Source: Free Talk Live
“Clavicular innocent? :: Garbage trucks spy on houses for the government :: Why Austin, TX sucks :: To Entrap A Predator :: Trump TV is awful :: Hog hunting in northern MI :: Elephants save rhinos from hunting :: 2026-09-27 :: Hosts: Bonnie, Lori, Rich E Rich.” (09/27/26)
Source: Brownstone Institute
by Lucio Saverio Eastman
“In-group or out-group. Clean or unclean. With us or against us. The post-pandemic world seems dominated by themes of a society corrupted by political hatreds, born of hostile emotions constantly on the hunt for targets. Remember the masked and the unmasked, the vaccinated and the unvaccinated, the essential workers and the nonessential? This wasn’t just a national issue. It burrowed deep into our personal lives and into our own hometowns.” (09/28/26)
Source: The Dispatch
“Inside Israel’s War Room | Interview: Elliot Kaufman and Yonah Jeremy Bob.” (09/28/26)
Source: Libertarian Institute
by José Niño
“The tone shifts from one administration to the next. The premise never does. Every president treats European defense budgets as figures for Washington to set, audit, and enforce. That premise collapses on its own terms. Europe’s security belongs to Europeans. The continent commands an economy many times larger than Russia’s and fields two nuclear powers of its own. If Poland wants to pour 5% of its GDP into its army, Warsaw should make that call. If Spain values its welfare state more, Madrid should make that call. … As long as Washington sits at the head of the table, NATO serves as a vehicle for schemes hatched in the Pentagon, in think tanks, and among the oligarchs and defense contractors who profit from every new benchmark.” (09/28/26)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/let-europe-defend-europe/
Source: Liberal Currents
by WBF
“Social media has been a boon to autocratic regimes and their allied movements in democracies.” (09/28/26)
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/social-media-has-not-brought-liberation/
Source: ABC News
“Hungary’s Parliament voted on Monday to lift the parliamentary immunity of three lawmakers, including the country’s prime minister, Péter Magyar, as prosecutors proceed with ongoing criminal investigations. Prosecutors are investigating Magyar on suspicion of misdemeanor theft after he allegedly took a man’s mobile phone during a nightclub altercation and threw it into the Danube River in June 2024, nearly two years before his party won a landslide election that unseated former populist Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. … Lawmakers on Monday also voted to suspend the immunity of two former ministers in Orbán’s government who are suspected of, separately, criminal mismanagement of 17.3 billion forints ($53.6 million) of public funds and accepting more than 12 billion forints ($37.2 million) in bribes and kickbacks.” (09/28/26)
Source: Parallax Views w/ JG Michael
“‘Late Empire Floundering’: The Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger Makes No Sense w/ Nat Wilson Turner.” (09/27/26)
Source: The American Conservative
by Joseph Addington
“Delcy Rodriguez, acting president of Venezuela, is preparing to put herself out of a job. In an address to the United Nations General Assembly this week, Rodriguez declared that Venezuela is getting ready for a return to democracy. ‘I want to make this very clear at this General Assembly: There will be elections in Venezuela,’ said Rodriguez Wednesday. ‘Venezuela has initiated a process of democratic transformation for its rebirth, an orderly, institutional, and verifiable process.’ Exactly when that orderly process will produce an election is not yet clear, although a rough plan is beginning to take shape.” (09/28/26)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/democracy-is-coming-to-venezuela-eventually/
Source: Law & Liberty
by Mark Pulliam
“Justice Clarence Thomas’s brand of originalism is ‘going further,’ and he is now on track to set the Supreme Court’s longevity record.” [editor’s note: Sure, but how early in his tenure did that “brand of originalism” start getting tainted by the bribes he’s since been caught taking? – TLK] (09/28/26)
https://lawliberty.org/book-review/clarence-thomas-a-profile-in-courage/
Source: Liberal Currents
“The War with Iran Has No End.” (09/27/26)
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/the-war-with-iran-has-no-end-neon-liberalism-92/