Source: The Daily Economy
by Jason Sorens
“Attacking people for their bad ideas doesn’t make us safer. Silencing speech violates first principles — even if ‘they started it.'” (10/02/25)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/i-was-a-victim-of-cancel-culture-dont-perpetuate-it/
Source: Persuasion
by Francis Fukuyama
“What caused the global populist wave? Blame the screens.” (10/02/25)
Source: Independent Political Report
“The Libertarian National Committee voted Wednesday to censure Region 1 Alternate Austin Martin over recent online remarks that some members deemed threatening, inflammatory, and inconsistent with Libertarian Party principles surrounding the initiation of force. At an October 1 special meeting, the LNC voted 8–2 in favor of censure, with two abstentions and five members not participating. … The comments in question included calls to remove ‘socialist infiltrators’ from the Libertarian Party ‘by force and with extreme prejudice,’ along with claims that Martin ‘initially cosigned or affirmed’ a thread suggesting that killing communists could be morally justified.” (10/02/25)
Source: Liberal Currents
by Alan Elrod
“Trump and Hegseth are cultivating a military that sees liberals and minorities as enemies to be fought and is willing to follow orders to do so.” (10/02/25)
Source: New York Post
by Miranda Devine
“Randi Weingarten has taken to wearing a paper clip on her lapel as a bizarre symbol of her crusade against ‘fascism,’ aka Donald Trump. The president of the American Federation of Teachers is on tour to peddle her new book, ‘Why Fascists Fear Teachers’ (yet another example of prioritizing poisonous politics over education from this Marxist fossil). Not to mention fattening her own wallet. The paper clip, she likes to explain to anyone who will listen (mostly on MSNBC) symbolizes a Norwegian protest against Adolf Hitler in World War II. ‘Teachers in Norway when there was Nazi occupation, they started wearing paper clips … to bind people together as community,’ Weingarten told MSNBC. Pretty subtle analogy there — less than three weeks after Charlie Kirk was assassinated by a young leftist of the sort radicalized in Weingarten’s classrooms who engraved anti-fascist messages on his bullets.” (10/01/25)
Source: The UnPopulist
by Michael G Holzman
“You do not need me to tell you that we are living in a political, social, and cultural crisis. I have been saying that for years. Now, I add to that list that we are living in a theological crisis. The MAGA movement seeks to promulgate a triumphalist theology that attempts to determine the truth of America’s past and says that repentance is impossible because doing so would be ‘corrosive’ or ‘disparaging.’ This theology is built on the fundamentalist, extreme myth that it has the absolute truth of who we are as a Christian nation, and thus the only acceptable response is obedience. Yom Kippur is the antidote to this theology.” (10/02/25)
https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/political-triumphalism-is-contrary
Source: The Hill
by Berin Szóka
“‘The FCC does not have a roving mandate to police speech in the name of the ‘public interest,’’ acknowledged Carr in 2019. Now, Carr’s exploiting the chasm between the FCC’s apparent authority over broadcasters and what the courts would eventually uphold if any licensee risked everything to fight in court. Carr invokes the commission’s 1949 News Distortion Policy and its 1992 Broadcast Hoax Rule, but both require proof that a speaker knew their statement was false. Both rest on the 1934 Communications Act’s vague ‘public interest’ standard; whatever that means, it can’t trump the First Amendment.” (10/02/25)
https://thehill.com/opinion/civil-rights/5534248-brendan-carr-threatens-disney-abc/
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by William L Anderson
“Former federal prosecutor Andy McCarthy, who is no fan of Comey and was a strong critic of the ‘Russiagate’ investigation, has called the indictment ‘incoherent’ and predicts that the charges could well be dismissed long before the case could go to trial. Yet, the Comey indictment is ironic in that while the legacy media condemns the indictment against him, it heaped praise on him when he pursued highly questionable criminal charges against others and used the justice system as a weapon against innocent people.” (10/02/25)
https://mises.org/mises-wire/james-comey-not-innocent-victim-lawfare-he-helped-create
Source: TomDispatch
by Tom Engelhardt
Ours would be the normal story of imperial powers rising and falling on Planet Earth — nothing new there, of course — if it weren’t for one thing: the fact that this world, too, is now falling. Unfortunately, nothing is truly normal about this planet of ours anymore, as the slow-motion equivalent of atomic weaponry goes off in our already distinctly overheating atmosphere. And though he’s seldom thought of that way, President Trump, the — who would once have believed it? — second time around, should be considered an all-too-literal embodiment of some mad human urge to turn this planet into a (once almost unimaginable) disaster zone. He would, in fact, be truly unbelievable, if what’s happening to this planet at this very moment weren’t even more so. We’re distinctly in a twenty-first century from hell and yet ‘our’ president continues to act as if this were still the twentieth (if not the nineteenth) century.” (10/02/25)
Source: Isonomia Quarterly
by Jason Morgan
“The ritual of discovering what legislation contains and means only after it has acquired the force of law by a putatively democratic process is more than just an embarrassment or a symptom of over-reliance on textual rules. Deferring to stacks of paper containing words that have gone largely unread, even by the people elected to write and debate the words on those stacks of paper, is not only irresponsible and dangerous: it will have dire consequences for any attempt to achieve a planetary order in which the liberties of the individual are guaranteed.” (10/02/25)
https://isonomiaquarterly.com/archive/volume-3-issue-3/legal-codes-artificial-intelligence/