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Today's Freedom News:
1) Israel launches “wave of strikes” as Iran prepares for Ali Khamenei’s funeral
2) TX: Talarico wins Democratic US Senate nomination; Cornyn, Paxton head to GOP runoff
3) Mediterranean: Russian ship transporting natural ga on fire “after drone attack”
4) AR: Democrats pick up state House seat in special election
5) MN: Prosecutor opens investigation that could bring charges against violent gang members
6) GA: Father of school shooter found guilty of murder and manslaughter
7) NYC Congestion Pricing Program Can Continue, US Judge Rules
8) Ireland backs ex-commissioner Hogan’s bid to lead UN food agency
9) OpenAI alters deal with Pentagon as critics sound alarm over surveillance
10) Google accelerates Chrome release cycle
11) Dog bites man: Terrorist shot-caller continues to claim Minneapolis protesters murdered by terrorist cells were terrorists
12) Trump threatens to cut off trade with Spain over air bases
13) Amazon says drones hit three of its Middle East data centers amid Iran conflict
14) Ex-Goldman CEO Lloyd Blankfein sounds alarm on private credit, warning it “smells like 2008”
15) Judge tells US Attorney he hasn’t ruled out imprisonment over ICE conduct
16) US regime sanctions Rwandan army and top officials for supporting M23 in DRC
17) Alzheimer’s prevention breakthrough found in decades-old seizure drug
18) Kabul rocked by blasts as Afghan, Pakistani troops intensify border clashes
19) World’s largest acidic geyser wakes up in Yellowstone from six-year slumber
20) Judge rules Trump regime can’t block congressional visits to ICE gang’s concentration camps
Today's Freedom Commentary:
21) On War Powers, Questions Aren’t a Working Substitute for Action
22) Trump’s High Crime of Waging an Undeclared War on Iran
23) AI’s productivity is finally hitting the real economy
24) No, Mr. President, Section 122 Tariffs Won’t Work Either
25) We Are Prometheus
26) Trump needs to get ready for the blowback
27) Protect Conscience — But Fix What’s Really Driving Kentucky’s Doctor Shortage
28) Emotion versus Principle: The Fragility of Modern Governance
29) Power, What Is It? From Personal Power to Autocracy in Donald Trump’s America
30) What Critics Still Get Wrong About Marijuana Legalization
31) Congress must reclaim war powers from an out-of-control Trump over Iran
32) Six Takeaways from the Supreme Court’s Tariff Ruling
33) If Westerners Could Wrap Their Minds Around What War Really Is
34) The Lemon Test
35) Confusion about Commandeering
36) The Water Crisis is Real
37) France to Europe: deterrence with a dash of self-reliance
38) Stuck in Another Disastrous Middle East War
39) The Iran War Is Unconstitutional
40) You Can’t Treat Russia or China Like Iran
41) How Deadly Are Dying Animals? Trump, Netanyahu, and War Against Iran
42) All Your OS Are Belong to Us
43) Iran and the “Phil Leotardo Doctrine”
44) Murray Rothbard’s Left-Libertarian Legacy
45) Don’t Let Congress Ruin College Sports
46) Military Action without Urgency or Legitimate Purposes
47) Calls for censorship are a familiar wartime mistake
48) The conundrum of war in the 21st century
49) The Blowback From an Unpopular Iran War
50) The Administration Needs to Make Its Case for War With Iran
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51) Law & Liberty Podcast, 03/03/26
52) Capital Record, episode 287
53) The Bryan Hyde Show, 03/03/26
54) Trump Watch, 03/03/26
55) The Corbett Report, episode 493
56) Advisory Opinions, 03/03/26
57) Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp, 03/03/26
58) The Tom Woods Show, episode 2740
59) Politics Politics Politics, 03/02/26
60) Year Zero with Tommy Salmons, 03/02/26
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1) Israel launches “wave of strikes” as Iran prepares for Ali Khamenei’s funeral
Source: The Guardian [UK]
“Israel said it had launched a ‘broad wave of strikes’ against government targets in Tehran, including the presidential office. A loud blast was reported in the north-east of Tehran this morning, as explosions rocked Iranian cities for a fourth night. Israel’s bombardment of Lebanon continues, with strikes reported in the southern Beirut suburb of Dahiyeh, seen as a support base for the militant group Hezbollah. Iran continues to launch retaliatory strikes, with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) saying it fired about 40 missiles at US and Israeli targets.” (03/04/26)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2026/mar/04/iran-war-live-updates-us-israel-latest-news-strait-of-hormuz-middle-east-crisis
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2) TX: Talarico wins Democratic US Senate nomination; Cornyn, Paxton head to GOP runoff
Source: Associated Press
“State Rep. James Talarico topped Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett in an expensive and fiercely contested Texas Senate Democratic primary that once again has the party dreaming of a big upset in November. Who Talarico will face depends on a May runoff between longtime Republican Sen. John Cornyn and MAGA favorite Ken Paxton — a race expected to get increasingly nasty over coming months and could hinge on whether or not President Donald Trump offers an endorsement.” (03/04/26)
https://apnews.com/article/texas-election-senate-crockett-talarico-cornyn-paxton-hunt-4d2fa601c0dab451c2cbd7c6f1483547
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3) Mediterranean: Russian ship transporting natural ga on fire “after drone attack”
Source: Daily Mail [UK]
“A Russian oil tanker is on fire in the Mediterranean after a drone attack, maritime security sources have said. Arctic Metagaz, which is carrying liquefied natural gas (LNG) and is sanctioned by the US and UK, was hit on Tuesday near Malta, according to insiders. Shocking pictures and footage show the vessel ablaze, with large flames rising and clouds of smoke billowing into the sky. A source said the boat may have been attacked by a naval drone, suspected to have been dropped by Ukraine, amid the ongoing war between the two nations.” (03/03/26)
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15611621/Russian-oil-tanker-fire-Mediterranean-drone-attack.html
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4) AR: Democrats pick up state House seat in special election
Source: The Hill
“Democrat Alex Holladay is projected to win the special election to represent Arkansas’s House District 70, edging out Republican Bo Renshaw, according to Decision Desk HQ. The race was seen as a pickup opportunity for the Democrats after Holladay, in 2024, narrowly lost his bid to unseat Republican incumbent Carlton Wing, who eked out a 50.97 percent victory. But Wing resigned in September to become the executive director of Arkansas PBS, giving Holladay another opportunity to vie for the seat.” (03/03/26)
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5763559-democratic-pickup-arkansas-house-race/
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5) MN: Prosecutor opens investigation that could bring charges against violent gang members
Source: San Diego Union-Tribune
“A Minnesota prosecutor announced an investigation Monday that may lead to charges against federal officers, including Border Patrol official Greg Bovino, for misconduct during an immigration enforcement crackdown. Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said in a news conference that her office is already looking into 17 cases, including one where Bovino threw a smoke canister at protesters on Jan. 21. Another on Jan. 7 involved federal officers [abducting a victim] outside a high school and deploying chemical irritants while students and staff were in the area. … The Department of Homeland Security, which oversees immigration enforcement, responded in a statement Monday night that such enforcement is a federal responsibility and states cannot prosecute federal officers.” (03/03/26)
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2026/03/03/minnesota-immigration-officer-investigation/
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6) GA: Father of school shooter found guilty of murder and manslaughter
Source: CNN
“Colin Gray, the father of Georgia school shooter Colt Gray, was found guilty of murder and manslaughter charges Tuesday in a case testing the limits of who is responsible for a mass shooting. The jury deliberated for less than two hours before convicting him on all 27 charges: Two counts of second-degree murder, two counts of involuntary manslaughter, 18 counts of cruelty to children and five counts of reckless conduct. … Prosecutors accused Gray of buying his son an AR-15-style rifle as a Christmas present and allowing him access to that weapon and ammunition despite warnings that his son was a danger to others. Colt Gray, then 14, used that rifle to carry out a mass shooting at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia, on September 4, 2024, killing two teachers and two students and wounding nine others.” (03/03/26)
https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/03/us/colin-gray-murder-trial-verdict
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7) NYC Congestion Pricing Program Can Continue, US Judge Rules
Source: Bloomberg
“New York City’s congestion pricing program can continue after a federal judge ruled that the Trump administration’s attempts to terminate it were unlawful — a financial win for the nation’s largest mass transit provider. US District Judge Lewis Liman found Tuesday that US Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy’s move to end the program was ‘arbitrary and capricious.’ Liman, however, declined to issue an order blocking possible future attempts to stymie the program. The ruling means the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which sued in February 2025 to prevent Duffy from terminating the deal, can keep operating the program indefinitely, though the legal fight may continue.” (03/03/26)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-03/nyc-congestion-pricing-program-can-continue-us-judge-rules
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8) Ireland backs ex-commissioner Hogan’s bid to lead UN food agency
Source: Politico
“Ireland officially nominated former EU agriculture and trade commissioner Phil Hogan to the top job at the U.N.’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the government said today. Hogan’s name emerged last week as a potential contender for the role of FAO director, with Ireland’s Department of Agriculture signaling him as their preferred candidate. The Irish politician played a significant role pushing forward the Mercosur agreement during his time as the EU’s farm chief under under Jean-Claude Juncker, before briefly serving as trade commissioner in Ursula von der Leyen’s first Commission.” (03/03/26)
https://www.politico.eu/article/ireland-backs-former-commissioner-phil-hogans-bid-to-lead-un-food-agency
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9) OpenAI alters deal with Pentagon as critics sound alarm over surveillance
Source: NBC News
“OpenAI CEO Sam Altman unveiled a reworked agreement with the Pentagon Monday night governing the Defense Department’s use of its AI services, which he says provides stronger guarantees that the military won’t use OpenAI’s systems for domestic surveillance. The new agreement states that ‘the AI system shall not be intentionally used for domestic surveillance of U.S. persons and nationals,’ according to a post on OpenAI’s website. OpenAI had faced some backlash as news of an initial agreement between the leading AI company and the Pentagon emerged on Friday. Many observers claimed the original language shared on OpenAI’s website provided ample loopholes for the government to surveil Americans. The move comes after weeks of intense debates between rival AI company Anthropic and the Pentagon over how the military can use advanced AI systems.” (03/03/26)
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/openai-alters-deal-pentagon-critics-sound-alarm-surveillance-rcna261357
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10) Google accelerates Chrome release cycle
Source: The Verge
“Google is moving its Chrome browser to a two-week release cycle, instead of the current four, or the six-week cycle that existed for the decade before that. The change starts in September. ‘Building on our history of adapting our release process to match the demands of a modern web, Chrome is moving to a two-week release cycle,’ the company said in a blog post. The goal is to give users and developers faster access to performance improvements, fixes, and new capabilities. The smaller scope of the releases should also simplify debugging. The change applies to desktop, Android, and iOS, and begins with the stable release of Chrome 153 on September 8th. Beta releases will also move up to a two-week cycle.” (03/03/26)
https://archive.is/SSedR
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11) Dog bites man: Terrorist shot-caller continues to claim Minneapolis protesters murdered by terrorist cells were terrorists
Source: CBC News [Canadian state media]
