#Power

1/ An editorial in the WSJ defends impeaching and disqualifying a former president by citing common law English practice and early state practice. This common law background, the writer insists,
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ERCOT for sure has a lot of blame to bear for this crisis, but the fundamental feature of Texas's power grid is deregulation. We went further and faster than any
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I’d seen a lot of writing about living alone during the pandemic and I felt the weight of that. Now the power is out and there’s nothing - no sound,
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I have often viewed the period of 1841-1880 as a period of a crisis in political legitimacy ... on many levels.Why 1841? The debate over John Tyler becoming president, followed
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This #TrusteeWeek we want to highlight the unbearable whiteness of charity boards. Without truly diverse boards our sector has no hope of dismantling institutional racism. We have no faith in
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The term "Senate power sharing agreement" is misleading. No reporter or pundit should be using it. When it's 50-50, both sides do have to sign off on an agreement. But
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A quick explainer on executive orders, since they always come up and especially early in an administration. 1/ An executive order is, very simply, a directive to a subordinate in
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The best work compliment I’ve ever been given wasn’t “you’re an amazing director”, it was an actress telling me that my set was the most collaborative set she’s ever been
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There are 6 signs of the Antichrist in Scripture, according to St. Robert Bellarmine:2 signs which proceed his coming2 signs which occur during his reign2 signs at the end of
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Never thought I'd be siding with Logan Paul but he really... triumphed in this manly debate about manliness. As for backwards hat guy, his is the exact rhetorical strategy that
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According to this website, it's steadily restoring now back to ~515,000—and anecdotally, I'm back in power and will be reporting again today. https://poweroutage.us/area/state/texas https://twitter.com/edlavaCNN/status/13623928144
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THIS. I can't emphasize this enough to people back home as an American living outside the US.The GOP is supposed to be the party of national security, American power, &
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Some of you know I ministered for a long time. What keeps me awake at night as I watch Trump pour gasoline on the fires of violence & distrust is
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Three levels to this:(1) Filibuster reform simply changes who the pivotal voter is from the 60th Senator to the 50th.(2) That means that, in preventing filibuster reform, Manchin & Sinema
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So RSS Pracharak Narendra Modi is the tallest leader in India today. Doubtful ?? Okay. Would you agree that he's the most successful politician today ?Right ?Okay.So, let's see what
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New substack out on localism, subsidiarity, freedom, and power:https://apexsnotes.substack.com/p/what-does-it-mean-to-be-freeHighlights in thread below: Democracy on a sufficiently large scale is nothing more than a system in which elites p
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