Source: New York Times
“A former Israeli defense minister has accused Israel of committing war crimes and ethnic cleansing in the Gaza Strip, a rare critique from a member of the security establishment at a time of war. The comments by Moshe Yaalon came amid mounting criticism of the Israeli military’s conduct in Gaza. They were swiftly denied and condemned by allies of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, saying that they would hurt the country and help its enemies. Mr. Yaalon served as the Israeli military’s chief of staff during the second intifada and as Mr. Netanyahu’s defense minister during the 2014 war in Gaza, the longest conflict between Israel and Hamas before the current war. But he broke with Mr. Netanyahu in 2016 and has since become a critic of the Israeli leader.” (12/01/24)
https://archive.is/jmLSS
Source: Fountainhead Forum
“David Beito on the work of Rose Wilder Lane, especially her work in the _Pittsburgh Courier_.” (11/30/24)
https://rumble.com/v5uncz5-ff-240-david-beito-on-the-work-of-rose-wilder-lane-especially-her-work-in-t.html
Source: San Diego Union-Tribune
by Rafael Perez
“I remember in 2016 when Trump beat Hillary Clinton to win his first term how many of those around me reacted so extremely. Some were appalled and disgusted. Most were deeply concerned and anxious about the damage Trump could do to our country. We had many discussions where I attempted to argue that the impact that Trump’s presidency would have on the average American would likely be negligible. I argued that they were being excessively apocalyptic and fearful. As predicted, life went on. Unless you insisted on waiting with bated breath to be appalled by the next outrageous thing that Trump said on Twitter or on the podium, everyday life just didn’t change much for the vast majority of people. The extent to which what happens in the capital affects us is sometimes significantly inflated by our own expectations and emotional responses.” (11/30/24)
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2024/11/30/rafael-perez-americans-really-need-to-relax-and-stop-taking-national-politics-so-seriously/
Source: Fox News
“A young boy from England found a shiny item on a beach that turned out to be a “rare” ancient item dating back to the late Middle Paleolithic era. The boy — identified by Worthing Museum as Ben Witten, now 9 years old — discovered a shiny rock at Shoreham Beach in Sussex. ‘I was looking around and I saw this shiny flint rock. I just thought it looked different [from] all the other different pebbles and stones,’ he told the BBC. Over the next few years, Witten said he kept the shiny rock in his room. He told the BBC he was constantly ‘losing it and finding it.’ A trip to Worthing Museum changed everything for the boy. While exploring exhibits at the museum, he stopped by the Stone Age exhibition and noticed similarities to the item that he had found, according to the BBC.” (11/30/24)
https://www.foxnews.com/travel/9-year-old-boy-finds-60000-year-old-axe-shoreham-beach-england
Source: The Dispatch
by Kevin D Williamson
Iowe Mike Judge an apology. When the brilliant satirist behind Beavis and Butt-Head and Office Space came out with his 2006 masterpiece Idiocracy, I enjoyed the film but was critical of it. I thought it was too cynical, too cruel, that it took too low a view of human beings in general and of U.S.A.-American-type human beings in particular. Eighteen years later, the Trump administration is plumbing the world of professional wrestling for the next secretary of education. … Idiocracy was still wrong, damn it, just not in the direction I thought it was. Incredible as the fact may be: Mike Judge took far too generous a view of boobus Americanus.” (11/30/24)
https://thedispatch.com/article/idiocracy-trump-republican-party/
Source: South China Morning Post [Hong Kong]
“Beijing has vowed to take ‘resolute countermeasures’ to defend its sovereignty following US approval of US$385 million in arms sales to Taiwan. The foreign ministry said on Sunday that the US decision was an infringement of China’s sovereignty and would harm relations between the two countries.” (12/01/24)
https://archive.is/Ijj0p
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Allen Gindler
“The Austrian School of economics advocates for minimal government intervention in markets, promotes free trade, and supports individual liberty. Austrian economists view tariffs as detrimental to the natural efficiency of the market, because they distort price signals and lead to the misallocation of resources. Murray Rothbard explained that ‘Tariffs injure the consumer with the ‘protected’ area, who are prevented from purchasing from more efficient competitors at a lower price.’ The Austrian critique of tariffs is heavily rooted in the concept of comparative advantage, which argues that countries should specialize in producing goods where they are relatively more efficient. Even if a country is more efficient at producing all goods than another country, both can still benefit from trade if each specializes in goods for which it has a comparative advantage.” (11/30/24)
https://mises.org/mises-wire/austrian-perspective-tariffs
Source: New York Post
by Karol Markowicz
“It’s become a familiar story. A man is about to reach an upper echelon of public life when an accusation from his past resurfaces. Sometimes it’s a bad joke made in a woman’s presence or a rebuffed advance while the man was in a supervisor role. Other times it’s far more serious accusations of assault. The latter is what is happening right now to Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth. It’s the Brett Kavanaugh show all over again. Hegseth has vigorously denied the accusation, but that hasn’t mattered. The media has gone into smear-fest mode and won’t stop until they get a scalp. Republicans should not let them take Hegseth’s.” (11/28/24)
https://nypost.com/2024/11/28/opinion/dont-let-the-left-do-to-pete-hegseth-what-it-did-to-brett-kavanaugh/
Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob
“Cheating has always been a problem in higher education, but ChatGPT has caused it to metastasize. The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that the percentage of students at one college who admit cheating has jumped ‘from 35 percent in 2019 to 65 percent in 2024.’ This school is not an outlier. Teachers can see how bad it’s gotten. One professor emailed a student caught using ChatGPT to write a paper to warn that she would fail the course if she did it again. The student replied with a heartfelt apology but soon did it again. It turned out that the apology itself had been spewed by ChatGPT. How to combat the trend? There are many ways if one is serious about it.” (11/29/24)
https://thisiscommonsense.org/2024/11/29/a-cheating-culture/
Source: Time
“Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau flew to Florida on Friday to have dinner with President-elect Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago club after Trump threatened to impose sweeping tariffs on Canadian products. Trump threatened to impose tariffs on products from Canada and Mexico if they don’t stop what he called the flow of drugs and migrants across their borders. He said he would impose a 25% tax on all products entering the U.S. from Canada and Mexico as one of his first executive orders. A person familiar with the details called it a ‘positive wide-ranging dinner that lasted three hours.'” (11/30/24)
https://time.com/7199118/canadian-prime-minister-trudeau-flies-to-florida-to-meet-with-trump-after-tariffs-threat/
