Source: The Hill
by Berin Szóka

“‘The FCC does not have a roving mandate to police speech in the name of the ‘public interest,’’ acknowledged Carr in 2019. Now, Carr’s exploiting the chasm between the FCC’s apparent authority over broadcasters and what the courts would eventually uphold if any licensee risked everything to fight in court. Carr invokes the commission’s 1949 News Distortion Policy and its 1992 Broadcast Hoax Rule, but both require proof that a speaker knew their statement was false. Both rest on the 1934 Communications Act’s vague ‘public interest’ standard; whatever that means, it can’t trump the First Amendment.” (10/02/25)

https://thehill.com/opinion/civil-rights/5534248-brendan-carr-threatens-disney-abc/

Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by William L Anderson

“Former federal prosecutor Andy McCarthy, who is no fan of Comey and was a strong critic of the ‘Russiagate’ investigation, has called the indictment ‘incoherent’ and predicts that the charges could well be dismissed long before the case could go to trial. Yet, the Comey indictment is ironic in that while the legacy media condemns the indictment against him, it heaped praise on him when he pursued highly questionable criminal charges against others and used the justice system as a weapon against innocent people.” (10/02/25)

https://mises.org/mises-wire/james-comey-not-innocent-victim-lawfare-he-helped-create

Source: TomDispatch
by Tom Engelhardt

Ours would be the normal story of imperial powers rising and falling on Planet Earth — nothing new there, of course — if it weren’t for one thing: the fact that this world, too, is now falling. Unfortunately, nothing is truly normal about this planet of ours anymore, as the slow-motion equivalent of atomic weaponry goes off in our already distinctly overheating atmosphere. And though he’s seldom thought of that way, President Trump, the — who would once have believed it? — second time around, should be considered an all-too-literal embodiment of some mad human urge to turn this planet into a (once almost unimaginable) disaster zone. He would, in fact, be truly unbelievable, if what’s happening to this planet at this very moment weren’t even more so. We’re distinctly in a twenty-first century from hell and yet ‘our’ president continues to act as if this were still the twentieth (if not the nineteenth) century.” (10/02/25)

https://tomdispatch.com/the-surrender-president/

Source: Isonomia Quarterly
by Jason Morgan

“The ritual of discovering what legislation contains and means only after it has acquired the force of law by a putatively democratic process is more than just an embarrassment or a symptom of over-reliance on textual rules. Deferring to stacks of paper containing words that have gone largely unread, even by the people elected to write and debate the words on those stacks of paper, is not only irresponsible and dangerous: it will have dire consequences for any attempt to achieve a planetary order in which the liberties of the individual are guaranteed.” (10/02/25)

https://isonomiaquarterly.com/archive/volume-3-issue-3/legal-codes-artificial-intelligence/

Source: The American Conservative
by Doug Bandow

“No one ever accused President Donald Trump of being a systematic thinker. Were not the potential consequences so great, the obvious response to his demand on Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban to ‘return’ Bagram air base would be uproarious laughter. It’s been more than four years since the Biden administration withdrew U.S. forces from the central Asian state. The departure, just a few weeks shy of the 20-year anniversary of the arrival of American forces, made Washington’s 1975 exit from Saigon look orderly. However, the U.S. military’s retreat was long overdue and completed the accord negotiated by Trump during his first term.” (10/02/25)

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dont-restart-the-afghanistan-war/