“Nock’s political ideas developed out of the reform movements he encountered in New York. Early on he embraced Henry George’s single‑tax proposal, denouncing the privileges that accompany land monopoly. He co-founded The Freeman with Francis Neilson to promote free trade and individual liberty, and although the journal never achieved a large circulation, it earned a reputation for its fearless criticism. Nock’s scepticism toward politics deepened when he read the sociologist Franz Oppenheimer, who distinguished between the ‘economic means’ of satisfying wants through production and exchange and the ‘political means’ of acquiring wealth produced by others. For Nock this contrast illuminated the difference between government, understood as a voluntary association that secures natural rights and leaves citizens free, and state, which institutionalizes the political means and lives off confiscation. The distinction became the organizing principle of his later work.” (10/13/25)
“Hamas has started deploying armed fighters and police across parts of Gaza in an apparent attempt to reassert authority in the devastated Palestinian territory after the ceasefire deal agreed with Israel last week. Images showed dozens of Hamas fighters at a hospital in southern Gaza during the release of Israeli hostages on Monday morning and there were reports of shootings and executions elsewhere in the territory. Telegram channels associated with Hamas said ‘collaborators and traitors’ had been targeted, a reference to Israel-backed militia in the territory, while Hamas gunmen also engaged in bloody clashes with a powerful local family in Gaza City over the weekend.” [editor’s note: The October 7 attack was a play to bring in Israel as “worse cop” when Hamas had trouble suppressing a Palestinian uprising against its misrule in Gaza; hopefully they’ve been weakened enough to be disposed of by their victims – TLK] (10/13/25)
“California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a law banning sales of one of the most popular types of handgun in the U.S. Assembly Bill 1127, authored by State Rep. Jesse Gabriel, D-Encino, and state Rep. Catherine Stefani, D-San Francisco, received the governor’s signature on Friday, Oct. 10. The law bans new sales of ‘semi-automatic handguns that can be easily converted to a fully automatic machine gun with the use of a simple ‘switch,” according to a statement from Gabriel’s office. It covers handguns manufactured by Glock, as well as similarly designed pistols, that use a ‘cruciform trigger bar,’ which lawmakers said makes them easily convertible to fully automatic fire. … Second Amendment proponents said they planned to challenge AB 1127 in court.” (10/13/25)
“Trump has told police and ICE agents that they can do ‘whatever the hell [they] want.’ And news reports suggest that ICE agents are getting even more aggressive. … It may well be that the Trump regime’s strategy is to use official violence to provoke responses they can use to justify even greater repression …. that’s why nonviolent resistance is so important. And why it’s essential to shred official lies. That’s presumably why ICE agents have been violently attacking and detaining photographers, journalists and people using their cell phones to show the world what Trump has unleashed. And that’s presumably why the Department of Homeland Security has falsely claimed that it’s illegal ‘violence’ to record ICE raids. One more lie, one more assault on Americans’ First Amendment freedoms. Courts have repeatedly ruled that it is legal for people to film law enforcement activity.” (10/13/25)
“Russian forces attacked Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, with guided bombs on Monday, knocking out power to 30,000 customers in three districts, local officials said. Regional Governor Oleh Syniehubov, writing on the Telegram messaging app, said Russian forces used guided bombs to attack Nemyshlianskyi and Slobidskyi districts in the southeast and Shevchenkivskyi district in the north of the city. Mayor Ihor Terekhov, interviewed on local television, said the three bombs damaged a hospital and hit power transmission lines. Nearly 30,000 customers had been hit by power cuts. He said four people had been injured, most by flying glass, with some patients being transferred to different wards.” (10/13/25)
Source: The Daily Economy
by Anna Claire Flowers & Edward Timmons
“Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham announced in September that New Mexico will become the first state in the nation to guarantee free childcare for its residents beginning November 1. While the governor’s intentions may be admirable, her approach misdiagnoses the cause of rising childcare costs and other childcare-related challenges facing American families. Rather than serving as a model for other states or the federal government to follow, New Mexico’s plan is a trial run in the wrong direction.” (10/13/25)
“Some Texas National Guard soldiers deployed to Chicago have been sent home for failing to meet fitness standards after an ABC News photo of heavyset troops went viral. ‘A small group’ of the 200 National Guard soldiers sent to Illinois last week have been replaced for not being ‘in compliance’ with its validation process, the Texas Military Department confirmed to military news site Task & Purpose over the weekend. The switch comes after Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said he was tired of seeing ‘fat troops’ who give the military ‘a bad look’ in a speech to hundreds of military commanders on Sept. 30. After the speech, Hegseth mandated that active-duty troops take two physical fitness tests each year and work out every day. Hegseth praised the Texas National Guard replacements in a social media post.” (10/13/25)
“Robby Soave gives his radar on Marjorie Taylor Greene continuing to break apart from the Trump administration’s agenda, this time on the topic of immigration and tariffs.” (10/13/25)
“Article I of the Constitution grants Congress the power to ‘coin money and regulate the value thereof.’ The Supreme Court has ruled that this power is exclusive and that Congress ‘may constitutionally secure the benefit of it to the people by appropriate legislation, and to that end may restrain, by suitable enactments, the circulation of any notes, not issued under its own authority,” including taxing the circulation of such notes. The GENIUS Act of 2025 creates a new electronic pseudo-currency — payment stablecoins. Stablecoins are instruments that can be used to make payments at distance over the Internet and circumvent the need and expense of using banks and their payment systems. In many respects, the GENIUS Act stablecoins resemble banknotes issued by state-chartered banks that circulated as currency until the 1860s.” (10/13/25)
“Journalists working at The Washington Post, the New York Times and other major news publications will not sign the Defense Department’s restrictive new press policy by Tuesday’s afternoon deadline. The Atlantic, CNN and the Guardian, along with the trade publication Breaking Defense, have also said they will not sign the new agreement. Matt Murray, The Post’s executive editor, said the policy runs counter to the Constitution’s guarantee of freedom of the press. … The policy says reporters cannot obtain or solicit any information the Defense Department does not explicitly authorize. Any media representatives who do not sign by Tuesday at 5 p.m. will have 24 hours to turn in their press credentials and clear out of the Pentagon facilities.” (10/13/25)
