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1) Palestine: Israel agrees to “breaks” in Gaza fighting
2) Appeals court notices Biden's "ghost gun" limits are unlawful
3) Spain: Sanchez reaches deal with Catalan separatist party to remain in power
4) WV: Manchin says he won’t seek re-election in 2024
5) Russia: Putin visits military HQ to “assess” Ukraine fiasco
6) Powell: Fed is “not confident” it has done enough to bring inflation down
7) Judge: Lyrics Can Be Used as Evidence During Rapper’s Trial on Gang and Racketeering Charges
8) Kenya: Regime says it won’t deploy police to fight gangs in Haiti until they receive training and funding
9) Comer made Biden-like loans to brother
10) SpaceX wins reprieve from US lawsuit alleging anti-immigrant bias
11) Chinese carrier strike group “sails through Taiwan Strait”
12) Google, Meta Win Court Fight Against Austrian Online Content Rule
13) US Reaper shot down off Yemeni coast
14) US jobless claims dip to 217,000
15) Stein announces 2024 presidential bid under Green Party line
16) Oil prices drop to three-month low amid record US production
17) Ukraine war: Russian Missile Hits Liberia-Flagged Ship in Odesa
18) KS: “Libertarian” Lily Wu Pulls Off Upset in Wichita Mayoral Election Against Democrat Incumbent
19) Ethiopia: Regime troops force armed group out of Orthodox holy site of Lalibela
20) Actors strike ends with deal to be ratified this week
Today's Freedom Commentary:
21) The Barbarian Evasions
22) Psychedelics Will Help America’s Mental Health Crisis — If the FDA Lets Them
23) Zionism and the Nation-State
24) The Realignment That Wasn’t
25) An Unusually Tricky Campus Free-Speech Fight
26) The Academy Has Fallen. The Children Are Lost.
27) The “Open Border” Farce
28) The European Union’s Distorted Theory of “Liberty”
29) China Reverses Course on Population Planning
30) Congress should convene a fiscal commission to put America on a sustainable trajectory
31) Vivek Ramaswamy Was Created in a Right-Wing Online Edgelord Factory
32) The People of Gaza Need a Ceasefire Now
33) Dismantle Israel And The Entire US Empire
34) What Ron DeSantis Learned in Iraq
35) Biden Order on Artificial Intelligence Puts Too Much Faith in Regulators
36) Seven takeaways from Wednesday’s GOP debate in Miami
37) WeInflate, WeMalinvest, WeWork
38) The Big Lie About Inequality
39) Western Liberals Need to Extend the Same Humanity to Gaza as they Did to Ukraine
40) More Violence Leads to Even More Violence
41) Academic freedom is under attack from left and right
42) Innovations in Racism
43) Why Study History?
44) Both Republicans and Democrats Want ‘Buy American’ Provisions for EV Chargers
45) Foreign Policy Lessons from Ronald Reagan, a Conservative Peacenik
46) Unconstitutional Killings
47) Abortion Rights and Weed Are Super Popular. Who Knew?
48) The Biden administration’s original sin of America on the world stage
49) Conservatism and Historical Empiricism
50) A Thin Veneer of Protectionism
51) Why the Banks Are Failing Us
52) Having rights still bewilderingly popular
53) Lessons for Gaza from Colombia
54) A General Strike in 2028 Is Uniquely Plausible
55) Pandemic Boat Market Economics
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56) The Chris Spangle Show, 11/09/23
57) Show-Me Institute Podcast, 11/09/23
58) Capital Record, episode 144
59) Advisory Opinions, 11/09/23
60) The Bryan Hyde Show, 11/09/23
61) How Has Israel Changed Since Oct. 7?
62) Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp, 11/09/23
63) Free Talk Live, 11/08/23
64) Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock, 11/08/23
65) Reason Interview: Colleen Eren
66) The Tom Woods Show, episode 2415
67) The Vital Center, episode 57
68) The Learning Curve, 11/08/23
69) Freedom Works with Paul Molloy, 11/08/23
70) Conflicts of Interest, episode 496
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1) Palestine: Israel agrees to “breaks” in Gaza fighting
Source: euronews [EU]
“The Israeli army has agreed to observe breaks of a few hours each day in the north of the Gaza Strip, to allow Palestinian civilians to flee. ‘A ceasefire with Hamas means a surrender,’ Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu repeated on Thursday evening on the Fox News channel. He reaffirmed his objective of ‘eradicating Hamas’ which rules Gaza. ‘Nothing will stop us.’ Israel, however, agreed to make daily humanitarian pauses from Thursday to allow civilians to flee the north — where fighting is raging — towards the south of the territory, according to the United States. … Hundreds of thousands of refugees are crowded in south Gaza, facing increasingly disastrous conditions. … According to OCHA, the number of displaced people in Gaza now stands at 1.6 million out of a population of 2.4 million.” (11/10/23)
https://www.euronews.com/2023/11/10/israel-agrees-to-breaks-in-fighting-food-running-out-in-gaza-war-devastates-palestinian-ec
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2) Appeals court notices Biden's "ghost gun" limits are unlawful
Source: US News & World Report
"A federal appeals court on Thursday ruled that the Biden administration lacked authority to adopt a regulation aimed at reining in privately made firearms called 'ghost guns' that are difficult for law enforcement to trace. A three-judge panel of the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sided with a group of firearm owners, gun rights groups and manufacturers in declaring the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives' 2022 rule 'unlawful.' ... U.S. Circuit Judge Kurt Engelhardt, writing for the 5th Circuit panel, said ATF's rule 'flouts clear statutory text and exceeds the legislatively-imposed limits on agency authority in the name of public policy.'" [editor's note: Not to mention that the rule is clearly and unambiguously unconstitutional, which the court does not seem to have noticed - TLK] (11/09/23)
https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2023-11-09/us-appeals-court-calls-bidens-ghost-gun-limits-unlawful
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3) Spain: Sanchez reaches deal with Catalan separatist party to remain in power
Source: France 24 [French state media]
“Spain’s prime minister has clinched agreement with Catalan separatists, officials said on Thursday, in a deal that will enable him to remain in power but that has raised tensions and sparked protests in the country. Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s Socialists finished second in the July 23 parliamentary elections and he has until November 27 to cobble together a working coalition, or face fresh elections. Sanchez needs the support of Catalan independence parties, and has accepted their demands to offer amnesty to all those being pursued for their role in a failed secession attempt in 2017. He has proposed a highly controversial bill that would grant amnesty. In response, conservative opposition parties and members of Spain’s judiciary have stepped up criticism, with some accusing Sanchez of corruption and abandoning the rule of law.” (11/09/23)
https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20231109-spanish-pm-sanchez-reaches-deal-with-catalan-separatist-party-to-remain-in-power
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4) WV: Manchin says he won’t seek re-election in 2024
Source: Axios
“Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) announced on Thursday that he will not seek reelection to the Senate in 2024, almost certainly handing Republicans a seat in next year’s elections in a deep red state. … ‘But what I will be doing is traveling the country and speaking out to see if there is an interest in creating a movement to mobilize the middle and bring Americans together.'” [editor’s note: In other words, he plans to seek “No Label nomination for president – TLK] (11/09/23)
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/4302658-manchin-wont-seek-reelection-in-west-virginia/
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5) Russia: Putin visits military HQ to “assess” Ukraine fiasco
Source: ABC News
“Russian President Vladimir Putin visited the Southern Military District headquarters in Rostov-on-Don as he assessed the state of his country’s forces in Ukraine as the war drags on toward winter. It was his second public visit to the headquarters in less than a month. Video shared by a Russian state news agency showed Putin being greeted late Thursday by Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu and Valery Gerasimov, chief of the General Staff. … Putin made the visit on the way back from a trip to Kazakhstan, where he aimed to cement ties with Russia’s ex-Soviet neighbor and major economic partner in the midst of tensions with the West over Ukraine.” (11/10/23)
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/putin-top-military-leaders-visit-southern-military-headquarters-104782406
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6) Powell: Fed is “not confident” it has done enough to bring inflation down
Source: CNBC
“Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said Thursday that he and his fellow policymakers are encouraged by the slowing pace of inflation but are unsure whether they’ve done enough to keep the momentum going. Speaking a little more than a week after the central bank voted to hold benchmark policy rates steady, Powell said in remarks for an International Monetary Fund audience that more work could be ahead in the battle against high prices. … The speech comes with inflation still well above the Fed’s long-standing goal but also considerably below its peak levels in the first half of 2022. In a series of 11 rate hikes that constituted the most aggressive policy tightening since the early 1980s, the committee took its benchmark rate from near zero to a target range of 5.25%-5.5%.” (11/09/23)
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/11/09/powell-says-fed-is-not-confident-it-has-done-enough-to-bring-inflation-down.html
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7) Judge: Lyrics Can Be Used as Evidence During Rapper’s Trial on Gang and Racketeering Charges
Source: US News & World Report
“When rapper Young Thug goes to trial later this month on gang and racketeering charges, prosecutors will be allowed to use rap lyrics as evidence against him, a judge ruled Thursday. Fulton County Superior Court Chief Judge Ural Glanville said in court he would allow prosecutors to introduce 17 sets of lyrics they have identified as long as they can show that the lyrics are related to crimes that the rapper and others are accused of committing. Defense attorneys had asked the judge to exclude them, arguing the lyrics are constitutionally protected speech and would be unfairly prejudicial. Young Thug, whose given name is Jeffery Lamar Williams, was indicted last year along with more than two dozen others.” (11/09/23)
https://www.usnews.com/news/entertainment/articles/2023-11-09/lyrics-can-be-used-as-evidence-during-rapper-young-thugs-trial-on-gang-and-racketeering-charges
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8) Kenya: Regime says it won’t deploy police to fight gangs in Haiti until they receive training and funding
Source: ABC News
“Kenya’s government said Thursday that its police officers will not be deployed to Haiti until all conditions on training and funding are met in line with last month’s approval from the U.N Security Council to give the eastern African country command of a multinational mission to combat violent gangs in the troubled Caribbean country. Interior Minister Kithure Kindiki told Parliament’s Departmental Committee on Administration and Internal Security that ‘unless all resources are mobilized and availed, our troops will not leave the country.’ He said U.N. member states are securing resources and have identified how funds will be mobilized and made available to Kenya for the mission. However, it was not immediately clear when the forces would be fully trained and funded to allow for deployment.” (11/09/23)
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/kenya-deploy-police-fight-gangs-haiti-receive-training-104762612
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9) Comer made Biden-like loans to brother
Source: The Daily Beast
“House Oversight Committee chair James Comer (R-KY) on Wednesday subpoenaed President Joe Biden’s brother, James Biden, who Comer has implicated in unsubstantiated allegations of “shady business practices” in the Biden family. Comer has in particular been trying to make hay out of two personal loan repayments from James Biden to his brother, for $40,000 and $200,000 — with all transactions occurring in 2017 and 2018, when Joe Biden was neither in office nor a candidate. … According to Kentucky property records, Comer and his own brother have engaged in land swaps related to their family farming business. In one deal — also involving $200,000, as well as a shell company — the more powerful and influential Comer channeled extra money to his brother, seemingly from nothing. Other recent land swaps were quickly followed with new applications for special tax breaks, state records show.” (11/09/23)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/james-comer-like-joe-biden-also-paid-his-brother-dollar200k
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10) SpaceX wins reprieve from US lawsuit alleging anti-immigrant bias
Source: Reuters
“A U.S. judge has blocked the U.S. Department of Justice from pursuing an administrative case accusing Elon Musk’s SpaceX of illegally refusing to hire refugees and asylum recipients. U.S. District Judge Rolando Olvera in Brownsville, Texas said in a written order late Wednesday that administrative judges at the Justice Department who hear cases involving anti-immigrant bias were not properly appointed. Olvera blocked the department’s case, which was filed in August, from moving forward pending the outcome of SpaceX’s September lawsuit claiming the administrative case violates the U.S. Constitution.” (11/09/23)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/spacex-wins-reprieve-us-lawsuit-alleging-anti-immigrant-bias-2023-11-09/
