“MyPillow founder Mike Lindell has long denied Donald Trump’s loss in the 2020 presidential election. Now, he’s refusing to accept his own election loss in the GOP primary for governor of Minnesota. The Minnesota Supreme Court on Saturday rejected Lindell’s bid for a full recount of his Aug. 11 loss to state House Speaker Lisa Demuth after she won the Republican primary by 45,000 votes. … Lindell told NBC News in a phone call Saturday evening that he plans to appeal the ruling to the U.S. Supreme Court. … Lindell previously pledged to pay an estimated $825,000 to cover a full hand recount and audit of the race but refused to pay the money on Monday, the state’s deadline, after finding out that the recount only included counting the ballots cast for either Lindell or Demuth.” (08/29/26)
Source: Freedom and Flourishing
by Dr. Edward W Younkins
“In an age of philosophical fragmentation, the voice of Henry B. Veatch stands as an indispensable corrective. Recognized as one of the leading neo-Aristotelian thinkers of the twentieth century, Veatch devoted his long and distinguished career to defending a vision of philosophy rooted in realism, teleology, and the conviction that ethics and politics must be grounded in the nature of things. His many articles and books represent a sustained and powerful argument against the dominant trends of modern and postmodern thought. Veatch revised and reinterpreted Aristotle’s ethical framework at a time when utilitarianism, subjectivism, skepticism, existentialism, emotivism, and positivism dominated philosophical discourse.” (08/30/26)
Source: Karl Dickey’s Freedom Vanguard
by Karl Dickey
“On average, the federal government is paying 3.4% on its $40 trillion of debt, and as interest rates rise, it has a major effect on our debt service payments, causing the government to either print more money or crowd out other spending—neither are good choices. Over the next year, the federal government needs to raise another $10 trillion as old debt is coming due, and this borrowing will likely be at our current higher interest rates, which very well could create a serious economic problem for America.” (08/30/26)
“At least seven people have died after a ferry carrying nearly 270 passengers and crew capsized off the coast of northern Cyprus on Sunday, Turkish media reported. The prime minister of the breakaway north of ethnically divided Cyprus, Unal Ustel, said 237 people have been rescued. A search is underway for another 24 people, he told the Turkish state-run TRT news channel. … The catamaran-style ferry was traveling from the port of Kyrenia, also known as Girne, in the breakaway north of ethnically divided Cyprus, to the Turkish port of Tasucu in Mersin province.” (08/30/26)
“CA parent arrested for damaging school bus while trying to get her child :: states to regulate prediction markets as ‘gambling’ :: Trump praised Allah on easter :: sewage reclamation for drinking water :: Trump beef ballyhoo :: Skeeter calls to point out a libertarian contradiction :: Tim in FL calls to refute Skeeter :: Xylitol may be linked to heart problems, or not :: 2026-08-29 :: Hosts: Stu, Riley O’Bill, Angelo.” (08/29/26)
“We’d not want to claim this is a proof, rather a tendency. We all know that there is indeed that Laffer Curve, a rate at which tax collection peaks – either higher or lower rates reduce revenues. We, ourselves, think that we should in fact be aiming at the growth maximising rate, something much lower. We’d also insist that, over time, the growth maximising rate is the revenue maximising one. For economic growth works like that. But that does also require a time horizon well past the next election and so is not something that politics is ever going to consider. But, back to Laffer. We suggest that tax rates will rise, given the joy politicians take in spending ever more of our cash, until raising them further will collect no more money to be spent as the politicians desire.” (08/29/26)
“U.S. President Donald Trump said in a Truth Social post on Sunday that NBC’s Kristen Welker will be reported to the Federal Communications Commission for ‘rebuke or punishment,’ after he said she reported the Republican president had mixed results in his endorsement of candidates. ‘Kristen Welker, the Unpopular ‘Hostess’ of the once great Meet the Press, now considered Meet the Fake Press, just stated that Donald Trump has ‘mixed results’ on his Endorsements of Candidates, when the recent WINS of Darline Graham and Mike Mazzei, stand at 100% for the U.S. Senate, and 98% for the U.S. House,’ Trump wrote. ‘Because of this purposeful inaccuracy, she will be reported to the FCC for rebuke or punishment. Unfortunately, she is not the only one,’ Trump added in the post.” (08/30/26)
“Relations between the United States and Canada continue to sour over the latest failed trade talks, with the imposition of 50% US tariffs on $20 billion of Canadian goods and the announced reciprocal “dollar-for-dollar” Canadian tariffs on US goods, disrupting the highly interconnected economies on both sides of the border. The US is Canada’s number-one trade partner, while Canada is the number-one trade partner for 26 states and a top-three partner of 19 more. That’s a whole lot of shaking going on, but the wider issue is the ever-increasing dismantling of government in the everyday lives of citizens and consumers, going on over four decades, and now hot-wired by instant messaging.” (08/28/26)
“Some of the world’s largest music publishers filed a blockbuster lawsuit against Anthropic late Friday night, alleging ‘one of the largest and most blatant ongoing thefts [sic] of intellectual property [sic] in history.’ … The Sony/Warner lawsuit is notable because it’s broad. It alleges Anthropic unlawfully trained its models off ‘tens of thousands’ of music publishers’ copyrighted compositions, whereas other lawsuits have focused on a narrower set of works.” (08/29/26)
