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When the Fourth Estate meets the challengers of the political establishment, just who is Establishment and who is not becomes quite clear. Click on over to Townhall.com for the Bug-Eyed-Monsterfest of our time: political journalism.

Then click back here to go further down the rabbit hole into the tech space of alienware mind shackles.

• Washington Post: Green Party candidate says he might be part alien, doesn’t care if he’s a spoiler in Ohio election
• The Intercept: Democrats Complain about Green Party “Spoilers,” But Few in Congress Back a Solution: Ranked-Choice Voting
• ABC-6 (Columbus, Ohio): Analyzing the Green Party’s impact on the 12th Congressional District special election
• Red State: Actress, Armed Gun Control Activist, And International Security Expert Alyssa Milano Laments Putin Voting In Ohio
• Columbus Dispatch: 12 Congressional District: Troy Balderson almost certain winner of tight race
• New York Times: Ohio Special Election Results: 12th Congressional District

Ah, decapitation! Must it really be the next step?

Click over to Townhall, then come back here for the closest possible (safe) shave!

• A putative anarchist threatens the Seattle City Council with Terror: video.
• Transcendent Gray Lady (Common Sense)
• Ben Shapiro Compiles List of ‘All The Dumb Stuff’ He Has Said in The Past To Combat Social Media Outrage, by Joseph A. Wulfsohn (Mediaite)
• The New York Times Should Have Ignored Sarah Jeong’s Twitter Trolls, by Travis Waldron (Huffington Post)

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Something happened this week that may prove bigger than the possible rapprochement with North Korea. Click through to Townhall to read the big reveal. Then come back here for some background. And stay tuned for further coverage.

• Sasse Statement on Trade Bailouts (U.S. Senator for Nebraska Ben Sasse)
• Trump makes stunning reversal, says there should be ‘no tariffs, no barriers’ at G7 summit weeks after imposing huge tariffs on US allies (Bob Bryan, Business Insider, June 9, 2018)
• Trump and EU officials agree to work toward ‘zero tariff’ deal (David Smith & Dominic Rushe, The Guardian, July 25, 2018)
• Donald Trump Spills His Secret Identity: “I am Batman” (Kevin Melrose, CBR.com, August 17, 2015)
• America First Triumphs in Davos (Larry Kudlow, National Review, January 27, 2018)
• The Smoot-Hawley Tariff and the Great Depression (Theodore Phalan, Deema Yazigi, and Thomas Rustici, FEE, February 29, 2012)
• The Case for Unilateral Free Trade in One Sentence (Ryan Young, CEI, February 8, 2013)

This column will appear on this site on Tuesday.

Would/wouldn’t and should/shouldn’t are in the news.

And we sing, once again, that most American tune, the blues.

Check out Townhall, why doncha?

• Common Sense: Remember the Rigged Election?
• Guardian (UK): Would or wouldn’t: how Trump’s claim he misspoke unleashed a meme-fest
• Fox News: No delay in Trump’s would-wouldn’t correction
• The Atlantic: How Obama Ignored Congress, and Misled America, on War in Libya
• Cato Institute: Jose Padilla: No Charges and No Trial, Just Jail
• Vox: Why Russia is invading Ukraine, explained in 2 minutes
• EU Observer: West told Ukraine to abandon Crimea, document says
• Vanity Fair: Trump’s Confusing Answer On Crimea Raises Questions About His Campaign Chairman’s Alleged Ties To Russia
• Newsweek: How the U.S. Lost the War in Syria to Russia and Iran
• Daily Mail (UK): Georgia ‘overrun’ by Russian troops as full-scale ground invasion begins
• Daily Journal: 4 of Illinois’ last 7 governors went to prison
• Mass Live: A tale of 3 Speakers — Salvatore DiMasi, Thomas Finneran and Charles Flaherty: Is lure of power too tempting?
• NYT: Sheldon Silver, Ex-New York Assembly Speaker, Gets 12-Year Prison Sentence
• Washington Post: Maryland schools CEO handed six-figure severance payout
• Liberty Initiative Fund
• Citizens in Charge
• U.S. Term Limits

Even our best and brightest minds can make elementary mistakes that normal Americans do not. Case in point: term limits. Consult Townhall this weekend. And come back here for a deeper consultancy list:

• Tom Woods Podcast with Daniel McCarthy: Did Trump Eclipse the Libertarian Moment?
• National Review: How the Kavanaugh Nomination Reveals a Deep Challenge to Our Democracy
• Cato Institute: The Poison of Professional Politics
• US Term Limits: The Founders and Term Limits — Jefferson
• Townhall: Lifetime Tenure — Or Longer?
• US Term Limits: State Legislative Term Limits
• Townhall: Another Argument for Term Limits . . . Convicted
• Cato Institute: The Case for Term Limits
• Townhall: The Shocking Truth About Term Limits
• Common Sense: A Dingell of a Century

This weekend’s Townhall foray is, yes, an expansion of Tuesday’s Common Sense, “Freedom Weaponized,” but is perhaps more shareable, because it gets a bit deeper. Check it out. Share it. Then come back here for the R&D:

• New York Times: “How Conservatives Weaponized the First Amendment”
• United States Supreme Court: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF FAMILY AND LIFE ADVOCATES, DBA NIFLA, ET AL. v. BECERRA, ATTORNEY GENERAL OF CALIFORNIA, ET AL.
• United States Supreme Court: JANUS v. AMERICAN FEDERATION OF STATE, COUNTY, AND MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEES, COUNCIL 31, ET AL.

This column will appear on this site on Tuesday.