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11) Chinese carrier strike group “sails through Taiwan Strait”
Source: South China Morning Post [Hong Kong]
“The People’s Liberation Army’s most advanced aircraft carrier sailed through the Taiwan Strait on Wednesday, Taipei said. It also marked the first time the Shandong carrier strike group crossed the strait after training in the western Pacific. Taipei’s defence ministry said the Shandong and its escort vessels had reached waters off northern Taiwan on Thursday morning, after travelling along the strait median line separating mainland China from the island. … The Shandong is the Chinese military’s second and first domestically made aircraft carrier. It first travelled through the strait in 2019, a week after being commissioned. Its last sailing through the narrow strip of water – home to key shipping lanes – was in June.” (11/09/23)
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/military/article/3240954/chinese-shandong-carrier-strike-group-sails-through-taiwan-strait-after-western-pacific-drills
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12) Google, Meta Win Court Fight Against Austrian Online Content Rule
Source: US News & World Report
“Alphabet’s Google, Meta Platforms and TikTok on Thursday won backing from Europe’s top court in their fight against an Austrian law requiring them to delete hate speech or face fines of up to ($10.69 million). The Austrian law, enacted in 2021 and which obliges Big Tech to publish regular reports of illegal content, comes amid mounting concerns worldwide about hateful posts. The European Union recently adopted new rules called the Digital Services Act (DSA) which require large online platforms to do more to tackle illegal and harmful online content or risk fines up to 6% of their annual turnover. Google, Meta and TikTok challenged the Austrian law in an Austrian court, saying that it is contrary to an EU rule which says online service providers are only subject to the rules of the country where they are established, while countries where they provide a service must refrain from applying their laws.” (11/09/23)
https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2023-11-09/google-meta-win-court-fight-against-austrian-online-content-rule
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13) US Reaper shot down off Yemeni coast
Source: United Press International
“An unmanned U.S. drone has been shot down near Yemen by Houthi military forces, a defense official said. The official said the MQ-9 Reaper drone was over international waters in international air space when it was downed. U.S. Central Command is investigating the incident. Houthi militants took responsibility for the attack, officials said. This incident comes two weeks after Navy warship, the USS Carney, downed a series of missiles and drones launched by Houthi backed forces, and, based on their trajectory, were almost certainly headed toward Israel, traveling north along the coast of the Red Sea.” (11/09/23)
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2023/11/09/Houthi-militia-shoots-down-US-drone-off-Yemeni-coast/9221699505233/
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14) US jobless claims dip to 217,000
Source: MarketWatch
“The number of Americans who applied for unemployment benefits last week fell slightly to 217,000 and stayed at very low levels typical of a strong U.S. jobs market. New jobless claims declined by 3,000 from a revised 220,000 in the prior week, the government said. Claims still show a very low number of job losses and indicate the economy is stable, but businesses are hiring less and the labor market appears to have cooled off a bit. One complication is the UAW auto strike. It may have inflated claims lately.” (11/09/23)
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/jobless-claims-dip-to-217-000-and-point-to-sturdy-u-s-labor-market-9ad70933
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15) Stein announces 2024 presidential bid under Green Party line
Source: CNN Politics
“Two-time Green Party presidential nominee Jill Stein announced Thursday she plans to seek the party’s nomination for the White House in 2024. ‘The political system is broken. The two Wall Street parties are bought and paid for,’ Stein said in a video posted on social media announcing her candidacy. Stein was the Green Party nominee for president in 2012 and 2016. Her 2016 candidacy drew the ire of Democrats, who blamed her for drawing traditionally Democratic voters away from their presidential nominee, Hillary Clinton, in key swing states. Stein’s announcement comes amid growing questions about the strength of President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign. A recent CNN poll showed former President Donald Trump, the front-runner for the 2024 GOP nomination, narrowly leading Biden in a hypothetical rematch.” (11/09/23)
https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/09/politics/jill-stein-green-party-2024-election/index.html
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16) Oil prices drop to three-month low amid record US production
Source: Axios
“The U.S. is pumping oil at a record rate, helping send crude oil prices lower. U.S crude oil prices fell to their lowest level in more than three months on Wednesday (though they ticked higher Thursday morning). West Texas Intermediate crude, the U.S. benchmark, is down more than 15.% since the end of September, to roughly $75 a barrel. The decrease comes even as Russia and Saudi Arabia are sticking to their voluntary production cuts to prop up prices.” (11/09/23)
https://www.axios.com/2023/11/09/oil-price-today-chart-production
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17) Ukraine war: Russian Missile Hits Liberia-Flagged Ship in Odesa
Source: US News & World Report
“A Russian missile strike on the Ukrainian port of Odesa hit a Liberian-flagged freighter, killing a port worker and injuring three citizens of the Philippines, who are crew members on the ship, Ukraine’s armed forces said Thursday. The report did not give the name of the ship or the country of its owners, but Infrastructure Minister Oleksandr Kubrakov said the ship was to carry iron ore to China. The extent of the damage was not immediately reported. Another port worker was injured in the attack along with the one killed.” (11/09/23)
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2023-11-09/a-russian-missile-hits-a-liberia-flagged-ship-in-odesa-ukraines-main-black-sea-port
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18) KS: “Libertarian” Lily Wu Pulls Off Upset in Wichita Mayoral Election Against Democrat Incumbent
Source: Independent Political Report
“Libertarian Lily Wu defeated Democratic incumbent Brandon Whipple in Tuesday’s election for Mayor of Wichita, Kansas. Wu, a political newcomer with a background in local television reporting, unseated the incumbent Brandon Whipple, who had served four terms in the Kansas House of Representatives before becoming mayor. According to local media reports, Wu won with 35,859 votes to Whipple’s 25,557. … While the election was technically nonpartisan, both candidates saw their affiliations become topics of conversation at various points on the campaign trail. … Since news of Wu’s election, the Libertarian Party of Kansas has gone on to denounce her, saying she’s not ‘associated or engaged’ with the organization before applauding the ‘true Libertarians’ who won during yesterday’s elections. ‘Make no mistake: Lily Wu is not associated or engaged with this party. She is backed by AFP and Koch and ran on giving more resources to cops’ the account stated on Wednesday morning.” (11/08/23)
https://independentpoliticalreport.com/2023/11/libertarian-lily-wu-pulls-off-upset-in-wichita-mayoral-election-against-democrat-incumbent/
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19) Ethiopia: Regime troops force armed group out of Orthodox holy site of Lalibela
Source: Al Jazeera [Qatar state media]
“The Ethiopian army on Thursday regained control of Lalibela, a UNESCO World Heritage site, following a pullout by a regional armed group whose fighters had overrun much of the historic town a day earlier. Fierce fighting broke out on Wednesday morning with Fano fighters taking control of much of Lalibela and pushing the army back to a base on the town’s outskirts. But the Ethiopian National Defence Force (ENDF) regained control on Thursday, residents said.” (11/09/23)
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/11/9/ethiopia-troops-force-armed-group-out-of-orthodox-holy-site-of-lalibela
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20) Actors strike ends with deal to be ratified this week
Source: United Press International
“The Screen Actors Guild and American Federation of Television and Radio Artists reached a deal with the Alliance of Motion Picture Television Producers on Wednesday. Trades Variety and The Hollywood Reporter both confirmed SAG-AFTRA announced the end of the strike. … SAG-AFTRA has been on strike since July after extending negotiations an extra two weeks but failing to reach a deal with the AMPTP. The actors strike lasted 118 days, following a 148 day Writers Guild of America strike.” (11/08/23)
https://www.upi.com/Entertainment_News/2023/11/08/actors-strike-ends-deal/2431699492484/
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21) The Barbarian Evasions
Source: Quillette
by David A Eisenberg
“When I ask my students to rethink the universality of human rights, the mere suggestion befuddles them. Creatures of their progressive times, the a priori existence of such rights is as firmly established in their minds as the existence of witches or geocentricity was in the minds of their ancestors. Even as they indulge my lines of inquiry, their convictions by and large remain unshakeable. But though unshakeable, they prove fantastically protean …. These students hold that the US incarceration system is but a system of human bondage whose inmates are veritable slaves; they vehemently and categorically denounce the use of torture in the War on Terror; they bristle with moral indignation when contemplating the fate of Korematsu and other Japanese Americans, condemned not for their deeds, but for their descent. Even so, they now contend that, in the case of the slaughter of over 1,000 Israeli civilians, context suddenly matters.” (11/09/23)
https://quillette.com/2023/11/09/the-barbarian-evasions/
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22) Psychedelics Will Help America’s Mental Health Crisis — If the FDA Lets Them
Source: American Institute for Economic Research
by Raymond J March
“ver 25 percent of US adults have a diagnosable mental illness, an alarming five-percent increase from just a few years ago. While some mental illnesses are temporary and can be treated, those with severe cases — about 5 percent of the population and growing — are not so fortunate. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is about to make a decision that could either help millions of Americans struggling with mental illness or leave them struggling, as mental health concerns rise across the nation.” (11/09/23)
https://www.aier.org/article/psychedelics-will-help-americas-mental-health-crisis-if-the-fda-lets-them/
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23) Zionism and the Nation-State
Source: Center for a Stateless Society
by Kevin Carson
“The Westphalian nation-state, which has been the normative component of the international system since the Treaty of Westphalia, necessarily entails (especially since the post-1789 identification of nationalism with the nation-state) the suppression of ethnic identity to a far greater extent than the expression of any such identity. Every constructed national identity associated with a ‘State of the X People’ has necessarily involved the suppression and homogenization of countless ethnicities present in the territory claimed by that state.” (11/09/23)
https://c4ss.org/content/59175
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24) The Realignment That Wasn’t
Source: Law & Liberty
by James M Patterson
“National Conservatives made a bet on a major political realignment following the election of Donald J. Trump to the presidency in 2016. The hope was that moderate Democrats might find appeal in a Republican Party that would pivot against liberal immigration policy, free markets, and defense of American interests abroad, advocating instead for closing the borders, introducing industrial policy, and expecting allies to rely less on our defense forces. That realignment has not surfaced. Why is that? There are three reasons.” (11/09/23)
https://lawliberty.org/the-realignment-that-wasnt/
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25) An Unusually Tricky Campus Free-Speech Fight
Source: The Atlantic
by Conor Friedersdorf
“Late last month, the chancellor of Florida’s university system, acting in consultation with Governor Ron DeSantis, ordered state universities to deactivate all local chapters of Students for Justice in Palestine. How could dissolving student groups be lawful, given constitutional protections for free speech and freedom of association? Although multiple local SJP chapters acted as apologists for the murders of Israeli civilians or stood in solidarity with the Hamas militants who killed and kidnapped children, even viewpoints that deplorable are entitled to First Amendment protection. But Florida says it is not targeting the protected speech of these groups. It is acting, instead, because the national SJP has run afoul of a state law against providing ‘material support’ to a terrorist organization.” (11/09/23)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/11/florida-sjp-campus-speech-law/675949/
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26) The Academy Has Fallen. The Children Are Lost.
