Author: Thomas L. Knapp

Source: The Daily Economy
by Romina Boccia

“Washington has a habit of changing its budget goals — not because the country solved the spending-driven debt problem, but because each goal proved harder than lawmakers were willing to confront. I remember working on fiscal policy in 2011, when lawmakers still talked about balancing the budget. It was an intuitive target. If the government only spent what it collected in revenues, the debt problem would eventually disappear. Simple in theory. Difficult to achieve in practice.” (04/06/26)

https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/congress-is-moving-the-goalposts-on-fiscal-responsibility/

Source: Liberal Currents
by Silvaria Lysandra Zemaitis

“Toby Buckle’s ‘It Wasn’t Fascism All Along’ is exactly the kind of argument worth engaging directly. It is a serious argument that seeks to address a real epistemic problem, which is the impulse to flatten all right-of-center politics into a single undifferentiated mass. There are real differences between the different brands of conservatism in practice, and it matters—not least because we must understand our opponent, so that we may successfully confront and defeat our opponent. And ultimately, we both agree that at this current moment, there is nothing to redeem or to save in the conservative project—fascism has won the argument within the right decisively.” (04/06/26)

https://www.liberalcurrents.com/it-was-fascism-all-along/

Source: Antiwar.com
by David Stockman

“It’s pretty clear what the TV screen caption should have read as the Donald expectorated a veritable shower of bully boy phlegm and sputum at the White House cameras last night: ‘Attention JD Vance – activate the 25th Amendment now, POTUS has gone full retard into veritable delusionary madness.’ That’s right. There was hardly a sentence in the speech that accords with reality in any way shape or form. Not even remotely. … The yawning disconnect with reality, however, was probably best revealed by Trump’s utterly ludicrous contention that that if he had not cancelled Obama’s JCPOA in May 2018 Iran would have nuked the entire middle east and Israel into oblivion by now.” (04/06/26)

https://original.antiwar.com/david_stockman/2026/04/05/potus-goes-full-stone-age-retard

Source: Big Head Press
by Scott Bieser

Cartoon. (04/06/26)

https://www.quantumvibe.com/strip?page=2582

Source: Libertarian Institute
by José Niño

“Iran is not some fragile backwater that will crumble under the weight of American bombs. It is a civilization state with thousands of years of continuous existence, a population of ninety million people, and a geography of mountains, deserts, and underground fortifications specifically designed to resist foreign subjugation. The notion that air power alone can decapitate its leadership, destroy its infrastructure, and produce regime change represents a fantasy that scholars have debunked repeatedly over the past century. Yet here we are, over a month into Operation Epic Fury, watching Washington learn these lessons the hard way.” (04/06/26)

https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/the-pentagon-has-an-air-power-addiction