Source: American Greatness
by Victor Davis Hanson
“Israel dominates the daily news in this 2026 midterm election year—almost always in a boring, fatiguing, negative light. Tens of thousands of innocents may be slaughtered, ethnically cleansed, butchered, and tortured by the world’s dictators, yet an overwhelming and obsessive abhorrence is reserved for tiny, democratic Israel. Such perverse asymmetry is strange, since, at least privately, most Americans would concede that of the 18 Middle Eastern nations, only Israel is a genuine consensual democracy.” [editor’s note: Well, except for the political parties that are banned, and except for the millions who live under Israeli rule, but don’t get to vote in Israeli elections. You know, little stuff like that – TLK] (08/18/26)
https://amgreatness.com/2026/08/18/hating-israel-fatigue/
Source: ABC News
“The leader of Quebec’s separatist party said Tuesday he would delay any referendum on independence from Canada until Donald Trump is no longer U.S. president. Parti Québécois leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon, whose party is out of power but could win Quebec’s next election that must be held by Oct. 5, said a PQ government would still hold a referendum during its first term — but not before Jan. 20, 2029, when Trump’s term ends. He said a question as consequential as Quebec’s future requires a clear and calm debate. ‘It must not be hijacked by the upheavals of American politics, nor by the outbursts of an unpredictable president, nor by fear campaigns,’ St-Pierre Plamondon said.” (08/18/260
https://abcnews.com/International/wireStory/quebec-separatist-leader-independence-referendum-trump-leaves-office-135738864
Source: Law & Liberty
by Frederick M Hess
“Don’t get me wrong. It’s wholly reasonable to see the possibilities of technology in schools. After all, pencils, paper, calculators, whiteboards, and buses are all technologies, too. Finding a way to make sensible use of new tools is part and parcel of every profession. But every healthy impulse can easily be corrupted by schlock-peddling vendors, ed school fixations, quick-fix reformers, and assorted grifters. This is education’s evergreen problem, and we now see the result: a flood of dubious ed tech that washed over teachers ill-equipped to navigate the tide. Students were distracted, and teachers were left at sea, even as the wave of Chromebooks, tablets, and learning management systems helped normalize screens at home and in school.” (08/18/26)
https://lawliberty.org/the-k-12-techlash-moment/
Source: Common Dreams
by Alison Schultz & Bemnet Agata
“One of the stranger features of the modern economy is that we no longer disagree about what a multinational corporation is—until the conversation turns to tax. Investors value Apple as a single global business. Consumers experience it as a single company. Its executives manage it as an integrated enterprise, allocating capital, research, production, and marketing across continents according to commercial strategy rather than national borders. Nobody seriously believes that Apple’s subsidiaries are independent businesses negotiating with one another as though they were unrelated companies. They are constituent parts of a single commercial enterprise. Yet this is precisely the legal fiction upon which the international corporate tax system was built—and continues to rest.” (08/18/26)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/corporate-tax-legal-fiction
Source: CBS News
“The Justice Department asked a federal appeals court on Monday to reinstate the criminal charges against Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran man wrongfully deported by the Trump administration last year, by reversing a lower court order that found them to be vindictive in nature. In May, a federal judge in Tennessee dismissed a criminal indictment against Abrego Garcia, who had been accused by federal prosecutors of smuggling immigrants in the U.S. illegally. The judge found that the Justice Department prosecuted Abrego Garcia in retaliation for his efforts to challenge his wrongful deportation to El Salvador last year. In a filing Monday before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit, the Justice Department denied that the prosecution was vindictive, arguing it had ‘multiple legitimate bases to prosecute’ Abrego Garcia.” (08/18/26)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/doj-asks-court-reinstate-charges-kilmar-abrego-garcia/
Source: The Bryan Hyde Show
“It’s my weekly conversation with Eric Peters from Eric Peters Autos. We talk about how to become a human truth-detector in a time when deception rules our world.” (08/18/26)
https://www.podbean.com/ep/pb-26fsi-1b3a8bb
Source: spiked
by Brendan O’Neill
“It is a testament to the moralism of the eco-doom movement that there has been so much focus on shaming ‘deniers’. Practical matters – like, I don’t know, making the case for the mass rollout of aircon – play second fiddle to the pillorying of heretics. The argument seems to be that these wicked doubters have landed us in the inferno of a neverending summer, just as their witchy forebears gave us crop failure and icy winters. I see it differently. To me, the punishing impact of the heatwaves is less the handiwork of ‘deniers’ than a byproduct of the moral circus of eco-alarmism itself.” (08/18/26)
https://archive.is/p5tbc
Source: Mother Jones
by Russ Choma
“His Oman resort sits just miles from the strait where he’s promising to send in the US military.” (08/18/26)
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/08/trumps-bombing-threats-have-a-golf-course-problem/
Source: Karl Dickey’s Freedom Vanguard
by Karl Dickey
“As monthly payments quadruple and defaults surge, Washington’s trillion-dollar higher-ed bubble proves politicians can’t fix the crisis they created.” (08/18/26)
https://palmbeachexaminer.substack.com/p/the-student-debt-trap-why-government
Source: Law & Liberty
by Alejandro Gomez
“While the colonies declared independence, liberty also found a foothold in the South Atlantic.” (08/18/26)
https://lawliberty.org/buenos-airess-contribution-to-1776/
