Ron Paul Liberty Report, 09/15/26
Source: Ron Paul Liberty Report
“Zelensky Hits Russian Diesel Despite Trump’s Warning.” (09/15/26)
Author: Thomas L. Knapp
The Importance of Being Indebted
Source: Law & Liberty
by Theodore Dalrymple
“The problem with excessive borrowing is easy to see but difficult to solve, and not in one country alone. The former prime minister of Luxembourg, Jean-Claude Juncker, put it best when he said, ‘We all know what to do, but we don’t know how to get re-elected once we have done it.’ (Not that Luxembourg has the indebtedness problem, for tax havens will always attract money as jam attracts wasps). If one takes Juncker’s remark seriously, which I think that one should, it points to a problem with the current form of democracy itself, and perhaps even of human character. Bribery of the population has become a powerful political argument or tool.” (09/15/26)
Could You Get It If You Were Rich?
Source: Bet On It
by Bryan Caplan
“One common complaint about markets is that profit-maximization leads to low-quality products. The populist version is just, ‘They cut corners to save money.’ But the populist version doesn’t explain why firms don’t offer a full menu of price-quality combinations. Firms could just offer ‘copper,’ ‘silver,’ ‘gold,’ and ‘platinum’ quality levels, with suitable upcharges for each quality tier. Textbook asymmetric information models have a response. Namely: While sellers know what quality level they’re producing, customers can’t easily tell. So while they might be happy to pay $500 extra for a product that costs $400 extra to produce, unregulated businesses will try to take advantage of their cluelessness.” (09/15/26)
UN Rights Chief Says Uncovered Remains in Gaza Raise Concerns of War Crimes
Source: US News & World Report
“The recovery of hundreds of bodies from the rubble of buildings destroyed by Israeli strikes in Gaza during the war that began nearly three years ago has raised fresh concerns about possible war crimes, the U.N. human rights chief said on Tuesday. Volker Turk said the remains of what appeared to be entire families were being unearthed from sites destroyed during Israeli attacks, adding that many victims were women and children. … The Israeli Prime Minister’s office and Foreign Ministry did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Israel has repeatedly rejected allegations that it deliberately targets civilians and says it acted in accordance with international law while fighting Hamas militants in Gaza.” (09/15/26)
The Good Fight, 09/15/26
Source: Yascha Mounk
“Jacob Weisberg on the Contagion of Cowardice.” (09/15/26)
The Cocooning Racket Needs to End
Source: Brownstone Institute
by Jeffrey A Tucker
“Cocooning is different from nest building, which is a normal sense of wanting time to bond and learn and care. This is different. It is a pharmacological innovation that implies that the basic immune system is deeply flawed without the injection of industrial products and therefore a newborn can only be around other maximally injected people. The Covid and flu shots are known to register negative efficacy. None of these shots can prevent transmission, an indisputable fact. Moreover, every pharmaceutical carries risks. Four at once carries more risk than one. In effect, the new mother is exercising soft power, blackmailing her family by denying joy to them unless they give money to the shotmakers.” (09/15/26)
https://brownstone.org/articles/the-cocooning-racket-needs-to-end/
Trump whines about his SCOTUS appointees after justices block postal election-rigging scheme
Source: Washington Post
“President Donald Trump on Tuesday blasted the Supreme Court justices he appointed after they ruled against him on mail ballots, tariffs and birthright citizenship, portraying their decisions as a personal betrayal. ‘These are not the people I interviewed to serve on the United States Supreme Court, they are merely a shell of their original selves,’ Trump wrote on social media, reacting to the court’s Monday night ruling that blocked his administration’s restrictions on mail ballots in the midterms. Although Trump blamed all three of his appointees for ruling against him, the court’s ruling did not specify a vote count …. Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh, whom Trump appointed to the court during his first term, concurred with the decision blocking the administration’s effort to allow the U.S. Postal Service to impose new nationwide rules on mail ballots. Neither of Trump’s other two appointees — Justices Neil M. Gorsuch and Amy Coney Barrett — registered dissents.” (09/15/26)
The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent, 09/15/26
Source: The New Republic
“Trump’s Angry Tirades on AI Accidentally Wreck GOP’s Midterm Strategy.” (09/15/26)
Trump Says Stay in Iran and Keep the Oil
Source: Karl Dickey’s Freedom Vanguard
by Karl Dickey
“Have we learned nothing from history of blowback? Shouldn’t we be cultivating friends and trade partners rather than bullying ourselves around the globe in search of lower prices to run our cars? For decades, politicos obfuscate the fact that we involve our country in Middle Eastern foreign entanglements over oil, while they claim everything under the sun but the fact, other than what Trump has now plainly stated. We’ll use our military might to plunder anywhere and do anything for cheap oil. But the reality of doing this is much more complicated, regardless of whether you believe the rhetoric coming out of D.C.” (09/15/26)
https://palmbeachexaminer.substack.com/p/trump-says-stay-in-iran-and-keep
The US-Canada Trade War Nobody Asked For
Source: RealClearPolitics
by David Clement
“‘Team Canada’ and ‘America First’ might be catchy slogans, but they survive on vagueness. The public’s willingness to go along for this ride quickly fades when those slogans are replaced by real costs and real job losses. The current back-and-forth ends up being nothing more than an exercise in national pride that ignores the fact that someone always loses when they face artificially higher prices at the checkout.” (09/15/26)