Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Molly O’Neal
“Ascendent leader Peter Magyar is no liberal, and is certainly not pro-Ukraine but tapped into the bread and butter issues pressing on the people.” (04/13/26)
Source: New York Post
“UBS has been accused of withholding tens of thousands of records about former subsidiary Credit Suisse’s shocking Nazi ties — including involving the forced transfer of assets owned by murdered Jews. Around 23,000 documents are still being ‘redacted or withheld’ from a lawyer conducting an independent investigation into the Nazi-linked accounts at the now-defunct Credit Suisse, according to new testimony submitted to Congress on Monday. The ombudsman, Neil Barofsky, said in supplemental written testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee that he also has yet to see another 1 million pages under review by UBS lawyers for potentially privileged information. The delay of the probe is complicating a related $1.25 billion settlement with Holocaust victims.” (04/13/26)
Source: The New Republic
“Donald Trump’s America Is Deeply Unwell, and It’s Time to Say So.” (04/13/26)
https://newrepublic.com/article/208971/donald-trump-america-deeply-unwell-it-time-say
Source: The American Conservative
by Bill Kauffman
“While waiting for Vice President J.D. Vance — who as Senator Vance was among the corporal’s guard of war skeptics in that body — either to regain his voice or to reclaim his cojones from a safe-deposit box buried deep within the bowels of Trump Tower, patriots in the administration’s foreign-policy division might examine how their forebears answered the question, ‘Should I Stay or Should I Go?’ In Resignation in Protest (1975), the political scientists Edward Weisband and Thomas M. Franck wondered why, despite Vietnam and Watergate, there had been so few ‘courageous public defections of key disaffected members of the Johnson and Nixon administrations.'” (04/13/26)
Source: The Daily Economy
by Barry Brownstein
“F.A. Hayek explained how a healthy society functions when individuals submit to the ‘discipline of abstract rules.’ These rules, which we may not even be able to articulate, create an environment where people can form expectations and cooperate with others. Even when meeting strangers, we rely on shared abstract rules.” (04/13/26)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/civility-the-invisible-glue-of-society/
Source: New York Times
“At least 50 people were killed and many others injured when the Nigerian military conducted airstrikes Saturday against insurgents in northeastern Nigeria, according to residents and the local authorities. A Nigerian military spokesman, Lt. Col. Sani Uba, said the strikes hit what he called a terrorist enclave and logistics hub near Jilli, in what he said was an abandoned village in Borno State, killing militants who had taken up residence there. But the local authorities and human rights groups described a starkly different scene, saying the bombs struck a weekly market that attracts hundreds of people and denying that the town was abandoned. They said the number of dead, mostly civilians, was much higher than reported.” (04/13/26)
Source: Ron Paul Liberty Report
“Trump To Iran: ‘We’re Gonna Blockade Your Blockade!'” (04/13/26)
Source: Law & Liberty
by Zachary Yost
“Even from a historical distance, the fireside chats have concealed his petty and vindictive side.” (04/13/26)
Source: New York Times
“U.S. Prepares to Blockade Strait of Hormuz, and a MAGA Hero Is Defeated in Europe.” (04/13/26)
Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by J Thomas Perdue
“Georgia is one of many states that has recently begun to look critically at its growing regulatory code. Lawmakers, business leaders and policy advocates have pointed out how regulations enacted by unelected bureaucrats in the executive branch have placed an unnecessary burden on the state’s workers and industries. The lack of legislative oversight in what functions as de facto lawmaking (this is especially true at the federal level) is another concern. This problem is compounded by the fact that Georgia’s code has grown unchecked for decades, resulting in a lack of transparency as well as redundant, outdated and even contradictory rules. But as the state’s code grows, so too does the list of other states that have taken steps to reduce their own.” (04/13/26)
https://fee.org/articles/the-fight-against-red-tape-continues-in-georgia/