Source: Rutherford Institute
by John & Nisha Whitehead
“What began publicly as Donald Trump’s lavish, taxpayer-funded vision of a gilded White House ballroom is now being justified by the administration—in and out of court—as a matter of national security. To President Trump, it seems, a ballroom by any other name is a bunker. … hundreds of workers have been laboring around the clock, 20 hours a day, seven days a week, to push the project forward as quickly as possible. The message seems clear: get far enough along, fast enough, and it becomes that much harder for Congress, the courts or some future administration to undo what has already been built. There is a lesson in that, and it speaks to much more than a ballroom or a bunker.” (08/26/26)
https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/the_bunker_state_the_government_will_survive_but_will_the_constitution
Source: Independent Institute
by Alvaro Vargas Llosa
“Gianni Infantino, the president of FIFA, soccer’s worldwide governing body, is a good example of what happens when one person concentrates too much power. Don’t get me wrong. He can rightly boast some important achievements, both financially (for instance, the recent World Cup produced a record-breaking $12 billion (roughly) in revenue for FIFA) and in terms of finishing the job of breaking Europe’s stranglehold on the sport that others had begun in the 1970s …. But he is perceived as having turned FIFA into a one-man show (and I am not talking about Lionel Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo) and as a power structure run like a political machine, where everything seems organized with one end in sight: to keep Infantino at the top.” (08/26/26)
https://www.independent.org/article/2026/08/26/infantino-concentrated-power/
Source: Al Jazeera [Qatari state media]
“Former Malaysian Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob has been charged with failing to declare tens of millions of dollars worth of assets, becoming the country’s third former prime minister to face criminal charges after leaving office. The 66-year-old pleaded not guilty at the Kuala Lumpur Sessions Court on Thursday to a charge that alleges he failed to provide a complete declaration of assets to Malaysia’s anti-corruption agency. He is accused of concealing holdings worth about $40m, spread across nine currencies, as well as bars of gold and silver. His lawyer, Amer Hamzah Arshad, said at a media conference that the charge was essentially a failure to comply with a notice to declare certain assets.” (08/27/26)
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/27/malaysias-former-pm-ismail-sabri-charged-with-concealing-assets
Source: The Tom Woods Show
“The Old Food Pyramid Was Killing You.” (08/26/26)
https://tomwoods.com/ep-2790-the-old-food-pyramid-was-killing-you/
Source: Tenth Amendment Center
by Michael Boldin
“‘Evil is turned into Good, and Good into Evil’ … Written almost 300 years ago, Thomas Gordon warned us about political parties being little more than cults that promise to protect your country – while really killing it. It was so prophetic that it sounds like it was written today.” (08/26/26)
https://tenthamendmentcenter.com/2026/08/26/two-cults-one-country-no-liberty/
Source: Quillette
by John Aziz
“Treat a warming planet as an engineering problem rather than a moral failing, and it starts to look solvable.” (08/26/26)
https://quillette.com/2026/08/26/net-zero-wont-fix-climate-change-technology-will/
Source: SFGate
“Defense lawyers for social media influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate argued Thursday if Romania is OK with them being out of jail as they challenge sex charges, then the U.S. should free them too as they fight extradition to the United Kingdom. The brothers have remained in a federal detention center in Miami since they were arrested July 18 on rape and sex trafficking charges from the U.K. Their attorneys have argued that their high profile and active social media presence make it nearly impossible for them to flee. The Tates have become among the world’s most polarizing internet personalities by promoting wealth, male dominance and misogyny through their social media empire.” (08/27/26)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/politics/article/tate-brothers-extradition-fight-back-in-miami-22405547.php
Source: The Atlantic
“Bill Gates on the Dangers of AI.” (08/27/26)
https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/2026/08/bill-gates-dangers-ai/688418/
Source: The Volokh Conspiracy
by David Kopel
“According to the Gun Control Lobbies, Everything, Including Prohibition.” (08/26/26)
https://reason.com/volokh/2026/08/26/what-is-reasonable-gun-control/
Source: In These Times
by Vijay Prashad
“Dear friends and colleagues, The United States and Israel launched a war of aggression against Iran in February of this year. For six months, US missiles and bombs have fallen upon civilian and military targets inside the country. Hospitals, schools, energy facilities, and neighbourhoods have been struck. The 168 schoolgirls killed in Minab have become the terrible symbol of this war. Iranians have been forced to live under the constant expectation of another attack, while Iranian families outside the country endure the peculiar agony of watching the destruction from afar. This follows on three years of Israeli genocide in Gaza, which has been carried out due to the relentless military support of the United States.” (08/27/26)
https://inthesetimes.com/article/vijay-prashad-gaurdian-scissors-open-letter-iran-resists-illegal-war-aggression
