05/28 -- US regime strikes Iranian site; Kuwait targeted by missiles, drones; Was Trump Ever a "Realist?"
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Thomas L. Knapp
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Today's Freedom News:
1) US regime strikes Iranian site; Kuwait targeted by missiles, drones
2) Bitcoin drops below $73,000
3) US regime “investigates” rape victim in attempt to protect her assailant from $83 million verdict
4) Lebanon: Israeli forces strike Tyre, demand evacuations
5) Ukraine: Zelenskyy asks Trump for more US air defense help
6) South Korea: Chinese dissident detained after fleeing in rubber boat
7) Study: GLP-1 Meds May Help Slow the Spread of Certain Obesity-Related Cancers
8) Canada: Former chef won’t be charged with murder for selling legal product to willing customers
9) US heimatschutz shot-caller “drawing up plans” to impede travel
10) Spain: Police search headquarters of PM Sanchez’s ruling party
11) NASA lays out moon base plans with landers, buggies and drones at the top of the list
12) Biden sues US DOJ over planned release of conversations with biographer
13) Germany: After decades on the run, former member of militant group jailed for armed robberies
14) Hungary: Parliament Approves Law to Maintain Membership in International Criminal Court
15) Saudi Arabia: Muslim pilgrims perform Hajj rituals under intense heat as Eid al-Adha celebrations start
16) US regime publicly confesses to 194th maritime murder
17) Italy: Hotel that refused to give tourist tap water acted lawfully, court rules
18) Palestine: Israeli regime claims it killed head of Hamas military wing
19) Puerto Rico: Governor announces emergency to fight worsening coastal erosion
20) TN: Homeowner fires on, misses intruder
Today's Freedom Commentary:
21) Was Trump Ever a “Realist?”
22) Political winners: Those who don’t participate
23) How Anthony Comstock became America’s most powerful censor
24) The Public Goods Circular Argument
25) What the World Needs Now
26) Why do Democrats think “real men” wear Nazi tattoos?
27) Thinking about Conservatism
28) House Republican Leaders Wouldn’t Allow a Vote on Ending the Iran War
29) Freeing Cuba without revenge
30) Offramps for Postliberalism
31) Goldman is trying to rage bait his way to victory; can he?
32) Hasan Piker and the Marxist Resentment Behind “Microlooting”
33) Time for Ultra-Wealthy Private Jet Owners to Pay Their “Fair Share”
34) The Do-Gooder’s Road to Coercion
35) No Moral Standing to Complain about Supposed Cuban Terrorism
36) Conserving the Last Mature Forests in Maine
37) “Education”: Why the Left Hates America’s Founders
38) Face the facts: China isn’t leaving Latin America anytime soon
39) Empire with a Humanitarian Face: Democrats Rebrand
40) A Quagmire of Trump’s Own Making
41) Electile Dysfunction: Why Can’t the Dems Get Their Polls Up?
42) Safetyism has made society terrified of disagreement
43) Trump’s Pottery Barn War
44) The Importance of Free Speech in American Public Junior High and High Schools
45) Tom Steyer Will Destroy California’s Historic Small Businesses
46) Use AI This Election
47) Casualties of war
48) Firing More People Won’t Make America Healthy Again
49) Trump’s Slush Fund Could End Up Costing Recipients Billions
50) Why Has Trump Stopped Selling Weapons to Taiwan?
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52) Reason Interview: Alvin E. Roth
53) The Fifth Column, episode 559
54) Make It Make Sense, 05/26/26
55) Questions For Corbett, 05/27/26
56) Show-Me Institute Podcast, 05/27/26
57) Fountainhead Forum, episode 450
58) Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp, 05/26/26
59) Nonzero, 05/26/26
60) The Kyle Anzalone Show, 05/26/26
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1) US regime strikes Iranian site; Kuwait targeted by missiles, drones
Source: Al Jazeera [Qatari state media]
“The United States has carried out new strikes on an Iranian military site allegedly posing a threat to US forces and maritime traffic in the Strait of Hormuz, according to news reports. Iranian media have reported that US forces struck near the Bandar Abbas port, causing no damage or casualties. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) later said it launched an attack on an ‘American airbase’ in retaliation for the Bandar Abbas strike, and warned of ‘more decisive’ action should US ‘aggression’ continue, according to state media. Kuwait’s military said its air defences confronted ‘hostile’ missiles and drones, without providing information on where the attack came from.” (05/28/26)
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2026/5/28/iran-war-live-israel-orders-mass-forced-displacement-for-all-south-lebanon
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2) Bitcoin drops below $73,000
Source: CoinDesk
“Bitcoin broke below $73,000 for the first time in months as fresh U.S. strikes on Iran sent risk assets lower and triggered one of the largest liquidation events of the year. Bitcoin traded at $72,978 in Asian hours Thursday, down 3.4% over 24 hours and 6.3% over the past seven days, per CoinDesk data, after touching a low of $72,912. … Risk assets fell across the board. The MSCI All Country World Index retreated 0.4% from a record high, a gauge of Asian shares dropped 1.7%, and futures for the S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 pointed lower. Oil climbed as the strikes clouded the outlook for a deal to reopen the strait.” (05/28/26)
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2026/05/28/bitcoin-drops-below-usd73-000-as-us-strikes-on-iran-spark-usd1-billion-liquidations
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3) US regime “investigates” rape victim in attempt to protect her assailant from $83 million verdict
Source: The Hill
“The Department of Justice (DOJ) has reportedly launched a criminal investigation into E. Jean Carroll, who accused President Trump of sexual assault, according to multiple reports. CNN was the first to report Wednesday night that the DOJ’s probe focuses on whether Carroll committed perjury while speaking at a deposition as part of her two civil lawsuits against Trump. … Prosecutors are reportedly focused on Carroll telling then-Trump attorney Alina Habba in a 2022 deposition that she received no outside funding for the lawsuit. Two weeks before the trial, though, Carroll’s attorneys informed the judge and Trump’s legal team that billionaire Reid Hoffman’s nonprofit covered some of her legal fees and expenses. … Two juries awarded Carroll a total of $88.3 million in damages, finding Trump liable for sexually abusing and defaming her.” (05/27/26)
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5898599-carroll-trump-defamation-probe-doj/
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4) Lebanon: Israeli forces strike Tyre, demand evacuations
Source: BBC News [UK state media]
“The Israeli military has issued evacuation orders for large parts of southern Lebanon, declaring the areas ‘combat zones’ ahead of fresh strikes against Hezbollah. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) urged residents to move north of the Zahrani River, about 40km (25 miles) from the border. The IDF said it would act ‘with extreme force,’ accusing Hezbollah of repeated ceasefire violations. It is the largest evacuation order since the ceasefire took effect on 17 April, covering about 14% of Lebanese territory. Earlier on Wednesday, Israel carried strikes on the southern city of Tyre. Hezbollah, which itself accused Israel of violating the ceasefire, said its fighters had clashed with Israeli troops.” (05/27/26)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj3pgrpmlklo
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5) Ukraine: Zelenskyy asks Trump for more US air defense help
Source: Boston Herald
“Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has written to U.S. President Donald Trump and Congress asking for more American-made air defense ammunition to counter intensifying Russian ballistic missile attacks, Kyiv said Wednesday. Meanwhile, Russian lawmakers have backed a draft bill to have bank employees join the fight against Ukraine’s long-range drones that strike deep inside Russia — with trained bank staff shooting down the unmanned aircraft. The steps came after a recent escalation in aerial attacks by both sides in the more than four-year war that followed Russia’s all-out invasion of its neighbor. Neither side has been able to make much progress on the 1,250-kilometer (780-mile) front line.” (05/27/26)
https://www.bostonherald.com/2026/05/27/russia-ukraine-war-us-air-defense-help/
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6) South Korea: Chinese dissident detained after fleeing in rubber boat
Source: The Guardian [UK]
“A Chinese dissident has washed up on the shores of South Korea after attempting to flee China in a rubber boat. Dong Guangping, 68, is in custody in South Korea, having been detained by the coastguard on Monday evening. He is thought to have travelled more than 30 hours by sea to reach the shores of China’s democratic neighbour. Dong has tried to escape from China on several previous occasions, according to media reports and interviews with two of his friends. … The coastguard released a statement on Wednesday confirming that a Chinese man in his 60s had been arrested and was being questioned on suspicion of immigration law violations, according to Reuters. The man was on a 3.3-metre boat with a 10-horsepower motor when he was spotted about 38 nautical miles off the coast. … Dong was previously jailed between 2001 and 2004 for ‘inciting subversion of state power.'” (05/27/26)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/27/dissident-dong-guangping-south-korea-flee-china-rubber-boat
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7) Study: GLP-1 Meds May Help Slow the Spread of Certain Obesity-Related Cancers
Source: US News & World Report
“A new study suggests GLP-1 medications may slow the spread of certain obesity-related cancers. … Researchers analyzed health data from more than 12,000 people who had one of seven types of cancer at stage 1, 2 or 3. They compared patients who started taking GLP-1 drugs after their diagnosis with similar patients taking another class of diabetes drugs called gliptins. ‘Our study found that use of GLP-1 drugs, compared to DPP-4 inhibitors and other antidiabetic drugs, was associated with a meaningful reduction in cancer progression across four solid tumor types,’ said co-author Dr. Mark David Orland of the Taussig Cancer Institute at the Cleveland Clinic. The strongest results were seen in lung, breast, colon and liver cancer, where patients taking GLP-1 medications were found to be 38% to 50% less likely to progress to stage 4 or metastatic cancer.” (05/27/26)
https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2026-05-27/glp-1-meds-may-help-slow-the-spread-of-certain-obesity-related-cancers
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8) Canada: Former chef won’t be charged with murder for selling legal product to willing customers
Source: CBS News
“A Canadian man accused of shipping poison to people contemplating suicide around the globe is expected to plead guilty to several counts on Friday, ending a case that has shocked the public. While Kenneth Law is set to admit to 14 charges of aiding or counseling suicide, Canadian prosecutors are withdrawing second degree murder charges, multiple sources have confirmed, causing anger among devastated families. The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation first reported the plea. Law, 60, is a former chef accused of running a number of online forums that offered predominantly young, distressed people advice on how to end their lives. He allegedly shipped parcels to hundreds of people in dozens of countries containing sodium nitrite, a legally available preservative that can be fatal in certain concentrations.” (05/27/26)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kenneth-law-poison-suicides-to-avoid-murder-charges-canada/