“U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is standing by her remarks calling the acts of two American citizens [murdered] by federal immigration officers in Minneapolis ‘domestic terrorism.’ Noem, who is overseeing U.S. President Donald Trump’s immigration [terrorist campaign], was pressed about her statements by Democrats and some Republicans during a Senate judiciary committee hearing on Tuesday.” (03/03/26)
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/kristi-noem-minneapolis-ice-deaths-domestic-terrorism-9.7113018
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12) Trump threatens to cut off trade with Spain over air bases
Source: Politico
“President Donald Trump on Tuesday threatened to halt trade with Spain and said he had instructed Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to ‘cut off all dealings’ with the country, amid a dispute over the use of jointly-operated military bases on Spanish soil. ‘We’re going to cut off all trade with Spain,’ Trump said during a sit-down with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz in the Oval Office. ‘We don’t want anything to do with Spain.’ Spain is a member of the European Union, a 27-country bloc that operates a common trade policy, so any attempt to single out Madrid would create friction with other member states, like Germany, France and Italy.” (03/03/26)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/03/trump-threatens-to-cut-off-all-relations-with-spain-00808978
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13) Amazon says drones hit three of its Middle East data centers amid Iran conflict
Source: CBS News
“Amazon said drones struck three of its Middle East data centers, causing outages related to the ‘ongoing conflict in the Middle East.’ Drones directly struck two Amazon Web Services facilities in the United Arab Emirates, and a drone strike near an Amazon data center in Bahrain also damaged that facility, the company said in a post on Monday on AWS’s health dashboard. … The company encouraged its customers in the Middle East to back up data and consider migrating workloads to servers in other regions.” (03/03/26)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/amazon-drone-strike-aws-data-center-uae-bahrain-iran/
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14) Ex-Goldman CEO Lloyd Blankfein sounds alarm on private credit, warning it “smells like 2008”
Source: New York Post
“Former Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein has warned that the growing private credit market could lead to a financial crisis similar to the one in 2008, potentially affecting retail investors and the broader economy. In an interview on Bloomberg’s ‘Big Take’ podcast, the renowned moneyman said the $1.8 trillion private credit sector involves risks from hidden leverage, lack of liquidity and opaque assets. He compared the situation to the subprime mortgage crisis, noting that these investments are increasingly being offered to individual investors through retirement accounts. Blankein warned that he sees a possible financial crisis brewing in the private credit market. ‘We’re getting close to the end of the late stages of cycles on this, and we’re due for a kind of a reckoning,’ he said. He expressed concern that firms are promoting these products to retail clients just as risks are rising.” (03/03/26)
https://nypost.com/2026/03/03/business/lloyd-blankfein-sounds-alarm-on-private-credit-warning-it-smells-like-2008/
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15) Judge tells US Attorney he hasn’t ruled out imprisonment over ICE conduct
Source: Fox 9 KMSP News
“U.S. District Court Judge Jeffrey Bryan warned U.S. Attorney Daniel Rosen he has ‘not ruled out the consequence of imprisonment’ over ICE court order violations during a hearing on Tuesday. Bryan demanded US. Attorney Daniel Rosen appear at the sprawling contempt hearing to explain why the government violated court orders in 28 cases connected to Operation Metro Surge. Violations included the lost or the delayed return of personal belongings of immigrants the court had released from ICE custody, including jewelry, drivers’ licenses and cell phones.” (03/03/26)
https://www.fox9.com/news/u-s-attorney-ordered-court-over-ice-violations-what-did-he-say
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16) US regime sanctions Rwandan army and top officials for supporting M23 in DRC
Source: Al Jazeera [Qatari state media]
“The United States has imposed sanctions on Rwanda’s military and four of its top officials for ‘direct operational support’ of the M23 rebel group that has seized large swaths of territory in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Rwanda has long rejected allegations from DRC, the United Nations and Western powers that it backs M23 and its affiliated Congo River Alliance (AFC), which captured key cities in the mineral-rich east, including the capitals of North and South Kivu provinces last year. The US Department of the Treasury said on Monday that the rebels’ gains would not have been possible without Rwandan backing.” (03/03/26)
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/3/us-sanctions-rwandan-army-and-top-officials-for-supporting-m23-in-drc
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17) Alzheimer’s prevention breakthrough found in decades-old seizure drug
Source: Fox News
“A drug that has long been used to treat seizures has shown promise as a potential means of Alzheimer’s prevention, a new study suggests. The anti-seizure medication, levetiracetam, was first approved by the FDA in November 1999 under the brand name Keppra as a therapy for partial-onset seizures in adults. The approval has since expanded to include children and other types of seizures. Northwestern University researchers recently found that levetiracetam prevented the formation of toxic amyloid beta peptides, which are small protein fragments in the brain that are commonly seen in Alzheimer’s patients. The medication was found to prevent the formation of amyloid-beta 42 in both animal models and cultured human neurons, according to the study findings, which were published in Science Translational Medicine. The effect was also seen in post-mortem human brain tissue obtained from individuals with Down syndrome, who are at high risk for Alzheimer’s disease.” (03/03/26)
https://www.foxnews.com/health/alzheimers-prevention-breakthrough-found-decades-old-seizure-drug
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18) Kabul rocked by blasts as Afghan, Pakistani troops intensify border clashes
Source: France 24 [French state media]
“AFP journalists in Kabul heard multiple explosions and gunfire on Tuesday, as Afghan and Pakistani troops keep up their border battles. The blasts in the Afghan capital were heard alongside anti-aircraft weapons and gunfire from across the city, and came as the Afghan defence ministry said “the fighting is still ongoing” against Pakistani forces. An AFP journalist in Jalalabad city, between Kabul and the frontier, reported hearing explosions and various weapons being fired. At the nearest border crossing, around 50 kilometres (30 miles) from Jalalabad, residents in Torkham told AFP the days-long fighting was continuing. The neighbours have clashed along the frontier since Thursday, when Afghanistan launched a border offensive in response to Pakistani air strikes.” (03/03/26)
https://www.france24.com/en/asia-pacific/20260303-kabul-blasts-afghan-pakistani-troops-border-clashes
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19) World’s largest acidic geyser wakes up in Yellowstone from six-year slumber
Source: BBC News [UK State Media]
“The world’s largest acidic geyser is putting on a show again, erupting for the first time in six years after a quiet hiatus, officials at Yellowstone National Park say. The Echinus Geyser — located in the park’s famous Norris Geyser Basin — had been in slumber since 2020, and it’s unknown whether the eruptions will continue into the summer. Researchers say geysers can sometimes become active for a month or two before falling dormant again. ‘Geysers are always turning on and off. That’s Yellowstone being Yellowstone!’, the US Geological Survey wrote on X. A geyser is a spring of water which has been heated geothermally, and which erupts at various rates. It is formed from a tube-like hole that goes down into the Earth’s surface and is filled with water. When the water at the bottom, which is near molten rock called magma, heats in the tube it begins to boil and is forced upwards and erupts. After eruption, the water slowly goes back down into the tube. Then the process starts again.” (03/03/26)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c39w4mexvwyo
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20) Judge rules Trump regime can’t block congressional visits to ICE gang’s concentration camps
Source: United Press International
“A federal judge in Washington, D.C., ruled Monday that the Trump administration can’t block members of Congress from making unannounced visits to Immigration and Customs Enforcement [abductee concentration camp] facilities. U.S. District Court Judge Jia Cobb said an order from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem that required lawmakers to give a seven-day notice before visiting the facilities violated the law. Under a the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, Noem is not allowed to use funds appropriated by Congress to then prevent them from visiting ICE detention facilities. Cobb said the Department of Homeland Security, however, used appropriated funds to craft the seven-day policy announced in January.” (03/02/26)
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2026/03/02/judge-congress-ICE-detention-immigration/7671772487573/
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21) On War Powers, Questions Aren’t a Working Substitute for Action
Source: Garrison Center
by Thomas L Knapp
“No president has ever been held to account by, and punished by, Congress for exceeding his powers and exercising its, not his, prerogative of declaring war or not. Why would Trump consider himself an exception? And why wouldn’t he try to stretch past administrations’ ridiculous ‘unitary executive’ claims even further? We’d live in a much different world today if Harry Truman had been impeached and removed from office over his surprise Korean ‘police action’ instead of receiving a retroactive congressional rubber stamp. … If we lived in anything like a ‘constitutional’ polity, the House would have already delivered Articles of Impeachment and the Senate would be trying the matter of Trump’s removal from office right now.” (03/03/26)
https://thegarrisoncenter.org/archives/20393
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22) Trump’s High Crime of Waging an Undeclared War on Iran
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger
“Even though President Trump will get away with committing the high crime of waging a war on Iran that has not been declared by Congress, it is nonetheless imperative that we libertarians never cease to point out this lawlessness. Otherwise, if we join our fellow Americans in passively permitting Trump or any other federal officials, including those in the Pentagon, the CIA, and the NSA, to violate the law, lawlessness at the federal level will then become permanently normalized and acceptable without having to secure a constitutional amendment.” (03/03/26)
https://www.fff.org/2026/03/03/trumps-high-crime-of-waging-an-undeclared-war-on-iran/
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23) AI’s productivity is finally hitting the real economy
Source: The Hill
by Gleb Tsipursky
“A new report from the St. Louis Fed shows that economic output is trending higher, even though employee head-count has barely moved. A few years ago, you might have blamed pent-up demand or a lucky sales run. In late 2025, the more honest explanation is that a growing share of your team has a chatbot open in the background. The St. Louis Fed’s national U.S. adoption tracker, built on its Real-Time Population Survey, shows generative AI use jumping ten percentage points in a single year. Their new analysis of adoption and productivity argues those extra minutes are starting to show up in macro data. Generative AI use is already a majority behavior for working-age Americans.” (03/03/26)
https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/5763078-ais-productivity-is-finally-hitting-the-real-economy/
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24) No, Mr. President, Section 122 Tariffs Won’t Work Either
Source: Independent Institute
by Phillip W Magness & Marc Wheat
“On February 19, the Supreme Court ruled in Learning Resources v. Trump that the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) does not confer upon the president the power to impose tariffs. Obviously prepared for the loss, in the same news cycle, the president announced a 10 percent tariff under Section 122, which he increased to 15 percent only hours later. The problem? Section 122 does not empower the president to impose these tariffs either.” (03/03/26)
https://www.independent.org/article/2026/03/03/section-122-tariffs-wont-work-either/
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25) We Are Prometheus
Source: The Findings Substack
by Paul Rosenberg
