Source: The Daily Economy
by Karl-Friedrich Israel
“Official inflation calculations exclude taxes and asset prices. Add them in, and three decades of modest paycheck gains become losses.” (09/21/26)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/hidden-from-cpi-these-costs-are-eating-away-at-real-wages/
Source: The New Republic
“Trump’s Pollster Drops Bomb on GOP as Midterm Panic Grows: ‘Bloodbath.'” (09/21/26)
https://newrepublic.com/article/215627/trump-pollster-drops-bomb-gop-midterm-panic-grows-bloodbath
Source: Washington Post
by Mike Hilgers
“The U.S. Supreme Court in October will hear oral arguments in Suncor Energy v. County Commissioners of Boulder County, a case arising from climate litigation but presenting a much older constitutional question: How far may one state extend its law into the affairs of another? Boulder County seeks to use Colorado public nuisance law to pursue energy companies for their alleged contribution to global climate change. The Colorado Supreme Court allowed those claims to move forward. On appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, Suncor and ExxonMobil argue that Boulder’s claims are blocked by the Constitution and federal law, because greenhouse gas emissions transcend state boundaries.” (09/21/26)
Sourc: Law & Liberty
by Luke C Sheahan
“The structure of digital interaction in social media draws us into abstract communities, offering a false sense of belonging while at the same time separating us from true belonging in a concrete community. None of this is psychologically or spiritually healthy. One of the most disturbing facts is that of social contagion in the digital age. We’ve known of social contagions for a long time, such as the dancing plague of 1518 that erupted in Strasbourg.” (09/21/26)
https://lawliberty.org/book-review/the-one-the-many-and-the-in-between/
Source: Seattle Times
“Google has been fined 403 million euros ($463 million) for breaching the European Union’s strict privacy rules because it mishandled users’ location data, the bloc’s data privacy watchdog said Monday. Ireland’s Data Protection Commission said its investigation found Google did not lawfully or fairly process location data in users’ Web & App Activity, a Google setting that tracks browsing and search history, and in their Location History, a service that maps places they’ve been with their mobile phones. Regulators also found the company failed to be lawful, fair and transparent when it processed personal data in its Location Accuracy feature in the Android mobile operating system. Ireland is the lead regulator for Google in the 27-nation EU because the U.S. tech giant’s European headquarters is based in Dublin.” (09/21/26)
Source: The Dispatch
“The Peacemaker of Utah | Interview: Spencer Cox.” (09/21/26)
https://thedispatch.com/podcast/remnant/the-peacemaker-of-utah-interview-spencer-cox/
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Harrison Berger
“The risks presented by superintelligent and uncontrollable artificial intellifence are real, but the security appartatus is already colloborating closely with these firms.” (09/21/26)
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/pentagon-artificial-intelligence/
Source: Big Head Press
by Scott Bieser
Cartoon. (09/21/26)
Source: Politico
“Mike Waltz’s next moves.” (09/21/26)
Source: Libertarian Institute
by José Niño
“On January 22, 2003, Donald Rumsfeld stepped behind the podium at the Foreign Press Center in Washington and, with one answer to a Dutch public television reporter, redrew the map of Europe. The reporter wanted to know why so many Europeans trusted Saddam Hussein more than then-President George W. Bush. The defense secretary fired back with words the Pentagon transcript preserved in full: ‘Now, you’re thinking of Europe as Germany and France. I don’t. I think that’s old Europe. If you look at the entire NATO Europe today, the center of gravity is shifting to the east. And there are a lot of new members.’ … Esteemed diplomat George Kennan saw where this road led.” (09/21/26)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/donald-rumsfelds-new-europe-is-waiting-for-its-second-act