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Senators Ban Themselves From Betting on Prediction Markets



The Senate passed a resolution on Thursday to ban senators and staffers from
trading on prediction markets, outlawing the DC insiders from gambling on
real-world events on which they have the inside scoop.

The resolution takes effect immediately, meaning Senate members, staff, and
officers can no longer exploit the public by using their government jobs to get
rich on apps like Polymarket or Kalshi. It passed days after the Justice
Department charged a U.S. Army soldier with using classified information to win
hundreds of thousands of dollars betting on Nicolas Maduro’s capture.

Prediction markets operate like sportsbooks, but for global affairs. Users
place wagers on things like elections, government policies, and even the
weather.Of course the people making those policies should not be allowed to
profit by predicting their own behavior. That’s like a Major League pitcher
betting that he would throw a ball, thenpurposely missing the strike zone
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Education Department Caps Grad School Loans at $20,500 Per Year



The Education Department announced plans on Thursday to cap federal student
loans for graduate programs, limiting many students to borrowing $20,500 per
year and $100,000 over their lifetimes. The policy will not be universal, as
those enrolled in “professional” programs, including law, medicine, dentistry,
and veterinary medicine, will have a $50,000 annual ceiling with a $200,000
lifetime limit.

Officials believe the policy will curb excessive borrowing, preserve access
to federal aid, and eventually lower the cost of higher education. All
Americans should hope they are right. Lack of regulation has resulted in
student loan debt ballooning to nearly $1.7 trillion, with less than 40% of
borrowers in active repayment and nearly 25% in default. College tuition has
subsequently increased faster than any other household expense in the last 40
years, total college loans have spiked by 343% since 2005, and student loan
debt exceeds the country’s cumulative credit card debt.




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Iranian Supreme Leader Vows to Protect Nuclear Capabilities



Iran’s Supreme Leader vowed on Thursday to protect his country’s nuclear
capabilities, rejecting Donald Trump’s insistence that the Iranians bow to the
West and eliminate their ability to develop atomic bombs.

Mojtaba Khamenei’s remarks came as Iran’s chokehold on the Strait of Hormuz
gives the country strong negotiating leverage. Brent crude traded as high as
$126 a barrel yesterday, leadingAmerica’s average gas price
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Iranian ports, an act of war designed to prevent Iran from selling its oil and
deprive the country of critical revenue, will force its leaders to flinch.

Even those who hate Iran should recognize that Khamenei has little reason to
give up his nuclear program. The U.S. government has spent this century
demonizing Iraq, Libya, Iran, Venezuela, Russia, and North Korea, and the only
two we havenot invaded, Russia and North Korea, have nukes. That is no
coincidence. Washington’s foreign policy has made world leaders view nuclear
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The Pentagon Estimated the Iran War’s Cost at $25 Billion. The True Number Is
Likely at Least Double.



As yesterday’s newsletter
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estimated the Iran War’s total cost at $25 billion on Wednesday. If that number
struck you as strangely low, your instincts were strong.

Operation Epic Fury’s actual price tag is closer to $50 billion, officials
familiar with internal assessments told CBS News on Thursday. The projected
expenses of replacing destroyed or damaged military equipment, which the War
Department bizarrely omitted, account for much of the gap. The money Americans
are losing to jacked-up energy costs did not factor into either equation.

Given the U.S. sends Israel billions of dollars every year, and we started
this war at Benjamin Netanyahu’s demand, shouldn’t the Israelis send
reparations for the money our country has blown on their behalf? How come no
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Israeli Settler Attacks, Kicks, and Bruises Elderly Nun in Jerusalem


How are Christians doing in the Holy Land? Stories like this paint a bleak
picture.

An Israeli settler violently assaulted a French nun in East Jerusalem’s Old
City this week, reportedly throwing her to the ground and repeatedly kicking
her before bystanders’ intervention. The woman was minding her business when
the attacker approached from behind, shoved her to the pavement, then kicked
her while she was down. Her head slammed into the ground, leaving a large,
purple mark above her right eye.

As usual, we do not report this story because we hate Israel or think the
country’s violent criminals represent all Jews. They do not. Instead, the
purpose is to acknowledge that the Israeli government does not do nearly enough
to prevent these kinds of incidents. Why is that? As Israel’s largest
international funder, the U.S. could easily get its leaders to crack down on
attacks on Christians.Step up to the plate, or lose all support. How come
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Trump-Owned Company Scores Defense Contract From Trump Administration


The Trump family is ready to get rich off the Iran War.