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9) US heimatschutz shot-caller “drawing up plans” to impede travel
Source: The Hill
“Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said late Tuesday he is ‘drawing up plans’ to end the processing of international flights in left-leaning cities, pointing to protests outside an immigration detention center in New Jersey as rationale. Mullin’s comments follow weekend protests at Delaney Hall in Newark, where Sen. Andy Kim (D-N.J.) was pepper sprayed during an interaction with immigration agents. … U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents process both U.S. and international visitors at the border and on flights. … Critics said ending the processing of international flights at various airports would cause chaos at airports across the country, forcing airlines to cancel flights and disrupt travel for left- and right-leaning cities that depend on CBP processing at major hubs.” [editor’s note: How about a compromise — CPB stops “processing” those flights … but the flights don’t stop. They just proceed without police state interference. Everybody wins! – TLK] (05/27/26)
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5897027-homeland-security-plans-end-flights/
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10) Spain: Police search headquarters of PM Sanchez’s ruling party
Source: South China Morning Post [Hong Kong]
“Spanish police are searching the headquarters of the ruling Socialist Party as part of an ongoing investigation into possible financial wrongdoing, the Civil Guard said on Wednesday. The raid on the office in central Madrid is another blow to the party of Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, whose Socialists have been hammered by a series of corruption scandals. The Civil Guard said the police were under judicial orders to find material relevant to a National Court probe into accusations of corruption against former party members and other individuals.” (05/27/26)
https://archive.is/Kw9Y5
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11) NASA lays out moon base plans with landers, buggies and drones at the top of the list
Source: SFGate
“NASA is already ordering landers, rovers and drones for a sprawling moon base, less than two months after the Artemis II’s record-breaking lunar flyaround. The space agency outlined the first phase of its moon base plans on Tuesday, awarding hundreds of millions of dollars in contracts to four U.S. companies. Jeff Bezos’[s] Blue Origin will provide a pair of landers to deliver moon buggies to the lunar surface, at a spot near the moon’s south pole. These so-called lunar terrain vehicles will be built by Astrolab and Lunar Outpost. Firefly Aerospace, which landed successfully on the moon last year, will deliver the first drones to the moon. All this hardware is ideally supposed to arrive before the first Artemis astronauts land on the moon, planned for as early as 2028.” (05/27/26)
https://www.sfgate.com/business/article/nasa-lays-out-moon-base-plans-with-landers-22277469.php
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12) Biden sues US DOJ over planned release of conversations with biographer
Source: CBC News [Canadian state media]
“Former U.S. president Joe Biden sued the U.S. Department of Justice on Tuesday, seeking to bar the release of audio recordings and transcripts of private conversations with his biographer in 2016 and 2017. The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Washington D.C., comes ahead of the department’s planned June 15 release of the materials to the U.S. House judiciary committee and the conservative Heritage Foundation. The foundation sought them after they were used as part of then-special counsel Robert Hur’s 2023 investigation into Biden’s handling of classified documents. Hur declined to bring criminal charges.” (05/26/26)
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/biden-justice-dept-lawsuit-recordings-interview-9.7213289
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13) Germany: After decades on the run, former member of militant group jailed for armed robberies
Source: BBC News [UK State Media]
“A former member of the German militant group Red Army Faction (RAF) has been jailed for 13 years for carrying out a string of armed robberies between 1999 and 2016. Daniela Klette, 67, was finally caught in a flat in Berlin in 2024 after more than 30 years on the run. She went on trial last year. Her defence had called for her acquittal but the court in Verden in Lower Saxony found her guilty on Wednesday of aggravated robbery, violating weapons laws and other offences over a 17-year period. The RAF, a violent anti-capitalist group also known as the Baader-Meinhof gang, was eventually disbanded after a campaign of murder, kidnapping and bombing from the early 1970s to the early 1990s. ” (05/27/26)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx21dr3lekpo
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14) Hungary: Parliament Approves Law to Maintain Membership in International Criminal Court
Source: US News & World Report
“Hungary’s parliament on Wednesday approved legislation to maintain the country’s membership in the International Criminal Court, reversing a 2025 decision made by the government of Viktor Orban. Orban’s government decided to withdraw from the ICC, saying the court had become ‘political.’ Current Prime Minister Peter Magyar, who ousted Orban in parliamentary elections last month, pledged to halt the withdrawal process and keep Hungary in the ICC. The International Criminal Court was set up more than two decades ago to prosecute those accused of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide. Orban’s government announced the withdrawal in April 2025, shortly after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived in Hungary for a state visit in a rare trip abroad in defiance of an ICC arrest warrant.” (05/27/26)
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2026-05-27/parliament-approves-law-to-keep-hungarys-membership-of-the-international-criminal-court
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15) Saudi Arabia: Muslim pilgrims perform Hajj rituals under intense heat as Eid al-Adha celebrations start
Source: SFGate
“Masses of pilgrims in Saudi Arabia threw pebbles at a large pillar in a symbolic ritual on Wednesday, one of the final days of the Hajj as Muslims around the world started celebrating the Islamic holiday of Eid al-Adha. Pilgrims in Mina, Saudi Arabia, chanted ‘Allahu akbar’ (God is great) while throwing pebbles in a ritual seen as a symbolic stoning of the devil. The act is also seen as a symbol of rejecting evil and a commemoration of the Prophet Ibrahim’s rejection of temptation when the devil tried to dissuade him from submitting to God’s will. Large crowds of pilgrims moved through the sprawling Jamarat complex after arriving from Muzdalifah, where they collected pebbles overnight following a day of worship and prayer at Arafat on Tuesday.” (05/27/26)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/world/article/muslim-pilgrims-perform-hajj-rituals-under-22278357.php
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16) US regime publicly confesses to 194th maritime murder
Source: United Press International
“The U.S. military has [murdered] another person in its latest strike on a suspected drug-trafficking boat in the Trump administration’s deadly crackdown on alleged narcotics trafficking in international waters. The Tuesday strike was the 58th publicly disclosed by U.S. Southern Command in President Donald Trump’s monthslong campaign, which has now [murdered] at least 194 people.” (05/27/26)
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2026/05/27/SOUTHCOM/3161779867636/
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17) Italy: Hotel that refused to give tourist tap water acted lawfully, court rules
Source: BBC News [UK State Media]
“Italy’s highest court has ruled a five-star Dolomites hotel was acting lawfully when it refused to provide tap water to a tourist. The woman from Rome unsuccessfully argued that ‘water is a natural resource and a universal human right’ after a waiter only offered her €7 (£6) bottled mineral water at the restaurant of the five-star Hotel Sassongher in Corvara during the 2019 ski season. The Italian Supreme Court denied her request for €2,700 to compensate her for emotional distress and economic damage, Italian media reports. Silvio Belardi, the lawyer representing the hotel, told the Corriere Alto Adige newspaper that the court held that ‘there is no obligation to supply tap water.’ The lawyer later told the BBC the case had been rejected first by a court in Rome, then by an appeals court and now the Court of Cassation, where the judges ruled in the hotel’s favour.” (05/27/26)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g4yd8q0j7o
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18) Palestine: Israeli regime claims it killed head of Hamas military wing
Source: Al Jazeera [Qatari state media]
“Israel says it has killed Mohammed Odeh, the leader of Hamas’s military wing in Gaza, in an air strike in the northern part of the strip, as a fragile ‘ceasefire’ comes under growing strain. Israeli authorities said on Wednesday that Odeh was killed in an attack the previous day in Gaza City. There was no immediate comment from the Palestinian group. Odeh, a former Hamas intelligence chief, reportedly succeeded Izz al-Din al-Haddad as the head of the Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Palestinian group, after the latter was killed in an Israeli strike earlier this month, although Hamas did not officially confirm the appointment.” (05/27/26)
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/5/27/israel-claims-head-of-hamas-military-wing-killed-in-gaza-strike?traffic_source=rss
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19) Puerto Rico: Governor announces emergency to fight worsening coastal erosion
Source: SFGate
“Puerto Rico’s governor announced a state of emergency Wednesday to fight a surge in coastal erosion along the U.S. territory ’s north coast. Gov. Jenniffer González said the executive order would allow her administration to accelerate projects to protect natural resources and vulnerable coastal communities. The government said in a statement that rising sea levels, storm surges and other factors have intensified coastal erosion in Puerto Rico. González pledged to help northern towns including Loiza, where people have been evacuated and chunks of asphalt from coastal roads have tumbled into the ocean following heavy swells. The order was signed just days before the start of the Atlantic hurricane season, which runs from June 1 to Nov. 30. The cost of the projects has not yet been determined.” (05/27/26)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/world/article/puerto-rico-governor-announces-emergency-to-fight-22278723.php
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20) TN: Homeowner fires on, misses intruder
Source: Fox 13 News
“A Hyde Park man living in fear because his house had been broken into before opened fire on a home intruder early Tuesday morning, police said. … Officers arrived to find the suspect — later identified as Simeon Pratcher — laying ‘face down’ in one of the home’s bedrooms, police said. … The homeowner told investigators that he was in his living room when he heard someone entering his home. He went to one of his bedrooms and saw an intruder in the doorframe, leading the homeowner to fire two shots, MPD said. No one was struck by the gunfire. The homeowner told MPD that his home had been broken into three times, adding that he felt like he ‘had to protect himself.'” (05/26/26)
https://www.fox13memphis.com/news/hyde-park-homeowner-opens-fire-on-intruder-during-attempted-break-in-mpd-says/article_b85bb7cc-7716-4af8-ad14-7c625afc1aaf.html
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21) Was Trump Ever a “Realist?”
