Source: Los Angeles Times
by Jackie Calmes
“For much of my life funerals were, well, funereal, as black as attendees’ attire. Yet in recent decades, I’ve found that I often leave memorial services less mournful than upbeat. They’re inspiring, these so-called celebrations of life, with eulogies not from impersonal priests but from people who knew the dead person best. Tributes are seasoned with humor and paeans to personal character more than professional accomplishments. I walk out thinking not about death but life — especially my own, and resolving to be a better person. This week I left such a service with a broader resolve: that our nation was once, and can be again, a better country. The celebration was for the full and varied life of Alan Greenspan, the legendary longtime chair of the Federal Reserve who died in June at 100.” (10/01/26)
https://archive.is/9lCxQ
Source: Show-Me Institute
by Elias Tsapelas
“Missouri lawmakers frequently talk about the importance of rooting out waste, fraud, and abuse in state government. But identifying problems is only useful if state agencies actually fix them. A new report from the Missouri State Auditor shows there is still plenty of work to do. I’ve written before about recurring problems in Medicaid, including state computer systems that can’t communicate, eligibility redeterminations that should be happening but aren’t, and an automated check for recipients who have died that’s not functional. The latest audit found these issues remain largely unfixed, and a new issue involving nearly 10,000 recipients simultaneously enrolled in two eligibility systems.” (10/01/26)
https://showmeinstitute.org/article/state-and-local-government/another-audit-same-problems/
Source: euronews [EU]
“French security forces detained more than 600 people while dozens of police and gendarmes were wounded as protests that have seen blockades of high schools and violent clashes escalated, the interior minister said on Wednesday. The movement in the lycées, attended by students aged 15 to 18 for their final three years of secondary education in France, has angered the government. Since last week, students have staged protests outside schools over grievances ranging from timetables, class sizes and a shortage of teachers to overheated classrooms during this year’s heatwaves. The protests started in the Île-de-France region around Paris but have now spread to other cities nationwide.” (10/01/26)
https://www.euronews.com/2026/10/01/hundreds-held-dozens-wounded-as-protests-over-conditions-in-french-schools-escalate
Source: Gracearchy with Jim Babka
“Nikole Hanna Jones'[s] Daughter Gives Mom An F .” (10/01/26)
https://rumble.com/v7fziwo-nikole-hanna-jones-daughter-gives-mom-an-f-gracearchy-with-jim-babka-170.html
Source: Persuasion
by Leonora Barclay
“Being hot isn’t the same as being happy.” (10/01/26)
https://www.persuasion.community/p/the-boys-are-alright-looking-but
Source: Law & Liberty
by Thomas Savidge
“Keeping a resolution to restore fiscal order requires confronting the incentives that make promises attractive today and their financing easy to postpone. A new American fiscal constitution should make lawmakers reckon with those costs when they authorize those commitments.” (10/01/26)
https://lawliberty.org/a-new-fiscal-years-resolution/
Source: Brownstone Institute
by Eyal Shahar
“Each year the CDC publishes an estimate of the effectiveness of the flu vaccine in the previous flu season. Recently, the NIH director criticized the test-negative design from which the estimates are derived. He was right. The basic premise of the design is a two-edged sword: on the one hand, restricting the sample to people who sought medical care might reduce confounding by healthcare-seeking behavior; on the other hand, that restriction might add another type of bias — colliding bias — which is not as widely appreciated. The net bias remains unknown.” (10/01/26)
https://brownstone.org/articles/we-cannot-trust-the-cdc-estimates-of-flu-vaccine-effectiveness/
Source: Alabama Political Reporter
“Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall joined the attorneys general of Arkansas and Louisiana in asking the U.S. Supreme Court to block abortion shield laws in three states. Marshall joined the attorneys general of Arkansas and Louisiana in filing a lawsuit Wednesday, arguing that California, Massachusetts and New York are interfering with Alabama’s ability to enforce its abortion ban. The case asks the Supreme Court to invalidate laws that protect abortion providers from investigations, prosecutions and other legal action originating in states where abortion is prohibited. … Federal regulations allow abortion pills to be prescribed through telehealth and dispensed by mail, meaning a provider in a state where abortion remains legal can potentially prescribe medication to a patient in a state with an abortion ban.” (10/01/26)
https://www.alreporter.com/2026/10/01/alabama-joins-supreme-court-challenge-to-abortion-shield-laws/
Source: Underthrow
“What is the Proper Role of Government?” (10/01/26)
https://underthrow.substack.com/p/what-is-the-proper-role-of-government
Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Mark Harmsworth
“This week the Seattle City Council passed Mayor Katie Wilson’s ‘Fair Pricing and Transparency’ ordinance in a 7–2 vote, a first-in-the-nation ban on so-called surveillance pricing. The ordinance takes effect in 2027. The Washington Retail Association warned for months that the bill was rushed, would have significant and negative impact on prices, and that nearly all suggested fixes were ignored. As approved, retailers must decide whether they can keep offering the tailored discounts and loyalty programs that Seattle families actually use or cancel all the programs and charge more for groceries. Government should not be price-fixing consumer products. Banning the use of loyalty cards and programs, fuel rewards, and targeted coupons hurts businesses and consumers alike.” (10/01/26)
https://fee.org/articles/the-first-city-to-price-fix-your-groceries/