Source: Underthrow
by Max Borders
“Get your money and your kids out of this institution. It is infested. It is sick. And it is the world’s leading social problem.” (11/09/23)
https://underthrow.substack.com/p/the-academy-has-fallen-the-children
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27) The “Open Border” Farce
Source: TomDispatch
by Todd Miller
“On September 23rd, at about 2:30 a.m., a Border Patrol surveillance camera captured two people crossing the international boundary between Mexico and the United States on the outskirts of Nogales, Arizona. A Border Patrol vehicle arrived quickly …. he found a 16-year-old girl from Mexico softly crying, while holding her month-old baby swaddled in a blanket. The agent commanded her to get in the vehicle. As they then drove to the Nogales Border Patrol station, the girl, he later reported, tried to speak to him in Spanish through the security partition that separated them. Her tiny daughter, she was telling him, was in distress. Cameras showed that the vehicle stopped for all of 10 seconds before continuing. The agent later claimed he couldn’t understand what she was saying and that he wanted to find a fluent Spanish speaker at the station.” (11/09/23)
https://tomdispatch.com/bidens-border/
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28) The European Union’s Distorted Theory of “Liberty”
Source: Libertarian Institute
by Brice M Vanhaelen
“Today, governments in Europe have a broad answer to the question, ‘What is the role of government?’ A culture of interventionism incrusted over many years convinced European governments that everything can be solved with more money, more bureaucrats, and more plans. Needleless to say, with this mindset governments always ask and obtain more power and it’s never assumed that they could become too large. No longer is the government managing the affairs of the State, because all of life is now an affair of the State.” (11/09/23)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/the-european-unions-distorted-theory-of-liberty/
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29) China Reverses Course on Population Planning
Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Peter Jacobsen
“2022 marked the first year in over six decades where China recorded a population drop. This isn’t just a blip. Unless something changes, China’s population will fall increasingly quickly for the foreseeable future. To combat this, Xi says, ‘[w]e must actively cultivate a new culture of marriage and childbearing.’ Although CCP leaders would never admit the population policies of the past were a mistake, for fear of admitting a failure of late dictator Mao Zedong, this course reversal comes as close to an admission as anyone is likely to get. The key takeaway in this moment, though, is not just the failure of Mao and the one child policy. The failure rests in the very idea of centrally planning a population and all central planners who promoted it throughout the 20th century. Let’s look at why it failed.” (11/09/23)
https://fee.org/articles/china-reverses-course-on-population-planning/
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30) Congress should convene a fiscal commission to put America on a sustainable trajectory
Source: Orange County Register
by Veronique de Rugy
“There’s much talk today about the need for a fiscal commission. The House Budget Committee held a hearing about it a few weeks ago. Pundits are Substacking about whether using the approach to put federal finances on a sustainable path is a good or a bad idea. And according to a recent polling, voters support the idea of a commission. Great. But that shouldn’t obscure the fact that a commission would be the result of our legislators constantly acting like children by refusing to be good stewards of taxpayers’ dollars, which is their No. 1 job. There are also a few important things needed to make such a commission successful.” (11/09/23)
https://www.ocregister.com/2023/11/09/congress-should-convene-a-fiscal-commission-to-put-america-on-a-sustainable-trajectory/
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31) Vivek Ramaswamy Was Created in a Right-Wing Online Edgelord Factory
Source: The Daily Beast
by Matt Lewis
“In the more idyllic times before Donald Trump, Ramaswamy would have been mercilessly mocked for being obnoxiously thirsty. But the right has morphed into something unrecognizable since The Donald came down that gold-plated Trump Tower escalator in 2015. It’s worth noting that Ramaswamy was just around 30 years old at the time, and I can’t help but think that is telling. Unlike DeSantis and the other Gen X and late-Boomer candidates on the debate stage, the millennial Ramaswamy didn’t have to reverse-engineer his persona to fit in with the MAGA movement. He is part of a generation that came of age politically during the rise of alt-right shitposters. And it shows.” (11/09/23)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/vivek-ramaswamy-was-created-in-a-right-wing-edgelord-factory
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32) The People of Gaza Need a Ceasefire Now
Source: Eunomia
by Daniel Larison
“There are many Palestinian civilians that have been trapped in the rubble of collapsed buildings that have not yet been included in the reckoning of how many people have been killed in Gaza in the last month. 10,000 dead in a month is horrifying, especially when we remember that most of those killed were women and children. There is good reason to think that the real total is significantly higher. That number is only going to increase as the bombing continues and starvation, dehydration, and disease begin claiming more innocent lives.” (11/09/23)
https://daniellarison.substack.com/p/the-people-of-gaza-need-a-ceasefire
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33) Dismantle Israel And The Entire US Empire
Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
“More than 20 House Democrats joined Republicans in voting to censure Palestinian-American congresswoman Rashida Tlaib on Tuesday for her comments supporting Palestinians against Israel’s murderous assault on Gaza. Democrats were happy to have a Palestinian woman in congress until they found out she was the ‘Palestinians are human beings’ kind of Palestinian and not the ‘Look how diverse and inclusive Democrats are’ kind. They’re like, ‘I was fine with the Palestinian woman until she started supporting the Palestinians. Did nobody tell her that her only job is to quietly pose for Instagram selfies with Nancy Pelosi?’ … White House spokesman John Kirby has confirmed that the Biden administration is still drawing zero red lines with how Israel is permitted to use US-supplied weapons in Gaza.” (11/09/23)
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2023/11/09/dismantle-israel-and-the-entire-us-empire/
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34) What Ron DeSantis Learned in Iraq
Source: Foreign Policy
by James Kitfield
“In advertisements and appearances introducing himself to an ever-widening circle of potential voters, DeSantis has consistently downplayed his years of elite Ivy League schooling and instead leaned heavily into his military service and identity. As the first words of the TV ad that introduced him to Florida voters as a candidate for governor stressed, he was ‘Ron DeSantis, Iraq War veteran.’ In the first Republican presidential debate in August introducing candidates to a national audience, he again stressed his military service as seminal to his approach to politics. … When pressed by journalists about what exactly he learned during his military service in a time of war, however, DeSantis has been far less forthcoming.” (11/09/23)
https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/11/09/ron-desantis-gop-debate-2024-election-iraq-war-experience-military-service/
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35) Biden Order on Artificial Intelligence Puts Too Much Faith in Regulators
Source: National Review
by Jessica Melugin
“President Biden’s executive order (EO) on artificial intelligence (AI) directs more than a dozen federal agencies to, among other things, ‘establish guidelines and best practices, with the aim of promoting consensus industry standards, for developing and deploying safe, secure, and trustworthy AI systems.’ The order overestimates what regulators can accurately anticipate about a dynamic technology and ignores the challenges of actors outside the reach of U.S. law. It may also be unconstitutional in what federal agencies are allowed to do. If you think bureaucrats do a better job encouraging innovation and mitigating risk than markets do, this order may seem reasonable. But if you’re a student of regulatory history, even one that doesn’t know much about AI or the details of the EO, you can already predict its harms.” (11/09/23)
https://www.nationalreview.com/2023/11/biden-order-on-artificial-intelligence-puts-too-much-faith-in-regulators/
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36) Seven takeaways from Wednesday’s GOP debate in Miami
Source: Semafor
by David Weigel, Shelby Talcott, & Benjy Sarlin
“Democrats fear Haley as a general election candidate — except when she starts talking about Social Security, which she did at length on Wednesday. Asked about entitlements, Haley reiterated her call to raise the retirement age as part of a broader plan to rein in costs. ‘Any candidate that says they’re not going to take on entitlements is not being serious,’ she said. Chris Christie agreed, saying younger workers like his son would be given more than enough time to plan for a future increase. But Scott disagreed, saying it was unfair to expect farmers ‘working night and day’ to continue doing physical labor any longer. And DeSantis said the conversation made little sense given the public health crises facing the country.” (11/09/23)
https://www.semafor.com/article/11/08/2023/seven-takeaways-from-wednesdays-gop-debate-in-miami
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37) WeInflate, WeMalinvest, WeWork
Source: American Institute for Economic Research
by Peter C Earle
“The bankruptcy filing of WeWork Inc. on November 6, 2023 came with neither a whimper nor a bang, but with a laconic shrug. Although the company has been around for 13 years, it has been defined more by successive flirtations with demise and unseemly corporate revelations than by innovative ideas for the second half of its life. Few were surprised when the latest, and possibly not the final, chapter arrived. While some stories are better told starting at the end, the WeWork story is best told from the beginning: It started as a company that rents desks. That’s it.” (11/09/23)
https://www.aier.org/article/weinflate-wemalinvest-wework/
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38) The Big Lie About Inequality
Source: CounterPunch
by Dean Baker
“We all know about Donald Trump’s ‘Big Lie’ that he won the 2020 election. This is of course laughable, there is nothing in the real world to support Trump’s fantasies of massive voter fraud. However, there is arguably an even bigger lie that enjoys near-universal acceptance in intellectual circles. It is the claim the huge rise in inequality over the last half century was due to market forces.” (11/09/23)
https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/11/09/the-big-lie-about-inequality/
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39) Western Liberals Need to Extend the Same Humanity to Gaza as they Did to Ukraine
Source: Liberal Currents
by Matthew Downhour
“It is high time to recognize the humanity of all victims of warfare. The images of bombed-out high rises and shattered hospitals coming out of Gaza could just have easily come out of Mariupol or Severodonetsk a year ago. But the response of too many liberals has been strikingly different. Many of us have extended the benefit of the doubt to the Israeli Defense Forces as they explained the apparent necessity of destroying civilian objects in a way that we wisely did not to the Russian Armed Forces. The affinity for a state that looks much more like our own liberal democracies in the west is understandable, but liberals with a sense of history should understand that militarism and the desire for territorial expansion can lead institutions ostensibly rooted in liberal values to commit atrocities.” (11/09/23)
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/western-liberals-need-to-extend-the-same-humanity-to-gaza-as-they-did-to-ukraine/
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40) More Violence Leads to Even More Violence
Source: Antiwar.com
by Ron Forthofer
“Since October 7th, the ongoing horrific violence in Palestine and Israel has received incredible amounts of media coverage. Both Israelis and Palestinians are experiencing terrible pain and suffering. Unsurprisingly, the mainstream media’s reporting provided little context for the deadly Hamas attack and its war crimes. Note that the provision of the context is not a justification for the Hamas attack, but it allows people to have more information about what happened.” (11/09/23)
https://original.antiwar.com/ron_forthofer/2023/11/08/more-violence-leads-to-even-more-violence/
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41) Academic freedom is under attack from left and right
Source: spiked
by Jim Butcher
“The debate over free speech in universities is riddled with hypocrisy. Just look at the latest row between the UK Conservative government and the University and College Union (UCU), the trade union representing academics and other university staff. Each side claims to be defending academic freedom, but both take an entirely partial, partisan view of what academics should be allowed to say.” (11/09/23)
https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/11/09/academic-freedom-is-under-attack-from-left-and-right/
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42) Innovations in Racism
Source: The American Prospect
by David Dayen
“People are rightly concerned about the potential for new technology to foster discrimination. You can load parameters into an algorithm, or allow artificial intelligence to make lending decisions based on a statistical analysis of the creditworthiness of people with certain characteristics, and you’ve created a kind of digital redlining. No human hands would dictate the racial or gender prejudice, it would just happen through the bot. Regulators are attuned to this. ‘We have tried to make abundantly clear that there is no AI carve-out in the nation’s consumer financial protection laws,’ Consumer Financial Protection Bureau director Rohit Chopra told me in a recent interview. But an order from Chopra’s agency yesterday shows that the innovation in racial discrimination can simply be a matter of who to discriminate against.” (11/09/23)
https://prospect.org/blogs-and-newsletters/tap/2023-11-09-innovations-in-racism-citibank/
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43) Why Study History?
