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  • The Scouring of the American Middle Class

    Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
    by Artis Shepherd

    “The war of words between President Donald Trump and Fed Chairman Jerome Powell has been revealed as largely histrionic. Like their predecessors — Richard Nixon and Arthur Burns — over 50 years ago, Trump and Powell have been acting out a performative charade regarding when and to what extent artificially low interest rates should go even lower in the midst of persistent inflation. The supposed sparring between Trump and Powell merely guarantees the result both want — more easy money.” (09/15/25)

    https://mises.org/mises-wire/scouring-american-middle-class

  • Markets and Marshals: How the Old West Used Private Enforcement to Deliver Justice

    Source: The Daily Economy
    by Connor Crase

    “While bounties and private detectives may seem like relics of the past, they offer valuable insights into how markets fill in the gaps when the government fails.” (09/15/25)

    https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/markets-not-marshals-how-the-old-west-delivered-justice-and-kept-order/

  • In the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination, colleges must not burden speaking events

    Source: Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression
    by staff

    “Last week, an assassin silenced speech on a college campus. A family lost a father and a husband. As we have said without equivocation, political violence is never an acceptable response to free speech. Appropriately, we can expect colleges and universities to place even greater emphasis on safety and security ahead of outside speakers arriving on campus moving forward. They have a moral and legal obligation to redouble their efforts to protect free speech as well as their campus community. However, administrators must not pass those security costs along to speakers or use security concerns as pretext to cancel a speaker’s appearance. Rewarding threats of violence by taxing speech or silencing speakers will only invite more threats and more violence.” (09/15/25)

    https://www.thefire.org/news/wake-charlie-kirks-assassination-colleges-must-not-burden-speaking-events

  • Our New Age of American Terror

    Source: Persuasion
    by Ethan Dodd

    “In 1894, the French intellectual Émile Henry nursed two beers in a Parisian café as the orchestra played to a room of wealthy patrons. After paying his bill and getting up to leave, Henry removed a bomb from his overcoat pocket, lit the fuse with his cigar, and threw the bomb into the café, toward the orchestra, leaving five widows and ten orphans. ‘This was the first modern terrorist act,’ wrote the late historian John Merriman in his book The Dynamite Club. ‘It was the day that ordinary people became the targets of terrorists.’ Today, such terror has become frighteningly normal in America.” (09/15/25)

    https://www.persuasion.community/p/we-are-living-in-eddingtons-world

  • Germany Versus X

    Source: Common Sense
    by Paul Jacob

    “The question is freedom of speech. Many German officials are opposed. Twitter‑X, or X, is in favor.
    As Reclaim the Net summarizes the case, ‘German prosecutors are testing whether the reach of their censorship laws can outstrip the guardrails of international treaties.’ These prosecutors have been going after three X managers for alleged ‘obstruction of justice.’ This obstruction consisted of refusing to immediately give prosecutors data on users who utter government-disapproved speech.” (09/15/25)

    https://thisiscommonsense.org/2025/09/15/germany-versus-x/

  • Lords of the Flies

    Source: The Honest Courtesan
    by Maggie McNeill

    “White supremacists are now trying to create panic among other bigots by claiming that the ‘white’ race (by which they mean fair-skinned Caucasians) is vanishing. Actually, what’s happening is that, since the most-developed countries are largely inhabited by Europeans and their descendants, their birth rates are most subject to the birth rate decrease which is typical of highly-developed societies, and thus the number of ‘whites’ is slowly decreasing in relation to other genetic groups who inhabit portions of the globe where the birth rate is not decreasing as quickly. But the mathematical, biological, historical, and sociological ignorance in which this manufactured hysteria is rooted isn’t as bad as its philosophical imbecility.” (09/15/25)

    https://maggiemcneill.com/2025/09/15/lords-of-the-flies/

  • The WTO Exists for Times Like These; Why Not Use It?

    Source: Cato Institute
    by James Bacchus

    “Of all the erratic tariffs imposed by President Trump, few have been so vindictive as those meted out to Brazil, which from 1 August has been subject to 50% effective tariffs. And as Brazil subsequently took its case against the US to the World Trade Organization, the question is not whether it will win or lose (it will almost certainly win), but rather: Why have dozens of other countries suffering enormously from arbitrary and illegal US tariffs not joined in the Brazilian case or brought their own cases in the WTO against the US?” (09/15/25)

    https://www.cato.org/commentary/wto-exists-times-these-why-not-use-it

  • Do we need a treaty on neutrality?

