American Ten Commandments
Source: Underthrow
by Max Borders
“Our civic religion must stay rooted in the Founders’ wisdom, even if we upgrade it for the twenty-first century.” (09/26/25)
Category: Opinion
The World Doesn’t Hate Jews, The World Hates Israel
Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
“It’s so crazy that we’re two years into a genocide and we’re still being hammered by propagandists pretending to believe that the world has just spontaneously started hating Israel for no reason in some inexplicable explosion of Jew-hatred. ‘U.S. registers most outbreaks of global antisemitism in August,’ reads a recent headline from Fox News. ‘Report: Antisemitism Hits Post-Holocaust High,’ blares a headline from Newsmax. ‘Gen Z’s casual antisemitism is growing — seeded by influencers like Tucker Carlson,’ says a headline from The New York Post. During a recent ‘counter-terrorism’ summit at Reichman University, Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt complained that the entire world is becoming increasingly hateful toward Jews.” (09/28/25)
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2025/09/28/the-world-doesnt-hate-jews-the-world-hates-israel/
“As I Was Saying”
Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Rachel Chiu
“Jimmy Kimmel Live! is back on air, but the show’s short-lived suspension highlights the complexities of government censorship by proxy.” (09/28/25)
Networks laud their free-speech hero Kimmel, skip how Google censored conservatives
Source: Fox News Forum
by Tim Graham
“ABC announced that late-night host Jimmy Kimmel was ‘indefinitely’ suspended after he callously milked Charlie Kirk’s murder by claiming President Donald Trump fans were desperate to avoid the ‘fact’ that Kirk’s shooter was a Trump fan. That lie was transformed by broadcast newscasts into a glorious free-speech case. When ABC announced that the ‘indefinite’ suspension was only going to last four nights, the networks rallied. On Tuesday, ABC anchor David Muir touted the company line: ‘Disney says the decision comes after thoughtful conversations with Kimmel.’ That’s funny. ‘Thoughtful’ isn’t usually the first adjective to describe Kimmel’s Trump-trashing monologues.” (09/26/25)
Resist Them: Samuel Adams and the Forgotten Duty of a Free People
Source: Tenth Amendment Center
by Michael Boldin
“‘Resist them.’ Nearly five years before the Declaration of Independence, Samuel Adams demanded that the people resist arbitrary power, warning them that the alternative was to tamely submit, sit idly by, and hope for the best – a recipe for total tyranny. For Adams, this wasn’t politics; it was a test of backbone and fortitude. It was the moral virtue of doing what’s right, even when facing down the most powerful government on Earth. Today, that demand is completely ignored. But the principle behind it is timeless: a people that won’t defend their liberty is a people that won’t have it for long.” (09/27/25)
Children in Crosshairs of Attack [sic] on Public Education
Source: Common Dreams
by Andrew Kordik
“After surviving a contentious US Senate confirmation hearing, Linda McMahon, the former World Wrestling Entertainment CEO turned secretary of education, received a profound first directive from President Donald Trump: ‘Put yourself out of a job.’ Like other appointees, Mrs. McMahon has done exactly as ordered by a president who accepts nothing less. As Secretary, McMahon has championed Trump’s executive order dismantling her department and delivering its K-12 responsibilities to state and local governments. She has fired 1,315 department employees, targeting jobs in the Office for Civil Rights and the Institute of Education Sciences, groups that investigate civil rights complaints in schools and provide advice on best practices in teaching. As a result, the department’s staff has been nearly halved since January.” (09/27/25)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/trump-mcmahon-war-on-edu
Restoring Sanity and Humanity to the Immigration System Requires Putting Enforcement Under Article I Congressional Courts
Source: The UnPopulist
by Margaret Stock
“The United States immigration court system, currently housed within the Department of Justice, was originally intended to serve as a neutral forum for adjudicating immigration cases. For years, critics have argued that its structural placement under the executive branch has compromised its impartiality, turning it into a mechanism of immigration enforcement rather than a fair judicial body. Under the second administration of President Donald Trump, these critics have proven to be prescient.” (09/27/25)
https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/restoring-sanity-and-humanity-to
DoD cracks down on free speech, at our peril
Source: Orange County Register
by Larry Wilson
“Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered hundreds of top American generals and admirals who work around the globe to a meeting next week at a Virginia Marine Corps base in Virginia without saying the subject of the Big Brass get-together. Oops — that news doesn’t come from an official Pentagon press release. It’s a scoop that reporters got on Thursday, citing four United States government officials who requested anonymity. And here I am, spreading the news. And I’m repeating it just days after a bonkers, insidious, illegal demand from the Defense Department that Pentagon reporters sign a ‘pledge’ not to publish sensitive information, even if it is not classified, unless it’s been ‘approved’ by official press officers at the DoD, on threat of losing their press passes.” (09/27/25)
Amy Coney Barrett’s brand of originalism irritates some people. Good.
Source: Washington Post
by George F Will
“Although Barrett is preternaturally nice, she irritates some people. The reason she does makes her an exemplary justice. It is her fastidious acknowledgment that certainty and precision are often elusive when construing, as an originalist, the Constitution’s text (‘due’ process, ‘unreasonable’ searches, ‘cruel and unusual’ punishments, etc.) in modern contexts. Awareness of uncertainties justifies judicious restraint: The duty to construe texts does not empower judges to try to discover — or guess — the purposes or intentions of those who wrote the words.” (09/26/25)
The James “Cardinal” Comey I knew at the FBI fully deserves whatever comeuppance is in store
Source: New York Post
by James A Gagliano
“The Justice Department’s announcement that former FBI Director James Comey has been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of making a false statement and obstruction of a congressional proceeding is all but a fait accompli. Pious, sanctimonious self-righteousness and hypocritical moralizing had long ago cost him his professional reputation. With charges of perjury and obstruction, Comey could face imprisonment. More tragically, the narcissistic leader, who was relieved of his duties by President Donald Trump soon into his first term, will continue to damage the agency I love and served for a quarter of a century. And that makes me — and many others in my ranks — weary, saddened and angry. Based on my own observations and those of my colleagues at the bureau, it was clear from the start that Comey was hellbent on altering FBI culture.” (09/26/25)