Source: The Dispatch
by Stephen Richer
“On Sunday, the Trump administration made its third appeal in less than six weeks to the Supreme Court, seeking to move ahead with implementing a role for the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) in overseeing mail ballots as some blue states try to block it. … There’s been lots of talk about election law, the president’s powers, whether the postal service can actually execute the role the president has tasked it with, and whether election administrators could handle the last-minute change. But overlooked in all the discussions is the fact that the administration is pursuing a change that will do nothing to make our elections more secure.” (09/09/26)
https://thedispatch.com/article/postal-service-mail-ballots-trump-administration-supreme-court/
Source: SFGate
“Israel opened its first embassy in Slovenia on Wednesday, boosting relations with the small European Union nation even as ties sour with some longtime allies over its policy on illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank. Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar travelled to Ljubljana, Slovenia’s capital, for the occasion that asserts a shift in Slovenia’s policy toward Israel under the current right-wing Prime Minister Janez Jansa. Saar called the embassy opening a ‘historic day’ after a meeting with his Slovenian counterpart Tone Kajzer. He described Israel as ‘the only democracy in the Middle East and almost the only real and true partner of Europe’, the STA news agency reported. ‘Moreover, we are defending Europe, Europe’s security, directly and indirectly,’ Saar said, adding that ‘Israel is the fortress on the front line for Western civilization’. Hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters gathered outside the new embassy building to protest the visit, demanding the embassy’s closure.” (09/09/26)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/world/article/israel-opens-embassy-in-slovenia-as-small-eu-22424151.php
Source: The Next Move
by Garry Kasparov
“On catch-all politics, communism, and the failure of the moderates.” (09/09/26)
https://www.thenextmove.org/p/afd-three-lessons-for-america-from
Source: Free the People
“Honor, Legacy, and the Gods: Building a Modern Norse Spiritual Community | Devin Rogers.” (09/09/26)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUXULlEuPfc
Source: The American Conservative
by Joseph Addington
“t the end of August, President Donald Trump announced a major deal with the government of Venezuela. The agreement would give the U.S. functional control of about 20 percent of Venezuela’s oil, which equates to over 65 billion barrels—or almost one and a half times more oil than the United States has in its own current proven reserves (which total approximately 46 billion barrels). … Trump, ever the dealmaker, appears to view this as the capstone of his Venezuela policy. Superficially, it bears the hallmarks of a triumph for a kind of crude foreign policy realism: American hard power, deployed narrowly, forced cooperation from a previously hostile neighbor and secured material benefits for the United States. … Despite the president’s enthusiasm, however, the Venezuelan oil deal is a clumsy instrument that introduces significant risks.” (09/09/26)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/trumps-venezuelan-oil-deal-is-a-big-gamble/
Source: US News & World Report
“Flights from British airports resumed on Wednesday after a major air traffic failure, but questions mounted about the reliability of Britain’s aviation systems and ministers called in the flight control boss to explain the shutdown. The hours-long outage on Tuesday, which resulted in the cancellation of more than 1,000 flights and left hundreds of thousands of passengers stranded, has ramped up pressure on air traffic control provider NATS and its boss Martin Rolfe. Transport minister Heidi Alexander will later on Wednesday hear from Rolfe after she summoned him to explain what happened, amid concerns that the infrastructure and technology are not up to scratch. The shutdown comes three years after the last system meltdown in August 2023, when cancelled flights on one of the busiest travel days of the year cost airlines £100 million ($135 million).” (09/09/26)
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2026-09-09/uk-flights-resume-but-airports-warn-of-ongoing-disruption-from-air-traffic-outage
Source: Antiwar.com
“US Bombs More Iranian Tankers; IRGC Hits Back, Major Ansar Allah Attacks on Saudi Arabia, and More.” (09/08/26)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twrBBZpiQaA
Source: The Volokh Conspiracy
by Ilya Somin
“President Donald Trump is trying to force states to severely curtail mail voting for the fall election by requiring the US Postal Service to refuse to deliver mail ballots unless states meet various onerous requirements. This plan is an affront to both federalism and the separation of powers. The Constitution grants state governments default authority over election administration, subject to override by Congress, when it comes to procedural rules for federal elections. Trump is seeking to usurp these powers.” (09/08/26)
https://reason.com/volokh/2026/09/08/trumps-mail-order-ballot-order-is-an-assault-on-federalism-and-separation-of-powers/
Source: Town Hall
by Deroy Murdock
“Log Cabin Republicans, the GOP’s natural home for gay conservatives, recently filed for divorce from the transgender movement. High time and Hallelujah! As LCR’s president, Ross Hemminger, explained August 20 in Townhall: ‘In 2015, the Log Cabin Republicans Board of Directors voted to add the ‘T’ under the umbrella of our mission — out of a belief that all adults should be allowed to pursue their own happiness, free of government interference, as long as it did not impede on the inalienable rights of others.’ Hemminger’s thoughts parallel America’s innate libertarianism. When, for instance, fully grown decathlete Bruce Jenner became Caitlin, it was not everyone’s Olympic Gold Medal moment. However, it also was nobody’s javelin to discard but Jenner’s. Since then, Hemminger continued, ‘The transgender movement has ceased focusing on adults at all; nearly all of their efforts and those of their aligned special interest groups focus on minors.'” (09/09/26)
https://townhall.com/columnists/deroymurdock/2026/09/09/lcr-lgb-yay-n2682665
Source: Asia Times
by Stephen Prager
“While Republicans express ‘offense’ at plans for New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani to attend September 11 remembrances this week due to his Muslim faith, US President Donald Trump provoked outrage on Tuesday when he told what seems to be a fabricated story about his heroism following the terrorist attack. … Trump has claimed on multiple occasions to have been present in the immediate aftermath of the attacks and has told a version of the same story before, including on the 2016 campaign trail. But many aspects of the tale are in doubt or contradicted by both the public record and others known to be involved in the recovery.” (09/09/26)
https://asiatimes.com/2026/09/stolen-valor-trumps-9-11-story-draws-scorn-as-fabrication/