Source: The Realist Review
by James W Carden
“Over the course of his three presidential campaigns (2016, 2020, 2024), President Donald J. Trump promised an America First foreign policy — one that would see America pull back from postwar European security commitments, end the war in Ukraine, and keep the country out of the Middle East ‘forever wars’ that so beguiled (and then bedeviled) every US president for the past quarter of a century. Instead, as we head into the 2026 midterms, his record is, to a surprising degree, primarily one of continuity with the national security policies of his predecessors. In the context of foreign policy, Trump II might properly be seen as Bush-Cheney’s third term, such has been the influence of neoconservative personnel and ideas within his two non-contiguous administrations.” (05/27/26)
https://therealistreview.substack.com/p/was-trump-ever-a-realist
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22) Political winners: Those who don’t participate
Source: Eastern New Mexico News
by Kent McManigal
“Every time there’s an election — a religious ritual for those who believe in the imaginary authority of the state — the cheers and tears begin as soon as the votes are tallied. The reaction depends on whether the individual voter ends up on the winning or losing side. Either outcome means the state has won at the expense of liberty. Politics is designed to divide people into winners and losers, and the only way to truly win is to refuse to play.” (05/27/26)
https://www.easternnewmexiconews.com/story/2026/05/27/voices/opinion-political-winners-those-who-dont-participate/233526.html
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23) How Anthony Comstock became America’s most powerful censor
Source: Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression
by David Volodzko
“In the spring of 1873, the U.S. postal inspector, a prudish Christian named Anthony Comstock, arrived in Washington carrying a box of dildos. There were also dirty books, naughty pictures, French playing cards, abortion pamphlets, ‘intermediate tegumentary coverings’ (condoms), and enough sexually explicit material to scandalize Congress into trying to legislate the Devil out of Americans. Comstock called the collection his ‘Chamber of Horrors’ and went around showing it to lawmakers like a traveling freak show. The performance worked. On March 3, President Ulysses S. Grant signed what became known as the Comstock Act, one of the most sweeping censorship laws in American history. … For the next four decades, Comstock stalked publishers, raided bookstores, and helped criminalize public discussion of sex in the United States.” (05/27/26)
https://www.fire.org/news/how-anthony-comstock-became-americas-most-powerful-censor
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24) The Public Goods Circular Argument
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Joshua Mawhorter
“Public goods theory is presented as scientific, value-free economic theory, however, it implicitly smuggles in normative presuppositions that lead to the conclusion that the modern nation-state, and the state alone, must provide certain essential goods and services, which legitimates the state and its actions as necessary and legitimate. Historically, many applications of public goods theory emerged less as neutral demonstrations of state necessity than as retrospective justifications for functions governments had already monopolized.” (05/27/26)
https://mises.org/mises-wire/public-goods-circular-argument
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25) What the World Needs Now
Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob
“For my six decades, the United States has been the dominant military power in the world. Yet, with China’s massive military buildup that is now an open question in Asia. Which is why failure to help Taiwan defeat a Chinese attack would destroy U.S. credibility there … and likely far beyond. So, how do we ever relinquish the badge of world’s policeman? One word: Allies.” [editor’s note: Three words — non-interventionist foreign policy – TLK] (05/27/26)
https://thisiscommonsense.org/2026/05/27/what-the-world-needs-now/
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26) Why do Democrats think “real men” wear Nazi tattoos?
Source: New York Post
by staff
“It seems modern Democrats can’t object to Nazi-lovers inside the party. Massachusetts Rep. Jake Auchincloss just got major lefty backlash for calling Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner’s Nazi tatoo (and his pathetic excuses for it) ‘disqualifying.’ ‘I’ve been clear about Graham Platner. I find that tattoo and his commentary about it to be personally disqualifying,’ Auchincloss said Monday on CNN; ‘I hope Maine voters agree with me.’ That brought a storm of progressive social-media fury, accusing Auchincloss of wanting President Donald Trump to have a Republican Senate majority for his last two years in office. Saikat Chakrabarti, the former AOC staff chief now running to replace the retiring Rep. Nancy Pelosi, called on Bay State Dems to oust Auchincloss in his coming primary; others demanded Jake get kicked out of the Democratic Party.” (05/26/26)
https://nypost.com/2026/05/26/opinion/why-do-democrats-think-real-men-wear-nazi-tattoos/
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27) Thinking about Conservatism
Source: Adam Smith Institute
by Madsen Pirie
“Two years ago I published ‘The Philosophy of Conservatism’ as a series of essays on Conservatism and Conservatives. I divide it into small-c conservatism, which is a character trait, ‘a disposition averse from change,’ as Lord Hugh Cecil put it. The small-c conservatives oppose change because it is upsetting, and because the loss of the familiar is threatening. ‘Every change is an emblem of extinction,’ as Oakeshott expressed it. Large-C Conservatism is a political tradition, not a character trait. It recognizes that change happens because of new technology, new information and new ideas. But it wants change to come from below, organic, evolutionary and unplanned. It opposes imposed change, preconceived plans.” (05/27/26)
https://www.adamsmith.org/blog/thinking-about-conservatism
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28) House Republican Leaders Wouldn’t Allow a Vote on Ending the Iran War
Source: Exiled Policy
by Jason Pye
“Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) wouldn’t schedule a vote before the House left town for the Memorial Day recess on the Iran War Powers Resolution because it would have passed. There’s no other way to say it.” (05/27/26)
https://exiledpolicy.substack.com/p/house-republican-leaders-wouldnt
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29) Freeing Cuba without revenge
Source: Christian Science Monitor
by staff
“For months, the Trump administration has aimed various types of punishing force at the regime in Havana to free the Cuban people: An oil blockade. Criminal charges against the dominant leader, Raúl Castro. The deployment of an aircraft carrier and its strike group in the Caribbean Sea, hinting at an invasion. Much of this strategy has been driven by influential Cuban Americans who have long sought retribution against the island’s communist rulers. ‘It will be difficult to completely control the impulse for revenge that some Cubans may feel during a transition,’ an opposition leader, José Daniel Ferrer, told Cuban news outlet 14ymedio in January. Yet another force might be strengthening among the political opposition, one that could erode the regime from within, official by official. It entails ridding oneself of thoughts of revenge and, as respected dissident and former political prisoner Óscar Elías Biscet puts it, loving one’s adversaries.” (05/26/26)
https://www.csmonitor.com/Editorials/the-monitors-view/2026/0526/Freeing-Cuba-without-revenge
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30) Offramps for Postliberalism
Source: Law & Liberty
by Thomas D Howes
“A new book on the challenge of postliberalism aptly shows its weaknesses while suggesting a path towards moderation.” (05/27/26)
https://lawliberty.org/book-review/offramps-for-postliberalism/
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31) Goldman is trying to rage bait his way to victory; can he?
Source: Fox News Forum
by Jonathan Turley
“New York Democrat Rep. Dan Goldman is fast becoming the Marie Antoinette of New York politics. As Democratic socialists rage against the privileged elite and promise sweeping welfare programs, Goldman is doubling down on promises of more impeachments and investigations. The ultimate establishment candidate is floundering. He is reportedly more than 20 points behind his Mamdani-endorsed opponent, housing advocate and former Comptroller Brad Lander. It appears that the ‘let-them-eat impeachments’ is not resonating with his constituents. While Goldman is trying to fight off the challenge from the left with some pocketbook pitches, he is sticking to the narrative that got him elected a few years ago. In an ‘age of rage,’ Goldman has excelled, pushing unstepped on, unadulterated rage..” (05/27/26)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/jonathan-turley-rep-goldman-trying-rage-bait-way-victory
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32) Hasan Piker and the Marxist Resentment Behind “Microlooting”
Source: The Daily Economy
by Logan Tantibanchachai
“Affluent activists increasingly treat property rights as morally negotiable, attacking the system that enabled their (and their parents’) success..” (05/27/26)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/hasan-piker-and-the-marxist-resentment-behind-microlooting/
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33) Time for Ultra-Wealthy Private Jet Owners to Pay Their “Fair Share”
Source: Inequality.org
by Chuck Collins & Emily Wagner
“One of the great injustices of our current tax system is that working people often end up subsidizing the luxury consumption of the billionaire class. One example of this phenomena can be found in the world of private jets, one of the most ecologically indefensible forms of transformation. The private jet lobby has worked for years to secure tax breaks for aircraft purchases and fuel—and shift their costs on to taxpayers and the commercial flying public. The lobby scored a big win when a 100% bonus depreciation for business assets including private planes was included in the 2017 Trump tax cut. That provision was renewed in 2025’s ‘One Big Beautiful Bill Act.’ ” (05/27/26)
https://inequality.org/article/lawmakers-seek-to-eliminate-private-jet-subsidies/
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34) The Do-Gooder’s Road to Coercion
Source: Mindset Shifts
by Barry Brownstein
“Why Those Who Won’t Govern Themselves Will Govern You.” (05/27/26)
https://mindsetshifts.substack.com/p/the-do-gooders-road-to-coercion
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35) No Moral Standing to Complain about Supposed Cuban Terrorism
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger
“There is a principle in the law that one must have ‘standing’ before bringing a legal action against someone else. If the person lacks standing, his case is disallowed. In the build-up to one of its patented regime-change operations, the U.S. government, especially the national-security branch of the government, has accused Cuba’s government of being a supporter of terrorism. That’s rich, especially given that the U.S. government has long been — and continues to be — one of the biggest supporters of terrorism against Cuba. Given such, the U.S. government clearly lacks moral standing to complain about any supposed support of terrorism by the Cuban government.” (05/27/26)
https://www.fff.org/2026/05/27/no-moral-standing-to-complain-about-supposed-cuban-terrorism/
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36) Conserving the Last Mature Forests in Maine
Source: Property and Environment Research Center
by Jonathan Thompson, Adam Daigneault, & Joshua Plisinski
“Old-growth forests provide exceptional ecological and cultural value, store disproportionately large amounts of carbon, and support unique habitat structures and species assemblages not found in younger forests. Consequently, their protection has been a longstanding conservation priority. Yet globally, old-growth forests are rare, fragmented, and in decline.” (05/27/26)
https://www.perc.org/2026/05/27/conserving-the-last-mature-forests-in-maine/
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37) “Education”: Why the Left Hates America’s Founders
Source: Town Hall
by Mark Lewis
“‘If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.’ — Thomas Jefferson … That Democrats and other Leftists hate America’s Founding Fathers and the country’s Judeo-Christian heritage is a fact I’m not going to waste time in the article attempting to prove. Everything the Left does is designed to uproot and destroy the principles our Founders tried to build the nation upon. One of those principes, a very vital one, is a correctly educated populace. We have been complaining for many years now, and rightly so, what the Left has done to America’s education system since getting control of it about a century ago. Our Founders warned us about it, but, of course, Americans in general have paid no attention to them on this as on most matters they taught us.” (05/27/26)
https://townhall.com/columnists/marklewis/2026/05/27/why-the-left-hates-americas-founders-education-n2676724
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38) Face the facts: China isn’t leaving Latin America anytime soon
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Jorge Heine
“Countries across the region have strong economic incentives for working with Beijing. Washington should try to compete rather than coerce.” (05/27/26)
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/latin-america-china/
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39) Empire with a Humanitarian Face: Democrats Rebrand
Source: Libertarian Institute
by Matt Wolfson
“American political successions in recent years happen counterintuitively: implicit hand-offs between two nominally opposing sides. This strange reality is where we derive our notion of ‘the uniparty’ and the media its notion of ‘partisanship.’ Through the ‘partisan’ lens favored by media, our politics appears divided between a party, the Republicans, in hock to Israel, the ‘big five’ weapons contractors, real estate, Wall Street, and Silicon Valley; and a party, the Democrats, in hock to powerful ‘progressive’ or ‘Left’ nonprofits like ActBlue, the Southern Poverty Law Center, the Center for American Progress, and the Open Society Foundations. But the ‘uniparty’ theory of the case shared by many politically disenfranchised Americans is a more accurate read of our political reality.” (05/27/26)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/empire-with-a-humanitarian-face-democrats-rebrand
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40) A Quagmire of Trump’s Own Making
Source: The Dispatch
by Mike Nelson
“The president who sold his leadership as a unitary executive seems frustrated by the results of trying to fight a war that way.” (05/27/26)
https://thedispatch.com/article/trump-iran-quagmire-allies-voters-congress/
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41) Electile Dysfunction: Why Can’t the Dems Get Their Polls Up?
