“When Justice Department officials anonymously floated the idea of prohibiting gun possession by transgender people last week, they may have hoped to score points with President Donald Trump’s base or get a rise out of ‘woke’ Democrats. Instead, they elicited howls of outrage from every major gun rights group. It is not hard to see why. This half-baked proposal, which has no obvious statutory basis, is flagrantly inconsistent with ‘the right of the people’ to ‘keep and bear arms’ — a right that Trump claims he is keen to protect.” (09/10/25)
“The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that a transgender boy may use the boys’ bathroom in a South Carolina public high school while he pursues a challenge to a state law requiring students to use the bathrooms for their sex as ‘determined by anatomy and genetics existing at the time of birth.’ The court’s brief order was unsigned and gave no reasons, which is typical when the justices act on emergency applications. It applied to a single student and stressed that it was ‘not a ruling on the merits of the legal issues presented in the litigation.’ Rather, in rejecting South Carolina’s request to bar the student from the boys’ bathroom for now, the order said the state had not cleared the high bar for securing an emergency ruling in its favor. Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch noted dissents but did not offer reasons.” (09/10/25)
“Kiki’s Delivery Service, Studio Ghibli’s 1989 masterpiece, captures genuine moments of a young witch trying to make it on her own. Moreover, it highlights the fundamental nature of cost and choice. The logic of cost is deceptively unintuitive and often difficult for students and laymen alike, mainly because common usage defines it as losing money. Typical notions of cost also often refer to inherent qualities of objects, e.g., a loaf of bread costs $5, and as an inevitable, negative outcome. The economic way of thinking clarifies a deeper meaning of cost, and Kiki shows this in one standout scene.” (09/10/25)
“President Trump once quipped, ‘I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose any voters.’ Well, he wasn’t standing in the middle of Fifth Avenue, but he nonetheless tested the limits of his ability to get away with extrajudicial execution on September 2 by ordering the deaths of eleven people in an alleged drug-smuggling boat off the coast of Venezuela. Trump’s action was criminal and impeachable.” (09/10/25)
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger
“From the standpoint of many U.S. officials, one can easily see why they find the drug war advantageous. Like the drug lords and drug cartels, there is a huge drug-war federal bureaucracy that has grown dependent on the drug war. There are, for example, generous salaries for federal judges (plus lifetime appointments), federal prosecutors, DEA agents, court clerks and secretaries, law clerks, and others, all of which would dry up if the drug war were ended and drugs were legalized. Just like the drug lords and drug dealers, the last thing these federal bureaucrats want to do is let go of the source of their largess. But there is another benefit to the drug war, one that President Trump is now using to expand his militarized police state across America.” (09/10/25)
“Three former senior FBI officials summarily fired last month are suing FBI Director Kash Patel and the Trump administration, alleging that their terminations were part of a White House-directed purge driven at least in part by social media bullying from MAGA loyalists. Brian Driscoll, the former acting FBI director for a month at the start of the second Trump administration; Steven Jensen, who Patel installed as assistant director in charge the Washington field office; and Spencer Evans, who led the Las Vegas field office, allege that Patel has politicized the FBI to protect his own job. ‘Patel not only acted unlawfully but deliberately chose to prioritize politicizing the FBI over protecting the American people,’ the lawsuit states.” (09/10/25)
Source: The Hill
by Claire Finkelstein, Brenner Fissell, & Mitt Regan
“As Chicago braces for an influx of federal troops, it is critical to focus on last week’s ruling by a federal district court stating that President Trump’s June deployment of the National Guard to Los Angeles violated federal law. As national security experts who filed an amicus brief to support California’s challenge, we strongly support the holding of this case that the president has no authority to use federal troops to police America’s cities. This flagrant continued assault on U.S. cities and citizens is illegal, un-American and just plain wrong. In a careful but ultimately devastasting rebuke of the administration, Judge Charles Breyer held in Newsom v. Trump that the government’s use of federal troops violated an 1878 statute called the Posse Comitatus Act, which forbids the government from using federal troops for law enforcement purposes.” (09/10/25)
“The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Johnson & Johnson’s drug delivery system for a type of bladder cancer, offering a potential surgery-free option for patients. The drug release system, branded as Inlexzo, was approved for patients with a type of high-risk non-muscle invasive bladder cancer who did not respond to treatment with Bacillus Calmette-Guerin therapy, the current standard-of-care, and are ineligible for, or refuse to undergo bladder removal surgery. … The approval was based on data from a mid-stage study, in which more than 82% of the patients who received Inlexzo showed no signs of cancer, and over half of them remained cancer-free for at least a year.” (09/10/25)
