Source: Reason
by Matthew Petti
“The government is charging Samuel Tunick for telling them a code that would erase all the data on his phone—after they tried to take it on false pretenses.” (07/29/26)
Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob
“The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has ruled 7-0 to protect the state’s hunting clubs from warrantless searches of their property. The Institute for Justice observes that the decision protects the right ‘to be secure on their land’ of all Pennsylvanians ‘and marks a final victory with no further appeal available.’ The decision is a big deal. For decades, courts have accepted the ‘open fields doctrine’ advanced in a 1924 U.S. Supreme Court decision. According to this rule — or rationalization — officials may conduct warrantless searches on any land beyond that which immediately surrounds a home. Even if the open-field land is clearly marked as private property.” (07/29/26)
Source: Axios
“Dr. Anthony Fauci, who led the nation’s infectious disease efforts during the COVID-19 pandemic, invoked the Fifth Amendment on Wednesday and declined to answer questions from a Senate committee investigating the origins of the coronavirus. Fauci said Homeland Security Chair Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) was trying to get him to say something that could put him in legal jeopardy. Former President Biden preemptively pardoned Fauci before leaving office, but Fauci argues he could be in trouble if he makes any statements that could open new lines of investigation for the committee. … Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.) told Fauci he wasn’t surprised the former top infectious disease expert was taking the Fifth: ‘I think it would be almost impossible for you to answer the questions truthfully without really demonstrating what you did.'” (07/29/26)
https://www.axios.com/2026/07/29/anthony-fauci-fifth-amendment-covid-hearing-paul
Source: Mindset Shifts
by Barry Brownstein
“[US Senator Rand] Paul has exposed a side of Dr. Fauci that his admirers prefer not to see: the narcissism of a public official who became accustomed to applause, deference, and celebrity treatment. … Yes, Dr. Fauci has the emotional IQ of an eight-year-old, which would be only his problem if he didn’t use the coercive power of government to harm millions of Americans as well as destroy countless businesses. That is the personal vanity side of the story. The deeper problem is institutional: once government officials are treated as arbiters of scientific truth, dissent becomes a political offense rather than a normal part of inquiry. The issue was never only Fauci; it was the state power that allowed one official consensus to become compulsory.” (07/29/26)
https://mindsetshifts.substack.com/p/when-science-becomes-a-state-religion
Source: The Fifth Column
“The Fifth Gets a Substitute Teacher (w/ Jesse Singal).” (07/29/26)
https://www.wethefifth.com/p/the-fifth-gets-a-substitute-teacher
Source: Yahoo! News
“The U.S. carried out strikes on Iran Thursday morning, hours after President Trump told reporters the U.S. would ‘be hitting them very hard’ in response to new attacks by Iran targeting U.S. forces in the Mideast. Hours later, Jordan shot down five missiles launched from Iran, Jordan’s state-run news agency said.At least 20 people were killed in joint U.S.-Saudi strikes on Iranian-backed forces in Iraq, an umbrella paramilitary group known as the Popular Mobilization Forces said Wednesday. Central Command said U.S. and Saudi forces conducted strikes late Tuesday on Iranian proxies in Iraq, the first confirmed attacks by a Gulf state during the war.” (07/30/26)
https://www.yahoo.com/news/world/articles/war-expands-joint-u-saudi-094845170.html
Source: Eastern New Mexico News
by Kent McManigal
“People who believe they have a right to not see or hear something they don’t like are one of the biggest roadblocks to liberty. They imagine they have a right to not be offended. This nonexistent right is more important to them than letting others use their own property as they wish. Offense is subjective. What offends you doesn’t offend others. Something about you offends someone. It sets a dangerous precedent to attack others based on what offends you. Being offended is a personal character problem, not a condition that creates a right to control someone else.” (07/29/26)
Source: AOL
“An explosion in Poland left a 10m-wide crater after Russia launched an overnight missile attack on Ukraine. Polish armed forces are investigating a possible missile incursion after fighter jets were scrambled and sirens sounded in the eastern border city of Lublin in response to the Russian attack. Russian missiles hit the Ukrainian city of Lviv overnight, near the Polish border, in a huge overnight bombardment of 74 missiles and 284 drones spanning east to west Ukraine. The operational command of the Polish armed forces said on Thursday morning that at least 12 missiles had been observed over western Ukraine, but they had not identified what had crashed into its territory.” (07/30/26)
https://www.aol.com/articles/explosion-poland-russian-missile-attack-063141000.html
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger
“I recently received an email from the ACLU stating that America’s immigration-control system is ‘fundamentally broken’ and needs a ‘total overhaul.’ … the ACLU has it wrong. The fact is that America’s immigration-control system is not broken. Instead, what most Americans still cannot bring themselves to see, even after 100 years of chaos, is that their beloved immigration-control system is inherently defective.” (07/29/26)
https://www.fff.org/2026/07/29/the-u-s-immigration-system-is-not-broken/
Source: Associated Press
“The Federal Reserve left its key interest rate unchanged Wednesday despite persistently high inflation and a spike in energy prices caused by the Iran war. The Fed’s rate-setting committee reached the 9-3 decision after two days of deliberations, marking the fifth straight meeting at which the benchmark rate was kept at around 3.6%. Dissenting in favor of a quarter-point interest rate hike were Beth Hammack, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland; Neel Kashkari, president of the Minneapolis Fed; and Lorie Logan, president of the Dallas Fed. Inflation has been stuck above the central bank’s 2% target for more than five years.” (07/29/26)