Author: Thomas L. Knapp

Source: Law & Liberty
by John G Grove

“Norm [Macdonald] was extremely intelligent, even though his comedic approach often entailed playing the ‘dumb guy.’ He was also deeply introspective. He suffered from bowel cancer in his twenties and thought often about death, faith, and the human condition in the postmodern world. He was a devoted reader of great literature, especially Tolstoy. And of course, for over his last eight years, he waged his courageous battle with leukemia without telling anyone outside his immediate family and agent. He was a joke maker who was very familiar with the deeper questions of human life. But like most good comedians, he wasn’t out there to show off his own smarts. His intelligence manifested in his ability to puncture the stupidity around him—usually not by straightforward mocking, but by subversion.” (11/06/26)

https://lawliberty.org/laughing-matters/

Source: Washington Monthly
by Bill Scher

“Some of the strongest overperformers had experience in the clergy and health care, not politics.” (11/06/26)

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2026/11/06/ranking-the-best-and-worst-democratic-senate-candidates/

Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Mark Nayler

“On October 28, 69 people were killed in a train crash in the Toledo province of central Spain. The collision occurred on the high-speed line connecting Madrid with the southwestern city of Seville, just one month before a general election on November 29. It is the second disaster on the Madrid–Seville corridor this year, after a crash near Córdoba in the south in January killed 46 people. Due to its timing, the Toledo collision is likely to be even more politically contentious than the last, further diminishing Socialist prime minister Pedro Sánchez’s chances of reelection. Both tragedies suggest that a once cutting-edge rail network is now showing its age—and that successive Spanish governments have failed to invest in its maintenance.” (11/06/26)

https://fee.org/articles/off-the-rails/

Source: Noahpinion
by Noah Smith

“The Dems have to figure out what they stand for, and what they want to do.” (11/06/26)

https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/for-the-democrats-now-comes-the-hard

Source: Antiwar.com
by Thomas S Karat

“The weapons a country fights with, the software that aims them, and the officers who command them were for a century things a state owned and could not put up for sale. That arrangement is coming apart. One by one these assets are being bought by private companies, financed through public stock markets, and traded like any other holding, and the firm that has carried the process furthest spent most of its life making radios for freight trains.” (11/06/26)

https://original.antiwar.com/thomas_karat/2026/11/05/a-billion-dollars-and-the-men-who-ran-israels-wars