Source: Law & Liberty
by Ronald W Dworkin
“Activists cosplay as revolutionaries while clutching desperately for legal restraints.” (11/09/26)
https://lawliberty.org/the-childlike-innocence-of-the-american-protester/
Source: Liberal Currents
by Holly Berkley Fletcher
“Those writing obituaries for Christian nationalism need to hold off.” (11/09/26)
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/the-evangelical-vote-will-return-in-2028/
Source: The Volokh Conspiracy
by Ilya Somin
“Outgoing GOP Representative Thomas Massie is planning to introduce an impeachment resolution against Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. Soon-to-be Democratic Speaker of the House Hakeem Jeffries says he’s a ‘hard yes’ on the idea. That makes it very likely it will happen. If not now, then when Democrats take control of Congress in January, after their big win in the midterm election. Hegseth richly deserves it, and should be convicted on at least two major charges: his role in starting an unconstitutional war and over 200 cases of outright murder.” (11/08/26)
Source: New York Post
by staff
“Watch out: Democrats’ big ideas for ‘saving’ Social Security — now set to go bust in 2032 — range from lunacy like boosting payouts to madness like job-killing tax hikes. The program’s trust fund empties out in just six years, forcing automatic 22% cuts in payments, yet the Democrats who just won control of Congress look to worsen the outlook, throwing the system’s finances even further out of whack. … The shortfall is now covered by the funds’ reserves; when they dry up, payouts automatically shrink about a fifth. Cue Democratic plans to jack up taxes (and not just on the rich!) to pull in more cash.” [editor’s note: And once again they ignore the idea of putting a “floor” on FICA, instead of just raising the ceiling – SAT] (11/08/26)
https://nypost.com/2026/11/08/opinion/democrats-disastrous-ideas-to-fix-social-security/
Source: Asia Times
by Leon Hadar
“In the classic Fawlty Towers episode, Basil Fawlty, hotel proprietor and concussed anglophile, spends an evening ordering his staff not to mention the war in front of his German guests, and then mentions it in every other sentence. Watching the Republican Party’s 2026 campaign, I kept thinking of Basil. For eight months, the White House, the party’s campaign committees and their friends in the conservative media worked hard at not mentioning the war with Iran. The voters, it turns out, mentioned it for them.” (11/09/26)
https://asiatimes.com/2026/11/dont-mention-the-war-how-iran-broke-trumps-winning-coalition/
Source: Washington Sun
by Paige Winfield Cunningham
“Earlier this year, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. seemed destined for a short tenure in President Donald Trump’s Cabinet. Now, the Make America Healthy Again movement’s footing looks surer in the administration and those around Kennedy say they believe the health secretary is here to stay. Incoming White House chief of staff Stephen Miller is friendlier to Kennedy’s priorities than ousted chief Susie Wiles, who former Kennedy advisor and MAHA activist Calley Means excoriated over the last few days for shutting down MAHA initiatives. Trump is enthusiastically backing top Kennedy efforts into researching autism and vaccines.” (11/08/26)
Source: RealClearPolitics
by Ayaan Karan
“The First Amendment’s Establishment and Free Exercise clauses seem clear. They guarantee the free exercise of religion while prohibiting the state from endorsing a particular religion. In the words of the Late Antonin Scalia, ‘The state may not discriminate among religions, and a favor available to one must be made available to all.’ Yet some of the Christian Nationalist crowd is shifting away from this widely accepted interpretation. … As new excuses beyond plain bigotry must be found to disparage and marginalize Muslims, Hindus, and other non-Christians, Christian Nationalists have attached themselves to a reactionary view of our founding. They’ve convinced themselves that if a view sounds archaic enough, they can spin it and say the Founders must have believed it.” (11/08/26)
Source: Big Head Press
by Scott Bieser
Cartoon. (11/09/26)
Source: exile in a happy valley
by Nicky Reid
“Paris is burning again but this time the fire is spreading and it’s spreading fast. What ostensibly began as the latest upheaval in a long, proud tradition of Parisian student uprisings has exploded into a human inferno scorching every corner of the European map. … While America keeps its subjects busy with make-believe democracy at the ballot box, the kids in Europe are fucking around with the real thing in the streets and I can’t be the only stateside anarchist who wants a taste of the uncut stuff.” (11/08/26)
https://exileinhappyvalley.blogspot.com/2026/11/europe-has-become-american-colony-in.html
Source: The American Prospect
by David Dayen
“While voters were sticking a knife in the oligarchy across the country this year, that particular aspect of the blue tsunami ended at the border of California. Proposition 40, the billionaire wealth tax, failed. Worse, the competing initiative placed on the ballot to confuse voters, Prop 42, could very well pass. (It’s up by about 580,000 votes, but there are nearly five million left to count; the no side would need something like 56 percent of the uncounted vote to win.) Prop 42 bans all taxes on personal property and assets and is an almost direct copy of something that Texas passed three years ago.” [editor’s note: Panic! At the “progressive” disco – TLK] (11/09/26)
https://prospect.org/2026/11/09/why-californias-government-isnt-working/