2010—In his final act of extraordinary malfeasance in Perry v. Schwarzenegger, Judge Vaughn Walker refuses to stay his judgment against California’s Proposition 8 while the...
America’s energy advantage depends on more than just the resources beneath the ground. It depends on the pipelines, terminals, and other infrastructure needed to move energy from where it is extracted to where it is needed. Without the ability to build and operate those systems under predictable rules, abundant resources cannot deliver affordable power at […]
On Sept. 1, 1920, French High Commissioner Henri Gouraud signed a decree that ripped Tripoli from Faisal’s short-lived Syrian Arab Kingdom, only days after the Battle of Maysalun. More than 200 Sunni merchants from Tripoli submitted formal petitions demanding reunion with Damascus. Gouraud ignored every signature to create a Maronite-majority Greater Lebanon and deny Syria […]