NYC: Prostitution arrests plunge 60% along well-known stroll

Source: New York Post

“Scoring illegal sex along Queens’ Roosevelt Avenue has never been easier — as the number of hookers has multiplied and prostitution-related arrests have plunged by 60% along the seedy strip since soft-on-crime socialist Zohran Mamdani became mayor this year. John, a 40-year-old Manhattan horndog, said he has no problem schlepping on the subway to the notorious open-air sex bazaar — nicknamed the ‘Market of Sweethearts’ — because the women are ‘cheap’ and cops have their hands tied by lax laws and policies. … NYPD officers reported making 193 prostitution-related arrests along Roosevelt Avenue this year through Sept. 13, records show. That’s a massive 59% drop from the 468 arrests during the same period the previous year when ex-NYPD captain-turned-mayor Eric Adams and NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch led a major enforcement effort dubbed ‘Operation Restore Roosevelt.'” [editor’s note: The Post reports this like it’s a bad thing – TLK] (09/27/26)

https://nypost.com/2026/09/27/us-news/nypd-making-60-less-arrests-at-queens-notorious-market-of-sweethearts-strip/

NYT’s Nikole Hannah-Jones Regrets Sending Her Daughter to Failing Public School

Source: The Daily Economy
by Corey A DeAngelis

“The Project 1619 journalist said parents should stick with struggling, segregated schools. Her daughter isn’t the only one who was cheated by that ideological choice.” (09/25/26)

https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/nyts-nikole-hannah-jones-regrets-sending-her-daughter-to-failing-public-school/

Trump’s Diversionary Assault on the First Amendment

Source: Common Dreams
by Steven J Harper

“President Donald Trump is in trouble and he knows it: He promised ‘no more foreign wars’, but started a war with Iran that he has lost. He promised to tame inflation, but tariffs and his war of choice have made it worse. He promised to deport only the ‘worst of the worst’ illegal immigrants. But Immigration and Customs Enforcement has terrorized American cities as agents sometimes arrested, detained, wounded, or killed US citizens. He promised to make the United States the most respected country in the world, but he has destroyed America’s reputation and alienated its allies. He calls himself the best president in history, but his approval rating has dropped to the mid-30s — his lowest ever and approaching President Richard Nixon’s final approval rating of 24% shortly before his resignation in 1974.” (09/26/26)

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/trump-first-amendment-distraction

UK: Police evacuate homes near air base used by US and detain men on suspected explosives offensives

Source: ABC News

“Police evacuated homes Sunday near an air base in England used by the U.S. and arrested several men over suspected explosives offenses. The Gloucestershire Police force said Sunday that residents of ‘a number of properties’ in Whelford, western England, have been taken to a nearby leisure center and that the situation is ‘contained.’ That is close to RAF Fairford, a base that American forces have used for strictly limited strikes during the war with Iran. … Police say several men have been detained on suspicion of offences under the Explosives Act, and army bomb-disposal experts are examining several vehicles.” (09/27/26)

https://abcnews.com/International/wireStory/uk-police-evacuate-homes-air-base-us-detain-136793296

Mainstream Economics: Money as Medium of Exchange, Unit of Account, and Store of Value

Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Joshua Mawhorter

“Before a good can be considered money, it must first serve as a medium of exchange and become so through a market process of production, subjective value, and exchange. This necessarily also provides the basis for money to be a meaningful unit of account and a ‘store of value’ (though the term is not fully appropriate). The Mengerian theory of money, refined by Mises and Rothbard, has been extrapolated more fully elsewhere; however, in brief, it posits that money emerges spontaneously from barter as market participants increasingly prefer more marketable goods as media of exchange, eventually producing a generally-accepted medium of exchange. These goods tended to have certain characteristics—scarcity, divisibility, portability, durability, recognizability, fungibility, high value per weight, etc.” (09/25/26)

https://mises.org/mises-wire/mainstream-economics-money-medium-exchange-unit-account-and-store-value

Switzerland: Voters reject stricter interpretation of neutrality

Source: BBC News [UK state media]

“Voters in Switzerland have overwhelmingly rejected a stricter interpretation of the country’s tradition of diplomatic neutrality. More than 70% of Swiss voters rejected proposals that would have prevented the European nation from imposing sanctions without UN approval, official results showed. The move would have also prevented Switzerland from pursuing closer ties with the Nato military alliance. Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has reopened the debate around Switzerland’s centuries-old non-alignment. Moscow openly backed the initiative, which was supported by the right-wing Swiss People’s Party (SVP) and opposed by the federal government and all other major parties.” (09/27/26)

https://archive.is/MZhU6