Just Now: Incoming Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Iran: “I don’t know of any nation on earth in which there is a bigger difference between the people and those who govern them than what exists in Iran.”

Spanish food is better than French food, and the only reason Americans think otherwise is their (unjustified) elite perception of French culture, and their equally unjustified disdain (if not ignorance) of Spanish culture.

Sorry @FoxNews how could you be so ignorant about #Iran #MEK are traitors supporting Saddam against #Iran and are the only faction MORE hated than even the mullahs themselves.if you look for regime change in #Iran you definitively promote the wrong faction of islamo-marxist traitors

New York City has turned into the most miserable place on planet earth Today, I moved out of it The last 4 years have been the downfall of the greatest city this planet has ever seen: • An explosion of homelessness and drug use • The subway is wildly dangerous to use, even in the middle of the day • Broad day light crime • An explosion of prices making any remotely nice area unlivable outside of the elite • A government that worsens inflation with tyranical tolls and fees (you now have to pay a toll to drive to lower Manhattan now, squeezing the millions of low wage workers who are employed there) It's sad and pathetic. It's almost like it's leadership went out of its way to destroy the city I spent my entire childhood dreaming of living there. After 6 years of experiencing that dream, it turned into a nightmare It took me 4 more years hoping things would change before I finally gave up on it I built a thriving business in New York City. Today all of those tax dollars are leaving. If you live in a city that actively hates you, just remember you are not forced to live there. You are not forced to keep paying them your taxes. You can take your money to a place that values you so much more The downfall of NYC will be studied for a long time. I pray the people elect a leadership in that city/state that actually wants to see it be the great metropolis it once was Your vote and your dollar are the two most powerful weapons you have. Make sure you wield them with every opportunity you can.

Simplifying the tax code will increase productivity, instead of incentivizing bizarre tax-avoidance behavior

Government overspending is what creates inflation. We need to make that link crystal clear to the American people!

trump isn’t bluffing about tariffs. he expects constructive negotiations. he’ll get them (and quickly) with canada and mexico. china is an open question.

Bizarre that Europe would make a decision sanctioning a nation's flag carrier because of a fact that could easily have been verified first with Ukraine's @VZelenskyUA .

New paper, very rough draft: HISTORIANS AND ORIGINALISTS. For a conference on the new book by @TheGNapp. @lsolum @jacklgoldsmith @RandyEBarnett @WilliamBaude @StephenESachs @FriedrichHayek

Iran’s opposition to Israel is not driven by geopolitics but by a perceived religious obligation to annihilate it. For Iran and its proxies, there can be no diplomatic solution for a theological problem like Israel. This is why Iran doesn’t advocate for a Palestinian state so much as it demands the destruction of the Jewish state. And why Iran funds Palestinian terrorists and tunnels, not hospitals or schools (not even UNRWA). Iranian clerics consider the destruction of Israel a religious duty, believing that reclaiming Jewish territory as part of the House of Islam (Dar al-Islam) will hasten the coming of the Mahdi and the Day of Judgment. And Iran views itself as the leader of the Islamic world precisely because it leads the battle against "Islam’s enemies." This is not my biased analysis or a 'Western' interpretation; it is the reasoning Iran provides its citizens as it directs vast state and military resources toward annihilating a country 1,000 miles away. The only people who dispute this are Westerners who project their own values and assumptions onto a world they neither know nor seek to understand. Such naivety is perhaps understandable, but no longer forgivable. This video, from just last week, shows a prominent Iranian cleric speaking on Iran’s primary news channel. He is not an osbcure cleric but wholly representative of the Iranian leadership and worldview. Leaders such as Khamenei (Iran), Nasrallah (Hezbollah) and Yemen (al-Houthi) are not merely political figures; they are religious leaders each claiming descent from the Prophet Muhammad, and they take their religious duties with utmost seriousness. In the West, we lack an equivalent type of leadership, leaving us unprepared to grasp the gravity of their threats and actions.

I served as US Ambassador in Hungary during Viktor Orbán’s crackdown on freedom of the press. But the independence of the Hungarian press was only truly extinguished when news outlets began “self-censorship” to avoid political reprisal. Democracy dies in darkness.

For someone purporting to be the voice of his people (and the king of Iran) it is truly embarrassing. But it’s his own fault. Cozying up to Iran’s enemy, among whose leaders there are advocates for all-out war, meant that one day he’d have to choose his country or his patron.

After World War I, the Kurds were promised they could establish an independent state, However, this promise was broken by the victorious powers due to political and economic considerations. Time to correct the injustice Free Kurdistan! @SecBlinken

10 reasons the Kurds are more deserving of a state than the Palestinians. - Kurds are the largest stateless minority group in the Middle East with 40M people and a national identity going back centuries, unlike the Palestinians. - Kurds have a distinct language and ethnicity, unlike the Palestinians. - Kurds are tolerant, inclusive and religiously diverse, unlike the Palestinians. - Kurds were promised a state of their own by the British in 1920, when “Palestinian” still meant Jew. - Kurds actually experienced genocide during the late 1980s with chemical weapons, unlike the Palestinians. - Kurds have a history of successful self government without attacking their neighbors, unlike the Palestinians. - Kurds don’t deny the existence of other Middle Eastern states or people, unlike most Palestinians. - Kurds have been the vanguard fighting against Islamic State, Al Qaeda and others, unlike the Palestinians who have embraced and supported Islamic militancy. - Kurds fought to protect other ethnic and religious minorities like the Yazidis, Jews, Assyrians and Chaldeans, unlike the Palestinians who oppress non Muslim minorities. - The Kurdish national slogan “Jîn, Jîyan, Azadî” (Women, Life, Freedom) is more universal and acceptable than the uncompromising Palestinian slogan “From the River to the Sea.” None of this means Palestinians shouldn’t eventually have a state of their own that can’t threaten its neighbors and minorities, but the Kurds are far more deserving.