Source: Exiled Policy
by Jason Pye
“Conservatives should oppose the SAVE America Act for the same reason many of us spent years opposing Democratic efforts to nationalize election administration: because elections in the United States are run by the states. That principle didn’t disappear just because Republicans are now the ones pushing the bill. If anything, this is exactly the kind of legislation conservatives used to warn about — federal mandates, national standards, and Washington inserting itself into decisions that have traditionally been made at the state and local level. For years, conservatives argued — correctly — that sweeping federal election laws undermine federalism, weaken local accountability, and create tools that will inevitably be abused by a future administration.” (02/10/26)
https://exiledpolicy.substack.com/p/the-so-called-save-america-act-is
Source: France 24 [French state media]
“Kosovo’s parliament elected Albin Kurti as prime minister on Wednesday, securing his third term and ending a year-long political stalemate. Kurti, who had served in a caretaker role, won 66 votes in the 120-seat assembly after his Vetevendosje party topped December’s snap election, prompting applause from supporters. … A general election a year ago had left Kurti without the majority needed to form a government – leading to months of parliamentary stasis. Deeply divided lawmakers eventually forced a December snap poll, which Kurti’s party won with over 51 per cent of the vote, securing 57 seats.” (02/11/26)
https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260212-kosovo-parliament-elects-albin-kurti-pm
Source: Adam Smith Institute
by Tim Worstall
“The more economic democracy we have then the more it is politics that determines who is allowed to do what. Access to that decision making process thus has a higher value, more cash is offered for it. More simply, the more politicians decide the more valuable paying politicians is. Humans do more of things that are more valuable — economic democracy thus means more political corruption. The method of beating this is to make bribing — sorry, paying cash for access to — politicians not worth the game. Less politics in economic decision making that is.” (02/11/26)
https://www.adamsmith.org/blog/its-easy-to-reduce-corruption-cut-government
Source: Newsday
“A Sri Lankan court on Wednesday sentenced 12 men to death for the killing of a lawmaker and his bodyguard in May 2022 during violence that erupted at the height of the island nation’s economic crisis. The Gampaha High Court convicted the men for unlawful assembly, assault and the deaths of Amarakeerthi Athukorale and his bodyguard, who was a police officer, said senior state counsel Oswald Perera. Athukorale, who was a ruling party lawmaker, and his guard were attacked and killed in Nittambuwa, about 30 kilometres (18.6 miles) north of the capital, Colombo, after the car they were travelling in was intercepted by a crowd. Police at the time said Athukorale or his bodyguard had fired gunshots at the protestors who later chased them and trapped them inside a building where their battered bodies were later recovered by police.” (02/11/26)
https://www.newsday.com/news/nation/sri-lanka-court-death-penalty-protests-f12690