    Source: Responsible Statecraft
    by Naman Karl-Thomas Habtom

    “In an era of widespread use of economic sanctions, dual-use technology exports, and hybrid warfare, the boundary between peacetime and wartime has become increasingly blurry. Yet understandings of neutrality remain stuck in the time of trench warfare. An updated conception of neutrality, codified through an international treaty, is necessary for global security. Neutrality in the 21st century is often whatever a country wants it to be.” (09/15/25)

    https://responsiblestatecraft.org/neutrality-treaty/

  • The Warmonger Rebrand

    Source: Liberal Currents
    by Joseph Stieb

    “On September 5, President Trump issued an executive order rebranding the Department of Defense as the ‘Department of War.’ The order boasted that the U.S. military is ‘the strongest and most lethal fighting force in the world’ and that this department ‘should have a name that reflects its unmatched power and readiness to protect national interests.’ He bizarrely ranted that since Congress consolidated the War Department and the Department of the Navy as the DoD in 1949 that the United States ‘never fought to win’ in the interceding wars. Oddly, Trump’s renaming has attracted support from many analysts and politicians who want a more restrained, less militarized foreign policy. They include both Buchananite nationalist conservatives, leftist commentators, and some mainstream outlets.” (09/15/25)

    https://www.liberalcurrents.com/the-warmonger-rebrand/

  • To Protect Ukraine, Keep It out of NATO

    Source: The American Conservative
    by Ted Snider

    “The war in Ukraine is heading to its inevitable conclusion. It may still take many months, but Russia will win the war on the battlefield, and Ukraine will be without some of its territory and without NATO membership. In such a situation, Kiev has every incentive to make a deal rather than wait for crushing defeat. There is no doubt that Ukraine will require reliable security guarantees …. While Kiev would like its security guarantee to come in the form of NATO membership, the most important guarantee of its future security is the opposite: a credible commitment from Kiev and from NATO that Ukraine will remain neutral and never join the Western alliance.” [editor’s note: Snider seems to think that if he just keeps proclaiming Russian “victory” is inevitable, it will magically come true. And there is not and never was any chance Ukraine would be allowed to join NATO – TLK] (09/15/25)

    https://www.theamericanconservative.com/to-protect-ukraine-keep-it-out-of-nato/

  • The Marshall Plan for the Mind

    Source: Law & Liberty
    by Henry T Edmonson III

    “How much did the CIA book program contribute to the fall of the Soviet Union?” (09/15/25)

    https://lawliberty.org/book-review/the-marshall-plan-for-the-mind/

  • Quantum Vibe, 09/15/25

    Source: Big Head Press
    by Scott Bieser

    Cartoon. (09/15/25)

    https://www.quantumvibe.com/strip?page=2552

  • How the Trump tariffs boomerang to hurt US winemakers

    Source: Washington Post
    by Kevin D Williamson

    “Owning a vineyard in Napa Valley sounds fancy, but the wine business is, in reality, pretty gritty: It is a low-margin agricultural and food-processing business that is, on top of everything else, highly regulated. Now the Trump administration is threatening to make things a good deal worse by throwing a hand grenade into the U.S. wine industry’s supply chains and distribution networks in the form of tariffs that are meant, in theory, to protect domestic producers from overseas competition. Unfortunately, the wine industry doesn’t work the way Washington seems to think it does.” (09/14/25)

    https://archive.is/EU533

  • Why Did Feds Ignore Epstein’s Financial Crime Wave?

    Source: JimBovard.com
    by James Bovard

    “JPMorgan helped Jeffrey Epstein commit thousands of federal banking-law violations, per a bombshell New York Times report. Federal regulators perpetually ignored endless red flags of Epstein’s multimillion-dollar child-sex-trafficking operations. Federal money-laundering law requires banks to file a report for each cash transaction exceeding $10,000. Epstein was pulling out $800,000 in cash each year, ‘much of which was used to procure girls and young women,’ the Times details. Shortly after Epstein’s death in a New York prison cell, in late 2019, JPMorgan ‘filed a report with federal regulators that retroactively flagged as suspicious some 4,700 Epstein transactions — totaling more than $1.1 billion.’ … Ironically, during Epstein’s financial crime spree, the Internal Revenue Service was wreaking havoc on hapless small businesses for violating the same law.” (09/14/25)

    https://jimbovard.com/blog/2025/09/14/feds-ignored-epstein-crime-wave/

  • Corrupt “Democracy” Makes Fascism Inevitable

    Source: exile in happy valley
    by Nicky Reid

    “[E]ven though Donald Trump has become an unprecedented threat who needs to be stopped, his mainstream ‘resistance’ funded by neocon Never Trumpers and the neoliberal DNC need to be thrown out with him for making his reign of terror possible by being only marginally less despotic than Orange-Man-Bad while daring to call their proto-fascistic shell game woke. This has happened before. In fact, this is precisely how the original Hitler ended up in power.” (09/14/25)

    https://exileinhappyvalley.blogspot.com/2025/09/corrupt-democracy-makes-fascism.html

  • Is the Lack of “Friction” in Our Virtual World Leading to Liberalism’s Decline?

    Source: The UnPopulist
    by JL Wall

    “Our rapid-fire communication technologies may be overwhelming our capacity to deliberate and empathize, two new books suggest.” (09/14/25)

    https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/is-the-lack-of-friction-in-our-virtual