Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Daniel J Mitchell
“For years, China’s control of the 5G and AI future seemed unstoppable. Backed by the Chinese state, Huawei — which is labeled a Chinese military company by the Department of Defense — embedded itself across global telecommunications networks, undercut competitors with pricing subsidized by China’s government, and expanded its footprint in everything from 5G infrastructure to enterprise networking equipment. Western governments warned about the security risks, but many markets ignored them. However, something unexpected is now happening, even inside China. Chinese consumers, once encouraged to buy Huawei products as a patriotic duty, are becoming increasingly skeptical of the company.” (01/27/26)
“We live in a civilization that was built on lies, is made of lies, and is sustained by lies. As soon as the lies stop, the whole thing comes tumbling down.” (01/27/26)
“Until Alex Pretti was murdered, the biggest story of the weekend was Donald Trump’s threat to impose 100 percent tariffs on Canada. Obviously Pretti and the backlash that followed were far more important than trade policy. But while the murder of Pretti and its consquences are the most important issue for America right now, we shouldn’t let the attack on Canada slide. We are, after all, talking about a destructive rupture with a neighbor that was, until Trump returned to power, one of our closest allies and remains our second most important trading partner. And Trump and his minions are lying about the reasons for that rupture.” (01/27/26)
“Police are funded and staffed on the premise that they’re chasing small numbers of bad guys in a population of honest citizens. If that cultural premise fails, we don’t have the cops to fix it.” (02/27/26)
“The main reason Donald Trump excluded a military option of taking over Greenland was not the frightful national security scenario that would follow a rupture of NATO. As destabilizing as that would be, the main reason Trump reversed course on using the military to seize Greenland was money. He slowly had to recognize that generations of transatlantic security integration have fostered profound economic and financial interdependence between the United States and Europe. I suspect economic advisors told the president that directing his generals to occupy Greenland would risk economic and financial meltdown in the U.S.” (01/27/26)
Source: Popular Information
by Judd Legum, Rebecca Crosby, & Noel Sims
“Even after the fatal shooting of 37-year-old mother Renee Good by an ICE agent on January 7, major corporations based in Minnesota stayed conspicuously silent. But when federal officers killed another Minnesotan, ICU nurse Alex Pretti, large companies apparently felt compelled to finally address the issue. On January 25, the Minnesota Chamber of Commerce released a letter on behalf of more than 60 CEOs based in the state. It was signed by the leaders of 3M, Best Buy, General Mills, Land O’Lakes, Target, U.S. Bancorp, and many others. The 215-word letter, however, said very little.” (01/27/26)
“If Alex Pretti had been pepper-sprayed, thrown to the ground, disarmed, and repeatedly shot by Minnesota police after exercising his First Amendment right to record law enforcement and his Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms as a lawful conceal-carry permit holder, Pretti’s family would be able to sue the officers involved under Section 1983 of Title 42 of the U.S. Code, which says that state officials may be sued in federal court when they allegedly violate someone’s constitutional rights. … But Pretti was not killed by state or local police. He was killed by agents of the U.S. Border Patrol. And thanks to a series of flawed rulings by the U.S. Supreme Court, such federal agents are heavily shielded from facing any civil liability for conduct that violates constitutional rights.” (01/27/26)
“Here’s one consequence of our consumptive habits: we Americans throw a lot of stuff out. Per capita, we each generate an average of close to two tons of solid waste annually, if you include industrial and construction waste (closer to one ton if you don’t). Mind you, on average, that’s roughly three times what most other countries consume and throw out — much more than people even in countries with comparable per capita wealth.” (01/27/26)
Source: Brownstone Institute
by Charlotte Kuperwasser
“After witnessing, and continuing to witness, the reaction to emerging information about the early cancer signal related to Covid-19 vaccination or infection, I recalled the historical timelines of other early cancer signals. What became immediately clear is that this moment is not unique. For more than a century, society has repeatedly failed to act on early warnings linking environmental, occupational, pharmaceutical, and consumer exposures to cancer. These failures have often been framed as the inevitable cost of scientific uncertainty. But that explanation no longer holds.” (01/27/26)
