Play The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg, 09/30/26
Source: The Dispatch
“The Scientific Republic | Interview: Tony Mills.” (09/30/26)
https://thedispatch.com/podcast/remnant/the-scientific-republic-interview-tony-mills/
Author: Thomas L. Knapp
Filing Taxes Will Cost Americans $544 Billion This Year
Source: Reason
by JD Tuccille
“The process of paying taxes manages to add insult to injury by making it burdensome to comply as you cough up the money the government steals from you. The time lost keeping up on tax rules, filing paperwork, and calculating our own mugging is stolen from the rewarding areas of life, and the costs are diverted from productive activities. How much do we lose in satisfying government’s demands? A new report answers that question in painful detail, just in time for the October 15 extended filing deadline.” (09/30/26)
https://reason.com/2026/09/30/filing-taxes-will-cost-americans-544-billion-this-year/
Core US inflation rose 3% on annual basis in August
Source: United Press International
“Core inflation, the key economic measure preferred by the Federal Reserve, rose by 3% in August on an annual basis, the Bureau of Economic Analysis reported Wednesday. The core inflation marker, which excludes volatile food and energy, rose by 0.2% for the 12 months ending in August. The overall personal consumption expenditures index marked a 3.4% annual increase and a 0.3% bump for the month. Wednesday’s report on annual inflation comes in cooler than expected. The Dow Jones consensus estimate forecasted a 3.7% increase in the personal consumption index for the year ending in August and a 0.3% increase for the month.” (09/30/26)
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2026/09/30/core-inflation-increase-august-2026/6511790776647/
Sal and Mark, episode 21
Source: Free Talk Live
“Sal the Agorist is back with Jack sitting in for Mark Edge. First up is Alan Orwick, co-founder of Quai Network, who talks about what the team has been working on, including Qi, a coin tied to energy that’s meant to be spent like cash.” (09/30/26)
How to Think About Impeachment No. 3—and the One After That
Source: The Dispatch
by Kevin D Williamson
“A Democratic majority in the House will have to do the bulk of the political work on a third Trump impeachment irrespective of the outcome in the Senate: In case of a small Democratic majority in the Senate or continued Republican control, Democrats will have reasons—substantive reasons and reasons having to do with political calculation—to give the case against Trump and his allies a full, extensive airing in the House rather than hastily sending articles of impeachment over to the Senate, because, absent some currently implausible scenario, a small Democratic majority in the upper chamber would produce the same result as a small Republican majority: The articles would fail to produce a conviction, which requires a two-thirds majority. That is, unless some Republican senators can be shamed into acting like the thing they always boast about being: patriots.” (09/30/26)
https://thedispatch.com/article/trump-impeachment-rubio-hegseth-bessent-democrats-midterms/
Goodnight Baghdad: US troops leave Iraq after 23 years
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Dan Grazier
“The Iraq War was already four-years-old when I walked down the ramp of a C-17 at Al Taqaddum Air Base in April 2007. The fact that I am writing these words is proof that I survived that deployment and a subsequent one to Afghanistan in 2013. In the years since, I transitioned back into civilian life, established a new career, and saw my kids grow up and escape the nest. … Had anyone told me while I was dodging IEDs in the summer of 2007 that I would be asked to write a column at the age of 48 about the last American troops leaving Iraq today, I would have rightly questioned what the United States was doing there. I believed at the time that we were fighting terrorists and helping to create a free Iraq. Two decades later, I have no idea why we were really fighting there.” (09/30/26)
Norway: Ministers, including 1993 Oslo Accords creators, grilled in parliament over Epstein ties
Source: The New Arab [UK]
“Norway’s prime minister denied Wednesday an ‘unhealthy culture’ among the country’s diplomats, as current and former ministers addressed a hearing over ties between late US convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and senior Norwegian officials. … The Epstein files have shed light on ties between the US financier and Rod-Larsen and his diplomat wife Mona Juul, the architects of the 1993 Oslo Accords who are now under investigation in Norway—she for ‘aggravated corruption’ and he for ‘complicity in aggravated corruption’. The couple denies any wrongdoing. In total, 11 officials who have held the positions of foreign minister or development aid minister since 2005, will address the committee Wednesday and Thursday.” (09/30/26)
https://www.newarab.com/news/norwegian-ministers-grilled-parliament-over-epstein-ties
Nonzero, 09/29/26
Source: bloggingheads.tv
“Dario’s China Syndrome | Robert Wright & Paul Triolo.” (09/29/26)
Capital Record, episode 325
Source: National Review
“Being Trained to Be an Entrepreneur… by the Government??” (09/30/26)
Public Sector Unions Undermine Accountability
Soure: The Daily Economy
by Jason Sorens
“Research on schools, policing, and government spending is clear: public sector bargaining forces taxpayers to finance the erosion of their rights.” [editor’s note: The problem is the “public sector” part, not the “unions” part. Stop financing stuff through taxes and let the market handle bargaining, “collective” or otherwise – TLK] (09/30/26)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/public-sector-unions-undermine-accountability/