Source: The Daily Economy
by Antón Chamberlin
“Low layoffs and low hiring have created a fragile equilibrium. The underlying picture points to drift, not true growth.” (04/09/26)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/full-employment-may-still-signal-stagnation-in-labor/
Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Marc Joffe
“California voters will decide this year whether the state will remain the global center of technology innovation or begin a steady decline. Their choice for governor and on a key ballot initiative will make the difference. The top three Democratic gubernatorial candidates enjoy strong backing from organized labor, including the state’s all-powerful public-employee unions. If elected, it’s nearly certain they’ll follow the union playbook of more taxes and regulations for the next four or even eight years.” (04/09/26)
Source: Fox News
by Lt. Col. Robert Maginnis, (USA, ret.)
“The Iran ceasefire was less than three hours old when missiles began flying from Iran toward Israel and the Gulf states. That detail — documented in real time — tells you more about the durability of this agreement than any official statement. A pause is not peace. A handshake in Islamabad is not a settlement. And a region that has been at war for 40 days does not stand down because two governments issued parallel social media posts. The two-week ceasefire brokered by Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Army chief Gen. Asim Munir is genuinely welcome. It stepped both sides back from a precipice with real humanitarian and strategic consequences. But Vice President JD Vance himself called it a ‘fragile truce.’ That is the most honest thing anyone in this administration has said about it. Hold that phrase.” (04/09/26)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/what-comes-next-iran-war-what-ceasefire-will-wont-do
Source: The Bulwark
by Will Saletan
“He can’t stop freestyling about plunder and atrocities.” (04/09/26)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-has-a-war-crimes-problem-its-his-mouth
Source: Law & Liberty
by Philip Hamburger
“The justices need to understand the full range of considerations underlying Trump v. Barbara.” (04/09/26)
https://lawliberty.org/allegiance-birthright-and-citizenship/
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by William L Anderson
“The ‘administrative state,’ of course, is anything but democratic; it is autocratic to the core. For all of their professed love for democracy, progressives have long demanded rule by experts, or at least rule by ‘experts’ that meet progressive approval. As I pointed out last year, when actual scientists studied the effects of so-called acid rain and concluded that it was not causing lake and river acidification, progressives in the media, as well as EPA administrators, immediately tried to destroy the careers of scientists failing to echo the party line. Not surprisingly, one of the loudest antiscience voices in the acid rain affair was the New York Times.” (04/09/26)
https://mises.org/mises-wire/turns-out-elites-administrative-state-better-democracy
Source: Common Dreams
by Jeffrey D Sachs & Sybil Fares
“A two-week ceasefire has partially halted the Israel-US war on Iran. The war accomplished precisely nothing that a competent diplomat could not have achieved in an afternoon. The Strait of Hormuz was open before the war and it is open again now, but with more Iranian control. Meanwhile, the chaos continues. Israel is intent on blowing up the ceasefire, as this was Israel’s war from the start. Israel dazzled Trump with the prospect of a one-day decapitation strike that would put Trump in charge of Iran’s oil. Israel, in turn, was out for bigger prey: to bring down the Iranian regime and thereby become the regional hegemon of Western Asia. The foundation of the ceasefire is Iran’s 10-point plan, which Trump (perhaps unwittingly) called a ‘workable basis on which to negotiate.'” (04/09/26)
Source: The Realist Review
by James W Carden
“Mark Levin is a fool, but he is hardly the only one.” (04/09/26)
https://therealistreview.substack.com/p/nuclear-myths-continue-to-fuel-neocon
Source: Glenn Greenwald
by Jeremy Loffredo
“There is a version of the Democratic Party that exists only in the imagination: the peace party, the anti-war party, the party that marched against the Iraq War and howled at its neocon designers. As Donald Trump (reportedly) accepted Iran’s ceasefire terms this week, some of the most pointed attacks coming his way from Democrats are not about the thousands of civilians killed, the weeks of brutal bombardments against medical centers and universities, or the global economic damage the war has caused. They are about the war ending before the U.S. and Israel finished the job. And this is not a fringe phenomenon. It is a pattern coming from Democratic senators, the Democratic House Foreign Affairs Committee, ranking members of the Armed Services Committee, and some of the party’s most prominent voices. The liberal opposition party wants more war.” (04/09/26)
https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-opposition-party-has-done-nothing
Source: Sex and the State
by Cathy Reisenwitz
“In my studies, I keep hearing about an ‘AI arms race’ between the US and China. At first, here’s what I thought I wanted to know: 1. How do the experts define ‘winning’ in this context? 2. What are the actual stakes? What I found was that this framing kinda sucks. It’s useful as shorthand in conversations about AI safety vs AI progress. But it doesn’t really describe reality.” (04/09/26)
https://cathyreisenwitz.substack.com/p/invent-god-or-lose-to-china