“Can you imagine how long it took for ignorant men and women to learn metallurgy? Or crop rotation? Or a hundred other things we can barely imagine being without? Our lives are advanced only because they created new ways of living and passed them down to us. Hundreds of generations of people just like us lived through dark times, fighting toward whatever bits of light they could find, opposed by others most of the way, to bring us where we are now. Someday our generation will also be gone, and we will have played – whether we’ve understood it or not – the crucial role of transmitting civilization to following generations. What do we want them to be like? How do we want them to live?” (03/03/26)
https://thefindings.substack.com/p/we-are-prometheus
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26) Trump needs to get ready for the blowback
Source: Los Angeles Times
by Jonah Goldberg
“This is no way for a constitutional republic to go to war. The ever-changing rationales, the failure to consult Congress, and Congress’ refusal to demand consultation and authorization, is an outrage no matter how this war ends. If the war and its aftermath are deemed successful, there will still be a price to pay as our system of checks and balances will seem to future presidents as even more of a dead letter. Conversely, if this ends in disaster, one could see a renewed effort to restore that system to prevent such calamities in the future. Everything unfolding in and above Iran depends on the consequences, intended and unintended, of one man’s unilateral decision to launch a war. In short, we’re all on blowback watch.” (03/03/26)
https://archive.is/Yscjn
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27) Protect Conscience — But Fix What’s Really Driving Kentucky’s Doctor Shortage
Source: Bluegrass Institute
by Jeffrey A Singer
“Physicians are not interchangeable technicians. They are moral agents. In a free society, the government should not force a doctor to participate in a non-emergency procedure that violates deeply held beliefs.” (03/03/26)
https://www.bluegrassinstitute.org/protect-conscience/
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28) Emotion versus Principle: The Fragility of Modern Governance
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Deborah Palma
“The governance of modern societies is in permanent tension between the immediate appeal of emotion and the need for enduring principles. Emotion — when converted into the driving force of state policy — frequently transforms into a mechanism of institutional erosion. The substitution of economic and moral principles by emotional imperatives does not represent a technical failure, but a profound philosophical divergence about human nature and the function of the state. In other words, policies based on principles are anchored in reason, empirical evidence, and the recognition of scarcity. On the other hand, political decisions oriented by irrational emotion disregard long-lasting structural effects.” (03/03/26)
https://mises.org/power-market/emotion-versus-principle-fragility-modern-governance
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29) Power, What Is It? From Personal Power to Autocracy in Donald Trump’s America
Source: TomDispatch
by Beverly Gologorsky
“Power is felt, attributed, invisible, all-important, descriptive, without shape, and so much more. There is personal power, governmental power, and the collective power of the people. Power can be bought, sold, traded, bestowed, even rescinded. It can be good or bad, positive or corrupt. However you might wish to describe power, one thing is clear: how it’s used depends on the society in which we live. At present, of course, our society is one in which President Donald J. Trump is the quintessential seeker of power, a man who needs power the way most of us need food. And as it happens, he has at his beck and call not just the entire military establishment, but ICE (and so much more). With him in the White House, power is distinctly in fashion.” (03/03/26)
https://tomdispatch.com/why-guns/
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30) What Critics Still Get Wrong About Marijuana Legalization
Source: CounterPunch
by Paul Armentano
“By most measures, cannabis legalization is a resounding success for the 24 states (plus D.C.) that have implemented it. That’s why no state has ever repealed its legalization laws, and public support for the policy remains near all-time highs. Nonetheless, the policy still has its critics. Among them are the editors at the New York Times who, in a recent editorial, opinedthat states have rushed to legalize the substance ‘without adequately regulating it.’ In truth, however, state marijuana markets are highly regulated — and many of the options they proposed are either redundant or would inadvertently strengthen the illicit marketplace.” (03/03/26)
https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/03/03/what-critics-still-get-wrong-about-marijuana-legalization/
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31) Congress must reclaim war powers from an out-of-control Trump over Iran
Source: Fox News
by US Representative Ro Khanna (D-CA)
“As a principled opponent of military adventurism since America’s 2003 invasion of Iraq, I was devastated this weekend when we learned that once again, American servicemembers will be coming home in body bags. Trump announced, ‘There will likely be more before it ends. That’s the way it is.’ No. That’s not the way it is. That must not be the way it is. As Trump now refuses to rule out sending ground troops to Iran, I believe we must do everything in our power to stop this horrific war of choice before more Americans are killed. That is why this week, I am forcing a vote in the House of Representatives on a bipartisan resolution with my Republican colleague, Congressman Thomas Massie of Kentucky, to end this illegal and unconstitutional conflict.” (03/03/26)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/rep-ro-khanna-congress-must-reclaim-war-powers-from-an-out-of-control-trump-over-iran
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32) Six Takeaways from the Supreme Court’s Tariff Ruling
Source: The Daily Economy
by David Hebert
“The Court limited one statutory pathway while leaving others intact. The opinion strengthens the major questions doctrine and clarifies how far emergency powers can stretch.” (03/03/26)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/six-takeaways-from-the-supreme-courts-tariff-ruling/
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33) If Westerners Could Wrap Their Minds Around What War Really Is
Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
“War is the worst thing in the world. Westerners talk about it like it’s a fucking video game, like ‘hurr durr, we just go in there and achieve our objectives and win,’ when really war means shredding human bodies to bits. Children burning to death in front of their parents. People holding their own guts in their hands as their life slowly slips away. People getting trapped under rubble and dying excruciatingly slow deaths of suffocation or dehydration. People picking up pieces of their beloved family members. Westerners are able to hold this compartmentalized video game mentality about war because war isn’t something that happens to us. We’ve never had bombs dropped on our neighborhoods. We’ve never had the experience of seeing a severed hand on the ground after an explosion and trying to figure out who it belonged to.” (03/03/26)
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2026/03/03/if-westerners-could-wrap-their-minds-around-what-war-really-is/
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34) The Lemon Test
Source: Law & Liberty
by David Elder
“On January 18, former CNN anchor Don Lemon joined a group of protesters as they interrupted a church service in Minneapolis, where the pastor is reportedly an ICE official. Lemon and other protesters were charged with conspiracy against the rights of religious freedom. Immediately, pundits and commentators argued that Lemon’s arrest was an attack on the First Amendment and independent journalism. Yet as the Becket Fund’s Eric Rassbach correctly observed, neither protestors nor the media have First Amendment protection where they ‘invade someone else’s private space to report on the news or proclaim their message.'” (03/03/26)
https://lawliberty.org/the-lemon-test/
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35) Confusion about Commandeering
Source: The Volokh Conspiracy
by Jonathan H Adler
“Newly-elected Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger is refusing to cooperate with federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) efforts to detain and deport unlawfully present immigrants, including those with criminal records. Whether or not one agrees with this policy, Governor Spanberger is under no obligation to help the federal government enforce federal law. … While states may not be commandeered by the federal government, states can be required to comply with generally applicable law — that is, laws that regulate state activities that are otherwise subject to federal regulation, such as employment or the operation of certain functions. States also cannot block federal efforts to enforce federal law directly, such as occurred with Operation Metro Surge.” (03/03/26)
https://reason.com/volokh/2026/03/03/confusion-about-commandeering/
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36) The Water Crisis is Real
Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Stephen Weese
“Recently there have been a lot of memes and social media posts going around that claim that AI (because of its cooling requirements) is using up all of our water. Suggesting that, in fact, the crisis is so bad that we will soon be unable to take showers. Since I work in this field, I can tell from the surface that this is likely exaggerated, and I decided to take a deep look at the numbers, new AI cooling technologies, and what is causing the real global water crisis.” (03/03/26)
https://fee.org/articles/the-water-crisis-is-real/
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37) France to Europe: deterrence with a dash of self-reliance
Source: Christian Science Monitor
by staff
“This week, French President Emmanuel Macron put his leadership legacy on the line, by explicitly offering to share the country’s nuclear defenses with key European allies. Speaking at the home port of France’s nuclear missile fleet in Brittany on Monday, Mr. Macron declared plans to increase France’s nuclear warhead stockpile (currently about 290) as well as place some of those in partner countries. His offer marks ‘the most important revision to France’s nuclear doctrine in a generation,’ the Financial Times wrote, calling it ‘indispensable for Europe’s defence.’ Since the days of Charles de Gaulle, who doubted the United States’ commitment to defend Europe from a Soviet nuclear attack, France has held to an independent stance on pursuing its own nuclear weapons development. ‘Would you trade New York for Paris?’ General de Gaulle famously demanded of President John F. Kennedy in 1961.” (03/03/26)
https://www.csmonitor.com/Editorials/the-monitors-view/2026/0303/France-to-Europe-deterrence-with-a-dash-of-self-reliance
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38) Stuck in Another Disastrous Middle East War
Source: Antiwar.com
by Ron Paul
“Unfortunately, President Trump listened to the neocons and Benjamin Netanyahu instead of his MAGA base and other voices of caution as he launched a surprise attack on Iran over the weekend. For the second time in nine months, the US Administration used negotiations with Iran as a cover to launch a pre-planned attack.” (03/03/26)
https://original.antiwar.com/paul/2026/03/02/stuck-in-another-disastrous-middle-east-war
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39) The Iran War Is Unconstitutional
Source: Reason
by Damon Root
“President Donald Trump has launched a massive military attack on Iran without first obtaining a declaration of war from Congress. Do Trump’s actions violate the terms of the U.S. Constitution? In a word, yes. The president of the United States has no lawful authority to launch a war absent a congressional declaration of war.” (03/03/26)
https://reason.com/2026/03/03/the-iran-war-is-unconstitutional/
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40) You Can’t Treat Russia or China Like Iran
Source: Libertarian Institute
by José Niño
“When Donald Trump returned to the White House on January 20, 2025, voices suggested his administration might wind down the Ukraine conflict and pursue a foreign policy of restraint. The reality reveals something far different. Trump’s outreach to Russia is not Pat Buchanan style non-interventionism. It is a calculated attempt to use Russia as a geopolitical weapon against China and Iran, rooted in the same manipulative great power politics that has poisoned American foreign policy for generations.” (03/03/26)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/you-cant-treat-russia-or-china-like-iran
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41) How Deadly Are Dying Animals? Trump, Netanyahu, and War Against Iran
Source: Common Dreams
by Richard Eskow
