Source: Associated Press
“Pope Leo XIV was eating regularly Wednesday and began walking and doing respiratory exercises, and his tests are normal following surgery to remove a cancerous mass from his lung, the Vatican said. Leo’s two doctors, Dr. Luigi Carbone and thoracic surgeon Dr. Stefano Margaritora, provided a medical update on Wednesday. Initial blood tests and a chest x-ray confirmed a normal recovery, they said. … Tuesday’s surgery showed the 71-year-old pope has the most common type of lung cancer, known as lung adenocarcinoma. Experts said further tests are needed to know if the disease has spread and if more treatment is needed, but those results weren’t available on Wednesday.” (10/14/26)
https://apnews.com/article/vatican-pope-leo-surgery-lung-cancer-08a4aca4e5a6002a1cb9a4ca1ba372cc
Source: LP Alliance
“Join us for our anything goes podcast every Wednesday at noon eastern!” (10/14/26)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONsOjg9AZi4
Source: Libertarian Institute
by Thorsten Polleit
“Unfortunately, the probability rises with every passing day that NATO will wage war with Russia. The proxy war, openly fought since February 24, 2022 between Russia and Ukraine and which has lasted longer than World War I, may soon become an open war between Russia and the West. The ideology of globalism dominates the corridors of European governments, and war is among the means that adherents in Berlin, London, Paris and Brussels are quite willing to use in order to reach their goals.” (10/14/26)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/war-is-an-instrument-of-globalism
Source: Persuasion
by Kevin Carroll
“Since 9/11, U.S. intelligence personnel—from analysts and law enforcement agents to interrogators and case officers—have often endured a grisly task: studying execution videos filmed by al-Qaeda or the Islamic State to positively identify the executioners. I was one such intelligence official. In 2006, I downloaded a photograph of a man killed with a headshot by a naval Special Mission Unit and showed it to every source of mine in Iraq. I needed to determine if the deceased was al-Qaeda’s emir for western al-Anbar, a terrorist who killed a young Marine lieutenant friend of mine.” (10/14/26)
https://www.persuasion.community/p/the-moral-bankruptcy-of-livestreaming
Source: Liberal Currents
“Graft the Likes of Which the World Has Never Seen Before.” (10/14/26)
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/graft-the-likes-of-which-the-world-has-never-seen-before-half-the-answer-108-with-zach-everson/
Source: Brownstone Institute
by Sharyl Attkisson
“In 2021, I reported on my national television program, Full Measure with Sharyl Attkisson that the largest Amish community in the US, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, had rejected masking, vaccines, isolation, testing, and all the other CDC recommendations for Covid…and apparently fared none the worse for having done so. … This attention to the Amish approach and its apparent success obviously didn’t please public health officials and industry advocates who were heavily pushing different narratives. They wanted the public to believe that anyone who wasn’t socially distancing, staying home, getting vaccinated, shutting down the works, and taking government-favored prescription drugs were putting themselves and others in grave danger.” (10/14/26)
https://brownstone.org/articles/how-a-flawed-covid-study-tried-and-failed-to-discredit-the-amish/
Source: The Daily Economy
by Antón Chamberlin
“GM’s production cuts and layoffs show why factories, equipment, and workers cannot adjust overnight. Industrial policy can leave lasting economic costs.” (10/14/26)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/electric-vehicle-subsidy-u-turn-leaves-factories-and-workers-stranded/
Source: CNBC
“Constraints on the diesel market will extend well into next year, the International Energy Agency warned on Wednesday. In its October Oil Market Report, the IEA said supply would remain tight into the latter half of 2027. A counter-seasonal tightening in gas [and] oil markets in the third quarter, combined with ‘much heavier-than-normal inventory declines’ in the preceding three months, had ‘deprived global gasoil markets of crucial stock cover ahead of the peak winter demand season,’ the IEA said. Last month saw global diesel exports drop by 700,000 barrels a day year-on-year, according to IEA data. A 1.3 million barrels per day loss from Russia and the Middle East was ‘only partly offset by higher supply from other sources,’ the agency said.” (10/14/26)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/14/diesel-deal-oil-price-iea-report.html
Source: The Dispatch
“What’s Wrong With Kids These Days? | Interview: Daniel A. Cox.” (10/14/26)
https://thedispatch.com/podcast/remnant/whats-wrong-with-kids-these-days-interview-daniel-a-cox/
Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Ninos P Malek
“In a free market, businesses must satisfy customers to earn profits. Persistent losses can signal that resources would be better used elsewhere. Rather than rescuing failing firms with taxpayer money, the free-market perspective is to allow the market process to work. As I sometimes jokingly tell my students when explaining this principle, it’s time to say, ‘Bye-bye, die-die!’ to businesses that fail to satisfy consumer needs. (Figuratively speaking, of course.) Some call government favoritism crony capitalism. I dislike that expression because it still associates the problem with capitalism.” [editor’s note: Free markets and capitalism (“a mixed, state-regulated, industrial economy”) are opposites, and “crony capitalism” is a redundancy – TLK] (10/14/26)
https://fee.org/articles/stop-calling-it-capitalism-when-its-government-favoritism/
