Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Mark Nayler
“Covid-19 might have passed, but the latest outbreak of titulitis is tearing through Spain. A term used to refer to politicians’ obsession with higher qualifications, titulitis has recently resulted in the resignation of three regional representatives of both the Conservative People’s Party (PP) and the Socialists. But this contagious virus — or variants of it — is not confined to Spain. Over the last decade or so, politicians in the US and elsewhere in Europe have tried to make themselves appear more impressive than they are — whether through vagueness, embellishment, or outright fabrication.” (09/08/25)
“For years now, I’ve been critical of the use of the word ‘woke’ as a mere pejorative to signify anything the reactionary right hates. Indeed, ‘woke’ has become what Ayn Rand once called an ‘anti-concept,’ a grab-bag package deal of disparate, contradictory elements cobbled together with no logical or contextual sense. It is ironic that those who have rejected the pronouncements of the ‘woke’ left have now become champions of their own form of cancel culture, imposed top down through the countless executive orders and intimidation tactics of Donald Trump. … When politicians get to decide ‘where woke goes to die,’ the death throes of liberty cannot be far behind.” (09/08/25)
“Psychiatry is the only specialty I know of that causes more harm than good; in fact, vastly more harm than good. This disaster can only survive because psychiatrists constantly lie to the public about what they can achieve with their drugs. Psychiatrists also routinely violate elementary human rights about informed consent and use forced treatment even though it is harmful. The title of my most recent psychiatry book summarises the issues: ‘Is psychiatry a crime against humanity?’ As you shall see, I am not exaggerating.” (09/08/25)
“By the 1990s, there was almost universal antipathy for the TV preacher. Most were found either to be frauds, philanderers, or both. They did a good job of preying on the gullible and the desperate. They took advantage of innocent people, and yet people like my grandmother would argue that these preachers, despite their sins, ‘brought a lot of people to the Lord.’ My grandmother was no dummy, so maybe she was right. Me? I doubt God uses snake-oil salesmen as instruments of His will. … Even if you still think there are some earnest televangelists out there with good hearts, or that God can work miracles, I hope you’ll agree that when it comes to the secular religion known as politics, a lot of people have replaced God with government. Politicians are perhaps the worst form of televangelists.” (09/08/25)
“There is something worse than everybody wanting to come to your country: that’s if everybody tried to avoid it. America is not at this point, but there is a play about that in a theater of the absurd near you. Official figures show a significant drop in foreign tourists coming to America this year compared to the same period last year. … I suspect that many supporters of protectionism don’t realize that what foreign tourists spend in America is an American export. Just like for exports of goods, receiving tourists from abroad … uses resources belonging to American residents in order to produce goods and services for foreigners. Not surprisingly, foreign tourism in America is entered as exports in official statistics. American residents travelling abroad provide the mirror image …. A prohibition of American travel abroad would ‘save’ an estimated $248 billion in the annual balance of international trade.” (09/08/25)
“Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky has consistently ruled out making any territorial concession as part of a peace accord to end his country’s war with Russia. NATO’s European members (with the partial exceptions of Hungary and Turkey) continue to support Kyiv’s uncompromising stance. Indeed, many European leaders seem even more insistent than Zelensky himself regarding the issue. Persisting in such recalcitrance, though, guarantees that even more Ukrainians will perish in a hopeless cause. Insisting on giving no territorial concessions to Moscow ignores current and prospective battlefield realities. Like it or not, Russia is slowly but inexorably winning the grinding war of attrition.” [editor’s note: Neither side is “winning” – TLK] (09/08/25)
“I Went To Prison So You Won’t Have To is both a line from my speech that brought the house down at the Republican National Convention on the day I walked out of prison, and a cautionary tale about the new age of Democrat lawfare and weaponized justice that the Age of Trump has ushered in. If they can come for me, Steve, and President Trump (along with Jeff Clark, John Eastman, Rudy Giuliani, Dan Scavino, Mark Meadows, Jenna Ellis, Peter Clark, Boris Epshteyn, and other Trump associates), they can come for you. As a matter of simple math, virtually everyone involved in putting me behind bars was a Democrat …. More than a million dollars in legal fees and deprived of four months of my freedom — all because I honored the president’s invocation of executive privilege and oath of office.” (09/08/25)
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger
“A very positive sign in response to President Trump’s military occupation of Washington, D.C., has been what can be called ‘grand-jury nullification.’ Notice that I didn’t say ‘jury nullification.’ I said ‘grand-jury nullification,’ which is quite a different phenomenon. … what has been recently occurring in in Washington, D.C., is one of the most remarkable events in the history of America’s federal criminal-justice system. According to an article in the New York Times, grand juries in D.C. have refused prosecutors’ requests for indictment in at least seven cases, a phenomenon that the Times called a ‘citizens’s revolt’ against President Trump’s flooding the streets of our nation’s capital with hundreds of troops and federal agents.” (09/08/25)
Source: Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression
by Jacob Mchangama
“In 1649, a group of English radicals sent a petition to the House of Commons. In it, they lamented the licensing of printing — which allowed the government to ‘pre-censor’ books and pamphlets — as well as the harsh punishments for publishing unlicensed or ‘scandalous’ ones. The radicals warned that this kind of censorship would usher in a tyranny, and they insisted that it ‘seems altogether inconsistent with the good of the Commonwealth, and expresly [sic] opposite and dangerous to the liberties of the people.’ These radicals, known as the Levellers, paid dearly for their defiance. Their leaders were repeatedly imprisoned, and their demands for near-universal male suffrage, religious freedom, and unrestricted speech were crushed. Yet their bold vision left a legacy. … Centuries later, it seems Britain is in dire need of a new generation of Levellers.” (09/08/25)
“Since taking office nearly nine months ago, President Donald Trump has signed a flurry of executive orders that have kept the legal profession working overtime. By early September, 202 of the orders had spawned at least 395 court challenges. Twenty-three of the cases were fast-tracked to the Supreme Court in hopes of emergency action. One of the latest to be bumped up is an Aug. 29 U.S. Court of Appeals ruling that rejected the president’s claim of an emergency to impose trade tariffs. This ‘litany of litigation’, as one analyst characterizes the cascade of charges and countercharges, frustrates many Americans. Elected leaders from both parties are criticizing judges and rulings. Meanwhile, some judges, normally reticent, are weighing in. Much of the frustration comes by historic design. The nearly 240-year-old constitutional principles of separation of powers and checks and balances remain highly relevant today – that is, if consistently applied.” (09/08/25)