“When I was small my mother warned me never to approach a sick animal. The dying ones, she said, are the deadliest of all. That hasn’t been my experience; most of the dying creatures I’ve encountered just want a quiet place to pass their final hours. The source of my mother’s anxiety was closer to home than she had yet to recognize, but her fear was palpable. She was haunted by the vision of her curly-haired child falling prey to some sickly, snarling, yellow-eyed feral creature with nothing left to lose. That’s a mother’s worst nightmare. Flash forward to February 28, 2026. Dozens of schoolchildren were reported dead in ‘one of two strikes that appear to have hit schools since US and Israeli warplanes launched their attack on Iran around 10:00 a.m. local time’.” [editor’s note: Fog of war … Still being determined whether the deaths may have come from a misguided Iranian missile – SAT] [editor’s note: Do the people whose kids were murdered by one of two murderous regimes REALLY care which murderous regime it was? – TLK] (03/03/26)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/israel-us-iran-deadly
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42) All Your OS Are Belong to Us
Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob
“The always-wrong California legislature has unanimously passed — and the state’s always-wrong governor has signed — legislation to compel makers of computer operating systems to verify the owner’s age. The information from Linux, MacOS, Windows, iOS and Android would then be transmitted to the software (‘apps’) running on each respective platform. Reclaim the Net observes that in a ‘different timeline, wiring an age-surveillance layer into the boot sequence of every computing device in California is an idea that would have died in committee.’ AB1043 doesn’t require any upload of government ID or facial scan, just that the user report age when setting up the OS. I am not relieved.” (03/03/26)
https://thisiscommonsense.org/all-your-os-r-belong2us/
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43) Iran and the “Phil Leotardo Doctrine”
Source: The American Conservative
by Rob York
“The capture of Nicolas Maduro in January 2025 and elimination of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in Iran in theory might have sounded like relatively low-cost endeavors to eliminate pesky U.S. adversaries and Chinese/Russian partners from the Western hemisphere and from the Middle East. By eliminating the person at the top, the theory probably went, the U.S. could deal a decisive blow without having to commit to nation building afterward. Fans of The Sopranos might call it the Phil Leotardo Doctrine, after Tony Soprano’s final antagonist during the show’s run — the boss of the New York crime family who ordered the death of not only Tony, as boss of the New Jersey family, but also his underboss and consigliere. ‘We decapitate, and we do business with whatever’s left,’ Leotardo notoriously declared in the penultimate episode.” (03/03/26)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/iran-and-the-phil-leotardo-doctrine/
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44) Murray Rothbard’s Left-Libertarian Legacy
Source: Center for a Stateless Society
by Cory Massimino
“Many things have been written about Rothbard’s legacy for libertarians more generally, but what about left-libertarians in particular? Rothbard’s legacy? For left-libertarians? Most left-libertarians and most Rothbardians would recoil. Rothbard is usually viewed as either a right-wing villain or right-wing hero. Often, the right-wing classification has merit. But it’s more complicated than that. People mostly overlook Rothbard’s left-wing tendencies. These are most obvious during his brief time on the New Left, but they are not isolated to that period. In the spirit of other ideological audits of canonical libertarian thinkers from a left-libertarian perspective, I offer the following audit of Murray Rothbard.” (03/02/26)
https://c4ss.org/content/61027
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45) Don’t Let Congress Ruin College Sports
Source: Town Hall
by Stephen Moore
“Should the revenues made by big-time college athletics be ‘shared’ by all the schools? Do we want ‘revenue-sharing’ socialism to come to college football and basketball? Many in Congress are answering yes to that question. The NCAA isn’t the massive moneymaker the NFL and NBA are, but in many ways, the product is more exciting than the boring professional leagues. That’s especially true in this month of March, when the hoops madness begins. Even with the new ‘pay-to-play’ rules that have turned college football and basketball into semi-pro leagues, with some of the star athletes earning more to stay in college than ‘going pro’, the fan interest is higher than ever before. So is the money the big schools are making. There are a lot of legitimate complaints about these billions of dollars in TV contracts collected by the supposed ‘nonprofit’ colleges.” (03/03/26)
https://townhall.com/columnists/stephenmoore/2026/03/03/dont-let-congress-ruin-college-sports-n2672236
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46) Military Action without Urgency or Legitimate Purposes
Source: Independent Institute
by Ivan Eland
“Trump not only needs to inform the American people about why he is taking the nation into a potentially escalatory war in their name but also to get their representatives in Congress to approve it, even now that it has illegally commenced. (Before the war started, American public support for an attack on Iran was only about 20 percent.) Trump will point to past bad presidential precedents to claim that he doesn’t need to do this — a ready opening for an authoritarian-leaning president that has been widening for some time. Congress needs to protest loudly and, finally, at long last, begin to rein in a rogue executive, but it probably won’t.” (03/02/26)
https://www.independent.org/article/2026/03/02/iran-military-action-urgency-legitimate-purpose/
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47) Calls for censorship are a familiar wartime mistake
Source: Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression
by Nico Perrino
“The most acute challenges to free expression often come during times of war. The Sedition Act of 1798 criminalized criticism of the federal government amid fears of war with France. During World War I, the Espionage Act led to more than 2,000 prosecutions for speech ranging from teaching that Christians should not kill in war to protests over draft exemptions. The Cold War brought McCarthyism, blacklists, and loyalty oaths. After each of these periods, Americans came to regret the country’s censorship frenzy. … Not every war needs to be followed by censorship and then regret. We can learn from this historical pattern and refuse to censor in the first place.” (03/02/26)
https://www.fire.org/news/calls-censorship-are-familiar-wartime-mistake
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48) The conundrum of war in the 21st century
Source: The Price of Liberty
by Nathan Barton
“The various news and political talk shows have pretty much responded as expected to the massive naval and air attack by combined American and Israeli forces on the Iranian Islamic Republic this weekend. As have the various national leaders around the world. But in doing so, we find some oddities, and how divided the American people and many around the world are: great joy and absolute horror across a wide range. With a few exceptions, it seems.” (03/02/26)
https://thepriceofliberty.org/2026/03/02/the-conundrum-of-war-in-the-21st-century/
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49) The Blowback From an Unpopular Iran War
Source: The American Prospect
by Jonathan Guyer
“Nobody wants this. President Trump stands ready to expand his war against Iran, but the numbers already show how unpopular it is. Six out of ten Americans disapprove of U.S. military action against Iran, according to a new CNN survey. Fifty-six percent of Americans think the president is too willing to use military force, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll fielded over the weekend. If public opinion had a strong bearing on U.S. foreign policy, then this would be a blinking-red indicator that the new war is neither sustainable nor desirable, an all-around destructive campaign. That the president has failed to make a coherent argument in favor of the Iran strikes, to seek congressional approval, or to make any outreach to the public may well end up backfiring. This illegal war will undoubtedly have major unintended consequences that will be felt for decades in Iran, the Middle East, and across the world.” (03/03/26)
https://prospect.org/2026/03/03/blowback-unpopular-iran-war-trump-foreign-policy/
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50) The Administration Needs to Make Its Case for War With Iran
Source: Exiled Policy
by Jason Pye
“What makes this moment so dangerous is not simply the risk of escalation with Iran. It’s the continued erosion of the process that is supposed to restrain exactly this kind of decision-making. The administration has offered shifting justifications for the strikes — imminent threats that weren’t imminent, a nuclear program that was supposedly destroyed less than a year ago, deterrence rationales retrofitted after the fact — while bypassing Congress entirely. That is not how the Constitution envisions the country entering hostilities, nor is it how public consent for war is built or sustained. If this conflict widens, if American casualties mount, or if ground troops are ultimately deployed, the question won’t just be whether the strikes were strategically wise. It will be whether the United States drifted into war without ever deciding, collectively, that war was necessary.” (03/02/26)
https://exiledpolicy.substack.com/p/the-administration-needs-to-make
_____ Today's Freedom Podcast and Video _____
51) Law & Liberty Podcast, 03/03/26
Source: Law & Liberty
“Young Americans, and especially young men, are feeling economically disenchanted. As the national debt soars and interest rates remain high, the prospect of providing for a family (let alone buying a home) seems impossibly far off. Russ Greene explains part of the problem: ‘Total Boomer Luxury Communism,’ or a host of policies at all levels of government that generously provide for senior citizens while leaving the youth to pick up the tab. Greene talks about how we got here, what’s needed to give millennials and Gen Z a chance, and why there’s reason to be optimistic.” (03/03/26)
https://lawliberty.org/podcast/boomer-entitlement/
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52) Capital Record, episode 287
Source: National Review
“What the Right Is Getting Wrong About AI.” (03/03/26)
https://www.nationalreview.com/podcasts/capital-record/what-the-right-is-getting-wrong-about-ai/
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53) The Bryan Hyde Show, 03/03/26
Source: The Bryan Hyde Show
“It’s my weekly sit-down with Eric Peters from Eric Peters Autos. We explore the launch of America’s latest war of choice and the options we have as citizens of conscience.” (03/03/26)
https://www.podbean.com/ep/pb-2uyut-1a5f08c
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54) Trump Watch, 03/03/26
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
“Another War of Aggression.” (03/03/26)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6_ZLCGJ_R8
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55) The Corbett Report, episode 493
Source: The Corbett Report
“War in Iran! (Bored of Peace Edition).” (03/03/26)
https://corbettreport.com/war-in-iran-bored-of-peace-edition/
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56) Advisory Opinions, 03/03/26
Source: The Dispatch
“Trump Bypasses Congress on Iran.” (03/03/26)
https://thedispatch.com/podcast/advisoryopinions/trump-bypasses-congress-on-iran/
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57) Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp, 03/03/26
Source: Antiwar.com
“Trump and Hegseth Won’t Rule Out Sending Troops to Iran, US-Israeli Attacks Kill 555, and More.” (03/03/26)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2s24Cxt2T5E
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58) The Tom Woods Show, episode 2740
Source: The Tom Woods Show
“The Moronic Neocon War with Iran, with Scott Horton, Jon Hoffman, and Brandan Buck.” (03/02/26)
https://tomwoods.com/ep-2740-the-moronic-neocon-war-with-iran-with-scott-horton-jon-hoffman-and-brandan-buck/
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59) Politics Politics Politics, 03/02/26
Source: Politics Politics Politics
“Final Texas Primary Predictions! Pentagon vs. Anthropic Explained. The False Front of Executive Actions (with Kenneth Lowande).” (03/02/26)
https://www.politicspoliticspolitics.com/p/final-texas-primary-predictions-pentagon
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60) Year Zero with Tommy Salmons, 03/02/26
Source: Libertarian Institute
“Rules for Radicals, The Purpose w/John Weeks.” (03/02/26)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/blog/rules-for-radicals-the-purpose-w-john-weeks/
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Today's Freedom News:
