Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Reem Ibrahim
“This week, the UK Parliament passed the Renters’ Rights Act. It is the biggest shakeup to the British rental market this century, and is being sold as a big win for tenants. This could not be further from the truth. This legislation will wreak havoc on the already fundamentally broken rental market. It introduces de facto rent controls, crushes the supply of housing, and makes life harder for everyone trying to find somewhere to live.” (11/04/25)
Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
“Israeli settlers were filmed torturing lambs which belonged to Palestinians in the West Bank. Gouged their eyes out. Smashed them with cinder blocks. Beat them to death in front of their mothers. Lambs. It’s not the most evil thing the Israelis have done. Not by a long shot. Hell, all of human civilization subjects animals to cruel abuses every minute of every day through the horrors of factory farming. But this particular incident shines a special sort of light into exactly what’s going on behind Israeli eyes over there in that sadistic society. Think about the hatred and savagery you’d need to summon up within yourself to gouge the eyes out of a living baby sheep. Think about the kind of person you’d have to become to do something like that to an innocent creature. Those lambs didn’t know they were Palestinian.” (11/04/25)
“Writing about the coronation of Napoleon Bonaparte’s nephew, Louis, as the emperor of the French, Karl Marx coined one of his most famous phrases: ‘Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.’ I have been thinking about this phrase a lot in recent weeks, as it has become increasingly clear what shape the Democrats’ response to Trump 47 is going to take.” (11/04/25)
“The Supreme Court is about to hear oral arguments in a case that sounds like a fight over toy imports but is really about the future of presidential power. On Nov. 5, in the only case being heard on that day, the justices will take up Learning Resources, Inc. v. Trump, and the question behind it is huge: Can a president declare a ‘national emergency’ whenever he wants to set his own economic policy? … the core issue is deceptively simple: can the word ’emergency’ be stretched so far that it covers anything a president feels like tackling without Congress? Because if the answer is yes, that’s not just a trade story — that’s a blueprint for a permanent emergency presidency.” (11/04/25)
“Asserting that Christians in Nigeria face ‘an existential threat,’ President Donald Trump signaled over the weekend that the United States military might go into Africa’s most populous country ‘with guns-a-blazing.’ While his depiction of the situation is highly simplified, it could at least draw attention to the political and economic issues that have driven extremist insurgencies in Nigeria as well as in nearby nations. One issue is that the violence committed by militant groups, many of which operate in the name of Islam, has hit people of different faiths. ‘Terror groups … have attacked mosques and churches alike, killing both imams and pastors, Muslims and Christians, without distinction,’ noted The Punch, a Nigerian news daily. ‘Portraying these conflicts as a one-sided religious debate and advocacy ignores the broader socio-economic and environmental pressures … that drive violence.'” (11/03/25)
Source: Karl Dickey’s Freedom Vanguard
by Karl Dickey
“Mamdani, seems to be the worst of the three choices as he is seeking greater government involvement in New Yorkers’ lives with city-owned grocery stores, free buses, rent control, etc. All of his ideas have been tried with dismal results, often if not always leading to worse lives for the poorest among us, even though he is promising what surface-level thinking looks like a utopia. A vote for Mamdani, is to bring NYC back to how life was there in the 1970s. And then Cuomo seems to be the second-worst choice, since we already know what he’s capable of. Many feel the guy should be in jail for any number of offenses. … Sliwa is the only ‘conservative’ in the race, and he has polled the lowest of the three, and from an individual freedom perspective, he’d be a no-go, but he may be the best of the worst.” (11/04/25)
“The Atlantic is a beautiful magazine, expertly designed and printed, lovely to behold: an excellent showpiece for your coffee table … but marred by absurdities. Currently, consider David Merritt Johns’s article ‘MAHA’s Blinkered War on ‘Groupthink’’ — and when I shift to reader mode, a second title appears: ‘In Defense of ‘Groupthink.’’ Of course The Atlantic defends groupthink! It’s been working mightily to shore up totalitarian mob-think, woke half-think, for years!” (11/04/25)
“Kevin Roberts, president of the Heritage Foundation, felt the need to emphasize that the conservative think tank had absolutely no problem with [Tucker] Carlson or his decision to give [Nick] Fuentes a friendly interview. … ‘the American people expect us to be focusing on our political adversaries on the left, not attacking our friends on the right.’ Got that? Fuentes is arguing that conservatives need to be explicitly pro-White, and Carlson says he hates Christian Zionists more than anybody else, and it’s Carlson’s critics who are ‘sowing division.’ And I suppose we’re supposed to count these two among the Heritage Foundation’s ‘friends on the right.’ Unsurprisingly, a whole bunch of conservatives with functioning consciences publicly registered their displeasure.” (11/04/25)
“Here’s something for New York City residents to consider as they vote for Mayor, and for observers outside New York to consider as they watch the vote count: for the most part, Zohran Mamdani’s plans for the city are surprisingly affordable. Despite the frantic tone of mainstream media coverage (and the revolutionary overtones of the phrase ‘democratic socialist’) most of Mamdani’s agenda could be accomplished at minimal cost to the city. The only exception is his plan for free universal childcare, whose costs may have been overstated by his own campaign. Mamdani has proposed opening five city-owned grocery stores in the city, at a cost of $60 million. These stores would use city-owned property, which means they wouldn’t have to pay rent, and would sell the food at operating cost without making a profit. Would it work? Military commissaries are successful. So is Costco, which operates a trimmed-down, ‘bare bones’ store model.” (11/04/25)
