Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Amir Handjani
“The blockades are bad but consider them points of leverage for an actual negotiation. Here is what a positive outcome — for both sides — might look like.” (04/15/26)
Source: The Dispatch
by Jonah Goldberg
“Over the last decade or so, Hungary became for the new right what Sweden or Cuba were to the old left. For generations, various American leftists loved to cite the Cuban model as better than ours when it came to health care or education. Some would even make wild claims about freedom under Fidel Castro’s dictatorship. … President Trump, Tucker Carlson, and J.D. Vance (most recently while campaigning for Orbán) have all lavished praise on Hungary. Patrick Deneen, a leading new-right intellectual, saw in Orbán’s Hungary ‘a model of a form of opposition to contemporary liberalism that says, ‘There’s a way in which the state and the political order can be oriented to the positive promotion of conservative policies.’’ … Orbánism is not a new model, or ‘wave of the future.’ It was a tide of the past. And it’s good news that it’s receding.” (04/15/26)
Source: Straits Times [Singapore]
“Sri Lanka has repatriated 238 Iranian sailors stranded in the South Asian country after one of their warships was torpedoed by a US submarine, a minister told AFP on April 15. Deputy Defence Minister Aruna Jayasekara said 32 sailors rescued from the IRIS Dena – a frigate attacked on March 4 just off Sri Lanka – and another 206 from the IRIS Bushehr left on April 14. … The attack on the IRIS Dena brought the Middle East conflict into the Indian Ocean, killing 104 sailors in the early days of the US and Israeli war against Iran, according to Iranian authorities. The bodies of 84 victims were recovered and have been repatriated.” (04/15/26)
Source: bloggingheads.tv
“Trump’s Blockade, Anthropic’s Scariest Model Yet | Robert Wright & Nikita Petrov.” (04/14/26)
Source: The Daily Economy
by Vance Ginn
“A property deed should mean ownership, not a renewable lease from the government. Yet that is what property taxes amount to in practice. A family can earn the income, buy the home, pay off the mortgage, maintain and improve the property, and still owe the government every year merely to retain possession of it. Miss enough payments, and the state can seize the property. That may be common. It is not normal in any morally serious sense.” (04/15/26)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/property-taxes-invert-the-moral-order-of-ownership/
Source: The American Prospect
by Maureen Tkacik
“On the evening of September 11, 2025, a user called zealous_monkey_55095 told the members of one of his Discord chats that he had ‘bad news.’ ‘It was me at UVU yesterday. Im sorry for all of this. im surrendering through a sheriff friend in a few moments. thanks for all the good times and laughs, you’ve all been so amazing. thank you all for everything.’ Exactly five minutes later, at 8:02 p.m., former Washington County sheriff Nate Brooksby recalled a few days later in a press conference, he received a phone call from an old colleague, a former Washington County deputy sheriff. ‘His voice is kinda shaky so my first thought is, who died?’ Brooksby said. ‘He says, hey I know who Charlie Kirk’s shooter is.'” (04/15/26)
Source: United Press International
“Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada has announced a temporary suspension of the federal fuel excise tax amid ongoing instability in the oil market due to war in the Middle East. Carney announced the move Tuesday during a press conference in Ottawa, stating the tax will be suspended from Monday through the end of Labor Day on Sept. 7. … The fuel excise tax is 10 Canadian cents per liter of regular gasoline and 4 Canadian cents per liter on diesel, equivalent to about 28 U.S. cents a gallon for gasoline and 11 U.S. cents a gallon for diesel.” (04/15/26)
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2026/04/15/canada-gas-tax-suspended/8311776238714/
Source: Fountainhead Forum
“oah Revoy on family and divorce in modern life.” (04/14/26)
https://rumble.com/v78icm0-ff-436-noah-revoy-on-family-and-divorce-in-modern-life.html
Source: The Bulwark
by Dalibor Rohac
“Once the problem area, Central Europe could become the engine of reform the continent needs.” (04/15/26)
Source: The American Conservative
by Andrew Day
“If Washington truly wants peace in the Middle East (a rather gargantuan if, I know) it will need to accommodate itself to reality: The U.S. can’t force Iran to accept all its hardline demands, so the White House needs to make meaningful concessions.” (04/15/26)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/how-trump-should-handle-the-hormuz/