Non-profit group has twisted the meaning of “genocide” (and hijacked a Zionist hero’s name) to suit its own woke purposes

Source: New York Post
by Bethany Mandel

“Few figures loom larger in the moral and legal history of the 20th century than Raphael Lemkin, the Polish Jewish jurist who coined the word ‘genocide’ after losing nearly his entire family in the Holocaust. Lemkin witnessed the epitome of evil, and then gave the world the language to describe it. The word ‘genocide’ exists because he understood that what had been done to the Jewish people was so unprecedented that existing legal vocabulary could not define it properly. He spent the rest of his life ensuring that the world would never again lack the words — or the legal framework — to confront such crimes. That is precisely why what is happening now is so grotesque. The family of Raphael Lemkin is taking legal action against the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention, a Philadelphia-based nonprofit that has hijacked his name and repurposed it for its own warped woke agenda.” (05/10/26)

https://nypost.com/2026/05/10/opinion/group-hijacked-a-zionist-heros-name-to-suit-its-woke-purposes/

Britain Is Pricing Its Factories into Oblivion

Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Ted Newson

“At its peak, Britain was known as the workshop of the world. Sheffield produced high-quality steel, Manchester still had a strong textiles sector and the West Midlands was world-renowned for its cars. Glasgow, Sunderland and Newcastle were shipbuilding hubs, Stoke-on-Trent produced ceramics. … In the pursuit of lowering carbon emissions, Britain has abandoned its manufacturing sector. As we have artificially inflated energy prices through policy costs and made employing people harder, our industries have shifted to countries with more business-friendly environments. While rising comparative wage rates naturally encourage industry to shift overseas, the British government has further pushed industry away through deliberate choices. This has created job losses and regional decline as former manufacturing towns lose historic businesses.” (05/08/26)

https://fee.org/articles/britain-is-pricing-its-factories-into-oblivion/

Guatemala’s step toward good governance

Source: Christian Science Monitor
by staff

“Just over halfway into the term of Guatemala’s reformist leader, the ‘democratic spring’ that he and his Movimiento Semilla (Seed Movement) sought to nurture is sending up fresh shoots of hope for lawful governance. President Bernardo Arévalo has appointed a new attorney general, marking what he calls ‘a new chapter’ for the small Central American nation. The outgoing attorney general, María Consuelo Porras, had tried to derail Mr. Arévalo’s 2024 inauguration, and has since obstructed multiple efforts to promote judicial impartiality and transparency. To many Guatemalans, Ms. Porras’ tenure symbolized entrenched political impunity and corruption that used the power of the state to settle scores with perceived enemies and make allowances for allies. In 2022, the United States cited her for repeatedly undermining anti-corruption efforts to ‘gain undue political favor.'” (05/08/26)

https://www.csmonitor.com/Editorials/the-monitors-view/2026/0508/Guatemala-s-step-toward-good-governance

The Big Apple’s Rotten Budget Move: Raiding Pensions for Short-Term Spending

Source: The Daily Economy
by Thomas Savidge

“Delaying pension contributions may ease immediate pressure on New York City’s budget, but the shell game reveals deeper weaknesses in the city’s finances.” (05/08/26)

https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/the-big-apples-rotten-budget-move-raiding-pensions-for-short-term-spending/

What UCLA doesn’t want you to know

Source: Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression
by Jessie Appleby

“The University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) School of Law is in the midst of a free-speech emergency. When a major American law school teaches its students that the right way to respond to political opponents is to silence them, something has gone wrong. And when it then attempts to protect those disruptive students from public criticism by threatening other students’ speech, it’s a crisis. That’s just what happened at UCLA this past month.” (05/08/26)

https://www.fire.org/news/what-ucla-doesnt-want-you-know

“We Are Socialists”

Source: Town Hall
by Mark Lewis

“‘We are socialists.’ So said Adolf Hitler. The Left desperately tries to portray Hitler as some sort of ‘rightis,t’ mainly because he was so opposed to Soviet Bolshevism. But just as there are different manifestations of ‘right-wing’ philosophies, there are different ‘left-wing’ ideologies as well. And socialism is a leftist philosophy, not a ‘rightist’ one. ‘National Socialist German Workers’ Party’ was the official name of Hitler’s political party (‘Nazi’ comes from the German word ‘Nationalsozialistische,’ or national socialist). Hitler was a totalitarian leftist, not a Christian, right-wing, pro-American, freedom-loving conservative.” (05/10/26)

https://townhall.com/columnists/marklewis/2026/05/10/we-are-socialists-n2675792

Bringing back baby bonds

Source: Adam Smith Institute
by Madsen Pirie

“Bill Jamieson wrote a Sunday Telegraph story titled ‘Your starter for £1,000’ on 31 December 1995. It discussed the Adam Smith Institute proposal for ‘baby bonds’ or ‘Fortune Accounts.’ When the IPPR copied the idea in 1999, without reference to the ASI’s earlier publication, Jamieson directed them to his 1995 story and published the fact. A version of it was implemented by the Blair government. it was called the Child Trust Fund, launched in 2002 and scrapped in 2010. It would undoubtedly be a very popular policy, were it to be given another go in the way I outline. Each newborn child would have £1,000 put into an investment account in their name, but no withdrawals could be made until age 18. Money paid in by family or friends would be tax-free and contribute to its growth.” (05/08/26)

https://www.adamsmith.org/blog/bringing-back-baby-bonds

Trump is playing Iran by ear. It’s not working.

Source: USA Today
by Rusty Hills

“No one disputes that the regime in Iran is awful. The government massacres its own people. Iran is a major state sponsor of terrorism and has been for decades. But the reality is that Trump is ad-libbing the war with Iran from day to day. After launching his attack against Iran on Feb. 28, Trump told an audience, ‘We’ve won.’ Yet here we are, 10 weeks later, with the Strait of Hormuz still closed, the regime still in power, the national average price of gas approaching $5 a gallon and jet fuel, airline ticket prices and baggage fees on the rise. Is this what Republicans are supposed to run on in the 2026 midterm elections?” (05/08/26)

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2026/05/08/iran-war-trump-military-gas-pope-congress-vietnam/89968615007/

Celebrating Opposite Freedoms on the Fourth of July

Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger

“[W]ho has it right when it came to celebrating genuine freedom on the Fourth of July — Americans in 1875, who lived without income taxation, Social Security, Medicare, welfare, immigration controls and immigration police state, non-interventionism, a national-security state, drug war, public (i.e., government) schooling, and other statist programs — or Americans today, who live under all these statist systems?” (05/08/26)

https://www.fff.org/2026/05/08/celebrating-opposite-freedoms-on-the-fourth-of-july/