Source: Brownstone Institute
by Josh Stylman
“Your kid can’t sit still, so the doctor writes a script before asking what he eats or how many hours he stares at a screen. He’s not broken. He’s a seven-year-old boy. Your buddy can’t get it up, so he reaches for the blue pill instead of putting down the beer and chips. Your sister-in-law wants the influencer body, so she injects herself into a thinner version of being sick. A different disease, dressed up as discipline. Can’t sleep? Ambien. Anxious? Xanax. Sad for more than a week? Antidepressant. It’s easy: a fifteen-minute appointment, prescription in hand before you’ve finished saying what’s wrong with you.” (08/18/26)
https://brownstone.org/articles/you-didnt-get-sick-you-got-enrolled/
Source: The Daily Economy
by Jon Miltimore
“There’s a senselessness to Europe’s attempt to manage wine supply and dictate prices that echoes the New Deal’s effort to alleviate poverty by destroying millions of pigs.” (08/18/26)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/what-slaughtered-pigs-can-teach-us-about-europes-wine-policy/
Source: SFGate
“A historic preservation group that sued to block construction of President Donald Trump’s White House ballroom urged the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday to suspend the project while it considers whether the work can continue. The National Trust for Historic Preservation filed its request less than a week after the Trump administration asked the nation’s highest court to allow the White House to continue construction on its $400 million ballroom project. Lawyers for the trust argued that ‘rather than obtain permission from Congress, petitioners have instead decided to try to outrun judicial review’. The building of the 90,000-square-foot (8,400-square-meter) ballroom has included demolishing the East Wing of the White House and is part of Trump’s plans to quickly remake Washington. The petition comes after a divided appeals court panel upheld an order to pause aboveground construction on the project. The ruling was suspended to let the administration appeal.” (08/18/26)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/preservation-group-urges-supreme-court-to-suspend-22393218.php
Source: Crooked Media
“Printer? I Hardly Know Her!” (08/18/26)
https://audioboom.com/posts/8942389-printer-i-hardly-know-her
Source: Libertarian Institute
by Jack Hunter
“Rep. Randy Fine (R-FL) posted the following on Twitter/X Thursday night: ‘It’s no longer Republicans vs. Democrats. It’s Americans who love this country vs. terrorists who want to destroy it.’ … Fine is a vocal Zionist who has repeatedly called for the total destruction of Gaza, has dehumanized Palestinians, has said all Muslims must be ‘destroyed,’ and dismissed the deaths of innocent non-combatants such as women and children. Which leads to the obvious question: Who is an actual ‘terrorist,’ here?” (08/18/26)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/randy-fine-terrorist-by-any-definition/
Source: Independent Institute
by Phillip W Magness & Edward J López
“Fauci has met his reckoning, but the cautionary tale will always be important.” (08/18/26)
https://www.independent.org/article/2026/08/17/the-fall-of-fauci/
Source: United Press International
“The prosecution rested Monday in the murder trial of Lindsay Clancy over the killings of her three children in Massachusetts. Clancy, 36, is accused of fatally strangling her children — 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson and 8-month-old Callan — at their home on Jan. 24, 2023. … The prosecution said Clancy committed the killings while her then-husband Patrick was out of the house. She then jumped out of the second-story window of the house and was paralyzed from the waist down. The defense does not dispute that Clancy killed her children but argues that she should not be held criminally responsible because she was suffering from bipolar disorder and postpartum psychosis.” (08/17/26)
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2026/08/17/prosecution-rests-lindsay-clancy-murder-trial/9621786993225/
Source: Pink Flame of Liberty
“The Case for Christian Nationalism Discussion: Christian Comfort Privilege (pt. 6).” (08/17/26)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDQay202WOc
Source: The Price of Liberty
by Nathan Barton
“Massachusetts is not alone among the 50 States in declaring that it is okay (with a doctor’s agreement) to kill. To kill an unborn, innocent child who is viable, able to be born (delivered) and live. Who presents no true threat to their mother, or at least her health. This is monstrous. This is evil. This is falsely labeled liberty when in reality it is the opposite: active, premeditated violent and fatal aggression against an innocent person. It is, actually, close to slavery. (If actually worse: we submit that killing someone is worse than just enslaving them.)” (08/17/26)
https://thepriceofliberty.org/2026/08/17/we-know-thee-not-the-limits-of-evil/
Source: New York Post
by Daniel McCarthy
“Don’t believe the Democratic National Committee’s official storyline: The DNC’s decision to make South Carolina the first Democratic presidential primary in 2028 isn’t about introducing more racial diversity into the early contests. It’s actually about keeping power in the hands of the party establishment — the people who backed Hillary Clinton in 2016 and Joe Biden in 2020, and who are likely to wind up supporting Kamala Harris in 2028. The fix is in. South Carolina was the establishment’s firewall against Bernie Sanders’[s] left-wing insurgency twice over. In 2016, Sanders nearly beat Hillary Clinton in the first caucus, in Iowa, and went on to defeat her in the New Hampshire primary. Four years later, there was a brief moment when Sanders looked like the frontrunner — until he got clobbered by Joe Biden in South Carolina.” (08/18/26)
https://nypost.com/2026/08/18/opinion/democrats-south-carolina-presidential-primary-scheme-is-a-last-ditch-effort-to-hold-off-dsa/