Source: Common Dreams
by Marv Waterstone
“‘The Republicans go for the jugular; the Democrats go for the capillaries’ — Kevin Phillips … With the recent release of the long-withheld, but little anticipated Democratic National Committee ‘autopsy’ of the 2024 presidential electoral loss, we’re back to the perennial questions of which issues should receive priority; how should messaging and narrative around those issues be crafted; which wing(s) of the party should be amputated before their rot infects the entire organism, suburban soccer moms or inner city youth; and on and on. All good questions, but ultimately, in present circumstances, unanswerable except in the most platitudinous, hand-waving ways. The most fundamental dilemma resides in the Faustian bargain the party entered beginning in the 1970s, and the result of that bargain is neatly captured in Sheldon Wolin’s 2010 coinage ‘the inauthentic opposition.'” (05/27/26)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/why-can-t-dems-win
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42) Safetyism has made society terrified of disagreement
Source: spiked
by Stefano Gujon
“As ‘safe spaces’ on Western university campuses continue to multiply, it has become clear that institutions designed to defend free thought are now breeding grounds for illiberal conformism. Higher education no longer trains students to grapple with dissent. It teaches them to avoid intellectual conflict at all costs. This conformism has not been limited to the lecture hall. It has spread outwards into companies, the media space and public life.” (05/27/26)
https://archive.is/uJjlZ
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43) Trump’s Pottery Barn War
Source: Antiwar.com
by Travis Lynch
“When Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social that any agreement with Iran must be ‘great and meaningful,’ or there would be no agreement at all, he appeared to be drawing a wall between himself and Barack Obama’s nuclear deal. He wanted to make clear that even if negotiations were underway, they would be Trumpian negotiations: tougher, more forceful, and the ‘exact opposite’ of an agreement he had spent years denouncing as a symbol of weakness. But that statement revealed less strength than contradiction. A president who once treated Obama’s diplomacy with Iran as appeasement now has to sell his own diplomacy as victory.” (05/27/26)
https://original.antiwar.com/travis_lynch/2026/05/26/trumps-pottery-barn-war
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44) The Importance of Free Speech in American Public Junior High and High Schools
Source: The Volokh Conspiracy
by Ronald Den Otter
“Unlike concerns about censorship on college campuses, which have received a lot of media attention, when guest speakers are disinvited or shouted down, few people care much about the extent to which school authorities may suppress student speech in a public junior high or high school. The assumption is that due to their age and relative immaturity, most of what they contribute to the marketplace of ideas at their school will have little, if any, value. Furthermore, the primary mission of a school is to educate its students, and student speech can be disruptive or distracting. As such, it may appear to be obvious that teenagers should not be able to exercise the same free speech rights that college students may exercise. However, position strikes me as harder to defend than most people acknowledge.” (05/26/26)
https://reason.com/volokh/2026/05/26/the-importance-of-free-speech-in-american-public-junior-high-and-high-schools/
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45) Tom Steyer Will Destroy California’s Historic Small Businesses
Source: American Greatness
by Edward Ring
“In the heart of the Santa Cruz Mountains, just off Highway 9, there is a restaurant that has become a community icon. It has a redwood-paneled dining room with exposed roof timbers that was built in 1912 and a historic bar with a wood-burning fireplace. For over a century, the people in this isolated town have treasured this gathering place. Near downtown Los Angeles, along a busy commercial boulevard, a family-owned Mexican restaurant has thrived since 1925 …. Countless independent businesses in California remain prosperous despite a regulatory environment that throws at them rules that are often unreasonable, even in conflict with each other, from agencies at the local, county, regional, and state levels. These agencies are staffed with bureaucrats who are not merely indifferent to the challenges small businesses face while attempting to comply with their edicts; many of them are actively hostile.” (05/27/26)
https://amgreatness.com/2026/05/27/tom-steyer-will-destroy-californias-historic-small-businesses/
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46) Use AI This Election
Source: Astral Codex Ten
by Scott Alexander
“I’m not saying AI is superintelligent or can decide better than you can. I’m saying that if you — like me — spend an hour or so doing research before voting on local seats, AI can aid that research very effectively. And if you don’t do that research — because you weren’t willing to waste an hour on it before — AI makes it so much faster that you might want to start.” (05/26/26)
https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/use-ai-this-election
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47) Casualties of war
Source: The Price of Liberty
by Nathan Barton
“Yesterday, we commemorated those men and women of the United States who lost their lives prematurely in the various wars fought by and in the United States of America. But it is important to remember, and commemorate (mourn) those other than the soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines – and their civilian support forces – who died. There is no war, whether declared or not, whether internal or external, that does not have many more casualties. And almost always, in external wars, it is the enemy who suffers the greater number of dead. And the civilians, not the support forces, but the ordinary civilians. Let us also pause to remember those, of whatever nation, with whatever stake in the outcome of the war or whatever the conflict is called.” (05/26/26)
https://thepriceofliberty.org/2026/05/26/casualties-of-war/
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48) Firing More People Won’t Make America Healthy Again
Source: Independent Institute
by Raymond J March
“Robert F. Kennedy Jr. came into office with three ambitious goals: radical transparency, improved national health, and rebuilding trust in America’s public health agencies. More than a year in, it seems he has only one tool for the job — firing people. Lots of them.” (05/26/26)
https://www.independent.org/article/2026/05/26/firing-make-america-healthy-again/
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49) Trump’s Slush Fund Could End Up Costing Recipients Billions
Source: The American Prospect
by David Dayen
“The Justice Department’s $1.776 billion ‘anti-weaponization’ fund, which would pay out public money in compensation for alleged overreach in federal prosecutions, including for the insurrectionists who stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021, has been accurately described as one of the most nakedly corrupt actions in American history. It would give a tacit endorsement from every American taxpayer to the notion that the Capitol Riot’s only transgression, for example, came from those who tried to punish its perpetrators for attempting to halt the outcome of an election. News of the fund has triggered massive political backlash and at least temporarily derailed a party-line reconciliation bill funding immigration enforcement operations for the next three years. Senate Republicans didn’t want to go on the record siding with Donald Trump’s crony slush fund, and left Washington rather than being confronted with such a question in a reconciliation ‘vote-a-rama.'” (05/27/26)
https://prospect.org/2026/05/27/trumps-slush-fund-could-end-up-costing-recipients-billions/
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50) Why Has Trump Stopped Selling Weapons to Taiwan?
Source: Reason
by Matthew Petti
“The administration is avoiding conflict with China to focus on war in the Middle East. Taiwan’s democracy hangs in the balance.” (05/26/26)
https://reason.com/2026/05/26/why-has-trump-stopped-selling-weapons-to-taiwan/
_____ Today's Freedom Podcast and Video _____
51) The Political Orphanage, 05/27/26
Source: The Political Orphanage
"The Old Political Order Is Dying: Stephen Davies on the Great Realignment." (05/27/26)
https://politicalorphanage.libsyn.com/the-old-political-order-is-dying-stephen-davies-on-the-great-realignment
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52) Reason Interview: Alvin E. Roth
Source: Reason
“How Moral Panic Creates Black Markets.” (05/27/26)
https://reason.com/podcast/2026/05/27/how-moral-panic-creates-black-markets/
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53) The Fifth Column, episode 559
Source: The Fifth Column
“Ben Rhodes and the Evil Empire State of Mind.” (05/27/26)
https://www.wethefifth.com/p/ben-rhodes-and-the-evil-empire-state
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54) Make It Make Sense, 05/26/26
Source: Washington Post
“The hysteria around artificial intelligence and data centers is growing, but are the public’s worst fears warranted? … James Hohmann, Jason Willick and Dominic Pino debunk the biggest myths about the technology’s impacts on jobs and the environment.” (05/26/26)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/podcasts/make-it-make-sense/why-data-centers-dont-deserve-so-much-hate/
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55) Questions For Corbett, 05/27/26
Source: The Corbett Report
“What are the Enhanced Games?” (05/27/26)
https://corbettreport.com/what-are-the-enhanced-games-questions-for-corbett/
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56) Show-Me Institute Podcast, 05/27/26
Source: Show-Me Institute
“AI and the Future of College with Jacob Light.” (05/27/26)
https://showmeinstitute.org/article/education/ai-and-the-future-of-college-with-jacob-light/
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57) Fountainhead Forum, episode 450
Source: Fountainhead Forum
“Steve Sarras on efforts to ban greyhound racing.” (05/26/26)
https://rumble.com/v7afklo-ff-450-steve-sarras-on-efforts-to-ban-greyhound-racing.html
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58) Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp, 05/26/26
Source: Antiwar.com
“Iran Says US Violated Ceasefire, Russia To Target Ukraine’s Underground Bunkers, and More.” (05/26/26)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0QV8oZzvoY
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59) Nonzero, 05/26/26
Source: bloggingheads.tv
“The Pope Takes On AI | Robert Wright & Nikita Petrov.” (05/26/26)
https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/69507
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60) The Kyle Anzalone Show, 05/26/26
Source: Libertarian Institute
“Prof. Joe Terwilliger on Getting ‘Loomered’ and the Potential for a Deal with North Korea.” (05/26/26)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/blog/the-kyle-anzalone-show-with-prof-joe-terwilliger-on-getting-loomered-and-the-potential-for-a-deal-with-north-korea/
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Today's Freedom News:
1) US regime strikes Iranian site; Kuwait targeted by missiles, drones
2) Bitcoin drops below $73,000
3) US regime “investigates” rape victim in attempt to protect her assailant from $83 million verdict
4) Lebanon: Israeli forces strike Tyre, demand evacuations
5) Ukraine: Zelenskyy asks Trump for more US air defense help
6) South Korea: Chinese dissident detained after fleeing in rubber boat
7) Study: GLP-1 Meds May Help Slow the Spread of Certain Obesity-Related Cancers
8) Canada: Former chef won’t be charged with murder for selling legal product to willing customers
9) US heimatschutz shot-caller “drawing up plans” to impede travel
10) Spain: Police search headquarters of PM Sanchez’s ruling party
11) NASA lays out moon base plans with landers, buggies and drones at the top of the list
12) Biden sues US DOJ over planned release of conversations with biographer
13) Germany: After decades on the run, former member of militant group jailed for armed robberies
14) Hungary: Parliament Approves Law to Maintain Membership in International Criminal Court
15) Saudi Arabia: Muslim pilgrims perform Hajj rituals under intense heat as Eid al-Adha celebrations start
16) US regime publicly confesses to 194th maritime murder
17) Italy: Hotel that refused to give tourist tap water acted lawfully, court rules
18) Palestine: Israeli regime claims it killed head of Hamas military wing
19) Puerto Rico: Governor announces emergency to fight worsening coastal erosion
20) TN: Homeowner fires on, misses intruder
Today's Freedom Commentary:
21) Was Trump Ever a “Realist?”
