Data Centers Can Bring Their Own Tax Cuts

Source: Show-Me Institute
by David Stokes

“Google just announced plans to build a $15 billion data center in Montgomery County, in east–central Missouri. It remains to be seen how much of that investment will be reflected in property tax totals, but since the largest expense is going to be for the very expensive equipment in the data center itself — and that equipment is taxable — we can safely assume the assessed valuation of the final project will be enormous and almost certainly measured in the billions. This for a county that had an entire assessed valuation in 2025 of $315 million. Again, that’s every farm, house, car, tractor, building, boat, and cow in the county. … What do you think happens when you add huge assessed valuations from businesses that don’t add much to the public service requirements? The answer should be tax cuts, which is exactly what happened in Loudon County, Virginia.” (06/03/26)

https://showmeinstitute.org/article/corporate-welfare/data-centers-can-bring-their-own-tax-cuts/

Mexico: Cruise passenger hailed as hero after jumping into water to save 84-year-old man

Source: Fox News

“A Carnival Cruise Line passenger is being praised as a hero after jumping into the water to help an elderly man who fell from a pier during a cruise stop in Mexico. The incident occurred May 19 while Carnival Jubilee was docked in Costa Maya. Carnival Cruise Line confirmed the incident to Fox News Digital, saying an elderly guest fell into the water while returning to the ship. … Video of the rescue later circulated on social media — showing a passenger identified only as Myron removing his shoes and jumping into the water after spotting the man struggling near the ship.” (06/03/26)

https://www.foxnews.com/travel/cruise-passenger-hailed-hero-after-jumping-water-save-84-year-old-man

“Terror” as Technique in American Policymaking

Source: Libertarian Institute
by Matt Wolfson

“In a speech delivered in the autumn of 2002, as the United States moved inexorably toward war with Iraq, the late Joan Didion delivered an offhand remark that effectively summed up the flaw at the heart of the logic behind that coming war, and of the logic of a number of wars before it, and of a number of wars to come. Referring to ‘the ‘war on terror’ that the President had declared’ of which the operation against Iraq was the centerpiece, Didion added a parenthetical critique: ‘… as if terror were a state and not a technique.’ Twenty-three and a half years later, we live in the detritus of a general lack of understanding of precisely that point.” (06/03/26)

https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/terror-as-technique-in-american-policymaking

Albanians protest over Kushner-linked luxury resort on pristine coastline

Source: Reuters

“Thousands ​of Albanians took to the streets of Tirana on Tuesday night protesting against ‌a development planned by a company linked with Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner on an environmentally sensitive part of the Adriatic coast. The €1.4 billion ($1.6 billion) resort is being led by Kushner’s investment firm Affinity Partners on an island off ​Albania and an undeveloped stretch of coastline near the Vjosa-Narta protected landscape, a wetland home ​to flamingos, seals and sea turtle nesting sites. … Protests by locals and non-profit organisations started ​after large ⁠barbed wire fences were erected by developers at the proposed site in Zvernec, near Vlora. Several hundred gathered and clashed with private guards on Saturday and some were injured, a Reuters witness said.” (06/03/26)

https://www.reuters.com/world/albanians-protest-over-kushner-linked-luxury-resort-pristine-coastline-2026-06-03/

Russia’s Warnings Signal Danger of Widening War

Source: The American Conservative
by Ted Snider

“he United States and Russia have agreed on little in the war in Ukraine. The one thing they have agreed on is the existential necessity of avoiding a direct war between NATO and Russia, which could become a third world war or even a nuclear war. … The possibility of that caution failing is now at perhaps the highest level it has been at any time of the war. One flashpoint for a wider war is the Baltic states, while another is actually inside Ukraine, in the capital Kiev, which hosts American and European diplomats and military officers.” (06/03/26)

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/russias-warnings-signal-danger-of-widening-war/