Source: Independent [UK]
“A grand jury in Texas has rejected indictments against a federal immigration agent following the fatal shooting of a US citizen during a traffic encounter last year. Ruben Ray Martinez was killed on March 15, 2025, by an agent from Homeland Security Investigations. The Department of Homeland Security had not publicly disclosed the incident until The Associated Press and other media outlets reported it last week. Prosecutors confirmed the grand jury’s decision on Wednesday, stating that indictments were declined after the case was presented.” (02/26/26)
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/crime/texas-homeland-security-martinez-donald-trump-b2927832.html
Source: Washington Post
“So much winning. But are we?” (02/25/26)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/podcasts/make-it-make-sense/so-much-winning-but-are-we/
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/
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)
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/democrats-trump-war-iran/
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
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
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
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
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
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)
https://www.econlib.org/library/columns/y2026/hebert-ieepa
