Source: Law & Liberty
by Juliana Geran Pilon

“It takes a lawyer’s disciplined detachment, ability to focus on the most relevant facts of a case, commitment to law, and linguistic accuracy in order to produce a book as competent and useful as Israel on Trial: Examining the History, the Evidence, and the Law. But besides the ideal professional training, Yale-educated US district judge for the Southern District of Florida and former federal prosecutor Roy Altman has the equally essential capacity to appreciate the moral significance of his topic at this moment in history.” (05/11/26)

https://lawliberty.org/book-review/whos-on-trial/

Source: exile in happy valley
by Nicky Reid

“The general consensus among both Dempublicans and Republicrats alike is that everybody needs to tone down the dialogue. That, and ‘such acts of political violence have no place in civil society!’ I might be tempted to agree with them if we lived in something resembling a civil society and I’m not talking about the rhetoric. As bombastic as these gasbags in the political class have become in a desperate attempt to improve ratings on that failed reality show they call a government, young folks aren’t popping off politicos because of what other politicos said. … The reality is that we live in a violent country and we always have. For the political class to expect to be immune from this harsh reality is absurd, especially when you consider how goddamn violent they are.” (05/10/26)

https://exileinhappyvalley.blogspot.com/2026/05/what-makes-man-shoot-serial-killers-on.html

Source: New York Post
by Miranda Devine

“A young liberal woman refused to cooperate with prosecutors after violent recidivist Rhamell Burke attacked her on the subway five weeks before he allegedly pushed a retired NYC teacher to his death on Thursday. Now the 23-year-old woman has regrets. ‘Maybe a part of me was just like, I don’t want to put another black man in jail,’ she told The Post. Maybe if she had indulged in less self-congratulatory empathy for the maniac who allegedly tried to kill her and felt more compassion for her fellow New Yorkers left to the mercy of an out-of-control predator roaming the streets, Ross Falzone would still be alive. But Falzone, 76, was unlucky enough to be entering the Chelsea subway station Thursday afternoon when Burke allegedly randomly shoved him down a flight of stairs, leaving the beloved ex-teacher to die hours later at Bellevue Hospital from a catastrophic brain injury.” (05/10/26)

https://nypost.com/2026/05/10/opinion/miranda-devine-the-left-is-weaponizing-womens-misplaced-empathy-and-it-threatens-all-of-us/

Source: Liberal Currents
by Dennis Lytton

“We can change the structure of elections in America to make them more free, more democratic, and more fair to every voter. Here’s how.” (05/11/26)

https://www.liberalcurrents.com/proportional-representation-would-fix-that/

Source: The Jolly Libertarian
by Marco den Ouden

“In Walter Donway’s new book, A Serious Chat With Artificial Intelligence, the AI in question was Open AI’s ChatGPT. In one of his blog posts, Curtis Yarvin bragged about how he changed the mind of Anthropic’s AI Claude on his techno-authoritarian philosophy, turning it (Claude) into a believer. In my own dealings with AI I have been using Microsoft’s CoPilot. And another major player in the market is Google’s Gemini. What do all of these powerful artificial intelligences have in common and how do they differ?” (05/10/26)

https://jollylibertarian.blogspot.com/2026/05/comparative-ai-exploring-nuanced.html

Source: The Daily Economy
by Jason Sorens

“A few cooling markets have sparked claims that housing reform is no longer necessary. Post-COVID adjustments shouldn’t distract us from the long-term problem.” (05/11/26)

https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/claims-of-housing-oversupply-are-misleading/