“Back in January 2023, Aimen Halim bought an order of ‘boneless wings’ at a Buffalo Wild Wings outlet in Mount Prospect, Illinois. At the time, he claims, he assumed the product was composed of deboned chicken wing meat. But to his horror, he discovered that it was in fact made from chicken breast meat. That revelation resulted in a federal lawsuit: Halim sued the restaurant chain two months later, alleging breach of express warranty, common law fraud, and unjust enrichment. When U.S. District Judge John J. Tharp Jr. dismissed that lawsuit in February 2026, he did not question Halim’s claim of confusion about the nature of boneless wings. But even if Halim honestly thought he was getting a deboned version of Buffalo Wild Wings’ ‘traditional’ wings, Tharp said, ‘his complaint has no meat on its bones,’ because ‘Halim does not plausibly allege that reasonable consumers are deceived by boneless wings.'” (05/11/26)
“Virginia Democrats are doing an unwitting service to the whole country, by revealing just how hostile their party is to the most essential checks and balances. Democrats violated the state’s constitution by pushing through a referendum to take four House seats away from Republicans. But when Virginia’s Supreme Court threw out the illegal map, Democrats didn’t back down: They started thinking of ways to get rid of every justice on the court, so they could pack it with new ones expressly picked to return a verdict more favorable to the party. If the Democrat-controlled Virginia legislature could drop the existing mandatory judicial retirement age from the current 73 all the way down to 54, every justice on the bench could be removed and replaced by compliant partisans.” (05/12/26)
Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Keli‘i Akina
“A new report from economists at the University of Hawai‘i makes a point that many of us have known all along: If we want to end the housing crisis, we need to build more homes. That’s because each new unit creates a chain of housing openings. A family that moves into a new house leaves behind an older one that is slightly less expensive, which another family moves into, freeing up another home at a lower price point, and so on. This is often referred to as a ‘filtering effect,’ and it’s not just an optimistic theory—research has revealed it to be true.” (05/11/26)
“As we enter another Cold War, we should prepare ourselves for the progressive critics who eagerly allege hypocrisy when democratic powers support non-democracies. In the Free World’s first struggle against a global communist power, the Soviet Union, American statesmen often made the prudential decision to support authoritarian leaders whose interests aligned with America’s. As American statecraft navigates the sequel to that struggle, Hamid’s [book The Case for American Power] is the first of likely many more to critique an American foreign policy that does not have a default preference for democracy.” (05/11/26)
Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
“The Israeli government is currently accusing The New York Times of antisemitic blood libel for publishing a report on Israel’s already well-documented systemic rape of Palestinian prisoners. Contrary to popular belief, the highest award in journalism is not the Pulitzer. The highest award in all of journalism is being accused of antisemitism by the Israeli government for factual reporting. But the New York Times is unworthy of this award. The Times has been running cover for the Gaza holocaust from the very beginning with extensively documented biases in its reporting, and played a leading role in promoting the atrocity propaganda about mass rapes on October 7. Israel’s abuses were actively facilitated by the New York Times, including its systemic sexual abuse of Palestinian prisoners.” (05/12/26)
“It has become commonplace to dismiss concerns about soaring government debt as much ado about nothing—a modern case of the boy who cried wolf. Indeed, voters have cycled through catastrophic warnings about runaway deficits as far back as the Reagan administration, the 1992 Ross Perot presidential campaign, the mid-1990s ‘Republican Revolution’ in Congress, and the early-2010s Tea Party era. And yet, continually rising budget deficits have not brought a debt crisis. Instead, hysterical deficit concerns have been cynically deployed by minority parties to attack the agenda of the party in power—right before they seize power and start running up deficits of their own.” (05/11/26)
Source: Students for Liberty
by Oscar Mario Tomianovic Parada
“Central bank independence has become one of the basic benchmarks of any liberal democracy today. The notion of separating decisions on monetary policy from the hands of elected politicians is relatively recent. Yet it has spread so widely that we now tend to take it for granted. This widespread acceptance, however, leaves several important questions unanswered: what exactly is central bank independence, and why does it truly matter?” (05/11/26)
