THANK YOU to subscribing contributors ACS and ERW, and to long-time supporter KL — the $110.50 they sent us over the weekend brings our annual fundraiser total (as of 5am) to $1,262!
As a fundraiser goes on, it sometimes feels like every day is “find a new hook to reel them in” day. Which can be annoying, I know, but until we hit $5,503 ($2,751.50 from all but one of our readers, and “matching funds” from supporter GL), I have to keep it up. Today’s hook:
Tomorrow is my 60th birthday (or would be if I still admitted to HAVING birthdays). In “celebration,” I hope to raise at least $60 more for RRND/FND by then. If the occasion moves you to donate $60, or any part thereof, to our fundraiser, I’ll be duly grateful.
Have a splendiferous day!
Yours in liberty,
Tom Knapp
Publisher
Rational Review News Digest / Freedom News Daily
Source: The Hill
“Robby Soave gives his radar on Rep. Hakeem Jeffries firing back at those on the left who are calling for him to be ousted as House leader.” (11/09/26)
https://thehill.com/hilltv/6201664-rising-november-9-2026/
Source: The Dispatch
by Nick Pompella
“People want to understand how the Columbine shooters, or Adam Lanza of Sandy Hook, or Payton Gendron of Buffalo—who murdered 10 black people at a grocery store in Buffalo, New York on May 14, 2022—could do something so terrible to their fellow human beings. We seek and we find unsatisfactory answers. Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold were goths, were Mansonites, were bullied at school. Adam Lanza was autistic and had OCD. Or, in Payton Gendron’s case, we get the least helpful answer of all: He was ‘radicalized online.'” (11/09/26)
https://thedispatch.com/article/payton-gendron-mass-shooters-buffalo-internet/
Source: The Daily Economy
by Vincent Geloso
“Many complaints about immigration are really byproducts of state interventions elsewhere in the economy, preventing markets from responding to new arrivals.” (11/09/26)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/when-immigration-meets-an-economy-that-cant-adapt/
Source: Common Dreams
“As severe floods ravage Gaza, Israel is continuing to block the entry of tents, repair materials, and mobile homes despite the aid provisions of the October 2025 ‘ceasefire’ agreement. The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reported Monday that more than 150,000 tents are ready to be sent to Gaza, where it said more vacuum trucks and mobile dewatering pumps were urgently needed. At least 70,000 tents were flooded in a single day this weekend. At least one infant reportedly drowned. A mother and her two children, along with three other children from the same family, were killed when a sandbank collapsed onto their tents. ‘Over the weekend, while families slept, water flooded their tents and engulfed entire camps,’ said Ahmad Alhendawi, Save the Children’s regional director for the Middle East and North Africa.” (11/09/26)
https://www.commondreams.org/news/gaza-floods-shelter-blocked-israel
Source: Notes from the Middleground
“A recording from Damon Linker and Persuasion’s live video.” (11/09/26)
https://damonlinker.substack.com/p/ask-the-author-francis-fukuyama-and
Source: Underthrow
by Max Borders
“Working with family carries risks, but so does betting on the empty promises of higher education.” (11/09/26)
https://underthrow.substack.com/p/when-nepotism-beats-college
Source: Law & Liberty
by Max Skjönsberg
“Nineteenth-century Ireland blended sectarian strife with sophisticated debate about representative government.” (11/09/26)
https://lawliberty.org/book-review/the-irish-question-after-burke/
Source: Seattle Times
‘Novo Nordisk A/S and Eli Lilly & Co. must add warning labels to their weight-loss and diabetes drugs about a potential rare side effect that could permanently damage patients’ vision. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration will now require GLP-1 drugs including Novo’s Wegovy and Ozempic and Lilly’s Mounjaro, Zepbound and Foundayo to carry warnings that they may increase the risk of non-arteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy, or NAION. The rare condition can cause decreased vision and potentially permanent vision loss.” (11/09/26)
https://archive.is/TWCWU
Source: The Scott Horton Show
“Trita Parsi returns to the show to discuss what will likely happen next after voters made their opposition to Trump’s war clear in the midterm elections. Scott and Parsi dig into the dynamics within the Trump administration and talk about how Israel’s election also affects things.” (11/09/26)
https://scotthorton.org/interviews/11-5-26-trita-parsi-on-what-happens-to-the-iran-war-after-voters-rejected-it/
Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Hope Schumaker
“For all its novelty, the technology industry is not immune to the laws of economics. The principles of competition and the rules of supply and demand still apply, even to the most cutting-edge devices. Efforts to manipulate the market through bureaucratic regulation threaten to stifle both innovation from businesses and the consumer experience. Recent developments in the world of broadband internet offer a case study in the power of competition. Internet access is becoming more affordable because competition between different methods of home internet services are driving down prices.” (11/09/26)
https://fee.org/articles/a-case-study-in-competition/
