The Bryan Hyde Show, 10/14/25
Source: The Bryan Hyde Show
“Eric Peters from Eric Peters Autos is my guest and we’re talking about what is happening to our money supply as well as what’s going on with precious metals.” (10/14/25)
Author: Thomas L. Knapp
Why Democrats are losing the culture war
Source: Sex and the State
by Cathy Reisenwitz
“The more Democrats and Republicans fight about trans people, the less we demand action on issues that actually materially impact most Americans. The great thing about the culture war for people in power is that no matter which party wins, everyday Americans lose.” (10/14/25)
https://cathyreisenwitz.substack.com/p/why-democrats-are-losing-the-culture
How Civil Rights Activists use the Fourteenth Amendment to Bypass the First Amendment
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Wanjiru Njoya
“A federal court in Virginia recently ruled that the name of Confederate General Stonewall Jackson, who is regarded as a great hero by many Americans, violates the free speech rights of black students. … The judge’s reasoning was that where a school is named after a Confederate hero, families who consider Confederate history offensive have a cause of action against the school board for the violation of their First Amendment right to free speech because school names and symbols are ‘compelled speech.’ … the Fourteenth Amendment bypasses the First Amendment, in cases involving complaints that the free speech rights of some (expressing Confederate heritage) violate the protection from compelled speech ‘as incorporated through the Fourteenth Amendment’ for civil rights groups demanding the equal protection of the law.” (10/14/25)
Bangladesh: Fire in chemical warehouse, garment factory leaves at least nine dead
Source: ABC News
“A fire at a garment factory and a chemical warehouse in Bangladesh’s capital has left at least nine people dead and several others injured. Fire official Talha bin Jashim said Tuesday’s blaze happened in Dhaka’s Mirpur area and is believed to have started on the third floor of the seven-story garment building. He said rescuers have recovered at least nine bodies and several other people have been injured. The number of casualties could increase, he said. … Bangladesh is the world’s second largest garment industry after China, and the sector has employed about 4 million workers, mostly women.” (10/14/25)
Advisory Opinions, 10/14/25
Source: The Dispatch
“The Future of Free Speech.” (10/14/25)
https://thedispatch.com/podcast/advisoryopinions/the-future-of-free-speech/
The Tariffs Trump Promised, But Didn’t Deliver, Didn’t Hurt the Economy
Source: CounterPunch
by Dean Baker
“A threatened tariff that is never implemented does not hurt the economy as much as a threatened tariff that is actually implemented. That simple point seems to have eluded Matthew Lynn, a financial columnist whose Washington Post column’s title told readers, ‘Economists were wrong about tariffs. They need to figure out why.’ While I agree that economists do tend to over-react to tariffs, and oversell the benefits of lowering them, the simple reason economists were wrong is that the tariffs Trump threatened on April 2, ‘Liberation Day,’ were never implemented. The tariffs Trump promised us on April 2 averaged well over 20 percent. The current nominal effective tariff rate is 17.9 percent …. this is the rate we would be paying if companies actually paid the tariff rates Trump puts down on paper for a specific country and item. But the actual rate that companies end up paying is often much less than this.” (10/14/25)
The Welfare and Warfare State
Source: Law & Liberty
by Christopher Coyne
“In 2022, then-President Joseph Biden invoked the Defense Production Act, a 1950 law that gives the president the authority to direct domestic industry in the name of national defense, to increase the supply of baby formula available to Americans. Three years later, President Donald Trump imposed tariffs on kitchen cabinets, bathroom vanities, and associated products in the name of America’s national security. How did baby formula and kitchen cabinets come to be considered as crucial parts of America’s security? Andrew Preston’s important book, Total Defense, provides an answer to this question.” (10/14/25)
https://lawliberty.org/book-review/the-welfare-and-warfare-state/
Instagram says it’s overhauling how teens experience the app, making it more “PG-13”
Source: NBC News
“Instagram said Tuesday that it would overhaul its approach to teenagers’ accounts and try to crack down on their access to objectionable content after a firestorm of bad publicity over how teens use the social media app. Instagram, which is owned by Meta, announced a series of changes that it said were aimed at making teens’ experience on Instagram similar to viewing PG-13 movies, with equivalent restrictions on sexualized content and other adult material. One new restriction that Instagram said it would adopt is called age-gating: If an Instagram account regularly shares content that is age-inappropriate — for example, content related to alcohol or links to pornographic websites — then, the company said, it will block all teen accounts from being able to see or chat with that account.” (10/14/25)
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/instagram-says-making-app-pg-13-teens-rcna237350
The Good Fight, 10/14/25
Source: Yascha Mounk
“The Good Fight Club: Gaza Ceasefire, U.S. Government Shutdown, and America’s Slouch Towards Autocracy.” (10/14/25)
China’s Long Reach
Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob
“We have known for years that China’s Communists were tyrants; responsible for arguably a hundred million deaths due to murder, torture and starvation; subjugating Tibet; harvesting organs from political prisoners; placing more than a million Uyghurs in concentration camps; canceling all political rights in Hong Kong. These totalitarians also threaten to invade Taiwan and lay claim, ridiculously, to 90 percent of the South China Sea … which they are policing. Then we discovered the Chinese had opened police stations in the United States and other countries to harass and silence Chinese dissidents who had managed to escape to our shores. Now, it is hardly a surprise that the CCP has intruded into our electrical grids and water systems, while buying up farmland near American military bases.” (10/14/25)