Source: The Daily Economy
by Jon Miltimore
“Police officers often violate constitutional rights without facing personal civil liability. A Louisiana traffic stop case signals that protection may be narrowing.” (10/14/260
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/is-qualified-immunity-beginning-to-crack/
Source: The Guardian
“A Texas prosecutor said he was considering felony assault charges for an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer who ran over a man following an attempted traffic stop and broke his leg in multiple places. Sean Teare, district attorney for Harris county, said video of the incident in west Houston on Saturday morning, in which the officer’s unmarked SUV is seen veering into the man as he runs away across an empty parking lot, could support a charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. A conviction carries a possible prison sentence of up to 20 years. … The district attorney told NBC that ICE was refusing to cooperate, and had denied his investigators’ request for access to information from the vehicle’s data recorder.” (10/14/26)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/14/texas-ice-agent-assault-charge
Source: The Hill
“Robby Soave gives his radar on reports that undetected Russian strikes hit Kyiv on Tuesday.” (10/14/26)
Sourc: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob
“There’s an easy way to know when people want various products and services: they pay for them using their money. It’s true! We have markets, and people buy and sell on these markets, even often risky investments as sellers and spending their own money as buyers.
Goods aren’t always procured this way. But market exchanges are common in any country containing even much-hampered markets. One feels a need to remind the world of such truths whenever one, for example, peruses The New York Times.” (10/14/26)
https://thisiscommonsense.org/2026/10/14/progress-regardless/
Source: Law & Liberty
by Ralph L DeFalco III
“Since the end of the fifteenth century, seafaring explorers have searched for a westward route around the North American continent from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean. The Northwest Passage—and its promise of regular commercial ocean traffic that could ship the wealth of nations—was not crossed until the beginning of the twentieth century. Today, because of climate change, the often ice-choked passage some 500 miles north of the Arctic Circle is increasingly accessible. The opening of northern sea routes and the emerging reality of a future transpolar route will, however, create new challenges.” (10/14/26)
https://lawliberty.org/book-review/americas-fraught-path-back-to-sea/
Source: CBS News
“German police have seized a humanoid robot after it allegedly touched a 16-year-old girl in an indecent manner and made sexually suggestive gestures toward her. Investigators were trying to determine Wednesday whether the robot’s actions were deliberately controlled by two young men who apparently livestreamed the incident in the western city of Cologne on social media. … Videos shared online appear to show the teenage girl standing with two friends, aged 17 and 18, when a red-and-gold robot in athletic wear, about 4 feet tall, approaches her from behind. According to police, and as the videos appear to show, the robot touches the 16-year-old’s buttocks and repeatedly makes thrusting movements toward her. The owner of the robot, a 16-year-old male, and his 19-year-old companion are said to have recorded and livestreamed the encounter themselves, while commenting on it live on social media.” (10/14/26)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/germany-robot-teen-girl-sexual-harassment-groping-cologne/
Source: Reason
“Billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban discusses breaking up Big Medicine, why he wants to abolish political parties, and how Ayn Rand shaped his views on capitalism.” (10/14/26)
https://reason.com/podcast/2026/10/14/mark-cuban-id-get-rid-of-all-political-parties/
Source: Adam Smith Institute
by Madsen Pirie
“Sequencing the first genome cost billions. Now it costs less than a weekend in Paris. IVF went from miracle to mainstream in a generation. Pioneers pay, then prices plummet. The real threat to fairness is the ban, not the bill. Prohibit it in Britain and only those who can fly to Singapore will benefit. Prohibition creates precisely the privilege it pretends to prevent. … Better babies will mean a more worthwhile world. Since we can’t stop it, we might as well embrace it.” (10/14/26)
https://www.adamsmith.org/blog/the-implications-of-designer-babies
Source: The Hill
“Inflation rose slightly in September after holding steady the month prior, new data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) showed Wednesday. The consumer price index (CPI) increased 0.6 percent last month and was up 3.7 percent relative to September 2025. That marked an increase from August, when annual inflation sat at 3.4 percent. The popular inflation metric was expected to rise by 0.5 percent in September and increase slightly to 3.6 percent year over year, the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland’s ‘Nowcast’ projected on Tuesday. Gas prices, which rose 9.1 percent in September, accounted for more than half of the monthly increase in inflation, according to the BLS.” (10/14/26)
https://thehill.com/business/6146675-bls-september-cpi-data-inflation/
Source: The Bulwark
by Mark Hertling
“For months, Ukraine has conducted an increasingly effective deep-strike campaign against Russian refineries and energy infrastructure. Russia’s energy industry helps fund Putin’s war, and its refineries supply fuel needed for military operations. Ukrainian strikes have imposed economic and logistical costs on Moscow, forcing Russia to divert resources to protecting facilities far from the front lines while also affecting Putin’s efforts in pursuing his war aims. Yet Washington is now planning to provide Moscow with additional revenue as the invasion approaches its fifth winter. American lawmakers understand the need to starve Russia’s military capabilities, as they have sought to increase economic pressure on Putin through additional sanctions legislation passed last month—yet President Trump is ignoring the very law that he signed.” (10/14/26)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/america-is-making-its-own-problems-worse