Source: The UnPopulist
by Shikha Dalmia

“Many government agencies have good intentions but can produce bad outcomes. However, there is one that has bad intentions and produces evil outcomes: Immigration and Customs Enforcement or ICE. In this Trump administration, as in the previous one, its purpose is to hunt down and eject people whose “crime” is that they can’t obtain a piece of paper from the government authorizing them to live and work in America. … America got along just fine for 227 years till ICE, the monster child of the War on Drugs and the War on Terrorism, was spawned 23 years ago. It should never have been created in the first place, but now that Trump has turned it into a rights-trampling, rogue agency that shoots first and asks questions later, as the killing of Renee Good, an American citizen and a mother of three, demonstrates, it deserves to be shut down.” (01/13/26)

https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/abolish-ice-it-is-a-threat-to-americans

Source: Brownstone Institute
by Joseph Varon

“Medicine is defined not by the mechanical execution of tasks, but by the assignment of responsibility when outcomes are unfavorable. Writing a prescription is straightforward; accepting responsibility for its consequences — particularly when considering comorbidities, social context, patient values, or incomplete information — is far more complex. Throughout my career, this responsibility has continuously resided with a human who could be questioned, challenged, corrected, and held accountable. When Dr. Smith makes an error, the family knows whom to contact, ensuring a direct line to human accountability. No algorithm, regardless of sophistication, can fulfill this role. The primary risk is not technological, but regulatory and philosophical.” (01/13/26)

https://brownstone.org/articles/when-physicians-are-replaced-with-a-protocol/

Source: Libertarian Institute
by Jim Bovard

“‘There is no censorship here in Germany,’ according to Steffen Meyer, a top spokesman for the German government. In reality, Germans have freedom of speech except for ideas that politicians and government contractors and nonprofit activists don’t like. Germany is providing a road map for freedom can be squashed throughout the western world. Germany was the scene of some of the twentieth century’s worst tyranny but today’s German leaders have only noble intentions for oppression.” (01/13/26)

https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/germanys-latest-war-on-freedom

Source: Garrison Center
by Thomas L Knapp

“As my kids might say (if they bothered themselves with such issues rather than just plugging their bazillion game consoles into the wall and ignoring such things while raising my electric bill) ;grids are SOOOOOO 20th century.’ The idea of running power lines all over God’s green acre made a certain amount of sense in the 1930s.  It makes no sense at all now. … The only real beneficiaries of continued reliance on centralized generation and large-scale ‘grids’ are the utilities which operate those power plants and those grids. They’re holding us back from what could be an era of cheap, clean, reliable energy.” (01/13/26)

https://thegarrisoncenter.org/archives/20267

Source: Eunomia
by Daniel Larison

“Every time that the U.S. threatens or bombs the non-nuclear weapons state Iran, it vindicates North Korea’s decision to build its own deterrent. If there are any other would-be proliferators contemplating their next steps, they would have strong incentives to imitate North Korea and avoid making the same mistakes as Iran. That is one enduring legacy of our government’s incredibly awful Iran policy. The other is that our government’s policy has given the Iranian government every reason to acquire nuclear weapons despite its many formal commitments to reject that option.” (01/13/26)

https://daniellarison.substack.com/p/the-consequences-of-another-us-attack