Source: Brownstone Institute
by Andrew Lowenthal

“On December 14, two ISIS-affiliated gunmen massacred 15 unarmed civilians at a Hanukkah festival at Bondi Beach, the icon of Australia’s breezy way of life. Just three police officers guarded the festival. One of the shooters, Naveed Akram, had come to the attention of the Australian security services in 2019, and yet in 2020, his father, an Indian-born non-citizen, was able to legally purchase multiple firearms. Just weeks before their murder spree, the father and son duo spent nearly a month in the Southern Philippines, a hot spot for Islamic terrorism. … To cover for their incompetence, the government is now proposing a host of laws to restrict speech, protest, and gun ownership (Australia already has some of the world’s strictest gun laws).” (04/22/26)

https://brownstone.org/articles/the-government-failed-at-bondi-now-it-punishes-the-people/

Source: Law & Liberty
by Mark Kawar

“When Donald Trump first suggested that the United States should purchase Greenland, the reaction in Washington was disbelief mixed with ridicule. The United States, it had seemed, long ago settled its borders. Territorial expansion belonged to a different era. Yet in the longer arc of American history, expansion has been quite normal. For much of the nation’s first century and a half, Americans debated not whether the United States should grow, but where and by what means. The idea that borders might shift was a routine feature of statecraft. So why does the idea now seem so strange?” 904/22/26)

https://lawliberty.org/why-america-stopped-annexing-territory/

Source: Persuasion
by Francis Fukuyama

“Now that Donald Trump is visibly weakening, it’s important to start thinking seriously about what comes after him. It’s no secret that I’ve been a big fan of the Abundance movement, which was popularized by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson last year in a book by that name. The core of Abundance is to rebuild American state capacity and create a government that can build things once again. At the top of the list are housing and infrastructure — public goods that will make significant dents in the affordability crisis for ordinary Americans.” [editor’s note: Even if there were such a thing as a “public good,” housing wouldn’t be one — it’s neither non-rivalrous nor non-excludable – TLK] (04/22/26)

https://www.persuasion.community/p/my-vision-for-a-post-trump-america

Source: The Daily Economy
by Jeffery L Degner

“For decades, federal regulators controlled airline prices and routes, limiting competition and keeping fares high. The Airline Deregulation Act changed everything.” (04/22/26)

https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/from-fatal-conceit-to-the-friendly-skies-how-deregulation-made-flight-affordable/

Source: New York Post
by staff

“You can credit President Trump with taking extreme risks for the sake of a possible peace, but we fear he’s simply putting off the inevitable by giving Tehran another cease-fire extension. At the least, he should set a deadline of a day or two for the Islamic Republic’s factions to agree on an offer; if they can’t do it fast, they never will. Caveat: The president has access to intelligence he can’t share; that we can’t make clear sense of his decision Tuesday doesn’t remotely mean he was wrong to delay a return to active operations. Still, his stated reasons don’t add up: So what if Pakistan’s leaders asked Washington to hold off until the Iranians ‘can come up with a unified proposal?'” [editor’s note: Anything but declaring “victory” — despite it actually being a fiasco — and knocking off is a stupid idea – TLK] (04/21/26)

https://nypost.com/2026/04/21/opinion/the-iranians-cant-be-allowed-to-string-us-along-much-longer/