The Editors, 02/10/26
Source: National Review
“Bad Bunny and Bad Maps.” (02/10/26)
https://www.nationalreview.com/podcasts/the-editors/bad-bunny-and-bad-maps/
Author: Thomas L. Knapp
Fountainhead Forum, episode 421
Source: Fountainhead Forum
“Mollie Engelhart on how government regulates food to favor lobbyists.” (02/10/26)
Sensitive Places Require Government-Provided Armed Security
Source: Independent Institute
by Stephen P Halbrook
“History teaches that government must provide security if serious about a mandatory ‘gun-free zone.'” [editor’s note: As if government “security” should ever be trusted – TLK] (02/11/26)
FL: State employees kill prisoner
Source: United Press International
“Florida has executed a 64-year-old man for the 1989 murder of a traveling salesman, the state’s first execution and the nation’s second of the year. Ronald Heath was administered a three-drug lethal injection at Florida State Prison near Starke on Tuesday evening and was pronounced dead at 6:12 p.m. EST, the state’s Department of Corrections said in a statement. Though Heath is Florida’s first execution of 2026, his death follows a record-setting 2025 in which the Sunshine State put 19 death row inmates to death, accounting for 40% of the 47 executions carried out nationwide that year.” (02/11/26)
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2026/02/11/Florida-executes-Ronald-Heath/5201770787585/
Politics Politics Politics, 02/10/26
Source: Politics Politics Politics
“Texas Senate Primary Gets SPICY. How Will AI Define the Midterms and Beyond? (with Tom Merritt).” (02/10/26)
https://www.politicspoliticspolitics.com/p/texas-senate-primary-gets-spicy-how
The Bulwark Podcast, 02/10/26
Source: The Bulwark
“The Epstein Revelations Keep Getting Worse (w/ Jane Coaston).” (02/10/26)
You talkin’ to me? New York City official wants to turn yellow cabs into speech police.
Source: Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression
by Stephanie Jablonsky
“We have a jawboning problem in New York City. Brad Hoylman-Sigal, the president of Manhattan borough, just wrote a letter demanding that Mayor Zohran Mamdani ‘summarily suspend’ the NYC Taxi and Limousine Commission’s partnership with the company Curb, which makes interactive TV screens for taxi cabs. Curb’s sin? Last year, it signed a contract with Newsmax to provide one-minute news updates for its taxi screens. … As we explain in our letter to the TLC, any attempt to condition TLC’s contract with the city on dropping a news vendor because the news they play is too conservative is classic jawboning.” (02/10/26)
Iran and the Art of the Retread
Source: Independent Institute
by Ivan Eland
“The upcoming negotiations between the United States and Iran may be the only way to avoid military conflict between the two countries. President Donald Trump, assuming that recent large public anti-regime protests have weakened the Iranian government, has taken what he sees as an opportunity to pressure the Iranians over their nuclear and ballistic missile programs and assistance to foreign groups in the Middle East. … The Iranians already seem willing to negotiate a deal similar to the one negotiated by Barack Obama in 2015 but loudly scrapped by the incoming Trump administration: Iran severely limits its enrichment of nuclear material and sends its stockpile of such material to a third country. It would not be the first time that Trump has made threats and then settled for a ‘for-show’ agreement similar to the one he could have gotten without the blustering.” (02/10/26)
https://www.independent.org/article/2026/02/10/iran-art-retread/
The Unexpected Persistence of John Rawls
Source: Persuasion
by Joseph Heath
“According to popular perception, universities have become cesspools of radical left-wing indoctrination, dominated by cultural Marxism, critical race theory, and post-modernism. As someone who has been working on the inside through the past three decades of intellectual fads and enthusiasms, I am sorry to report that, not only is this false, it is the opposite of true. The hegemonic ideology in the fields of political philosophy, legal theory, and political science, throughout my entire career, has been American liberalism. And not just any old American liberalism, but rather the very specific manifestation of this tradition articulated in the work of John Rawls.” (02/10/26)
https://www.persuasion.community/p/the-unexpected-persistence-of-john
Venezuela: Regime figure rules out real presidential election
Source: Al Jazeera [Qatari state media]
“Venezuela’s National Assembly President Jorge Rodriguez has said that the country will not hold presidential elections in the immediate future, emphasising that the government’s current focus is on national stability. His comments came late on Monday in an interview published with the conservative outlet Newsmax in the United States. Presidential terms run for six years in Venezuela, and the last election was [stolen by the regime] in 2024. Newsmax host Rob Schmitt asked if that meant another election would not happen for another five years. ‘The only thing I could say is that there will not be an election in this immediate period of time where the stabilisation has to be achieved,’ Rodriguez replied.” (02/10/26)