Source: Roads Go Ever On
by Bekah Graham
“When I write or speak about the alarming things I see as an Exvangelical in an America where Christian nationalism is ascendant, I sometimes receive indignant replies. I’ll be asked if I actually mean what I said, or if I’m perhaps exaggerating. If I say something in earnest, I mean what I write. I was asked recently if I actually think there is a real movement to repeal the 19th Amendment. Yes. There is.” (02/24/26)
https://bekahgwen.substack.com/p/the-long-game-against-womens-suffrage
Source: New York Times
“Trump Weighs War With Iran.” (02/24/26)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMW1rxnZXq4
Source: BBC News [UK State Media]
“The director of the Louvre in Paris has resigned, months after the high-profile theft of France’s crown jewels from one of the world’s most visited museums. Laurence des Carrs submitted her resignation to President Emmanel Macron, who praised her decision at a time when museum needed ‘calm and a strong new impetus to successfully carry out major projects involving security, and modernisation’. On the morning of 19 October last year, thieves used a stolen vehicle-mounted mechanical lift to gain access to the museum from a balcony close to the River Seine. The four main suspects have been arrested, but the eight prized pieces of jewellery, worth an estimated 88m euros (£76m, $104m) have not been recovered.” (02/24/26)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce3gj7jjl7jo
Source: The Daily Economy
by Romina Boccia
“Within a decade, every dollar collected in revenue will be spent on health care, Social Security, and interest on existing debt.” (02/24/26)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/america-cant-tariff-its-way-out-of-this-debt-crisis/
Source: Law & Liberty
by Robert G Natelson
“Tax and expenditure limitations in state constitutions — known to cognoscenti as ‘TELs’ — vary in their scope. But if effective in curbing government fiscal powers, they are invariably controversial, and courts and legislatures regularly seek ways to undermine them. The average effective lifespan of most TELs is only five years. A particularly famous TEL is Colorado’s Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights (TABOR), inserted into the state constitution by popular vote in 1992. Despite dire warnings that TABOR would destroy the state — and continued charges that it is starving government — Colorado has prospered since it took effect.” (02/24/26)
https://lawliberty.org/constitutions-of-liberty/
Source: NBC News
“China has prohibited the export of dual-use items to 20 Japanese entities that it says supply Japan’s military, the commerce ministry said Tuesday, in the latest escalation of a dispute with Tokyo. China is using its influence over supply chains to ratchet up pressure on Tokyo even after Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, who angered Beijing with comments about Taiwan in November, won a sweeping mandate in a landslide election victory this month. The measures target units of major Japanese industrial conglomerates such as Mitsubishi Heavy Industries’ shipbuilding and aero engines divisions, the ministry said. The rules effectively cut companies off from the seven rare earths and associated materials currently on China’s dual-use control list, along with a swath of other controlled critical minerals.” (02/24/26)
https://www.nbcnews.com/world/asia/china-imposes-export-controls-20-japanese-entities-rcna260387
Source: The Dispatch
“What’s Next After Friday’s Tariff Decision?” (02/24/26)
https://thedispatch.com/podcast/advisoryopinions/whats-next-after-fridays-tariff-decision/
Source: Reason
by Damon Root
“The nondelegation doctrine says that Congress may delegate its legislative authority to the president only under certain limited circumstances. Those limits are there to enforce the constitutional separation of powers. Thomas would eliminate many of those limits. In his view, the nondelegation doctrine simply should not apply when a case involves what he characterizes as a non-core legislative power. What is a non-core legislative power? Thomas offered a few examples, including ‘the powers to raise and support armies’ and ‘to regulate foreign commerce.’ According to Thomas, because these powers originally descended from the kingly authority of the British crown, it is entirely proper for Congress to surrender them without limit to the executive branch. One problem with this argument is that it runs counter to the text of the Constitution.” (02/24/26)
https://reason.com/2026/02/24/in-tariffs-dissent-clarence-thomas-embraced-a-dangerous-theory-of-executive-power/
Source: New York Post
by staff
“In his State of the Union speech Tuesday, President Trump should boast of his triumphs this last year — and offer a frank and positive take on the work still ahead. The nation should see him as the happy warrior he deserves to be: cheerful, proud, upbeat. Trump began his second term full of optimism, promising ‘a golden age,’ reversing the misery and turmoil of the Biden years — and immediately started making good on his vows.” (02/24/26)
https://nypost.com/2026/02/23/opinion/trump-should-play-the-happy-warrior-at-his-state-of-the-union-speech-his-stellar-record-justifies-it/
Source: SFGate
“A Boise, Idaho woman has been charged with malicious destruction of federal property by fire after prosecutors said she stole an ambulance, drove it into a building that houses U.S. Department of Homeland Security offices and then poured accelerant inside the property. Sarah Elizabeth George, 43, was scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday afternoon in U.S. District Court in Boise. In court documents, FBI special agent Daniel Ramirez said a suspect believed to be George stole a Canyon County Paramedics ambulance from St. Luke’s Hospital Emergency Center in the Boise bedroom community of Meridian late on Feb. 18. Ramirez said the suspect then drove the ambulance to a nearby parking lot, loaded at least two gas jugs and a plastic bag into the vehicle and then drove the ambulance through the front doors of a nearby office building before getting out and pouring the contents of the jugs on the lobby floor.” (02/24/26)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/idaho-woman-charged-in-connection-with-stolen-21939031.php
