“One of my least favorite habits in American politics is watching people reach for the Bible to give moral authority to whatever economic views they already hold. Conservatives have spent decades talking about capitalism, private property, and limited government as though they fit naturally within a Christian worldview. Christian progressives do something similar from the other direction, pointing to the concerns Jesus of Nazareth had for the poor and his commands to love one’s neighbor as evidence for a much more redistributive economic order. I’ve never been particularly persuaded by either argument.” (09/14/26)
“Today, polls show that Americans are more sympathetic to the Palestinian cause than to Israel, a dramatic reversal in a short period of time. Demonstrating hostility to the Jewish state has also become a badge of honor among political progressives. … Boycotting Israel, whether on college campuses or elsewhere, is a bad idea in my view. It is not the way to change Israeli policy. … But as bad as the boycott movement is, U.S. House passage of the The Protect Economic and Academic Freedom Act, by a 237-169 vote, was worse.” (09/14/26)
“Everybody says they want freedom, but most people really don’t, mainly because they don’t know what true freedom is. And if they did, they would—and do — reject it. ‘Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom,’ Benjamin Franklin wrote, and most people don’t want to be virtuous. Which is why they prefer socialism. Homo sapiens, as a species, is a group of jungle savages who know very little about history, and especially do not understand historical perspective. In fact, when it comes to history, most humans are incredibly ignorant. Two hundred and fifty years — the life of the American Republic — when compared to the entire span of human history, is not a very long time. And we Americans look at our history very narrowly, and rarely see the whole panorama that history really is.” (09/14/26)
Source: Washington Post
by US Senator John Curtis (R-UT)
“There is a clear link between economic freedom and standards of living, financial resources and personal health. The Taiwan I first visited as a missionary in 1979 is nothing like the country I returned to this year. I saw firsthand how market-oriented capitalism transformed a poor, agrarian country into an economic powerhouse. That is not an isolated example. None of the most prosperous countries in the world are socialist.” (09/14/26)
“As the October election in Brazil approaches and is likely to pit, once again, a Lula vs. Bolsonaro matchup—this time with President Bolsonaro’s son Flávio running in his place—timing has never been better to hold accountable those in the U.S. who collaborated in the subversive campaign, both stateside and abroad, that would lead to President Bolsonaro’s political persecution and ultimately, incarceration, following the presidential election of 2022 in Brazil. It is in this context that President Trump’s measures to pressure the Brazilian government must be understood: as the unmaking of an injustice perpetrated by the U.S. Left, with Biden-era taxpayer instruments at its disposal. Amongst the trove of revelations that the second Trump administration has managed to expose since coming to office, those connected to the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) funding are some of the most shocking and insidious.” (09/14/26)
“Lawyers dealing with bitemark evidence were often in a no-win position in the 1990s. This was the heyday of forensic odontology. Defense attorneys generally chose one of two options: they could either attack the field broadly as unscientific and illegitimate, or they could bring in their own bitemark analyst to counter the state’s witness. In an ideal world, defense attorneys would have attacked the field — because it isn’t legitimate. There is no scientific foundation for the idea that bite marks on human skin can be matched to one person to the exclusion of everyone else. … Once courts started accepting bitemark evidence as legitimate, most defense attorneys decided that it was a waste of time and resources to challenge the field as a whole. So they went for option two: calling their own bitemark analysts to counter state experts.” (09/14/26)
“Democrats in Washington have committed the party’s newest unforgivable offense: representing the American people. Democratic Reps. Jared Golden of Maine and Marie Gluesenkamp Perez of Washington broke with their party Sept. 1 to advance a procedural rule allowing the House to consider Golden’s Northeast Lobsterman Protection Act and a resolution condemning socialism. The rule passed 210–208, with five Republicans opposed, making their votes decisive. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and other Democratic leaders accused them of blindsiding the caucus, called their decision ‘a significant breach of trust’ requiring ‘a serious response’ and asked the Committee on Caucus Rules to review the matter. Think about the political message Democrats sent: Helping Maine lobstermen fight burdensome regulations and allowing Congress to vote on a resolution condemning socialism are now acts of political blasphemy inside the Democratic Party. Democrats will insist their outrage is about House procedure and not lobstermen.” (09/14/26)
“A mosaic is made of broken things. So is a civilization worth rebuilding. Recently, I found an out-of-print book by an author who is clearly a torchbearer. It struck me that his three spheres illuminated something fundamental. His name was Spencer Heath, and in 1957 he published Citadel, Market and Altar. Heath’s civilization comprises three primary spheres. 1. Citadel is the sphere of protection, where what is vital is secured and defended. 2. Market is a sphere of cooperation where we serve each other in reciprocity and mutual benefit. 3. Altar is the sphere of consecration, where art, philosophy, and divinity express our higher-order aspirations. From a sufficient altitude, we can view underthrow through these spheres.” (09/14/26)
Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
“The other day I saw another great example of the way people in capitalist societies tend to reframe their dumb luck as the result of their own hard work and resourcefulness. At the end of the last season of the surivalist competition Alone Australia, the winner Trent Felton was asked if he felt he’d just gotten lucky catching dozens of fish while all the other contestants starved, and he insisted that his success was actually due to the fact that he had made the wise decision to work hard obtaining food. ‘My strategy when I went out there was food,’ said Felton. ‘I’ve been a big fan of the show for a long time, and I’ve never really seen anyone leave ‘cause their shelter’s not quite up to scratch or anything like that, so from day one priority for me was food.'” (09/12/26)
