Source: New York Post
by Isaac Schorr
“Barack Obama’s tacky, hyperpartisan post-presidency is welcome insofar as it serves to remind the public of his tacky, hyperpartisan leadership style. ‘Although we don’t yet have the details about the motives behind last night’s shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner …’ began Obama’s Sunday evening statement about the gunman who showed up in Washington the night before. Except by the time Obama got around to acknowledging the attack, the entire world knew why Cole Tomas Allen had attempted to storm the ballroom where President Trump and much of his administration were breaking bread with their ancestral enemies in the Fourth Estate.” [editor’s note: The entire world still doesn’t know that — it just knows what the regime has claimed about it. There’s a difference – TLK](04/28/26)
https://nypost.com/2026/04/28/opinion/obamas-gaffe-about-the-whcd-shooter-is-just-the-latest-in-the-former-presidents-legacy-of-lies/
Source: ABC News
“The U.K. on Wednesday expelled a Russian diplomat in retaliation for Moscow’s recent expulsion of a British official and the smear campaign that followed. Britain’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office said it summoned the Russian ambassador to its offices in London to inform him of the ‘reciprocal action.’ The tit-for tat moves reflect spiraling tensions between Moscow and the West. … Russia and NATO member states have carried out multiple rounds of mutual expulsions of diplomats since the Kremlin launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, sending diplomatic relations to their lowest ebb since the Cold War.” (04/29/26)
https://abcnews.com/International/wireStory/uk-expels-russian-diplomat-retaliation-moscows-recent-expulsion-132495759
Source: The Atlantic
“Who Is the Real Base of the Democratic Party?” (04/29/26)
https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/2026/04/-democratic-party-base/686988/
Source: The Philadelphia Inquirer
by Jenice Armstrong
“If the White House Correspondents’ Association decides to reschedule Saturday’s dinner — aborted after a gunman breached the security perimeter — they shouldn’t invite President Donald Trump. Members need to tell the president, ‘Nah, we’re good.’ … Reporters aren’t supposed to be besties with the people they write about. That’s especially true for journalists who cover elected officials. Journalists serve as public watchdogs. We are charged with holding power to account, and while our relationships with sources need not be hostile, they are often — out of necessity — adversarial. With all of that in mind, it was cringey to watch reporters be photographed on the same red carpet as members of the Trump administration some of whom would just as soon lock them up.” (04/29/26)
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/trump-white-house-correspondents-association-dinner-assassination-attempt-20260429.html
Source: The Contrarian
by Jennifer Rubin
“Donald Trump and his MAGA lackeys have done a bang-up job making progressive positions and policies more popular than ever. It’s human nature to take well-entrenched conditions for granted (e.g., the Department of Justice’s commitment to justice, access to cutting-edge medical research, an available supply of dependable farm and construction workers, predictable foreign policy). It is only when those things are dramatically snuffed out by a hyper-extreme and entirely inept regime that people come to appreciate what they once assumed were permanent features of American society and politics. Trump’s evisceration of popular programs and eradication of freedoms we used to enjoy have made Americans cling ever more tightly to those programs and freedoms.” (04/29/26)
https://www.contrariannews.org/p/trump-made-progressivism-great-again
Source: The Hill
“Robby Soave gives his radar on a poll showing that nearly half of Democrats believe the 2024 Trump assassination attempt was staged to garner support for him.” (04/29/26)
https://thehill.com/hilltv/5847450-rising-april-29-2026/
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Joseph Solis-Mullen
“With regard to the long-running debate between Rothbardians and modern free bankers, most prominently Lawrence White and George Selgin, the question is less a matter of technical disagreements than one regarding fundamentally divergent conceptions of money, law, and the nature of banking itself. At stake is not merely the historical interpretation of Scottish or British banking, but the deeper question of whether fractional-reserve banking can ever be reconciled with a genuinely free and non-fraudulent market order. … As Rothbard illustrated in his comprehensive review of White’s book at the time, the narrative advanced by White rests on two claims that can be shown to be false: first, that Scottish banking operated as a genuinely free system, independent of central banking influence; and second, that this system exhibited superior stability and performance. Both propositions collapse under closer scrutiny.” (04/29/26)
https://mises.org/mises-wire/case-against-free-bankers
Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
“Sure plutocrats are killing our biosphere, but hey, at least they’re creating technology that lets you avoid the cognitive discomfort of writing your own words and thinking your own thoughts. Sure the empire is butchering human beings at horrifying scale around the world, but on the bright side it’s creating refugees who will move to your country and bring you treats that you can order from an app on your phone. Sure imperialist extraction is robbing the resources and exploiting the workers of the global south at extortionate fees, but on the other hand you get to wear a new outfit every day because the clothes you ordered online are dirt cheap thanks to transcontinental slave labor.” (04/30/26)
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2026/04/30/our-rulers-take-so-very-much-and-give-us-so-very-little/
Source: The Hill
“The Virginia Supreme Court will allow a lower court order temporarily blocking the commonwealth from certifying the results of a redistricting referendum to remain in place, dealing a blow to Democrats who sought to challenge the ruling. The high court on Tuesday denied a motion by Virginia Attorney General Jay Jones (D) to appeal last week’s ruling from a Tazewell County circuit court judge that found the referendum unconstitutional. Judge Jack Hurley Jr. sided with the Republican National Committee (RNC) in February in a lawsuit seeking to block the April 21 referendum, arguing against its timing and the phrasing of the ballot question. But the state Supreme Court stepped in and allowed it to continue, stating last month that while there were issues of ‘grave concern’ regarding the process undertaken by the Virginia General Assembly, it declined to offer an opinion on the matter.” (04/29/26)
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5854983-virginia-supreme-court-redistricting/
Source: Ron Paul Liberty Report
“Trump Orders ‘Extended Blockade’ — Will Iran Shoot First?” (04/29/26)
https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1PJqrEZAYDPxb
