Equality Before the Law Does Not Mean Equality of Subjective Feelings

Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Wanjiru Njoya

“Equality before the law is a highly-contested principle, largely because there is no consensus on what it means for everyone to be treated equally. Does equality before the law mean that nobody believes himself to be superior or inferior to others? Does the Fourteenth Amendment guarantee that we must all enjoy the same social status? Can the Constitution ensure that no one feels slighted, ignored, or overlooked? Do citizens have a constitutional right to feel welcome and included in everything?” (10/06/26)

https://mises.org/mises-wire/equality-law-does-not-mean-equality-subjective-feelings

Thomas L. Knapp

Israel, a Jewish and democratic state, maintains Arab citizens’ representation

Source: Christian Science Monitor
by staff

“In the run-up to Israel’s Oct. 27 election, the country’s Supreme Court unanimously ruled last week that a key minority (the two main parties representing Arab Israelis) could not be banned from participating. The decision serves as a marker of democracy in a political system that protects the rights of minorities in instances when one side has an overwhelming majority. The ban, recently approved by an election commission dominated by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s governing coalition, would have effectively disenfranchised the one-fifth of Israeli citizens who are of Arab Palestinian heritage. In the wake of the October 2023 terrorist attack by Hamas, many right-wing Jewish Israelis have pushed for not only punitive military action in Gaza and forcible expansion of Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, but also curtailment of the rights of Israeli Arabs.” (10/05/26)

https://www.csmonitor.com/Editorials/the-monitors-view/2026/1005/Israel-a-Jewish-and-democratic-state-maintains-Arab-citizens-representation

Steve Trinward

Terror of being called racist crushing free speech in America

Source: Fox News
by Eli Steele

“When my father, Shelby Steele, author, columnist and senior fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, began publishing his essays on race in the late 1980s, my teenage self was often by his side when he gave speeches. After each speech, the same scene unfolded as a crowd of people gathered to the side of the podium, each wanting a word. I remember one man in particular who hurried to reach my father first. He wore a corduroy sports coat with leather elbow patches. He said, ‘Dr. Steele, that was truly a remarkable speech. I want to thank you for saying the things you said up there.’ My father thanked him, and the man lowered his voice and leaned in as if to share a conspiracy. ‘You know I can’t say those things.'” (10/06/26)

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/eli-steele-terror-called-racist-crushing-free-speech-america

Steve Trinward

Germany: Former spy chief arrested on suspicion of treason and espionage

Source: Al Jazeera [Qatari state media]

“Germany’s former foreign spy chief has been arrested on suspicion of espionage and treason, prosecutors have said. August Hanning, 80, is under investigation for attempted treason and acting as an agent for a foreign intelligence service, the Office of the Federal Public Prosecutor General confirmed on Tuesday. Hanning was president of Germany’s Federal Intelligence Service between 1998 and 2005. He was arrested in Bad Toelz-Wolfratshausen in southern Germany. His former chief of staff, partially identified as Manfred D, was arrested in Steinfurt in western Germany on suspicion of ‘aiding and abetting attempted treason and treasonous espionage’. … The statement did not reveal who the two men were suspected of spying for or which country the foreign agent worked for, adding that ‘it has yet to be determined if the material reached the intended recipient’.” (10/06/26)

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/6/former-german-spy-chief-arrested-on-suspicion-of-treason-and-espionage

Thomas L. Knapp

Class Dismissed: Why Britain Should Stop Keeping Score

Source: Adam Smith Institute
by Madsen Pirie

“Arthur Scargill once boasted that he had never betrayed his class. It was meant as a badge of honour. It should have been read as a warning. We understand loyalty to family. We understand loyalty to village, county and country. These are places and people we belong to and most would not wish to leave. Class is different. It is a condition, not a community. And for most of British history the working-class condition meant hard labour, low pay and narrow horizons. To pledge loyalty to that is to pledge loyalty to the very thing a sensible person would want to escape. It turns the miner’s son who becomes a surgeon into a deserter. It makes ambition look like apostasy. That is the first problem with class. It is a cage that congratulates you for staying inside.” (10/06/26)

https://www.adamsmith.org/blog/class-dismissed-why-britain-should-stop-keeping-score

Thomas L. Knapp

ICE Has Got to Go

Source: CounterPunch
by Eve Ottenberg

“Like Russia, the U.S. is huge and hugely multicultural. In fact, those are the two biggest multicultural nations on earth. Like Russia, U.S. population growth stems from its so-called minority population. Like Russia, that population is largely non-white. Unlike Russia, where the fast-growing minority groups include Muslims and Asians, the U.S. Hispanic ‘minority’ is Christian and, quite mistakenly in my view, much of it pro-Trump. Again, unlike Russia, which has a leader, president Vladimir Putin, who openly espouses traditional values and is just as openly enthusiastic about the minorities he governs, Trump scorns American minorities and unleashes a murderous Gestapo against them. Putin would never dream of such idiocy.” (10/06/26)

https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/10/06/ice-has-got-to-go/

Thomas L. Knapp