Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger

“Does María Corina Machado, the leading figure in Venezuela’s opposition movement, have much longer to live? In other words, will she fall victim to a state-sponsored assassination at the hands of government assassins in the Venezuelan national-security establishment and the U.S. national-security establishment? Both the Venezuelan and U.S. national-security establishments wield the omnipotent power of assassination. Venezuelan military-intelligence officials know that if they were to assassinate Machado, nothing would happen to them. The same goes for Pentagon and CIA officials. They too know that if they assassinated Machado, nothing would happen to them.” (11/13/26)

https://www.fff.org/2026/11/13/are-maria-corina-machados-days-numbered/

Source: Brownstone Institute
by Rev. John F Naugle

“Many years ago, during my undergraduate years at St. Vincent College in Latrobe, someone pointed out to me the black dot which was on the spines of some of the older books in the stacks of our library. This black dot indicated that the book formerly had been held in closed stacks because it had been placed on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum (‘Index of Prohibited Books’), the Church’s official list of books which were judged to be dangerous to faith or morals. … This memory came to mind a few days ago at the Brownstone Conference and Gala as I discussed with Jeffrey Tucker his recent article about how nearly impossible it is to gain access to our own government’s Vaccine Safety Datalink.” (11/13/26)

https://brownstone.org/articles/the-secret-cult-of-vsd/

Source: The Daily Economy
by Jp Cortez

“Lower fees and faster permitting could marginally ease housing costs, but the legacy of cheap credit continues to constrain the market.” (11/13/26)

https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/years-of-cheap-credit-built-a-housing-market-trap/

Source: Students For Liberty
by Ilia Zhuzhunashvili

“When people think about deregulation, they usually picture politicians repealing laws, slashing red tape, or opening industries to competition. Rarely do they think of a machine. Yet one of the most important expansions of human freedom did not begin in a parliament or royal court. It began in a workshop. Johannes Gutenberg’s printing press is remembered as a technological revolution. It made books cheaper, accelerated the spread of knowledge, and helped usher in the Reformation and, eventually, the Enlightenment. But there is another way to understand its significance. The printing press may have been history’s greatest act of deregulation, not because governments removed rules, but because technology undermined a monopoly that authority could no longer effectively control.” (11/13/26)

https://studentsforliberty.org/blog/was-the-printing-press-historys-greatest-deregulation/

Source: Fox News
by Michael Pillsbury

“China may have discovered a remarkably effective way around America’s restrictions on advanced artificial intelligence chips: obtain the processors through ostensibly legitimate companies in Singapore and Malaysia, exploit weaknesses in American export enforcement, and use personal relationships to influence the leadership of the world’s most important AI chipmaker. The unfolding Nvidia scandal raises the possibility that an elaborate Chinese intelligence operation came dangerously close to succeeding. Indeed, some of the technology may already have reached Chinese customers. Congress and the CIA will have to establish how much China got away with and who helped them defeat America.” [editor’s note: The export restrictions themselves defeated America – TLK] (11/13/26)

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/chinas-great-ai-chip-loophole-how-american-espionage-stopped-china-this-time