1) Israel launches “wave of strikes” as Iran prepares for Ali Khamenei’s funeral
2) TX: Talarico wins Democratic US Senate nomination; Cornyn, Paxton head to GOP runoff
3) Mediterranean: Russian ship transporting natural ga on fire “after drone attack”
4) AR: Democrats pick up state House seat in special election
5) MN: Prosecutor opens investigation that could bring charges against violent gang members
6) GA: Father of school shooter found guilty of murder and manslaughter
7) NYC Congestion Pricing Program Can Continue, US Judge Rules
8) Ireland backs ex-commissioner Hogan’s bid to lead UN food agency
9) OpenAI alters deal with Pentagon as critics sound alarm over surveillance
10) Google accelerates Chrome release cycle
11) Dog bites man: Terrorist shot-caller continues to claim Minneapolis protesters murdered by terrorist cells were terrorists
12) Trump threatens to cut off trade with Spain over air bases
13) Amazon says drones hit three of its Middle East data centers amid Iran conflict
14) Ex-Goldman CEO Lloyd Blankfein sounds alarm on private credit, warning it “smells like 2008”
15) Judge tells US Attorney he hasn’t ruled out imprisonment over ICE conduct
16) US regime sanctions Rwandan army and top officials for supporting M23 in DRC
17) Alzheimer’s prevention breakthrough found in decades-old seizure drug
18) Kabul rocked by blasts as Afghan, Pakistani troops intensify border clashes
19) World’s largest acidic geyser wakes up in Yellowstone from six-year slumber
20) Judge rules Trump regime can’t block congressional visits to ICE gang’s concentration camps
Today's Freedom Commentary:
21) On War Powers, Questions Aren’t a Working Substitute for Action
22) Trump’s High Crime of Waging an Undeclared War on Iran
23) AI’s productivity is finally hitting the real economy
24) No, Mr. President, Section 122 Tariffs Won’t Work Either
25) We Are Prometheus
26) Trump needs to get ready for the blowback
27) Protect Conscience — But Fix What’s Really Driving Kentucky’s Doctor Shortage
28) Emotion versus Principle: The Fragility of Modern Governance
29) Power, What Is It? From Personal Power to Autocracy in Donald Trump’s America
30) What Critics Still Get Wrong About Marijuana Legalization
31) Congress must reclaim war powers from an out-of-control Trump over Iran
32) Six Takeaways from the Supreme Court’s Tariff Ruling
33) If Westerners Could Wrap Their Minds Around What War Really Is
34) The Lemon Test
35) Confusion about Commandeering
36) The Water Crisis is Real
37) France to Europe: deterrence with a dash of self-reliance
38) Stuck in Another Disastrous Middle East War
39) The Iran War Is Unconstitutional
40) You Can’t Treat Russia or China Like Iran
41) How Deadly Are Dying Animals? Trump, Netanyahu, and War Against Iran
42) All Your OS Are Belong to Us
43) Iran and the “Phil Leotardo Doctrine”
44) Murray Rothbard’s Left-Libertarian Legacy
45) Don’t Let Congress Ruin College Sports
46) Military Action without Urgency or Legitimate Purposes
47) Calls for censorship are a familiar wartime mistake
48) The conundrum of war in the 21st century
49) The Blowback From an Unpopular Iran War
50) The Administration Needs to Make Its Case for War With Iran
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51) Law & Liberty Podcast, 03/03/26
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53) The Bryan Hyde Show, 03/03/26
54) Trump Watch, 03/03/26
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56) Advisory Opinions, 03/03/26
57) Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp, 03/03/26
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59) Politics Politics Politics, 03/02/26
60) Year Zero with Tommy Salmons, 03/02/26
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1) Israel launches “wave of strikes” as Iran prepares for Ali Khamenei’s funeral
Source: The Guardian [UK]
“Israel said it had launched a ‘broad wave of strikes’ against government targets in Tehran, including the presidential office. A loud blast was reported in the north-east of Tehran this morning, as explosions rocked Iranian cities for a fourth night. Israel’s bombardment of Lebanon continues, with strikes reported in the southern Beirut suburb of Dahiyeh, seen as a support base for the militant group Hezbollah. Iran continues to launch retaliatory strikes, with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) saying it fired about 40 missiles at US and Israeli targets.” (03/04/26)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2026/mar/04/iran-war-live-updates-us-israel-latest-news-strait-of-hormuz-middle-east-crisis
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2) TX: Talarico wins Democratic US Senate nomination; Cornyn, Paxton head to GOP runoff
Source: Associated Press
“State Rep. James Talarico topped Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett in an expensive and fiercely contested Texas Senate Democratic primary that once again has the party dreaming of a big upset in November. Who Talarico will face depends on a May runoff between longtime Republican Sen. John Cornyn and MAGA favorite Ken Paxton — a race expected to get increasingly nasty over coming months and could hinge on whether or not President Donald Trump offers an endorsement.” (03/04/26)
https://apnews.com/article/texas-election-senate-crockett-talarico-cornyn-paxton-hunt-4d2fa601c0dab451c2cbd7c6f1483547
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3) Mediterranean: Russian ship transporting natural ga on fire “after drone attack”
Source: Daily Mail [UK]
“A Russian oil tanker is on fire in the Mediterranean after a drone attack, maritime security sources have said. Arctic Metagaz, which is carrying liquefied natural gas (LNG) and is sanctioned by the US and UK, was hit on Tuesday near Malta, according to insiders. Shocking pictures and footage show the vessel ablaze, with large flames rising and clouds of smoke billowing into the sky. A source said the boat may have been attacked by a naval drone, suspected to have been dropped by Ukraine, amid the ongoing war between the two nations.” (03/03/26)
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15611621/Russian-oil-tanker-fire-Mediterranean-drone-attack.html
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4) AR: Democrats pick up state House seat in special election
Source: The Hill
“Democrat Alex Holladay is projected to win the special election to represent Arkansas’s House District 70, edging out Republican Bo Renshaw, according to Decision Desk HQ. The race was seen as a pickup opportunity for the Democrats after Holladay, in 2024, narrowly lost his bid to unseat Republican incumbent Carlton Wing, who eked out a 50.97 percent victory. But Wing resigned in September to become the executive director of Arkansas PBS, giving Holladay another opportunity to vie for the seat.” (03/03/26)
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5763559-democratic-pickup-arkansas-house-race/
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5) MN: Prosecutor opens investigation that could bring charges against violent gang members
Source: San Diego Union-Tribune
“A Minnesota prosecutor announced an investigation Monday that may lead to charges against federal officers, including Border Patrol official Greg Bovino, for misconduct during an immigration enforcement crackdown. Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said in a news conference that her office is already looking into 17 cases, including one where Bovino threw a smoke canister at protesters on Jan. 21. Another on Jan. 7 involved federal officers [abducting a victim] outside a high school and deploying chemical irritants while students and staff were in the area. … The Department of Homeland Security, which oversees immigration enforcement, responded in a statement Monday night that such enforcement is a federal responsibility and states cannot prosecute federal officers.” (03/03/26)
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2026/03/03/minnesota-immigration-officer-investigation/
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6) GA: Father of school shooter found guilty of murder and manslaughter
Source: CNN
“Colin Gray, the father of Georgia school shooter Colt Gray, was found guilty of murder and manslaughter charges Tuesday in a case testing the limits of who is responsible for a mass shooting. The jury deliberated for less than two hours before convicting him on all 27 charges: Two counts of second-degree murder, two counts of involuntary manslaughter, 18 counts of cruelty to children and five counts of reckless conduct. … Prosecutors accused Gray of buying his son an AR-15-style rifle as a Christmas present and allowing him access to that weapon and ammunition despite warnings that his son was a danger to others. Colt Gray, then 14, used that rifle to carry out a mass shooting at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia, on September 4, 2024, killing two teachers and two students and wounding nine others.” (03/03/26)
https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/03/us/colin-gray-murder-trial-verdict
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7) NYC Congestion Pricing Program Can Continue, US Judge Rules
Source: Bloomberg
“New York City’s congestion pricing program can continue after a federal judge ruled that the Trump administration’s attempts to terminate it were unlawful — a financial win for the nation’s largest mass transit provider. US District Judge Lewis Liman found Tuesday that US Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy’s move to end the program was ‘arbitrary and capricious.’ Liman, however, declined to issue an order blocking possible future attempts to stymie the program. The ruling means the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which sued in February 2025 to prevent Duffy from terminating the deal, can keep operating the program indefinitely, though the legal fight may continue.” (03/03/26)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-03/nyc-congestion-pricing-program-can-continue-us-judge-rules
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8) Ireland backs ex-commissioner Hogan’s bid to lead UN food agency
Source: Politico
“Ireland officially nominated former EU agriculture and trade commissioner Phil Hogan to the top job at the U.N.’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the government said today. Hogan’s name emerged last week as a potential contender for the role of FAO director, with Ireland’s Department of Agriculture signaling him as their preferred candidate. The Irish politician played a significant role pushing forward the Mercosur agreement during his time as the EU’s farm chief under under Jean-Claude Juncker, before briefly serving as trade commissioner in Ursula von der Leyen’s first Commission.” (03/03/26)
https://www.politico.eu/article/ireland-backs-former-commissioner-phil-hogans-bid-to-lead-un-food-agency
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9) OpenAI alters deal with Pentagon as critics sound alarm over surveillance
Source: NBC News
“OpenAI CEO Sam Altman unveiled a reworked agreement with the Pentagon Monday night governing the Defense Department’s use of its AI services, which he says provides stronger guarantees that the military won’t use OpenAI’s systems for domestic surveillance. The new agreement states that ‘the AI system shall not be intentionally used for domestic surveillance of U.S. persons and nationals,’ according to a post on OpenAI’s website. OpenAI had faced some backlash as news of an initial agreement between the leading AI company and the Pentagon emerged on Friday. Many observers claimed the original language shared on OpenAI’s website provided ample loopholes for the government to surveil Americans. The move comes after weeks of intense debates between rival AI company Anthropic and the Pentagon over how the military can use advanced AI systems.” (03/03/26)
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/openai-alters-deal-pentagon-critics-sound-alarm-surveillance-rcna261357
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10) Google accelerates Chrome release cycle
Source: The Verge
“Google is moving its Chrome browser to a two-week release cycle, instead of the current four, or the six-week cycle that existed for the decade before that. The change starts in September. ‘Building on our history of adapting our release process to match the demands of a modern web, Chrome is moving to a two-week release cycle,’ the company said in a blog post. The goal is to give users and developers faster access to performance improvements, fixes, and new capabilities. The smaller scope of the releases should also simplify debugging. The change applies to desktop, Android, and iOS, and begins with the stable release of Chrome 153 on September 8th. Beta releases will also move up to a two-week cycle.” (03/03/26)
https://archive.is/SSedR
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11) Dog bites man: Terrorist shot-caller continues to claim Minneapolis protesters murdered by terrorist cells were terrorists
Source: CBC News [Canadian state media]
