Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger
“Many people are up in arms over President Trump’s red-carpet welcome of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS). They cite the CIA’s conclusion that bin Salman orchestrated and ordered the murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi after he entered the Saudi consulate in Istanbul to secure documents relating to his upcoming marriage. … When it comes to the power of government to kill its own citizens, the Saudi system and the U.S. system are now very similar. That is, in both systems, the regime wields the omnipotent power to kill any citizen who is deemed to be a threat to ‘national security.'” (11/19/25)
Source: Cato Institute
by Ryan Bourne & Nathan Miller
“The UK’s latest plan to ‘put fans first’ is a sweeping ban on ticket resale above face value — a move Housing Minister Steve Reed says will end ‘the scandal of ticket touts.’ New legislation being drawn up by Labour will outlaw selling a ticket for even a pound above face value and cap service fees on resale platforms. … Capping prices below that which people are willing to pay creates a shortage in any official market. Musical artists have limited time to perform, and venues have a limited number of seats. Nothing Starmer does can change that. If his policy is to work for anything, it’ll only work to produce shortages, misallocations, and black markets given some people who missed out in the primary market and are willing to pay more to go will now not be able to make mutually beneficial trades with sellers.” (11/19/25)
“For almost a decade, President Donald Trump has managed to control the conspiracy theory spin around disgraced financier and registered sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The conspiracy theories benefited him; they were one of the factors buoying him to office. It’s only been in the last few weeks — spurred by the release of new Epstein documents and the public defection of GOP lawamkers — that the complex web of misinformation has spun out of Trump’s control. It all began with QAnon.” (11/19/25)
Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
“Former Obama speechwriter Sarah Hurwitz made some very revealing remarks during an appearance at the Jewish Federations of North America General Assembly on Sunday, expressing frustration with the way younger Jews are dismissing pro-Israel arguments because of the carnage they’ve seen in Gaza. ‘We are now wrestling with a new I think generational divide here, and I think that’s particularly true in that social media is now our source of media,’ Hurwitz said. ‘It used to be that the news you got in America was American media, and it was pretty mainstream … You had to go to a pretty weird bookstore to find global media and fringe media. But today we have social media, which is the global medium; its algorithms are shaped by billions of people worldwide who don’t really love Jews” (11/19/25)
“Americans have been tackled, tased, beaten and shot by immigration authorities. Some citizens have been held without access to counsel or the ability to call their loved ones. They include a 79-year-old man who was body-slammed to the ground by agents in Van Nuys, an Army veteran in Camarillo who was tear-gassed before being thrown in detention for three days, and a Cal Poly Pomona grad who was knocked down by agents and spent two nights in jail. There are likely many more cases of U.S. citizens held by immigration authorities that have not come to light. The actual numbers are unknown because the government does not release statistics about such encounters. … ICE practices endanger the safety, due process and civil liberties of U.S. citizens. The unlawful arrests and detention of Americans must end.” (11/19/25)
“The core principles of liberalism — freedom and equality — are insufficient for the good life. We need to supplement them with a more robust, metaphysically thicker understanding of human nature and the good.” (11/19/25)
“The Democrats’ lurch to the extreme left is accelerating at warp speed — and Connecticut is the latest victim. The state legislature’s Democratic supermajority last week rammed through a bill, HB 8002, that’s a thinly disguised socialist wishlist. Cynically couched as a remedy for the affordable housing crisis, its real purpose is ideological: forcing Connecticut’s 169 towns to achieve what the bill calls ‘economic diversity’. Translation: If you’ve worked hard to own a home in a leafy suburb with quiet streets, you can’t live there unless everybody can — including the homeless and those with low incomes. The state, through regional councils, will dictate how many people at each income level a town must house. The councils are mere middlemen, a cosmetic addition to paper over a fundamental loss of local control.” (11/19/25)
“Far more than most of its adherents have understood, Christianity (the early Jesus movement to be more precise) was very much an unauthorized and rogue operation. A great deal of it’s most important work was performed by people who are completely unseen in our records, or at the most mentioned very briefly and not by name. This is an essential fact and is frequently overshadowed by stories of the apostles. To some extent this is understandable, of course; history has to exclude most actions in order to be transmissible, and in fact the writers of even the earliest accounts may not have known the names of the persons involved. So, I’m not trying to find fault in this little discourse; I’m rather trying to point out the immense contributions of these unknown and unnamed individuals, and, perhaps, what it implies.” (11/19/25)
“Joseph Rivers was a 22-year-old from Romulus, Michigan, who boarded an Amtrak train in 2015 with about $16,000 in cash — his life savings — to start a new life in Los Angeles as a music video producer. His dream was cut short when federal agents decided the government was more entitled to that cash than he was. In Albuquerque, New Mexico, DEA agents boarded the train, questioned passengers, and asked to search his bags; Rivers agreed, and agents found the cash in a bank envelope, even calling his mother to confirm his story before stealing the money anyway under civil asset forfeiture, leaving him with no charges and no way to continue his trip or get home.” (11/19/25)
“At this very second, Washington is pouring billions into escalations toward a potential invasion of Venezuela that would set Latin America on fire, escalate tensions with neighbors, and trap US troops in another undefined quagmire. It has already conducted about a dozen strikes on unproven ‘drug boats’ in the Caribbean, without congressional approval, a trial, or even demonstrated intelligence, killing innumerable Venezuelan and foreign civilians, while it has moved Naval strike groups and carriers near Venezuela’s shores. This is one of the disastrous and preventable results of American militarism, exceptionalism, and the military-industrial complex that fuels them. Such is the context in which The Trillion Dollar War Machine lands on bookshelves.” (11/19/25)
