Source: Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting
by Belen Fernandez
“The United States and Israel launched attacks on Iran on February 28, propelling the entire region into a predictable cataclysm of unprecedented proportions. This puts paid to the alleged ‘peacemaking’ project of US President Donald Trump, who was supposed to be keeping the country out of international wars rather than actively seeking to expedite the end of the world. The attacks put an abrupt end to the negotiations underway between the US and Iran—to the delight of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has always viewed as anathema anything remotely resembling diplomacy or the pursuit of peace. Three days before the joint strikes, a Politico exclusive (2/25/26) reported that ‘senior advisers’ to Trump ‘would prefer Israel strike Iran before the United States launches an assault on the country’.”
“So it turns out Americans don’t love widespread cruelty. For the first time ever in YouGov polling, 50% of Americans now strongly or somewhat support abolishing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Only 39% of respondents strongly or somewhat oppose abolishing ICE and, in a remarkable twist, nearly a quarter of Republicans want ICE gone. That’s a mighty big shift from the not-too-long-ago days when Democrats were warned that ‘Abolish ICE’ was an electorally risky slogan best avoided.” (03/05/26)
Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Mark Nayler
“The global debate surrounding age restrictions on social media is now focused on one issue: whether interventionist governments or omnipotent tech barons pose the biggest threat to freedom and democracy. There’s exaggeration on both sides, but the vague scope of Spain’s social media ban is cause for concern, as is the culture of impunity that seems to envelop tech billionaires — although there are signs that that’s changing.” (03/05/26)
“Procedures are essential and life-saving. Interventional medicine has markedly improved outcomes in cardiology, oncology, critical care, trauma, and other specialties. With decades of experience in resuscitation medicine, I fully support decisive intervention when clinically indicated. However, the prevailing challenge is not under-treatment, but the normalization of reflexive intervention. Medicine has shifted from a discipline rooted in thoughtful clinical reasoning to one increasingly driven by algorithmic escalation, often to the detriment of patients.” (03/05/26)
“Can the Pentagon blacklist an American business for refusing to build killbots? The federal government demands tight controls for you, but wants unrestricted power for itself.” (03/05/26)
“A few years ago it was a popular slogan, mostly without details. As best I could tell, none of the people using it were familiar with real world examples of law enforcement without a police force, of which there are many. Here are some.” (03/05/26)
“Mary Moriarty, the attorney for Hennepin County, Minnesota, announced this week that her office will investigate alleged crimes committed by federal immigration enforcement agents, including alleged misconduct by Border Patrol commander Greg Bovino during the recent federal immigration crackdown in Minnesota. … In response, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) declared that ‘what these States are trying to do is unlawful and they know it.’ According to the DHS statement, ‘federal officials acting in the course of their duties are immune from liability under state law.’ But Moriarty’s investigation actually stands on much stronger legal grounds than the DHS statement might lead you to think.” (03/05/26)
Source: Law & Liberty
by Jeffery Degner & Julia R Cartwright
“Falling birth rates have governments worldwide in a state of panic. From Brussels to Tokyo to Beijing, policymakers are scrambling to reverse fertility decline, yet expensive pro-natal programs in countries such as South Korea and Hungary have delivered little results. To be clear, serious analysts do not claim that population decline mechanically produces economic collapse. But demographic aging does create real fiscal, labor-market, and growth headwinds. The more productive question is not whether demography matters, but which policy frameworks allow societies to adapt successfully to it.” (03/05/26)
“War is the use of arms to settle differences – tribal, political, religious, cultural, and material – between organized groups. It is unchanging. The general laws of armed conflict stays immutable, given the constancy of human nature. However, the manner in which war is conducted remains fluid. New weapons, tactics, and strategies elicit counterresponses in an endless cycle of tensions between defensive and offensive superiority. That said, has President Donald Trump introduced a novel way of waging Western war against America’s foreign enemies? We saw glimpses of it during his first term, when he eliminated Iranian general and terrorist kingpin Qassem Soleimani and ISIS terrorist grandee Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. In the former case, he preferred hitting the cause rather than the effects of Iranian terrorism in Syria and Iraq, while making it clear that he had no intention of striking the Iranian mainland and entering into a tit-for-tat ‘forever war’.” (03/04/26)
“By any conventional measure of power, the U.S. remains formidable. Its military power is unmatched, and it still possesses the world’s largest national economy. Yet power in the 21st century has never rested on material capabilities alone. For decades, America’s true strategic advantage lay in something less tangible but more potent: its capacity to attract. Its ideals, openness and professed commitment to universal values conferred a moral authority that made alliances easier, its influence deeper and its leadership more legitimate. That advantage is now being squandered.” (03/05/26)
