The Political Orphanage, 11/05/25
Source: The Political Orphanage
“SHUTDOWN: The Musical.” (11/05/25)
Author: Thomas L. Knapp
Who Died and Made Trump the Global Drug-War King?
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger
“According to NBC News, the Trump administration is now considering a military attack on Mexico. That’s on top of Trump’s obvious internal struggle on whether to do the same to Venezuela. Another possibility is Columbia, whose president, according to Trump, is an ‘illegal drug leader.’ Oh, the difficult life of an interventionist drug-war president who is ostensibly set on making America great again. Who to attack first? Who to kill? How many to kill? Which killing route will be more apt to make America great again? How best to win the Nobel Prize for Peace?” (11/05/25)
https://www.fff.org/2025/11/05/who-died-and-made-trump-the-global-drug-war-king/
What Kind of “America First” Is This?
Source: The American Conservative
by Spencer Neale
“As Americans, our greatest battles lie here in the heartland, thousands of miles from Jerusalem, Tehran, the Gaza Strip, and the rest of the chaotic world out there. … We have enough issues here, in Pennsylvania, Idaho, Missouri, and California. It is here, not in the Middle East, where Americans are struggling to afford rising grocery prices and unaffordable housing costs. These United States are where Trump and his administration’s aims should be focused, not between the Golan Heights and Tehran. And yet when asked about such apparently trivial domestic issues by O’Donnell, Trump merely waved his hand and claimed that grocery prices, despite what our eyes and pocketbooks clearly tell us, are, in fact, falling; even if they aren’t, it is all President Biden’s fault. … Such is the MAGA that we have received: a shadow of the MAGA promised.” (11/05/25)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/what-kind-of-america-first-is-this/
Hybrid Thursday: Send Money, Guns, and Lawyers! (OK, Just Money)
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KY: UPS plane crash investigation underway; death toll rises to nine
Source: USA Today
“The death toll in a catastrophic airplane crash that sent a United Parcel Service aircraft into a ball of flames has risen to nine on Wednesday as authorities continue search and rescue and investigate a cause, officials said. The UPS plane was departing for Honolulu from the Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport when it crashed at about 5:15 p.m. local time Tuesday, authorities said. Video of the crash showed flames on one of the plane’s wings, and a huge fireball erupting as the aircraft hit the ground.” (11/05/25)
Reason Interview: Jon Shenk & Marcus Capone
Source: Reason
“Veterans Are Suffering Because of FDA Red Tape.” (11/05/25)
https://reason.com/podcast/2025/11/05/veterans-are-suffering-because-of-fda-red-tape/
How School Choice Became a Magnet for Capital
Source: The Daily Economy
by Hannah Frankman Hood
“Families, entrepreneurs, and Fortune 500 companies alike are chasing better schools. Freedom to choose may be the quiet engine of the next American migration wave.” (11/05/25)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/how-school-choice-became-a-magnet-for-capital/
Germany: Nurse given life sentence for murdering 10 patients
Source: Straits Times [Singapore]
“A palliative nurse was convicted on Nov 5 of the murder of 10 patients with lethal injections and the attempted murder of 27 others and was handed a life sentence by a German court. Prosecutors had argued that the nurse injected his mostly elderly patients with painkillers or sedatives to ease his workload at night. The crime was found to be particularly severe, said a spokesperson for the court in Aachen, meaning the nurse has little chance of being released after 15 years, the minimum time that can be served for a life sentence in Germany.” (11/05/25)
https://www.straitstimes.com/world/europe/german-nurse-given-life-sentence-for-murdering-10-patients
Rising, 11/05/25
Source: The Hill
“Tucker fires back at Ben Shapiro; the left is making Nick Fuentes seem cool?” (11/05/25)
https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/5590619-rising-november-5-2025/
Will the Supreme Court Side With Trump — Or Itself?
Source: The Atlantic
by Idrees Kahloon
“Today, the Supreme Court is hearing oral arguments in one of those rare cases that could reshape all three branches of government. The justices deciding Learning Resources, Inc. v. Trump, a challenge to the current tariff regime, could determine whether the imperial presidency is entrenched or arrested. They could either cajole Congress out of its dormancy or render it even more inert. And they could buttress the legitimacy of the Court’s conservative majority — which in the past decade has aggressively intervened to limit the administrative state’s domestic operations — or undermine it by applying different standards to presidents of different parties.” (11/05/25)