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3 weeks agoMorning Docket: 06.13.25 - Above the Law
Legal discussions around presidential powers and limitations continue to spark debate.
NYC politics
I don't know whether the New York voters understand what it means, that seize means of production. That means abolish private property. That means the state will take over business, capital, land, and resources.
At the age of 97, entirely lucid, still writing books and physically spry enough to be shown swimming in a Norwegian lake, former UN weapons inspector Hans Blix has given an extended interview to the Czech-born Swedish film-maker Greta Stocklassova about his life and times.
In the past, when I have watched Woody Allen's wonderful movie Stardust Memories, I have generally laughed at, but not necessarily with, the bleak pronouncements of the psychologically tormented character Sandy Bates, played, with a potent mixture of dread and depression, by Allen.
Labour wears what was fashionable in 1997 and 2010: Gordon Brown's technocratic reverence for central bank independence and George Osborne's devotion to fiscal rectitude.
"Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, But to be Dan was very heaven! O wondrous day. One of which dreams are made. Especially if you've been taking large quantities of hallucinogenics."
However, who is leading whom by the nose is no longer relevant. And God help us, outrage over the president's usurpation of Congress's war powers never has sounded more thin and impotent.
Rep. Randy Fine's comments, while framed as fiery rhetoric, have sparked serious backlash amid escalating political violence, necessitating a reevaluation of political commentary.
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