Source: Fox News
by Tyler Hassen
“My book about my time inside DOGE launched last week, and I’ve watched friends who privately cheer me on go completely silent in public. That’s how toxic the stigma around DOGE has become. And that stigma is built on a version of events I barely recognize. My experience inside DOGE was almost nothing like what I read about in the mainstream news. The fairest and most balanced coverage I can remember was our interview on Fox News with Bret Baier in March 2025 — but let me tell you what it was actually like. As the DOGE lead and acting assistant secretary for the U.S. Department of the Interior, I saw the accusations that we cut everything indiscriminately. That could not be further from the truth.” (10/02/26)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/saw-real-doge-inside-why-media-got-doge-elon-wrong
Source: New York Post
“‘Monty Python’ legend John Cleese is doubling down on his months-long string of incendiary posts about Islam after activists filed a complaint that asked Britain’s counter-radicalization program to scrutinize him over the missives. ‘How exciting,’ the 86-year-old comedian wrote after learning that a member of the public had referred him to Prevent, a British government program designed to intervene when authorities believe someone may be vulnerable to radicalization or becoming involved in terrorism. The September 22 referral, first reported by Muslim-focused British news outlet 5Pillars, accused Cleese of ‘a sustained pattern’ of online activity that ‘demonizes, dehumanizes, and collectively attributes violence and criminality to Muslims and Islam’.” (10/03/26)
https://nypost.com/2026/10/03/entertainment/monty-python-legend-john-cleese-doubles-down-after-incidiary-posts-about-islam/
Source: Crooked Media
“Beardos, Weirdos, and Donald Trump.” (10/02/26)
https://audioboom.com/posts/8959700-beardos-weirdos-and-donald-trump
Source: Reason
by Reem Ibrahim
“The bill’s ‘duty of care’ could pressure platforms to suppress lawful speech in the name of protecting children.” (10/02/26)
https://reason.com/2026/10/02/rand-paul-was-right-to-block-the-senates-attempt-to-censor-the-internet/
Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob
“Sometimes, cruel punishment is the usual, as in states like the People’s Republic of China. Everybody is a victim there. But entire ethnic or religious groups of people are routinely subjected to even more cruel tyranny than most Chinese people must put with. If Americans aren’t yet in this situation — not for lack of trying by various local, state, and federal autocrats — one reason is that instances of cruel and unusual punishment can be fought in court. Which is what Ken Jouppi is doing with the help of the Institute for Justice. What was Jouppi’s alleged crime? He let a passenger bring ‘visible’ containers of beer on board his Cessna 206. … Jouppi was punished 13 years ago, a year after the ‘crime,’ with three days in jail and a $1,500 fine. But that wasn’t good enough for the Alaska government, which tenaciously enforces local alcohol prohibitions — it demanded that Jouppi forfeit his $95,000 airplane.” (10/02/26)
https://thisiscommonsense.org/2026/10/02/fly-the-cruel-and-unusual-skies/
Source: Law & Liberty
by Hans Zeiger
“Independence Hall is one of the great historic buildings because of what happened inside its walls.” (10/02/26)
https://lawliberty.org/book-review/the-parthenon-of-the-republic/
Source: France 24 [French state media]
“Latvian Prime Minister Andris Kulbergs was set to retain power and form a coalition after his centrist United List won parliamentary elections on Sunday, the biggest in the country’s post-independence history. While the result is expected to reinforce the Baltic country’s pro-European and pro-Ukrainian stance, populist parties also made significant gains. … Populist parties, boosted by support from Latvia’s Russian-speaking minority, also had a good night after an election campaign dominated by fears over neighbouring Russia, the cost of living and other social issues.” (10/03/26)
https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20261003-latvia-elections-pm-kulbergs-pro-ukraine-party-ahead-coalition-partners-stumble
Source: bloggingheads.tv
“Trump Let’s the AI Labs Police THEMSELVES?!” (10/02/26)
https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/69757
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Shahid Islam
“Introductory economics textbooks devote considerable attention to market failure: monopoly power, externalities, public goods and asymmetric information. However, government failure deserves the same scrutiny. Markets are made up of imperfect human beings and so are governments. Legislators, regulators, and civil servants possess limited knowledge, imperfect foresight and incentives of their own. Evidence of market failure is not evidence that government intervention will improve the outcome. The relevant comparison is between feasible alternatives.” (10/02/26)
https://mises.org/power-market/government-failure-still-failure
Source: Asia Times
by Altaf Moti
“The war between the United States and Iran is no longer just a confrontation between Washington and Tehran. A second contest is taking shape alongside and behind it. China is not fighting the United States directly, but its economic, technological and diplomatic links to Iran are complicating Washington’s strategy and ability to win the conflict.” (10/02/26)
https://asiatimes.com/2026/10/the-china-factor-behind-the-iran-war/