Source: Pioneer Institute
by Jude Iredell
“Because the Founders asked us to — and because it’s good for you. Ben Franklin’s quip after the Constitutional Convention that he gave Americans ‘a republic if [they] can keep it’ is an oft-repeated line in civic-minded circles, but the sentiment expressed is no less relevant. Our most senior Founding Father understood the sensitivity of the new American experiment. He hoped future citizens would study the historical narrative and intellectual reasoning that informed our Constitution. Otherwise, its soaring rhetoric would be little more than a ‘parchment guarantee’ to those unfamiliar with how America arrived at more enlightened governance.” (11/09/23)
https://pioneerinstitute.org/blog/why-study-history/
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44) Both Republicans and Democrats Want ‘Buy American’ Provisions for EV Chargers
Source: Reason
by Joe Lancaster
“While it may seem at times that America is hopelessly divided, there are some issues on which lawmakers seem to agree. For example, both Republicans and Democrats support protectionist policies that drive up prices for consumers.” (11/09/23)
https://reason.com/2023/11/09/both-republicans-and-democrats-want-buy-american-provisions-for-e-v-chargers/
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45) Foreign Policy Lessons from Ronald Reagan, a Conservative Peacenik
Source: The American Conservative
by Doug Bandow
“In a world aflame, the Biden administration risks sleepwalking into two or three catastrophic wars. Leading Republicans are on board. Yet an increasing number of Americans have tired of endless foolish conflicts abroad. American policymakers should learn from Ronald Reagan. In today’s GOP, divided between persistent neocon warmongers and the MAGA crowd’s intermittent interventionism, the 40th president is a political artifact. Nevertheless, Reagan’s legacy is as relevant as ever. In a far more dangerous world, he practiced a foreign policy of prudence, avoiding the bloody conflicts big and small that deform current U.S. foreign policy.” (11/09/23)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/foreign-policy-lessons-from-ronald-reagan-a-conservative-peacenik/
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46) Unconstitutional Killings
Source: Judging Freedom
by Andrew P Napolitano
“The Biden administration is killing people, openly in Ukraine and Gaza and secretly around the world. It has continued to use the killing machinery crafted by President George W. Bush, expanded by President Barack Obama, and employed by President Donald Trump. These presidents have used drones and other unmanned projectiles to target persons in foreign countries with which the United States is not at war. They have done this notwithstanding the prohibition against taking life, liberty or property from any person — not just any American, but any person — in the Constitution each has sworn to uphold, and they have done so pursuant to secret rules that they themselves have established for these killings.” (11/09/23)
https://judgenap.com/unconstitutional-killings/
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47) Abortion Rights and Weed Are Super Popular. Who Knew?
Source: The Intercept
by Ryan Grim
“Broadly speaking, this is one of those moments where I think the conventional wisdom from the press was correct: Their take is that abortion as an electoral issue continues to power Democrats and drag down Republicans. It drove voters to the polls in Ohio, Virginia, and Pennsylvania, and in New Jersey, the GOP’s unpopular position on abortion rights undercuts everything else they do on the culture front. The effort by Republicans in New Jersey to ride culture war anger at trans-related school policies also flopped, with Democrats expanding their majorities.” (11/08/23)
https://theintercept.com/2023/11/08/election-results-abortion-weed-democrats/
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48) The Biden administration’s original sin of America on the world stage
Source: Fox News Forum
by US Senator Ted Budd (R-NC)
“The world is tearing at the seams. Forces of evil and instability are on the march around the globe. But in Washington, President Biden has lacked the strength and focus necessary to protect our homeland and deter our adversaries abroad. … The Biden administration’s original sin is its failure to recognize that for America to be a strong nation, we must first be strong at home. COVID exposed brittle supply chains, the challenge from China, and emphasized the need for a renewal of American manufacturing. Rates of violent crime are up across the country. Meanwhile, the southern border is in chaos and deadly drugs like fentanyl took over 100,000 American lives just last year. Prices for groceries, gas, and electricity are too high, our students’ test scores are plummeting, and overregulation is stifling America’s entrepreneurial spirit.” (11/09/23)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/biden-administration-original-sin-america-world-stage
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49) Conservatism and Historical Empiricism
Source: EconLog
by Kevin Corcoran
“In my previous post, I introduced Yoram Hazony’s project in his new book, Conservatism: A Rediscovery. What, to Hazony, separates true conservatism from Enlightenment liberalism, and why is the former superior to the latter? To answer this, Hazony looks to the writings of major conservative thinkers in centuries past, such as John Fortescue, Richard Hooker, John Seldon, and Edmund Burke. What unites these thinkers is their support for what Hazony dubs historical empiricism, and their distrust of universalist, rationalist theories founded on abstract reason.” (11/08/23)
https://www.econlib.org/hazony-conservatism-historical-empiricism
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50) A Thin Veneer of Protectionism
Source: Show-Me Institute
by David Stokes
“Across the country, people are starting to realize that occupational licensing has gone too far. Slowly but surely, we are recognizing that far too often, government has been making decisions about who can do what in areas where customers and employers should be the ones making that choice. Occupational licensing increases costs to consumers and people entering the workforce, favors politically influential groups, and serves, in most cases, as a protectionist measure designed to benefit incumbent practitioners of the licensed occupation at the expense of future practitioners and the public. Show-Me Institute analysts have long written about the harms of occupational licensing in Missouri.” (11/08/23)
https://showmeinstitute.org/blog/regulation/a-thin-veneer-of-protectionism/
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51) Why the Banks Are Failing Us
Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob
“We depend on big businesses, especially upon banks. We pay for our food, clothing, medicines, and much else with little plastic cards from our banks. So when those cards stop working, all of a sudden — without warning — our hearts are going to do a bit more than beat just a little faster.
Why would there be big hiccups at all? … I’m not talking about the allegedly transient snag in the direct deposit system last week — apparently due to human error — but something more persistent, if scattershot.” (11/08/23)
https://thisiscommonsense.org/2023/11/08/why-the-banks-are-failing-us/
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52) Having rights still bewilderingly popular
Source: Washington Post
by Alexandra Petri
“Tuesday’s election results suggest that the Republican legislative strategy of ‘taking people’s rights away for no clear reason’ was not an overwhelming success at the ballot box. Potential Childbearing Vessels on Legs contumaciously insist on continuing to see themselves as fully realized people deserving of the protection of the law, and, unfortunately, they can still vote, and some of them even have friends who vote with them. … When confronted with questions such as ‘What should be in my library? Books, or just empty shelves and a scowling member of Moms for Liberty standing with folded arms and hissing whenever anyone dares approach?’ people overwhelmingly selected the first thing. When they were given a choice between Deciding and Having Things Decided For Them, Deciding proved surprisingly popular.” (11/08/23)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/11/08/tuesday-election-female-rights-popular/
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53) Lessons for Gaza from Colombia
Source: Christian Science Monitor
by staff
“Whoever governs Gaza after Israel ends its military operations in the Palestinian enclave will have to address what gave rise to Hamas and its extremist ideology. One place to look for that sort of discernment is Colombia, where the government’s year-old Total Peace plan shows signs of curbing the violent radicalization of many armed groups. South America’s second-most populous country has long tried to end decades of ideology-based warfare and violence driven by guerrilla groups, gangs, and drug cartels. The current government’s all-at-once strategy has plenty of doubters, but it has led to negotiating peace agreements with as many as 26 armed groups simultaneously. The government’s main assumption in the talks: Equality and trust are building blocks not only for negotiations but also for creating a just and gentle society.” (11/09/23)
https://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/the-monitors-view/2023/1109/Lessons-for-Gaza-from-Colombia
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54) A General Strike in 2028 Is Uniquely Plausible
Source: In These Times
by Hamilton Nolan
“The labor movement is a capricious friend — it hands out heartbreak as much as it hands out joy. But every once in a while, it is able to wave a triumphant flag and give us all a glimmer of what its potential could truly be. The recently concluded UAW strike offered just such a moment. It wasn’t just the contract agreements themselves, which were a material success, but also the union’s public call for movement-wide coordination to build the possibility of mass action around the May 1, 2028 expiration of the next auto contracts. ‘We invite unions around the country to align your contract expirations with our own so that together we can begin to flex our collective muscles,’ the UAW declared on October 29. This could be the beginning of the most exciting resurgence of American organized labor power in a century. Or, it could just be a tweet.” (11/09/23)
https://inthesetimes.com/article/uaw-auto-workers-general-strike-contract-labor-unions
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55) Pandemic Boat Market Economics
Source: Independent Institute
by Samuel R Staley
“By now, many, if not most, people are aware of rising home prices nationwide since the COVID-19 Pandemic. These higher prices have pushed homeownership beyond the reach of many households. Many of the same factors that drove home prices up also seem to have affected the market for sail and motor boats as a surge in demand led to widespread purchases of ‘pandemic boats.'” (11/08/23)
https://blog.independent.org/2023/11/08/covid-19-lockdowns-boats
_____ Today's Freedom Podcast and Video _____
56) The Chris Spangle Show, 11/09/23
Source: We Are Libertarians
“Giving Your Kids a Passion Driven Education with Connor Boyack.” (11/09/23)
https://www.chrisspangle.com/p/giving-your-kids-a-passion-driven
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57) Show-Me Institute Podcast, 11/09/23
Source: Show-Me Institute
“Why Family-friendly Metros Matter with Robert VerBruggen.” (11/09/23)
https://showmeinstitute.org/blog/municipal-policy/why-family-friendly-metros-matter-with-robert-verbruggen/
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58) Capital Record, episode 144
Source: National Review
“Cash Flow Tells the Truth.” (11/09/23)
https://www.nationalreview.com/podcasts/capital-record/cash-flow-tells-the-truth/
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59) Advisory Opinions, 11/09/23
Source: The Dispatch
“Solicitor General 9000.” (11/09/23)
https://thedispatch.com/podcast/advisoryopinions/solicitor-general-9000/
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60) The Bryan Hyde Show, 11/09/23
Source: The Bryan Hyde Show
“One of the toughest obstacles that lovers of freedom must overcome is the public’s tendency to see the control-at-all-costs agenda as something innocent. Todd Hayen takes that misconception apart nicely.” (11/09/23)
https://www.podbean.com/ep/pb-cqp8c-14f4069
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61) How Has Israel Changed Since Oct. 7?
Source: Reason
“[A] discussion with economist, podcaster, and Shalem College president Russ Roberts.” (11/09/23)
https://reason.com/video/2023/11/09/how-has-israel-changed-since-oct-7/
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62) Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp, 11/09/23
Source: Antiwar.com
“US Launches More Airstrikes in Eastern Syria, Houthis Down US MQ-9 Drone Off Yemen, and More.” (11/09/23)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJkcZ8x654E
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63) Free Talk Live, 11/08/23
Source: Free Talk Live
“Man in New Hampshire got life for Fentanyl :: If drugs were legal there would probably be less crime :: I love drugs :: Fentanyl should be sold in CVS :: Sarah says vote Democrat even if they’re terrible candidates :: Jett says no human has authority over another human :: Cops are no different than an occupying military force :: Positivity is a great way to get control of your life :: 2023-11-08 Hosts: Bonnie, Riley, Nikki.” (11/08/23)
https://soundcloud.com/freetalklive/free-talk-live-2023-11-08
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64) Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock, 11/08/23
Source: Freedom’s Phoenix
“Stephen Williams (Abundance Building Concepts) on sustainable, eco-friendly building techniques using styro aircrete; new e-courses now available.” (11/08/23)
https://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Media/353464-2023-11-08-2023-11-08-ernest-hancock-interviews-stephen-williams-abundance-building.htm
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65) Reason Interview: Colleen Eren
Source: Reason
“The author of Reform Nation explains how celebrity, philanthropy, and activism produced the most significant prison reform in decades.” (11/08/23)
https://reason.com/podcast/2023/11/08/colleen-eren-why-donald-trump-signed-the-first-step-act/
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66) The Tom Woods Show, episode 2415
Source: The Tom Woods Show
“The Fake China Threat.” (11/08/23)
https://tomwoods.com/ep-2415-the-fake-china-threat/
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67) The Vital Center, episode 57
Source: Niskanen Center
“The decline of the American Dream, with David Leonhardt.” (11/08/23)
https://www.niskanencenter.org/the-decline-of-the-american-dream-with-david-leonhardt
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68) The Learning Curve, 11/08/23
Source: Pioneer Institute
“Vanderbilt’s Dr. Carol Swain on U.S. History, Race, & 1776 Unites.” (11/08/23)
https://pioneerinstitute.org/news/vanderbilts-dr-carol-swain-on-u-s-history-race-1776-unites/
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69) Freedom Works with Paul Molloy, 11/08/23
Source: Freedom Works
“Hans von Spakovsky, Heritage Foundation: ‘Judges can’t bar Trump from 2024 ballots.'” (11/08/23)
http://internetradiopros.com/freedomworks/?name=2023-11-08_zfw11062023.mp3
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70) Conflicts of Interest, episode 496
Source: Libertarian Institute
“White House Admits Massive Death Toll in Gaza, But Still Backs Israel.” (11/08/23)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/kyle/coi-496-white-house-admits-massive-death-toll-in-gaza-but-still-backs-israel/
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Today's Freedom News:
0) Firehose Friday / Year-End Fundraiser Update
1) Palestine: Israel agrees to “breaks” in Gaza fighting
2) Appeals court notices Biden's "ghost gun" limits are unlawful
3) Spain: Sanchez reaches deal with Catalan separatist party to remain in power
4) WV: Manchin says he won’t seek re-election in 2024
5) Russia: Putin visits military HQ to “assess” Ukraine fiasco
6) Powell: Fed is “not confident” it has done enough to bring inflation down
7) Judge: Lyrics Can Be Used as Evidence During Rapper’s Trial on Gang and Racketeering Charges
8) Kenya: Regime says it won’t deploy police to fight gangs in Haiti until they receive training and funding
9) Comer made Biden-like loans to brother
10) SpaceX wins reprieve from US lawsuit alleging anti-immigrant bias
11) Chinese carrier strike group “sails through Taiwan Strait”
12) Google, Meta Win Court Fight Against Austrian Online Content Rule
13) US Reaper shot down off Yemeni coast
14) US jobless claims dip to 217,000
15) Stein announces 2024 presidential bid under Green Party line
16) Oil prices drop to three-month low amid record US production
17) Ukraine war: Russian Missile Hits Liberia-Flagged Ship in Odesa
18) KS: “Libertarian” Lily Wu Pulls Off Upset in Wichita Mayoral Election Against Democrat Incumbent
19) Ethiopia: Regime troops force armed group out of Orthodox holy site of Lalibela
20) Actors strike ends with deal to be ratified this week
Today's Freedom Commentary:
21) The Barbarian Evasions
22) Psychedelics Will Help America’s Mental Health Crisis — If the FDA Lets Them
23) Zionism and the Nation-State
24) The Realignment That Wasn’t
25) An Unusually Tricky Campus Free-Speech Fight
26) The Academy Has Fallen. The Children Are Lost.