22) Political winners: Those who don’t participate
23) How Anthony Comstock became America’s most powerful censor
24) The Public Goods Circular Argument
25) What the World Needs Now
26) Why do Democrats think “real men” wear Nazi tattoos?
27) Thinking about Conservatism
28) House Republican Leaders Wouldn’t Allow a Vote on Ending the Iran War
29) Freeing Cuba without revenge
30) Offramps for Postliberalism
31) Goldman is trying to rage bait his way to victory; can he?
32) Hasan Piker and the Marxist Resentment Behind “Microlooting”
33) Time for Ultra-Wealthy Private Jet Owners to Pay Their “Fair Share”
34) The Do-Gooder’s Road to Coercion
35) No Moral Standing to Complain about Supposed Cuban Terrorism
36) Conserving the Last Mature Forests in Maine
37) “Education”: Why the Left Hates America’s Founders
38) Face the facts: China isn’t leaving Latin America anytime soon
39) Empire with a Humanitarian Face: Democrats Rebrand
40) A Quagmire of Trump’s Own Making
41) Electile Dysfunction: Why Can’t the Dems Get Their Polls Up?
42) Safetyism has made society terrified of disagreement
43) Trump’s Pottery Barn War
44) The Importance of Free Speech in American Public Junior High and High Schools
45) Tom Steyer Will Destroy California’s Historic Small Businesses
46) Use AI This Election
47) Casualties of war
48) Firing More People Won’t Make America Healthy Again
49) Trump’s Slush Fund Could End Up Costing Recipients Billions
50) Why Has Trump Stopped Selling Weapons to Taiwan?
Today's Freedom Podcast and Video:
51) The Political Orphanage, 05/27/26
52) Reason Interview: Alvin E. Roth
53) The Fifth Column, episode 559
54) Make It Make Sense, 05/26/26
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56) Show-Me Institute Podcast, 05/27/26
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1) US regime strikes Iranian site; Kuwait targeted by missiles, drones
Source: Al Jazeera [Qatari state media]
“The United States has carried out new strikes on an Iranian military site allegedly posing a threat to US forces and maritime traffic in the Strait of Hormuz, according to news reports. Iranian media have reported that US forces struck near the Bandar Abbas port, causing no damage or casualties. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) later said it launched an attack on an ‘American airbase’ in retaliation for the Bandar Abbas strike, and warned of ‘more decisive’ action should US ‘aggression’ continue, according to state media. Kuwait’s military said its air defences confronted ‘hostile’ missiles and drones, without providing information on where the attack came from.” (05/28/26)
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2026/5/28/iran-war-live-israel-orders-mass-forced-displacement-for-all-south-lebanon
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2) Bitcoin drops below $73,000
Source: CoinDesk
“Bitcoin broke below $73,000 for the first time in months as fresh U.S. strikes on Iran sent risk assets lower and triggered one of the largest liquidation events of the year. Bitcoin traded at $72,978 in Asian hours Thursday, down 3.4% over 24 hours and 6.3% over the past seven days, per CoinDesk data, after touching a low of $72,912. … Risk assets fell across the board. The MSCI All Country World Index retreated 0.4% from a record high, a gauge of Asian shares dropped 1.7%, and futures for the S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 pointed lower. Oil climbed as the strikes clouded the outlook for a deal to reopen the strait.” (05/28/26)
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2026/05/28/bitcoin-drops-below-usd73-000-as-us-strikes-on-iran-spark-usd1-billion-liquidations
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3) US regime “investigates” rape victim in attempt to protect her assailant from $83 million verdict
Source: The Hill
“The Department of Justice (DOJ) has reportedly launched a criminal investigation into E. Jean Carroll, who accused President Trump of sexual assault, according to multiple reports. CNN was the first to report Wednesday night that the DOJ’s probe focuses on whether Carroll committed perjury while speaking at a deposition as part of her two civil lawsuits against Trump. … Prosecutors are reportedly focused on Carroll telling then-Trump attorney Alina Habba in a 2022 deposition that she received no outside funding for the lawsuit. Two weeks before the trial, though, Carroll’s attorneys informed the judge and Trump’s legal team that billionaire Reid Hoffman’s nonprofit covered some of her legal fees and expenses. … Two juries awarded Carroll a total of $88.3 million in damages, finding Trump liable for sexually abusing and defaming her.” (05/27/26)
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5898599-carroll-trump-defamation-probe-doj/
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4) Lebanon: Israeli forces strike Tyre, demand evacuations
Source: BBC News [UK state media]
“The Israeli military has issued evacuation orders for large parts of southern Lebanon, declaring the areas ‘combat zones’ ahead of fresh strikes against Hezbollah. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) urged residents to move north of the Zahrani River, about 40km (25 miles) from the border. The IDF said it would act ‘with extreme force,’ accusing Hezbollah of repeated ceasefire violations. It is the largest evacuation order since the ceasefire took effect on 17 April, covering about 14% of Lebanese territory. Earlier on Wednesday, Israel carried strikes on the southern city of Tyre. Hezbollah, which itself accused Israel of violating the ceasefire, said its fighters had clashed with Israeli troops.” (05/27/26)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj3pgrpmlklo
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5) Ukraine: Zelenskyy asks Trump for more US air defense help
Source: Boston Herald
“Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has written to U.S. President Donald Trump and Congress asking for more American-made air defense ammunition to counter intensifying Russian ballistic missile attacks, Kyiv said Wednesday. Meanwhile, Russian lawmakers have backed a draft bill to have bank employees join the fight against Ukraine’s long-range drones that strike deep inside Russia — with trained bank staff shooting down the unmanned aircraft. The steps came after a recent escalation in aerial attacks by both sides in the more than four-year war that followed Russia’s all-out invasion of its neighbor. Neither side has been able to make much progress on the 1,250-kilometer (780-mile) front line.” (05/27/26)
https://www.bostonherald.com/2026/05/27/russia-ukraine-war-us-air-defense-help/
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6) South Korea: Chinese dissident detained after fleeing in rubber boat
Source: The Guardian [UK]
“A Chinese dissident has washed up on the shores of South Korea after attempting to flee China in a rubber boat. Dong Guangping, 68, is in custody in South Korea, having been detained by the coastguard on Monday evening. He is thought to have travelled more than 30 hours by sea to reach the shores of China’s democratic neighbour. Dong has tried to escape from China on several previous occasions, according to media reports and interviews with two of his friends. … The coastguard released a statement on Wednesday confirming that a Chinese man in his 60s had been arrested and was being questioned on suspicion of immigration law violations, according to Reuters. The man was on a 3.3-metre boat with a 10-horsepower motor when he was spotted about 38 nautical miles off the coast. … Dong was previously jailed between 2001 and 2004 for ‘inciting subversion of state power.'” (05/27/26)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/27/dissident-dong-guangping-south-korea-flee-china-rubber-boat
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7) Study: GLP-1 Meds May Help Slow the Spread of Certain Obesity-Related Cancers
Source: US News & World Report
“A new study suggests GLP-1 medications may slow the spread of certain obesity-related cancers. … Researchers analyzed health data from more than 12,000 people who had one of seven types of cancer at stage 1, 2 or 3. They compared patients who started taking GLP-1 drugs after their diagnosis with similar patients taking another class of diabetes drugs called gliptins. ‘Our study found that use of GLP-1 drugs, compared to DPP-4 inhibitors and other antidiabetic drugs, was associated with a meaningful reduction in cancer progression across four solid tumor types,’ said co-author Dr. Mark David Orland of the Taussig Cancer Institute at the Cleveland Clinic. The strongest results were seen in lung, breast, colon and liver cancer, where patients taking GLP-1 medications were found to be 38% to 50% less likely to progress to stage 4 or metastatic cancer.” (05/27/26)
https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2026-05-27/glp-1-meds-may-help-slow-the-spread-of-certain-obesity-related-cancers
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8) Canada: Former chef won’t be charged with murder for selling legal product to willing customers
Source: CBS News
“A Canadian man accused of shipping poison to people contemplating suicide around the globe is expected to plead guilty to several counts on Friday, ending a case that has shocked the public. While Kenneth Law is set to admit to 14 charges of aiding or counseling suicide, Canadian prosecutors are withdrawing second degree murder charges, multiple sources have confirmed, causing anger among devastated families. The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation first reported the plea. Law, 60, is a former chef accused of running a number of online forums that offered predominantly young, distressed people advice on how to end their lives. He allegedly shipped parcels to hundreds of people in dozens of countries containing sodium nitrite, a legally available preservative that can be fatal in certain concentrations.” (05/27/26)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kenneth-law-poison-suicides-to-avoid-murder-charges-canada/
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9) US heimatschutz shot-caller “drawing up plans” to impede travel
Source: The Hill
“Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said late Tuesday he is ‘drawing up plans’ to end the processing of international flights in left-leaning cities, pointing to protests outside an immigration detention center in New Jersey as rationale. Mullin’s comments follow weekend protests at Delaney Hall in Newark, where Sen. Andy Kim (D-N.J.) was pepper sprayed during an interaction with immigration agents. … U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents process both U.S. and international visitors at the border and on flights. … Critics said ending the processing of international flights at various airports would cause chaos at airports across the country, forcing airlines to cancel flights and disrupt travel for left- and right-leaning cities that depend on CBP processing at major hubs.” [editor’s note: How about a compromise — CPB stops “processing” those flights … but the flights don’t stop. They just proceed without police state interference. Everybody wins! – TLK] (05/27/26)
