Source: The Scott Horton Show
“Charles Goyette returns to the show to talk about the terrible, unsustainable and outright destructive economic situation the US government has gotten us in and the many ways the Trump administration is making everything even worse.” (09/22/26)
Source: Cobden Centre
by Michael Matulef
“Open the financial pages and a strange creature stares back at you. The S&P 500 has climbed over 90 percent in three years. The top 10 percent of earners now account for nearly half of all consumer spending. Moody’s, Morgan Stanley, and the New York Fed agree on the shape of the thing: the economy has split in two. Asset-holders ride the upper arm of the ‘K’ upward while wage earners slide down the lower one, watching groceries, rent, and insurance devour paychecks that no longer stretch. The commentators have responded the way they respond to everything: with a label. Call it ‘K-shaped’ often enough in the news and the naming starts to feel like an explanation. It is not. … The label tells us what is happening. It tells us nothing about why.” (09/22/26)
https://www.cobdencentre.org/2026/09/the-k-shaped-economy-is-not-in-your-imagination/
Source: The American Conservative
“Andrew Day and Luke Nicastro talk to regular contributor Eldar Mamedov about his conversations with Iranian officials, the Saudi-Houthi war, and why Europe is on the diplomatic sidelines.” (09/22/26)
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger
“It’s tempting to convince oneself that America’s system of immigration controls adversely affects only foreigners. Not so. It also destroys the rights and freedoms of the American people, including economic liberty, freedom of association, liberty of contract, privacy, and private ownership of property. Moreover, at the risk of belaboring the obvious, a brutal nationwide police state, including massive surveillance, is the opposite of a free society.” (09/22/26)
https://www.fff.org/2026/09/22/immigration-controls-destroy-american-liberty-and-privacy/
Source: Christian Science Monitor
by staff
“The United States, Denmark, and the semiautonomous Danish territory of Greenland are poised to sign a new deal on the Arctic island’s future. In an announcement on Friday, President Donald Trump lauded the step as ‘a dream come true for the United States of America’. The response from other leaders has been low-key, but positive, with an apparent consensus that it’s time to move on from the instability caused by U.S. threats of a forcible takeover of Greenland. In addition, this development shows that behind-the-scenes diplomacy can still be effective, even in an atmosphere of decreasing trust among allies. ‘A win for quiet professionalism’ that has also made the Arctic ‘a safer place for America and its allies’, is how The Economist describes this news.” (09/21/26)
Source: United Press International
“The lawyer for Lindsay Clancy, who was charged in the deaths of her three children, has asked the judge in the case to investigate the holdout juror, Michael P. Desronvil, who refused to acquit Clancy, which led to a mistrial. The lawyer, Kevin Reddington, submitted the request Friday to Judge William Sullivan to get the juror’s mobile phone metadata from when he was deliberating the case. It also requests the court preserve the original questionnaires, jury notes and the court’s responses. … Also on Monday, Reddington and co-counsel Martin Weinberg filed a motion to dismiss the case against Clancy on double jeopardy grounds. They argued that the circumstances of the trial prevent the prosecution from trying her again.” (09/22/26)
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2026/09/22/lindsay-clancy-holdout-juror-motion/7401790087713/
Source: Ron Paul Liberty Report
“Dark Clouds Hover Over Republican November Senate Hopes.” (09/22/26)
Source: BBC News [UK state media]
“The developing El Niño climate phenomenon is now the strongest on record, according to scientists monitoring Pacific Ocean temperatures. Daily sea surface temperatures in a key region of the central-eastern Pacific were 3.05C above average on 19 September – exceeding the previous record of 3.02C set during the very strong El Niño of 2015. Some longer-term measures of El Niño have not yet hit record levels but this is likely to change, with the peak not expected until later this year. El Niño can cause major shifts in weather patterns around the world, with the Met Office saying many of the expected impacts are already being felt.” (09/22/26)
Source: Responsible Statecraft
“Our hosts try to understand why Artificial Intel CEOs are so eager to push the ‘end of humanity’ narrative.” (09/22/26)
Source: Bet On It
by Bryan Caplan
“The Median Voter Model says that democratic competition impels politicians to offer whatever policies maximally satisfy the median voter. Actual democracies have never met its highly restrictive assumptions: There is more than one election, fought over more than one issue, and in any case, nothing forces politicians to fulfill their campaign promises. Yet for decades, this Median Voter Model has been extremely useful — much more useful than these restrictive assumptions would have you believe. … But U.S. politics has grown so weird during the last decade that I suspect a revision to the Median Voter Model is in order. I dub this the Neo-Median Voter Model. It works roughly like this …” (09/22/26)