Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Connor Echols
“Faith groups battled over Israel Tuesday during a marathon day of lobbying on Capitol Hill.” (07/08/26)
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/christians-united-for-israel-lobbying/
Source: Law & Liberty
by Kirstin Anderson Birkhaug
“If we love our freedom and want to keep it, the first thing we must do is remember.” (07/08/26)
Source: The Daily Economy
by Daniel J Smith
“The phrase’s apparent origins in Nazi Germany—and its grim use during the 1930s and 1940s—highlight a basic truth: prioritizing guns over butter ultimately imposes the cost of lower living standards on ordinary citizens.” (07/08/26)
Source: Common Dreams
by Mercedez
“Some of the most peaceful moments of my life were spent standing on the deck of a US Navy aircraft carrier just before dawn. It feels like looking over the entire ocean, into endless blue water. An aircraft carrier is massive—like a floating city on the sea—and yet you can still feel the gentle rocking from the ocean’s waves through the soles of your feet. When you breathe into this moment—the salty air filling your lungs—you’re reminded of how incredibly small you are in the grand scheme of things. The realization causes a sort of lightness and fluttering within the chest, an overwhelming sense of gratitude for all that you cannot understand. Then the day begins. The launch of the first F/A-18 fighter jet tears a sonic hole through the silent morning.” (07/08/26)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/seeing-truth-of-us-military
Source: The American Conservative
by Jack Hunter
“Last week, far-left Democrat Melat Kiros won her Denver, Colorado, U.S. House primary against 15-term incumbent Rep. Diana DeGette, making the 29-year-old the latest in a slew of democratic socialists to have defeated establishment Democrats in this midterm election cycle. … Kiros in particular has come under fire, particularly from some conservatives, for depicting Islamic terrorism as blowback from American and Israeli policies. … The neocons used to insinuate the same about Pat Buchanan, a cofounder of this magazine, because he too explained terrorist attacks by reference to U.S. and Israeli policies.” (07/08/26)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/far-left-dem-says-9-11-was-blowback-so-did-pat-buchanan/
Source: The Daily Economy
by Satya Marar
“Restrictive patent eligibility has pushed investment in key technologies overseas, weakening one of America’s historic competitive advantages. Congress can still reverse course.” (07/08/26)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/fixing-patent-eligibility-is-an-easy-win-for-innovation/
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Connor O’Keeffe
“Despite the surface-level rhetoric used by all sides, the growing popularity of ‘socialism’ or ‘populism’ is primarily a non-ideological phenomenon. That becomes obvious if we look back in time. Because there was a period in the early twentieth century when the intellectual battle between advocates of socialism and capitalism was as rigorous and intellectual as many like to pretend it still is.” (07/08/26)
https://mises.org/mises-wire/country-having-its-socialist-moment
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Edward Hasbrouck
“A military mobilization exercise offers clues about who might be drafted for what sort of conflict (hint: US-China).” (07/08/26)
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/war-draft-selective-service/
Source: Checks & Balances
by Gary J Simson
“Rather than trying to neutralize the partisan results of a politicized appointment process, the Democrats would have done well to focus on depoliticizing the process that produced those partisan results. Court expansion threatens to make the process even more political, and although term limits – the other possible Supreme Court reform featured in a report commissioned by President Biden early in his term – is unlikely to make the process any more political, there’s no reason to expect it to make the process any less. A third possibility, however, holds a great deal of potential in this regard: Change the proportion of senators needed to confirm a Supreme Court nominee from a simple majority to two-thirds.” (07/07/26)
https://chkbal.substack.com/p/a-nonpartisan-cure-for-a-partisan
Source: New York Post
by Ken Girardin
“As temperatures hit 100 degrees last week, New York City’s unconventional mayor did something pretty conventional: He urged people to use less electricity. But when Mayor Zohran Mamdani urged residents to set their air conditioners to 78 degrees (a past practice of both Democrats and Republicans alike), he revealed something far more harmful than the heat index: how much Albany’s policies have driven New York City’s power grid to the point of collapse. Several factors are at play every summer. About 90% of homes today have air conditioning; as recently as the 1980s, most didn’t. Portions of the electric system are extremely old by national standards, and the sheer physics of generating and distributing the appropriate voltage and amperage to every corner of such a dense and diverse cityscape borders on the miraculous.” (07/08/26)