“Politicians break campaign promises with hardly any hesitation and usually they get away with it. Americans have come to put up with broken promises for so long, they hardly even seem to notice. Last week, however, voters noticed. They showed the Republican party just how angry they were over President Trump’s decision to attack Iran and how angry they were with Congress for abandoning its Constitutional authority over matters of war and peace. … Has the Republican party gotten the message? Have they learned the lesson voters can deliver when they finally have had enough of being lied to?” (11/10/26)
“Ukraine has attacked several targets in Russia ahead of Wednesday’s second day of trilateral talks in Abu Dhabi between Moscow and Kiev, mediated by the United States. The governor of the Leningrad region, which surrounds St Petersburg, said on Telegram that 150 Ukrainian drones had been repelled overnight. The target was the Baltic Sea area where the Russian oil and gas port of Ust-Luga is located, he said. Three workers were injured and a fire broke out, he added. … The attacks once again affected operations at St Petersburg’s Pulkovo airport, the state-run Russian news agency TASS reported. More than 40 flights were delayed.” (11/11/26)
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Luc Lelièvre
“Digital surveillance promises to make institutions more secure by enabling them to see more. Automated license-plate readers, facial recognition systems, and interconnected databases allow authorities to identify patterns and retrieve information at speeds once considered impossible. Yet greater capacity to detect and classify does not necessarily improve the ability to determine what happened. An institution may acquire more information without gaining the ability to interpret it accurately. The distinction matters because surveillance does more than collect information. Its outputs can initiate investigations, influence decisions, and authorize interventions that affect people who have little control over how the information is interpreted. The central problem is not merely that surveillance systems sometimes make mistakes. Rather, an institution can transform an uncertain indication into an apparently established fact through the very procedures the indication sets in motion.” (11/10/26)
“U.S. consumer prices increased more than expected in October amid higher costs for food and accommodation, cementing expectations that the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates next month. The Consumer Price Index report from the Labor Department today also showed a strong buildup of underlying inflation pressures for a third straight month. It followed data last week showing the labor market regained momentum in October. … The CPI increased 0.4% last month after advancing 0.6% in September, the department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics said. It was the third consecutive month of gains of 0.4% or more. Economists polled by Reuters had forecast the CPI would climb 0.3% over the month.” (11/10/26)
“Various polls show the public broadly in support of ending the ‘spring forward / fall back’ nonsense, but not necessarily in agreement on whether the standard should be ‘Standard Time’ or ‘Daylight Saving Time.’ I’ve seen good arguments from both sides. My own position is: Pick one and make it happen. For whatever reason, such measures always seem to bog down in Congress. Unable to decide which direction to go in, they always end up punting and putting us through another year of those annoying clock changes. There’s a third way for Congress to go about exercising its Article 1, Section 8 power to ‘fix the standard of weights and measures’ that’s simple and sensible.” (11/10/26)
“Three men, including one already jailed in the United States, were accused by U.S. authorities Tuesday of being Iran-supported operatives who plotted nearly 20 attacks on Jewish communities in Europe and the U.S. as well as a planned assault on a British airbase used by the U.S. Air Force. Charges against Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood al-Saadi, a dual Iranian-Iraqi national; Mohsen Mohajeri, an Iranian national; and Mohammad Ali al-Hassani, an Iraqi national, were outlined in a superseding indictment unsealed in Manhattan federal court. Only al-Saadi is in custody.” (11/10/26)
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger
“In the aftermath of the midterm elections, while virtually all of the focus is on the Iran war and soaring prices, we mustn’t forget that immigration was another major reason for the political massacre of Republican candidates at the hands of the Democrats. Specifically, after overwhelmingly going for Trump just two years ago in the 2024 presidential election, Hispanics switched course in the midterms and returned to the Democrats. … as I have been emphasizing for 36 years here at The Future of Freedom Foundation, there is one — and only one — solution to the decades-old, ongoing, never-ending immigration morass. That solution is open borders — the abolition of ICE, the Border Patrol, and all restrictions on the free movements of people across the U.S.-Mexico border and, more generally, into and out of the United States.” (11/10/26)
“A Saudi court has sentenced a domestic worker from Kenya to 100 lashes for giving birth outside marriage. The ruling, issued last month, shows the limits of a decade of social and legal reforms in a kingdom where women can be jailed and punished for ‘illegal pregnancy.’ The sentence is a harsh turn in what has been a terrifying ordeal for a mother who has tried for more than a year to return to Kenya with her child but has been blocked at every turn. The mother, Esther Wanja Muthoni, is one of thousands of East African domestic workers who were recruited to work as housekeepers and nannies in Saudi Arabia. … Ms. Muthoni was working legally as a domestic worker through Maharah Human Resources, a Saudi corporation, when she became pregnant during a brief relationship with an Egyptian resident of the kingdom.” (11/10/26)
