Source: Independent Institute
by Scott Beyer
“Land expansionism helped make America great. A look into the pros and cons of President Trump’s attempt at Greenland.” (01/30/26)
https://www.independent.org/article/2026/01/30/should-the-united-states-purchase-greenland/
Source: The Dispatch
by Jonah Goldberg
“When right is left and left is right.” (01/30/26)
https://thedispatch.com/newsletter/gfile/political-labels-populism/
Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob
“The world’s richest man predicted that humanoid robots will soon become pervasive: ‘there will be more robots than people.’ I’m not much of a science fiction reader — does Nineteen Eighty-Four count? — but from movies and friends’ book suggestions, it sure seems that sci-fi writers have not predicted universally cheerful outcomes from Elon’s prophesied robot population explosion.” (01/30/16)
https://thisiscommonsense.org/2026/01/30/the-next-population-explosion/
Source: Independent Institute
by Christopher J Calton
“It is that time of year when the United States counts its homeless population. Every January, local governments conduct a point-in-time (PIT) count, which provides a snapshot of the homeless population on a given day. Since 2007, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has published this data to track changes in the homelessness population at the national level. The PIT count is useful. Because data is collected annually using a standard method, we can compare the effects of competing policies across time and place. Critics often complain that the PIT fails to capture everybody who briefly experiences homelessness throughout the year, but this does not undermine the data’s analytical value as long as the counts take place under uniform conditions. For the most part, this is the case.” (01/30/26)
https://www.independent.org/article/2026/01/30/homeless-count-pit/
Source: Fox News
by David Marcus
“Whether Don Lemon broke federal law in his role in an attack on a Minnesota church will be up to a jury, but we can already say he deserves the max for his crime against journalism. At issue, both in the criminal case and the one in the court of journalistic ethics: Was the former CNN anchor present at the disruption of the church service in St. Paul to document the event or was he participating in it? It was quite clearly the latter. In the moments prior to the harebrained ‘protest’ in the house of worship that left children in tears, Lemon can be seen outside, on video he took himself, telling his viewers the ‘operation is a secret,’ adding, ‘I can’t tell you what’s going to happen, but you’re going to watch it live.'” [editor’s note: Is a journalist embedded with a military unit betraying his profession if he doesn’t broadcast classified attack plans in advance? – TLK} (01/31/25)
Source: The Volokh Conspiracy
by Ilya Somin
“Donald Trump has often threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act as a tool for using the military against his domestic opponents. Many observers believe this became more likely after the Supreme Court ruled against his efforts to federalize state National Guard units and use them for domestic law enforcement under a different statute. The conventional wisdom on the Insurrection Act is that the president is entitled to broad judicial deference if he invokes it. In an important new article, Prof. Josh Braver (University of Wisconsin) argues that the conventional wisdom is wrong.” (01/30/26)
Source: The UnPopulist
by Anya A Bidwell
“A foundational element of our legal system is that our courts recognize, as Chief Justice John Marshall wrote in Marbury v. Madison, that ‘where there is a legal right, there is also a legal remedy … whenever that right is invaded.’ This legal principle was supposed to ensure, among other things, that individuals could fight back, receive compensation, and discourage government abuses whenever a government agent or agency had violated their rights. As profound as Marshall’s words sound on paper, today they ring hollow for victims of constitutional abuses and other wrongdoing by employees of the federal government.” (01/30/26)
https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/americans-need-legal-remedies-restored
Source: Washington Post
by George F Will
“As the Supreme Court prepares a landmark ruling about the scope of presidential power, the current president is acting more unleashed than any predecessor. He is demonstrating that a president not self-restrained by his or her constitutional conscience is almost unrestrainable. The court case concerns whether presidents have the power to remove, for any reason, all principal officers of executive agencies exercising significant executive power. The ruling will emphatically bolster or substantially quarantine the ‘unitary executive theory.'” (01/30/26)
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Patrick Frise
“The scale of fraud uncovered in recent years has exposed how government transfer programs function, even as meaningful public or legislative reckoning remains largely absent. What began as a series of pandemic-related scandals has revealed something broader and more troubling: large-scale fraud is not an anomaly within the modern welfare state. The federal government, taxpayers, lose between $233 billion and $521 billion annually to fraud, based on data from 2018 to 2022. It is a predictable outcome of systems that distribute vast sums of money without market discipline, rely on third-party payment structures, and diffuse responsibility across layers of bureaucracy.” (01/30/26)
https://mises.org/mises-wire/fraud-policy-incentives-modern-welfare-state
Source: Law & Liberty
by Paola Romero
“The United States cannot tutor the remnants of the Maduro regime into democracy. Deeper change is necessary.” (01/30/26)
https://lawliberty.org/venezuelas-zombie-transition-cannot-last/