Source: NBC News
“Sen. Mitch McConnell’s office released a health update Monday, saying he’s still not ready to return to in-person work in the Capitol after his June 14 hospitalization. ‘I’m still working hard to get back to my full schedule of work in the Senate and in Kentucky, keeping up with intense physical therapy per my doctors’ orders,’ McConnell, R-Ky. [or someone impersonating him], said in a statement. ‘Unfortunately, that means I won’t be able to make it to Fancy Farm, Kentucky this Saturday.’ … McConnell’s office did not provide a timeline for his return. He has missed the last 38 votes on the Senate floor, according to an NBC News review. The chamber is scheduled to be in session for the next two weeks before summer recess.” (07/27/26)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/mcconnell-releases-health-update-not-ready-return-work-rcna589452
Source: Fox News
by Carol Roth
“I love old-school tipping; that is, letting a service provider know that you appreciate their outstanding service, whatever the realm may be, with a generous gratuity. It’s a great way for individuals to reward service providers who work hard and to signal your personal appreciation of the effort they have put in to your interaction. However, tipping has morphed from a signal of good work to something that resembles a socialist experiment or the dreaded school group project: everyone expects the same outcome, regardless of their effort or the service they deliver.” (07/27/26)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/americas-tipping-culture-gone-rewarding-service-fee-insanity
Source: The Dispatch
by Kevin D Williamson
“Donald Trump is a terrible president, and he’s an even worse first lady. Things are falling apart in Iran, oil has been back over $100 a barrel, inflation is still inflating, and the president is out there spending his time with … party planning and decorating. Dwight Eisenhower he is not. Never mind that he is decorating badly—doesn’t this guy have other things to do? If he is not out there acting out an aneurysm in front of the White House press corps, he’s playing interior decorator and party planner, poking around at the edges of some low-stakes cultural stuff, and being the world’s most embarrassingly failed social climber. Isn’t that the kind of thing for which presidents have, you know, wives?” (07/27/26)
https://thedispatch.com/newsletter/wanderland/trump-president-first-lady-decorating/
Source: Informed Comment
by Eamonn Gearon
“Few figures from the First World War carry the force of Lawrence of Arabia, from the pages of Seven Pillars of Wisdom to a be-robed Peter O’Toole in David Lean’s 1962 epic. The legend swallowed the man almost as soon as the First World War ended. The shadow cast over both the historical Lawrence and the First World War in the Middle East more broadly, has, arguably, yet to be fully lifted. Examining this mix of man, myth, and movie, is a central goal of Lawrence of Arabia and ME, a solo show making its world premiere at this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe.” (07/27/26)
https://www.juancole.com/2026/07/haunted-history-lawrences.html
Source: Reuters
“At least one shot was fired outside the U.S. Consulate in downtown Toronto early on Monday but there were no injuries, police said, in what was the second such incident in the last four months. Police officers, alerted by the sound of a gunshot, said they found evidence of a weapon having been fired outside the building on University Avenue. Police said that a white sedan was seen fleeing the scene and added that no injuries were reported. On March 10, several shots were fired at the same building, following three separate incidents in which gunshots were fired at synagogues …. In June police said, without providing any more details, that young people in the Toronto area were being paid to shoot at various targets, including synagogues, Jewish schools and the U.S. Consulate. Police arrested three people in connection with the March shooting, and one police officer was killed during the operation.” (07/27/26)
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/shot-fired-outside-us-consulate-toronto-second-time-this-year-2026-07-27/
Source: Ron Paul Liberty Report
“As Bibi Comes Back To DC, Trump’s Out Of Options For Iran.” (07/27/26)
https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1qJDzzoqkRwKV
Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Cláudia Ascensão Nunes
“The UK government has completed the forced nationalization of British Steel, the company that owns the Scunthorpe plant in Lincolnshire, the last facility in the United Kingdom capable of producing virgin steel in traditional blast furnaces. Celebrated by sectors on both the left and the right, this move represents a definitive transfer of risk from private shareholders to taxpayers, ignoring that many of the problems that led to it were largely created by the state itself and its aggressive green policies.” (07/27/26)
https://fee.org/articles/how-net-zero-helped-bring-down-british-steel/
Source: Law & Liberty
by Julio Crespo-MacLennan
“Brexit was one of the defining political events of the early twenty-first century. Ten years ago, the world was shaken by the images of Prime Minister David Cameron announcing his resignation after losing the Brexit referendum. The vote transformed Britain’s relationship with Europe and offered a powerful lesson about the unpredictability of referendums in the age of social media and fake news.” (07/27/26)
https://lawliberty.org/what-brexit-taught-europe/
Source: Underthrow
by Max Borders
“A mind may be persuaded by explanation, but the will is moved by meaning.” (07/27/26)
https://underthrow.substack.com/p/moved-by-meaning
Source: Checks & Balances
by Alberto R Gonzales
“The job of the Attorney General is to defend the Rule of Law, not the President’s political agenda.” (07/27/26)
https://chkbal.substack.com/p/the-law-comes-first
