Source: Town Hall
by Larry Behrens
“It is hard to know what shocks eco-leftists more: that President Trump keeps his campaign promises or that their green gravy train is derailed. Let’s be honest — it’s both. On the campaign trail, President Trump promised he would end the Green New Scam. And now that he’s delivering, Democrats are crying because the taxpayer spigot has finally been shut off. Just this week, the administration canceled nearly $8 billion in so-called ‘clean energy’ grants, and the crocodile tears from the left are flowing like a river.” (10/04/25)
https://townhall.com/columnists/larrybehrens/2025/10/04/trump-ends-the-green-scam-now-the-crying-caucus-is-out-of-cash-n2664452
Source: SFGate
“The Trump administration plans to federalize 300 members of the Illinois National Guard, Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker said Saturday. Pritzker said the guard received word from the Pentagon in the morning that the troops would be called up. He did not specify when or where they would be deployed, but President Donald Trump has long threatened to send troops to Chicago. ‘This morning, the Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will,’ Pritzker said in a statement. ‘It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.’ A spokesperson for the governor’s office said she could not provide additional details. The White House and the Pentagon did not respond to questions about Pritzker’s statement.” (10/04/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/politics/article/trump-plans-to-deploy-national-guard-in-illinois-21084398.php
Source: JimBovard.com
by James Bovard
“Washington politicians and bureaucrats are controlling much of your daily life. The more paternalistic government becomes, the more the state is a symbol of the superiority of some people over everyone else. How much wiser must some people be to entitle them to dictate how everyone else lives?” (10/03/25)
https://jimbovard.com/blog/2025/10/03/washingtons-brain-trust-mirage/
Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
“British police report that one of the two fatalities in the Manchester synagogue attack was caused by gunfire from police. One of the reported injuries was also the result of a stray police bullet. So he killed one person. The Manchester synagogue attacker killed one single person and the entire western world stopped in its tracks to mourn and grieve and weep and denounce, on the same day that Israel killed at least 57 Palestinians and it was completely ignored by western politicians and media. … how many deaths would it have taken? How many Palestinians would have needed to be murdered for it to have risen to the level of interest and attention from western politicians, pundits, and news reporters that we saw them giving to the violent death of one western Jew?” (10/04/25)
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2025/10/04/how-many-palestinian-lives-would-it-take-to-equal-one-western-life-and-other-notes/
Source: The Verge
“Just one day after Apple took down the iOS App Store listing for ICEBlock, Google has confirmed to 404 Media that it has removed a similar app, Red Dot, from the Google Play Store. The company also reportedly said it ‘removed apps that share the location of what it describes as a vulnerable group after a recent violent act against them connected to this sort of app.’ On Thursday, Apple removed ICEBlock and similar apps, including Red Dot, after facing pressure from the Department of Justice. Attorney General Pam Bondi said to Fox News on Thursday that ‘ICEBlock is designed to put ICE agents at risk just for doing their jobs, and violence against law enforcement is an intolerable red line that cannot be crossed.'” (10/03/25)
https://www.theverge.com/news/791533/google-apple-ice-tracking-app-store-red-dot-iceblock
Source: Unattended Baggage
“More Cowbell!” (10/04/25)
https://unattendedbaggage.substack.com/p/episode-312-more-cowbell
Source: EconLog
by Kevin Corcoran
“Explicit rules are, of course, a part of the social order, but to an even larger degree, our behavior is governed by implicit rules. These rules are never explicitly written down or declared, but we learn them and implement them in our lives nonetheless. We can easily recognize when these rules are broken, even if we can’t actually say what the rule is or where it came from. We just recognize that one simply doesn’t do that.” (10/03/25)
https://www.econlib.org/the-missing-rules/
Source: Fox News
“The government shutdown costs taxpayers $400 million every day to pay federal employees who are not actively working, totaling $1.2 billion as of Friday, Congressional Budget Office (CBO) data published by the office of Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, estimates. … A law passed in 2019 requires furloughed employees receive backpay after a funding agreement is reached and a shutdown ends. The CBO found that the furloughed employees’ daily cost of compensation sits at about $400 million, or a total of $1.2 billion as of Friday.” (10/04/25)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/schumer-shutdown-already-cost-taxpayers-1-2b-pay-employees-not-working
Source: Washington Post
by George F Will
“Progressives’ retrospective aspiration for a new New Deal is shared by ‘national conservatives.’ They, enthusiastic about the current administration, also believe government should comprehensively intervene in the economy, politically allocating capital (and therefore opportunity) to improve on the rationality of free markets. But economist George Selgin’s latest book refutes progressives’ triumphalist nostalgia for the New Deal. It thereby demonstrates that ‘national conservatives’ are oblivious regarding the cautionary lessons of Franklin Roosevelt’s experience.” (10/03/25)
https://archive.is/xeHUI
Source: Bet On It
“A recording from Bryan Caplan and Richard Hanania’s live video.” (10/03/25)
https://www.betonit.ai/p/should-we-fight-economic-misinformation
