Source: David Friedman’s Substack
by David Friedman
“Congress or a state legislature wants a law that it expects the Supreme Court to rule against. They pass the law anyway. Lower level judges that share the legislature’s view rule in favor of the law but eventually the case reaches one who does not. The state appeals, exhausts its options for appeals, stops enforcing the law. It passes another law doing the same thing in an arguably different way. This looks like a tactic by which a legislature can avoid control by the courts for an indefinite, perhaps unlimited, length of time. Gun control opponents claim states where gun control is popular, such as New Jersey, have employed it successfully to get around the 2nd Amendment. An example from the other side of the political spectrum could be Trump’s tariffs.” (03/08/26)
https://daviddfriedman.substack.com/p/the-exploitation-of-legal-delay
Source: Crooked Media
“Gavin Newsom Is Finally Comfortable with Himself.” (03/08/26)
https://audioboom.com/posts/8870900-gavin-newsom-is-finally-comfortable-with-himself
Source: The UnPopulist
by Tom G Palmer
“That the Trump administration is targeting ‘enemies within’ instead of Putin shows how much America has already succumbed to it.” (03/08/26)
https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/russia-resurrected-and-exported-a
Source: Yahoo! News
“A man is recovering in the hospital after he was shot by a CCL holder while allegedly attempting to break into a home on the city’s South Side early Saturday morning. … According to police, the suspect, a 59-year-old man, allegedly broke into a garage in the area but was confronted by the homeowner amid the attempt. The homeowner, a valid CCL holder, then pulled out a gun and opened fire on the suspect. Officers said the suspect suffered a gunshot wound to his right leg and was later hospitalized in good condition.” (03/08/26)
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/alleged-home-intruder-shot-ccl-132101777.html
Source: Free Talk Live
“Mark Edge Live — Daylight Savings Time is dumb :: Time zones :: The Free State Project, New Hampshire, protests, activism, Liberty Clubs :: Interstates :: You don’t own your land :: New Hampshire Liberty club, Free State Party :: NH Secession :: Porcupine Freedom Festival :: ForkFest.party ::Mark Edgington, Tall Bill, Stu.” (03/08/26)
https://soundcloud.com/freetalklive/ftl2026-03-08
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Yerevan Saaed
“As a tactic, arming the Kurds has real operational merit. But the question is whether the United States intends to convert Kurdish wartime service into a lasting institutional and political commitment after regime change. In Iraq, Washington largely followed through: Kurds secured constitutional recognition, a federal region, and their own Peshmerga forces. In Syria, the outcome was the opposite. When the U.S. withdrew political and military support, the Kurds were left exposed to the new regime in Damascus. Arms can flow, but whether a binding alliance follows is the only question that determines if this venture ends in some form of Kurdish self-determination or another cycle of mobilization, abandonment, and reprisal.” (03/08/26)
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/kurds-iran-war/
Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Walter Block
“Ordinarily, in the absence of such market interferences, free trade would be the policy most conducive to prosperity. We produce the products for which we have a comparative advantage, and interfere with the international division of labor as little as possible. However, matters change with marketing boards. Is it possible that a second economically illiterate regulation may benefit us by (partially) reducing the impact of the first? Yes, without marketing boards, free trade is the ticket to economic well-being. But with them, is there a case for tariffs on grounds of economic development? Here is the argument in favor of such a paradoxical hypothesis.” (03/08/26)
https://fee.org/articles/marketing-boards-are-a-menace/
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Today’s edition of the freedom movement’s daily newspaper is the six thousandth edition as “Rational Review News Digest.” The first edition under that brand came out on December 23, 2002.
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Source: NBC News
“Mojtaba Khamenei, the son of Iran’s slain supreme leader, and widely viewed as a hardliner, has been named his successor. … Oil prices have surged past $100 per barrel as the war intensifies, though Trump said the spike will be ‘short term’ and ‘a very small price to pay.’ Israel hit Iranian oil depots over the weekend, while Tehran has targeted energy sites across the region and throttled the key Strait of Hormuz waterway. The U.S. military announced the death of another service member, bringing the total killed in combat to seven.” (03/09/26)
https://www.nbcnews.com/world/iran/live-blog/live-updates-iran-war-oil-prices-khamenei-supreme-leader-israel-trump-rcna262378
Source: Notablog
by Chris Matthew Sciabarra
“This war with Iran is an extension of the dynamics that have always driven US foreign policy. And nothing will stop this President from the path of destruction he has chosen — certainly not the Congress, which has long been ceding its constitutional responsibilities to the executive branch. Indeed, House Speaker Mike Johnson denies that the US is even involved in a ‘war.’ And Senate Republicans have blocked any war power limits to this operation, giving Trump a rubberstamp to do whatever the hell he wants. The warmongers among us serve the administration by labeling as ‘traitors’ those who oppose US intervention abroad. This has become a virtual rite of passage for critics in times of war.” (03/07/26)
https://notablog.net/2026/03/07/the-operation-was-a-success-but-the-patient-died/
