Source: Liberal Currents
by Georgiy Kistiakowsky
“The free world no longer has the luxury of regarding nuclear deterrence like a snow globe on a shelf.” (09/16/26)
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/nuclear-arms-and-the-new-free-world/
Source: New York Times
“Fuel Riots Spread Around the World, and Trump Approves $2.8 Billion Arms Sale to Israel.” (09/16/26)
Source: Freedom and Flourishing
by Winton Bates
“I understand that the American revolutionaries saw election of representatives as the primary vehicle for consent. That view of consent appears to have much in common with the concept of ‘government legitimacy’ as described by modern political scientists who focus on procedural rules such as the existence of free and fair elections. It also appears to have a lot in common with the concept of ‘tacit consent’ as described by John Locke …. [Max] Borders argues that consent of the governed means ‘a real, contractual civil association that a sovereign person selects in a governance market’. I will outline his ideal model of consent after considering the case he makes that we should be concerned about consent.” (09/16/26)
https://www.freedomandflourishing.com/2026/09/what-kind-of-politics-is-consistent.html
Source: Tenth Amendment Center
by Michael Boldin
“September 16, 1774: Paul Revere galloped into Philadelphia with urgent business from Boston, a document that laid out a blueprint for total resistance. If the Continental Congress adopted it, secession from the British Empire would be unavoidable. The very next day, after a round of wild applause, they did just that. This is the story of Joseph Warren’s forgotten and ignored Suffolk Resolves, the American Revolution’s step-by-step guide for beating an empire and defeating tyranny.” (09/15/26)
Source: NBC News
“The Trump administration plans to deliver powerful 2,000-pound bombs to Israel as part of an upcoming arms deal, weapons that prompted such concerns about the possibility of mass casualties in Gaza that the Biden administration paused their delivery two years ago. The $2.8 billion package includes 40,000 of the bombs, made up of 20,000 Mk84s and 20,000 BLU-117s, according to two U.S. officials and a person familiar with the plan who spoke Tuesday on condition of anonymity to discuss the package, which is not yet final. Congress has been informally notified about the pending deal, most of which is to be paid for with foreign military financing — in which U.S. taxpayer dollars are given to Israel to turn around and buy the weapons from the United States.” (09/15/26)
Source: Antiwar.com
“Massie Launches Effort To Impeach Hegseth, Trump To Give Israel Massive Bomb Shipment, and More.” (09/15/26)
Source: Exiled Policy
by Jason Pye
“For now, then, the administration’s effort to impose these requirements on ballot mail before November is effectively dead. The larger legal fight isn’t, and Kavanaugh’s concurrence is a pretty clear warning against treating Monday’s decision as a final Supreme Court judgment on the USPS’s authority. There will be plenty of time to litigate whether Congress actually gave the USPS the power it claims. What the administration doesn’t get to do is impose the rule first, potentially disrupt an election, and ask everyone to sort out whether it was legal after the ballots have been counted.” (09/15/26)
https://exiledpolicy.substack.com/p/no-usps-rule-in-the-2026-midterm
Source: Politico
“A turning point on AI.” (09/16/26)
Source: Checks & Balances
by Mary Smith
“In 2023, as I was preparing for my term as American Bar Association (ABA) President, I thought about what issue should be the focus of my term as president. Recognizing that while the ABA had a long history of focusing on the most important legal issues, it was important to focus not solely on a legal issue but the most critical issue of our time. I kept coming back to the single most important issue facing our country today: threats to democracy.” (09/15/26)
https://chkbal.substack.com/p/constitution-day-and-the-role-of
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Ryan McMaken
“[L]ast Saturday, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, in an article titled ‘We Must Pace the Frontier,’ called for extensive government regulation of AI firms. Amodei insisted that, unless governments step in to control the AI industry, then there will be insufficient ‘guardrails’ to prevent ‘losing control of AI systems, misuse of AI for cyberattacks and bioterrorism, and serious economic disruption.’ … whenever we see a group of politically active billionaires agree that government should have more power, we should be alarmed, to say the least.” (09/15/26)
https://mises.org/mises-wire/ai-threat-replacing-covid-and-global-warming