre.
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The common framework, of course, being established by government. So very French.
Emmanuel Macron says American free speech is "the opposite of free speech." In his view, freedom only exists inside a "common framework" set by the state.
He compared posting an insult online to hitting someone in the street. Those are different things, because one is speech and the other is violence.
He wants people punished for posting "nonsense," with state-backed fact-checkers deciding what qualifies. He wants a verified identity behind every social media account. He has written to Ursula von der Leyen demanding the DSA be enforced "much faster, much more forcefully."
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Cuba rations sugar. The island that once supplied one-third of the world's sugar exports now tells its citizens they get five pounds per person per month, when supplies arrive at all, which they often do not.
Nationalization created this shortage. Fidel Castro nationalized the sugar industry beginning in 1960, seized the privately owned mills and plantations, and handed control to state administrators who had no skin in the game. By the 1990s, production had collapsed from 8 million metric tons annually to under 4 million. By 2023, Cuba produced roughly 350,000 tons. The land did not change, the climate did not change, but the incentive structure did.
A private mill owner in 1958 watched global sugar prices, maintained equipment, paid competitive wages to keep skilled workers, and expanded or contracted accordingly. Strip that owner out, replace him with a ministry bureaucrat whose salary arrives regardless of output, and the information loop breaks. Nobody loses money when the harvest fails. Nobody profits when it succeeds.
Capital does not wait around for better politics. The irrigation infrastructure, the milling equipment, the agronomic knowledge held by exiled plantation families, all of that dispersed across Florida and Spain decades ago. Reconstruction now costs multiples of what preservation would have cost.
Socialists point to the U.S. embargo as the culprit. Cuba trades sugar with dozens of countries. The embargo prevents American purchases, not Cuban production. A state that cannot organize harvests on some of the world's most fertile cane land lacks property rights, not trading partners.
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All this is possible by making bus rides free?
Mamdani: Thirty years from now, when our city is dancing to a beat we cannot imagine, or taking in art more creative than anything we’ve ever seen, it will be in no small part because the children of this city had the support and the public goods they needed to succeed. The parks in which they could play, the public transit they could ride to visit new worlds, and the universal childcare they could rely upon to learn, to grow, to become themselves. And while we may have some more gray hair then, we will know that progress was made, that greatness was made possible because of a program like this one. Because government provided its people with the foundation to succeed. And because, and I say this specifically to all of the providers and the advocates, because you were willing to believe once again that something different could happen.
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If the city/county of Boulder really believed this, they would close all gas and diesel stations in their jurisdiction. They should then stop all Natural Gas pipeline flows to the homes and businesses within their borders. Instead, it just a play for $'s.
Perhaps the city/county could also sue the residents who purchase and use these products within their borders? And destroy the city fleet of truck and cars.
These days law-fare is much simpler then convincing legislators to pass laws to suit a small vocal minority.
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Oh please be quiet. The presence of American universities in Qatar and the ME at large is because they are money making operation.
The presence of American universities in Qatar is an important way for the United States to promote U.S. values in the Middle East and create more lasting people-to-people connections. I was glad to visit with Sheikha Hind Al Thani in Doha’s Education City
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I notice in these cases it’s always men pretending to be women. It’s rarely a woman who enters into the men’s locker room.
A convicted child rapist is in custody after sexually assaulting multiple women in an "inclusive" female locker room at a Massachusetts Planet Fitness.
The franchise has previously defended its policies allowing males to enter the women's areas.
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Analysis like this 1 year ago may have come off as more believable. The idea that Iran can escalate anything is laughable. Their ability to project power is limited to launching missiles cobbled together with spare parts. It’s currency is in ruins and economy in shambles.
Trump claims he's winning the Iran war. Meanwhile, an Iranian leader says Iran has brought the US "to its knees," Iran is considering escalating, and there is talk in Tehran about leaving the NPT and pursuing nuclear weapons. My column on Trump's mess: nytimes.com/2026/10/03/opini…
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The miracle is that the right people, with the right skills and courage were present to avert a tragedy. Miracles aren’t always supernatural.
Opinion: Human courage and resourcefulness saved flydubai flight FZ1073, and attributing it to miracles diminishes the credit due to its captain, passengers, and off-duty pilots.
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Bear in mind that Brazil traded one corrupt regime for another. Brazil has a history of this and none of its current problems are the fault of the U.S. or Donald Trump.
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