Category: Opinion

Source: Mindset Shifts
by Barry Brownstein

“Why Those Who Won’t Govern Themselves Will Govern You.” (05/27/26)

https://mindsetshifts.substack.com/p/the-do-gooders-road-to-coercion

Source: Semafor
by David Weigel

“The major US political parties are best understood by looking at Texas and California, whose 2026 primaries tell a clear story: Republicans are run from the top, while Democrats aren’t run at all. Texas Republicans did what the president asked them to on Tuesday, nominating state Attorney Gen. Ken Paxton for the job now held by Sen. John Cornyn. A 40-year scandal-free career in Texas politics is over after pro-Cornyn groups spent close to $100 million to defend him, simply because President Donald Trump said so. The polar-opposite dynamic is on view in California, where Democrats will likely send one of their gubernatorial candidates to the November election against Republican Steve Hilton. They have struggled to even accomplish that, however, after Gov. Gavin Newsom declined to endorse a successor.” (05/27/26)

https://www.semafor.com/article/05/27/2026/why-democrats-prefer-their-own-messy-primaries

Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger

“There is a principle in the law that one must have ‘standing’ before bringing a legal action against someone else. If the person lacks standing, his case is disallowed. In the build-up to one of its patented regime-change operations, the U.S. government, especially the national-security branch of the government, has accused Cuba’s government of being a supporter of terrorism. That’s rich, especially given that the U.S. government has long been — and continues to be — one of the biggest supporters of terrorism against Cuba. Given such, the U.S. government clearly lacks moral standing to complain about any supposed support of terrorism by the Cuban government.” (05/27/26)

https://www.fff.org/2026/05/27/no-moral-standing-to-complain-about-supposed-cuban-terrorism/

Source: The UnPopulist
by Shikha Dalmia

“Its splashy self-examination reads less like a serious reform agenda than a carefully choreographed contrition statement aimed at a hostile administration.” (05/27/26)

https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/yales-mea-culpa-arrives-at-the-wrong

Source: Property and Environment Research Center
by Jonathan Thompson, Adam Daigneault, & Joshua Plisinski

“Old-growth forests provide exceptional ecological and cultural value, store disproportionately large amounts of carbon, and support unique habitat structures and species assemblages not found in younger forests. Consequently, their protection has been a longstanding conservation priority. Yet globally, old-growth forests are rare, fragmented, and in decline.” (05/27/26)

https://www.perc.org/2026/05/27/conserving-the-last-mature-forests-in-maine/

Source: Town Hall
by Mark Lewis

“‘If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.’ — Thomas Jefferson … That Democrats and other Leftists hate America’s Founding Fathers and the country’s Judeo-Christian heritage is a fact I’m not going to waste time in the article attempting to prove. Everything the Left does is designed to uproot and destroy the principles our Founders tried to build the nation upon. One of those principes, a very vital one, is a correctly educated populace. We have been complaining for many years now, and rightly so, what the Left has done to America’s education system since getting control of it about a century ago. Our Founders warned us about it, but, of course, Americans in general have paid no attention to them on this as on most matters they taught us.” (05/27/26)

https://townhall.com/columnists/marklewis/2026/05/27/why-the-left-hates-americas-founders-education-n2676724

Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Jorge Heine

“Countries across the region have strong economic incentives for working with Beijing. Washington should try to compete rather than coerce.” (05/27/26)

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/latin-america-china/

Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Pelican Institute for Public Policy

“At the April meeting of the Louisiana Public Service Commission, Commissioner JP Coussan directed staff to open a rulemaking docket evaluating ‘private use electrical networks’ — a move that could fundamentally reshape how large-scale energy projects are powered in Louisiana. The directive comes at a pivotal moment for the state. Louisiana is rapidly emerging as a national hub for artificial intelligence infrastructure, hyperscale data centers, advanced manufacturing, and industrial expansion. But meeting that demand will require something the current regulatory structure struggles to deliver: dramatically more electricity production at market speed.” (05/27/26)

https://fee.org/articles/louisiana-explores-new-energy-options/

Source: Libertarian Institute
by Matt Wolfson

“American political successions in recent years happen counterintuitively: implicit hand-offs between two nominally opposing sides. This strange reality is where we derive our notion of ‘the uniparty’ and the media its notion of ‘partisanship.’ Through the ‘partisan’ lens favored by media, our politics appears divided between a party, the Republicans, in hock to Israel, the ‘big five’ weapons contractors, real estate, Wall Street, and Silicon Valley; and a party, the Democrats, in hock to powerful ‘progressive’ or ‘Left’ nonprofits like ActBlue, the Southern Poverty Law Center, the Center for American Progress, and the Open Society Foundations. But the ‘uniparty’ theory of the case shared by many politically disenfranchised Americans is a more accurate read of our political reality.” (05/27/26)

https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/empire-with-a-humanitarian-face-democrats-rebrand

Source: Liberal Currents
by Nathan Goldwag

“Israel acts like any other apartheid state, but receives a level of deference from the American government and press and public quite unlike any other.” (05/27/26)

https://www.liberalcurrents.com/israel-is-a-state-like-any-other-and-commits-atrocities-like-any-other-would/