Source: Quillette
by Imran Said
“The Japanese rampage across Southeast Asia from 1941–42 was a remarkable military feat by any metric, comparable to the early German blitzkrieg campaigns across Western Europe. In four months from the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December, the Japanese had occupied Malaya, Singapore, Borneo, and the Dutch East Indies. The Western colonial powers had been decisively defeated, the humiliation of surrender made all the worse by the ignoble way many of the colonists had fled the advancing Japanese, leaving their Asian subjects to face the invaders’ wrath.” (02/21/26)
https://quillette.com/2026/02/21/terror-and-transformation/
Source: Serious Trouble
“IEEPA, You EEPA, We EEPA.” (02/21/26)
https://www.serioustrouble.show/p/ieepa-you-eepa-we-eepa
Source: Independent Institute
by Scott Beyer
“In last week’s column, I argued that while neither major party consistently fights to shrink government and protect civil liberties, the Republican Party is closer than the Democratic Party to practicing such ideals. Meanwhile the actual Libertarian Party, despite existing for over a half-century, has failed to break into the mainstream, rarely making a dent in federal and state elections. These two realities raise a question: should libertarians stop propping up an uninfluential third party and try instead to overtake the GOP?” (02/20/26)
https://www.independent.org/article/2026/02/20/should-there-even-be-a-libertarian-party/
Source: The Federalist
by Elle Purnell
“If Eileen Gu’s mother came to America for a better life, she got it. Yan Gu, the daughter of two Chinese government officials, emigrated to the U.S. in the 1980s, just a few decades after the passage of the Hart-Celler Act, which overhauled immigration policies and prompted a massive increase in arrivals from Asia and Latin America. Educated at Auburn University, Rockefeller University, and eventually Stanford Graduate School of Business, she dabbled as a ski instructor and, apparently, in venture capital. In 2003, she gave birth to a daughter in San Francisco, raising her in an affluent Bay Area neighborhood. What’s known of Eileen Gu’s childhood reads like a caricature of coastal elitism …. Her story would be elevated as a saccharine picture of the neoliberal American dream, if Gu hadn’t decided to ski for China.” (02/20/26)
https://thefederalist.com/2026/02/20/eileen-gu-indicts-birthright-citizenship-and-our-entire-immigration-orthodoxy/
Source: The Hill
“Hundreds of K-12 students across the country have received detention or suspension after participating in classroom walkouts to protest U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) efforts. Such anti-ICE or ‘ICE out’ walkouts have increasingly popped up after Renee Good and Alex Pretti were shot and killed by federal immigration officers in Minneapolis last month. But experts say leaving school grounds is not a form of protest protected under the First Amendment for students, and Republican leaders are warning of consequences for those who participate. … schools in Florida and Texas in particular are facing increased pressure from Republican officials to curtail anti-ICE walkouts.” [editor’s note: They hate it when the inmates escape the day prisons even briefly – TLK] (02/20/26)
https://thehill.com/homenews/education/5745489-ice-out-student-protests-texas-florida-oklahoma/
Source: Crooked Media
“Trump Loses At Supreme Court, Handles It Well.” (02/22/26)
https://clrtpod.com/m/pscrb.fm/rss/p/prfx.byspotify.com/e/arttrk.com/p/CRMDA/mgln.ai/e/284/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/audioboom.com/posts/8864141.mp3
Source: Persuasion
by Charles Lane
“As a constitutional matter, the issue before the Supreme Court in the case of President Trump’s tariffs was a relatively easy one. If the Constitution was designed to prevent anything, it was economic rule by one-man decree. Declaring a national emergency due to foreign disputes and making the American people pay stiff import taxes as a consequence, without clear legislative authority — as Trump did last year — was never part of the Founders’ plan. But actually acting on this truth was not so simple, especially for a conservative court majority that faced overt pressure from a president who had appointed three of them.” (02/21/26)
https://www.persuasion.community/p/the-supreme-court-sides-with-the
