Source: Cobden Centre
by Artis Shepherd
“It is an axiom of asset bubbles that — under the bustling surface — widespread malfeasance takes place. This is especially true near the end of asset bubbles, where participants fear missing out on the supposed riches produced therein, but — failing to achieve them — ultimately resort to chicanery and fraud to achieve their ends.” (11/06/25)
https://www.cobdencentre.org/2025/11/easy-money-breeds-fraud-the-cases-of-tricolor-and-first-brands/
Source: The American Conservative
by Daniel McCarthy
“Dick Cheney sought to remake the world — and he did.” (11/06/25)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/the-failure-artist/
Source: SFGate
“Maryland officials sued President Donald Trump’s administration Thursday for blocking the previously-approved construction of new FBI headquarters just outside the nation’s capital. Gov. Wes Moore joined other Maryland leaders to criticize the plan to move the FBI’s headquarters several blocks from its current home in Washington to the Ronald Reagan Building complex, instead of to Greenbelt, Maryland, which had been selected by the Biden administration for a modern building after years of planning. The FBI announced the change over the summer after a yearslong battle over the location. But Moore, a Democrat, described that building as ‘too old, too small and too exposed.’ ‘The big problem with the current FBI building is that it lacks the modern security provisions and protections that the bureau needs in 2025,’ the governor said at a news conference with other Maryland officials.” (11/06/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/politics/article/maryland-sues-trump-administration-over-location-21143755.php
Source: New York Post
“A Virginia jury has found a former elementary school administrator liable for $10 million in the shooting of a first-grade teacher by a 6-year-old student nearly three years ago. Former first-grade educator Abigail Zwerner sued Ebony Parker, the former vice principal of Richneck Elementary School in Newport News, Va., for gross negligence, alleging Parker failed to act on multiple warnings that the 6-year-old boy had a gun and was acting alarmingly the day of the January 2023 shooting. After over five hours of deliberation on Wednesday and Thursday, the seven-person jury ruled in favor of Zwerner — who had been seeking $40 million in damages. Parker sat stoically, her face unchanging as the verdict was read out. While Zwerner pursed her lips, her eyes wide, as if to hold back tears.” (11/06/25)
https://nypost.com/2025/11/06/us-news/teacher-abby-zwerner-awarded-10m-in-lawsuit-after-being-shot-by-6-year-old/
Source: CNN
“Nancy Pelosi, the first and only female speaker of the US House of Representatives and one of the most powerful figures in Democratic politics for decades, has announced she will not seek reelection. … The announcement ends heightened speculation in recent days that the longtime Democrat would soon announce her intention to draw her congressional career to a close after 38 years. She was widely expected to leave Congress after this term, her first in decades as a rank-and-file member.” (11/06/25)
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/politics/nancy-pelosi-congress-retirement
Source: The Dispatch
“Supreme Court Hears Oral Argument in Trump’s Tariff Case.” (11/05/25)
https://thedispatch.com/podcast/advisoryopinions/supreme-court-hears-oral-argument-in-trumps-tariff-case/
Source: The Intercept
“Democrats Swept Tuesday Night’s Election. Now What?” (11/05/25)
https://theintercept.com/2025/11/05/briefing-podcast-democrats-election-results-zohran-mamdani/
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Jorge Heine
“The government of the Dominican Republic has announced that the X Summit of the Americas (SOA), scheduled to be held in Punta Cana on December 4-5, has been postponed. This is the first time an SOA has been postponed. There is no reason to think that the conditions for holding such a meeting will be better three or six months from now so it’s more likely the summit will be canceled. If so, this might very well ring the death knell of the SOAs, precisely at a time when they are more needed than ever, given the deep differences cutting across the hemisphere.” (11/06/25)
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/us-policy-failures-underwrite-americas-summit-collapse/
Source: The American Conservative
by Doug Bandow
“Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth concluded his visit to South Korea this week with praise for the nation’s planned 8.2 percent increase in military spending next year. ‘We face, as we both acknowledge, a dangerous security environment, but our alliance is stronger than ever,’ he intoned. Upping defense outlays is a sensible course for the Republic of Korea, which faces an increasingly hostile North Korea. However, why does Washington continue to provide Seoul with what amounts to military welfare?” (11/06/25)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/trump-should-end-defense-welfare-for-south-korea/
Source: The Bulwark
by Will Saletan
“Donald Trump cost his party a lot of votes in Tuesday’s elections. He and his supporters are peddling excuses for the big Republican defeat—pleading that the losses were in blue states, faulting the poor quality of the candidates, or arguing that the GOP would have performed better if Trump were on the ballot this year. But the president and his policies were largely to blame. Here’s what the exit polls show, as of this writing.” (11/05/25)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/hey-republicans-blame-trump-off-year-2025-elections-virginia-new-jersey-nyc
