Source: The Hill
by Gleb Tsipursky
“A new report from the St. Louis Fed shows that economic output is trending higher, even though employee head-count has barely moved. A few years ago, you might have blamed pent-up demand or a lucky sales run. In late 2025, the more honest explanation is that a growing share of your team has a chatbot open in the background. The St. Louis Fed’s national U.S. adoption tracker, built on its Real-Time Population Survey, shows generative AI use jumping ten percentage points in a single year. Their new analysis of adoption and productivity argues those extra minutes are starting to show up in macro data. Generative AI use is already a majority behavior for working-age Americans.” (03/03/26)
https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/5763078-ais-productivity-is-finally-hitting-the-real-economy/
Source: The Hill
“Democrat Alex Holladay is projected to win the special election to represent Arkansas’s House District 70, edging out Republican Bo Renshaw, according to Decision Desk HQ. The race was seen as a pickup opportunity for the Democrats after Holladay, in 2024, narrowly lost his bid to unseat Republican incumbent Carlton Wing, who eked out a 50.97 percent victory. But Wing resigned in September to become the executive director of Arkansas PBS, giving Holladay another opportunity to vie for the seat.” (03/03/26)
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5763559-democratic-pickup-arkansas-house-race/
Source: Independent Institute
by Phillip W Magness & Marc Wheat
“On February 19, the Supreme Court ruled in Learning Resources v. Trump that the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) does not confer upon the president the power to impose tariffs. Obviously prepared for the loss, in the same news cycle, the president announced a 10 percent tariff under Section 122, which he increased to 15 percent only hours later. The problem? Section 122 does not empower the president to impose these tariffs either.” (03/03/26)
https://www.independent.org/article/2026/03/03/section-122-tariffs-wont-work-either/
Source: San Diego Union-Tribune
“A Minnesota prosecutor announced an investigation Monday that may lead to charges against federal officers, including Border Patrol official Greg Bovino, for misconduct during an immigration enforcement crackdown. Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said in a news conference that her office is already looking into 17 cases, including one where Bovino threw a smoke canister at protesters on Jan. 21. Another on Jan. 7 involved federal officers [abducting a victim] outside a high school and deploying chemical irritants while students and staff were in the area. … The Department of Homeland Security, which oversees immigration enforcement, responded in a statement Monday night that such enforcement is a federal responsibility and states cannot prosecute federal officers.” (03/03/26)
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2026/03/03/minnesota-immigration-officer-investigation/
Source: The Findings Substack
by Paul Rosenberg
“Can you imagine how long it took for ignorant men and women to learn metallurgy? Or crop rotation? Or a hundred other things we can barely imagine being without? Our lives are advanced only because they created new ways of living and passed them down to us. Hundreds of generations of people just like us lived through dark times, fighting toward whatever bits of light they could find, opposed by others most of the way, to bring us where we are now. Someday our generation will also be gone, and we will have played – whether we’ve understood it or not – the crucial role of transmitting civilization to following generations. What do we want them to be like? How do we want them to live?” (03/03/26)
https://thefindings.substack.com/p/we-are-prometheus
Source: Los Angeles Times
by Jonah Goldberg
“This is no way for a constitutional republic to go to war. The ever-changing rationales, the failure to consult Congress, and Congress’ refusal to demand consultation and authorization, is an outrage no matter how this war ends. If the war and its aftermath are deemed successful, there will still be a price to pay as our system of checks and balances will seem to future presidents as even more of a dead letter. Conversely, if this ends in disaster, one could see a renewed effort to restore that system to prevent such calamities in the future. Everything unfolding in and above Iran depends on the consequences, intended and unintended, of one man’s unilateral decision to launch a war. In short, we’re all on blowback watch.” (03/03/26)
https://archive.is/Yscjn
Source: CNN
“Colin Gray, the father of Georgia school shooter Colt Gray, was found guilty of murder and manslaughter charges Tuesday in a case testing the limits of who is responsible for a mass shooting. The jury deliberated for less than two hours before convicting him on all 27 charges: Two counts of second-degree murder, two counts of involuntary manslaughter, 18 counts of cruelty to children and five counts of reckless conduct. … Prosecutors accused Gray of buying his son an AR-15-style rifle as a Christmas present and allowing him access to that weapon and ammunition despite warnings that his son was a danger to others. Colt Gray, then 14, used that rifle to carry out a mass shooting at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia, on September 4, 2024, killing two teachers and two students and wounding nine others.” (03/03/26)
https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/03/us/colin-gray-murder-trial-verdict
Source: National Review
“What the Right Is Getting Wrong About AI.” (03/03/26)
https://www.nationalreview.com/podcasts/capital-record/what-the-right-is-getting-wrong-about-ai/
Source: Bluegrass Institute
by Jeffrey A Singer
“Physicians are not interchangeable technicians. They are moral agents. In a free society, the government should not force a doctor to participate in a non-emergency procedure that violates deeply held beliefs.” (03/03/26)
https://www.bluegrassinstitute.org/protect-conscience/
Source: Persuasion
by Francis Fukuyama
“It has less to do with faith—and more to do with the Enlightenment—than Marco Rubio thinks.” (03/03/26)
https://www.persuasion.community/p/dont-define-western-civilization