The U.S. Air Force is reportedly set to purchase a batch of interceptor
drones from a company partly owned by Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump. The
Florida-based firm, calledPowerus
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, had never sold this kind of weapon to the military. The news comes just days
after aseparate Eric Trump business
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landed a $24 million Pentagon contract for its battlefield robotics project,
which Fox News went out of its way to celebrate.

“It’s corruption,” Kathleen Clark of Washington University School of Law told
the Associated Press last month. “Government decision makers will feel pressure
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Bipolar Florida Teacher Fired for Twerking in Class


Kids learn a lot in school. Sometimes too much.

A Florida high school has reportedly fired a substitute teacher for twerking
in front of her students, ending the so-called educator’s employment after she
dropped it like it was hot in the classroom. Officials say the teacher,
identified as bipolar disorder victim Angela Jourdan, described herself as a
“million-dollar prostitute,” told students she would engage in sexual activity
with them, grabbed a girl by the neck, and shook her butt on the job.

Ms. Jourdan allegedly refused to leave the school at her assistant
principal’s request, instead waiting for police to escort her off the premises.
She faces misdemeanor charges of disorderly conduct, simple battery, and two
counts of disruption of a school function. She would be quite the cellmate.Read
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Commentary


The Family Needs Saving. The Family Can Help.


Young Americans are marrying at drastically lower rates than previous
generations. According to theCensus Bureau
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, nearly 80% of women and 65% of men born between 1940 and 1944 had tied the
knot by the age of 25. Those numbers feel inconceivable today, as the
percentage of U.S. 30-year-olds who are married and own a home reportedly sits
at 13%.

Who deserves the blame for this drop-off? The answer depends on whom you ask.
Seek a woman’s view, and you’ll likely find yourself on the receiving end of a
diatribe about how men are too unserious, lazy, and addicted to video games to
date. Ask a man, and you may hear a sob story on women’s preposterously high
expectations and unwillingness to accept that not everybody can make $200,000 a
year. Both sides feel stuck and short on hope. But are their diagnoses correct?

As is common in America’s crises, regular people are not really at fault for
the decline of marriage. Yes, your typical U.S. 24-year-old man likely spends
too much time hypnotized by his computer screen, and sure, his female
counterpart may benefit from an adjustment in standards, but they did not
create the atmosphere that has led to their widespread loneliness. That claim
belongs to the ruling class; the epidemic isgovernment and industry-driven.

What prompts a young man to prioritize rotting on the couch over finding a
wife? It does not happen because he prefers to sleep solo. It is the result of
so much economic anxiety that he views the American Dream as completely
unattainable. Affording a family seems impossible, making laying the groundwork
for starting one appear like a waste of time. No matter what he does, he thinks
he will never be good enough. Even if he manages to land a good job, one income
will not get him a house. It all feels hopeless. Decades of backward governance
created these conditions.

And what about the women? Corporate America has spent years brainwashing
girls into seeing raising children as an unfulfilling and unimpressive purpose.
Rather than celebrating women who devote themselves to their families, soulless
businesses like Citibank want them to table their personal lives in the name of
operating as efficient and effective employees. That means no time for kids,
and certainly no time for a husband who is notat least as high on the corporate
ladder as they are. In this worldview, nothing eclipses reaching girl-boss
status. That includes motherhood.

Is any of this fixable without a total revolution? How can America change its
culture so that the home returns to its rightful place as the most important
element of life? The answer lies within the question:it starts in the home.
Healthy households create grounded children, and grounded children evolve into
the kind of adults capable of ending our national decline. And those households
center around fathers.

TCN’s newest documentary, Fathers Wanted
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when fathers lead with responsibility, purpose, and are not constantly attacked
as “toxic” when they dare to act masculine. It is time to end the war on men.



 

Videos of the Day

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This Day in History


May 1, 1967: Elvis Presley’s wedding. The King of Rock and Roll married
non-celebrity Priscilla Beaulieu in a tiny Las Vegas wedding, tying the knot
before only 14 guests in a suite at the Aladdin Hotel. The ceremony lasted
eight minutes. The couple met when Elvis and Priscilla’s father were stationed
in Germany as U.S. soldiers. They had a 10-year age gap, and Priscilla was only
14 when the courtship began. The marriage lasted less than a decade.


 

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