“U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is standing by her remarks calling the acts of two American citizens [murdered] by federal immigration officers in Minneapolis ‘domestic terrorism.’ Noem, who is overseeing U.S. President Donald Trump’s immigration [terrorist campaign], was pressed about her statements by Democrats and some Republicans during a Senate judiciary committee hearing on Tuesday.” (03/03/26)
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/kristi-noem-minneapolis-ice-deaths-domestic-terrorism-9.7113018
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12) Trump threatens to cut off trade with Spain over air bases
Source: Politico
“President Donald Trump on Tuesday threatened to halt trade with Spain and said he had instructed Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to ‘cut off all dealings’ with the country, amid a dispute over the use of jointly-operated military bases on Spanish soil. ‘We’re going to cut off all trade with Spain,’ Trump said during a sit-down with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz in the Oval Office. ‘We don’t want anything to do with Spain.’ Spain is a member of the European Union, a 27-country bloc that operates a common trade policy, so any attempt to single out Madrid would create friction with other member states, like Germany, France and Italy.” (03/03/26)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/03/trump-threatens-to-cut-off-all-relations-with-spain-00808978
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13) Amazon says drones hit three of its Middle East data centers amid Iran conflict
Source: CBS News
“Amazon said drones struck three of its Middle East data centers, causing outages related to the ‘ongoing conflict in the Middle East.’ Drones directly struck two Amazon Web Services facilities in the United Arab Emirates, and a drone strike near an Amazon data center in Bahrain also damaged that facility, the company said in a post on Monday on AWS’s health dashboard. … The company encouraged its customers in the Middle East to back up data and consider migrating workloads to servers in other regions.” (03/03/26)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/amazon-drone-strike-aws-data-center-uae-bahrain-iran/
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14) Ex-Goldman CEO Lloyd Blankfein sounds alarm on private credit, warning it “smells like 2008”
Source: New York Post
“Former Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein has warned that the growing private credit market could lead to a financial crisis similar to the one in 2008, potentially affecting retail investors and the broader economy. In an interview on Bloomberg’s ‘Big Take’ podcast, the renowned moneyman said the $1.8 trillion private credit sector involves risks from hidden leverage, lack of liquidity and opaque assets. He compared the situation to the subprime mortgage crisis, noting that these investments are increasingly being offered to individual investors through retirement accounts. Blankein warned that he sees a possible financial crisis brewing in the private credit market. ‘We’re getting close to the end of the late stages of cycles on this, and we’re due for a kind of a reckoning,’ he said. He expressed concern that firms are promoting these products to retail clients just as risks are rising.” (03/03/26)
https://nypost.com/2026/03/03/business/lloyd-blankfein-sounds-alarm-on-private-credit-warning-it-smells-like-2008/
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15) Judge tells US Attorney he hasn’t ruled out imprisonment over ICE conduct
Source: Fox 9 KMSP News
“U.S. District Court Judge Jeffrey Bryan warned U.S. Attorney Daniel Rosen he has ‘not ruled out the consequence of imprisonment’ over ICE court order violations during a hearing on Tuesday. Bryan demanded US. Attorney Daniel Rosen appear at the sprawling contempt hearing to explain why the government violated court orders in 28 cases connected to Operation Metro Surge. Violations included the lost or the delayed return of personal belongings of immigrants the court had released from ICE custody, including jewelry, drivers’ licenses and cell phones.” (03/03/26)
https://www.fox9.com/news/u-s-attorney-ordered-court-over-ice-violations-what-did-he-say
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16) US regime sanctions Rwandan army and top officials for supporting M23 in DRC
Source: Al Jazeera [Qatari state media]
“The United States has imposed sanctions on Rwanda’s military and four of its top officials for ‘direct operational support’ of the M23 rebel group that has seized large swaths of territory in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Rwanda has long rejected allegations from DRC, the United Nations and Western powers that it backs M23 and its affiliated Congo River Alliance (AFC), which captured key cities in the mineral-rich east, including the capitals of North and South Kivu provinces last year. The US Department of the Treasury said on Monday that the rebels’ gains would not have been possible without Rwandan backing.” (03/03/26)
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/3/us-sanctions-rwandan-army-and-top-officials-for-supporting-m23-in-drc
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17) Alzheimer’s prevention breakthrough found in decades-old seizure drug
Source: Fox News
“A drug that has long been used to treat seizures has shown promise as a potential means of Alzheimer’s prevention, a new study suggests. The anti-seizure medication, levetiracetam, was first approved by the FDA in November 1999 under the brand name Keppra as a therapy for partial-onset seizures in adults. The approval has since expanded to include children and other types of seizures. Northwestern University researchers recently found that levetiracetam prevented the formation of toxic amyloid beta peptides, which are small protein fragments in the brain that are commonly seen in Alzheimer’s patients. The medication was found to prevent the formation of amyloid-beta 42 in both animal models and cultured human neurons, according to the study findings, which were published in Science Translational Medicine. The effect was also seen in post-mortem human brain tissue obtained from individuals with Down syndrome, who are at high risk for Alzheimer’s disease.” (03/03/26)
https://www.foxnews.com/health/alzheimers-prevention-breakthrough-found-decades-old-seizure-drug
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18) Kabul rocked by blasts as Afghan, Pakistani troops intensify border clashes
Source: France 24 [French state media]
“AFP journalists in Kabul heard multiple explosions and gunfire on Tuesday, as Afghan and Pakistani troops keep up their border battles. The blasts in the Afghan capital were heard alongside anti-aircraft weapons and gunfire from across the city, and came as the Afghan defence ministry said “the fighting is still ongoing” against Pakistani forces. An AFP journalist in Jalalabad city, between Kabul and the frontier, reported hearing explosions and various weapons being fired. At the nearest border crossing, around 50 kilometres (30 miles) from Jalalabad, residents in Torkham told AFP the days-long fighting was continuing. The neighbours have clashed along the frontier since Thursday, when Afghanistan launched a border offensive in response to Pakistani air strikes.” (03/03/26)
https://www.france24.com/en/asia-pacific/20260303-kabul-blasts-afghan-pakistani-troops-border-clashes
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19) World’s largest acidic geyser wakes up in Yellowstone from six-year slumber
Source: BBC News [UK State Media]
“The world’s largest acidic geyser is putting on a show again, erupting for the first time in six years after a quiet hiatus, officials at Yellowstone National Park say. The Echinus Geyser — located in the park’s famous Norris Geyser Basin — had been in slumber since 2020, and it’s unknown whether the eruptions will continue into the summer. Researchers say geysers can sometimes become active for a month or two before falling dormant again. ‘Geysers are always turning on and off. That’s Yellowstone being Yellowstone!’, the US Geological Survey wrote on X. A geyser is a spring of water which has been heated geothermally, and which erupts at various rates. It is formed from a tube-like hole that goes down into the Earth’s surface and is filled with water. When the water at the bottom, which is near molten rock called magma, heats in the tube it begins to boil and is forced upwards and erupts. After eruption, the water slowly goes back down into the tube. Then the process starts again.” (03/03/26)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c39w4mexvwyo
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20) Judge rules Trump regime can’t block congressional visits to ICE gang’s concentration camps
Source: United Press International
“A federal judge in Washington, D.C., ruled Monday that the Trump administration can’t block members of Congress from making unannounced visits to Immigration and Customs Enforcement [abductee concentration camp] facilities. U.S. District Court Judge Jia Cobb said an order from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem that required lawmakers to give a seven-day notice before visiting the facilities violated the law. Under a the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, Noem is not allowed to use funds appropriated by Congress to then prevent them from visiting ICE detention facilities. Cobb said the Department of Homeland Security, however, used appropriated funds to craft the seven-day policy announced in January.” (03/02/26)
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2026/03/02/judge-congress-ICE-detention-immigration/7671772487573/
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21) On War Powers, Questions Aren’t a Working Substitute for Action
Source: Garrison Center
by Thomas L Knapp
“No president has ever been held to account by, and punished by, Congress for exceeding his powers and exercising its, not his, prerogative of declaring war or not. Why would Trump consider himself an exception? And why wouldn’t he try to stretch past administrations’ ridiculous ‘unitary executive’ claims even further? We’d live in a much different world today if Harry Truman had been impeached and removed from office over his surprise Korean ‘police action’ instead of receiving a retroactive congressional rubber stamp. … If we lived in anything like a ‘constitutional’ polity, the House would have already delivered Articles of Impeachment and the Senate would be trying the matter of Trump’s removal from office right now.” (03/03/26)
https://thegarrisoncenter.org/archives/20393
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22) Trump’s High Crime of Waging an Undeclared War on Iran
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger
“Even though President Trump will get away with committing the high crime of waging a war on Iran that has not been declared by Congress, it is nonetheless imperative that we libertarians never cease to point out this lawlessness. Otherwise, if we join our fellow Americans in passively permitting Trump or any other federal officials, including those in the Pentagon, the CIA, and the NSA, to violate the law, lawlessness at the federal level will then become permanently normalized and acceptable without having to secure a constitutional amendment.” (03/03/26)
https://www.fff.org/2026/03/03/trumps-high-crime-of-waging-an-undeclared-war-on-iran/
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23) AI’s productivity is finally hitting the real economy
Source: The Hill
by Gleb Tsipursky
“A new report from the St. Louis Fed shows that economic output is trending higher, even though employee head-count has barely moved. A few years ago, you might have blamed pent-up demand or a lucky sales run. In late 2025, the more honest explanation is that a growing share of your team has a chatbot open in the background. The St. Louis Fed’s national U.S. adoption tracker, built on its Real-Time Population Survey, shows generative AI use jumping ten percentage points in a single year. Their new analysis of adoption and productivity argues those extra minutes are starting to show up in macro data. Generative AI use is already a majority behavior for working-age Americans.” (03/03/26)
https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/5763078-ais-productivity-is-finally-hitting-the-real-economy/
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24) No, Mr. President, Section 122 Tariffs Won’t Work Either
Source: Independent Institute
by Phillip W Magness & Marc Wheat
“On February 19, the Supreme Court ruled in Learning Resources v. Trump that the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) does not confer upon the president the power to impose tariffs. Obviously prepared for the loss, in the same news cycle, the president announced a 10 percent tariff under Section 122, which he increased to 15 percent only hours later. The problem? Section 122 does not empower the president to impose these tariffs either.” (03/03/26)
https://www.independent.org/article/2026/03/03/section-122-tariffs-wont-work-either/
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25) We Are Prometheus
Source: The Findings Substack
by Paul Rosenberg
