Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob
“Impeachment is serious business, but the folks in Congress who advanced the most recent impeachment agendum are anything but. The man to be impeached is President Trump, of course. And it was Rep. Al Green (D.-Tx.) who formally filed the paperwork.” (06/25/25)
Source: Law & Liberty
by Renee Diresta
“Today’s debates about free speech overlook how digital systems actually work.” (06/25/25)
https://lawliberty.org/content-moderation-is-not-censorship/
Source: Town Hall
by Stephen Moore
“At the birth of the internet age in the early 1990s, the U.S. and Europe took opposite approaches to advancing this new economy-changing technology. Europe tried the approach of industrial policy: They allowed government to regulate, subsidize and then tax the swarm of new tech companies that emerged. Here in the U.S., Congress and the Clinton administration made a wiser choice. We passed laws that kept internet startups regulation-, tax- and lawsuit-free. It was the Wild West of startup technology companies. A Darwinian race to excellence and survival. Some of the big initial companies like AOL, Netscape and MySpace gave way to superior competitors like Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon and Facebook. We all know the end of this story. For three decades America and Silicon Valley came to entirely dominate these earliest innings of the digital age.” (06/25/25)
Source: The Daily Economy
by Peter C Earle
“Allegedly designed to regulate stablecoins, the bills quietly allows for a de facto retail CBDC system — one implemented not by the Federal Reserve, but by the commercial banks it closely supervises.” (06/25/25)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/is-the-genius-act-creating-a-shadow-cbdc-system/
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Karthik Sankaran
“Among the elements of the budget bill working its way through the U.S. Congress is a proposal for a 3.5% tax on all retail money transfers made by all non-citizens residing in the United States (including those with legal status) to other countries. Otherwise known as remittences, these are transfers typically made by immigrants working in the U.S. to help support family back home. The revenue impact of the bill is expected to be relatively small …. the remittance tax would bridge less than 0.16% of the deficit. While the direct fiscal impact of the tax on the United States might be small, the consequences would be much greater outside the country, with a particular impact on many of America’s neighbors.” (06/25/25)
Source: Eastern New Mexico News
by Kent McManigal
“If you aren’t willing to do something yourself, you have no business asking government to do it for you. If it’s something that will violate someone’s rights — the only true definition of a crime — you have no right to do it. You can’t delegate a right you don’t have; a ‘right’ that doesn’t exist. If you want people caged for using a substance you feel they shouldn’t be allowed to use, kidnap and cage them yourself. You be the criminal. The same goes if you want government employees to break the law by taking guns from people, in defiance of their right to own and carry weapons. If you are in favor of this, you do it.” (06/25/25)
Source: Bet On It
by Bryan Caplan
“As a rule, I avoid appealing to readers’ emotions. I specialize in crafting arguments for logical minds. It was the great Mike Huemer who taught me ‘how to think’: 1. Begin with common-sense premises, simple claims that that make sense to reasonable people who do not share your conclusions. 2. Calmly move, step-by-step, to surprising conclusions. 3. But not so surprising that the argument is a reductio ad absurdum of the premises. Today, however, I shall set all that aside, and make a bald appeal to readers’ emotions.” (06/25/25)
Source: Antiwar.com
by Ramzy Baroud
“The profound and unrelenting struggles endured by Palestinians should, by any rational expectation, have irrevocably concluded the Palestinian cause. Yet, the struggle for freedom in Palestine is at its zenith. How is one to explain this? Attempts aimed at the erasure of Palestine, the Palestinian people, and their cause go back well over a century. This encompasses the historical and ongoing impacts of the Balfour Declaration and the subsequent Mandate period, which ushered in an era of extreme violence, systemic suppression, and the imposition of harsh emergency regulations. … Sumud transcends mere steadfastness; it represents a profound and deeply ingrained cultural phenomenon rooted in defiance, historical consciousness, unwavering faith, spirituality, the strength of family bonds, and the cohesion of community.” (06/25/25)
Source: Paul Krugman
by Paul Krugman
“In 2002 and 2003 I was one of the few people writing for a major media organization willing to say that we were being lied into war in Iraq, which was obvious to anyone willing to face the facts. Management was not happy, but to their credit allowed me to keep writing. What I learned from those days was never to trust people who obviously want a war. … This time even mainstream media more or less acknowledged that the intelligence didn’t support claims about Iran’s nuclear program. And it took only days rather than years to acknowledge that the attack appears to have been basically a failure. Still, many pundits rushed to support Trump’s boom-boom — and assumed that the public would rally around him the way it did around Bush in 2002-3. But initial polling suggests that this dog didn’t wag.” (06/25/25)
Source: The American Conservative
by Ted Snider
“[O]n the way to the diplomatic success, the U.S. had already bombed both international law and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty to smithereens, which is a large price to pay for a war that never needed to happen when a diplomatic solution that was on the table waiting for the details to be finalized. The American bombing of Iran’s civilian nuclear facilities was an act of war that violated international law by attacking a sovereign nation that had neither attacked nor threatened to attack the U.S. without UN Security Council approval. It violated the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty because, as a signatory, Iran was protected by the ‘inalienable right to a civilian [nuclear] program.'” (06/25/25)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/trump-just-ended-a-war-that-never-should-have-started/