Source: Unpopular Front
by John Ganz

“The Republican Party is being roiled by the public revelation of its Groyper problem. At the Republican Jewish Coalition meeting in Las Vegas (classy, right?), speakers inveighed against antisemitism in the party. Radio personality Mark Levin inveighed against Fuentes, Tucker, and Candace Owens. But if you watch the speech, it’s less bombastic than shrill. The fact is, Levin seems nervous. And he should be. The momentum is not on their side.” (11/04/25)

https://www.unpopularfront.news/p/who-will-win-the-gop-civil-war

Source: Show-Me Institute
by Patrick Tuohey

“My colleagues and I at the Show-Me Institute have for years counseled local and state leaders against a whole host of ideas aimed at increasing their population or growing their economy. From stadium subsidies to convention centers, new taxing jurisdictions to entertainment districts, my colleague David Stokes and I can be counted on to sound like They Might Be Giants: ‘No!’ And we will admit, it can make us sound like hand-wringing naysayers, always seeing the glass as half empty. (In our defense, we have each spent two decades trying to successfully launch a combined six children into the world. Saying no is a big part of that. Honestly, we are both fun at parties.) But isn’t securing population and economic growth a basic function of government? No, it isn’t.” (11/04/25)

https://showmeinstitute.org/blog/municipal-policy/whats-a-city-to-do/

Source: spiked
by Roby Lyons

“Smoking rates have been falling steadily for decades, with or without government intervention, and in the past 15 years a significant factor has been smokers switching voluntarily to reduced-risk products such as vapes and, more recently, nicotine pouches. Despite that, successive governments (Conservative and now Labour) are determined to hasten a ‘smoke-free’ society by banning the sale of tobacco to future generations of adults. … This may be creeping prohibition, but it is prohibition nonetheless. Banning future generations of adults from purchasing tobacco is an astonishing example of the ‘government knows best’ mentality.” (11/04/25)

https://archive.is/pgcsA

Source: Garrison Center
by Thomas L Knapp

“I consider it lazy to assert, as many opinionators do, that ‘no one’ supports, or ‘everyone’ wants, this or that particular thing, but if there’s a subject that commands anything close to societal unanimity, it’s opposition to the sexual molestation of children. Pretty much all of us who aren’t sexual abusers of children want sexual abusers of children stopped and punished. Many even advocate capital punishment as a permanent individual solution and future collective deterrent, and while I’m opposed to the death penalty myself, I do find the opinion understandable. It’s odd, then, that so many opponents of child molestation also advocate for laws which increase, rather than decrease, the likelihood that someone with such tendencies will act, in that way, on those tendencies.” (11/04/25)

https://thegarrisoncenter.org/archives/20140

Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger

“Last week, Jeffrey Tucker, a columnist for the Epoch Times and the president of the Brownstone Institute, authored a piece entitled ‘Why We Need Border Control’ (paywall), in which he explained his reasons for abandoning the libertarian position favoring open borders and adopting the Republican-Democratic position favoring government-controlled borders. In my new book The Case for Open Borders: A Primer (available for one dollar at Amazon in both Kindle and Audible formats), I addressed most of the arguments that Tucker raised to justify his abandonment of libertarian principle with respect to immigration, but what I stated in my book deserves repeating.” (11/04/25)

https://www.fff.org/2025/11/04/should-libertarians-abandon-principle-on-immigration/

Source: Libertarian Institute
by Jim Bovard

“Some folks who know my work presume that I am implacably opposed to all federal agencies. Not true. I have always appreciated federal agencies who exposed the waste, fraud, abuse, and brazen lies committed by politicians and bureaucrats. The second Trump administration has warred against such truth tellers since its first week in office. On January 24, President Donald Trump fired seventeen inspector generals working for a wide array of federal agencies. … Trump is repeating the same anti-oversight jihad that the George W. Bush administration launched earlier this century.” (11/04/25)

https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/trumps-war-on-truth-tellers