Cato Podcast, 08/25/26
Source: Cato Institute
“Heller’s Sequel Has a New Weapon.” (08/25/26)
https://www.cato.org/multimedia/cato-podcast/hellers-sequel-has-new-weapon
Executive Overreach at the Post Office: The Battle Over Mail-In Ballots
Source: Karl Dickey’s Freedom Vanguard
by Karl Dickey
“It appears the executive branch seeks to use the USPS, a government-protected federal monopoly, to circumvent judicial rulings and override constitutional federalism. The new USPS rule gives states 60 days before the November general election to notify USPS if they intend to submit a list of eligible voters based on citizenship data. Only then will USPS send mail-in or absentee ballots to the states’ respective residents. It is clear President Trump and his administration have zero respect for the U.S. Constitution. The Supreme Court is currently reviewing a lawsuit from a California-led coalition of states, and without a ruling in their favor, the USPS cannot enact these new rules for the November midterm elections. Using the USPS to implement the same restrictions through a regulatory backdoor undermines the separation of powers as well as the rule of law.” (08/25/26)
https://palmbeachexaminer.substack.com/p/executive-overreach-at-the-post-office
Rohingya refugees rally in Bangladesh camps to demand safe return to Myanmar
Source: SFGate
“Tens of thousands of Rohingya refugees from Myanmar living in dozens of camps in Bangladesh held a rally Tuesday to demand their safe return to their home state, nine years after they fled a government crackdown. The demonstrators urged the international community to ensure security in Rakhine state as they marked what they call the ‘Ninth Anniversary of Rohingya Genocide Day’. More than 1 million refugees from Myanmar’s Rohingya ethnic and religious minority now live in the sprawling camps around the Cox’s Bazar district of southeastern Bangladesh. Most of them fled across the border in a mass exodus in 2017 after Buddhist-majority Myanmar launched a crackdown in Rakhine, following an attack by a Rohingya Muslim insurgent group. The Bangladesh government earlier attempted to start the repatriation at least twice, but it did not work out as none of the refugees was willing to go back, citing security concerns. Bangladesh says it will not force anyone to return.” (08/25/26)
Advisory Opinions, 08/25/26
Source: The Dispatch
“Civility vs. Collegiality | Interview: Judges Tom Griffith and David Tatel.” (08/25/26)
Hasan Piker’s Charlie Kirk hatefest a new low, and Democrats descend along with him
Source: New York Post
by Daniel McCarthy
“Hasan Piker is deeply envious of Charlie Kirk. The hard-left influencer debated Kirk in 2017 and was set to do so again before Kirk was murdered last year. Yet now Piker is going around mocking Kirk’s assassination — leading a crowd last weekend, during his live podcast tour, in a sarcastic singalong of an AI-generated song called ‘We Are Charlie Kirk’: ‘We are Charlie Kirk, we carry the flame / We’ll fight for the Gospel, we’ll honor his name’, Piker sang off-key, the crowd howling along, while the celebrity socialist’s co-hosts guffawed and waved their arms in the air. This wasn’t satirizing a political opponent — Kirk has been dead nearly a year. It’s because Piker knows his audience, and they’re not looking for thoughtful politics: They want a hatefest.” (08/25/26)
An American Soldier in the Persian Gulf Sent Me a Picture. It Went Viral.
Source: Antiwar.com
by Trita Parsi
“One of the important characteristics of Israel and Donald Trump’s war on Iran was that it never had the support of the American people. When George Bush launched his illegal invasion of Iraq, support stood strong at 72%. As the war turned into a debacle, that support waned. By contrast, the Iran war had the support of only 27% of the American public at the outset. It took four years for support for the Iraq war to fall to the low levels of support the Iran war enjoyed from the beginning. But an untold story is the apparent opposition – though the exact numbers remain unknown—within the ranks of the US military. I am not talking about frustration, as evidenced by complaints about living standards on the USS Abraham Lincoln, but actual opposition.” (08/25/26)
NYC: Grocers sue over Mamdani’s communist grocery plan
Source: United Press International
“A group of grocers filed two lawsuits Monday over New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s plan to open five city-run grocery stores, saying it would harm neighborhood supermarkets. The Multicultural Business Coalition, an organization that says it represents owners of smaller stores, said in the filings that the city would violate business owners’ civil rights if the new stores open and that officials did not study how the planned stores would affect existing businesses. … The plan for city-owned grocery stores, which would sell some items at a 30% discount, was part of Mamdani’s platform as he ran for mayor. It calls for five stores, one in each borough of New York City, to open by 2029.” (08/24/26)
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2026/08/24/group-sues-over-NYC-grocery-plan/3061787598336/
The Kyle Anzalone Show, 08/24/26
Source: Libertarian Institute
“DESTROYING The Washington Post’s War Propaganda.” (08/24/26)
This YouTuber Got Kicked Out of the Flock Convention. So He Ran His Own Surveillance.
Source: Reason
by Matthew Petti
“The surveillance contractor Flock Safety argues that police customers don’t need a warrant to track drivers with its automated license plate reading cameras because drivers have ‘no reasonable expectation of privacy’ on public roads. So YouTube host Benn Jordan applied the same logic back on Flock. He sat outside Flock’s recent police convention in Atlanta with radio equipment and a drone, which he used to unmask attendees and even listen to microphones inside the convention hall. ‘Flock values their privacy. Oh well,’ Jordan wrote in the title of his video on the convention.” (08/24/26)
Were the Bombs of August 1945 “Demonic”
Source: American Greatness
by Victor Davis Hanson
“Every August, debate renews over both the wisdom and the morality of dropping the two American atomic bombs, 81 years ago, on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima (August 6, 1945) and Nagasaki (August 9, 1945). This August has been no exception. As ever, many critics have faulted the United States for the bombings: two gruesome blasts—aimed at dual-use military and industrial targets in both cities—that may have caused some 100,000–120,000 immediate deaths among combatants and civilians. And not all these critics are on the Left. Two years ago, podcaster Tucker Carlson blasted the Truman administration’s decision, alleging that the atomic bomb was not the result of decades of sophisticated nuclear physics research or the dividend of a two-billion-dollar Manhattan Project investment to rapidly develop an atomic weapon in a race to beat the Axis powers’ nuclear programs before they themselves developed such existential weapons.” (08/25/26)
https://amgreatness.com/2026/08/25/were-the-bombs-of-august-1945-demonic/