Source: Brownstone Institute
by David Stockman

“Trump’s cancellation of the so-called ‘endangerment finding’ with respect to CO2 made by the Obama White House back in 2009 is so profoundly important as to make up for a legion of Trump’s spending, borrowing, easy money, and tariffing sins. Among countless others. The entire notion that fossil-fuel-based industrial civilization threatens to boil the planet alive is sheer crackpottery. Actually, as we reprise below, the geologic and climatic history of the planet so clearly refutes the Climate Crisis nonsense as to point to an even more malefic force at work than just an egregious policy mistake.” (02/17/26)

https://brownstone.org/articles/goodbye-and-good-riddance-to-the-endangerment-finding/

Source: Washington Post
by Sam Bowman

“A lot of parents worry about their kids and the internet. Fears about social media addiction and age-inappropriate content have already led Australia to ban social media accounts for children under the age of 16. Other countries like France and Spain are following. By some measures, teenagers’ mental health does seem to have gotten worse over the past 10 years, and this does coincide with widespread adoption of smartphones. But that is where any clear correlation between the two ends. Multiple studies have either shown that smartphone and social media use among teens has minimal effects on their mental health or none at all.” (02/17/26)

https://archive.is/DPruO

Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by P Ian Szwajca

“Libertarian and pro-freedom movements have always drawn disproportionate support from the extremes of the IQ bell curve. The modern Left — pointing to the intellectual shortcomings of some of liberty’s most colorful supporters on the lower end — clumsily attempts to wield this fact as an argument against the Right. Meanwhile, the enlightened Right scratches its head, puzzled by this strange and exotic coalition rallying behind the cause of freedom. Perhaps it forgets a basic historical truth: humanity has overcome staggering odds with armies of illiterate peasants. Civilizations were not built exclusively by philosophers and mathematicians. They were raised by ordinary people, armed not with theory but with intuition, grit, and an instinctive understanding of exchange and fairness.” (02/17/26)

https://mises.org/power-market/freedom-extremes-why-liberty-attracts-both-brilliant-and-plain

Source: Mother Jones
by Kate Brown

“Nicole decided to plant her own garden. She and her husband Dan, an engineer, don’t do things by half-measures. They watched YouTube videos on gardening, checked books out of the library and drew up plans. They built a raised bed and dug a wicking reservoir under it lined to store stormwater and drain the swampy, clay soils. … Autumn comes swiftly to Chicagoland. The Virgils hated to stop gardening. On the web, Nicole noticed farmers in Maine extended the growing season with long, plastic tunnels called hoop houses. … The one thing the Virgils did not think about was the city’s zoning board.” (02/17/26)

https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2026/02/they-just-wanted-to-grow-food-their-suburban-neighbors-declared-war/

Source: Fox News
by Hugh Hewitt

“Time is not fungible. The time you spend reading this column cannot be ‘reclaimed’. It is gone and it won’t be back. Which is why the ‘talking filibuster’ proposal for the United States Senate is such an awful idea. I wrote the first paragraph fully aware of the jests it will bring forth — thank you for underscoring my point by posting a comment along the lines of ‘That’s five minutes I will never get back!’ You are correct. You won’t get it back. Hold that thought. It applies to the United States Senate too. Another debate has come around about the rules of the United States Senate. The debate is welcome provided it occurs in columns and in studios and doesn’t take up ‘floor time’ in the Senate.” (02/17/26)

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/morning-glory-just-say-no-talking-filibuster-its-waste-time