27) The “Open Border” Farce
28) The European Union’s Distorted Theory of “Liberty”
29) China Reverses Course on Population Planning
30) Congress should convene a fiscal commission to put America on a sustainable trajectory
31) Vivek Ramaswamy Was Created in a Right-Wing Online Edgelord Factory
32) The People of Gaza Need a Ceasefire Now
33) Dismantle Israel And The Entire US Empire
34) What Ron DeSantis Learned in Iraq
35) Biden Order on Artificial Intelligence Puts Too Much Faith in Regulators
36) Seven takeaways from Wednesday’s GOP debate in Miami
37) WeInflate, WeMalinvest, WeWork
38) The Big Lie About Inequality
39) Western Liberals Need to Extend the Same Humanity to Gaza as they Did to Ukraine
40) More Violence Leads to Even More Violence
41) Academic freedom is under attack from left and right
42) Innovations in Racism
43) Why Study History?
44) Both Republicans and Democrats Want ‘Buy American’ Provisions for EV Chargers
45) Foreign Policy Lessons from Ronald Reagan, a Conservative Peacenik
46) Unconstitutional Killings
47) Abortion Rights and Weed Are Super Popular. Who Knew?
48) The Biden administration’s original sin of America on the world stage
49) Conservatism and Historical Empiricism
50) A Thin Veneer of Protectionism
51) Why the Banks Are Failing Us
52) Having rights still bewilderingly popular
53) Lessons for Gaza from Colombia
54) A General Strike in 2028 Is Uniquely Plausible
55) Pandemic Boat Market Economics
Today's Freedom Podcast and Video:
56) The Chris Spangle Show, 11/09/23
57) Show-Me Institute Podcast, 11/09/23
58) Capital Record, episode 144
59) Advisory Opinions, 11/09/23
60) The Bryan Hyde Show, 11/09/23
61) How Has Israel Changed Since Oct. 7?
62) Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp, 11/09/23
63) Free Talk Live, 11/08/23
64) Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock, 11/08/23
65) Reason Interview: Colleen Eren
66) The Tom Woods Show, episode 2415
67) The Vital Center, episode 57
68) The Learning Curve, 11/08/23
69) Freedom Works with Paul Molloy, 11/08/23
70) Conflicts of Interest, episode 496
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1) Palestine: Israel agrees to “breaks” in Gaza fighting
Source: euronews [EU]
“The Israeli army has agreed to observe breaks of a few hours each day in the north of the Gaza Strip, to allow Palestinian civilians to flee. ‘A ceasefire with Hamas means a surrender,’ Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu repeated on Thursday evening on the Fox News channel. He reaffirmed his objective of ‘eradicating Hamas’ which rules Gaza. ‘Nothing will stop us.’ Israel, however, agreed to make daily humanitarian pauses from Thursday to allow civilians to flee the north — where fighting is raging — towards the south of the territory, according to the United States. … Hundreds of thousands of refugees are crowded in south Gaza, facing increasingly disastrous conditions. … According to OCHA, the number of displaced people in Gaza now stands at 1.6 million out of a population of 2.4 million.” (11/10/23)
https://www.euronews.com/2023/11/10/israel-agrees-to-breaks-in-fighting-food-running-out-in-gaza-war-devastates-palestinian-ec
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2) Appeals court notices Biden's "ghost gun" limits are unlawful
Source: US News & World Report
"A federal appeals court on Thursday ruled that the Biden administration lacked authority to adopt a regulation aimed at reining in privately made firearms called 'ghost guns' that are difficult for law enforcement to trace. A three-judge panel of the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sided with a group of firearm owners, gun rights groups and manufacturers in declaring the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives' 2022 rule 'unlawful.' ... U.S. Circuit Judge Kurt Engelhardt, writing for the 5th Circuit panel, said ATF's rule 'flouts clear statutory text and exceeds the legislatively-imposed limits on agency authority in the name of public policy.'" [editor's note: Not to mention that the rule is clearly and unambiguously unconstitutional, which the court does not seem to have noticed - TLK] (11/09/23)
https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2023-11-09/us-appeals-court-calls-bidens-ghost-gun-limits-unlawful
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3) Spain: Sanchez reaches deal with Catalan separatist party to remain in power
Source: France 24 [French state media]
“Spain’s prime minister has clinched agreement with Catalan separatists, officials said on Thursday, in a deal that will enable him to remain in power but that has raised tensions and sparked protests in the country. Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s Socialists finished second in the July 23 parliamentary elections and he has until November 27 to cobble together a working coalition, or face fresh elections. Sanchez needs the support of Catalan independence parties, and has accepted their demands to offer amnesty to all those being pursued for their role in a failed secession attempt in 2017. He has proposed a highly controversial bill that would grant amnesty. In response, conservative opposition parties and members of Spain’s judiciary have stepped up criticism, with some accusing Sanchez of corruption and abandoning the rule of law.” (11/09/23)
https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20231109-spanish-pm-sanchez-reaches-deal-with-catalan-separatist-party-to-remain-in-power
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4) WV: Manchin says he won’t seek re-election in 2024
Source: Axios
“Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) announced on Thursday that he will not seek reelection to the Senate in 2024, almost certainly handing Republicans a seat in next year’s elections in a deep red state. … ‘But what I will be doing is traveling the country and speaking out to see if there is an interest in creating a movement to mobilize the middle and bring Americans together.'” [editor’s note: In other words, he plans to seek “No Label nomination for president – TLK] (11/09/23)
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/4302658-manchin-wont-seek-reelection-in-west-virginia/
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5) Russia: Putin visits military HQ to “assess” Ukraine fiasco
Source: ABC News
“Russian President Vladimir Putin visited the Southern Military District headquarters in Rostov-on-Don as he assessed the state of his country’s forces in Ukraine as the war drags on toward winter. It was his second public visit to the headquarters in less than a month. Video shared by a Russian state news agency showed Putin being greeted late Thursday by Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu and Valery Gerasimov, chief of the General Staff. … Putin made the visit on the way back from a trip to Kazakhstan, where he aimed to cement ties with Russia’s ex-Soviet neighbor and major economic partner in the midst of tensions with the West over Ukraine.” (11/10/23)
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/putin-top-military-leaders-visit-southern-military-headquarters-104782406
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6) Powell: Fed is “not confident” it has done enough to bring inflation down
Source: CNBC
“Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said Thursday that he and his fellow policymakers are encouraged by the slowing pace of inflation but are unsure whether they’ve done enough to keep the momentum going. Speaking a little more than a week after the central bank voted to hold benchmark policy rates steady, Powell said in remarks for an International Monetary Fund audience that more work could be ahead in the battle against high prices. … The speech comes with inflation still well above the Fed’s long-standing goal but also considerably below its peak levels in the first half of 2022. In a series of 11 rate hikes that constituted the most aggressive policy tightening since the early 1980s, the committee took its benchmark rate from near zero to a target range of 5.25%-5.5%.” (11/09/23)
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/11/09/powell-says-fed-is-not-confident-it-has-done-enough-to-bring-inflation-down.html
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7) Judge: Lyrics Can Be Used as Evidence During Rapper’s Trial on Gang and Racketeering Charges
Source: US News & World Report
“When rapper Young Thug goes to trial later this month on gang and racketeering charges, prosecutors will be allowed to use rap lyrics as evidence against him, a judge ruled Thursday. Fulton County Superior Court Chief Judge Ural Glanville said in court he would allow prosecutors to introduce 17 sets of lyrics they have identified as long as they can show that the lyrics are related to crimes that the rapper and others are accused of committing. Defense attorneys had asked the judge to exclude them, arguing the lyrics are constitutionally protected speech and would be unfairly prejudicial. Young Thug, whose given name is Jeffery Lamar Williams, was indicted last year along with more than two dozen others.” (11/09/23)
https://www.usnews.com/news/entertainment/articles/2023-11-09/lyrics-can-be-used-as-evidence-during-rapper-young-thugs-trial-on-gang-and-racketeering-charges
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8) Kenya: Regime says it won’t deploy police to fight gangs in Haiti until they receive training and funding
Source: ABC News
“Kenya’s government said Thursday that its police officers will not be deployed to Haiti until all conditions on training and funding are met in line with last month’s approval from the U.N Security Council to give the eastern African country command of a multinational mission to combat violent gangs in the troubled Caribbean country. Interior Minister Kithure Kindiki told Parliament’s Departmental Committee on Administration and Internal Security that ‘unless all resources are mobilized and availed, our troops will not leave the country.’ He said U.N. member states are securing resources and have identified how funds will be mobilized and made available to Kenya for the mission. However, it was not immediately clear when the forces would be fully trained and funded to allow for deployment.” (11/09/23)
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/kenya-deploy-police-fight-gangs-haiti-receive-training-104762612
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9) Comer made Biden-like loans to brother
Source: The Daily Beast
“House Oversight Committee chair James Comer (R-KY) on Wednesday subpoenaed President Joe Biden’s brother, James Biden, who Comer has implicated in unsubstantiated allegations of “shady business practices” in the Biden family. Comer has in particular been trying to make hay out of two personal loan repayments from James Biden to his brother, for $40,000 and $200,000 — with all transactions occurring in 2017 and 2018, when Joe Biden was neither in office nor a candidate. … According to Kentucky property records, Comer and his own brother have engaged in land swaps related to their family farming business. In one deal — also involving $200,000, as well as a shell company — the more powerful and influential Comer channeled extra money to his brother, seemingly from nothing. Other recent land swaps were quickly followed with new applications for special tax breaks, state records show.” (11/09/23)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/james-comer-like-joe-biden-also-paid-his-brother-dollar200k
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10) SpaceX wins reprieve from US lawsuit alleging anti-immigrant bias
Source: Reuters
“A U.S. judge has blocked the U.S. Department of Justice from pursuing an administrative case accusing Elon Musk’s SpaceX of illegally refusing to hire refugees and asylum recipients. U.S. District Judge Rolando Olvera in Brownsville, Texas said in a written order late Wednesday that administrative judges at the Justice Department who hear cases involving anti-immigrant bias were not properly appointed. Olvera blocked the department’s case, which was filed in August, from moving forward pending the outcome of SpaceX’s September lawsuit claiming the administrative case violates the U.S. Constitution.” (11/09/23)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/spacex-wins-reprieve-us-lawsuit-alleging-anti-immigrant-bias-2023-11-09/
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11) Chinese carrier strike group “sails through Taiwan Strait”
Source: South China Morning Post [Hong Kong]
“The People’s Liberation Army’s most advanced aircraft carrier sailed through the Taiwan Strait on Wednesday, Taipei said. It also marked the first time the Shandong carrier strike group crossed the strait after training in the western Pacific. Taipei’s defence ministry said the Shandong and its escort vessels had reached waters off northern Taiwan on Thursday morning, after travelling along the strait median line separating mainland China from the island. … The Shandong is the Chinese military’s second and first domestically made aircraft carrier. It first travelled through the strait in 2019, a week after being commissioned. Its last sailing through the narrow strip of water – home to key shipping lanes – was in June.” (11/09/23)
