Source: Law & Liberty
by Robert P George
“William F. Buckley would have smiled at Hankins’[s] description of him as ‘the liberal gentleman.’ Buckley was, of course, the founding father of the modern American conservative movement—a movement whose mission, as he and his co-founders conceived it, was to oppose what had come to be known as “liberalism” in American politics. In the context of the intellectual boxing matches in which Buckley was a star pugilist, ‘liberal’ and ‘conservative’ were antonyms. How, then, does Buckley count, in Hankins’[s] reckoning, as a ‘liberal?’ The answer is that Buckley believed in what has come to be known as ‘liberal education.'” (10/30/26)
https://lawliberty.org/forum/buckleys-truth/
Source: Los Angeles Times
by Robin Abcarian
“More than 3 million pages of the Epstein files have been released, yet millions more remain under DOJ lock and key, subject to lawsuits, redactions and accusations of coverup. With the midterm elections dominating the news, the Iran war far from resolved and Americans suffering from sky-high fuel prices, the Epstein mess has retreated from the public imagination. Yet, this thing is far from over. Sometimes we need a nudge to remember that. Last week, Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee breathed new life into the scandal, releasing a 52-page report examining the relationship between President Trump and his onetime pal.” (11/01/26)
https://archive.is/kRcrq
Source: New York Post
“Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy has been hospitalized after suffering a stroke at his son’s hockey game, his office said Sunday. The Democrat, 53, felt numbness in his arm during the game Saturday and was rushed to a local hospital. He was later moved to Johns Hopkins in Maryland, where he is ‘awake and alert,’ according to chief of staff Allison Herwitt. … Murphy — a rumored 2028 presidential contender — isn’t up for reelection until 2030, but had been crisscrossing the country stumping for midterm candidates, with visits to Michigan, Minnesota and Florida in recent weeks.” (11/01/26)
https://nypost.com/2026/11/01/us-news/outspoken-dem-sen-chris-murphy-suffers-stroke-in-front-of-son/
Source: Washington Post
“How AI went from fringe idea to unstoppable force.” (10/30/26)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/podcasts/impromptu/how-ai-went-from-fringe-idea-to-unstoppable-force/
Source: CounterPunch
by David S D’Amato
“The mass-mobility of the modern age was thrust upon the popular masses of people by war and violent dispossession. Within this context, the immigration system has always been used to attack and undermine the truly bottom-up movements of ordinary people. It is used to weaken political radicalism just as it is used to structure the labor market, to determine the bargaining position of workers, to allocate social and economic vulnerability, and to distribute economic power and privilege. So borders are several coercive social systems, not one.” (10/30/26)
https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/10/30/borders-as-technologies-of-domination/
Source: Common Dreams
by Medea Benjamin
“The Islamophobia and anti-Arab hate coming from the highest levels of our government are absolutely outrageous. From President Donald Trump to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to members of Congress, including Sen.Ted Cruz and Rep. Nancy Mace, we are hearing vile, ignorant and dangerous attacks that must be denounced not just by the communities and individuals under attack, but by all of us. When RFK Jr. was campaigning in Michigan for Republican Senate candidate Mike Rogers, he insulted the entire Arab community worldwide (all 500 million of them), saying that Arabs ‘don’t produce science, they don’t produce literature, and they don’t win Nobel Prizes or other prestigious international awards’. His remarks were not only incredibly racist, but absolutely false.” (10/31/26)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/outrage-over-islamophobia
Source: New York Post
by Rikki Schlott
“Harvard’s student body is becoming more and more Asian in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision making race-based affirmative action illegal. The most recent class to graduate this past spring was 27.6% Asian. The newly admitted class of 2030 has reached a record high of 43.2% Asian students. The shift represents justice for Asian students and families who, until the Supreme Court overturned race-based affirmative action in 2023, had been unfairly shut out of elite institutions because they didn’t represent the ‘right’ kind of diversity. For years, in the name of ‘racial justice’, America’s premier colleges and universities discriminated against certain teenagers racially. But now meritocracy is on the rebound in academia. In June 2023, the Supreme Court voted 6 to 2 to overturn race based affirmative action after legal strategist Edward Blum and his organization, Students for Fair Admissions, sued Harvard University for allegedly discriminatory admissions practices.” (10/30/26)
https://nypost.com/2026/10/30/opinion/how-harvard-changed-since-end-of-affirmative-action-record-breaking-asian-admissions/
Source: CNBC
“Late-forming super PAC spending has surged in 2026. Twenty-two groups created in the final 10 weeks before Election Day have each spent at least $1 million on congressional races, totaling about $637 million, according to a CNBC analysis of FEC filings. That accounts for about one-sixth of independent expenditures in 2026 congressional races, CNBC found. Federal disclosure rules can leave voters in the dark about who is paying for the ads. Super PACs must rapidly report their spending, but donor disclosures can come weeks later — and, for the latest-forming groups, after Election Day.” (10/31/26)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/31/2026-midterm-election-super-pacs-donor-disclosure.html
Source: The Scott Horton Show
“Scott interviews Patrick Pillow about the series he just started publishing on the regime change in Egypt in 2011.” (10/30/26)
https://scotthorton.org/interviews/10-26-26-patrick-pillow-on-the-nature-and-consequences-of-the-2011-regime-change-in-egypt/
Source: The Weekly Dish
by Andrew Sullivan
“‘Pretend I’m on the ballot!’ the president insists, as if there is any other Republican on the ballot. It’s been two years of governance without a Congress — the lifeless body effectively passes one bill a year while deferring in every other single respect to the cult leader — so voting for a Republican congressman or senator is, quite simply, a vote for Trump. And an endorsement of his de facto suspension of constitutional balance. So vote for anyone other than a Republican next Tuesday. Or if that’s too compromising for you, don’t vote at all.” (10/30/26)
https://andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/you-know-what-to-do