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5897027-homeland-security-plans-end-flights/
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10) Spain: Police search headquarters of PM Sanchez’s ruling party
Source: South China Morning Post [Hong Kong]
“Spanish police are searching the headquarters of the ruling Socialist Party as part of an ongoing investigation into possible financial wrongdoing, the Civil Guard said on Wednesday. The raid on the office in central Madrid is another blow to the party of Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, whose Socialists have been hammered by a series of corruption scandals. The Civil Guard said the police were under judicial orders to find material relevant to a National Court probe into accusations of corruption against former party members and other individuals.” (05/27/26)
https://archive.is/Kw9Y5
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11) NASA lays out moon base plans with landers, buggies and drones at the top of the list
Source: SFGate
“NASA is already ordering landers, rovers and drones for a sprawling moon base, less than two months after the Artemis II’s record-breaking lunar flyaround. The space agency outlined the first phase of its moon base plans on Tuesday, awarding hundreds of millions of dollars in contracts to four U.S. companies. Jeff Bezos’[s] Blue Origin will provide a pair of landers to deliver moon buggies to the lunar surface, at a spot near the moon’s south pole. These so-called lunar terrain vehicles will be built by Astrolab and Lunar Outpost. Firefly Aerospace, which landed successfully on the moon last year, will deliver the first drones to the moon. All this hardware is ideally supposed to arrive before the first Artemis astronauts land on the moon, planned for as early as 2028.” (05/27/26)
https://www.sfgate.com/business/article/nasa-lays-out-moon-base-plans-with-landers-22277469.php
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12) Biden sues US DOJ over planned release of conversations with biographer
Source: CBC News [Canadian state media]
“Former U.S. president Joe Biden sued the U.S. Department of Justice on Tuesday, seeking to bar the release of audio recordings and transcripts of private conversations with his biographer in 2016 and 2017. The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Washington D.C., comes ahead of the department’s planned June 15 release of the materials to the U.S. House judiciary committee and the conservative Heritage Foundation. The foundation sought them after they were used as part of then-special counsel Robert Hur’s 2023 investigation into Biden’s handling of classified documents. Hur declined to bring criminal charges.” (05/26/26)
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/biden-justice-dept-lawsuit-recordings-interview-9.7213289
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13) Germany: After decades on the run, former member of militant group jailed for armed robberies
Source: BBC News [UK State Media]
“A former member of the German militant group Red Army Faction (RAF) has been jailed for 13 years for carrying out a string of armed robberies between 1999 and 2016. Daniela Klette, 67, was finally caught in a flat in Berlin in 2024 after more than 30 years on the run. She went on trial last year. Her defence had called for her acquittal but the court in Verden in Lower Saxony found her guilty on Wednesday of aggravated robbery, violating weapons laws and other offences over a 17-year period. The RAF, a violent anti-capitalist group also known as the Baader-Meinhof gang, was eventually disbanded after a campaign of murder, kidnapping and bombing from the early 1970s to the early 1990s. ” (05/27/26)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx21dr3lekpo
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14) Hungary: Parliament Approves Law to Maintain Membership in International Criminal Court
Source: US News & World Report
“Hungary’s parliament on Wednesday approved legislation to maintain the country’s membership in the International Criminal Court, reversing a 2025 decision made by the government of Viktor Orban. Orban’s government decided to withdraw from the ICC, saying the court had become ‘political.’ Current Prime Minister Peter Magyar, who ousted Orban in parliamentary elections last month, pledged to halt the withdrawal process and keep Hungary in the ICC. The International Criminal Court was set up more than two decades ago to prosecute those accused of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide. Orban’s government announced the withdrawal in April 2025, shortly after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived in Hungary for a state visit in a rare trip abroad in defiance of an ICC arrest warrant.” (05/27/26)
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2026-05-27/parliament-approves-law-to-keep-hungarys-membership-of-the-international-criminal-court
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15) Saudi Arabia: Muslim pilgrims perform Hajj rituals under intense heat as Eid al-Adha celebrations start
Source: SFGate
“Masses of pilgrims in Saudi Arabia threw pebbles at a large pillar in a symbolic ritual on Wednesday, one of the final days of the Hajj as Muslims around the world started celebrating the Islamic holiday of Eid al-Adha. Pilgrims in Mina, Saudi Arabia, chanted ‘Allahu akbar’ (God is great) while throwing pebbles in a ritual seen as a symbolic stoning of the devil. The act is also seen as a symbol of rejecting evil and a commemoration of the Prophet Ibrahim’s rejection of temptation when the devil tried to dissuade him from submitting to God’s will. Large crowds of pilgrims moved through the sprawling Jamarat complex after arriving from Muzdalifah, where they collected pebbles overnight following a day of worship and prayer at Arafat on Tuesday.” (05/27/26)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/world/article/muslim-pilgrims-perform-hajj-rituals-under-22278357.php
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16) US regime publicly confesses to 194th maritime murder
Source: United Press International
“The U.S. military has [murdered] another person in its latest strike on a suspected drug-trafficking boat in the Trump administration’s deadly crackdown on alleged narcotics trafficking in international waters. The Tuesday strike was the 58th publicly disclosed by U.S. Southern Command in President Donald Trump’s monthslong campaign, which has now [murdered] at least 194 people.” (05/27/26)
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2026/05/27/SOUTHCOM/3161779867636/
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17) Italy: Hotel that refused to give tourist tap water acted lawfully, court rules
Source: BBC News [UK State Media]
“Italy’s highest court has ruled a five-star Dolomites hotel was acting lawfully when it refused to provide tap water to a tourist. The woman from Rome unsuccessfully argued that ‘water is a natural resource and a universal human right’ after a waiter only offered her €7 (£6) bottled mineral water at the restaurant of the five-star Hotel Sassongher in Corvara during the 2019 ski season. The Italian Supreme Court denied her request for €2,700 to compensate her for emotional distress and economic damage, Italian media reports. Silvio Belardi, the lawyer representing the hotel, told the Corriere Alto Adige newspaper that the court held that ‘there is no obligation to supply tap water.’ The lawyer later told the BBC the case had been rejected first by a court in Rome, then by an appeals court and now the Court of Cassation, where the judges ruled in the hotel’s favour.” (05/27/26)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g4yd8q0j7o
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18) Palestine: Israeli regime claims it killed head of Hamas military wing
Source: Al Jazeera [Qatari state media]
“Israel says it has killed Mohammed Odeh, the leader of Hamas’s military wing in Gaza, in an air strike in the northern part of the strip, as a fragile ‘ceasefire’ comes under growing strain. Israeli authorities said on Wednesday that Odeh was killed in an attack the previous day in Gaza City. There was no immediate comment from the Palestinian group. Odeh, a former Hamas intelligence chief, reportedly succeeded Izz al-Din al-Haddad as the head of the Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Palestinian group, after the latter was killed in an Israeli strike earlier this month, although Hamas did not officially confirm the appointment.” (05/27/26)
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/5/27/israel-claims-head-of-hamas-military-wing-killed-in-gaza-strike?traffic_source=rss
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19) Puerto Rico: Governor announces emergency to fight worsening coastal erosion
Source: SFGate
“Puerto Rico’s governor announced a state of emergency Wednesday to fight a surge in coastal erosion along the U.S. territory ’s north coast. Gov. Jenniffer González said the executive order would allow her administration to accelerate projects to protect natural resources and vulnerable coastal communities. The government said in a statement that rising sea levels, storm surges and other factors have intensified coastal erosion in Puerto Rico. González pledged to help northern towns including Loiza, where people have been evacuated and chunks of asphalt from coastal roads have tumbled into the ocean following heavy swells. The order was signed just days before the start of the Atlantic hurricane season, which runs from June 1 to Nov. 30. The cost of the projects has not yet been determined.” (05/27/26)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/world/article/puerto-rico-governor-announces-emergency-to-fight-22278723.php
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20) TN: Homeowner fires on, misses intruder
Source: Fox 13 News
“A Hyde Park man living in fear because his house had been broken into before opened fire on a home intruder early Tuesday morning, police said. … Officers arrived to find the suspect — later identified as Simeon Pratcher — laying ‘face down’ in one of the home’s bedrooms, police said. … The homeowner told investigators that he was in his living room when he heard someone entering his home. He went to one of his bedrooms and saw an intruder in the doorframe, leading the homeowner to fire two shots, MPD said. No one was struck by the gunfire. The homeowner told MPD that his home had been broken into three times, adding that he felt like he ‘had to protect himself.'” (05/26/26)
https://www.fox13memphis.com/news/hyde-park-homeowner-opens-fire-on-intruder-during-attempted-break-in-mpd-says/article_b85bb7cc-7716-4af8-ad14-7c625afc1aaf.html
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21) Was Trump Ever a “Realist?”