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/military/article/3240954/chinese-shandong-carrier-strike-group-sails-through-taiwan-strait-after-western-pacific-drills
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12) Google, Meta Win Court Fight Against Austrian Online Content Rule
Source: US News & World Report
“Alphabet’s Google, Meta Platforms and TikTok on Thursday won backing from Europe’s top court in their fight against an Austrian law requiring them to delete hate speech or face fines of up to ($10.69 million). The Austrian law, enacted in 2021 and which obliges Big Tech to publish regular reports of illegal content, comes amid mounting concerns worldwide about hateful posts. The European Union recently adopted new rules called the Digital Services Act (DSA) which require large online platforms to do more to tackle illegal and harmful online content or risk fines up to 6% of their annual turnover. Google, Meta and TikTok challenged the Austrian law in an Austrian court, saying that it is contrary to an EU rule which says online service providers are only subject to the rules of the country where they are established, while countries where they provide a service must refrain from applying their laws.” (11/09/23)
https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2023-11-09/google-meta-win-court-fight-against-austrian-online-content-rule
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13) US Reaper shot down off Yemeni coast
Source: United Press International
“An unmanned U.S. drone has been shot down near Yemen by Houthi military forces, a defense official said. The official said the MQ-9 Reaper drone was over international waters in international air space when it was downed. U.S. Central Command is investigating the incident. Houthi militants took responsibility for the attack, officials said. This incident comes two weeks after Navy warship, the USS Carney, downed a series of missiles and drones launched by Houthi backed forces, and, based on their trajectory, were almost certainly headed toward Israel, traveling north along the coast of the Red Sea.” (11/09/23)
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2023/11/09/Houthi-militia-shoots-down-US-drone-off-Yemeni-coast/9221699505233/
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14) US jobless claims dip to 217,000
Source: MarketWatch
“The number of Americans who applied for unemployment benefits last week fell slightly to 217,000 and stayed at very low levels typical of a strong U.S. jobs market. New jobless claims declined by 3,000 from a revised 220,000 in the prior week, the government said. Claims still show a very low number of job losses and indicate the economy is stable, but businesses are hiring less and the labor market appears to have cooled off a bit. One complication is the UAW auto strike. It may have inflated claims lately.” (11/09/23)
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/jobless-claims-dip-to-217-000-and-point-to-sturdy-u-s-labor-market-9ad70933
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15) Stein announces 2024 presidential bid under Green Party line
Source: CNN Politics
“Two-time Green Party presidential nominee Jill Stein announced Thursday she plans to seek the party’s nomination for the White House in 2024. ‘The political system is broken. The two Wall Street parties are bought and paid for,’ Stein said in a video posted on social media announcing her candidacy. Stein was the Green Party nominee for president in 2012 and 2016. Her 2016 candidacy drew the ire of Democrats, who blamed her for drawing traditionally Democratic voters away from their presidential nominee, Hillary Clinton, in key swing states. Stein’s announcement comes amid growing questions about the strength of President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign. A recent CNN poll showed former President Donald Trump, the front-runner for the 2024 GOP nomination, narrowly leading Biden in a hypothetical rematch.” (11/09/23)
https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/09/politics/jill-stein-green-party-2024-election/index.html
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16) Oil prices drop to three-month low amid record US production
Source: Axios
“The U.S. is pumping oil at a record rate, helping send crude oil prices lower. U.S crude oil prices fell to their lowest level in more than three months on Wednesday (though they ticked higher Thursday morning). West Texas Intermediate crude, the U.S. benchmark, is down more than 15.% since the end of September, to roughly $75 a barrel. The decrease comes even as Russia and Saudi Arabia are sticking to their voluntary production cuts to prop up prices.” (11/09/23)
https://www.axios.com/2023/11/09/oil-price-today-chart-production
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17) Ukraine war: Russian Missile Hits Liberia-Flagged Ship in Odesa
Source: US News & World Report
“A Russian missile strike on the Ukrainian port of Odesa hit a Liberian-flagged freighter, killing a port worker and injuring three citizens of the Philippines, who are crew members on the ship, Ukraine’s armed forces said Thursday. The report did not give the name of the ship or the country of its owners, but Infrastructure Minister Oleksandr Kubrakov said the ship was to carry iron ore to China. The extent of the damage was not immediately reported. Another port worker was injured in the attack along with the one killed.” (11/09/23)
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2023-11-09/a-russian-missile-hits-a-liberia-flagged-ship-in-odesa-ukraines-main-black-sea-port
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18) KS: “Libertarian” Lily Wu Pulls Off Upset in Wichita Mayoral Election Against Democrat Incumbent
Source: Independent Political Report
“Libertarian Lily Wu defeated Democratic incumbent Brandon Whipple in Tuesday’s election for Mayor of Wichita, Kansas. Wu, a political newcomer with a background in local television reporting, unseated the incumbent Brandon Whipple, who had served four terms in the Kansas House of Representatives before becoming mayor. According to local media reports, Wu won with 35,859 votes to Whipple’s 25,557. … While the election was technically nonpartisan, both candidates saw their affiliations become topics of conversation at various points on the campaign trail. … Since news of Wu’s election, the Libertarian Party of Kansas has gone on to denounce her, saying she’s not ‘associated or engaged’ with the organization before applauding the ‘true Libertarians’ who won during yesterday’s elections. ‘Make no mistake: Lily Wu is not associated or engaged with this party. She is backed by AFP and Koch and ran on giving more resources to cops’ the account stated on Wednesday morning.” (11/08/23)
https://independentpoliticalreport.com/2023/11/libertarian-lily-wu-pulls-off-upset-in-wichita-mayoral-election-against-democrat-incumbent/
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19) Ethiopia: Regime troops force armed group out of Orthodox holy site of Lalibela
Source: Al Jazeera [Qatar state media]
“The Ethiopian army on Thursday regained control of Lalibela, a UNESCO World Heritage site, following a pullout by a regional armed group whose fighters had overrun much of the historic town a day earlier. Fierce fighting broke out on Wednesday morning with Fano fighters taking control of much of Lalibela and pushing the army back to a base on the town’s outskirts. But the Ethiopian National Defence Force (ENDF) regained control on Thursday, residents said.” (11/09/23)
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/11/9/ethiopia-troops-force-armed-group-out-of-orthodox-holy-site-of-lalibela
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20) Actors strike ends with deal to be ratified this week
Source: United Press International
“The Screen Actors Guild and American Federation of Television and Radio Artists reached a deal with the Alliance of Motion Picture Television Producers on Wednesday. Trades Variety and The Hollywood Reporter both confirmed SAG-AFTRA announced the end of the strike. … SAG-AFTRA has been on strike since July after extending negotiations an extra two weeks but failing to reach a deal with the AMPTP. The actors strike lasted 118 days, following a 148 day Writers Guild of America strike.” (11/08/23)
https://www.upi.com/Entertainment_News/2023/11/08/actors-strike-ends-deal/2431699492484/
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21) The Barbarian Evasions
Source: Quillette
by David A Eisenberg
“When I ask my students to rethink the universality of human rights, the mere suggestion befuddles them. Creatures of their progressive times, the a priori existence of such rights is as firmly established in their minds as the existence of witches or geocentricity was in the minds of their ancestors. Even as they indulge my lines of inquiry, their convictions by and large remain unshakeable. But though unshakeable, they prove fantastically protean …. These students hold that the US incarceration system is but a system of human bondage whose inmates are veritable slaves; they vehemently and categorically denounce the use of torture in the War on Terror; they bristle with moral indignation when contemplating the fate of Korematsu and other Japanese Americans, condemned not for their deeds, but for their descent. Even so, they now contend that, in the case of the slaughter of over 1,000 Israeli civilians, context suddenly matters.” (11/09/23)
https://quillette.com/2023/11/09/the-barbarian-evasions/
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22) Psychedelics Will Help America’s Mental Health Crisis — If the FDA Lets Them
Source: American Institute for Economic Research
by Raymond J March
“ver 25 percent of US adults have a diagnosable mental illness, an alarming five-percent increase from just a few years ago. While some mental illnesses are temporary and can be treated, those with severe cases — about 5 percent of the population and growing — are not so fortunate. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is about to make a decision that could either help millions of Americans struggling with mental illness or leave them struggling, as mental health concerns rise across the nation.” (11/09/23)
https://www.aier.org/article/psychedelics-will-help-americas-mental-health-crisis-if-the-fda-lets-them/
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23) Zionism and the Nation-State
Source: Center for a Stateless Society
by Kevin Carson
“The Westphalian nation-state, which has been the normative component of the international system since the Treaty of Westphalia, necessarily entails (especially since the post-1789 identification of nationalism with the nation-state) the suppression of ethnic identity to a far greater extent than the expression of any such identity. Every constructed national identity associated with a ‘State of the X People’ has necessarily involved the suppression and homogenization of countless ethnicities present in the territory claimed by that state.” (11/09/23)
https://c4ss.org/content/59175
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24) The Realignment That Wasn’t
Source: Law & Liberty
by James M Patterson
“National Conservatives made a bet on a major political realignment following the election of Donald J. Trump to the presidency in 2016. The hope was that moderate Democrats might find appeal in a Republican Party that would pivot against liberal immigration policy, free markets, and defense of American interests abroad, advocating instead for closing the borders, introducing industrial policy, and expecting allies to rely less on our defense forces. That realignment has not surfaced. Why is that? There are three reasons.” (11/09/23)
https://lawliberty.org/the-realignment-that-wasnt/
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25) An Unusually Tricky Campus Free-Speech Fight
Source: The Atlantic
by Conor Friedersdorf
“Late last month, the chancellor of Florida’s university system, acting in consultation with Governor Ron DeSantis, ordered state universities to deactivate all local chapters of Students for Justice in Palestine. How could dissolving student groups be lawful, given constitutional protections for free speech and freedom of association? Although multiple local SJP chapters acted as apologists for the murders of Israeli civilians or stood in solidarity with the Hamas militants who killed and kidnapped children, even viewpoints that deplorable are entitled to First Amendment protection. But Florida says it is not targeting the protected speech of these groups. It is acting, instead, because the national SJP has run afoul of a state law against providing ‘material support’ to a terrorist organization.” (11/09/23)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/11/florida-sjp-campus-speech-law/675949/
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26) The Academy Has Fallen. The Children Are Lost.
