Source: Reason
by Jacob Sullum

“Back in January 2023, Aimen Halim bought an order of ‘boneless wings’ at a Buffalo Wild Wings outlet in Mount Prospect, Illinois. At the time, he claims, he assumed the product was composed of deboned chicken wing meat. But to his horror, he discovered that it was in fact made from chicken breast meat. That revelation resulted in a federal lawsuit: Halim sued the restaurant chain two months later, alleging breach of express warranty, common law fraud, and unjust enrichment. When U.S. District Judge John J. Tharp Jr. dismissed that lawsuit in February 2026, he did not question Halim’s claim of confusion about the nature of boneless wings. But even if Halim honestly thought he was getting a deboned version of Buffalo Wild Wings’ ‘traditional’ wings, Tharp said, ‘his complaint has no meat on its bones,’ because ‘Halim does not plausibly allege that reasonable consumers are deceived by boneless wings.'” (05/11/26)

https://reason.com/2026/05/12/are-boneless-wings-fraudulent/

Source: New York Post
by Daniel McCarthy

“Virginia Democrats are doing an unwitting service to the whole country, by revealing just how hostile their party is to the most essential checks and balances. Democrats violated the state’s constitution by pushing through a referendum to take four House seats away from Republicans. But when Virginia’s Supreme Court threw out the illegal map, Democrats didn’t back down: They started thinking of ways to get rid of every justice on the court, so they could pack it with new ones expressly picked to return a verdict more favorable to the party. If the Democrat-controlled Virginia legislature could drop the existing mandatory judicial retirement age from the current 73 all the way down to 54, every justice on the bench could be removed and replaced by compliant partisans.” (05/12/26)

https://nypost.com/2026/05/12/opinion/virginia-gerrymander-rage-exposes-democrats-undemocratic-intent/

Source: Exiled Policy
by Jason Pye

“Even as Trump’s job approval rating falls, Republicans and MAGA supporters aren’t running away.” (05/11/26)

https://exiledpolicy.substack.com/p/are-republicans-bolting-from-trump

Source: Liberal Currents
by Toby Buckle

“Understand politics with this one weird trick: just tell the truth about the far right.” (05/11/26)

https://www.liberalcurrents.com/respecting-reform-voters-means-telling-them-theyre-wrong-and-immoral/

Source: Gideon’s Substack
by Noah Millman

“Or are we going to rage against the dying of the light?” (05/11/26)

https://gideons.substack.com/p/can-we-learn-to-stop-worrying-and

Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Keli‘i Akina

“A new report from economists at the University of Hawai‘i makes a point that many of us have known all along: If we want to end the housing crisis, we need to build more homes. That’s because each new unit creates a chain of housing openings. A family that moves into a new house leaves behind an older one that is slightly less expensive, which another family moves into, freeing up another home at a lower price point, and so on. This is often referred to as a ‘filtering effect,’ and it’s not just an optimistic theory—research has revealed it to be true.” (05/11/26)

https://fee.org/articles/more-houses-more-choices/

Source: Law & Liberty
by Peter Campbell

“As we enter another Cold War, we should prepare ourselves for the progressive critics who eagerly allege hypocrisy when democratic powers support non-democracies. In the Free World’s first struggle against a global communist power, the Soviet Union, American statesmen often made the prudential decision to support authoritarian leaders whose interests aligned with America’s. As American statecraft navigates the sequel to that struggle, Hamid’s [book The Case for American Power] is the first of likely many more to critique an American foreign policy that does not have a default preference for democracy.” (05/11/26)

https://lawliberty.org/book-review/an-excess-of-democrophilia/