The Mark Edge Show, 07/03/26
Source: Free Talk Live
“Mark Edge welcomes Lauren Noone, sister of Jay Noone and founder of Rooted Free, a community based project in New Hampshire focused on living a freer, more self-sufficient life.” (07/03/26)
Author: Thomas L. Knapp
Tracing Jefferson’s Libertarian Thought in the Declaration of Independence
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Joshua Mawhorter
“Humans, by their nature, have rights that exist prior to and independent of the state and other people. These rights cannot be surrendered, transferred, sold, or legitimately taken away because they are inherent to human beings by nature. These rights are negative in that they restrict aggression against them. These rights include life, liberty, and the limited, non-aggressive pursuit of happiness, as well as the right of self-ownership and property rights, which are inferred from the previous rights. Jefferson may not have followed John Locke’s triad—life, liberty, and property—exactly because of the issue of slavery. If what Jefferson said about rights is the case, then slavery would be an evident denial of self-ownership.” (07/03/26)
https://mises.org/mises-wire/tracing-jeffersons-libertarian-thought-declaration-independence
Peru: Fujimori declared winner of presidential election weeks after vote
Source: BBC News [UK state media]
“Right-wing candidate Keiko Fujimori has been declared the winner of Peru’s tight presidential election, nearly a month after the vote took place. The 51-year-old won 50.135% of voters’ support in the runoff, held on 7 June, to 49.865% for left-wing candidate Roberto Sánchez – a margin of less than 50,000 votes, figures certified by Peru’s electoral court show. It is the fourth time the daughter of disgraced former President Alberto Fujimori has sought the South American nation’s presidency, promising this time to oversee a crackdown on organised crime.” (07/04/26)
Dangerous History Podcast, episode 289
Source: Libertarian Institute
“A Dangerous Dozen: 12 H.L. Mencken Quotes for the DHP’s 12th Anniversary.” (07/03/26)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/dangerous-history-podcast/dhpep289
Forget the Vietnam war “gap,” we have a real credibility chasm today
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Gregory Daddis
“Leadership has spun, misled, and kept the populace in the dark through many wars during the country’s 250-year history. This may be the worst.” (07/03/26)
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/us-iran-war-trump-credibility/
Benefits of the American Revolution
Source: Independent Institute
by Jeffrey Rogers Hummel
“An exploration of the positive externalities of the American Experiment.” (07/03/26)
https://www.independent.org/article/2026/07/03/benefits-american-revolution/
China: Regime releases underground church pastor after months in detention
Source: Al Jazeera [Qatari state media]
“The founder of a prominent underground church in China has been released after months in detention, his family and a Christian rights group said. ChinaAid said Pastor Jin Mingri, also known by his English name Ezra Jin, landed in Los Angeles on July 4 after being held in detention centres in the southern Chinese city of Beihai since October. … Jin founded Zion Church in Beijing in 2007 and became one of the most recognisable figures in China’s underground Christian movement. The Zion Church is among the largest underground or house churches in China that are unregistered with authorities. They defy a requirement that believers worship only in registered congregations.” (07/05/26)
The Liberty Exchange, 07/03/26
Source: The Liberty Exchange
“A Radical Experiment in Liberty: A conversation with Brad Birzer.” (07/03/26)
https://shows.acast.com/the-liberty-exchange/episodes/a-conversation-with-brad-birzer
A New Kind of State
Source: Law & Liberty
by Paul Seaton
“Modern political philosophy and modern politics brought ‘the State’ to the fore in novel and contentious ways. Leo Strauss argued that Machiavelli’s concept of ‘lo stato’ was an essential component of a revolution in human thought and aspiration. The Treaty of Westphalia is rightly said to have inaugurated a new international order in Europe, precisely with its legitimatization of absolute territorial sovereignty, expanding upon the principle of cuius regio, eius religio—that is, the modern state system. And Will Morrisey, in his Regime Change: What It Is, Why It Matters, argued that fledgling America sought to escape the Westphalian conception with a new understanding of liberal republican government.” (07/03/26)
Congressional testimony: Manson murders allegedly tied to CIA mind control experiments
Source: Fox News
“House Republicans revisited long-standing questions last week about possible links between the CIA’s infamous MKUltra program and Charles Manson’s murderous cult, as lawmakers revealed newly discovered agency records are being prepared for declassification. Tuesday’s hearing before the House Oversight Committee’s Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets quickly delved into allegations that the CIA concealed the true scope of its Cold War-era mind-control program, with witnesses reviving claims involving Manson, Jack Ruby and decades of alleged government secrecy. Task Force Chair Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., opened the hearing by accusing the CIA of carrying out illegal human experimentation on unwitting Americans before destroying evidence to hide the program.” (07/05/26)