Source: Underthrow
by Max Borders
“Get your money and your kids out of this institution. It is infested. It is sick. And it is the world’s leading social problem.” (11/09/23)
https://underthrow.substack.com/p/the-academy-has-fallen-the-children
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27) The “Open Border” Farce
Source: TomDispatch
by Todd Miller
“On September 23rd, at about 2:30 a.m., a Border Patrol surveillance camera captured two people crossing the international boundary between Mexico and the United States on the outskirts of Nogales, Arizona. A Border Patrol vehicle arrived quickly …. he found a 16-year-old girl from Mexico softly crying, while holding her month-old baby swaddled in a blanket. The agent commanded her to get in the vehicle. As they then drove to the Nogales Border Patrol station, the girl, he later reported, tried to speak to him in Spanish through the security partition that separated them. Her tiny daughter, she was telling him, was in distress. Cameras showed that the vehicle stopped for all of 10 seconds before continuing. The agent later claimed he couldn’t understand what she was saying and that he wanted to find a fluent Spanish speaker at the station.” (11/09/23)
https://tomdispatch.com/bidens-border/
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28) The European Union’s Distorted Theory of “Liberty”
Source: Libertarian Institute
by Brice M Vanhaelen
“Today, governments in Europe have a broad answer to the question, ‘What is the role of government?’ A culture of interventionism incrusted over many years convinced European governments that everything can be solved with more money, more bureaucrats, and more plans. Needleless to say, with this mindset governments always ask and obtain more power and it’s never assumed that they could become too large. No longer is the government managing the affairs of the State, because all of life is now an affair of the State.” (11/09/23)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/the-european-unions-distorted-theory-of-liberty/
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29) China Reverses Course on Population Planning
Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Peter Jacobsen
“2022 marked the first year in over six decades where China recorded a population drop. This isn’t just a blip. Unless something changes, China’s population will fall increasingly quickly for the foreseeable future. To combat this, Xi says, ‘[w]e must actively cultivate a new culture of marriage and childbearing.’ Although CCP leaders would never admit the population policies of the past were a mistake, for fear of admitting a failure of late dictator Mao Zedong, this course reversal comes as close to an admission as anyone is likely to get. The key takeaway in this moment, though, is not just the failure of Mao and the one child policy. The failure rests in the very idea of centrally planning a population and all central planners who promoted it throughout the 20th century. Let’s look at why it failed.” (11/09/23)
https://fee.org/articles/china-reverses-course-on-population-planning/
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30) Congress should convene a fiscal commission to put America on a sustainable trajectory
Source: Orange County Register
by Veronique de Rugy
“There’s much talk today about the need for a fiscal commission. The House Budget Committee held a hearing about it a few weeks ago. Pundits are Substacking about whether using the approach to put federal finances on a sustainable path is a good or a bad idea. And according to a recent polling, voters support the idea of a commission. Great. But that shouldn’t obscure the fact that a commission would be the result of our legislators constantly acting like children by refusing to be good stewards of taxpayers’ dollars, which is their No. 1 job. There are also a few important things needed to make such a commission successful.” (11/09/23)
https://www.ocregister.com/2023/11/09/congress-should-convene-a-fiscal-commission-to-put-america-on-a-sustainable-trajectory/
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31) Vivek Ramaswamy Was Created in a Right-Wing Online Edgelord Factory
Source: The Daily Beast
by Matt Lewis
“In the more idyllic times before Donald Trump, Ramaswamy would have been mercilessly mocked for being obnoxiously thirsty. But the right has morphed into something unrecognizable since The Donald came down that gold-plated Trump Tower escalator in 2015. It’s worth noting that Ramaswamy was just around 30 years old at the time, and I can’t help but think that is telling. Unlike DeSantis and the other Gen X and late-Boomer candidates on the debate stage, the millennial Ramaswamy didn’t have to reverse-engineer his persona to fit in with the MAGA movement. He is part of a generation that came of age politically during the rise of alt-right shitposters. And it shows.” (11/09/23)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/vivek-ramaswamy-was-created-in-a-right-wing-edgelord-factory
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32) The People of Gaza Need a Ceasefire Now
Source: Eunomia
by Daniel Larison
“There are many Palestinian civilians that have been trapped in the rubble of collapsed buildings that have not yet been included in the reckoning of how many people have been killed in Gaza in the last month. 10,000 dead in a month is horrifying, especially when we remember that most of those killed were women and children. There is good reason to think that the real total is significantly higher. That number is only going to increase as the bombing continues and starvation, dehydration, and disease begin claiming more innocent lives.” (11/09/23)
https://daniellarison.substack.com/p/the-people-of-gaza-need-a-ceasefire
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33) Dismantle Israel And The Entire US Empire
Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
“More than 20 House Democrats joined Republicans in voting to censure Palestinian-American congresswoman Rashida Tlaib on Tuesday for her comments supporting Palestinians against Israel’s murderous assault on Gaza. Democrats were happy to have a Palestinian woman in congress until they found out she was the ‘Palestinians are human beings’ kind of Palestinian and not the ‘Look how diverse and inclusive Democrats are’ kind. They’re like, ‘I was fine with the Palestinian woman until she started supporting the Palestinians. Did nobody tell her that her only job is to quietly pose for Instagram selfies with Nancy Pelosi?’ … White House spokesman John Kirby has confirmed that the Biden administration is still drawing zero red lines with how Israel is permitted to use US-supplied weapons in Gaza.” (11/09/23)
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2023/11/09/dismantle-israel-and-the-entire-us-empire/
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34) What Ron DeSantis Learned in Iraq
Source: Foreign Policy
by James Kitfield
“In advertisements and appearances introducing himself to an ever-widening circle of potential voters, DeSantis has consistently downplayed his years of elite Ivy League schooling and instead leaned heavily into his military service and identity. As the first words of the TV ad that introduced him to Florida voters as a candidate for governor stressed, he was ‘Ron DeSantis, Iraq War veteran.’ In the first Republican presidential debate in August introducing candidates to a national audience, he again stressed his military service as seminal to his approach to politics. … When pressed by journalists about what exactly he learned during his military service in a time of war, however, DeSantis has been far less forthcoming.” (11/09/23)
https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/11/09/ron-desantis-gop-debate-2024-election-iraq-war-experience-military-service/
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35) Biden Order on Artificial Intelligence Puts Too Much Faith in Regulators
Source: National Review
by Jessica Melugin
“President Biden’s executive order (EO) on artificial intelligence (AI) directs more than a dozen federal agencies to, among other things, ‘establish guidelines and best practices, with the aim of promoting consensus industry standards, for developing and deploying safe, secure, and trustworthy AI systems.’ The order overestimates what regulators can accurately anticipate about a dynamic technology and ignores the challenges of actors outside the reach of U.S. law. It may also be unconstitutional in what federal agencies are allowed to do. If you think bureaucrats do a better job encouraging innovation and mitigating risk than markets do, this order may seem reasonable. But if you’re a student of regulatory history, even one that doesn’t know much about AI or the details of the EO, you can already predict its harms.” (11/09/23)
https://www.nationalreview.com/2023/11/biden-order-on-artificial-intelligence-puts-too-much-faith-in-regulators/
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36) Seven takeaways from Wednesday’s GOP debate in Miami
Source: Semafor
by David Weigel, Shelby Talcott, & Benjy Sarlin
“Democrats fear Haley as a general election candidate — except when she starts talking about Social Security, which she did at length on Wednesday. Asked about entitlements, Haley reiterated her call to raise the retirement age as part of a broader plan to rein in costs. ‘Any candidate that says they’re not going to take on entitlements is not being serious,’ she said. Chris Christie agreed, saying younger workers like his son would be given more than enough time to plan for a future increase. But Scott disagreed, saying it was unfair to expect farmers ‘working night and day’ to continue doing physical labor any longer. And DeSantis said the conversation made little sense given the public health crises facing the country.” (11/09/23)
https://www.semafor.com/article/11/08/2023/seven-takeaways-from-wednesdays-gop-debate-in-miami
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37) WeInflate, WeMalinvest, WeWork
Source: American Institute for Economic Research
by Peter C Earle
“The bankruptcy filing of WeWork Inc. on November 6, 2023 came with neither a whimper nor a bang, but with a laconic shrug. Although the company has been around for 13 years, it has been defined more by successive flirtations with demise and unseemly corporate revelations than by innovative ideas for the second half of its life. Few were surprised when the latest, and possibly not the final, chapter arrived. While some stories are better told starting at the end, the WeWork story is best told from the beginning: It started as a company that rents desks. That’s it.” (11/09/23)
https://www.aier.org/article/weinflate-wemalinvest-wework/
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38) The Big Lie About Inequality
Source: CounterPunch
by Dean Baker
“We all know about Donald Trump’s ‘Big Lie’ that he won the 2020 election. This is of course laughable, there is nothing in the real world to support Trump’s fantasies of massive voter fraud. However, there is arguably an even bigger lie that enjoys near-universal acceptance in intellectual circles. It is the claim the huge rise in inequality over the last half century was due to market forces.” (11/09/23)
https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/11/09/the-big-lie-about-inequality/
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39) Western Liberals Need to Extend the Same Humanity to Gaza as they Did to Ukraine
Source: Liberal Currents
by Matthew Downhour
“It is high time to recognize the humanity of all victims of warfare. The images of bombed-out high rises and shattered hospitals coming out of Gaza could just have easily come out of Mariupol or Severodonetsk a year ago. But the response of too many liberals has been strikingly different. Many of us have extended the benefit of the doubt to the Israeli Defense Forces as they explained the apparent necessity of destroying civilian objects in a way that we wisely did not to the Russian Armed Forces. The affinity for a state that looks much more like our own liberal democracies in the west is understandable, but liberals with a sense of history should understand that militarism and the desire for territorial expansion can lead institutions ostensibly rooted in liberal values to commit atrocities.” (11/09/23)
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/western-liberals-need-to-extend-the-same-humanity-to-gaza-as-they-did-to-ukraine/
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40) More Violence Leads to Even More Violence
Source: Antiwar.com
by Ron Forthofer
“Since October 7th, the ongoing horrific violence in Palestine and Israel has received incredible amounts of media coverage. Both Israelis and Palestinians are experiencing terrible pain and suffering. Unsurprisingly, the mainstream media’s reporting provided little context for the deadly Hamas attack and its war crimes. Note that the provision of the context is not a justification for the Hamas attack, but it allows people to have more information about what happened.” (11/09/23)
https://original.antiwar.com/ron_forthofer/2023/11/08/more-violence-leads-to-even-more-violence/
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41) Academic freedom is under attack from left and right
Source: spiked
by Jim Butcher
“The debate over free speech in universities is riddled with hypocrisy. Just look at the latest row between the UK Conservative government and the University and College Union (UCU), the trade union representing academics and other university staff. Each side claims to be defending academic freedom, but both take an entirely partial, partisan view of what academics should be allowed to say.” (11/09/23)
https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/11/09/academic-freedom-is-under-attack-from-left-and-right/
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42) Innovations in Racism
Source: The American Prospect
by David Dayen
“People are rightly concerned about the potential for new technology to foster discrimination. You can load parameters into an algorithm, or allow artificial intelligence to make lending decisions based on a statistical analysis of the creditworthiness of people with certain characteristics, and you’ve created a kind of digital redlining. No human hands would dictate the racial or gender prejudice, it would just happen through the bot. Regulators are attuned to this. ‘We have tried to make abundantly clear that there is no AI carve-out in the nation’s consumer financial protection laws,’ Consumer Financial Protection Bureau director Rohit Chopra told me in a recent interview. But an order from Chopra’s agency yesterday shows that the innovation in racial discrimination can simply be a matter of who to discriminate against.” (11/09/23)
https://prospect.org/blogs-and-newsletters/tap/2023-11-09-innovations-in-racism-citibank/
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43) Why Study History?
