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The Constitution shields religious worship, but there must be an inherent and implicit understanding that it does not shield hostile and invasive ideologies that pervert civic responsibilities in a manner designed to destroy the very society necessary for our constitutional order to flourish.
Ideologies that aim to replace the constitution, including the civic culture and the civilization that sustains it, with something else, are not immune from governmental confrontation. For over a hundred years, the danger of anarchists has prompted law enforcement to monitor and investigate anarchist networks, and the state has deported noncitizens associated with anarchism. The government has legitimate powers to minimize these threats: the Constitution is not a suicide pact.
-- Nathan Pinkoski, currently translating Éric Zemmour’s bestseller The Suicide of the French (Le Suicide français) into English for Encounter Books.
Better a poor and wise youth Than an old and foolish king who will be admonished no more. Ecclesiastes 4:13
Question:
Or what king, going to make war against another king, does not sit down first and consider whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand? Luke14:31
Answer:
A king who watches too much FOX TV, reads too many Marvel comics, pays attention to the New York Times, and watches too many Hollywood political thrillers.
The narrow strait is the most important chokepoint for the world's oil supply. Some 21 million barrels — or $1.2 billion worth of oil — pass through the strait every day.
Will a closed Strait hurt Iran? In terms of international oil sales, yes, but in terms of daily life, no. Iran pumps 3.5 million barrels of crude oil per day. The situation at this hour:
