“Dear former President Barack Obama: During former Vice President Kamala Harris’ 2024 presidential campaign, you chastised ‘the brothers’ for what you perceived as their reluctance to vote for a black female. You said: ‘We have not yet seen the same kinds of energy and turnout in all corners of our neighborhoods and communities as we saw when I was running. Now, I also want to say that that seems to be more pronounced with the brothers.’ Did you tell ‘the brothers’ who, for the sake of racial solidarity, you tried to shame into voting for Harris that you only believe in left-wing racial solidarity? You starred in an attack ad for the white opponent of the Republican black man, who would have become the first black governor of California. You didn’t tell ‘the brothers’ to vote for him. In fact, you wanted ‘the brothers’ to vote against him.” (10/30/25)
“In the seven years since the U.S. Supreme Court gave a green light for states to legalize sports betting – 39 have done so – dozens of professional and collegiate athletes have been punished for gambling violations. Last week, the National Basketball Association was engulfed in a scandal after the federal indictment of a current NBA player, a retired one, and a current head coach. They allegedly gave inside information to illegal gamblers. How has the NBA responded? In a memo to its 30 teams, it called for several reforms, such as curbing bets on certain aspects of a game. Most of all, it seeks to improve the education of players and other NBA personnel. That could be a big step for American athletics as more sports leagues now grapple with legalized betting – and with the tendency to see fans as valuable gamblers rather than as valued spectators.” (10/29/25)
“Government UBI will happen – it already does to some extent, but the future will see it on a far, far larger scale. It will not be cash handouts but digital currency. This will be a tightly controlled version, as in a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC), because the government will claim responsibility for controlling the money it dispenses. CBDC is essentially food vouchers, and intended to be. Your UBI will be yours as long as you use it for what the government allows, within the time they allow.” (10/29/25)
“[T]here were — pretty obviously — two main factors contributing to the Democrats’ defeat. One was the problem of gerontocracy and the inability to connect with a younger digitally-forward voting public. And the other was the party’s inability to seize the common-sense middle ground, to present themselves as the adults in the room. They somehow managed to be seen, in pre-election polling, as the more extreme party — and this against an opponent who wants to lock up his political rivals and invade Greenland. So the solution to the party’s woes really was pretty simple. First of all, they needed a cohort of candidates who knew how to use a smart phone. And second, they needed those candidates to just please — for the love of Christ — not be crazier than the other side, which, honestly, really shouldn’t be that hard of a bar to clear.” (10/29/25)
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger
“The Fifth Amendment prohibited the federal government from depriving any person of life without due process of law. Stretching all the way back to the Magna Carta in 1215, the term due process had come to mean, at a minimum, the dual requirement of formal notice and the right to be heard before being assassinated or executed. Notice something important about the Fifth Amendment: Its protection applies to ‘persons,’ not just American citizens. … as a practical matter, the conversion to a national-security state operated as a de facto amendment of the Constitution, one that amended the Fifth Amendment — but without a constitutional amendment. Once the conversion took place, the president and his national-security establishment wielded the omnipotent, dark-side power to assassinate anyone they wanted, so long as they determined that the victim posed a threat to ‘national security.'” (10/29/25)
“Last year, the Internet resounded with chatter about how much American and British men ponder the subject of ancient Rome. Women started asking their husbands and boyfriends, ‘Honey, how often do you think about the Roman Empire?’ And based on the responses, American and British men actually think about Rome a lot. Saturday Night Live even produced a very humorous video on the subject. Still, the interest modern men have in Rome pales compared to that of the American founding generation.” (10/29/25)
Source: The Hill
by Antony Davies & James R Harrigan
“When the federal government starts coming apart at its fiscal seams, Social Security will be the first thing to unravel. It is among the country’s largest financial challenges at over $50 trillion in unfunded obligations — Medicare is the largest. The Social Security Board of Trustees predicts that the Old-Age and Survivors Insurance trust fund will become insolvent in 2033. Social Security cannot continue as it is. Keeping at least a modified version will require either tax hikes, which millions of workers will oppose, or benefits cuts, which millions of retirees will oppose. But is there a third way? Hypothetically, if it were possible to phase out Social Security without cutting retirees’ benefits and without raising workers’ taxes, would Americans go for it?” (10/29/25)
“One of the things you used to hear conservatives say a lot is that they don’t want the government to ‘pick winners and losers’. That sentiment has been muted for the past nine months, because such choices have become the prime directive of the Trump administration. From taking stakes in companies, to dictating what kind of energy can get permitted, to going to bat for Big Tech in international trade deals, Trump has treated the U.S. economy like a personal plaything, and corporate success increasingly depends on proximity to the king. He didn’t raise $350 million for that White House ballroom because corporations think state dinner event spaces are a worthwhile investment. Last week, a rumor emerged revealing another example of Trump stage-managing the business world. Warner Bros. Discovery … has publicly announced that it is for sale.” (10/30/25)
“Since President Donald Trump’s return to the Oval Office, the federal government has trademarked its own version of Republican socialism by nationalizing steel production and taking equity stakes in chip manufacturers and mining projects. Now, it’s getting involved in the nuclear power sector. On Tuesday, Westinghouse Electric Company announced that it had entered ‘into a strategic partnership’ with the federal government, Brookfield Asset Management, and uranium fuel supplier Cameco Corporation to build ‘at least’ $80 billion worth of Westinghouse’s AP1000 nuclear reactors across the country. … Nuclear power is clean, reliable, and safe, but forcing taxpayers to bet on its future success is risky.” (10/29/25)
“Some opponents of regime change policies often cling to unreasonable hopes that a president will turn against the very hardline advisers and appointees he picked to implement his policies. They can see that the administration is stacked with regime changers, and they know that the president put them there, but they still try to appeal to the president as if he weren’t fully on board with his own insane policy. The appeals always fall on deaf ears because the regime changers work for the president.” (10/29/25)
