Red Sheep
Source: Quillette
by Ron Capshaw
“An impressive new biography of Jessica Mitford emphasises her sceptical and anti-authoritarian personality. But this was only half of the picture.” (11/25/25)
Author: Thomas L. Knapp
Guinea-Bissau: Embalo, Dias claim win in presidential election
Source: Al Jazeera [Qatari state media]
“The two leading candidates in Guinea-Bissau’s presidential election – incumbent Umaro Sissoco Embalo and main challenger Fernando Dias – have both declared victory before the release of official results. Both campaigns had claimed on Monday that their contender exceeded the 50 percent threshold needed to win outright, eliminating the need for a run-off. … There was no immediate comment by the National Electoral Commission, which is expected to announce provisional results on Thursday, regarding the conflicting claims. Twelve candidates competed in Sunday’s poll that saw a turnout of more than 65 percent.” (11/25/25)
Show-Me Institute Podcast, 11/25/25
Source: Show-Me Institute
“Eliminating Missouri’s Income Tax, Subsidies for Gas Stations, and Early Literacy Reform.” (11/25/25)
Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp, 11/25/25
Source: Antiwar.com
“US Designates Non-Existent Cartel as ‘Terrorist Org,’ Ukraine Makes Changes To US Plan, and More.” (11/25/25)
Tariffs vs. Quotas
Source: EconLog
by David Hebert
“Because tariffs are a tax, they raise the price that consumers pay, increase the cost that sellers incur, or some combination of both. Point is: someone will pay the tax and those tax dollars will then flow into the federal government in the form of tariff revenue. … A quota is a legal restriction on the amount of a good that can be imported. Because it restricts the amount of a good that is allowed to enter a market, we can easily imagine a tariff and a quota having the same impact on the amount of a good that is imported. … Because tariffs and quotas ultimately have exactly the same effect on consumers and producers, there is good reason to believe that the two are economically equivalent, as Solicitor General Sauer argues. If that’s the case, why would any government use tariffs when they can instead use quotas?” (11/25/25)
NYC judge: OpenAI must turn over communication with lawyers about deleted databases
Source: San Diego Union-Tribune
“A federal judge ruled that OpenAI needs to turn over all its internal communications with lawyers about why it deleted two massive troves of pirated books from a notorious ‘shadow library’ that the tech company is accused of using to train ChatGPT. Manhattan Federal Court Magistrate Judge Ona Wang ruled Monday that the tech giant’s shifting reasons for deleting the data tanked any argument that those reasons could be protected by attorney-client privilege. ‘OpenAI continues to assert that it did not willfully infringe Class Plaintiffs’ copyrighted works. A jury is entitled to know the basis for OpenAI’s purported good faith,’ Wang wrote in her 28-page decision. … The judge is overseeing a massive consolidated class-action lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI, which includes the Daily News, affiliated newspapers at Tribune Publishing and MediaNews Group and other news outlets that are accusing the technology giant of copyright infringement.” (11/25/25)
China launches spacecraft to bring three stranded astronauts back from space station sometime next year
Source: CBS News
“China launched the Shenzhou 22 spacecraft on Tuesday to help bring back a team of astronauts after a damaged spacecraft left them temporarily stranded on China’s space station. The Shenzhou 22 will be used sometime in 2026 by the three astronauts who docked on the Tiangong space station on Nov. 1. … The Shenzhou 20 spacecraft – the damaged one, which for now remains in space – will be brought down to Earth later and assessed, according to state broadcaster CCTV. The space program determined it didn’t meet safety standards for transporting the astronauts.” (11/25/25)
Heartland Daily Podcast, episode 3065
Source: Heartland Institute
“The Rise of Zohran Mamdani and Socialism in America.” (11/24/25)
Three Lessons From Trump’s Latest Plan for Ukraine
Source: Washington Monthly
by Tamar Jacoby
“The world appears to have dodged a bullet. Donald Trump and team are walking back from their latest and most outlandish proposal for peace in Ukraine. American and Ukrainian negotiators meeting in Geneva are working to revise the plan, and U.S. and European officials have agreed to meet separately to discuss its implications for NATO and the European Union. The outcome of these talks is unknown, and it’s hard to imagine a deal that will satisfy all parties — the Russian, Ukrainian, and European positions remain starkly at odds. But whatever the result, some things are already clear — including three lessons for the U.S. and Europe.” (11/25/25)
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2025/11/25/trump-ukraine-plan-three-lessons/
See No Evil: Epstein, Israel, and Looking the Other Way
Source: Libertarian Institute
by Brandt Burleson
“What do the highest echelons of government, media, corporations, entertainment, and academia all have in common? Many of them may signify the systematic total moral degradation of our society. Donald Trump, Bill Clinton, Ehud Barak, Prince Andrew, Ghislaine Maxwell, Bill Gates, Alexander Acosta, Noam Chomsky, Steve Bannon, Les Wexner, Bill Richardson, Alan Dershowitz, Laurence Kraus, and many more may represent an oligarchy of evil. I speak of course of course of these leaders’ various degrees of connection to notorious pedophile and human trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. Notions that would have been dismissed as the ravings of a conspiracy addled mind wrapped in tinfoil a decade ago now appear considerably more plausible after recent revelations. Best case scenario, many incredibly influential individuals making decisions that impact hundreds of millions of people are ineffectual idiots who failed to see what was happening right under their noses: the horrific and disgusting trafficking over 1,000 women and girls.” (11/25/25)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/see-no-evil-epstein-israel-and-looking-the-other-way