The knives are out for the Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. The leaks from the Pentagon about him will continue until Hegseth is gone. The officers do not want a boss who is giving illegal orders while scapegoating the generals and soldiers who follow them: At the White House on Monday, Karoline Leavitt, the press secretary, read a statement that said Mr. Hegseth had authorized the Special Operations commander overseeing the attack, Adm. Frank M. Bradley, “to conduct these kinetic strikes.” She […]

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From today’s jury verdict in Pete v. Cooper: Question 1: Do you find, by a preponderance of the evidence, that Ms. Cooper is liable to Ms. Pete for defamation per se by accusing Ms. Pete of perjury—a felony—by lying under oath in a criminal trial when she asserted that: (1) Ms. Pete was a “non-credible witness”; (2) “I could go down the list of all the different shit that was not true”; and (3) asked “Was Megan Thee […]

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Tweet Joshua Rauh and Benjamin Jaros make the case for greater transparency in government data. A slice: Washington is hurtling toward a spending crisis, but the fiscal watchdogs meant to check its excesses are already trapped in a crisis of credibility. Congress, for good reason, increasingly distrusts the estimates from the Congressional Budget Office and its tax-scoring counterpart, the Joint Committee on Taxation, which play a vital role in federal budgeting. It’s not just grousing that these agencies […]

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I recently heard that gold prices may continue to rise, driven by governments that want to wait for very high prices before revaluing their gold holdings. The idea behind this theory is that by doing so, public debt would be reduced, if not eliminated, and in theory, I understand that would make sense. I wonder, however, what the price we, the people, would pay (increased prices?). submitted by /u/Available_Opening_77 [link] [comments]

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