“Australia’s highest court on Tuesday began hearing constitutional challenges to the nation’s world-first legislation banning children younger than 16 from popular social media platforms. The seven High Court judges began hearing two challenges to the ban that took effect last year on young children holding accounts on Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, Kick, Snapchat, Threads, TikTok, X, YouTube and Twitch. The first challenge was brought by Sydney-based rights group Digital Freedom Project. They claim the law improperly robs millions of young Australians of a right to freedom of political communication implied in Australia’s constitution. The second challenge comes from U.S. online forum Reddit, which argues the ban raised issues of privacy and political expression.” (11/03/26)
“Many people, including some political theorists, believe we have a moral duty to vote. I disagree. Indeed, I think – in many cases – it’s better if you don’t vote, especially if ignorance and bias make it likely you will make a bad decision. Casting a ballot motivated by ignorance and bias is often worse than not voting at all.” (11/02/26)
“I can assure you, speaking as a midwestern transplant to California, that Lake Tahoe is every bit as majestic as you’ve heard. The impossible Mediterranean blue clarity and its blinding reflection, the redwooded Sierra Nevadas rimming the basin, and not least the scrappy, outdoorsy, work-a-day people who are part of the Tahoe tapestry. Lake Tahoe’s people understand the treasure that is theirs to nurture—and for the world to experience. And we should reward them for stewarding one of the wonders of the world. Alas, American systems of rural community governance, contrary to popular belief, are not well structured for their tasks. They fail to reward either labor or entrepreneurship.” (11/02/26)
“In an era of clueless voters and profoundly dishonest candidates, cynicism is one of the last best checks on political power run amok. Regardless of the final vote count in Tuesday’s mid-term congressional elections, both Republicans and Democrats have earned all the distrust they will reap.” (11/02/26)
“Four years ago, when longtime Pittsburgh Democrat Mike Doyle retired from Congress, a left-wing legislator named Summer Lee won the primary to replace him. Republicans nominated a local politician from the suburbs to face her who had a fortuitous name: Mike Doyle. … There was no federal investigation of the Doyle scheme; no demands not to seat Doyle if he won; no statement from the governor saying that he might not certify the election. All of that has unfolded in Alaska this cycle.” (11/02/26)
“A district court judge on Monday dismissed a Trump administration case against Harvard University related to admissions data, saying the government had not satisfied the requirements for a court order for the records. The administration sued Harvard in February, claiming the university had failed to provide records to ensure it was complying with a Supreme Court ruling banning affirmative action in college admissions. Harvard was a defendant in the Supreme Court case. The Justice and Education departments have launched numerous investigations into whether universities continue to consider race in admissions despite the 2023 ruling. Harvard has said it followed civil rights laws and provided data.” (11/02/26)
Source: Tenth Amendment Center
by Joe Wolverton, II
“On Tuesday, November 3, Americans will file into school gymnasiums and church fellowship halls and choose the men and women who will next stand before a flag, raise a right hand, and swear before Almighty God that they will support the Constitution of the United States. Many of them will be lying. Some of them already know it. That is not hyperbole. It is the record.” (11/02/26)
