Source: Popular Information
by Judd Legum
“In March 1968, during the Vietnam War, members of the military killed hundreds of civilians in an incident known as the My Lai massacre. In a subsequent court-martial, Lt. William Calley argued that he was simply following orders from superior officers. Calley was convicted, and the U.S. Court of Military Appeals found that conformity with an illegal order is not a valid legal defense. Therefore, any members of the military who help destroy power plants or assist Trump in killing the entire Iranian civilization could be liable for war crimes.” (04/08/26)
https://popular.info/p/just-following-orders-is-not-a-defense
Source: Cato Institute
by Johan Norberg
“A 16-year experiment has yielded none of Viktor Orban’s stated goals.” (04/08/26)
https://www.cato.org/commentary/hungary-laboratory-illiberal-nationalism-results-are
Source: Bluegrass Institute
by Caleb O Brown
“A court ordering the legislature to dismiss a duly passed impeachment resolution is not the judiciary defending co-equality. It is the judiciary subordinating a co-equal branch.” (04/08/26)
https://www.bluegrassinstitute.org/supreme-court-senators-oaths-of-office/
Source: Washington Post
“Biggest TACO yet? Trump backtracks from ‘Living Hell’ threat.” (04/08/26)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/podcasts/make-it-make-sense/biggest-taco-yet-trump-backtracks-from-living-hell-threat/
Source: Sex and the State
by Cathy Reisenwitz
“Unlike most pride-having, mentally well individuals, I wrote about my anxieties around taking a service-sector job. (Security clearances are a big thing in Huntsville. Recently my dad joked to me that I have at least one qualification: ‘You’re impossible to blackmail!’ he laughed. This is not a challenge.) Among other things, I worried a shit job would somehow preclude me from office work. I imagined a hiring manager smelling the stench of low-skill labor on me before I even walked in.” (04/08/26)
https://cathyreisenwitz.substack.com/p/live-mop
Source: Mother Jones
by Kiera Butler
“Once allies opposing abortion, gay marriage, and supporting Trump, the war broke them.” (04/08/26)
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/04/trumps-iran-war-is-tearing-apart-his-catholic-evangelical-coalition/
Source: United Press International
“North Korea fired short-range ballistic missiles on two separate occasions Wednesday, Seoul’s military said, marking three launches over two days after South Korean President Lee Jae Myung expressed regret over a drone incursion. At 8:50 a.m. Wednesday, the North launched several short-range ballistic missiles from its coastal Wonsan area toward the East Sea, Seoul’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a text message to reporters. The missiles flew approximately 150 miles, the JCS said …. North Korea later fired a single short-range ballistic missile from Wonsan toward the East Sea at 2:20 p.m. Wednesday, the JCS said in a separate message. The missile flew approximately 435 miles.” (04/08/26)
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2026/04/08/North-Korea-missile-launch-short-range-ballistic-East-Sea/3841775616289/
Source: The Hill
“Robby Soave gives his radar on the U.S. and Iran agreeing to a ceasefire after President Trump threatened that ‘a whole civilization will die’ if a deal was not reached.” (04/08/26)
https://thehill.com/hilltv/5814546-rising-april-8-2026/
Source: Bet On It
by Bryan Caplan
“Today I turn 55. While my kids love to mock my age, the truth is that I feel young. Real young. Every day, my top priority is not fulfilling my duties or conforming to social expectations, but having fun. Biologists have an adjective for my state of being: neoteny. We neotenous creatures retain our juvenile traits long into adulthood.” (04/08/26)
https://www.betonit.ai/p/reflections-of-a-neotenous-man
Source: Fox News
by David Marcus
“When President Donald Trump [pretended he had] changed the name of the Department of Defense to the Department of War last year, many saw it as merely a branding exercise, but as the fierceness of Operation Epic Fury in Iran has shown us, it was much, much more than that. On Easter Sunday, our military pulled off a daring rescue of a downed airman behind enemy lines, and what it made clear, once again, is that Trump’s Department of [Defense] is run by soldiers, not by experts, and the results are phenomenal. As Secretary of [Defense] and former frontline veteran Pete Hegseth has put it many times, his Pentagon will focus on ‘maximum lethality, not tepid legality.'” [editor’s note: If Hegseth is Secretary of War and heads a Department of War, he and it need to return all the money Congress appropriated to the Department of Defense – TLK] (04/07/26)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/david-marcus-trumps-department-war-soldiers-experts-calling-shots
