Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger

“According to an article in the New York Times, draft legislation is circulating in Congress that would authorize President Trump and his military to use deadly force against people deemed to be narco-terrorists who are violating U.S. drug laws, as well as against countries that have aided or harbored such people. Is it Trump seeking such authorization because he is nervous about the potential consequences of having recently ordered the killing of several people on the high seas near Venezuela who were suspected of violating U.S. drug laws? After all, if Trump was legally authorized to summarily kill those people, as he claims, why would it be necessary to get congressional authorization to do so?” (09/24/25)

https://www.fff.org/2025/09/24/is-trump-getting-nervous-about-his-drug-war-killings/

Source: New York Post
by Henry Olsen

“Common wisdom holds that Democrats are likely to retake the House in next year’s midterms. Perhaps — that’s what history would suggest. But a recent poll shows that Republicans retain relative strength on important core issues. CNN’s Harry Enten summarized those data well in a recent appearance: Looking at the Washington Post/IPSOS poll, Enten found that Republicans retained a lead over Democrats on which party voters trust more to handle the economy, crime and immigration. The numbers aren’t close, either.” (09/23/25)

https://nypost.com/2025/09/23/opinion/poll-shows-democrats-still-unpopular-with-voters-on-three-major-issues/

Source: Quillette
by George Case

“Political culture in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s murder on 10 September 2025 has followed a predictable pattern. There was the original sequence of discrete events (the shooting, the hunt for an assailant, the arrest of a suspect), followed by the volumes of public speculation, accusation, irreverence, and invective that crop up around them. Some of this arises spontaneously, but much of it is cultivated by platforms where outrage — about the news, about others’ offensive failure to be properly outraged by it, about the offensive outrage aimed at anyone who’s not outraged, and so on — is the main subject, and the main product.” (09/24/25)

https://quillette.com/2025/09/24/rage-is-now-the-machine-angertainment/

Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Connor Echols

“David Milstein, top adviser to Amb. Mike Huckabee, has stoked a culture of fear at the State Department, current and former officials say.” (09/24/25)

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/david-milstein-israel/