Source: EconLog
by Scott Sumner
“If the US intends to abandon Nato, the best hope of smaller nations is to strengthen their mutual defense alliances, perhaps even creating a unified European defense force. Even then, it would be considerably weaker than the US military. But deterrence doesn’t need military superiority to be successful, it merely needs to be strong enough to inflict considerable pain on its adversaries. Switzerland’s military wasn’t strong enough to defeat Germany in WWII, but they were strong enough so that Germany did not consider it worthwhile to attack.” (04/24/25)
https://www.econlib.org/one-way-or-another/
Source: IP … Frequently
“David and Brad dissect Jeff Bezos'[s] Blue Origin spectacle featuring an all-female crew of ‘astronauts’ in form-fitting space suits and Katie Perry kissing the ground after an 11-minute joyride in an undeniably phallic spacecraft. Then comes the irony of New York Attorney General Letitia James — who pursued Trump on property valuation charges — now facing similar accusations of falsifying loan applications and listing her father as her husband. The episode wraps with the cautionary tale of Minot, North Dakota’s mayor, whose personal ‘rocket launch’ video accidentally landed in his city attorney’s inbox — proving once again that incompetence knows no political boundary. All this plus squirrel beheadings, Disney cruises, and George Michael appreciation.” (04/23/25)
https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/ip-frequently/episodes/Ep–281—Rocket-Women-e31rq0p
Source: Common Dreams
by Harvey J Kaye
“The time has come. The crisis intensifies, and the struggle is being joined. Abraham Lincoln’s warning of 1862 (‘We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of Earth’) speaks ever more directly to us. But keep listening. Lincoln did not merely issue a warning to his fellow citizens. Believing they already essentially knew what he was to say, he reminded them of who they were and made it perfectly clear to them what they had to do to overcome the crisis and prevail against the enemy they confronted. He told them that winning the war and sustaining the Union required not simply defeating the Confederacy, but also making America’s revolutionary promise all the more real for all the more Americans. He told them that to truly secure the United States they had to end slavery.” (04/24/25)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/take-hold-of-radical-u-s-history
Source: The Corbett Report
“Meet Mark Carney, Globalist Insider.” (04/24/25)
https://corbettreport.com/meet-mark-carney-globalist-insider/
Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob
“Can there be ‘pandemic justice?’ On June 11th of last year, the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic of the House of Representatives interviewed former Governor of the State of New York, Andrew M. Cuomo, in pursuance of getting to the bottom of the disaster that was COVID in New York and beyond. Cuomo had counsel; the interrogation was transcribed. The focus? The governor’s disastrous decision to send coronavirus patients back to his state’s nursing homes, where they quickly spread the new disease to its most vulnerable targets.” (04/24/25)
https://thisiscommonsense.org/2025/04/24/a-cuomo-indictment/
Source: The Bulwark
by Mona Charen
“The Trump administration marries insane ideas to gross, bullying tactics. But even when this administration stumbles upon an idea that is not deranged, illegal, or immoral, it has the capacity to do great harm. I’m thinking of the apparent plans to encourage marriage and motherhood. The administration is reportedly considering proposals to award mothers $5,000 ‘baby bonuses,’ to reserve 30 percent of Fulbright scholarships to parents, to reduce the costs of IVF (not clear how), and to fund programs to educate women about ovulation cycles (I kid you not). … The Trump crowd’s approach to fertility is not the joy of parenthood or the warmth of close families. It’s more like the ‘Great Replacement’ theory made flesh. Give them credit for honesty, I guess. They don’t really claim to be speaking up for family values.” (04/24/25)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/donald-trump-administration-family-policy-birth-rate-elon-musk-replacement-fertility-children-babies
Source: SFGate
“A federal judge in California on Thursday barred the Trump administration from denying or conditioning the use of federal funds to ‘sanctuary’ jurisdictions. U.S. Judge William Orrick said a preliminary injunction was appropriate because the executive orders were unconstitutional just as they were in 2017 when President Donald Trump announced a similar order. Orrick issued the injunction sought by San Francisco and more than a dozen other municipalities that sued over a pair of executive orders the Republican president issued targeting local municipalities that limit cooperation with federal immigration efforts. Orrick, based in San Francisco, wrote that defendants are restrained and enjoined ‘from directly or indirectly taking any action to withhold, freeze, or condition federal funds’ and the administration must provide written notice of his order to all federal departments and agencies by Monday.” (04/24/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/politics/article/judge-bars-trump-from-denying-federal-funds-to-20292507.php
Source: The Dispatch
“SCOTUSblog, Welcome to The Dispatch.” (04/24/25)
https://thedispatch.com/podcast/advisoryopinions/scotusblog-welcome-to-the-dispatch/
Source: Antiwar.com
by Ted Snider
“‘There are two ways Iran can be handled,’ U.S. President Donald Trump has said, ‘militarily, or you make a deal.’ National Security Adviser Mike Waltz advocated for the military solution; Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and Vice President JD Vance advocated for diplomacy. Trump has opted for diplomacy. But all options are still on the table, and if the diplomatic path fails, Trump says ‘the other will solve the problem.’ But there are several reasons why all options should not be on the table and why bombing Iran to prevent it from acquiring a nuclear bomb would be absurd. Here are seven of them.” (04/24/25)
https://original.antiwar.com/ted_snider/2025/04/23/seven-reasons-why-its-absurd-to-bomb-iran/
Source: The Bulwark
by Tom Malinowski
“Action items for Democrats in Congress.” (04/24/25)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/make-it-painful-to-collaborate-with-trump-democrats-congress-bills-action-items-avengers-initiative
