The Tom Woods Show, 02/25/26
Source: The Tom Woods Show
“Prepare for the Next Round of Money Printing, with Larry Lepard.” (02/25/26)
https://tomwoods.com/ep-2738-prepare-for-the-next-round-of-money-printing-with-larry-lepard/
Who are the Dems giving tacit green light to Iran attack and why?
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Blaise Malley
“The opposing party lacks a coherent message on Trump’s march to war, with some strongly opposing conflict and others not so much.” (02/25/26)
Why You Never Hear Anyone Talk about the “Small Business Lobby”
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Ryan McMaken
“Toward the end of my recent lecture at the Oklahoma City Mises Circle, I mentioned that one peculiar aspect of small businesses, as a group, is that they are very bad at lobbying the government for special favors. We can contrast this, for example, with the financial sector and commercial airlines, or with large manufacturers in areas like steel, aerospace, and automobiles. All of these industries have received major bailouts or subsidies in recent decades, or have been direct recipients of government spending and protectionist policy.” (02/25/26)
https://mises.org/power-market/why-you-never-hear-anyone-talk-about-small-business-lobby
Cuba: Regime forces kill four in gunfight with US speedboat “infiltrators”
Source: CNN
“Cuba said its forces fatally shot four heavily armed people attempting to ‘infiltrate’ its territory on a Florida-registered speedboat on Wednesday, amid simmering tensions between the communist island and the US. Cuban border guard troops approached the boat after it entered their territorial waters in Falcones Cay, Villa Clara province, just over 100 miles from Florida, the country’s interior ministry said in a statement. A passenger on the speedboat shot at the Cuban vessel, wounding its commander, and prompting Cuban forces to return fire, according to the statement. Six other people aboard the speedboat were wounded and are in custody and receiving medical attention. The passengers were Cuban residents of the US and were armed with assault rifles, handguns and Molotov cocktails, and had ‘intended to carry out an infiltration for terrorist purposes,’ according to a later statement from the ministry.” (02/25/26)
https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/25/americas/cuba-florida-speedboat-intl-latam
Do Immigrant Cultures Threaten Liberty?
Source: Bet On It
by Vincent Cook
“Free immigration would appear to be in a different category from other policy decisions, in that its consequences permanently and radically alter the very composition of the democratic political body that makes those decisions. In fact, the liberal order, where and to the degree that it exists, is the product of a highly complex cultural development. One wonders, for instance, what would become of the liberal society of Switzerland under a regime of ‘open borders.’ Mises’s embrace of the economic benefits offered by free migration … is offset according to Raico by the political threat that migrants supposedly pose due to the illiberal cultures of their countries of origin. … Mises makes a crucially important point that Raico failed to acknowledge, namely that immigrants are not mindless puppets of the culture of their country of origin.” (02/25/26)
https://www.betonit.ai/p/do-immigrant-cultures-threaten-liberty
So to Speak: The Free Speech Podcast, episode 264
Source: Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression
“Anonymity from the founding to the digital age.” (02/25/26)
https://www.fire.org/news/podcasts/so-speak-free-speech-podcast/anonymity-founding-digital-age
Epstein Files Are Missing FBI Records About Woman Who Made Claim Against Trump
Source: New York Times
“The vast trove of documents released by the Justice Department from its investigations into the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein failed to include some key materials related to a woman who made an accusation against President Trump, according to a review by The New York Times. The materials are F.B.I. memos summarizing interviews the bureau did in connection to claims made in 2019 by a woman who came forward after Mr. Epstein’s arrest to say she had been sexually assaulted by both Mr. Trump and the financier decades earlier, when she was a minor. The existence of the memos was revealed in an index listing the investigative materials …. According to that index, the F.B.I. conducted four interviews in connection with her claims and wrote summaries about each one. But only one summary of the four interviews, which describes her accusations against Mr. Epstein, was released by the Justice Department. The other three are missing.” (02/25/26)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/us/politics/trump-epstein-files.html
Trade, Tariffs, and Trust
Source: EconLog
by David Hebert
“Plenty of reputable people have asked the question of what the effective tariff rate is, who actually pays the tariffs, and how many jobs will be created or lost. This is important to the work of gathering (further) evidence of the destructive effects of tariffs. But the decades of empirical, historical, and theoretical work on this front fail to capture the real cost of tariffs. It won’t show up in any BLS report, BEA release, or any other economic report one can imagine. The real cost is the destruction of trust on the world stage.” (02/25/26)
CPJ: Israeli forces responsible for at least 81% of journalist murders in 2025
Source: The Guardian [UK]
“A record 129 journalists and media workers were killed in the course of their work in 2025, two-thirds of them by Israeli forces, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). It was the second consecutive year in which killings of members of the press reached unprecedented levels, and the second year running in which Israel was responsible for roughly two-thirds of the total, the New York-based independent organisation, which documents attacks on journalists worldwide, said in its annual report published on Wednesday. … Israel was responsible for 81% of the 47 killings that the CPJ classified as intentionally targeted, or ‘murder.’ It said the actual figure was probably higher, owing to access restrictions that made verification difficult in Gaza.” (02/25/26)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/feb/25/record-number-journalists-killed-2025-israel-gaza-war
Don’t trade liberty for dystopian world
Source: Eastern New Mexico News
by Kent McManigal
“It feels like the world, and America specifically, is becoming an authoritarian dystopia. More rules, harsher punishment, more surveillance; all leading to less liberty. What disturbs me the most is how many people seem to think this is fine. Or actively demand it because they fear or hate other people or what other people might do. Government is always willing to violate your rights and will oblige when asked to do so. Too many people will trade liberty for a false promise of safety — a hope for something government power can never provide. As long as they believe ‘other people’ are getting it worse than they are, they’re fine with the police state being built around them. They seem genuinely shocked when it is inevitably used against them and their rights.” (02/25/26)