Source: David Friedman’s Substack
“A few years ago it was a popular slogan, mostly without details. As best I could tell, none of the people using it were familiar with real world examples of law enforcement without a police force, of which there are many. Here are some.” (03/05/26)
Source: Reason
by Damon Root
“Mary Moriarty, the attorney for Hennepin County, Minnesota, announced this week that her office will investigate alleged crimes committed by federal immigration enforcement agents, including alleged misconduct by Border Patrol commander Greg Bovino during the recent federal immigration crackdown in Minnesota. … In response, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) declared that ‘what these States are trying to do is unlawful and they know it.’ According to the DHS statement, ‘federal officials acting in the course of their duties are immune from liability under state law.’ But Moriarty’s investigation actually stands on much stronger legal grounds than the DHS statement might lead you to think.” (03/05/26)
https://reason.com/2026/03/05/yes-states-may-prosecute-ice-agents-for-misconduct/
Source: United Press International
“The Israeli Army on Thursday ordered a mass evacuation of Beirut’s southern suburbs — a main stronghold of Iran-backed Hezbollah — in an unprecedented warning ahead of massive strikes, causing widespread panic among fleeing residents and heavy traffic jams in the capital. Army Arabic spokesman Lt. Col. Avichay Adraee issued the warning for entire densely populated neighborhoods in the southern suburbs — citing Bourj al-Barajneh, Hadath, Haret Hreik and Chiyah — and calling on their residents to immediately leave their homes ahead of potential strikes to save their lives. … Israeli English-language websites quoted Israeli defense officials as saying that the warning precedes what is expected to be a large-scale strike in the area, describing the planned operation as one of the most dramatic developments so far in the fighting along the northern front.” (03/05/26)
Source: The Political Orphanage
“Undeclared Wars.” (03/05/26)
Source: Law & Liberty
by Jeffery Degner & Julia R Cartwright
“Falling birth rates have governments worldwide in a state of panic. From Brussels to Tokyo to Beijing, policymakers are scrambling to reverse fertility decline, yet expensive pro-natal programs in countries such as South Korea and Hungary have delivered little results. To be clear, serious analysts do not claim that population decline mechanically produces economic collapse. But demographic aging does create real fiscal, labor-market, and growth headwinds. The more productive question is not whether demography matters, but which policy frameworks allow societies to adapt successfully to it.” (03/05/26)
Source: Politics Politics Politics
“Kristi Noem OUT at DHS. The Science of Second Chances in Criminal Justice (with Jennifer Doleac).” (03/05/26)
https://www.politicspoliticspolitics.com/p/kristi-noem-out-at-dhs-the-science
Source: The Dispatch
“Can Marijuana Users Be Barred from Owning Guns?” (03/05/26)
https://thedispatch.com/podcast/advisoryopinions/can-marijuana-users-be-barred-from-owning-guns/
Source: The Hill
by Brahma Chellaney
“By any conventional measure of power, the U.S. remains formidable. Its military power is unmatched, and it still possesses the world’s largest national economy. Yet power in the 21st century has never rested on material capabilities alone. For decades, America’s true strategic advantage lay in something less tangible but more potent: its capacity to attract. Its ideals, openness and professed commitment to universal values conferred a moral authority that made alliances easier, its influence deeper and its leadership more legitimate. That advantage is now being squandered.” (03/05/26)
Source: Washington Post
by Nick Bunker
“In March 1776, while the redcoats remained under siege in Boston, a torrent of copy about the colonies continued to flow from the printing press in London. Every notable British writer felt obliged to take a stand for or against the American cause and on the rights and wrongs of war. On March 9, there appeared the weightiest contribution of all …. It was ‘An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations,’ by Scottish polymath Adam Smith. … Europe’s empires in America had their origins, Smith wrote, in ‘folly and injustice,’ the thirst for gold that led the conquistadors to Mexico and Peru. Smith thought British colonies to be the best of a bad lot, ‘only somewhat less illiberal and oppressive than that of any of the rest.'” (03/05/26)
Source: Washington Post
by Kathleen Parker
“The guilty verdict Tuesday in the murder-by-proxy trial of a father whose son is accused of killing four people in a school shooting in Georgia sets a devastating and absurd precedent for imprisoning people for essentially being bad parents. Colin Gray, 55, was found guilty in a case involving his son Colt Gray’s alleged actions before the latter’s guilt has been determined.” (03/05/26)