Source: The Daily Economy
by Walter Donway
“Can the Pentagon blacklist an American business for refusing to build killbots? The federal government demands tight controls for you, but wants unrestricted power for itself.” (03/05/26)
Source: David Friedman’s Substack
“A few years ago it was a popular slogan, mostly without details. As best I could tell, none of the people using it were familiar with real world examples of law enforcement without a police force, of which there are many. Here are some.” (03/05/26)
Source: Reason
by Damon Root
“Mary Moriarty, the attorney for Hennepin County, Minnesota, announced this week that her office will investigate alleged crimes committed by federal immigration enforcement agents, including alleged misconduct by Border Patrol commander Greg Bovino during the recent federal immigration crackdown in Minnesota. … In response, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) declared that ‘what these States are trying to do is unlawful and they know it.’ According to the DHS statement, ‘federal officials acting in the course of their duties are immune from liability under state law.’ But Moriarty’s investigation actually stands on much stronger legal grounds than the DHS statement might lead you to think.” (03/05/26)
https://reason.com/2026/03/05/yes-states-may-prosecute-ice-agents-for-misconduct/
Source: United Press International
“The Israeli Army on Thursday ordered a mass evacuation of Beirut’s southern suburbs — a main stronghold of Iran-backed Hezbollah — in an unprecedented warning ahead of massive strikes, causing widespread panic among fleeing residents and heavy traffic jams in the capital. Army Arabic spokesman Lt. Col. Avichay Adraee issued the warning for entire densely populated neighborhoods in the southern suburbs — citing Bourj al-Barajneh, Hadath, Haret Hreik and Chiyah — and calling on their residents to immediately leave their homes ahead of potential strikes to save their lives. … Israeli English-language websites quoted Israeli defense officials as saying that the warning precedes what is expected to be a large-scale strike in the area, describing the planned operation as one of the most dramatic developments so far in the fighting along the northern front.” (03/05/26)
Source: The Political Orphanage
“Undeclared Wars.” (03/05/26)
Source: Law & Liberty
by Jeffery Degner & Julia R Cartwright
“Falling birth rates have governments worldwide in a state of panic. From Brussels to Tokyo to Beijing, policymakers are scrambling to reverse fertility decline, yet expensive pro-natal programs in countries such as South Korea and Hungary have delivered little results. To be clear, serious analysts do not claim that population decline mechanically produces economic collapse. But demographic aging does create real fiscal, labor-market, and growth headwinds. The more productive question is not whether demography matters, but which policy frameworks allow societies to adapt successfully to it.” (03/05/26)
Source: Town Hall
by Victor Davis Hanson
“War is the use of arms to settle differences – tribal, political, religious, cultural, and material – between organized groups. It is unchanging. The general laws of armed conflict stays immutable, given the constancy of human nature. However, the manner in which war is conducted remains fluid. New weapons, tactics, and strategies elicit counterresponses in an endless cycle of tensions between defensive and offensive superiority. That said, has President Donald Trump introduced a novel way of waging Western war against America’s foreign enemies? We saw glimpses of it during his first term, when he eliminated Iranian general and terrorist kingpin Qassem Soleimani and ISIS terrorist grandee Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. In the former case, he preferred hitting the cause rather than the effects of Iranian terrorism in Syria and Iraq, while making it clear that he had no intention of striking the Iranian mainland and entering into a tit-for-tat ‘forever war’.” (03/04/26)
https://townhall.com/columnists/victordavishanson/2026/03/05/trumps-way-of-war-n2672353
Source: BBC News [UK State Media]
“Millions of Nepalis have voted in the country’s first general election since violent youth-led protests toppled the government last September. Corruption, economic stagnation and inequality were the main issues in the vote. They sparked the uprising in which 77 people died, many of them protesters shot by police. The election represents a crossroads for Nepal, pitting the establishment against a new generation of politicians advocating for angry, young Gen Z voters hungry for change. Counting the votes cast for the Nepalese parliament’s 275 seats is expected to take several days, and results are not expected before next week. Nepal’s mountainous terrain makes it slow and difficult to transport ballots, which are tallied by hand.” (03/05/26)
Source: Politics Politics Politics
“Kristi Noem OUT at DHS. The Science of Second Chances in Criminal Justice (with Jennifer Doleac).” (03/05/26)
https://www.politicspoliticspolitics.com/p/kristi-noem-out-at-dhs-the-science
Source: The Dispatch
“Can Marijuana Users Be Barred from Owning Guns?” (03/05/26)
https://thedispatch.com/podcast/advisoryopinions/can-marijuana-users-be-barred-from-owning-guns/