Source: The Realist Review
by James W Carden
“Over the course of his three presidential campaigns (2016, 2020, 2024), President Donald J. Trump promised an America First foreign policy — one that would see America pull back from postwar European security commitments, end the war in Ukraine, and keep the country out of the Middle East ‘forever wars’ that so beguiled (and then bedeviled) every US president for the past quarter of a century. Instead, as we head into the 2026 midterms, his record is, to a surprising degree, primarily one of continuity with the national security policies of his predecessors. In the context of foreign policy, Trump II might properly be seen as Bush-Cheney’s third term, such has been the influence of neoconservative personnel and ideas within his two non-contiguous administrations.” (05/27/26)
https://therealistreview.substack.com/p/was-trump-ever-a-realist
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22) Political winners: Those who don’t participate
Source: Eastern New Mexico News
by Kent McManigal
“Every time there’s an election — a religious ritual for those who believe in the imaginary authority of the state — the cheers and tears begin as soon as the votes are tallied. The reaction depends on whether the individual voter ends up on the winning or losing side. Either outcome means the state has won at the expense of liberty. Politics is designed to divide people into winners and losers, and the only way to truly win is to refuse to play.” (05/27/26)
https://www.easternnewmexiconews.com/story/2026/05/27/voices/opinion-political-winners-those-who-dont-participate/233526.html
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23) How Anthony Comstock became America’s most powerful censor
Source: Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression
by David Volodzko
“In the spring of 1873, the U.S. postal inspector, a prudish Christian named Anthony Comstock, arrived in Washington carrying a box of dildos. There were also dirty books, naughty pictures, French playing cards, abortion pamphlets, ‘intermediate tegumentary coverings’ (condoms), and enough sexually explicit material to scandalize Congress into trying to legislate the Devil out of Americans. Comstock called the collection his ‘Chamber of Horrors’ and went around showing it to lawmakers like a traveling freak show. The performance worked. On March 3, President Ulysses S. Grant signed what became known as the Comstock Act, one of the most sweeping censorship laws in American history. … For the next four decades, Comstock stalked publishers, raided bookstores, and helped criminalize public discussion of sex in the United States.” (05/27/26)
https://www.fire.org/news/how-anthony-comstock-became-americas-most-powerful-censor
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24) The Public Goods Circular Argument
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Joshua Mawhorter
“Public goods theory is presented as scientific, value-free economic theory, however, it implicitly smuggles in normative presuppositions that lead to the conclusion that the modern nation-state, and the state alone, must provide certain essential goods and services, which legitimates the state and its actions as necessary and legitimate. Historically, many applications of public goods theory emerged less as neutral demonstrations of state necessity than as retrospective justifications for functions governments had already monopolized.” (05/27/26)
https://mises.org/mises-wire/public-goods-circular-argument
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25) What the World Needs Now
Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob
“For my six decades, the United States has been the dominant military power in the world. Yet, with China’s massive military buildup that is now an open question in Asia. Which is why failure to help Taiwan defeat a Chinese attack would destroy U.S. credibility there … and likely far beyond. So, how do we ever relinquish the badge of world’s policeman? One word: Allies.” [editor’s note: Three words — non-interventionist foreign policy – TLK] (05/27/26)
https://thisiscommonsense.org/2026/05/27/what-the-world-needs-now/
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26) Why do Democrats think “real men” wear Nazi tattoos?
Source: New York Post
by staff
“It seems modern Democrats can’t object to Nazi-lovers inside the party. Massachusetts Rep. Jake Auchincloss just got major lefty backlash for calling Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner’s Nazi tatoo (and his pathetic excuses for it) ‘disqualifying.’ ‘I’ve been clear about Graham Platner. I find that tattoo and his commentary about it to be personally disqualifying,’ Auchincloss said Monday on CNN; ‘I hope Maine voters agree with me.’ That brought a storm of progressive social-media fury, accusing Auchincloss of wanting President Donald Trump to have a Republican Senate majority for his last two years in office. Saikat Chakrabarti, the former AOC staff chief now running to replace the retiring Rep. Nancy Pelosi, called on Bay State Dems to oust Auchincloss in his coming primary; others demanded Jake get kicked out of the Democratic Party.” (05/26/26)
https://nypost.com/2026/05/26/opinion/why-do-democrats-think-real-men-wear-nazi-tattoos/
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27) Thinking about Conservatism
Source: Adam Smith Institute
by Madsen Pirie
“Two years ago I published ‘The Philosophy of Conservatism’ as a series of essays on Conservatism and Conservatives. I divide it into small-c conservatism, which is a character trait, ‘a disposition averse from change,’ as Lord Hugh Cecil put it. The small-c conservatives oppose change because it is upsetting, and because the loss of the familiar is threatening. ‘Every change is an emblem of extinction,’ as Oakeshott expressed it. Large-C Conservatism is a political tradition, not a character trait. It recognizes that change happens because of new technology, new information and new ideas. But it wants change to come from below, organic, evolutionary and unplanned. It opposes imposed change, preconceived plans.” (05/27/26)
https://www.adamsmith.org/blog/thinking-about-conservatism
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28) House Republican Leaders Wouldn’t Allow a Vote on Ending the Iran War
Source: Exiled Policy
by Jason Pye
“Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) wouldn’t schedule a vote before the House left town for the Memorial Day recess on the Iran War Powers Resolution because it would have passed. There’s no other way to say it.” (05/27/26)
https://exiledpolicy.substack.com/p/house-republican-leaders-wouldnt
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29) Freeing Cuba without revenge
Source: Christian Science Monitor
by staff
“For months, the Trump administration has aimed various types of punishing force at the regime in Havana to free the Cuban people: An oil blockade. Criminal charges against the dominant leader, Raúl Castro. The deployment of an aircraft carrier and its strike group in the Caribbean Sea, hinting at an invasion. Much of this strategy has been driven by influential Cuban Americans who have long sought retribution against the island’s communist rulers. ‘It will be difficult to completely control the impulse for revenge that some Cubans may feel during a transition,’ an opposition leader, José Daniel Ferrer, told Cuban news outlet 14ymedio in January. Yet another force might be strengthening among the political opposition, one that could erode the regime from within, official by official. It entails ridding oneself of thoughts of revenge and, as respected dissident and former political prisoner Óscar Elías Biscet puts it, loving one’s adversaries.” (05/26/26)
https://www.csmonitor.com/Editorials/the-monitors-view/2026/0526/Freeing-Cuba-without-revenge
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30) Offramps for Postliberalism
Source: Law & Liberty
by Thomas D Howes
“A new book on the challenge of postliberalism aptly shows its weaknesses while suggesting a path towards moderation.” (05/27/26)
https://lawliberty.org/book-review/offramps-for-postliberalism/
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31) Goldman is trying to rage bait his way to victory; can he?
Source: Fox News Forum
by Jonathan Turley
“New York Democrat Rep. Dan Goldman is fast becoming the Marie Antoinette of New York politics. As Democratic socialists rage against the privileged elite and promise sweeping welfare programs, Goldman is doubling down on promises of more impeachments and investigations. The ultimate establishment candidate is floundering. He is reportedly more than 20 points behind his Mamdani-endorsed opponent, housing advocate and former Comptroller Brad Lander. It appears that the ‘let-them-eat impeachments’ is not resonating with his constituents. While Goldman is trying to fight off the challenge from the left with some pocketbook pitches, he is sticking to the narrative that got him elected a few years ago. In an ‘age of rage,’ Goldman has excelled, pushing unstepped on, unadulterated rage..” (05/27/26)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/jonathan-turley-rep-goldman-trying-rage-bait-way-victory
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32) Hasan Piker and the Marxist Resentment Behind “Microlooting”
Source: The Daily Economy
by Logan Tantibanchachai
“Affluent activists increasingly treat property rights as morally negotiable, attacking the system that enabled their (and their parents’) success..” (05/27/26)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/hasan-piker-and-the-marxist-resentment-behind-microlooting/
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33) Time for Ultra-Wealthy Private Jet Owners to Pay Their “Fair Share”
Source: Inequality.org
by Chuck Collins & Emily Wagner
“One of the great injustices of our current tax system is that working people often end up subsidizing the luxury consumption of the billionaire class. One example of this phenomena can be found in the world of private jets, one of the most ecologically indefensible forms of transformation. The private jet lobby has worked for years to secure tax breaks for aircraft purchases and fuel—and shift their costs on to taxpayers and the commercial flying public. The lobby scored a big win when a 100% bonus depreciation for business assets including private planes was included in the 2017 Trump tax cut. That provision was renewed in 2025’s ‘One Big Beautiful Bill Act.’ ” (05/27/26)
https://inequality.org/article/lawmakers-seek-to-eliminate-private-jet-subsidies/
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34) The Do-Gooder’s Road to Coercion
Source: Mindset Shifts
by Barry Brownstein
“Why Those Who Won’t Govern Themselves Will Govern You.” (05/27/26)
https://mindsetshifts.substack.com/p/the-do-gooders-road-to-coercion
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35) No Moral Standing to Complain about Supposed Cuban Terrorism
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger
“There is a principle in the law that one must have ‘standing’ before bringing a legal action against someone else. If the person lacks standing, his case is disallowed. In the build-up to one of its patented regime-change operations, the U.S. government, especially the national-security branch of the government, has accused Cuba’s government of being a supporter of terrorism. That’s rich, especially given that the U.S. government has long been — and continues to be — one of the biggest supporters of terrorism against Cuba. Given such, the U.S. government clearly lacks moral standing to complain about any supposed support of terrorism by the Cuban government.” (05/27/26)
https://www.fff.org/2026/05/27/no-moral-standing-to-complain-about-supposed-cuban-terrorism/
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36) Conserving the Last Mature Forests in Maine
Source: Property and Environment Research Center
by Jonathan Thompson, Adam Daigneault, & Joshua Plisinski
“Old-growth forests provide exceptional ecological and cultural value, store disproportionately large amounts of carbon, and support unique habitat structures and species assemblages not found in younger forests. Consequently, their protection has been a longstanding conservation priority. Yet globally, old-growth forests are rare, fragmented, and in decline.” (05/27/26)
https://www.perc.org/2026/05/27/conserving-the-last-mature-forests-in-maine/
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37) “Education”: Why the Left Hates America’s Founders
Source: Town Hall
by Mark Lewis
“‘If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.’ — Thomas Jefferson … That Democrats and other Leftists hate America’s Founding Fathers and the country’s Judeo-Christian heritage is a fact I’m not going to waste time in the article attempting to prove. Everything the Left does is designed to uproot and destroy the principles our Founders tried to build the nation upon. One of those principes, a very vital one, is a correctly educated populace. We have been complaining for many years now, and rightly so, what the Left has done to America’s education system since getting control of it about a century ago. Our Founders warned us about it, but, of course, Americans in general have paid no attention to them on this as on most matters they taught us.” (05/27/26)
https://townhall.com/columnists/marklewis/2026/05/27/why-the-left-hates-americas-founders-education-n2676724
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38) Face the facts: China isn’t leaving Latin America anytime soon
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Jorge Heine
“Countries across the region have strong economic incentives for working with Beijing. Washington should try to compete rather than coerce.” (05/27/26)
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/latin-america-china/
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39) Empire with a Humanitarian Face: Democrats Rebrand
Source: Libertarian Institute
by Matt Wolfson
“American political successions in recent years happen counterintuitively: implicit hand-offs between two nominally opposing sides. This strange reality is where we derive our notion of ‘the uniparty’ and the media its notion of ‘partisanship.’ Through the ‘partisan’ lens favored by media, our politics appears divided between a party, the Republicans, in hock to Israel, the ‘big five’ weapons contractors, real estate, Wall Street, and Silicon Valley; and a party, the Democrats, in hock to powerful ‘progressive’ or ‘Left’ nonprofits like ActBlue, the Southern Poverty Law Center, the Center for American Progress, and the Open Society Foundations. But the ‘uniparty’ theory of the case shared by many politically disenfranchised Americans is a more accurate read of our political reality.” (05/27/26)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/empire-with-a-humanitarian-face-democrats-rebrand
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40) A Quagmire of Trump’s Own Making
Source: The Dispatch
by Mike Nelson
“The president who sold his leadership as a unitary executive seems frustrated by the results of trying to fight a war that way.” (05/27/26)
https://thedispatch.com/article/trump-iran-quagmire-allies-voters-congress/
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41) Electile Dysfunction: Why Can’t the Dems Get Their Polls Up?
