“On Monday, President Trump signed an executive order ending cashless bail nationwide and creating rapid-response National Guard units that can be deployed to any city in need. Chicago, which Trump has aptly said ‘is a killing field right now,’ is one of the candidates. Send in the feds, Mr. President. Those forces should include ATF, DEA and FBI agents and other Department of Justice resources, as well as federalized National Guard troops if necessary. It’s high time to act against the dereliction of duty we’ve seen from Mayor Brandon Johnson and Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker.” [editor’s note: In English, Caldwell is saying “unleash the same kinds of thugs who killed my brother” – TLK] (08/26/25)
“It is a bit of a mystery why people who claim to be American-style conservatives do not embrace Friedrich Hayek, the economist and legal theorist who was awarded a Nobel Prize in economics in 1974. The mystery dissipates when one realizes that most self-identified conservatives are in fact as collectivist as the self-defined progressives (‘liberals’ in the confusing American terminology). Each side gives primacy to collective and political choices over individual and private choices, except that it is different collective choices that each side wants to impose. The difference is typically about which groups in society will be favored and which ones harmed.” (08/26/25)
“[O]n Thursday, a New York appellate court, citing that clause, struck down a $500 million fine against the president for filing dishonest business records. Regardless of whether Trump’s case was decided rightly or wrongly, it isn’t typical, and focus on it threatens to obscure the clause’s role in protecting everyday Americans. Blackstone had much more modest circumstances in mind when he wrote that fines could not deprive landowners of their land, merchants of their businesses, or farmers of their animals and equipment. A court imposing a fine had to recognize that what ‘is ruin to one man’s fortune, may be matter of indifference to another’s’ and adjust the amount accordingly. We should all be thankful that such a clause exists and that it prohibits excessive fines — even if in addition to protecting people with average assets, it also protects people with great fortunes.” (08/26/25)
“It’s a good thing we have President Donald Trump and his administration to stop the spread of Mamdani’s socialist agenda. Instead of having the government take greater control of private companies the way Mamdani wants, the administration is having the government take greater control of private companies the way Trump wants.” (08/26/25)
“Sigal Chattah, the Israeli-born acting U.S. attorney in Nevada, who declined to prosecute an Israeli government official arrested last month for attempting to go on a date with an undercover agent posing as a 15-year-old girl, has drawn attention for her seemingly bottomless online footprint of unapologetically genocidal social media posts, text messages likening a political opponent to Hamas, and a campaign ad featuring a photo of Rep. Ilhan Omar engulfed by flames. But a shallow dive into the long list of donors who contributed to her 2022 Nevada attorney general campaign gives a fuller picture of Chattah, and by extension the emerging Mafia bureaucracy comprising Trump’s Department of Justice.” (08/27/25)
“On the campaign trail, Donald Trump promised to cut ‘electricity prices by half’ within 18 months of becoming president. In the eight months since he took office, Trump’s plans haven’t worked, and electricity prices have steadily increased, rising at nearly twice the rate of inflation over the past 12 months. Predictably, the Trump administration has blamed renewables for this trend, with Energy Secretary Chris Wright recently saying that the ‘momentum’ of the policies enacted by Barack Obama and Joe Biden is responsible for electricity price increases. … The government’s preferential treatment of renewables is partially responsible for these price hikes; flood the grid with intermittent [sic] energy sources, while making it harder for fossil fuels to operate, and electricity prices will rise. But this isn’t the only reason why electricity costs have gone up.” (08/26/25)
“Like Hayek and the Big C moniker, I have long wished not to have my tunic emblazoned with the Scarlet L. It’s not because I’m closer to progressives, conservatives, moderates, or authoritarians in my outlook; it’s because the label has become a liability. With the following, I want to tell you why. But first, I want to explore what’s still valuable to me about libertarianism.” (08/26/25)
“If you burn someone else’s flag without permission, that’s theft and destruction of property. If you burn a flag you own, well, you own it and you’re entitled by right to do anything with it you darn well please, so long as you don’t damage other people or other people’s property. And by ‘damage other people,’ I don’t mean ‘hurt someone’s feelings.’ According to Trump, ‘[o]ur great American Flag is the most sacred and cherished symbol of the United States of America, and of American freedom.’ Whether something is ‘sacred’ is a matter of opinion. Whether you ‘cherish’ the flag, or don’t, is entirely up to you to decide. As for Trump, he routinely — if metaphorically — defecates on everything he claims the flag stands for, then wipes his posterior with it … while also wrapping himself in it.” (08/26/25)
Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Tim Worstall
“Any one thing — any economic resource, fresh water, human labour, cash, capital itself and so on — can be used for a multitude of different things. At any one time, the market price for that thing is the balance between the supply of it and the value in using it to do — in aggregate — all those multitudinous things. Yes, we can even mutter that perhaps the information doesn’t flow here instantaneously and perfectly efficiently. Nevertheless, in its simplest terms, what something costs reflects the value of whatever uses we can put it to. If we decide that we want to do something new, we need a measure of whether we should or not.” (08/26/25)
“After four years of unnecessarily confrontational foreign policy under President Biden, Americans elected Donald Trump in part for his promise to put America first at home and overseas. He promised a war-weary America that he would start no new wars and would get us out of the existing ones. Eight months into his second Administration it appears his promise remains to be fulfilled, as his approval rating continues to slip.” (08/26/25)
