Source: The Daily Economy
“In ‘Equality of Permission,’ McCloskey returns to familiar ground: free markets, individual dignity, and the dangers of statism. What makes it distinctive is the force and flair of her argument.” (10/13/26)
Source: New York Post
by staff
“President Donald Trump’s announcement Sunday that Ukraine and Russia reached an ‘energy cease-fire’ clearly jumped the gun, but he’s absolutely right to be pushing hard for such a deal. That is, as long as the accord halts attacks on all energy facilities. ‘Effective immediately, there is an ENERGY CEASEFIRE in the War between Russia and Ukraine,’ the prez boasted on Truth Social, but there wasn’t. A cease-fire is ‘news to me’, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky quipped. Russia’s Vladimir Putin issued his denial in the form of fresh strikes on Ukrainian energy sites. It’s possible Trump was misled by Moscow saying it’d be fine with a ban on striking refineries, since that would shield Putin’s assets while leaving him free to continue attacks meant to leave much of Ukraine’s civilian population freezing this winter.” (10/13/26)
Source: Politico
“The Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether a watchdog group seeking information about President Donald Trump’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency is entitled to records showing how much control the budget-slashing endeavor wielded over federal agencies. The justices on Tuesday granted the Trump administration’s request to review lower-court rulings concluding that Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington can force DOGE to turn over records shedding light on its interactions with agencies across the government. The Trump administration maintains that DOGE made no decisions about cuts to programs or firing personnel at federal agencies and simply offered recommendations to agency leaders. But critics have alleged that DOGE personnel were, at least in some instances, dictating agency actions.” (10/13/26)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/10/13/DOGE-supreme-court-case
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
“Deadly Blowback Is Another Price of Foreign Interventionism.” (10/13/26)
Source: Karl Dickey’s Freedom Vanguard
by Karl Dickey
“Utilizing state power to execute those who have killed others with a 3.15% failure rate should cause Americans to pause and take a step back to consider what is happening here. Yes, we want blood for those who have wrongly taken innocent lives, but is this how we want to be known? Government fails at most of the services it attempts, wasting our tax money in the process via mismanaged programs and bungled operations. You would think Americans have seen so much incompetence from government that they would seek their services as a last resort, but all too often we have handed over the simplest of jobs to government only to watch them muck it up. No rational person would give a failing monopoly like the government the legal power to end a life.” (10/13/26)
https://palmbeachexaminer.substack.com/p/why-pete-hegseth-and-christa-pike
Source: Fox News
by Liz Peek
“The midterm elections are three weeks away. In some states, voting has already begun. Betting site Kalshi shows odds of 61% that Democrats will win control of the Senate. Recent developments in the Texas and Michigan races suggest keeping your money in your pocket. As voters find out more about front-runner Democrats James Talarico in Texas and Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan, the polls are tightening. They say intimacy breeds contempt; nowhere is this truer than in politics. … Talarico, a photogenic 37-year-old state representative, recently vanished from public view for nearly two weeks, an extraordinary absence so close to Election Day. He says he had the flu; does he not know about Theraflu? Has he heard of Zoom?” [editor’s note: I doubt that the campaign to create an “October Surprise” in Texas out of thin air will work; it’s too obviously a desperation play – TLK] (10/13/26)
Source: Al Jazeera [Qatari state media]
“The leader of Sweden’s left-wing Social Democratic Party, Magdalena Andersson, has said her efforts to form a government have failed, prolonging a political deadlock a month after parliamentary elections. Speaking at a news conference Tuesday, Andersson said talks with the three other parties in the country’s left-wing bloc had hit an impasse. Despite progress, she said she did not believe conditions were in place to ‘form a government that can be tolerated by parliament’. It is her second time failing to form a government after Sweden’s parliamentary vote on September 13. … The speaker of parliament has four attempts at proposing a prime minister for parliament to vote on. If the fourth attempt fails, a snap election must be called.” (10/13/26)
Source: CBS News
“A Chinese court sentenced three members of a criminal gang to death on Tuesday for operating a network of brutal scam centers in Myanmar’s Kokang region on the border with China, while jailing dozens more. … Quanzhou Intermediate People’s Court said in a statement on Tuesday that it had sentenced Wei Huairen, Chen Dawei, and Liao Jingfang to death for their involvement in the ‘Wei family criminal gang.’ The gang was involved in crimes including drug trafficking, organizing prostitution, operating illegal casinos, telecommunications fraud, and the murder of at least two Chinese citizens, the court said. … Another three gang members were handed life sentences, while 55 more were given prison terms ranging from 24 years to three years and three months, the court said.” (10/13/260
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/death-sentences-scam-centers-myanmar/
Source: The Hill
“Robby Soave gives his radar on leftist Twitch streamer Hasan Piker getting grilled for his views in an interview with comedian Ziwe Fumudoh.” (10/13/26)
Source: Crooked Media
“One Flu Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.” (10/13/26)
https://audioboom.com/posts/8963609-one-flu-over-the-cuckoo-s-nest