Source: Fox News
by Kelly Shackelford

“It’s June, which means the U.S. Supreme Court is preparing to issue some of its most significant opinions of the term and, predictably, radicals on the political left are renewing their hysterical calls for sweeping changes to the court whenever decisions fail to align with their preferred policy outcomes. In recent years, virtually every Supreme Court ruling that has diverged from progressive policy preferences has been met with demands for so-called ‘court reform.’ This year, however, many prominent voices have abandoned any pretense of moderation, with demands for packing the court becoming the norm. U.S. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, one of the most influential members of the Democratic Party, recently stated, ‘The Supreme Court is a disgrace. In the new Congress, we’re going to have to do something about this Supreme Court and let me be very clear: Everything is on the table — everything — to deal with this corrupt MAGA majority.'” (06/11/26)

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/must-june-hysterical-leftists-whine-want-pack-supreme-court

Source: Persuasion
by Quico Toro

“What if your favorite thing in the world was in the hands of a ghoul? Like the damsel in King Kong’s hand, the FIFA World Cup is a thing of rare beauty in the grip of a monster. The tournament is disfigured by its prefix: FIFA, football’s cartoonishly evil world governing body, a cartel of such rapacious vice its perfidy almost — but never quite — obscures the luminescent glory of el mundial. … Every four years, the World Cup plants a flag in my life, transforming the boring middle-aged fart I’ve become back into the awestruck eight-year-old with a heart broken at the hands of Paolo Rossi.” (06/11/26)

https://www.persuasion.community/p/yes-i-will-be-watching-every-minute

Source: Adam Smith Institute
by Tim Worstall

“Global Witness is telling us all that the things put in place to make sure that coltan (columbo-tantalite, a source of tantalum for mobile phone capacitors) does not come from slave driven mines aren’t working …. We agree, slave driven mines are a bad thing. It’s just that this problem was brought up before and a solution imposed. We disagreed with the solution imposed at the time as well, while Global Witness, Global Justice Now and the like all argued, vociferously, for that solution to be imposed. … In normal life something that’s an abject failure stops being done. In politics abject failure just carries on to the impoverishment of everyone — costs imposed that achieve nothing.” (06/11/26)

https://www.adamsmith.org/blog/politics-never-does-kill-what-doesnt-work-does-it

Source: The Dispatch
by Scott Lincicome

“In the early days of the republic (back when government was really small), tariffs were the primary means of both raising revenue and doling out ‘rents’ to businesses that organized and lobbied for them. The wonderfully named Tariff of Abominations (1828) was heavily influenced by Northern textile and iron producers. The post-Civil War decades were a golden age of tariff rent-seeking, with the U.S. iron, steel, wool, and sugar industries essentially writing U.S. tariff schedules. As I’ve documented at Cato and as Dartmouth economic historian Douglas Irwin thoroughly chronicles in his great book, Clashing Over Commerce, 19th-century tariff lobbying was in many respects an incubator for the entire U.S. lobbying and interest-group machine that exists today. And it began because American trade policy was openly auctioned off to the highest bidder. Offer the rents, and the rents get sought.” (06/11/26)

https://thedispatch.com/newsletter/dispatch-markets/america-250-smith-wealth-nations/

Source: The Bulwark
by Amanda Klasing

“Tim Kaine and Rand Paul made a shocking revelation last week about the U.S. military’s boat strikes in the East Pacific and Caribbean — attacks legal experts agree are illegal. In questioning Secretary of State Marco Rubio during a Foreign Relations Committee hearing, they revealed that the targeting decisions about which boats would be attacked did not take into account whether they had drugs or arms aboard. In other words, the military may have attacked — and may attack in the future — a boat that carries neither drugs nor weapons, yet somehow, according to the Trump administration, constitutes a military threat to national security. … This is a ludicrous position. At the very least, insurgency and asymmetric warfare have to include some warlike activity, and merely sailing a boat through international waters is no more inherently warlike than taking a walk in the park or eating a hamburger.” (06/11/26)

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/no-guns-no-drugs-why-did-we-blow-these-boats-up-caribbean-pacific-military-trump-hegseth-rubio