Ron Paul Liberty Report, 10/27/26
Source: Ron Paul Liberty Report
“The Anti-Flock Rebellion Picks Up Steam.” (10/27/26)
Tanzania: Jailed Opposition Leader Begins Hunger Strike
Sourc: US News & World Report
“Tanzanian opposition leader Tundu Lissu, who was charged with treason last year, has started a hunger strike to protest his inability to access his lawyers, his party said. Lissu, who leads the CHADEMA opposition party and came second in the 2020 presidential election, began refusing food on Monday after his lawyers were denied entry to the prison where he is being held, party spokesperson Brenda Rupia wrote on X. … Lissu was charged with treason over what prosecutors said was a speech calling on the public to rebel and disrupt last year’s general election. He pleaded not guilty to the charges, which his lawyer has said are politically motivated.” (10/27/26)
Advisory Opinions, 10/27/26
Source: Advisory Opinions
“Election Shenanigans.” (10/27/26)
https://thedispatch.com/podcast/advisoryopinions/election-shenanigans/
Reagan & Gorby: What happened in Reykjavik didn’t stay in Reykjavik
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Martin Di Caro
“Before 1986, a city named Reykjavík was best remembered for the ‘Match of the Century.’ International eyes fixated on Iceland’s capital for the World Chess Championship of 1972. The American prodigy Bobby Fischer dethroned the USSR’s defending champ Boris Spassky, ending a quarter-century of Soviet chess domination. Meanwhile on the global chessboard, the Cold War, with its mind-boggling defense budgets and ICBM stockpiles, continued. Fourteen years later, Reykjavík became synonymous with a different kind of U.S.-Soviet meeting with far greater stakes for humankind. The story of how President Ronald Reagan and General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev wound up there for two days of meetings 40 Octobers ago — and the progress they made toward a shared goal of eliminating nuclear bombs — should resonate in our dangerous age of nuclear tension and profligate weapons modernization.” (10/27/26)
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/reagan-gorbachev-reykjavik/
Empty Diplomas
Source: Show-Me Institute
by Cory Koedel
“Over at The 74, John Arnold penned an op-ed reminding us that getting more students to graduate from high school is not necessarily a good thing. It depends on how we do it. He writes: ‘If boosting graduation is the goal, one way to get there is to lower standards.’ High school graduation rates are up across the United States, but there is mounting evidence that we are achieving these gains by lowering standards. Arnold points to international assessment data showing that U.S. students are performing worse academically, even as more of them graduate.” (10/27/26)
https://showmeinstitute.org/article/education/empty-diplomas/
Hunter Biden laptop issue resurfaces; judge scolds prosecutors over case against ex-FBI officials
Source: SFGate
“A federal judge on Tuesday scolded the Justice Department for its unorthodox handling of a criminal case against two former FBI officials accused of making false statements to Congress about their knowledge of a laptop the Justice Department says belonged to Hunter Biden, the son of former President Joe Biden. U.S. Magistrate Zia Faruqui struck from the record an amended criminal complaint filed in the middle of the night by the Justice Department that added a new obstruction charge against the two former officials, Nikki Floris and Bradley Benavides. Such charging documents require sign-off from a judge that probable cause exists that a crime was committed by a defendant, and this complaint lacked that. ‘It is not our court’s practice — and I think it is appropriately not our practice — that unsigned complaints are filed on the docket,’ Faruqui said.” (10/27/26)
Russia–Ukraine Peace Compromise Is Necessary. It Won’t Be Fair
Source: The American Conservative
by Ted Snider
“A compromise peace, rather than the total defeat of Russia, is not a fair outcome. Nor would the details of such a settlement be fair; Ukraine would have to make more concessions than Russia. But the peace cannot be fair because the war was never fair: It wasn’t fair that the more powerful Russian army illegally invaded Ukraine, and it wasn’t fair that the West used Ukraine as a proxy to fight against Russia, rather than settling the war in its early weeks when the opportunity arose. Despite the fact that a peace deal would not be fair, it would save Ukraine and stop the war from getting worse. And although Ukraine would have to make the more painful concessions, Russia too would need to give way on some things.” (10/27/26)
Anti-Circumvention Laws Raise the Cost of Knowledge
Source: Electronic Frontier Foundation
by Mitch Stoltz
“The vast amount of information on the open web requires researchers and journalists to adapt with new tools to make sense of it all. Checking facts, gauging public opinion, and other lines of inquiry depend on being able to analyze the overwhelming amount of material posted online every day. Unfortunately, responding to the AI industry’s voracious appetite for data, companies stewarding this public data are looking to cash in and block access to the open web. This makes the web harder to navigate, and threatens all kinds of important research. Reddit’s lawsuit against SerpAPI and Perplexity threatens to do exactly that.” (10/26/26)
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/10/anti-circumvention-laws-raise-cost-knowledge
Capital Record, episode 330
Source: National Review
“Is Business School Bad?” (10/27/26)
https://www.nationalreview.com/podcasts/capital-record/is-business-school-bad/
Media Has Critical Role in Safeguarding Democracy [sic] This Election Season
Source: Common Dreams
by Hannah Fried
“We’re just days out from November 3, and already millions of Americans are heading to the polls or dropping off their mail-in ballots, while threats to their freedom to vote continue making front-page news. … while Trump’s efforts continue to fail to pass legal muster, there are two intertwined threats built into his continued public flirtation with election interference: anti-voter actions themselves, and the confusion and chaos created by floating these plans in public. The media ecosystem has a big role to play in mitigating that second threat.” [editor’s note: Of course, that’s not the role they should be playing in an alleged free society – SAT] [additional editor’s note: In an alleged free society, the role they should be playing is whatever role they damn well please. That’s what “free” means – TLK] (10/27/26)