Source: Garrison Center
by Thomas L Knapp
“So: Trump is offering to pay you $5,000 and jack your cost of living up, in return for which he’s demanding your vote and $5,000 plus interest. If that sounds like a good deal to you, you suck at math and you’re probably a member of the rapidly shrinking ‘MAGA’ base.” (09/10/26)
Source: Independent Institute
by David J Hebert
“Once again, Peter Navarro seeks to explain why tariffs have failed. Back in December, Navarro chastised America for expecting results ‘on a news cycle.’ We were told that all of the positive results were coming; we just hadn’t waited long enough and shame on us for expecting results prematurely. … Now, Navarro claims that the reason tariffs aren’t working is because of foreigners. Once again, Navarro has found yet another scapegoat. Unfortunately for him, this one also falls apart upon further scrutiny. Navarro claims that foreigners are reorganizing their shipping routes in order to avoid the tariff. But that assumes that they are the ones actually paying the tariffs. In February, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York published a report finding that Americans, whether they be importers or end consumers, paid 94 percent of the tariffs in the first eight months since Liberation Day and were still paying 86 percent.” (09/10/26)
https://www.independent.org/article/2026/09/10/dodging-tariffs/
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger
“There is one thing that every libertarian supporter of the decades-long, deadly, and destructive U.S. immigration-control system and the harsh and brutal immigration police state that comes with it should be fully aware of: the nationwide immigration police-state tyranny will become a permanent part of American life. That should especially matter to libertarians for one simple reason: libertarians want to live a life of freedom, but the problem that is an immigration police state is the opposite of freedom — a destroyer of freedom. It is impossible to have a genuinely free society and an immigration police state. One has to make a choice.” (09/10/26)
https://www.fff.org/2026/09/10/nationwide-immigration-control-tyranny-will-become-permanent/
Source: The Daily Economy
by Thomas Savidge
“Promising more benefits drives up our debt. Inflation and uncertainty are hard to square with hopes of ‘helping kids and families.'” (09/10/26)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/stay-at-home-subsidies-wont-produce-a-baby-boom/
Source: The American Conservative
by Doug Bandow
“The Ukrainian imbroglio has now raged longer than the First World War and shows no sign of abating. Throughout the conflict, the Europeans and Americans have waged an increasingly bitter proxy war, sustaining Kiev’s defense and helping kill tens of thousands of Russian soldiers. Moscow appears to be intensifying its response, especially if it is responsible, as charged by Germany, for last month’s drone attack on Leipzig Airport. European policymakers are increasingly concerned about the potential for a broader conflict. … the allies—at least the U.S.—should step back, reducing their role in the conflict. Putin committed a great wrong against Ukraine, which warranted allied support for its survival. But NATO and especially America should avoid a broader military confrontation.” (09/10/26)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/how-to-lower-the-odds-of-russia-nato-war/
Source: New York Post
by Miranda Devine
“‘He couldn’t get over the fact that Clancy viciously killed her children.’ Those are the words of one of the insufferably condescending female jurors from the Lindsay Clancy mistrial who have gone public with their disdain for the lone male juror who refused to go along with their not guilty verdict. Good for him. … Now that several of the jurors have come out and exposed themselves, we can see the immense pressure that the lone holdout juror was under day after day in that jury room, being harangued and browbeaten by women infuriated that he refused to be persuaded by their self-proclaimed superior wisdom.” (09/10/26)
Source: USA Today
by Jonathan Turley
“Across the country, a chilling shift is occurring. Political violence has become a twisted form of virtue signaling. Mahatma Gandhi is out and Luigi Mangione is in. For an increasing number of young people, nothing signals your values like a willingness to kill others for them. For decades, being nonviolent has been the touchstone for many on the left. Something is changing. On my campus and others around the country, students are rationalizing violence and even idolizing assassins.” (09/10/26)
Source: Karl Dickey’s Freedom Vanguard
by Karl Dickey
“Anyone who thought Donald Trump was a fiscal conservative may want to reassess after his most recent promise he made during his Dallas trip earlier this week. At the September 9, 2026 Republican Midterm Convention in Dallas, President Trump offered $5,000 to every adult American citizen if the Republicans keep power in the U.S. House and Senate from the November 2026 midterm elections. Trump’s promise, like many, lacks reality. He’s like every other politician buying votes, something Republicans accuse Democrats of doing frequently. And the math of his promise should scare all Americans, as Trump exposed his disdain for financial conservatism. With around 240 million adult American citizens, Trump’s ‘dividend’ would amount to around $1.2 trillion, when we are already running a deficit of TWO TRILLION DOLLARS a year.” (09/10/26)
https://palmbeachexaminer.substack.com/p/trump-floats-buying-votes-to-secure
Source: Christian Science Monitor
by staff
“What just happened? As the Monitor’s Mark Sappenfield reported Tuesday, that’s what Germans are asking themselves after a far-right party won nearly 44% of the vote in a state election this week. The Alternative for Germany (AfD) has been viewed as an extremist threat to democracy by the government in Berlin, and a tacit ‘firewall’ among centrist parties has excluded it from local or regional governing coalitions. Yet, with its euroskeptic, anti-immigration platform, the AfD is now just three seats short of a governing majority in the state of Saxony-Anhalt, and has 28% support among German voters nationally. The follow-up question for Germany, and Europe more broadly, is: What happens next? Or perhaps, what should happen next? The continued rise of right-wing populism across the 27-member European Union is placing new demands on traditional centrist and liberal political leaders.” (09/09/26)
Source: Expression
by Sarah McLaughlin
“Many of the free speech fights today rest on the question: How do we protect kids online? But some of the battles over what can be said or shared on the internet are about protecting a remarkably less vulnerable — and significantly more powerful — group from so-called harm: public officials. One such case is in Australia, where top bureaucrat body the Secretaries Board is asking Parliament to cap politicians’ and parties’ ability to share and criticize clips of testimony from the very officials the board represents.” (09/10/26)
https://expression.fire.org/p/australias-top-bureaucrats-want-protection