Source: Washington Monthly
by Bill Scher
“If Democrats focus on the vast terrain where liberals and moderates agree, they can build a durable center-left coalition.” (08/18/26)
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2026/08/18/jeffries-socialism-dsa-moderate-democrats/
Source: Ron Paul Liberty Report
“Trump: Hormuz Is ‘New American Territory.'” (08/18/26)
Source: Reason
by Damon Root
“Less than two months after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled his executive order on birthright citizenship to be unconstitutional, President Donald Trump has issued not one but two new executive orders on birthright citizenship that largely retread the same illegal grounds that the Supreme Court already rejected in Trump v. Barbara. Is this just a futile outburst from a consummate sore loser? Or does Trump actually stand a chance of faring any better in court this time around?” (08/18/26)
https://reason.com/2026/08/18/trump-courts-another-legal-defeat-on-birthright-citizenship/
Source: South China Morning Post [Hong Kong]
“A German court on Tuesday handed a jail sentence of one year and three months to a Ukrainian man for spying for Russia and helping prepare possible acts of sabotage. The court in Stuttgart acquitted two other Ukrainian men aged 22 and 25 who were on trial for the same plot, which involved posting test packages containing GPS trackers in March last year to Ukraine. The plan was aimed at scoping out possibilities for ‘disrupting transport and infrastructure’ and was ultimately directed by a ‘Russian state entity’, the court said.” (08/18/26)
Source: Antiwar.com
“Kushner, Netanyahu Agree Israel Will Continue Gaza Strikes, Trump Threatens To Bomb Oman, and More.” (08/17/26)
Source: Brownstone Institute
by Josh Stylman
“Your kid can’t sit still, so the doctor writes a script before asking what he eats or how many hours he stares at a screen. He’s not broken. He’s a seven-year-old boy. Your buddy can’t get it up, so he reaches for the blue pill instead of putting down the beer and chips. Your sister-in-law wants the influencer body, so she injects herself into a thinner version of being sick. A different disease, dressed up as discipline. Can’t sleep? Ambien. Anxious? Xanax. Sad for more than a week? Antidepressant. It’s easy: a fifteen-minute appointment, prescription in hand before you’ve finished saying what’s wrong with you.” (08/18/26)
https://brownstone.org/articles/you-didnt-get-sick-you-got-enrolled/
Source: The Daily Economy
by Jon Miltimore
“There’s a senselessness to Europe’s attempt to manage wine supply and dictate prices that echoes the New Deal’s effort to alleviate poverty by destroying millions of pigs.” (08/18/26)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/what-slaughtered-pigs-can-teach-us-about-europes-wine-policy/
Source: Crooked Media
“Printer? I Hardly Know Her!” (08/18/26)
https://audioboom.com/posts/8942389-printer-i-hardly-know-her
Source: Libertarian Institute
by Jack Hunter
“Rep. Randy Fine (R-FL) posted the following on Twitter/X Thursday night: ‘It’s no longer Republicans vs. Democrats. It’s Americans who love this country vs. terrorists who want to destroy it.’ … Fine is a vocal Zionist who has repeatedly called for the total destruction of Gaza, has dehumanized Palestinians, has said all Muslims must be ‘destroyed,’ and dismissed the deaths of innocent non-combatants such as women and children. Which leads to the obvious question: Who is an actual ‘terrorist,’ here?” (08/18/26)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/randy-fine-terrorist-by-any-definition/
Source: Independent Institute
by Phillip W Magness & Edward J López
“Fauci has met his reckoning, but the cautionary tale will always be important.” (08/18/26)
https://www.independent.org/article/2026/08/17/the-fall-of-fauci/