Source: BBC News [UK state media]
“Rescue workers in Colombia are working against the clock to free survivors trapped in buildings and under rubble following Monday’s powerful earthquake. More than 180 people have been confirmed dead – most in the cities of Cali and Pereira. The magnitude 7.4 quake struck at 07:34 (12:34 GMT) on Monday and was felt across an enormous area, stretching for hundreds of miles across western Colombia – with fresh aftershocks still being felt on Tuesday. While the official death toll remains 181, an aggregated figure gathered from local officials puts it higher – potentially at more than 240. A state of emergency has been declared by President Abelardo de la Espriella.” (08/11/26)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c20dqd9qwq4o
Source: National Public Radio [US state media]
“How Trump’s focus on his legacy drives his decisions.” (08/10/26)
https://www.npr.org/2026/08/10/nx-s1-5925337/how-trumps-focus-on-his-legacy-drives-his-decisions
Source: Cobden Centre
by Tim Price
“A number of highly successful fund managers and investors have emphasised patience as one of the core virtues in investing, often linking it to long-term compounding, waiting for the right opportunities, and resisting short-term market noise, the siren song of ‘news, or the urge to overtrade.” (08/11/26)
https://www.cobdencentre.org/2026/08/the-biggest-virtue/
Source: United Press International
“A federal judge has approved the Trump administration’s request to dismiss criminal charges against Indian billionaire Gautam Adani while chastising the Justice Department for its reasoning and methods for abandoning the high-profile case. … The Justice Department charged Gautam Adani and the seven other defendants, all current or former executives of Adani Group or its subsidiary Adani Green Energy, in November 2024, alleging various defendants participated in schemes to pay $265 million in bribes to Indian government officials to secure lucrative solar energy contracts, lied to U.S. and international investors to raise billions of dollars in financing and impede the investigations of three U.S. government entities.” (08/11/26)
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2026/08/11/judge-dismisses-Gautam-Adani-charges/5531786425116/
Source: Antiwar.com
“Hegseth Pushes $1.5T Budget at Base Graham, Israel Wants Gaza ‘Destroyed for Generations,’ and More.” (08/10/26)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Frxaj_iTSHg
Source: Libertarian Institute
by Charles Goyette
“There is a lot of Richad Nixon rehabilitation going on these days. Before we get too far down that road, we should note that this month marks the fifty-fifth anniversary of one of the most pernicious acts of monetary destruction by modern presidents. On August 15, 1971, President Nixon announced a sweeping set of economic policies, his eerily Soviet-sounding ‘New Economic Policy.’ Today’s sympathy for the thirty-seventh president has something to do with a welcome recognition of the Deep State’s hand in his removal from office.” (08/10/26)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/rehabilitating-nixon-not-so-fast
Source: American Greatness
by Victor Davis Hanson
“What binds the new Democratic Party to the new Democratic Socialists is a set of shared issues and values. That is, the radicalism of the Democrats in the age of Trump Derangement Syndrome (lawfare, de-balloting, the Mar-a-Lago raid, and calls to destroy the Electoral College, the nine-justice Supreme Court, and the filibuster) helped give birth to the socialists. But the overriding commonality among those on the new Left is that if they do not get their way, they blame ‘the system’. Then they seek to change the rules, no matter how hallowed those laws and conventions may have been or how much they themselves benefited from them in the past. When the Left lost the White House, Congress, and, for the most part, the Supreme Court, it began clamoring to change the system.” (08/11/26)
https://amgreatness.com/2026/08/11/not-winning-just-change-the-rules/
Source: Fox News
“Little League Baseball is on fire even before the big days in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. Little League on Monday ruled that Tulsa National Little League’s 12U team had an ineligible player on the roster and booted it from the Southwest Region Tournament, the final stop before the Little League World Series. However, a Texas judge reinstated the team just hours later through a temporary restraining order, despite Little League saying its decision was ‘final and binding.’ … Little League initially ruled that Boerne Little League’s Monday game against Louisiana (Ascension Parish Little League) would be for the Southwest championship — Boerne won 4-1 and celebrated on the field, thinking it had just earned a trip to every child’s dream. However, it now must play one more game against a team with an ineligible player. Little League did not immediately respond to a request for comment.” (08/11/26)
https://www.foxnews.com/sports/barred-little-league-team-tulsa-reinstated-chance-play-world-series
Source: Libertarian Institute
“‘The Mad Dream of Conquest,’ Pt. III.” (08/10/26)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/dangerous-history-podcast/dhpep290
Source: Independent Institute
by Carl Schramm
“To most Americans, the momentous event ten years ago when Britain voted to leave the European Union seems a lesser curiosity when compared to, say, the fall of the Berlin Wall. Few Americans understand the real struggle to compose an economic union among Europe’s many nations that had for hundreds of years shown a distinct proclivity to war with each other. Twice, America had [sic] to enter global conflicts that were triggered by Germany’s belligerence toward its immediate neighbors.” (08/10/26)
https://www.independent.org/article/2026/08/10/brexit-discontents/
