Source: I Blog to Differ
by David R Henderson

“We’re pro-choice, and if you help people make those choices, we’ll sue your ass.” (08/04/26)

https://davidrhenderson.substack.com/p/the-evil-that-governments-do

Source: New York Post
by Isaac Schorr

“If you’re surprised, you haven’t been paying attention. Abdul El-Sayed is a ‘Defund the Police’ socialist who has fantasized about putting an ‘ogre’ (fellow Democrat John Fetterman) on a pike, stumped alongside a 9/11 apologist and constructed an entire campaign around insidious Jew-baiting amid a raging epidemic of antisemitism. He is also the Democratic nominee for Senate in Michigan after narrowly dispatching establishment favorite Haley Stevens in Tuesday’s primary contest. El-Sayed’s triumph marks not the beginning of the end for the party’s old guard, but the final nail in its coffin. After all, the civil war was over before the (relative) moderates ever started fighting it in earnest.” (08/05/26)

https://nypost.com/2026/08/05/opinion/the-radicals-won-the-dem-civil-war-well-all-pay-the-price/

Show-Me Institute
by David Stokes

“Concerns about constant government surveillance are legitimate. Surveillance equipment such as this was used by police around the world to enforce authoritarian restrictions during COVID. We shouldn’t have to give up our personal liberty—and that liberty includes the right not to be tracked by the government without a warrant—under the guise of safety. Thankfully, people are starting to push back against Flock and similar police surveillance equipment. I don’t believe our state or our country should become a vast surveillance society (assuming we are not already there), even if it makes us ‘safer’ in some ways.” (08/04/26)

https://showmeinstitute.org/article/municipal-policy/update-on-flock-cameras-in-missouri/

Source: Cato Institute
by Alex Nowrasteh

“The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) published a new policy program and platform this summer called Workers Deserve More. A committee elected under the group’s 2025 convention rules drafted it, its National Political Committee approved it, and it now stands as the clearest statement of what America’s largest socialist organization wants. Below are the DSA program’s main arguments for socialism, my short responses to them, and links to some of the most relevant evidence.” (08/04/26)

https://www.cato.org/blog/ten-democratic-socialists-america-dsa-arguments-socialism-why-theyre-wrong

Source: The Dispatch
by Roger Pielke Jr.

“Luddite dynamics have been replayed in the context of almost every important technology of the last half-century: fracking, incandescent light bulbs, SUVs, childhood vaccines, water fluoridation, nuclear power, wind turbines, genetically modified crops—each became a proxy fight in which the combatants often let pro- or anti-technology symbolism crowd out consideration of risks and benefits. Data centers have now joined the list of contested technologies, and the fight follows a familiar script.” (08/04/26)

https://thedispatch.com/newsletter/dispatch-energy/data-center-bans-abundance-energy-demand/