Source: Town Hall
by Mark Lewis
“Those of us who consider ourselves ‘normal’ human beings (believers in traditional, reasonable modes of human conduct — i.e., family, hard work, protection of property, concern for the well-being of others, decency, human dignity) we who hold to these traditional principles have become utterly appalled at what we have come to witness in about half of America today. We call the above ‘normal,’ but they aren’t ‘normal’ to many Americans anymore and ‘normality’ is no longer subject to any majority agreement in the country. For example, J. B. Pritzker and Brandon Johnson are extremely upset that President Trump wants to try to end the horrendous crime in Chicago. … How in the world could any decent human be opposed to stopping this barbarism?” (09/24/25)
https://townhall.com/columnists/marklewis/2025/09/24/pritzker-and-johnson-the-new-normal-n2663864
Source: Fox News
“More than 115,000 Ford trucks are being recalled because drivers could lose control of steering, according to U.S. auto safety regulators. A defect impacting certain F-250, F-350 and F-450 vehicles, from model years 2020 through 2021, can cause the steering column’s upper shaft to detach, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. In total, 115,539 vehicles are impacted by this recall. This means the driver could lose steering control of the vehicle, the auto safety regulator said. The recall notice, posted by regulators on Wednesday, said Ford dealers will inspect and repair or replace the faulty component free of charge. Letters notifying owners of the safety risk are expected to be mailed on Oct. 6. However, additional letters will be sent once the final remedy is available, which is expected to be in December 2025.” (09/24/25)
https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/ford-recalls-over-115k-trucks-due-defect-could-lead-loss-steering-control
Source: Hoover Institution
“Kimmel, the FCC, and the Government’s Power Over Broadcast Speech | Eugene Volokh and Jane Bambauer.” (09/23/25)
https://free-speech-unmuted.podbean.com/e/kimmel-the-fcc-and-the-governments-power-over-broadcast-speech-eugene-volokh-and-jane-bambauer-hoover-institution/
Source: The Findings Substack
by Paul Rosenberg
“Since roughly 2005 nearly the whole of human knowledge has been available almost anywhere, any time, at a negligible cost, and yet almost nothing has changed. And so conventional wisdom regarding knowledge and ignorance, beliefs that dominated the 20th century, have been exposed as incorrect. To be clear, I should explain that the conventional wisdom I refer to is the assumption that problems are caused by ignorance, that more knowledge in more brains will fix them and that smart and educated people almost necessarily behave better.” (09/23/25)
https://thefindings.substack.com/p/knowledge-and-ignorance-in-the-21st
Source: Al Jazeera [Qatari state media]
“A US man has been found guilty of the attempted assassination of President Donald Trump last September near Trump’s Florida golf course, United States Attorney General Pam Bondi said on social media. A jury found that Ryan Routh, 59, intended to kill Trump, then a former president and Republican presidential candidate, when he pointed a rifle through a fence while Trump was golfing at the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach. … Routh appeared to try to stab himself with a pen several times after the verdict was revealed in court, and had to be restrained by US marshals, according to US media reports.” (09/23/25)
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/23/ryan-routh-found-guilty-of-attempting-to-assassinate-trump-in-florida
Source: Underthrow
“How (Not) to Shrink the State with Matt Zwolinski.” (09/23/25)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_Gp4TzmcNg
Source: The Peaceful Revolutionist
by David S D’Amato
“Respect theories of exploitation claim that it is fundamentally about the failure to ‘treat exploitees with equal concern and respect.’ [Nicholas] Vrousalis says that the paradigm here, in addition to the feudal lord and the monopolist, is the rentier class and Piketty’s ‘‘patrimonial capitalist’ who gains from background unfairness.’ Such respect-based theories, as restated by Vrousalis, involve the Kantian worry about treating other people as mere means to your own ends, typically through the use of coercive force or some other kind of fundamental relational unfairness. It’s important to point out that while, for Vrousalis, respect theories don’t neatly reduce exploitation to force or coercion, this does not mean that they necessarily exclude these factors.” (09/23/25)
https://dsdamato.substack.com/p/what-is-the-relationship-between
Source: SFGate
“Officials are investigating the death this week of a 39-year-old Mexican man who was in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody in Southern California. Ismael Ayala-Uribe was transferred Sunday from the Adelanto ICE Processing Center to a regional hospital for surgery on an abscess on his buttock, according to an ICE statement. Hospital staff found him unresponsive and ‘initiated lifesaving measures’ but he was declared dead around 2:30 a.m. Monday, the statement said. The cause of death is under investigation. In addition to the abscess, Ayala-Uribe suffered from hypertension and tachycardia, an abnormally fast heart rate, according to ICE. Federal records show that more than a dozen people have died in immigration detention since January, when immigration officials began to implement President Donald Trump’s mass deportation agenda.” (09/24/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/officials-investigate-death-of-mexican-man-in-ice-21065393.php
Source: bloggingheads.tv
“Israel, Gaza, and Free Speech in America | Robert Wright & Glenn Loury.” (09/23/25)
https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/69023
Source: The UnPopulist
by Jonathan Rauch
“Liberalism’s real failure is that it assumes far too sunny a view of human nature, three recent books suggest.” (09/23/25)
https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/why-is-the-american-experiment-in
