“Too many Americans who say they believe in free speech mean only their speech. Adopting progressive dogma, the Biden administration claimed that free speech had limits, and broadly suppressed dissenting views. On his first day in office, President Trump issued an executive order to restore traditional (and constitutionally mandated) protections, but his administration’s adherence to that order has been situational.” (12/02/25)
“Polls show that the age group of Americans most worried about ‘affordability’ are the 20- and 30-somethings. That’s young millennials and Gen Z. Why are they so financially stressed out? One reason things seem so unaffordable to young people is that too many aren’t working hard — they are hardly working. The latest Labor Department data indicate that fewer and fewer males between the ages of 16 and 24 are in the labor force. It used to be that more than 70% had a job; now, less than 60% do. Labor force participation for men, even into their 30s, is at or near an all-time low. Men without jobs are a prescription for social chaos. I would argue this is the MOST important age for a man to be hard at work, honing his job skills and on the way to a career that makes him a suitable marriage partner.” (12/02/25)
“The pandemic saw a new breed of people who had become experts overnight but knew very little about the issues. They constantly appeared on TV with sinister messages about the need for lockdowns and many other interventions …. State epidemiologist Anders Tegnell stood his ground and advised that Sweden should not change its policy, which was to keep the society open and not mandate face masks, which were rarely seen in Sweden. Sweden was a lone star in the darkness. I think it was the only country that didn’t panic and did the right things, and it had the lowest excess mortality in the whole Western world during the pandemic (excess mortality is the increase in all-cause mortality during the pandemic compared with prepandemic levels).” (12/02/25)
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Michael S Milano
“Each day we are reminded of this legal imposition by the familiar phrase stamped on every US dollar bill: ‘This note is legal tender for all debts, public and private.’ Innocuous on the surface, but these words conceal a profound immorality that strikes at the heart of voluntary exchange. If a man of sound mind agrees to settle a contract in X, then he should be obligated to pay X. Forcing him to accept anything other than X as payment is an egregious violation of contractual and property rights.” (12/02/25)
Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Peter Fenwick
“Two generations before Charlie Kirk there was Leonard Read. He too travelled the country debating with students and telling them how to build a good society. The essence of Read’s philosophy comprises individual liberty, the free market, private property, and government limited to securing these rights equally for all. Everyone is free to do as they please provided they do not infringe on the equal right and opportunity of everyone else to do so too. Everyone can pursue their ambitions; associate with whomever they please; worship God in their own way; choose their own job or profession; run a business; and keep their honestly acquired property and savings or dispose of it as they wish. The society prospers because it uses the creative talents and resources of all its citizens, not just an elite few.” (12/02/25)
“It’s been 20 years since I retired from the Air Force and 40 years since I first entered Cheyenne Mountain, America’s nuclear redoubt at the southern end of the Front Range that includes Pikes Peak in Colorado. So it was with some nostalgia that I read a recent memo from General Kenneth Wilsbach, the new Chief of Staff of the Air Force (CSAF). Along with the usual warrior talk, the CSAF vowed to ‘relentlessly advocate’ for the new Sentinel ICBM (intercontinental ballistic missile) and the B-21 Raider stealth bomber. While the Air Force often speaks of ‘investing’ in new nukes, this time the CSAF opted for ‘recapitalization,’ a remarkably bloodless term for the creation of a whole new generation of genocidal thermonuclear weapons and their delivery systems. … In my Cheyenne Mountain days, circa 1985, the new ‘must have’ bomber was the B-1 Lancer and the new ‘must have’ ICBM was the MX Peacekeeper.” (12/02/25)
“There are two senses in contemporary usage. One is a self-conscious intellectual movement of the right that believes that liberalism, as a philosophy of economic and moral individualism, is corrosive to both personal and collective well-being and should be replaced with a vision of the ‘common good,’ usually defined through a synthesis of conservative Catholic social teaching and nationalism. The other sense describes the general turn on both the left and right away from the liberal consensus of the late 20th and early 21st centuries — often called neoliberalism by its critics — towards other traditions like Marxism or the aforementioned Catholic Integralism. The implication in both usages is that liberalism is not merely being opposed, but transcended in some way: the good things in liberalism, like pluralism and toleration, would be preserved, while the bad stuff, like alienation and class stratification, would be eliminated. It sounds nice. And that’s the problem: It’s essentially a euphemism.” (12/02/25)
“Ryan was celestial on the mound. He won 324 games – seven of them no-hitters. (Four of those were with the Angels.) That means opponents did not get a hit in two out of every hundred games he won. No wonder he ascended into baseball heaven, inducted into the Hall of Fame with the third-highest vote percentage ever. Unbelievably, Angelenos who try to get permission to exercise their Second Amendment rights face even longer odds than did Ryan in getting a no-hit win. As a lawsuit by the federal government details, just one in 2,000 concealed-carry permit applicants wins the legally required seal of approval from the LA County Sheriff’s Department.” (12/02/25)
“The massive Somali-orchestrated welfare fraud in Minnesota grew so big, even The New York Times had to cover it. The takeaways are delicious: an indictment of sloppy Democrat-run Big Government, a repudiation of immigration policies that favor groups that decline to assimilate and that in some cases embrace anti-U.S. sentiment and exposing Governor Tim Walz for the lightweight he is. Over several years, a cabal of (mostly) Somali refugees in Minnesota pulled off a giant heist of the state’s funds, embarrassing Democrat officials and highlighting once again the fraud that permeates our welfare programs. It was a theft so mammoth that hundreds of employees of the Minnesota Department of Human Services wrote anonymously on X that Walz, who served as Vice President Kamala Harris'[s] running mate in 2024, ‘has failed Minnesota’ and added, ‘Tim Walz is 100% responsible for massive fraud in Minnesota.'” (12/02/25)
“Getting rid of jury trials. Slapping us all with a digital ID. Presiding over a carnival of speech arrests. I’m starting to think the Guardianistas are right – that our current crop of politicians are indeed sending us down the slippery slope towards authoritarianism. Only it isn’t the ‘populists’ or the ‘right-wingers’ sluicing the flume, but their beloved bloody Labour Party. I don’t know what’s worse about justice secretary David Lammy’s jury ‘reforms’ – that they will further curtail trial by jury, a right that stems from Magna Carta, or his spreadsheet-driven justifications for doing so. Forget about 1215 and Runnymede, we need to maybe trim the court backlog a bit. Our ancient liberties mean nothing to the technocrat with a target to hit.” (12/02/25)
