Source: Libertarian Institute
by Joseph Solis-Mullen
“September is Constitution Month, a celebration of the document produced by the 1787 Convention to replace the Articles of Confederation. Predictably, whether Republican or Democrat, there was no shortage of public effusions in its praise. Even libertarians, inheritors of the tradition of classical liberalism, are inclined to celebrate. This is, however, a mistake. For it was precisely their faith in constitutionalism that proved its great undoing. Indeed, the tragedy of classical liberalism is not simply that it was betrayed by later generations, or that its ideals were corrupted by progressives. Its failure was more profound: it trusted the state to limit itself.” (09/25/25)
“‘The White House budget office,’ CNN reports, ‘is telling federal agencies to prepare plans for mass firings in the event of a government shutdown’ …. The headline characterizes Trump’s latest move as a ‘threat’ intended to encourage Democrats to capitulate, and dissident Republicans to get back on side, in the latest fight over government spending. Threat? Maybe to Democrats who can’t bear the thought of any reduction, in any government function, ever. Maybe to Republicans who have pet programs they know would be affected by ‘reductions in force.’ The rest of us should reply as Br’er Rabbit did to Br’er Fox’s threat to cook him and eat him: ‘Oh, Br’er Fox, I don’t care what you do with me, so long as you just don’t throw me in that briar patch over there.'” (09/25/25)
Source: CounterPunch
by John W Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead
“The Trump administration is taking its war on free speech into the realm of thought crimes. This is more than politics. In declaring ‘Antifa’ — a loose ideology based on opposition to fascism — as a domestic terrorist organization, the government has given itself a green light to treat speech, belief, and association as criminal acts. With this one executive order, political dissent has been rebranded as terrorism and free thought recast as a crime. Critics will argue that ‘Antifa’ means rioting and property destruction. But violent acts are already crimes, handled under ordinary law. What’s new — and dangerous — is punishing people not for violence, but for what they believe, say, or with whom they associate.” (09/25/25)
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by William L Anderson
“The president was angry at the press, claiming that journalists were spreading ‘poisonous propaganda’ about him. Using the Federal Communications Commission as a political weapon, he threatened the licenses of broadcast firms that employed people critical of him. While Donald Trump likely is the first person to come to mind here, the opening sentences are not about him. They are, instead, about the spiritual standard bearer of the Democratic Party — Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Indeed, while president, FDR used the powers of his office to punish, bully, and intimidate print and broadcast journalists that dared to disagree with the New York patrician. … Unlike Donald Trump — who at least is facing some condemnation from media quarters for his use of the FCC licensing process to bully broadcast media — Roosevelt is almost uniformly presented in the legacy media as a staunch civil libertarian.” (09/25/25)
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger
“[N]o one has come up with a big leftist, pro-socialist, pro-communist, pro-Antifa manifesto by his killer, similar to the manifesto, for example, that the Unabomber published. There is also no indication that the guy owned any pro-Marxian or pro-communist books or that he had steeped himself in ‘leftist ideology.’ Indeed, it turns out that both of his parents are Republicans, which meant that he grew up being ingrained with conservative values. Then, why have Trump, Vice-President Vance, and the conservative movement couched Kirk’s killing in some sort of big ideological left-right divide, one in which Kirk’s killer supposedly has a deep hatred for how conservatives are running America’s statist system. I think that it’s because they know that a political motivation for the killing would at least give a deeper meaning to Kirk’s death.” (09/25/25)
“Here’s a stark example of polarization in Washington: As a Sept. 30 deadline looms over Congress to pass a spending bill, the two top Senate leaders from both parties are not talking to each other. And President Donald Trump backed out of negotiations with Democratic leaders on the bill. This dearth of dialogue ‘encapsulates the partisan tensions that have raised the odds that … government agencies will close at midnight Tuesday’, stated Politico. The shutdown standoff in the capital may seem like the norm. Yet it does not reflect electoral trends or public attitudes in much of the United States. Last year’s election, for instance, revealed a large drop in polarization between groups of voters compared with the 2020 election, according to a survey from Harvard University and YouGov. The divide between the generations, genders, and rural and urban Americans actually shrank.” (09/24/25)
“New Jersey Democrats have unveiled a power grab that threatens the very foundation of parental rights. Assembly Bill 5825, introduced by Democrat Sterley Stanley, would mandate that homeschool families align their curricula with the New Jersey Student Learning Standards, including diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) requirements newly infused into curricula from history to health. Parents who’ve chosen to educate children independently often do so to avoid the heavily political worldviews imposed in government classrooms. By effectively compelling homeschooling families to parrot political narratives on race, gender, and identity, such mandates confirm the odd ownership many Democrats feel over people’s kids.” (09/25/25)
“Something is off about this Bay Area House Party. There are … women. ‘I’ve never seen a gender balance like this in the Bay Area,’ you tell your host Chris. ‘Is this one of those fabled ratio parties?’ ‘No — have you heard of curtfishing? It’s the new male dating trend. You say in your Bumble profile that you’re a member of the Dissident Right who often attends parties with Curtis Yarvin. Then female journos ask you out in the hopes that you’ll bring them along and they can turn it into an article.’ ‘What happens when they realize Curtis Yarvin isn’t at the party?’ ‘Oh, everyone pools their money and hires someone to pretend to be Curtis. You can just do things. Today it’s Ramchandra.'” (09/25/25)
“Warning: dangers in the mirror are often closer than they may appear. In other words, the next few paragraphs may seem to be hyperbole but are, in fact, expressions of reality (animated by a cold fury). On September 8, 2025, the Supreme Court did its best to murder what’s left of civil rights [sic] in this country. As Charlie Savage of the New York Times reported, in an unsigned 6-3 ruling, it overturned a lower court’s order forbidding ICE and the Border Patrol in Los Angeles from stopping, interrogating, and detaining people based on any of four factors: ‘apparent race or ethnicity; the fact that they speak English with an accent or speak Spanish; their presence at particular locations like farms or pickup sites for day laborers; and the type of work they do.'” (09/25/25)
“American policymakers have the opportunity to allow home prices to fall and to make homes available to millions of Americans who have been priced out thanks to decades of easy-money-fueled asset price growth. Americans policymakers have an opportunity to allow a flowering of new competition and new efficiency in the economy as the old incumbent firms that now subsist on debt and speculative manias actually make way for new entrepreneurs and new dynamic economy. But, as we saw this week, the Fed will do everything it can to stop that from happening. Even as price inflation continues to grow, the Fed is telling us it has to print more money to ensure that ‘number go up’ in terms of asset prices and GDP.” (09/25/25)
