Source: The Daily Economy
by Donald J Boudreaux
“Forced redistribution dominates public discourse about wealth inequality, yet much of the debate overlooks how people earn, trade, innovate, and create value.” (12/04/25)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/economics-of-envy-cant-answer/
Source: spiked
by Luke Gittos
“There is a grim irony to David Lammy’s plan to restrict jury trials. This week, the UK justice secretary confirmed that juries would be abolished for all criminal trials where the maximum penalty faced by defendants is less than three years’ jail time. He claims that a court backlog of 80,000 cases, and a consequent delay in bringing matters to trial, had made this necessary. Yet in doing so, Lammy is undermining a significant chunk of his own life’s work.” (12/04/25)
https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/12/04/lammys-war-on-juries-exposes-the-futility-of-the-echr/
Source: Law & Liberty
by James M Patterson
“Postliberals would much rather spar over definitions than over the ideas and their implications.” (12/04/25)
Source: The Spectator
by Matt Ridley
“Finally, thankfully, the global warming craze is dying out. To paraphrase Monty Python, the climate parrot may still be nailed to its perch at the recent COP summit in Belém, Brazil – or at Harvard and on CNN – but elsewhere it’s dead. It’s gone to meet its maker, kicked the bucket, shuffled off this mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the choir invisible. By failing to pledge a cut in fossil fuels, COP achieved less than nothing, the venue caught fire, the air-conditioning malfunctioned – and delegates were told on arrival not to flush toilet paper. Bill Gates’s recent apologia, in which he conceded that global warming ‘will not lead to humanity’s demise’, after he closed the policy and advocacy office of his climate philanthropy group is just the latest nail in the coffin.” (12/04/25)
https://thespectator.com/topic/climate-politics-come-down-to-earth/
Source: ABC News
“A Lithuanian court on Thursday convicted the leader of one of the parties in the country’s coalition government for making antisemitic comments and fined him 5,000 euros (about $5,800). The district court in the capital, Vilnius, found that Remigijus Žemaitaitis incited hatred against Jews, grossly downplayed Nazi Germany’s crimes and grossly minimized the Holocaust in an offensive and insulting manner. The punishment fell short of prosecutors’ call for him to be fined 51,000 euros (around $60,000) and ordered to pay into a fund for victims of crimes. The case relates to social media posts and public statements from May and June 2023 in which, among other things, he wrote: ‘Apparently, for our journalists and local Lithuanian Jews, the demolition of schools in Palestine is yet another pastime?!’ He also quoted an antisemitic nursery rhyme and made comments related to events during World War II.” (12/04/25)
Source: Lions of Liberty
“Polyworking: Why One Job Isn’t Enough in 2025.” (12/04/25)
https://www.lionsofliberty.com/episodes/ff-polyworking-why-one-job-isnt-enough-in-2025
Source: Tenth Amendment Center
by Michael Boldin
“‘For WHO ARE A FREE PEOPLE?’ John Dickinson, the ‘Penman of the American Revolution,’ posed this timeless question in 1767. His answer defied the modern narrative. It’s not a system where you hope to find rulers who respect your constitution and liberty. That’s just luck. A population on its knees, begging for scraps. In his Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania, Dickinson defined a true ‘land of the free.’ In doing so, he exposed the trap governments use to establish tyranny, and the fatal error the people make that guarantees it.” (12/04/25)
https://tenthamendmentcenter.com/2025/12/03/what-really-makes-a-land-of-the-free/
Source: Los Angeles Times
by Jackie Calmes
“At least President Trump didn’t ‘kill all the lawyers’ first, literally following Shakespeare’s words in ‘Henry VI, Part 2’ on evading the rule of law. Instead, just a month into his second term in February, he and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth simply fired the top lawyers at the Army, Navy and Air Force, known as judge advocates general, or JAGs. ‘It’s what you do when you’re planning to break the law: You get rid of any lawyers who might try to slow you down,’ Georgetown Law professor Rosa Brooks said at the time, according to the New York Times. She wasn’t alone in her fear, or her prescience.” (12/04/25)
Source: SFGate
“The FBI made an arrest on Thursday in its nearly 5-year-old investigation into pipe bombs placed outside the headquarters of the Republican and Democratic national parties in Washington on the eve of the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol. The arrest marks the first time investigators have settled on a suspect in an act that had long vexed law enforcement, spawned a multitude of conspiracy theories and remained an enduring mystery in the shadow of the dark chapter of American history that is the violent Capitol siege. The suspect in custody has been identified as Brian Cole, according to three people familiar with the matter. Two of the people said he lived in Woodbridge, Virginia, a Washington suburb. No other details were immediately available, including the charges Cole might face. The people who described the arrest weren’t authorized to publicly discuss a case that hasn’t yet been made public and spoke on the condition of anonymity.” (12/04/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/fbi-makes-arrest-in-investigation-into-pipe-bombs-21222839.php
Source: Pierre Lemieux
by Pierre Lemieux
“Why has the theft of copper wires increased so much recently? For an answer, don’t look at ‘culture’ or other such black boxes.” (12/04/25)