Source: Reason
by Damon Root

“Article III, Section 1, of the U.S. Constitution says that ‘the judicial Power of the United States shall be vested in one supreme Court, and in such inferior courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish.’ The document says nothing about how many justices should actually sit on the Supreme Court, leaving that rather important decision entirely in the hands of Congress. For advocates of court packing, or court expansion, or whatever other label the idea of adding new justices to the Court might happen to be going by nowadays, this constitutional language is a very handy ally to call upon and legal authority to cite. Whether you are in favor of court packing, opposed to it, or simply agnostic about the concept, there is no doubt about its constitutionality.” (09/10/26)

https://reason.com/2026/09/10/court-packing-is-a-bad-idea-but-its-still-constitutional/

Source: Los Angeles Times
by Ben Wizner

“Few who lived through the horror of Sept. 11, 2001, could have imagined that the next 25 years would pass without another large-scale attack on American soil. What was far more predictable and harmful, though, is the damage we’ve inflicted on ourselves and on the constitutional system of checks and balances meant to protect us and our democracy.” (09/10/26)

https://archive.is/xrAbe

Source: Consent Factory, Inc.
by CJ Hopkins

“Chalk another one up for the ethno-nationalists! That’s right, as I’m sure you’ve heard by now, the Alternativ für Deutschland party (AfD) won an election last Sunday in Saxony-Anhalt, one of Germany’s sixteen federal states …. Germany’s federal domestic intelligence agency has designated them a ‘confirmed right-wing extremist endeavor,’ and the mainstream media have been calling them ‘Nazis.’ Which they are, kind of … or, okay, not literally. … People tend to refer to them as ‘Nazis’ … well, for a lot of reasons. For one thing, many of them are former neo-Nazis, or they attend meetings held by neo-Nazi groups, or they are otherwise friendly with actual neo-Nazis. Also, some of them spout Nazi slogans at their political rallies, or embed Nazi symbols in their campaign artwork … which, of course, is all in good fun.” (09/10/26)

https://consentfactory.org/2026/09/10/the-enemy-of-my-enemy-2/

Source: Independent Institute
by Daniel Sánchez-Piñol

“Protectionism or Expansionism: Trump’s Self-inflicted Dilemma.” (09/10/26)

https://www.independent.org/article/2026/09/10/protectionism-trump-self-inflicted-dilemma/

Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Vincent Geloso

“There is nothing wrong with criticising capitalism, Friedrich Hayek, Milton Friedman or classical liberalism. The problem is that much of the discussion does not pass even a modest ideological Turing test. An ideological Turing test asks whether one can state an opposing position so accurately that its proponents would recognise the argument as their own before one proceeds to criticise it. Here, too often, they would not.” (09/10/26)

https://fee.org/articles/what-critics-keep-getting-wrong-about-capitalism/

Source: Town Hall
by Larry Elder

“Remember the media firestorm in 2016 when Donald Trump supposedly failed to denounce former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke? Trump, appearing on CNN, claimed he did not know enough about Duke to disavow him. Trump later blamed a faulty earpiece and repudiated Duke and the KKK. But the episode became Exhibit A for those who accused Trump of using racial ‘dog whistles’. Then-Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan declared, ‘If a person wants to be the nominee of the Republican Party, there can be no evasion and no games. They must reject any group or cause that is built on bigotry’. … Now consider the Democrat Party’s treatment of Hasan Piker, the socialist streamer who said, ‘America deserved 9/11.'” (09/10/26)

https://townhall.com/columnists/larryelder/2026/09/10/the-david-duke-standard-the-hasan-piker-exception-n2682711