“Last week, authorities in England banned fans of Israeli soccer team Maccabi Tel Aviv from attending the team’s November 6 match against Aston Villa in Birmingham, calling the event ‘high risk.’ The ban comes on the heels of a terror attack on Jews attending Yom Kippur services about 90 miles north in Manchester. Birmingham police cited security concerns for their decision, ostensibly anticipating a repeat of last year’s violence between Maccabi fans, Ajax Amsterdam fans, and protestors before a match in Holland. … Security concerns must never become a cudgel for viewpoint discrimination. By excluding only Maccabi fans, Birmingham authorities effectively granted critics of the team, or its home nation, a heckler’s veto.” (10/21/25)
“U.S. President Donald Trump threatened Hamas on Tuesday with ‘FAST, FURIOUS & BRUTAL’ force if it does not ‘do what is right’ as he pushes for the next, more complex, stage of a Gaza ceasefire that has already been repeatedly [violated by Israeli forces]. Increasing the pressure on the Palestinian militant group, Trump said in a social media post that numerous U.S. allies had said they would welcome the chance to go into Gaza and hit Hamas but he had told them and Israel ‘not yet.’ … U.S. Vice President JD Vance, who arrived on Tuesday, was due to meet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday for talks Israel said would focus on security challenges and political opportunities.” (10/21/25)
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger
“One of the U.S. government’s most successful propaganda campaigns has been to convince Americans that its system of immigrant controls brings adverse consequences (e.g., death, arrest, incarceration, and deportation) only to foreigners. In actuality, America’s immigration-control system also operates to destroy the liberty and privacy of the American people. Thus, when anyone supports the federal government’s system of immigration controls, one is, at the same time, supporting the destruction of his own liberty and privacy.” (10/21/25)
“Ecuador has released a man who survived a U.S. strike on a suspected drug-trafficking submersible vessel, the attorney general’s office said Monday, adding that the authorities had found no evidence that he had committed a crime. A government official, who asked not to be identified because they were not authorized to speak on the matter, told The Associated Press that the Ecuadorian man, identified as Andrés Fernando Tufiño, was in good health after medical evaluations. A U.S. Navy helicopter transported the survivors of the attack from the semi-submersible to a Navy ship, a source familiar with the matter confirmed to CBS News on Friday. The attack also killed two crew members.” (10/21/25)
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Wanjiru Njoya
“Progressives favor the centralization of constitutional authority in the federal courts, and therefore, as they see it, if the courts indeed willfully distorted constitutional history to achieve that goal, so be it. After all, judges are distorting the Constitution for a good cause — in the service of equality, fairness, and justice. Raoul Berger, writing about the role of the Fourteenth Amendment as a platform for the ‘continuing revision of the Constitution under the guise of interpretation,’ notes how the progressive Warren Supreme Court was hailed as ‘keeper of the national conscience.’ Therefore, when conservatives like Thomas Sowell warned about ‘the quiet repeal of the American Revolution,’ progressives saw that not as cause for alarm but as evidence that they are winning.” (10/21/25)
The bad news: Yesterday was a second consecutive “zero dollar day” in our year-end fundraiser. Our total remains stuck (as of 5:30 am on Wednesday) at $675.50.
The good news: YOU can change that with your donation, in any amount, at:
The other good news: We’re only $2,075 short of our $5,501 goal (since reader GL has pledged to “match funds” for the LAST half of the goal amount, once we raise the FIRST half).
Best guesstimate: About 5,000 of you read the freedom movement’s daily newspaper each non-holiday weekday via email, social media, and the web.
More math: As soon as 104 of you kick in $20 each, or 208 of you pony up $10, or 416 of you are willing to part with $5, or some combination thereof, this fundraiser ends. At which point I stop babbling about money entirely for the rest of the year and mostly until this time next year.
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“Renovated offices gleam, yet the desks you most need filled remain vacant. Experienced, highly educated professionals reject rigid schedules and migrate to employers that align with their modern expectations, according to a 2025 McKinsey study of 9,560 U.S. adults. Veteran talent walks away the moment in-office work policy clashes with autonomy. McKinsey found 43 percent of prime-age employees, between 25 and 54, already work remotely, and nearly 60 percent want the option — an expectation gap of 17 percentage points that widens resignation risk. Among recent quitters, 17 percent left specifically because employers altered working-model policies, making flexibility a top-three trigger for voluntary exits. Seasoned professionals recognize their market value; they refuse to trade control over their environment for a badge swipe.” (10/21/25)
“A drone attack has hit an area near the international airport in Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, a day before it was set to resume domestic flights for the first time since war broke out in 2023. Residents of the city reported hearing explosions in several districts early on Tuesday morning. Social media images — yet to be verified by the BBC — appear to show a series of blasts. … Tuesday’s strike marked the third attack in the capital within a week, following strikes on two army bases in north-west Khartoum on consecutive days last week.” (10/21/25)
