Source: Reason
by Joel Miller
“For those of us who like to think literacy is a form of liberation, there’s a troubling counterpoint: Mein Kampf. Adolf Hitler wasn’t interested in people thinking for themselves; he insisted they think like him. Propaganda, he recognized, is an assault on reflection: avoid abstraction, parrot slogans, abandon objectivity, and scapegoat your enemies. In forms like Mein Kampf, books contributed to the poison. But for the German theologian and anti-Nazi conspirator Dietrich Bonhoeffer, they could also serve as an antidote.” (06/09/26)
https://reason.com/2026/06/09/reading-the-quietest-way-to-disobey/
Source: Independent Political Report
“The Libertarian Party of New Hampshire is taking first steps to appeal its disaffiliation by the Libertarian National Committee, authorizing its state chair to petition the national party’s Judicial Committee on its behalf. In a resolution adopted June 4 and later shared to the LNC’s public Business List, the New Hampshire party’s Executive Committee repudiated a prior endorsement of Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election, reaffirmed its compliance with the Libertarian Party’s bylaws and Statement of Principles, and authorized Chair Jeremy Kauffman to formally petition the Judicial Committee on behalf of the disaffiliated state party. … Under Libertarian Party bylaws, the Judicial Committee will have 20 to 40 days after receiving the appeal from Kauffman to hold a hearing.” (06/08/26)
https://independentpoliticalreport.com/2026/06/libertarian-party-of-new-hampshire-appeals-national-committee-disaffiliation/
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Ely Valentino Binet Batista
“There are two types of human beings in this world: those who wait for someone to tell them what to do, and those who build structures that force the world to move at their rhythm. Modern state-monopolized education is engineered exclusively for the former. The contemporary school system operates as a direct administrative descendant of the nineteenth-century Prussian factory model.” (06/09/26)
https://mises.org/power-market/prussian-assembly-line-praxeological-sovereignty-and-separation-school-and-state
Source: ABC News
“Protesters in Bolivia demanding the resignation of conservative President Rodrigo Paz hurled firecrackers, stones and sticks at police who responded with tear gas on Monday, leading to dozens of arrests as road blockades continue to paralyze the Andean nation. The renewed clashes in the central city of Cochabamba erupted after President Paz signed a measure that could pave the way for a hard-line government crackdown on the demonstrations that have roiled Bolivia over the past five weeks, disrupting transportation and causing shortages of food, fuel and medical supplies. Bolivia’s national workers’ union, peasant farmers and Indigenous groups from the highlands — outraged over Paz’s scrapping of fuel subsidies and frustrated with his failure in the last seven months to resolve Bolivia’s persistent economic problems — have set up 90 blockades on key routes nationwide, effectively isolating major cities, especially La Paz, the seat of government and neighboring El Alto.” (06/09/26)
https://abcnews.com/International/wireStory/protesters-police-clash-bolivia-after-president-signs-law-133698869
Source: The UnPopulist
by Andy Craig
“The famed historian Gordon S. Wood died on Sunday, struck by a car in a parking lot at the age of 92. He was his generation’s foremost scholar of the American Revolution and the early Republic, and for decades he pressed a single argument with alacrity. The argument was this: the American Revolution was the most radical event in American history, and the men who made it neither intended nor controlled the radicalism they unleashed.” (06/09/26)
https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/the-historian-who-explained-the-true
Source: Fox News
by Jonathan Turley
“This week, the nation watched as California grappled again with the ordinarily straightforward task of counting votes in an election. While large states such as Florida declare election winners within 24 hours, California may take up to two weeks to count all the votes. Even Los Angeles cannot count its votes in the time of large states despite giving the Clerk an annual budget of $336 million and a $448,179 a year salary with the help of 1,100 budgeted positions. In most states, voters would be outraged by the incompetence, waste and inefficiency. However, in the Golden State, voters shrug, as if they can demand no more from their elected officials than subpar performance. Call it the Politics of Low Expectations, and California is the model for the nation.” (06/09/26)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/jonathan-turley-california-proves-voters-get-government-tolerate
Source: The Guardian [UK]
“A lawyer who represented Ken Paxton, Texas’s attorney general, for nearly a decade over accusations of corruption and securities fraud is supporting Democrat James Talarico – and not his former client – in one of the biggest US Senate races. Talarico on Monday drew attention to his campaign winning the endorsement of Houston attorney Dan Cogdell, who was part of Paxton’s defense team during the Republican’s historic impeachment trial in 2023 that ended in acquittal. The legal troubles that shadowed Paxton in public office in Texas are a central attack line of Talarico’s campaign, though in his endorsement, Cogdell didn’t cite concerns about his client’s past. Cogdell said he didn’t dislike Paxton as a person and felt that Texas lawmakers were right to eventually acquit the attorney general. But as a politician, Cogdell said, Paxton is too focused on appeasing Donald Trump.” (06/09/26)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/09/ken-paxton-lawyer-endorses-james-talarico
Source: The Corbett Report
“Do you know the documented history of decades of illegal Israeli government spying on Washington? Do you know who was involved in the nuclear smuggling ring that stole America’s nuclear secrets to build Israel’s illegal and still undeclared nuclear arsenal? Do you know about Unit 8200 and the inescapable web of cyber spying operations that leads from Tel Aviv to Washington right through Epstein Island? Well, you’re about to! Strap in and get ready.” (06/09/26)
https://corbettreport.com/israel-caught-spying-on-us/
Source: Expression
by Samuel J Abrams
“The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) recently released a study by David Primo measuring faculty viewpoint diversity through campaign-contribution data. The average faculty donor scored only slightly to the right of progressives like Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. The findings and criticism traveled quickly. John K. Wilson, writing in Inside Higher Ed, pronounced the study ‘worthless’ because most faculty never make campaign contributions, so a sample of donors cannot describe the average professor. On the narrow point he is right: a sample of donors is not a sample of all faculty. ‘Worthless’ is a serious conclusion — a verdict that, applied consistently, would discard nearly every measure we have.” (06/09/26)
https://expression.fire.org/p/a-study-isnt-worthless-because-its
Source: Associated Press
“Christian religious leaders from Lebanon’s southern port city of Tyre called on the international community and Lebanese officials on Tuesday to act quickly to prevent Israel from attacking the Christian district of the city, as airstrikes on nearby neighborhoods killed eight people and wounded dozens of others. The Israeli military has issued an evacuation warning for the port city, including the Christian quarter, which has been spared so far. The statement by the Christian leaders was from George Iskandar, the metropolitan archbishop of Tyre for the Melkite Greek Catholic Church; Elias Kfoury, the Greek Orthodox metropolitan of Tyre, Sidon and Dependencies; and Charbel Abdullah, the archeparch of the Maronite Catholic Archeparchy of Tyre. The warning from Israel’s military prompted hundreds of people to flee the Christian district along the Mediterranean coast, while members of the Civil Defense evacuated older people to safer areas, the state-run National News Agency said.” (06/09/26)
https://apnews.com/article/lebanon-israel-hezbollah-tyre-christian-district-a1282418d807aca60f0893d1f1b39684
