Source: Tenth Amendment Center
by Michael Boldin

“‘Invasions on the rights of the people.’ That phrase isn’t hyperbole; it’s straight out of the Declaration of Independence. Say ‘invasion,’ and people picture foreign armies crossing a border. To the Founders, a far more dangerous invasion came from within. They used that same word for what happens when government violates your liberty and seizes power it was never given. To them, that wasn’t a mere policy debate. It was the most dangerous ‘invasion’ we face.” (10/05/25)

https://tenthamendmentcenter.com/2025/10/05/the-most-dangerous-invasion-we-face/

Source: Town Hall
by Kurt Schlichter

“I think I am going to form a hip-hop group with some of my retired officer friends that we will call the Phat Generalzzz – dibs on being the human beatbox! That is, of course, a ridiculous idea, but you know how it differs from the nonsense the Dems keep trying to sell us? The difference is that I don’t mean it. I am not actually going to form a hip-hop group with some of my retired officer friends that we will call the Phat Generalzzz, though if I did, I would call dibs on being the human beatbox. But the Dems are serious about the ridiculous stuff they say and seek to put in effect as policy …” (10/06/25)

https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2025/10/06/is-being-insanely-stupid-actually-a-cunning-democrat-strategy-n2664479

Source: The Bulwark
by Jonathan Cohn

“Democrats are demanding a reversal of Medicaid cuts that Donald Trump and the Republicans enacted over the summer — and a renewal of a temporary boost to Affordable Care Act subsidies set to expire in December. Trump and the Republicans are not inclined to take either step. And to get the public on their side, they’ve been arguing the real Democratic agenda is different — that, as Vice President JD Vance posted on X Thursday, ‘Democrats shut down the government to give health care money to illegal [sic] aliens.’ The problem for Republicans is that most of the Democratic demands have nothing to do with immigration, while the portion that does deals almost entirely with people here lawfully [sic]. As critics have called out the lie, Vance and his allies have retreated to a narrower argument about one tiny item on the list of cuts Democrats would reverse.” (10/05/25)

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/government-shutdown-emergency-medical-care-illegal-immigrants

Source: JimBovard.com
by James Bovard

“Thus far, [Kristi] Noem’s biggest reform is that travelers no longer need remove their shoes at TSA checkpoints. This is progress, but not quite the equivalent of Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. What about other TSA vexations such as the pointless prying patdowns that do nothing for security? It takes less than a minute to find busloads of women bitterly complaining on X/Twitter about heavy-handed TSA screeners grabbing their vaginas (‘I swear it’s not a bomb!’) or breasts. But screeners have legal immunity almost no matter how brazenly they abuse travelers. If a woman pushes a TSA screener’s hands away from her breasts, she can placed on the TSA ’95 list’ of potentially troublesome travelers. The agency’s official watchlist defines troublemaker to include someone who merely ‘loiters’ near a TSA checkpoint or demonstrates any ‘concerning behavior.'” (10/05/25)

https://jimbovard.com/blog/2025/10/05/n-y-post-tame-the-tsa/

Source: The Reframe
by AR Moxon

“The nature of [Ezra] Klein’s quote (above) is an admonishment …. to people who are opposed to this authoritarian supremacist movement, for not being willing enough in his view to live with authoritarian supremacists. This is the grain of sand at the center of the pearl of my ire, because ‘we are going to have to live here with each other’ is the exact premise that Republicans do not agree with any of us about, and while Klein in his remarks pays lip service to some of the recent proofs of this clear fact, his analysis of what to do about it he excises this reality entirely. … In the Klein world, moral clarity about abuse is polarizing, and polarization, not abuse, is the problem to solve.” (10/05/25)

https://www.the-reframe.com/eventually-youre-going-to-have-to-stand-for-something-2