“Can you imagine how long it took for ignorant men and women to learn metallurgy? Or crop rotation? Or a hundred other things we can barely imagine being without? Our lives are advanced only because they created new ways of living and passed them down to us. Hundreds of generations of people just like us lived through dark times, fighting toward whatever bits of light they could find, opposed by others most of the way, to bring us where we are now. Someday our generation will also be gone, and we will have played – whether we’ve understood it or not – the crucial role of transmitting civilization to following generations. What do we want them to be like? How do we want them to live?” (03/03/26)
https://thefindings.substack.com/p/we-are-prometheus
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26) Trump needs to get ready for the blowback
Source: Los Angeles Times
by Jonah Goldberg
“This is no way for a constitutional republic to go to war. The ever-changing rationales, the failure to consult Congress, and Congress’ refusal to demand consultation and authorization, is an outrage no matter how this war ends. If the war and its aftermath are deemed successful, there will still be a price to pay as our system of checks and balances will seem to future presidents as even more of a dead letter. Conversely, if this ends in disaster, one could see a renewed effort to restore that system to prevent such calamities in the future. Everything unfolding in and above Iran depends on the consequences, intended and unintended, of one man’s unilateral decision to launch a war. In short, we’re all on blowback watch.” (03/03/26)
https://archive.is/Yscjn
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27) Protect Conscience — But Fix What’s Really Driving Kentucky’s Doctor Shortage
Source: Bluegrass Institute
by Jeffrey A Singer
“Physicians are not interchangeable technicians. They are moral agents. In a free society, the government should not force a doctor to participate in a non-emergency procedure that violates deeply held beliefs.” (03/03/26)
https://www.bluegrassinstitute.org/protect-conscience/
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28) Emotion versus Principle: The Fragility of Modern Governance
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Deborah Palma
“The governance of modern societies is in permanent tension between the immediate appeal of emotion and the need for enduring principles. Emotion — when converted into the driving force of state policy — frequently transforms into a mechanism of institutional erosion. The substitution of economic and moral principles by emotional imperatives does not represent a technical failure, but a profound philosophical divergence about human nature and the function of the state. In other words, policies based on principles are anchored in reason, empirical evidence, and the recognition of scarcity. On the other hand, political decisions oriented by irrational emotion disregard long-lasting structural effects.” (03/03/26)
https://mises.org/power-market/emotion-versus-principle-fragility-modern-governance
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29) Power, What Is It? From Personal Power to Autocracy in Donald Trump’s America
Source: TomDispatch
by Beverly Gologorsky
“Power is felt, attributed, invisible, all-important, descriptive, without shape, and so much more. There is personal power, governmental power, and the collective power of the people. Power can be bought, sold, traded, bestowed, even rescinded. It can be good or bad, positive or corrupt. However you might wish to describe power, one thing is clear: how it’s used depends on the society in which we live. At present, of course, our society is one in which President Donald J. Trump is the quintessential seeker of power, a man who needs power the way most of us need food. And as it happens, he has at his beck and call not just the entire military establishment, but ICE (and so much more). With him in the White House, power is distinctly in fashion.” (03/03/26)
https://tomdispatch.com/why-guns/
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30) What Critics Still Get Wrong About Marijuana Legalization
Source: CounterPunch
by Paul Armentano
“By most measures, cannabis legalization is a resounding success for the 24 states (plus D.C.) that have implemented it. That’s why no state has ever repealed its legalization laws, and public support for the policy remains near all-time highs. Nonetheless, the policy still has its critics. Among them are the editors at the New York Times who, in a recent editorial, opinedthat states have rushed to legalize the substance ‘without adequately regulating it.’ In truth, however, state marijuana markets are highly regulated — and many of the options they proposed are either redundant or would inadvertently strengthen the illicit marketplace.” (03/03/26)
https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/03/03/what-critics-still-get-wrong-about-marijuana-legalization/
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31) Congress must reclaim war powers from an out-of-control Trump over Iran
Source: Fox News
by US Representative Ro Khanna (D-CA)
“As a principled opponent of military adventurism since America’s 2003 invasion of Iraq, I was devastated this weekend when we learned that once again, American servicemembers will be coming home in body bags. Trump announced, ‘There will likely be more before it ends. That’s the way it is.’ No. That’s not the way it is. That must not be the way it is. As Trump now refuses to rule out sending ground troops to Iran, I believe we must do everything in our power to stop this horrific war of choice before more Americans are killed. That is why this week, I am forcing a vote in the House of Representatives on a bipartisan resolution with my Republican colleague, Congressman Thomas Massie of Kentucky, to end this illegal and unconstitutional conflict.” (03/03/26)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/rep-ro-khanna-congress-must-reclaim-war-powers-from-an-out-of-control-trump-over-iran
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32) Six Takeaways from the Supreme Court’s Tariff Ruling
Source: The Daily Economy
by David Hebert
“The Court limited one statutory pathway while leaving others intact. The opinion strengthens the major questions doctrine and clarifies how far emergency powers can stretch.” (03/03/26)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/six-takeaways-from-the-supreme-courts-tariff-ruling/
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33) If Westerners Could Wrap Their Minds Around What War Really Is
Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
“War is the worst thing in the world. Westerners talk about it like it’s a fucking video game, like ‘hurr durr, we just go in there and achieve our objectives and win,’ when really war means shredding human bodies to bits. Children burning to death in front of their parents. People holding their own guts in their hands as their life slowly slips away. People getting trapped under rubble and dying excruciatingly slow deaths of suffocation or dehydration. People picking up pieces of their beloved family members. Westerners are able to hold this compartmentalized video game mentality about war because war isn’t something that happens to us. We’ve never had bombs dropped on our neighborhoods. We’ve never had the experience of seeing a severed hand on the ground after an explosion and trying to figure out who it belonged to.” (03/03/26)
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2026/03/03/if-westerners-could-wrap-their-minds-around-what-war-really-is/
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34) The Lemon Test
Source: Law & Liberty
by David Elder
“On January 18, former CNN anchor Don Lemon joined a group of protesters as they interrupted a church service in Minneapolis, where the pastor is reportedly an ICE official. Lemon and other protesters were charged with conspiracy against the rights of religious freedom. Immediately, pundits and commentators argued that Lemon’s arrest was an attack on the First Amendment and independent journalism. Yet as the Becket Fund’s Eric Rassbach correctly observed, neither protestors nor the media have First Amendment protection where they ‘invade someone else’s private space to report on the news or proclaim their message.'” (03/03/26)
https://lawliberty.org/the-lemon-test/
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35) Confusion about Commandeering
Source: The Volokh Conspiracy
by Jonathan H Adler
“Newly-elected Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger is refusing to cooperate with federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) efforts to detain and deport unlawfully present immigrants, including those with criminal records. Whether or not one agrees with this policy, Governor Spanberger is under no obligation to help the federal government enforce federal law. … While states may not be commandeered by the federal government, states can be required to comply with generally applicable law — that is, laws that regulate state activities that are otherwise subject to federal regulation, such as employment or the operation of certain functions. States also cannot block federal efforts to enforce federal law directly, such as occurred with Operation Metro Surge.” (03/03/26)
https://reason.com/volokh/2026/03/03/confusion-about-commandeering/
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36) The Water Crisis is Real
Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Stephen Weese
“Recently there have been a lot of memes and social media posts going around that claim that AI (because of its cooling requirements) is using up all of our water. Suggesting that, in fact, the crisis is so bad that we will soon be unable to take showers. Since I work in this field, I can tell from the surface that this is likely exaggerated, and I decided to take a deep look at the numbers, new AI cooling technologies, and what is causing the real global water crisis.” (03/03/26)
https://fee.org/articles/the-water-crisis-is-real/
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37) France to Europe: deterrence with a dash of self-reliance
Source: Christian Science Monitor
by staff
“This week, French President Emmanuel Macron put his leadership legacy on the line, by explicitly offering to share the country’s nuclear defenses with key European allies. Speaking at the home port of France’s nuclear missile fleet in Brittany on Monday, Mr. Macron declared plans to increase France’s nuclear warhead stockpile (currently about 290) as well as place some of those in partner countries. His offer marks ‘the most important revision to France’s nuclear doctrine in a generation,’ the Financial Times wrote, calling it ‘indispensable for Europe’s defence.’ Since the days of Charles de Gaulle, who doubted the United States’ commitment to defend Europe from a Soviet nuclear attack, France has held to an independent stance on pursuing its own nuclear weapons development. ‘Would you trade New York for Paris?’ General de Gaulle famously demanded of President John F. Kennedy in 1961.” (03/03/26)
https://www.csmonitor.com/Editorials/the-monitors-view/2026/0303/France-to-Europe-deterrence-with-a-dash-of-self-reliance
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38) Stuck in Another Disastrous Middle East War
Source: Antiwar.com
by Ron Paul
“Unfortunately, President Trump listened to the neocons and Benjamin Netanyahu instead of his MAGA base and other voices of caution as he launched a surprise attack on Iran over the weekend. For the second time in nine months, the US Administration used negotiations with Iran as a cover to launch a pre-planned attack.” (03/03/26)
https://original.antiwar.com/paul/2026/03/02/stuck-in-another-disastrous-middle-east-war
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39) The Iran War Is Unconstitutional
Source: Reason
by Damon Root
“President Donald Trump has launched a massive military attack on Iran without first obtaining a declaration of war from Congress. Do Trump’s actions violate the terms of the U.S. Constitution? In a word, yes. The president of the United States has no lawful authority to launch a war absent a congressional declaration of war.” (03/03/26)
https://reason.com/2026/03/03/the-iran-war-is-unconstitutional/
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40) You Can’t Treat Russia or China Like Iran
Source: Libertarian Institute
by José Niño
“When Donald Trump returned to the White House on January 20, 2025, voices suggested his administration might wind down the Ukraine conflict and pursue a foreign policy of restraint. The reality reveals something far different. Trump’s outreach to Russia is not Pat Buchanan style non-interventionism. It is a calculated attempt to use Russia as a geopolitical weapon against China and Iran, rooted in the same manipulative great power politics that has poisoned American foreign policy for generations.” (03/03/26)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/you-cant-treat-russia-or-china-like-iran
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41) How Deadly Are Dying Animals? Trump, Netanyahu, and War Against Iran
Source: Common Dreams
by Richard Eskow
