Hey, everyone …
After a not too terrible weekend, our annual fundraiser had its first “zero-dollar day” yesterday. We remain stuck (as of 5am on October 6) at $115 toward our goal of $5,503 (actually $2,751.50, since reader GL is generously “matching funds” for the second half of the goal IF we can raise the first half).
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Yours in liberty,
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Rational Review News Digest / Freedom News Daily
Source: Law & Liberty
by Justin Buckley Dyer
“There are two kinds of love of country, Alexis de Tocqueville observed in Democracy in America. The first is a ‘sort of patriotic attachment’ that arises from the natural affections a man has for his birthplace and is ‘united to a taste for ancient customs, and to a reverence for ancestral traditions of the past.’ This kind of patriotism is instinctive, unreflective and transient. The second ‘springs from knowledge; it is nurtured by the laws; it grows by the exercise of civil rights.’ A man who loves his country this way understands that his own well-being is bound up with the prosperity of his country.” (10/06/26)
https://lawliberty.org/book-review/the-challenge-and-promise-of-reflective-patriotism/
Source: SFGate
“Belgian-born scientist Francis Halzen won the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for his efforts to demystify a rare group of neutrinos, tiny cosmic particles that researchers believe offer clues to how the universe evolved. ‘It was a great surprise, and I obviously didn’t expect it,’ Halzen said, speaking to the Nobel Physics Committee by phone from Italy, in a call broadcast at the news conference to announce the winner. Halzen, a physicist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the U.S., said the work was a massive collaborative effort. He was working on a research proposal when the Nobel committee called just before lunchtime. ‘I hope that this prize will help getting it approved,’ he said to chuckles from the audience. Neutrinos are tiny cosmic particles with no electric charge and extraordinarily small mass, making them difficult to detect.” (10/06/26)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/world/article/nobel-prize-in-physics-to-be-awarded-in-stockholm-22464191.php
Source: The Atlantic
“The 2026 Midterms Must-Watch List.” (10/06/26)
https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/2026/10/five-midterm-elections-watch-2026/688888/
Source: The Daily Economy
by Paul Mueller
‘A growing subculture is determined to subordinate America to the authority of Catholic theology. But this project has been tried before: it ends in predictable horrors.” (10/06/26)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/catholic-integralism-is-a-brutal-dead-end-will-gen-z-repeat-it/
Source: Washington Post
“Jim Bakker, a televangelist who once led a multimillion-dollar religious empire with his wife, Tammy Faye, before a sex sandal tarnished his reputation and a conviction for fraud and conspiracy sent him to federal prison, died Oct. 5. He was 86. His second wife, Lori, announced the death but not cite a cause or say where he died. He had a stroke in 2020. … Tammy Faye died in 2007. Their son Jamie changed his first name to Jay and became a tattooed, body-pierced preacher in Minneapolis who espoused somewhat liberal social views. In addition to his wife and son, Mr. Bakker’s survivors include a daughter from his first marriage, Tammy Sue Bakker Chapman.” (10/06/26)
https://archive.is/rLyTI
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
“Political Candy and the Death of Conscience.” (10/06/26)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DF9NTAKfi7I
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Wanjiru Njoya
“Equality before the law is a highly-contested principle, largely because there is no consensus on what it means for everyone to be treated equally. Does equality before the law mean that nobody believes himself to be superior or inferior to others? Does the Fourteenth Amendment guarantee that we must all enjoy the same social status? Can the Constitution ensure that no one feels slighted, ignored, or overlooked? Do citizens have a constitutional right to feel welcome and included in everything?” (10/06/26)
https://mises.org/mises-wire/equality-law-does-not-mean-equality-subjective-feelings
Source: Christian Science Monitor
by staff
“In the run-up to Israel’s Oct. 27 election, the country’s Supreme Court unanimously ruled last week that a key minority (the two main parties representing Arab Israelis) could not be banned from participating. The decision serves as a marker of democracy in a political system that protects the rights of minorities in instances when one side has an overwhelming majority. The ban, recently approved by an election commission dominated by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s governing coalition, would have effectively disenfranchised the one-fifth of Israeli citizens who are of Arab Palestinian heritage. In the wake of the October 2023 terrorist attack by Hamas, many right-wing Jewish Israelis have pushed for not only punitive military action in Gaza and forcible expansion of Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, but also curtailment of the rights of Israeli Arabs.” (10/05/26)
https://www.csmonitor.com/Editorials/the-monitors-view/2026/1005/Israel-a-Jewish-and-democratic-state-maintains-Arab-citizens-representation
Source: Fox News
by Eli Steele
“When my father, Shelby Steele, author, columnist and senior fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, began publishing his essays on race in the late 1980s, my teenage self was often by his side when he gave speeches. After each speech, the same scene unfolded as a crowd of people gathered to the side of the podium, each wanting a word. I remember one man in particular who hurried to reach my father first. He wore a corduroy sports coat with leather elbow patches. He said, ‘Dr. Steele, that was truly a remarkable speech. I want to thank you for saying the things you said up there.’ My father thanked him, and the man lowered his voice and leaned in as if to share a conspiracy. ‘You know I can’t say those things.'” (10/06/26)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/eli-steele-terror-called-racist-crushing-free-speech-america
Source: Ron Paul Liberty Report
“Another War? Trump Backstops Saudi Offensive On Yemen!” (10/06/26)
https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1YGNrbkXYRVGw
