Source: Karl Dickey’s Freedom Vanguard
by Karl Dickey
“A viral video sparked misplaced anger. Here is why hard work deserves respect.” (10/30/26)
https://palmbeachexaminer.substack.com/p/empathy-for-the-red-baron-worker
Source: Fox News
by Tim Graham
“Watching the broadcast news networks report on campaigns makes you think they’re not creating news as much as they’re trying to make the political weather. On every day, in every way, they labor to place the blackest clouds over the heads of President Donald Trump and the Republicans. Good news is not news. There is no balance of good and bad. Any hint of neutrality is despised as ‘normalizing’ Trump. Nonpartisanship somehow becomes partisanship. So, resistance against Trump is the norm. A Media Research Center study of the 2024 campaign from July 21 through Oct. 25 found ABC, CBS and NBC evening newscasts punished Trump with 85% negative coverage. Meanwhile, the Democrat nominee, Kamala Harris, received 78% positive coverage. One choice sounded like doom, and the other was painted as hope and joy and ‘vibes’. With that kind of stark difference in tone, does that sound like news or campaign advertising?” (10/31/26)
Source: Free Association
by Sheldon Richman
“It’s the Halloween season, the perfect occasion to introduce your young children and grandchildren to the wonders of the market economy. After all, the market is a process in which individuals strive mutually to improve their situations through trade—that is, lucrative peaceful cooperation. (Today we’ll ignore all the ways politicians and bureaucrats get in the way.)” (10/30/26)
https://sheldonrichman.substack.com/p/tgif-happy-halloween-traders-d94
Source: Antiwar.com
by Andrew P Napolitano
“America has a deadly addiction to war. Since 1950, presidents of both political parties have sent American troops into conflicts across the globe, killed countless people, sacrificed the lives and limbs of American servicemen and women, and wasted trillions of dollars. Yet these wars have consistently failed to achieve the objectives proclaimed when the killing began.” (10/30/26)
https://original.antiwar.com/andrew-p-napolitano/2026/10/29/americas-deadly-addiction-to-war
Source; Law & Liberty
by Michael Lucchese
“‘The Legend of Sleepy Hollow’ shows a young nation wrestling with its nightmares.” (10/30/26)
Source: Tenth Amendment Center
by Michael Boldin
“Benjamin Franklin knew the pattern all through history: Collapse is self-inflicted. In 1773, he wrote a masterpiece of biting satire detailing 20 rules for how a great empire destroys itself from within. The formula is simple: make the government so detestable that the people want secession at any cost. It was supposed to be a warning, but the British ignored it and learned their lesson the hard way. Read his rules and judge for yourself. Is this just another history lesson? Or is it an instruction manual still being followed by the empire we live under today?” (10/30/26)
Source: Libertarian Institute
by Brandt Burleson
“Perhaps you’re old enough to recall the New Atheist movement and the ‘Four Horsemen of New Atheism,’ a reference to the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse in Christian eschatology, or theology of the end times. Inspired by this quartet, I have been cataloging the ‘Four Horsemen of New Zionism,’ focusing on pivotal commentators and propagandists devoted to contemporary Israel and all the destruction that comes with it.” (10/30/26)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/douglas-murray-and-the-four-horsemen-of-new-zionism
Source: EconLog
by Richard M Reinsch II
“[Samuel] Gregg’s case differs from a standard account that roots the contemporary West in Athens, Jerusalem, and Rome. He doesn’t deny that the civilizations of these cities have made decisive and salutary contributions to the Western mind, but Edinburgh’s addition makes a tremendous difference for understanding commercial society and, I would add, the constitutional state that fosters it. The crucial import here is that much of the modern West incorporated the ideas and habits of mind of the French and German Enlightenments rather than the Scottish Enlightenment. And, over the centuries, it’s the former enlightenments that have come to dominate the West’s thinking and discourse, to its detriment.” (10/30/26)
https://www.econlib.org/econlog/the-fusion-of-commercial-civilization
Source: In These Times
by Hamilton Nolan
“For all of our complaints about the dangers of corporate power, we sometimes fail to stop and marvel at just how good corporations are at what they do. They are incredibly adept at organizing the world in the most efficient way to serve their own interests. If we’re being honest with ourselves, we should acknowledge the extent to which growing corporate power is inevitable if we allow our political and economic battles to play out as a contest of efficiency and optimization. The only way for humanity to win is to play by different rules. The battle between corporations and people, capital and labor, is not new. But if you have the sense that the imbalance between the sides has been getting worse, you are verifiably correct. Wealth inequality has been growing for decades, and the richest of the rich are increasingly separating themselves from everyone else.” (10/29/26)
https://inthesetimes.com/article/against-efficiency-corperations-rich-poor-99-percent
Source: The American Conservative
by Eldar Mamedov
“Given that the regime in Tehran shows few if any signs of crumbling even under extreme military and economic pressure, it should be clear that perpetual enmity offers diminishing returns. Accommodation is the only viable path forward. The leaders of Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Pakistan seem to realize that. A regional nonaggression arrangement was reportedly discussed in the meeting in Tehran—the kind of common-sense diplomatic proposal that is both necessary and long overdue.” (10/30/26)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/a-bold-proposal-iran-should-join-the-mecca-pact/