“When I was small my mother warned me never to approach a sick animal. The dying ones, she said, are the deadliest of all. That hasn’t been my experience; most of the dying creatures I’ve encountered just want a quiet place to pass their final hours. The source of my mother’s anxiety was closer to home than she had yet to recognize, but her fear was palpable. She was haunted by the vision of her curly-haired child falling prey to some sickly, snarling, yellow-eyed feral creature with nothing left to lose. That’s a mother’s worst nightmare. Flash forward to February 28, 2026. Dozens of schoolchildren were reported dead in ‘one of two strikes that appear to have hit schools since US and Israeli warplanes launched their attack on Iran around 10:00 a.m. local time’.” [editor’s note: Fog of war … Still being determined whether the deaths may have come from a misguided Iranian missile – SAT] [editor’s note: Do the people whose kids were murdered by one of two murderous regimes REALLY care which murderous regime it was? – TLK] (03/03/26)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/israel-us-iran-deadly
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42) All Your OS Are Belong to Us
Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob
“The always-wrong California legislature has unanimously passed — and the state’s always-wrong governor has signed — legislation to compel makers of computer operating systems to verify the owner’s age. The information from Linux, MacOS, Windows, iOS and Android would then be transmitted to the software (‘apps’) running on each respective platform. Reclaim the Net observes that in a ‘different timeline, wiring an age-surveillance layer into the boot sequence of every computing device in California is an idea that would have died in committee.’ AB1043 doesn’t require any upload of government ID or facial scan, just that the user report age when setting up the OS. I am not relieved.” (03/03/26)
https://thisiscommonsense.org/all-your-os-r-belong2us/
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43) Iran and the “Phil Leotardo Doctrine”
Source: The American Conservative
by Rob York
“The capture of Nicolas Maduro in January 2025 and elimination of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in Iran in theory might have sounded like relatively low-cost endeavors to eliminate pesky U.S. adversaries and Chinese/Russian partners from the Western hemisphere and from the Middle East. By eliminating the person at the top, the theory probably went, the U.S. could deal a decisive blow without having to commit to nation building afterward. Fans of The Sopranos might call it the Phil Leotardo Doctrine, after Tony Soprano’s final antagonist during the show’s run — the boss of the New York crime family who ordered the death of not only Tony, as boss of the New Jersey family, but also his underboss and consigliere. ‘We decapitate, and we do business with whatever’s left,’ Leotardo notoriously declared in the penultimate episode.” (03/03/26)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/iran-and-the-phil-leotardo-doctrine/
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44) Murray Rothbard’s Left-Libertarian Legacy
Source: Center for a Stateless Society
by Cory Massimino
“Many things have been written about Rothbard’s legacy for libertarians more generally, but what about left-libertarians in particular? Rothbard’s legacy? For left-libertarians? Most left-libertarians and most Rothbardians would recoil. Rothbard is usually viewed as either a right-wing villain or right-wing hero. Often, the right-wing classification has merit. But it’s more complicated than that. People mostly overlook Rothbard’s left-wing tendencies. These are most obvious during his brief time on the New Left, but they are not isolated to that period. In the spirit of other ideological audits of canonical libertarian thinkers from a left-libertarian perspective, I offer the following audit of Murray Rothbard.” (03/02/26)
https://c4ss.org/content/61027
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45) Don’t Let Congress Ruin College Sports
Source: Town Hall
by Stephen Moore
“Should the revenues made by big-time college athletics be ‘shared’ by all the schools? Do we want ‘revenue-sharing’ socialism to come to college football and basketball? Many in Congress are answering yes to that question. The NCAA isn’t the massive moneymaker the NFL and NBA are, but in many ways, the product is more exciting than the boring professional leagues. That’s especially true in this month of March, when the hoops madness begins. Even with the new ‘pay-to-play’ rules that have turned college football and basketball into semi-pro leagues, with some of the star athletes earning more to stay in college than ‘going pro’, the fan interest is higher than ever before. So is the money the big schools are making. There are a lot of legitimate complaints about these billions of dollars in TV contracts collected by the supposed ‘nonprofit’ colleges.” (03/03/26)
https://townhall.com/columnists/stephenmoore/2026/03/03/dont-let-congress-ruin-college-sports-n2672236
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46) Military Action without Urgency or Legitimate Purposes
Source: Independent Institute
by Ivan Eland
“Trump not only needs to inform the American people about why he is taking the nation into a potentially escalatory war in their name but also to get their representatives in Congress to approve it, even now that it has illegally commenced. (Before the war started, American public support for an attack on Iran was only about 20 percent.) Trump will point to past bad presidential precedents to claim that he doesn’t need to do this — a ready opening for an authoritarian-leaning president that has been widening for some time. Congress needs to protest loudly and, finally, at long last, begin to rein in a rogue executive, but it probably won’t.” (03/02/26)
https://www.independent.org/article/2026/03/02/iran-military-action-urgency-legitimate-purpose/
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47) Calls for censorship are a familiar wartime mistake
Source: Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression
by Nico Perrino
“The most acute challenges to free expression often come during times of war. The Sedition Act of 1798 criminalized criticism of the federal government amid fears of war with France. During World War I, the Espionage Act led to more than 2,000 prosecutions for speech ranging from teaching that Christians should not kill in war to protests over draft exemptions. The Cold War brought McCarthyism, blacklists, and loyalty oaths. After each of these periods, Americans came to regret the country’s censorship frenzy. … Not every war needs to be followed by censorship and then regret. We can learn from this historical pattern and refuse to censor in the first place.” (03/02/26)
https://www.fire.org/news/calls-censorship-are-familiar-wartime-mistake
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48) The conundrum of war in the 21st century
Source: The Price of Liberty
by Nathan Barton
“The various news and political talk shows have pretty much responded as expected to the massive naval and air attack by combined American and Israeli forces on the Iranian Islamic Republic this weekend. As have the various national leaders around the world. But in doing so, we find some oddities, and how divided the American people and many around the world are: great joy and absolute horror across a wide range. With a few exceptions, it seems.” (03/02/26)
https://thepriceofliberty.org/2026/03/02/the-conundrum-of-war-in-the-21st-century/
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49) The Blowback From an Unpopular Iran War
Source: The American Prospect
by Jonathan Guyer
“Nobody wants this. President Trump stands ready to expand his war against Iran, but the numbers already show how unpopular it is. Six out of ten Americans disapprove of U.S. military action against Iran, according to a new CNN survey. Fifty-six percent of Americans think the president is too willing to use military force, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll fielded over the weekend. If public opinion had a strong bearing on U.S. foreign policy, then this would be a blinking-red indicator that the new war is neither sustainable nor desirable, an all-around destructive campaign. That the president has failed to make a coherent argument in favor of the Iran strikes, to seek congressional approval, or to make any outreach to the public may well end up backfiring. This illegal war will undoubtedly have major unintended consequences that will be felt for decades in Iran, the Middle East, and across the world.” (03/03/26)
https://prospect.org/2026/03/03/blowback-unpopular-iran-war-trump-foreign-policy/
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50) The Administration Needs to Make Its Case for War With Iran
Source: Exiled Policy
by Jason Pye
“What makes this moment so dangerous is not simply the risk of escalation with Iran. It’s the continued erosion of the process that is supposed to restrain exactly this kind of decision-making. The administration has offered shifting justifications for the strikes — imminent threats that weren’t imminent, a nuclear program that was supposedly destroyed less than a year ago, deterrence rationales retrofitted after the fact — while bypassing Congress entirely. That is not how the Constitution envisions the country entering hostilities, nor is it how public consent for war is built or sustained. If this conflict widens, if American casualties mount, or if ground troops are ultimately deployed, the question won’t just be whether the strikes were strategically wise. It will be whether the United States drifted into war without ever deciding, collectively, that war was necessary.” (03/02/26)
https://exiledpolicy.substack.com/p/the-administration-needs-to-make
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51) Law & Liberty Podcast, 03/03/26
Source: Law & Liberty
“Young Americans, and especially young men, are feeling economically disenchanted. As the national debt soars and interest rates remain high, the prospect of providing for a family (let alone buying a home) seems impossibly far off. Russ Greene explains part of the problem: ‘Total Boomer Luxury Communism,’ or a host of policies at all levels of government that generously provide for senior citizens while leaving the youth to pick up the tab. Greene talks about how we got here, what’s needed to give millennials and Gen Z a chance, and why there’s reason to be optimistic.” (03/03/26)
https://lawliberty.org/podcast/boomer-entitlement/
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52) Capital Record, episode 287
Source: National Review
“What the Right Is Getting Wrong About AI.” (03/03/26)
https://www.nationalreview.com/podcasts/capital-record/what-the-right-is-getting-wrong-about-ai/
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53) The Bryan Hyde Show, 03/03/26
Source: The Bryan Hyde Show
“It’s my weekly sit-down with Eric Peters from Eric Peters Autos. We explore the launch of America’s latest war of choice and the options we have as citizens of conscience.” (03/03/26)
https://www.podbean.com/ep/pb-2uyut-1a5f08c
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54) Trump Watch, 03/03/26
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
“Another War of Aggression.” (03/03/26)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6_ZLCGJ_R8
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55) The Corbett Report, episode 493
Source: The Corbett Report
“War in Iran! (Bored of Peace Edition).” (03/03/26)
https://corbettreport.com/war-in-iran-bored-of-peace-edition/
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56) Advisory Opinions, 03/03/26
Source: The Dispatch
“Trump Bypasses Congress on Iran.” (03/03/26)
https://thedispatch.com/podcast/advisoryopinions/trump-bypasses-congress-on-iran/
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57) Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp, 03/03/26
Source: Antiwar.com
“Trump and Hegseth Won’t Rule Out Sending Troops to Iran, US-Israeli Attacks Kill 555, and More.” (03/03/26)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2s24Cxt2T5E
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58) The Tom Woods Show, episode 2740
Source: The Tom Woods Show
“The Moronic Neocon War with Iran, with Scott Horton, Jon Hoffman, and Brandan Buck.” (03/02/26)
https://tomwoods.com/ep-2740-the-moronic-neocon-war-with-iran-with-scott-horton-jon-hoffman-and-brandan-buck/
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59) Politics Politics Politics, 03/02/26
Source: Politics Politics Politics
“Final Texas Primary Predictions! Pentagon vs. Anthropic Explained. The False Front of Executive Actions (with Kenneth Lowande).” (03/02/26)
https://www.politicspoliticspolitics.com/p/final-texas-primary-predictions-pentagon
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60) Year Zero with Tommy Salmons, 03/02/26
Source: Libertarian Institute
“Rules for Radicals, The Purpose w/John Weeks.” (03/02/26)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/blog/rules-for-radicals-the-purpose-w-john-weeks/
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