Category: Opinion

Source: The Peaceful Revolutionist
by David S D’Amato

“Halloween Special (spooky Bill Gates edition).” (10/29/25)

https://dsdamato.substack.com/p/gdp-as-ideological-scam-part-7

Source: Karl Dickey’s Freedom Vanguard
by Karl Dickey

“Despite bipartisan support and polls showing Floridians overwhelmingly favor permanent daylight time, federal mandates like the 1966 Uniform Time Act keep us chained to twice-yearly clock changes.” (10/29/25)

https://palmbeachexaminer.substack.com/p/floridas-sunshine-struggle-why-we

Source: The Daily Beast
by David Litt

“Federal workers are lining up outside food banks. Disappearing SNAP benefits could cause millions of their neighbors to go hungry, too. 22 states — including MAGA-friendly Iowa, Mississippi, and West Virginia — may already be in a recession. Hiring is down. Inflation is up. Groceries keep getting more expensive. Americans, in other words, are struggling. And where is President America First? In Asia, of course. Now, President Trump hasn’t entirely ignored domestic policy over the past several weeks. Someone has to be there to say yes to Stephen Miller, and besides, the East Wing wasn’t going to demolish itself. But to an extent almost no one would have guessed a year ago, Trump, his ratings sagging at home, appears obsessed with winning the world’s approval.” (10/30/25)

https://archive.is/5l7TE

Source: Town Hall
by Larry Elder

“Dear former President Barack Obama: During former Vice President Kamala Harris’ 2024 presidential campaign, you chastised ‘the brothers’ for what you perceived as their reluctance to vote for a black female. You said: ‘We have not yet seen the same kinds of energy and turnout in all corners of our neighborhoods and communities as we saw when I was running. Now, I also want to say that that seems to be more pronounced with the brothers.’ Did you tell ‘the brothers’ who, for the sake of racial solidarity, you tried to shame into voting for Harris that you only believe in left-wing racial solidarity? You starred in an attack ad for the white opponent of the Republican black man, who would have become the first black governor of California. You didn’t tell ‘the brothers’ to vote for him. In fact, you wanted ‘the brothers’ to vote against him.” (10/30/25)

https://townhall.com/columnists/larryelder/2025/10/30/barack-obama-and-the-brothers-n2665673

Source: Christian Science Monitor
by staff

“In the seven years since the U.S. Supreme Court gave a green light for states to legalize sports betting – 39 have done so – dozens of professional and collegiate athletes have been punished for gambling violations. Last week, the National Basketball Association was engulfed in a scandal after the federal indictment of a current NBA player, a retired one, and a current head coach. They allegedly gave inside information to illegal gamblers. How has the NBA responded? In a memo to its 30 teams, it called for several reforms, such as curbing bets on certain aspects of a game. Most of all, it seeks to improve the education of players and other NBA personnel. That could be a big step for American athletics as more sports leagues now grapple with legalized betting – and with the tendency to see fans as valuable gamblers rather than as valued spectators.” (10/29/25)

https://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/the-monitors-view/2025/1029/Clean-sports-vs.-dirty-gambling

Source: Brownstone Institute
by David Bell

“Government UBI will happen – it already does to some extent, but the future will see it on a far, far larger scale. It will not be cash handouts but digital currency. This will be a tightly controlled version, as in a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC), because the government will claim responsibility for controlling the money it dispenses. CBDC is essentially food vouchers, and intended to be. Your UBI will be yours as long as you use it for what the government allows, within the time they allow.” (10/29/25)

https://brownstone.org/articles/universal-basic-income-make-slavery-great-again/

Source: Persuasion
by Sam Kahn

“[T]here were — pretty obviously — two main factors contributing to the Democrats’ defeat. One was the problem of gerontocracy and the inability to connect with a younger digitally-forward voting public. And the other was the party’s inability to seize the common-sense middle ground, to present themselves as the adults in the room. They somehow managed to be seen, in pre-election polling, as the more extreme party — and this against an opponent who wants to lock up his political rivals and invade Greenland. So the solution to the party’s woes really was pretty simple. First of all, they needed a cohort of candidates who knew how to use a smart phone. And second, they needed those candidates to just please — for the love of Christ — not be crazier than the other side, which, honestly, really shouldn’t be that hard of a bar to clear.” (10/29/25)

https://www.persuasion.community/p/the-democrats-just-never-ever-learn

Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger

“The Fifth Amendment prohibited the federal government from depriving any person of life without due process of law. Stretching all the way back to the Magna Carta in 1215, the term due process had come to mean, at a minimum, the dual requirement of formal notice and the right to be heard before being assassinated or executed. Notice something important about the Fifth Amendment: Its protection applies to ‘persons,’ not just American citizens. … as a practical matter, the conversion to a national-security state operated as a de facto amendment of the Constitution, one that amended the Fifth Amendment — but without a constitutional amendment. Once the conversion took place, the president and his national-security establishment wielded the omnipotent, dark-side power to assassinate anyone they wanted, so long as they determined that the victim posed a threat to ‘national security.'” (10/29/25)

https://www.fff.org/2025/10/29/how-the-federal-government-acquired-the-power-of-assassination/

Source: Tenth Amendment Center
by Rob Natelson

“Last year, the Internet resounded with chatter about how much American and British men ponder the subject of ancient Rome. Women started asking their husbands and boyfriends, ‘Honey, how often do you think about the Roman Empire?’ And based on the responses, American and British men actually think about Rome a lot. Saturday Night Live even produced a very humorous video on the subject. Still, the interest modern men have in Rome pales compared to that of the American founding generation.” (10/29/25)

https://tenthamendmentcenter.com/2025/10/29/ancient-rome-and-the-constitution/

Source: The Hill
by Antony Davies & James R Harrigan

“When the federal government starts coming apart at its fiscal seams, Social Security will be the first thing to unravel. It is among the country’s largest financial challenges at over $50 trillion in unfunded obligations — Medicare is the largest. The Social Security Board of Trustees predicts that the Old-Age and Survivors Insurance trust fund will become insolvent in 2033. Social Security cannot continue as it is. Keeping at least a modified version will require either tax hikes, which millions of workers will oppose, or benefits cuts, which millions of retirees will oppose. But is there a third way? Hypothetically, if it were possible to phase out Social Security without cutting retirees’ benefits and without raising workers’ taxes, would Americans go for it?” (10/29/25)

https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/5576812-reforming-social-security/