Source: Tenth Amendment Center
by Michael Boldin
“On December 15, 1791, the Bill of Rights was ratified and became part of the Constitution. Most people think they know why. But most actually don’t. It was birthed out of a brutal political battle between Federalists and Anti-Federalists over a question that nearly killed ratification: When the Constitution doesn’t mention a power, who gets to exercise it – the federal government or the people of the several states? Federalists insisted a Bill of Rights was unnecessary, even dangerous. The Constitution, they argued, was already designed to limit federal power to those delegated, and nothing more. Anti-Federalists shot back with a dark reality: government always assumes it can do whatever you haven’t explicitly forbidden. That fight got settled with a deal. And the deal’s centerpiece – the answer that saved ratification – was the Tenth Amendment.” (12/14/25)
https://tenthamendmentcenter.com/2025/12/14/bill-of-rights-born-from-the-fight-over-delegated-and-reserved-powers/
Source: Town Hall
by Rachel Alexander
“The government has been cracking down on the misuse of opioids, but the restrictions have gone too far, hurting ordinary Americans who need them. Approximately one quarter of the nation’s population suffers from pain. The latest assault, causing problems for those suffering, which includes many elderly people, is the Biden DOJ’s lawsuits against the pharmacies CVS and Walgreens for prescribing them. This has resulted in repeatedly denying those in pain the prescriptions their doctors wrote, forcing them to try to convince pharmacists who know nothing about their conditions that they’re not criminals, but patients in need of relief. The DOJ launched its nationwide case against CVS about a year ago. Today, we’re no closer to a resolution. The lawsuit alleged that CVS ‘knowingly filled prescriptions for controlled substances’, a dramatic headline that masks something much simpler, instead portraying it as far more dangerous.” (12/15/25)
https://townhall.com/columnists/rachelalexander/2025/12/15/dojs-opioid-war-hurts-ordinary-americans-in-pain-n2667875
Source: Common Dreams
“Before the end of the year, the Trump administration is planning to eliminate up to 35,000 healthcare jobs at the Department of Veterans Affairs, a chronically understaffed agency that has already lost tens of thousands of employees to the White House’s sweeping assault on the federal workforce. The Washington Post reported over the weekend that the targeted positions (many of which are unfilled) include doctors, nurses, and support staff. A spokesperson for the VA, led by former Rep. Doug Collins (R-GA), described the jobs as ‘mostly Covid-era roles that are no longer necessary’. VA workers, veterans advocates, and a union representing hundreds of thousands of department employees disputed that characterization as the agency faces staff shortages across the country. ‘We are all doing the work of others to compensate,” one VA employee told the Post. ‘The idea that relief isn’t coming is really, really disappointing.'” (12/15/25)
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-cutting-va-jobs
Source: Macroeconomic Policy Nexus
by David Beckworth
“Why fiscal pressures may be keeping the Federal Reserve from finishing the last mile back to 2%.” (12/14/25)
https://macroeconomicpolicynexus.substack.com/p/is-3-inflation-the-new-2
Source: France 24 [French state media]
“The Louvre Museum closed its doors to thousands of disappointed visitors on Monday as staff launched a strike to protest working conditions at the Paris landmark, two months after a shocking robbery. Workers are demanding extra staff and measures to tackle overcrowding, adding to the woes of the world’s most visited museum just as France is gearing up for the Christmas holidays. The strike comes nearly two months after the museum was victim of an embarrassing daylight heist that saw crown jewels worth $102 million stolen.” (12/15/25)
https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20251215-louvre-museum-on-strike-after-jewel-heist-and-june-shutdown
Source: Free Talk Live
“NH State Rep Glenn Bailey put in new NH independence bill :: Fight evil AI superintelligence with AI superintelligence :: Charlie Kirk bullet made no sense :: How should we kill robot AI dogs? :: Trump’s ‘worst of the worst’ list of deported people shows very little actual criminals :: Cops have discretion but hardly use it :: Libertarian gift ideas :: Should you read or is listening to books okay? :: Warning caller from Louisiana to stay away from Gypsy Rose Blanchard :: Are UFOs just demons? :: Getting hooked on drugs because of the government :: Bonnie’s story of a possible visit from a demon :: 2025-12-14 Hosts: Bonnie, Angelo, Rich E Rich.” (12/14/25)
https://soundcloud.com/freetalklive/ftl2025-12-14
Source: exile in happy valley
“For decades now Democrats have used the specter of the redneck deplorable to scare Queer folk and people of color into voting for slightly more passive aggressive white supremacists like Joe Biden and Bill Clinton, but their caricature of rural monstrosity is only a fraction of the story at best. What most MSDNC shitlibs leave out of their grotesque portraits of rust belt, white trash, MAGA folk is the fact that most of these people were actually motivated to vote for Donald Trump largely as a reckless act of vengeance against the two-party system.” (12/14/25)
https://exileinhappyvalley.blogspot.com/2025/12/you-can-put-america-first-by-destroying.html
Source: SFGate
“Two former aides to President Donald Trump during the 2020 election are in a Wisconsin court for a preliminary hearing on felony forgery charges related to a fake elector scheme. The judge postponed a preliminary hearing for a third aide amid questions about what statements the man made to prosecutors could be admitted in court. The Wisconsin case is moving forward even as others in the battleground states of Michigan and Georgia have faltered. A special prosecutor last year dropped a federal case alleging Trump conspired to overturn the 2020 election. Another case in Nevada is still alive.” (12/15/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/politics/article/the-latest-former-trump-aides-set-to-appear-in-21243277.php
Source: Brownstone Institute
by David Bell
“The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) of the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) met recently to discuss, among other topics, the appropriateness of giving Hepatitis B vaccines to all babies in the United States on their first day of life. This practice has been in place for decades, and is in some ways a bit like frontal lobotomies – people just trusted that it was a good idea as otherwise, doctors would not have recommended it. And who wants to argue with health staff on the first day of their baby’s life?” (12/14/25)
https://brownstone.org/articles/everyone-lost-at-acip/
Source: In These Times
by Lindsay Eanet
“From their offices and living rooms, hundreds of volunteer archivists gather for a virtual ’hackathon’ session to download LGBTQ+ resources from websites controlled by state and federal governments and universities before the institutions completely scrub the materials. In light of the increasing hostility toward queer history, further spurred by President Donald Trump’s executive orders attacking diversity, equity and inclusion at the beginning of his second term, citizen archivists began holding these download parties to preserve the soon-to-be-deleted DEI information. These gatherings are organized by Invisible Histories, a community-based nonprofit focused on archiving queer history in the Deep South. Although the erasure of DEI content from institutional websites (for example, the National Park Service removing transgender people from its description of the Stonewall Uprising on its official website) is not a new challenge, the nonprofit has had to adopt a more rapid response in this moment.” (12/15/25)
https://inthesetimes.com/article/fighting-anti-queer-backlash-with-citizen-archivists
