HUGE THANKS to subscribing contributor MB and supporters JM and RW! They weighed in yesterday with a whopping $470, bringing our annual fundraiser total (as of 5am) to $755.50!
Caveat: I’m awaiting final confirmation from the donor on $100 which may require a refund due to error, but either way a REALLY great day for the fundraiser and we’re either just past or quickly approaching the 25% mark toward our goal of $5,503 (once we’ve raised $2,751.50, supporter GL will “match funds” for the other half)!
In other words, we need to raise somewhere around $2,000 more … and once we’ve hit our goal, you won’t hear from me about money at all for the rest of the year, or very much until NEXT October. So …
… and have a great day!
Yours in liberty,
Tom Knapp
Publisher
Rational Review News Digest / Freedom News Daily
Source: Fox News
“Protesters repeatedly interrupted War Secretary Pete Hegseth’s headline appearance at the Army’s biggest annual conference on Wednesday, calling him ‘a war criminal’ and ‘a coward’ in protest of the Iran war. At least five times in the first half hour of a panel, foul-mouthed anti-war protesters shouted at Hegseth, calling him a ‘fucking Nazi’ among other insults. Hegseth responded with chuckles and sarcastic comments, at first — but his reactions became increasingly short and irritated as he slammed the ‘semi-coordinated’ attack as one-by-one protesters emerged among the crowd in Washington, DC. ‘You’re not a warrior you’re a coward!’ one demonstrator shouted at Hegseth. ‘Children in Gaza are starving! He is a war criminal!’ ‘She thinks highly of me,’ the Pentagon chief quipped after one outburst, which led to brief applause from the crowd.” (10/14/26)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/foul-mouthed-protesters-repeatedly-derail-hegseth-remarks-army-event-dc
Source: National Review
“Trump’s Crude Intentions.” (10/13/26)
https://www.nationalreview.com/podcasts/the-editors/trumps-crude-intentions/
Source: Forbes
“An ethics watchdog filed a complaint with the California State Bar Association on Wednesday seeking an investigation into White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia’s claims that she is a lawyer …. The Campaign for Accountability nonprofit said that Zacharia has repeatedly described herself as a lawyer, but reports have found she is not licensed to practice law in California or any other state. The complaint notes that if Zacharia has ‘held herself out to the public as entitled to practice law without a license to do so,’ California law treats the conduct ‘as a crime.’ … Zacharia told reporters shortly after the briefing she passed the bar when she moved to China. Foreign nationals are not permitted to take the bar or practice law in China.” (10/14/260
https://www.forbes.com/sites/saradorn/2026/10/14/katie-zacharia-may-have-committed-a-crime-by-claiming-shes-a-lawyer-complaint-suggests/
Source: Antiwar.com
by Harrison Berger
“As support for Israel crumbles within the United States as a consequence of Israeli behavior, principally its livestreamed genocide in Gaza and ethnic cleansing of the West Bank and Lebanon, Israelis have revived an old strategy for creating ‘a bond between Israel and the rest of the conservative world’: ginning up fear and hatred of Muslims. As Drop Site News previously reported, a study commissioned by the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs and conducted by Mark Penn’s Stagwell Global concluded that the ‘best tactic to combat’ Israel’s increasingly negative public image ‘is to foment fear of ‘Radical Islam’ and ‘Jihadism,’ which remain high.’ … Speeches at this year’s National Conservatism conference suggest that Israel and its powerful lobby have embraced that tactic, fearmongering over the supposed Muslim hordes plotting to take over Europe and the U.S.” (10/14/26)
https://original.antiwar.com/harrison_berger/2026/10/13/con-inc-dials-up-islamophobia-on-israels-behalf/
Source: Liberal Currents
by Steven L Taylor
“A Democratically controlled Congress will have some tools to deploy, but not as many as some may hope.” (10/14/26)
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/checks-and-balances-will-not-save-us/
Source: South China Morning Post [Hong Kong]
“Two leaders of India’s youth-led Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) were remanded in custody for five days on Wednesday, as police ratcheted up efforts to clamp down on anti-election commission protests. CJP activists and opposition parties have defied a security crackdown to demand the resignation of India’s chief election commissioner, accusing the poll body of manipulating voter rolls to benefit Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ruling party. The commission, which oversees voting in the world’s most populous nation, has denied any wrongdoing. Delhi Police said CJP leaders Ashutosh Ranka, 30, and Saurav Das, 27, were taken into custody for their ‘alleged repeated attempts to disturb public peace and violate the law’. At the end of the five-day remand period, they could have their detention extended, be granted bail or be released.” (10/14/260
https://archive.is/SGpLv
Source: Antiwar.com
“Trump, Netanyahu Discuss Bombing Iran Before Elections, IDF Destroys 48 Lebanon Towns, and More.” (10/13/26)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RfUTnn2y8I
Source: Asia Times
by Jan Krikke
“As the war in Ukraine grinds into its fifth winter, the collapse of recent diplomatic initiatives and Washington’s explicit pivot from arming Kyiv to brokering a territorial freeze have laid bare a stark new reality. In February 2022, Western leaders predicted that sanctions would cripple Russia within months and that a united West would see Ukraine through to victory. More than four years later, Russia’s economy has bent but not broken. The United States has turned from Ukraine’s chief backer into a reluctant broker. Europe is paying for a war it cannot win.” (10/14/26)
https://asiatimes.com/2026/10/after-the-end-of-history/
Source: American Greatness
by Raw Egg Nationalist
“Since the Second World War, the left has done its very best to pathologize being right-wing: not just explicit identification with parties of the right, but also the basic attitudes, beliefs, and stances associated with being of a conservative temperament. The goal of that endeavor is to discourage and even punish right-wing affiliation, to the social and electoral benefit of the left. Theodor Adorno, of the Frankfurt School, landed some heavy early blows with his 1950 book, The Authoritarian Personality. Rooted in Freudian ideas of repression and the Oedipus complex, the book argued for the existence of a specific personality structure that predisposes people to undemocratic and fascist beliefs. The book produced a special tool called the F-Scale (literally, the ‘Fascism Scale’) that measured nine key components of the authoritarian personality.” (10/14/26)
https://amgreatness.com/2026/10/14/talafreakout-should-there-be-a-mental-health-requirement-for-lawmakers/
Source: New York Post
“Rep. Ilhan Omar is the target of at least two federal investigations related to possible immigration fraud and inflation of her net worth by tens of millions of dollars in House disclosure forms, according to sources familiar with the probes and an administration official. DC US Attorney Jeanine Pirro confirmed Tuesday on Fox News’ ‘America Reports’ that ‘there are several investigations going on’ related to the Minnesota Democrat, adding that potential civil or criminal immigration violations as well as Omar’s claim of being worth up to $30 million were also under scrutiny. Sources familiar with the cases disclosed that the Minnesota US Attorney’s Office was leading the probe into alleged immigration fraud, possibly involving false statements about Omar’s birth date, while Pirro’s office in DC was taking on the inquiry into the finances of Omar and her husband, Tim Mynett.” (10/14/26)
https://nypost.com/2026/10/14/us-news/rep-ilhan-omar-investigated-in-dc-minnesota-over-inflating-net-worth-immigration-fraud-sources/