Source: Pioneer Institute
by Jude Iredell
“Because the Founders asked us to — and because it’s good for you. Ben Franklin’s quip after the Constitutional Convention that he gave Americans ‘a republic if [they] can keep it’ is an oft-repeated line in civic-minded circles, but the sentiment expressed is no less relevant. Our most senior Founding Father understood the sensitivity of the new American experiment. He hoped future citizens would study the historical narrative and intellectual reasoning that informed our Constitution. Otherwise, its soaring rhetoric would be little more than a ‘parchment guarantee’ to those unfamiliar with how America arrived at more enlightened governance.” (11/09/23)
https://pioneerinstitute.org/blog/why-study-history/
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44) Both Republicans and Democrats Want ‘Buy American’ Provisions for EV Chargers
Source: Reason
by Joe Lancaster
“While it may seem at times that America is hopelessly divided, there are some issues on which lawmakers seem to agree. For example, both Republicans and Democrats support protectionist policies that drive up prices for consumers.” (11/09/23)
https://reason.com/2023/11/09/both-republicans-and-democrats-want-buy-american-provisions-for-e-v-chargers/
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45) Foreign Policy Lessons from Ronald Reagan, a Conservative Peacenik
Source: The American Conservative
by Doug Bandow
“In a world aflame, the Biden administration risks sleepwalking into two or three catastrophic wars. Leading Republicans are on board. Yet an increasing number of Americans have tired of endless foolish conflicts abroad. American policymakers should learn from Ronald Reagan. In today’s GOP, divided between persistent neocon warmongers and the MAGA crowd’s intermittent interventionism, the 40th president is a political artifact. Nevertheless, Reagan’s legacy is as relevant as ever. In a far more dangerous world, he practiced a foreign policy of prudence, avoiding the bloody conflicts big and small that deform current U.S. foreign policy.” (11/09/23)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/foreign-policy-lessons-from-ronald-reagan-a-conservative-peacenik/
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46) Unconstitutional Killings
Source: Judging Freedom
by Andrew P Napolitano
“The Biden administration is killing people, openly in Ukraine and Gaza and secretly around the world. It has continued to use the killing machinery crafted by President George W. Bush, expanded by President Barack Obama, and employed by President Donald Trump. These presidents have used drones and other unmanned projectiles to target persons in foreign countries with which the United States is not at war. They have done this notwithstanding the prohibition against taking life, liberty or property from any person — not just any American, but any person — in the Constitution each has sworn to uphold, and they have done so pursuant to secret rules that they themselves have established for these killings.” (11/09/23)
https://judgenap.com/unconstitutional-killings/
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47) Abortion Rights and Weed Are Super Popular. Who Knew?
Source: The Intercept
by Ryan Grim
“Broadly speaking, this is one of those moments where I think the conventional wisdom from the press was correct: Their take is that abortion as an electoral issue continues to power Democrats and drag down Republicans. It drove voters to the polls in Ohio, Virginia, and Pennsylvania, and in New Jersey, the GOP’s unpopular position on abortion rights undercuts everything else they do on the culture front. The effort by Republicans in New Jersey to ride culture war anger at trans-related school policies also flopped, with Democrats expanding their majorities.” (11/08/23)
https://theintercept.com/2023/11/08/election-results-abortion-weed-democrats/
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48) The Biden administration’s original sin of America on the world stage
Source: Fox News Forum
by US Senator Ted Budd (R-NC)
“The world is tearing at the seams. Forces of evil and instability are on the march around the globe. But in Washington, President Biden has lacked the strength and focus necessary to protect our homeland and deter our adversaries abroad. … The Biden administration’s original sin is its failure to recognize that for America to be a strong nation, we must first be strong at home. COVID exposed brittle supply chains, the challenge from China, and emphasized the need for a renewal of American manufacturing. Rates of violent crime are up across the country. Meanwhile, the southern border is in chaos and deadly drugs like fentanyl took over 100,000 American lives just last year. Prices for groceries, gas, and electricity are too high, our students’ test scores are plummeting, and overregulation is stifling America’s entrepreneurial spirit.” (11/09/23)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/biden-administration-original-sin-america-world-stage
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49) Conservatism and Historical Empiricism
Source: EconLog
by Kevin Corcoran
“In my previous post, I introduced Yoram Hazony’s project in his new book, Conservatism: A Rediscovery. What, to Hazony, separates true conservatism from Enlightenment liberalism, and why is the former superior to the latter? To answer this, Hazony looks to the writings of major conservative thinkers in centuries past, such as John Fortescue, Richard Hooker, John Seldon, and Edmund Burke. What unites these thinkers is their support for what Hazony dubs historical empiricism, and their distrust of universalist, rationalist theories founded on abstract reason.” (11/08/23)
https://www.econlib.org/hazony-conservatism-historical-empiricism
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50) A Thin Veneer of Protectionism
Source: Show-Me Institute
by David Stokes
“Across the country, people are starting to realize that occupational licensing has gone too far. Slowly but surely, we are recognizing that far too often, government has been making decisions about who can do what in areas where customers and employers should be the ones making that choice. Occupational licensing increases costs to consumers and people entering the workforce, favors politically influential groups, and serves, in most cases, as a protectionist measure designed to benefit incumbent practitioners of the licensed occupation at the expense of future practitioners and the public. Show-Me Institute analysts have long written about the harms of occupational licensing in Missouri.” (11/08/23)
https://showmeinstitute.org/blog/regulation/a-thin-veneer-of-protectionism/
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51) Why the Banks Are Failing Us
Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob
“We depend on big businesses, especially upon banks. We pay for our food, clothing, medicines, and much else with little plastic cards from our banks. So when those cards stop working, all of a sudden — without warning — our hearts are going to do a bit more than beat just a little faster.
Why would there be big hiccups at all? … I’m not talking about the allegedly transient snag in the direct deposit system last week — apparently due to human error — but something more persistent, if scattershot.” (11/08/23)
https://thisiscommonsense.org/2023/11/08/why-the-banks-are-failing-us/
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52) Having rights still bewilderingly popular
Source: Washington Post
by Alexandra Petri
“Tuesday’s election results suggest that the Republican legislative strategy of ‘taking people’s rights away for no clear reason’ was not an overwhelming success at the ballot box. Potential Childbearing Vessels on Legs contumaciously insist on continuing to see themselves as fully realized people deserving of the protection of the law, and, unfortunately, they can still vote, and some of them even have friends who vote with them. … When confronted with questions such as ‘What should be in my library? Books, or just empty shelves and a scowling member of Moms for Liberty standing with folded arms and hissing whenever anyone dares approach?’ people overwhelmingly selected the first thing. When they were given a choice between Deciding and Having Things Decided For Them, Deciding proved surprisingly popular.” (11/08/23)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/11/08/tuesday-election-female-rights-popular/
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53) Lessons for Gaza from Colombia
Source: Christian Science Monitor
by staff
“Whoever governs Gaza after Israel ends its military operations in the Palestinian enclave will have to address what gave rise to Hamas and its extremist ideology. One place to look for that sort of discernment is Colombia, where the government’s year-old Total Peace plan shows signs of curbing the violent radicalization of many armed groups. South America’s second-most populous country has long tried to end decades of ideology-based warfare and violence driven by guerrilla groups, gangs, and drug cartels. The current government’s all-at-once strategy has plenty of doubters, but it has led to negotiating peace agreements with as many as 26 armed groups simultaneously. The government’s main assumption in the talks: Equality and trust are building blocks not only for negotiations but also for creating a just and gentle society.” (11/09/23)
https://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/the-monitors-view/2023/1109/Lessons-for-Gaza-from-Colombia
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54) A General Strike in 2028 Is Uniquely Plausible
Source: In These Times
by Hamilton Nolan
“The labor movement is a capricious friend — it hands out heartbreak as much as it hands out joy. But every once in a while, it is able to wave a triumphant flag and give us all a glimmer of what its potential could truly be. The recently concluded UAW strike offered just such a moment. It wasn’t just the contract agreements themselves, which were a material success, but also the union’s public call for movement-wide coordination to build the possibility of mass action around the May 1, 2028 expiration of the next auto contracts. ‘We invite unions around the country to align your contract expirations with our own so that together we can begin to flex our collective muscles,’ the UAW declared on October 29. This could be the beginning of the most exciting resurgence of American organized labor power in a century. Or, it could just be a tweet.” (11/09/23)
https://inthesetimes.com/article/uaw-auto-workers-general-strike-contract-labor-unions
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55) Pandemic Boat Market Economics
Source: Independent Institute
by Samuel R Staley
“By now, many, if not most, people are aware of rising home prices nationwide since the COVID-19 Pandemic. These higher prices have pushed homeownership beyond the reach of many households. Many of the same factors that drove home prices up also seem to have affected the market for sail and motor boats as a surge in demand led to widespread purchases of ‘pandemic boats.'” (11/08/23)
https://blog.independent.org/2023/11/08/covid-19-lockdowns-boats
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56) The Chris Spangle Show, 11/09/23
Source: We Are Libertarians
“Giving Your Kids a Passion Driven Education with Connor Boyack.” (11/09/23)
https://www.chrisspangle.com/p/giving-your-kids-a-passion-driven
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57) Show-Me Institute Podcast, 11/09/23
Source: Show-Me Institute
“Why Family-friendly Metros Matter with Robert VerBruggen.” (11/09/23)
https://showmeinstitute.org/blog/municipal-policy/why-family-friendly-metros-matter-with-robert-verbruggen/
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58) Capital Record, episode 144
Source: National Review
“Cash Flow Tells the Truth.” (11/09/23)
https://www.nationalreview.com/podcasts/capital-record/cash-flow-tells-the-truth/
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59) Advisory Opinions, 11/09/23
Source: The Dispatch
“Solicitor General 9000.” (11/09/23)
https://thedispatch.com/podcast/advisoryopinions/solicitor-general-9000/
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60) The Bryan Hyde Show, 11/09/23
Source: The Bryan Hyde Show
“One of the toughest obstacles that lovers of freedom must overcome is the public’s tendency to see the control-at-all-costs agenda as something innocent. Todd Hayen takes that misconception apart nicely.” (11/09/23)
https://www.podbean.com/ep/pb-cqp8c-14f4069
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61) How Has Israel Changed Since Oct. 7?
Source: Reason
“[A] discussion with economist, podcaster, and Shalem College president Russ Roberts.” (11/09/23)
https://reason.com/video/2023/11/09/how-has-israel-changed-since-oct-7/
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62) Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp, 11/09/23
Source: Antiwar.com
“US Launches More Airstrikes in Eastern Syria, Houthis Down US MQ-9 Drone Off Yemen, and More.” (11/09/23)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJkcZ8x654E
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63) Free Talk Live, 11/08/23
Source: Free Talk Live
“Man in New Hampshire got life for Fentanyl :: If drugs were legal there would probably be less crime :: I love drugs :: Fentanyl should be sold in CVS :: Sarah says vote Democrat even if they’re terrible candidates :: Jett says no human has authority over another human :: Cops are no different than an occupying military force :: Positivity is a great way to get control of your life :: 2023-11-08 Hosts: Bonnie, Riley, Nikki.” (11/08/23)
https://soundcloud.com/freetalklive/free-talk-live-2023-11-08
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64) Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock, 11/08/23
Source: Freedom’s Phoenix
“Stephen Williams (Abundance Building Concepts) on sustainable, eco-friendly building techniques using styro aircrete; new e-courses now available.” (11/08/23)
https://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Media/353464-2023-11-08-2023-11-08-ernest-hancock-interviews-stephen-williams-abundance-building.htm
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65) Reason Interview: Colleen Eren
Source: Reason
“The author of Reform Nation explains how celebrity, philanthropy, and activism produced the most significant prison reform in decades.” (11/08/23)
https://reason.com/podcast/2023/11/08/colleen-eren-why-donald-trump-signed-the-first-step-act/
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66) The Tom Woods Show, episode 2415
Source: The Tom Woods Show
“The Fake China Threat.” (11/08/23)
https://tomwoods.com/ep-2415-the-fake-china-threat/
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67) The Vital Center, episode 57
Source: Niskanen Center
“The decline of the American Dream, with David Leonhardt.” (11/08/23)
https://www.niskanencenter.org/the-decline-of-the-american-dream-with-david-leonhardt
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68) The Learning Curve, 11/08/23
Source: Pioneer Institute
“Vanderbilt’s Dr. Carol Swain on U.S. History, Race, & 1776 Unites.” (11/08/23)
https://pioneerinstitute.org/news/vanderbilts-dr-carol-swain-on-u-s-history-race-1776-unites/
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69) Freedom Works with Paul Molloy, 11/08/23
Source: Freedom Works
“Hans von Spakovsky, Heritage Foundation: ‘Judges can’t bar Trump from 2024 ballots.'” (11/08/23)
http://internetradiopros.com/freedomworks/?name=2023-11-08_zfw11062023.mp3
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70) Conflicts of Interest, episode 496
Source: Libertarian Institute
“White House Admits Massive Death Toll in Gaza, But Still Backs Israel.” (11/08/23)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/kyle/coi-496-white-house-admits-massive-death-toll-in-gaza-but-still-backs-israel/
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