On Constitution Day, let our hearts swell with gratitude for the incredible form of government we have in America.

In a Constitution Day issue of The Deep Roots, AD Tippet (AD Tippet) reminds us that our nominally young constitution draws from millennia of hard-earned wisdom. freemennewsletter.com/p/special-issu…

On this Constitution Day, I explain why our constitution is still the beacon of our nation despite undergoing constant blowback.

What makes America great? Many things. One of them is the Constitution. Read about it over at the The Freemen News-Letter

As a religious minority myself, with ancestors who saw firsthand the ugliness of religious persecution, I very much feel the same level of gratitude for the Constitution's protections.

In a Constitution Day issue of Vine & Fig Tree, Ed Tarnowski observes that the lack of a written constitution containing clear protections for basic civil liberties leaves a nation susceptible to infringements. freemennewsletter.com/p/britain-make…

I’m awestruck by the brilliance of Israel’s beeper bombs. Hezbollah is in utter panic and can’t respond because thousands of mid/senior leaders are wounded and their ability to communicate has been literally incinerated. All with minimal civilian casualties. (1/2)

Now that their “secure” beepers are blown they are forced to make a tradeoff between inaction and exposing themselves via more easily-traceable comms. All while feeling profoundly wounded and shaken by the fear of what else Israel has up its sleeve. Just bloody brilliant. (2/2)

LFG: "Costco store with 800 apartment units to break ground in South LA this week" "The project is the first mixed-use development in the country to have Costco as its anchor retail tenant." abc7.com/post/costco-st…

I've had conversations with many journalists who argue for these sorts of policies, and my experience is that they sincerely confuse intra-elite discourse for a broader social conversation. They want to use their institutional power to "send a message" about Trump, but do not

Megan McArdle Also, 1983 wasn't 1983 again either. Reagan, notably, did quite well electorally, much to the chagrin of a fair chunk of the press.

Reminder: Edward Snowden is a traitor.

Apropos of nothing, the idea that most (or even many) white people are aching to say the n-word, or use it ubiquitously in private to the point where it might “slip out” in other contexts, is a moronic fantasy and nobody who propagates it should be taken seriously by anyone, ever

"Since when has the mainstream media been fair to a Republican presidential candidate? 1904? If Trump went into the debate unprepared for the fact that the moderators would predictably take Harris’ side, that’s his fault." - Ben Connelly freemennewsletter.com/p/about-that-d…

Over in Syria, the Druze are celebrating operation Beep. If you think Hezbollah is some beloved "resistance" among the vast majority of Middle Easterners, you are delusional.

Civilization in the Wilderness, by Ben Connelly open.substack.com/pub/hardihoodb…

Civilization in the Wilderness, by Ben Connelly open.substack.com/pub/hardihoodb…

I notice that when you share an article on Substack, the button still says, "Share to Twitter." Substack knows we will never call it X.

Ukrainian President Zelenskyy will visit a Pennsylvania ammunition factory to thank workers wpxi.com/news/local/ukr…

nationalreview.com/2024/09/suppor…