Source: The Price of Liberty
by Nathan Barton

“[A]lthough republics are limited in power and have other features far superior to democracies, they are still mandatory human government, and only marginally better than unbridled democracy. As TPOL has recently stated, we need no kings, no presidents, no chairmen, no prime ministers. And we do not need people who claim that The People or a majority or a plurality of people can have the power of a king or prime minister or any other ‘ruler.’ As Mama Liberty pointed out, we have a hard time governing our individual selves, let alone other people. And as TPOL also points out, the intelligence of a committee (or any significant group of people) is calculated by taking the IQ of the smartest person in the group and dividing it by the total number of persons (or feet, or fingers) in the group.” (10/24/25)

https://thepriceofliberty.org/2025/10/24/republics-democracies-and-the-dangers-of-all-human-government/

Source: David Friedman’s Substack
by David Friedman

“Red Tribe drives a pickup truck, SUV or sports car, Blue Tribe drives an EV or at least a hybrid, probably a Prius. A cybertruck, both EV and pickup truck, codes Red. Red Tribe owns guns. Blue Tribe doesn’t own guns, thinks that people who do are being stupid. Blue Tribe owns sailboats, Red Tribe power boats. … Blue Tribe believe that they are moral relativists, take seriously the ‘you shouldn’t stop the Eskimo from putting his grandfather on an ice floe to die because in his moral system that is not wicked’ argument. Like almost all humans they are actually moral realists, take it for granted that their moral beliefs are true, including the belief that you shouldn’t …. Red Tribe are also moral realists but it never occurs to them that they shouldn’t be.” (10/24/25)

https://daviddfriedman.substack.com/p/tribal-markers

Source: The American Prospect
by Robert Kuttner

“The Consumer Price Index for September increased at an annual rate of 3.0 percent, the Labor Department reported this morning. This was an increase from 2.9 percent in August, 2.7 percent in July, and around 2.3 percent this past spring, before Trump’s perverse policies began to bite. Inflation of 3 percent doesn’t seem too bad, but it conceals a great deal of softness in the economy. That weakness will be sufficiently worrisome for the Fed to likely proceed with its planned quarter-point rate cut when the Federal Open Market Committee meets next week. But after that, both inflation and unemployment are likely to worsen, leaving the Fed with no good options. On the inflation front, Trump’s on-again, off-again tariffs have yet to fully bite, but their impact is likely to increase over time.” (10/24/25)

https://prospect.org/2025/10/24/trumps-faltering-economy/

Source: Property and Environment Research Center
by Whitney Tilt

“A report on the critical concerns affecting our tourism related economy’s ability to operate successfully and sustainably into the future.” (10/24/25)

https://www.perc.org/2025/10/24/wild-livelihoods-sustaining-paradise/

Source: Antiwar.com
by Andrew P Napolitano

“President Donald Trump’s use of the U.S. military to kill persons on speed boats in international waters, or in territorial waters claimed by other sovereign nations – all 1,500 miles from the U.S. – has posed grave issues of due process. The Constitution’s guarantee of due process requires it for every person, not just Americans. … The Trump administration has claimed that it can kill whomever it designates as an unlawful enemy combatant … and the due process it provides is the intelligence gathered by American spies and the White House analysis of that intelligence. This secret analysis, the government’s argument goes, satisfies the president that the folks he has ordered killed are engaging in serious and harmful criminal behavior, and somehow is a lawful and constitutional substitute for the jury trial and its attendant procedural protections that the Constitution commands.” (10/24/25)

https://original.antiwar.com/andrew-p-napolitano/2025/10/23/a-trumpian-headache/