Source: Show-Me Institute
by Patrick Tuohey
“Across the country, cities are rethinking rules that force developers to overbuild parking — and Missouri should follow suit. A new study from Denver shows that eliminating off-street parking minimums boosts housing production, including affordable units. By relaxing these mandates, Missouri communities can free up land, cut costs, and enable more housing.” (10/28/25)
Source: SFGate
“The conservative city council in Huntington Beach, Orange County’s deep-red MAGA stronghold, has been unrelenting in its yearslong battle over so-called pornographic children’s books at its public libraries. Now, after seemingly endless legal battles, the council is gearing up for another round in court. In a crusade to keep certain books out of the public library’s children’s section, the conservative-majority political body voted Tuesday, Oct. 21, to appeal a judge’s court order from earlier in the month that found the city had wrongfully banned books at its public libraries, the Los Angeles Times reported. The Huntington Beach City Council, whose members refer to themselves as the ‘MAGA-nificent Seven’, pushed back after an Orange County Superior Court mandated that the city drop its 2023 order to censor children’s books. Instead, Huntington Beach has to eliminate its newly created youth-restricted zone and return the books to the regular children’s section.” (10/29/25)
Source: Politics Politics Politics
“FINAL 2025 Election Predictions! Understanding Argentina’s Libertarian Revolution (with Austin Padgett).” (10/28/25)
https://www.politicspoliticspolitics.com/p/final-2025-election-predictions-understanding
Source: Cato Institute
by Nicholas Anthony
“Governments force banks to report your activity, judge whether you are being suspicious, and close your accounts when you step out of the norm. How? It dates back to 1970. President Richard Nixon had not yet been caught surveilling his political opponents. Instead, Oct. 26, 1970 marks when President Nixon signed the Bank Secrecy Act and set the foundation for a new regime of financial surveillance. Since then, the American public has been forced to endure 55 years of ever-expanding financial surveillance. Congress should not let the Bank Secrecy Act have a 56th anniversary — at least not in its current form.” (10/28/25)
https://www.cato.org/commentary/55-years-financial-surveillance
Source: In These Times
by J Patrick Patterson
“Has this ever worked? Kind of famously, yes — at least for a while. In the 1930s, as fascist movements stomped across Europe, popular fronts emerged to block the spread. In France and Spain, leftists, centrists and anti-fascist liberals joined forces to beat back the far right, sometimes literally. In the United States, the Communist Party helped bring broad, anti-fascist politics into public life, forming coalitions among Black writers, labor organizers and progressive cultural workers. As historian Bill Mullen writes in Popular Fronts, the period saw ‘an extraordinary rapprochement’ between Black and white members of the U.S. Left — not just in protest, but in culture, art and publishing. ” (10/29/25)
Source: Jackson Clarion-Ledger
“A man who broke into a Jackson home and attacked a resident was shot multiple times and later died, authorities said. Jackson police issued a press release stating officers responded around 12:51 p.m. Monday, Oct. 27, to reports of an aggravated assault in the 1200 block of Wooddell Drive. Police said when officers arrived at the scene, they located Randall Harris, 27, suffering from mulitple gunshot wounds. Police said Harris was transported by AMR to the University of Mississippi Medical Center, where he was listed in critical condition. Harris later died from his injuries. ‘The investigation revealed that Harris had forcibly entered the residence and attacked the complainant,’ according to the news release.” (10/28/25)
Source: Fountainhead Forum
“Daniel Mitchell on the mid-term elections in Argentina.” (10/28/25)
https://rumble.com/v70xbmu-ff-382-daniel-mitchell-on-the-mid-term-elections-in-argentina.html
Source: Persuasion
by Remi Adekoya
“We are masters at persuading ourselves of what we want to believe. This shapes not just our everyday choices but also our politics and moral reasoning. Crucially, because self-deception operates under the radar of our awareness, it’s much harder to pinpoint and correct than conscious hypocrisy.” (10/28/25)
https://www.persuasion.community/p/politics-as-self-deception
Source: BBC News [UK state media]
“More than 90 Palestinians were killed in a wave of Israeli strikes in Gaza on Tuesday night, the Hamas-run Civil Defence agency and hospitals say. The Israeli military said it struck ‘dozens of terror targets and terrorists’ in response to violations by Hamas of the US-brokered ceasefire deal. Israel’s defence minister accused Hamas of an attack in Gaza that killed an Israeli soldier, and of breaching the terms on returning deceased hostages’ bodies. Hamas said it had ‘no connection’ to the attack and was committed to the deal.” (10/29/25)
Source: Washington Post
by Scott Lincicome
“In both legal filings and in public, President Donald Trump and his team have made fantastical claims about the calamities that would befall the nation should the Supreme Court curtail his authority to implement global tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. They allege, in the government’s opening brief for a case that will be argued before the court in November, that an adverse decision would devastate the U.S. economy, the federal government’s fiscal position, and the president’s ability to effectuate trade and foreign policy. The goal, it appears, is to pressure the court into issuing a favorable opinion for prudential and institutional reasons, even if the law demands otherwise. Given the legal deficiencies in the Trump administration’s case, this shock-and-awe approach is understandable. Yet it suffers from a serious flaw: The underlying policy claims are ridiculous.” (10/28/25)