AMENDMENT VIII
Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
AMENDMENT 8
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Just the News
- Flash flooding in Midwest, southern states leaves 21 people deadAs of Monday morning, about nine million people are under a flood watch.
- Trump backs possible Senate bid of former New Hampshire GOP Gov. Chris SununuFormer Republican New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu previously criticized Trump and his supporters.
- Trump administration asks Supreme Court to block order to return Salvadoran national to USThe Justice Department states that the judge who ruled Kilmar Abrego Garcia had to come back to the U.S. overstepped authority.
- Bessent says he will help lead US trade negotiations with JapanBessent said that he and U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer will lead the U.S.'s negotiations to "implement the President’s vision for the new Golden Age of Global Trade."
- Netanyahu vows to end tariffs on American goods, work with Trump to end trade deficitHe told a room of dignitaries and reporters, “we will eliminate the trade deficit with the United States. We intend to do it very quickly."
Real Clear Politics
- Unions Need to Mount a Militant Response to Trump's AssaultToo many unions have responded to Donald Trump's historic attacks on federal workers with little more than words. To beat back his anti-union assault, organized labor needs to break with decades of timidity.
- Global Conservatives Get Second Wind from Trump VictoryConservative parties worldwide embrace Trump's America First model, reshaping politics around sovereignty, security, and economic change.
- Trump Goes After Federal Unions. It's About TimeFederal employees aren't in desperate need of union protection.
- Trump Is Disrupting Everything. Congress Must ActMuch of what we know about President Trump's leadership is revealed by his personal behavior. For example, during his first month in office, while Elon Musk conducted mass firings and canceled government services to cut spending, Trump spent nearly $10.7 million of taxpayer money to play golf at his properties.
- Vietnam's Zero-Tariff Offer 'Means Nothing'White House trade advisor Peter Navarro said President Trump is rejecting Vietnam's offer to zero out their tariffs on American products on CNBC this morning:
Dennis Prager
- The Democrats’ 2020 Victory Was a Blessing in DisguiseI never imagined I would think, let alone write, that the Democratic Party’s victory in 2020 was a blessing. But for those of us — meaning, it is now clear, a majority of us — who regard the Left as an entirely destructive force in America as it is everywhere else in the world, 2020 […]
- Calling Trump ‘Hitler’ Has Done Permanent Damage to the Moral RealmIt may be impossible to overstate the damage done to morality by the Democrats and other leftists calling Donald Trump a fascist and a Nazi and declaring him “Hitler.” Asked by Anderson Cooper on CNN if she believes Trump is a “fascist,” Kamala Harris said, “Yes, I do.” With regard to calling Trump “Hitler,” Newsweek’s […]
- The Secular Keep Me ReligiousI have never accepted irrational religious beliefs. If something in my — or any — religion doesn’t make sense, I don’t accept it. That’s why my five-volume commentary on the Torah (the first five books of the Bible) is titled “The Rational Bible.” This strikes more than a few religious people as problematic, since many […]
- Israel Made the West. Israel Is Saving the West.It is a truism that the West was formed by Athens and Jerusalem — meaning the rational thinking introduced by Greece and the moral and religious thought introduced by Israel. Of the two, Jerusalem’s contribution was the more enduring. Relatively few Westerners read Aristotle and Plato. Virtually every citizen of the West — even the […]
- People Hate Those Who Fight Evil Far More Than Those Who Are EvilI realized something very important about the human condition when I was in high school. I realized that people tend to hate those who fight evil far more than they hate those engaged in doing evil. What made me come to this conclusion was the way in which many people reacted to communism and to […]