Source: Common Dreams
by Marv Waterstone
“‘The Republicans go for the jugular; the Democrats go for the capillaries’ — Kevin Phillips … With the recent release of the long-withheld, but little anticipated Democratic National Committee ‘autopsy’ of the 2024 presidential electoral loss, we’re back to the perennial questions of which issues should receive priority; how should messaging and narrative around those issues be crafted; which wing(s) of the party should be amputated before their rot infects the entire organism, suburban soccer moms or inner city youth; and on and on. All good questions, but ultimately, in present circumstances, unanswerable except in the most platitudinous, hand-waving ways. The most fundamental dilemma resides in the Faustian bargain the party entered beginning in the 1970s, and the result of that bargain is neatly captured in Sheldon Wolin’s 2010 coinage ‘the inauthentic opposition.'” (05/27/26)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/why-can-t-dems-win
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42) Safetyism has made society terrified of disagreement
Source: spiked
by Stefano Gujon
“As ‘safe spaces’ on Western university campuses continue to multiply, it has become clear that institutions designed to defend free thought are now breeding grounds for illiberal conformism. Higher education no longer trains students to grapple with dissent. It teaches them to avoid intellectual conflict at all costs. This conformism has not been limited to the lecture hall. It has spread outwards into companies, the media space and public life.” (05/27/26)
https://archive.is/uJjlZ
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43) Trump’s Pottery Barn War
Source: Antiwar.com
by Travis Lynch
“When Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social that any agreement with Iran must be ‘great and meaningful,’ or there would be no agreement at all, he appeared to be drawing a wall between himself and Barack Obama’s nuclear deal. He wanted to make clear that even if negotiations were underway, they would be Trumpian negotiations: tougher, more forceful, and the ‘exact opposite’ of an agreement he had spent years denouncing as a symbol of weakness. But that statement revealed less strength than contradiction. A president who once treated Obama’s diplomacy with Iran as appeasement now has to sell his own diplomacy as victory.” (05/27/26)
https://original.antiwar.com/travis_lynch/2026/05/26/trumps-pottery-barn-war
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44) The Importance of Free Speech in American Public Junior High and High Schools
Source: The Volokh Conspiracy
by Ronald Den Otter
“Unlike concerns about censorship on college campuses, which have received a lot of media attention, when guest speakers are disinvited or shouted down, few people care much about the extent to which school authorities may suppress student speech in a public junior high or high school. The assumption is that due to their age and relative immaturity, most of what they contribute to the marketplace of ideas at their school will have little, if any, value. Furthermore, the primary mission of a school is to educate its students, and student speech can be disruptive or distracting. As such, it may appear to be obvious that teenagers should not be able to exercise the same free speech rights that college students may exercise. However, position strikes me as harder to defend than most people acknowledge.” (05/26/26)
https://reason.com/volokh/2026/05/26/the-importance-of-free-speech-in-american-public-junior-high-and-high-schools/
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45) Tom Steyer Will Destroy California’s Historic Small Businesses
Source: American Greatness
by Edward Ring
“In the heart of the Santa Cruz Mountains, just off Highway 9, there is a restaurant that has become a community icon. It has a redwood-paneled dining room with exposed roof timbers that was built in 1912 and a historic bar with a wood-burning fireplace. For over a century, the people in this isolated town have treasured this gathering place. Near downtown Los Angeles, along a busy commercial boulevard, a family-owned Mexican restaurant has thrived since 1925 …. Countless independent businesses in California remain prosperous despite a regulatory environment that throws at them rules that are often unreasonable, even in conflict with each other, from agencies at the local, county, regional, and state levels. These agencies are staffed with bureaucrats who are not merely indifferent to the challenges small businesses face while attempting to comply with their edicts; many of them are actively hostile.” (05/27/26)
https://amgreatness.com/2026/05/27/tom-steyer-will-destroy-californias-historic-small-businesses/
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46) Use AI This Election
Source: Astral Codex Ten
by Scott Alexander
“I’m not saying AI is superintelligent or can decide better than you can. I’m saying that if you — like me — spend an hour or so doing research before voting on local seats, AI can aid that research very effectively. And if you don’t do that research — because you weren’t willing to waste an hour on it before — AI makes it so much faster that you might want to start.” (05/26/26)
https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/use-ai-this-election
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47) Casualties of war
Source: The Price of Liberty
by Nathan Barton
“Yesterday, we commemorated those men and women of the United States who lost their lives prematurely in the various wars fought by and in the United States of America. But it is important to remember, and commemorate (mourn) those other than the soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines – and their civilian support forces – who died. There is no war, whether declared or not, whether internal or external, that does not have many more casualties. And almost always, in external wars, it is the enemy who suffers the greater number of dead. And the civilians, not the support forces, but the ordinary civilians. Let us also pause to remember those, of whatever nation, with whatever stake in the outcome of the war or whatever the conflict is called.” (05/26/26)
https://thepriceofliberty.org/2026/05/26/casualties-of-war/
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48) Firing More People Won’t Make America Healthy Again
Source: Independent Institute
by Raymond J March
“Robert F. Kennedy Jr. came into office with three ambitious goals: radical transparency, improved national health, and rebuilding trust in America’s public health agencies. More than a year in, it seems he has only one tool for the job — firing people. Lots of them.” (05/26/26)
https://www.independent.org/article/2026/05/26/firing-make-america-healthy-again/
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49) Trump’s Slush Fund Could End Up Costing Recipients Billions
Source: The American Prospect
by David Dayen
“The Justice Department’s $1.776 billion ‘anti-weaponization’ fund, which would pay out public money in compensation for alleged overreach in federal prosecutions, including for the insurrectionists who stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021, has been accurately described as one of the most nakedly corrupt actions in American history. It would give a tacit endorsement from every American taxpayer to the notion that the Capitol Riot’s only transgression, for example, came from those who tried to punish its perpetrators for attempting to halt the outcome of an election. News of the fund has triggered massive political backlash and at least temporarily derailed a party-line reconciliation bill funding immigration enforcement operations for the next three years. Senate Republicans didn’t want to go on the record siding with Donald Trump’s crony slush fund, and left Washington rather than being confronted with such a question in a reconciliation ‘vote-a-rama.'” (05/27/26)
https://prospect.org/2026/05/27/trumps-slush-fund-could-end-up-costing-recipients-billions/
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50) Why Has Trump Stopped Selling Weapons to Taiwan?
Source: Reason
by Matthew Petti
“The administration is avoiding conflict with China to focus on war in the Middle East. Taiwan’s democracy hangs in the balance.” (05/26/26)
https://reason.com/2026/05/26/why-has-trump-stopped-selling-weapons-to-taiwan/
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51) The Political Orphanage, 05/27/26
Source: The Political Orphanage
"The Old Political Order Is Dying: Stephen Davies on the Great Realignment." (05/27/26)
https://politicalorphanage.libsyn.com/the-old-political-order-is-dying-stephen-davies-on-the-great-realignment
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52) Reason Interview: Alvin E. Roth
Source: Reason
“How Moral Panic Creates Black Markets.” (05/27/26)
https://reason.com/podcast/2026/05/27/how-moral-panic-creates-black-markets/
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53) The Fifth Column, episode 559
Source: The Fifth Column
“Ben Rhodes and the Evil Empire State of Mind.” (05/27/26)
https://www.wethefifth.com/p/ben-rhodes-and-the-evil-empire-state
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54) Make It Make Sense, 05/26/26
Source: Washington Post
“The hysteria around artificial intelligence and data centers is growing, but are the public’s worst fears warranted? … James Hohmann, Jason Willick and Dominic Pino debunk the biggest myths about the technology’s impacts on jobs and the environment.” (05/26/26)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/podcasts/make-it-make-sense/why-data-centers-dont-deserve-so-much-hate/
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55) Questions For Corbett, 05/27/26
Source: The Corbett Report
“What are the Enhanced Games?” (05/27/26)
https://corbettreport.com/what-are-the-enhanced-games-questions-for-corbett/
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56) Show-Me Institute Podcast, 05/27/26
Source: Show-Me Institute
“AI and the Future of College with Jacob Light.” (05/27/26)
https://showmeinstitute.org/article/education/ai-and-the-future-of-college-with-jacob-light/
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57) Fountainhead Forum, episode 450
Source: Fountainhead Forum
“Steve Sarras on efforts to ban greyhound racing.” (05/26/26)
https://rumble.com/v7afklo-ff-450-steve-sarras-on-efforts-to-ban-greyhound-racing.html
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58) Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp, 05/26/26
Source: Antiwar.com
“Iran Says US Violated Ceasefire, Russia To Target Ukraine’s Underground Bunkers, and More.” (05/26/26)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0QV8oZzvoY
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59) Nonzero, 05/26/26
Source: bloggingheads.tv
“The Pope Takes On AI | Robert Wright & Nikita Petrov.” (05/26/26)
https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/69507
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60) The Kyle Anzalone Show, 05/26/26
Source: Libertarian Institute
“Prof. Joe Terwilliger on Getting ‘Loomered’ and the Potential for a Deal with North Korea.” (05/26/26)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/blog/the-kyle-anzalone-show-with-prof-joe-terwilliger-on-getting-loomered-and-the-potential-for-a-deal-with-north-korea/
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