Source: Reason
by Ryan Curtis
“A new report from the Government Accountability Office reveals that federal drug regulators do not have any clear policies or procedures for making scheduling decisions.” (09/29/26)
https://reason.com/2026/09/29/the-way-the-fda-and-dea-ban-drugs-is-unaccountable-and-arbitrary/
Source: The Erick Erickson Show
by Erick-Woods Erickson
“Both parties can count on their base. The most loyal Republicans will turn out for anyone with an R beside his name, and the most loyal Democrats will do the same for a D. No party wins with its base alone, though. Most Americans are not party loyalists, and that includes plenty of people who vote in Republican and Democratic primaries. … Those voters, along with the independents who only vote in general elections, decide elections. The parties keep insulting them. Both sides serve up a crap sandwich of a candidate, point across the aisle at the other side’s crap sandwich, and insist you have to eat theirs because the other one is worse. It is no longer a choice between the lesser of two evils. It is a choice between the evils of two lessers, and voters are getting tired of it.” (09/29/26)
https://ewerickson.substack.com/p/people-eventually-get-tired-of-eating
Source: The Daily Economy
by Paul Schwennesen
“A new book suggests a modern marketing label for classical liberal ideas: individuals acting in markets are engines of human flourishing.” (09/29/26)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/market-humanism-renames-an-old-economic-insight-cooperation/
Source: Fox News Forum
by Robert C O’Brien
“Despite the recent surge in AI doomerism, President Donald Trump is right to maintain his strong support for data centers. As he notes: ‘China couldn’t be happier’ if we were to turn our backs on these centers as a nation, which would effectively let the Chinese Communist Party win the AI race. As Energy Secretary Chris Wright said in July, ‘The country that leads in artificial intelligence in the coming years and decades ahead will be the global superpower’. Victory means capturing trillions of dollars in national wealth, securing an advantage in military technology and gaining enormous leverage in international affairs. An energy bottleneck could pose a serious risk to America’s AI lead. We need data centers to train and run top-tier AI models, and those centers need a lot of electricity.” (09/29/26)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/ai-revolution-will-go-wherever-theres-electricity-china-knows-it
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger
“Trump deserves impeachment for knowingly, deliberately, and intentionally committing high crimes or misdemeanors — (1) the waging of war without a congressional declaration of war and (2) ordering the killing of people on the high seas without according them due process of law. Why should presidents be given a pass to ignore that higher law that we the people have imposed on them, especially since they and other federal officials don’t give us a pass on the need to comply with the laws that they impose on us?” (09/29/26)
Source: Sex and the State
by Cathy Reisenwitz
“For almost a century, Republicans claimed to be the party of economic growth. They accused Democrats of being the party of communists, socialists, and managed decline. That’s changing. As Republicans increasingly embrace economic interventionism, nationalization, and trade restrictions they are, increasingly, managing American decline. Meanwhile Democrats are picking up the mantle of economic growth, dynamism, and the American Dream.” (09/29/26)
https://cathyreisenwitz.substack.com/p/in-the-national-divorce-democrats
Source: Christian Science Monitor
by staff
“Countries that try to stay impartial in international disputes are having a tough go these days. That’s also true for countries that serve as trusted interlocutors or simply provide safe venues for adversaries to talk. Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine along with U.S. President Donald Trump’s high tariffs on friendly nations and his war with Iran have forced a reckoning of the meaning of diplomatic or military neutrality. On Sunday, the country that epitomized neutrality for centuries, Switzerland, added some clarity to its identity as an icon of evenhandedness. In a referendum, more than two-thirds of Swiss voters rejected a proposal to enshrine ‘perpetual and armed neutrality’ in the country’s constitution.” (09/28/26)
Source: Bet On It
by Bryan Caplan
“Debating immigration with an unusual gentleman.” (09/29/26)
Source: Expression
by Jacob Gaba
“President Trump’s attempt to ban of CNN, MS Now, and Politico is his most direct attack on free speech.” (09/29/26)
https://expression.fire.org/p/censorship-has-no-place-in-the-peoples
Source: New York Post
by staff
“Bringing his socialist economic chops to fix New York City’s stagnant-to-sluggish jobs growth, Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s new solution is to hire more government employees. His always-busy press office and Maoist ‘mass engagement’ cadres announced Monday a new Jobs NYC Center, a ‘hub connecting New Yorkers to careers in public service’. Citywide unemployment as of August was 4.8%, about a fifth higher than the national average of 4.1%. Mamdani’s hate-the-rich, capitalism bad rhetoric hasn’t helped: Finance — which provides the tax revenue to fuel Gotham’s lavish social spending — has been reducing jobs in the city for long decades; these days job growth in financial services comes almost exclusively in lower-tax, business-friendly cities and states. In the last year, the city added a measly 27,600 jobs to its private-sector workforce of 4.2 million — nearly all of them home-health aide work, which is mostly funded by Medicaid.” (09/29/26)
https://nypost.com/2026/09/29/opinion/mamdanis-brilliant-economic-rx-more-government-jobs/