Source: Independent Institute
by Scott Beyer

“Land expansionism helped make America great. A look into the pros and cons of President Trump’s attempt at Greenland.” (01/30/26)

https://www.independent.org/article/2026/01/30/should-the-united-states-purchase-greenland/

Source: The Dispatch
by Jonah Goldberg

“When right is left and left is right.” (01/30/26)

https://thedispatch.com/newsletter/gfile/political-labels-populism/

Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob

“The world’s richest man predicted that humanoid robots will soon become pervasive: ‘there will be more robots than people.’ I’m not much of a science fiction reader — does Nineteen Eighty-Four count? — but from movies and friends’ book suggestions, it sure seems that sci-fi writers have not predicted universally cheerful outcomes from Elon’s prophesied robot population explosion.” (01/30/16)

https://thisiscommonsense.org/2026/01/30/the-next-population-explosion/

Source: Independent Institute
by Christopher J Calton

“It is that time of year when the United States counts its homeless population. Every January, local governments conduct a point-in-time (PIT) count, which provides a snapshot of the homeless population on a given day. Since 2007, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has published this data to track changes in the homelessness population at the national level. The PIT count is useful. Because data is collected annually using a standard method, we can compare the effects of competing policies across time and place. Critics often complain that the PIT fails to capture everybody who briefly experiences homelessness throughout the year, but this does not undermine the data’s analytical value as long as the counts take place under uniform conditions. For the most part, this is the case.” (01/30/26)

https://www.independent.org/article/2026/01/30/homeless-count-pit/

Source: Fox News
by David Marcus

“Whether Don Lemon broke federal law in his role in an attack on a Minnesota church will be up to a jury, but we can already say he deserves the max for his crime against journalism. At issue, both in the criminal case and the one in the court of journalistic ethics: Was the former CNN anchor present at the disruption of the church service in St. Paul to document the event or was he participating in it? It was quite clearly the latter. In the moments prior to the harebrained ‘protest’ in the house of worship that left children in tears, Lemon can be seen outside, on video he took himself, telling his viewers the ‘operation is a secret,’ adding, ‘I can’t tell you what’s going to happen, but you’re going to watch it live.'” [editor’s note: Is a journalist embedded with a military unit betraying his profession if he doesn’t broadcast classified attack plans in advance? – TLK} (01/31/25)

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/david-marcus-don-lemons-other-unforgivable-crime-against-his-old-profession