Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Mark Nayler
“If there is a threat to democracy in Spain, it’s not from the ‘far right,’ that mysterious force to which Socialist prime minister Pedro Sánchez wants to attribute all the country’s problems. Recent developments have highlighted two issues that are causing much more damage to public trust in democratic institutions—namely, the politicization of the judiciary, or ‘lawfare,’ and financial corruption. Lawfare is alleged to be the reason for an unprecedented ruling against Spain’s former attorney general; while a massive fraud case centered on 95-year-old Jordi Pujol, president of Catalonia from 1980 to 2003, has tarnished the reputation of a once-revered politician.” (12/05/25)
https://fee.org/articles/spains-courtroom-politics/
Source: Axios
“Rep. Adelita Grijalva (D-Ariz.) said Friday she was pepper sprayed and ‘pushed around’ by Immigration and Custom Enforcement [gang members] during a raid in her district. The alleged incident follows a series of physical confrontations this year between Democratic lawmakers and federal law enforcement, particularly ICE. … [Gang] spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said Grijalva’s claims are ‘not true’ and that ‘she wasn’t pepper sprayed.’ Grijalva said in a video posted to social media that roughly 40 ICE [gang members] raided a taco restaurant in Tucson that she frequents, Taco Giro, while she was present.” (12/05/25)
https://archive.is/BEP53
Source: System Update
“Glenn Answers Your Questions on an Un-American Candidate in TX, Escalating War with Venezuela, Trump’s Loyalty to Miriam Adelson, and More.” (12/05/25)
https://rumble.com/v72naxo-system-update-show-554.html
Source: The Price of Liberty
by Nathan Barton
“Fifty-sixty years ago, no one had ever heard of home schooling here in the States. It wasn’t necessarily nonexistent, but incredibly rare. You might find the occasional rancher or forest ranger or other remote family teaching their own children, but truancy (mandatory attendance) laws, tradition, and above all, public perception looked upon such things as horrible and totally unacceptable. Even parochial (Catholic) and other private (religious or not) schools were seen by the mainstream and general public as tolerated but weird. And rare. Many State constitutions enshrined the idea of ‘free tuition’ – that is, public schools. Then came a combination of measures and events which started gradually to change that. Indeed, to create the modern-day homeschooling movement.” (12/05/25)
https://thepriceofliberty.org/2025/12/05/home-schooling-enemy-of-government/
Source: SFGate
“Japan and Australia urged calm on Sunday after Chinese military aircraft locked radar on Japanese fighter jets, a month after the Japanese leader’s recent remarks on Taiwan that stirred tensions between Tokyo and Beijing. Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi said Japan formally protested the incident, calling it ‘an extremely regrettable act’ and ‘a dangerous one’ that ‘exceeded the scope necessary for safe aircraft operations.’ ‘We have lodged a strong protest with the Chinese side and demanded strict preventive measures,’ Koizumi said. Japan’s Defense Ministry said China’s military aircraft J-15 took off from the Chinese carrier Liaoning near the southern island of Okinawa on Saturday and ‘intermittently’ latched its radar on Japanese F-15 fighter jets on two occasions Saturday, for about three minutes in the late afternoon and for about 30 minutes in the evening.” (12/06/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/world/article/japan-protests-after-a-chinese-military-aircraft-21227971.php
Source: EconLog
by David Hebert
“If there’s one thing we can count on in America, it’s that our elected officials will see an affordability crisis and respond to it by stimulating the demand side of the market. Today, we’re seeing this in the case of the housing industry, with Administration officials floating both a new (and improved!) 50-year mortgage and a portable mortgage. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says that both of these will help break the ‘logjam’ of owners who are stuck with their 3% mortgages and are reluctant to move, which will help with the affordability ‘crisis’ in the American housing market. After all, if more houses come on the market for sale, won’t that push prices down? This statement belies a fundamental misunderstanding of the difference between supply and quantity supplied.” (12/05/25)
https://www.econlib.org/econlog/housing-supply-vs-quantity
Source: The American Prospect
by David Dayen
“In progressive circles, there is a great fear about the consolidation of Hollywood and the broader media into the hands of allies of MAGA. ABC’s capitulation to Trump is well documented. Larry Ellison’s son David bought Paramount: Stephen Colbert was suddenly off the air, and Bari Weiss was running CBS News. Oracle, Ellison’s company, is the main benefactor of the still-pending TikTok acquisition from its Chinese parent. And Paramount made several overtures to Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) to buy the company, consolidate its TV and film studios along with its array of cable channels under one roof, and put a conservative oligarch family in charge of CBS, CNN, and a large segment of American entertainment and media. But WBD decided to look at other offers. And today, they chose the higher-value bid: an $82.7 billion merger with Netflix.” (12/05/25)
https://prospect.org/2025/12/05/netflix-warner-bros-entertainment-domination/
Source: Politico
“The French navy opened fire at drones that were detected over a highly-sensitive military site harboring French nuclear submarines, according to newswire Agence France-Presse. Five drones were detected Thursday night over the submarine base of Île Longue, in Brittany, western France, a strategic military site home to ballistic missile submarines, the AFP reported, citing the the French gendarmerie, which is part of the military. The submarines harbored at the base carry nuclear weapons and are a key part of France’s nuclear deterrent. French navy troops in charge of protecting the base opened fire, the report said. It was unclear whether the drones were shot down.” (12/05/25)
https://www.politico.eu/article/drones-france-nuclear-submarine-base-reports/
Source: Ron Paul Liberty Report
“The ‘Golden Age’ of Job Layoffs?” (12/05/25)
https://rumble.com/v72mzug-the-golden-age-of-job-layoffs.html
Source: Orange County Register
by Steven Greenhut
“Most people see America as an experiment in classical liberalism, whereby the founders created a system of limited government, religious pluralism and liberty. Religious leaders are free to spread their message through the culture — but not to take control of the levers of power and base lawmaking on their sectarian Bible interpretations. The Constitution protects everyone’s natural rights, with its main purpose limiting the sphere of government — not implementing rules to assure proper religious observance. There really is no other way to seriously read our Constitution, but many religious people still argue the founders were Christians who envisioned a Christian nation.” (12/05/25)
https://archive.is/hB2aO
