Source: Tenth Amendment Center
by Michael Boldin
“The very first economic fight under the Constitution wasn’t over a national bank. It wasn’t over building roads or canals. It was about tariffs. This was, as James Madison called it, the subject of ‘the greatest magnitude’ – demanding, he insisted, their first attention. Yet today, this foundational debate, and all its messy details, is almost completely forgotten.” (11/05/25)
Source: Persuasion
by Lauren Harper Pope
“The map below shows the state of the U.S. Senate after the 2012 election: a blue state indicates both of the state’s senators are Democrats, a red state indicates both are Republicans, and a purple state means there’s one senator from each party. Notice anything interesting about this map? As a result of the 2012 election, a whopping 16 states had both a Democratic and a Republican U.S. senator. As of 2025, only two states have representation from both parties. … Meanwhile, in 2025, pundits warn of a permanent Republican majority in the Senate. Yes, the Democrats had a strong night last night with wins in Virginia’s and New Jersey’s gubernatorial races and in down-ballot races across the country, but those are a handful of elections in an off-cycle year and do not dent the Republicans’ dominance in the middle of the country and particularly in the Senate.” (11/05/25)
https://www.persuasion.community/p/the-democrats-cant-talk-the-talk
Source: I Blog to Differ
by David R Henderson
“When I taught at the University of Rochester from 1975 to 1979 and Santa Clara University from 1980 to 1981, I didn’t tell students my political beliefs. Here was the problem: I don’t have a poker face. So, for example, when I taught about the effects of rent controls on the quantity and quality of housing, I was probably showing with facial expressions that I thought rent controls were a bad idea. In a way, it seemed phony. Don’t tell your students your views explicitly. But tell them with your facial expressions and body language. I remember struggling with this very early in my teaching career at Rochester and discussing it with seasoned history professor Ralph Raico at Buffalo State. He pointed out that it would be strange to study a discipline carefully for years and not reach conclusions and so, according to him, there was nothing wrong with stating my views explicitly.” (11/05/25)
https://davidrhenderson.substack.com/p/why-i-revealed-my-political-beliefs
Source: Niskanen Center
by Niskanen Immigration Team
“Much of the current support for hard-line immigration policies reflects legitimate frustration with a chronically dysfunctional system, heightened by the stark divergence from the prior administration’s policies. Yet both approaches have failed to deliver the durable solutions that the United States needs to grow and thrive and to restore Americans’ confidence in our government’s ability to get things done. This paper proposes a new approach: a blueprint on which to build an effective, high-performing immigration system.” (11/06/25)
https://www.niskanencenter.org/immigration-beyond-the-extremes-a-blueprint-that-actually-works
Source: The American Prospect
by Ryan Cooper
“Zohran Mamdani has won the mayoralty of New York City. It was an incredible come-from-behind victory against Andrew Cuomo, who ran one of the most well-funded campaigns in city history, and was endorsed by Donald Trump and Elon Musk. Still, Mamdani’s margin of victory was fairly small—less than ten percentage points—compared to the usual whopping Democratic landslide in this particular contest. One reason for that is a number of nationally prominent New York Democrats refused to endorse their own party’s nominee. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries waffled on the question for months, and only endorsed at the very last minute, while both Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand — who implied Mamdani is a jihadist — and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer refused to do it at all. And now it turns out Schumer almost certainly voted for Andrew Cuomo.” (11/06/25)
https://prospect.org/2025/11/06/chuck-schumer-not-fit-to-lead-democratic-party/
Source: David Friedman’s Substack
by David Friedman
“[W]ays true facts can lead to false conclusions.” (11/05/25)
Source: Brownstone Institute
by Charlotte Kuperwasser
“I’m going to touch on a highly controversial subject, one that has become the third rail among cancer biologists and the broader medical community: the possible link between Covid-19 vaccination and cancer. Because my laboratory’s mission is centered on cancer prevention, I cannot in good conscience ignore the elephant in the room. As my colleague, internationally renowned cancer biologist Dr. Wafik El-Deiry, and I articulated in the September ACIP meeting on Covid vaccines, nearly 50 publications have reported a temporal association between Covid-19 mRNA vaccination and the onset of cancer.” (11/05/25)
https://brownstone.org/articles/the-third-rail-covid-19-vaccines-and-cancer/
Source: The Dispatch
by Kevin D Williamson
“More or less open corruption in the White House. Pardons for sale. Wanton murder on the high seas. Using the Justice Department as a political hit squad. Chief Justice John Roberts’[s] creation, ex nihilo, of presidential immunity from criminal prosecution looks dumber every day. … While the DOJ has long held a prudential policy of not indicting presidents, there is no legitimate constitutional principle holding that the president or any other elected official is constitutionally immune from prosecution for crimes committed while in office and under color of official deeds. The separation of powers does not require one: We do not, for example, insist that corrupt senators cannot be arrested by the FBI or prosecuted by the DOJ because FBI agents and DOJ lawyers are part of the executive branch.” (11/05/25)
https://thedispatch.com/article/donald-trump-immunity-supreme-court-venezuela/
Source: Reason
by JD Tuccille
“That the ‘government shutdown’ is disruptive is an indictment of just how far we’ve let the federal Leviathan intrude into areas it doesn’t belong. Of course, it’s not really a shutdown; it’s a temporary suspension of nonessential activities while lawmakers posture over budget issues for the edification of their core supporters. But we still see the air traffic control system in chaos and all too many Americans complaining that they won’t get full Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits because government officials always inconvenience the public first even as most of the federal behemoth chugs on as always. They want to convince us we need the state and get us begging for it to reopen. Instead, we should ween ourselves from government and relegate the federal apparatus to the irrelevance — or even nonexistence — that it deserves.” (11/05/25)
https://reason.com/2025/11/05/keep-the-federal-government-closed/
Source: Eastern New Mexico News
by Kent McManigal
“The SNAP crisis has shown a flaw in encouraging people to become dependent on government for anything essential. If you allow yourself to become dependent on government, it will own you. Why would you do this to yourself? To your family? This isn’t only about food, but about a job, your personal safety, health care, or anything else you expect government to provide. Being dependent on government — something you have no real control over, and which relies on a steady stream of stolen money — is a terrible idea. Pure self-sufficiency is impossible, but it should remain a guiding principle.” (11/05/25)