Popular “freedom” comedian/satirist JP Sears on the demise of the Warfare-first or Israel-first (take your pick) Senator Lindsey Graham:

Full text of the presentation summarized by Philip Schoenberg at the July meeting of the LPQC, on the topic “Who is the Better National Leader?” One caveat from the discussion that followed, is that the issue could also be framed “which leader better represents their people,”  based on their form of government, and what representation the voters wanted?:

Introduction—Why should we care?

The original topic for today “Who is the Better National Leader: George Washington who launched our new nation, Abraham Lincoln who preserved the Union, or Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada who has enhanced Canada’s sovereignty, or Donald Trump who has boasted: “I could be the greatest president in history — greater than Abraham Lincoln, greater than George Washington.” Has been changed to discuss the twenty-first (century) leaders to make the comparison (easy) to understand. While Donald Trump boasts and claims to be “I’m the most successful person ever to run for the presidency, by far. Nobody’s ever been more successful than me.” Makes no such claims but merely acts instead talking. We will evaluate whether or not Trump’s distinctive style as an outlier has enabled him to outperform these other leaders. To make today’s presentation easier to understand, I will concentrate on trying to answer the following question: Going mano a mano, who is the better leader: Carney or Trump?… More

Somehow, yet a new front in the War on Drugs has emerged:

A landlord critiques the plan, saying it’s a wrecking ball to the housing market of the city under Chairman Zo. One commenter suggests, “the objective is to prevent landords from having the funds to do repairs to the buildings, so that the city can take them over due to “disrepair.”

A New York City landlord, Jude Jean Paul Bernard, has gone viral on IG after tearing into Mayor Zohran Mamdani and his commie voters who backed his rent‑freeze agenda, calling the policy “socialism at its best.” Mamdani had celebrated the Rent Guidelines Board’s 7–1 vote to freeze rents on both one‑ and two‑year leases for roughly one million rent‑stabilized apartments with a social‑media clip from his kitchen freezer, telling more than two million affected residents “your rent’s gonna be frozen next year.”

In his response video, Bernard opens by sarcastically trolling by congratulating renters for “doing it” and “getting the rent frozen” for the next two years, before warning that the victory is not what they think it is. “Now, that doesn’t mean that expenses have gone down,” he tells the audience, listing taxes, insurance, water and energy as costs that have not fallen even as revenues are capped by the city.

“If we were struggling to make the numbers before, I’m not sure how we’re going to fix that boiler, fix that broken elevator, and do all those things that you tenants deserve,” Bernard continues, arguing that the freeze leaves owners without cash to maintain buildings. He goes on to note that “the same city that just passed this rent freeze has also said that they will be taking distressed properties from bad landlords,” suggesting that officials are setting up a scenario where owners are first starved of income and then punished for failing to keep up with repairs. “So, you don’t have the money to fix the properties, but if we don’t fix the properties, you guys are going to take it away,” Bernard says, capping his monologue with the line, “I love it (sarcasm). Socialism at its best!” Read the rest

America is at 250! Join LPQC (Libertarian Party of Queens County) for a lively discussion after a compelling comparative analysis: “Who is the Better National Leader? Washington, Lincoln, Carney or Trump?”

Philip Ernest Schoenberg, PhD examines how leadership styles—from Washington’s institution‑building and Lincoln’s moral statesmanship to Carney’s technocratic crisis management and Trump’s media‑driven populism—shape national resilience, crisis management, and legacy. Our meeting commences July 11, Saturday, at noon, at our Astoria location, Stamatis Greek and Mediterranean Restaurant at 29-09 23rd Avenue (in the back area, menu details at stamatisrestaurant.net).

A former Astoria Queens tenant of a rent stabilized apartment patiently explains how Mamdani’s freeze the rent commie mania is destroying affordable housing in NYC. Some landlords have to embrace “creative investing” techniques just to keep their businesses from going into bankruptcy:

Cenk Uygur cheers progressive victories in the 2026 NY primaries, in particular the ascension of grassroots candidates into Congress over entrenched hack incumbents, who serve the donor elite. While the jury is out on the bonafides of these “working class” leftists, the fact they have establishment liberals upset is a good sign. What, these new guys openly oppose corporate welfare, funding forever wars and ethnic cleansing in the Mideast, misconduct by police and ICE, and other abuses? On these matters, they almost sound—gasp, like libertarians!:

Aly was held in an ICE Detention Center in PA until his release on June 24, though he still faces legal issues. Enforcing legal immigration statutes and defending US borders is one thing, but misapplying that system to lock up LEGAL RESIDENTS for their legitimate protest of abuses of civil liberties under those laws is another. As per a full resolution by the national LP in April, “the Libertarian National Committee condemns the inhumane, unjustifiable actions of I.C.E. and the D.H.S., and calls again for their abolition; BE IT FINALLY RESOLVED that the Libertarian National Committee urges all members, affiliates, and allies to support captives such as Mr. Aly through public advocacy, community solidarity, attendance at organized protests, and through direct support to their legal defense.”

Libertarian Party activist Islam “Izzy” Aly has been released from Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention, according to supporters who advocated for him since he was first detained and shared photos of him following his release.

Supporters began sharing details on social media on June 19 that Aly was being released from the Moshannon Valley Processing Center, a privately operated immigration detention facility in Philipsburg, Pennsylvania, where he had been held since first being detained in late December. Those same supporters said Aly would be returning to Florida while continuing to attend hearings connected to his case.

“Though he’s not out of the woods legally, he’s free from DHS confinement,” LP Alliance, an intra-caucus Libertarian coalition that has rallied support for Aly over the months, wrote in one such post announcing his release.

Photos of Aly following his release also circulated over the weekend, including a photo of him shared by Tony D’Orazio, a former New York Libertarian leader who now lives in Pennsylvania and chairs an organizing Clearfield County Libertarian affiliate near the facility. “We are right to be opposed to these detention centers,” D’Orazio wrote in his own post. “They are the opposite of the liberty we fight for. They are human suffering for profit. And escaping from that is a good reason to be so visibly happy.” Read the rest.

What happened to property rights, and why are blacks in Queens and Bed Stuy in particular being increasingly subject to deed theft? Why isn’t AG Letitia James cracking down? Sabby investigates:

Reason discusses the contributions native Americans made to the liberation of the colonies in rebelling against British forces:

…The contribution of native-style warfare—and natives themselves—to the Revolution should not be exaggerated. Washington was leery of both Indians and their tactics. Throughout the conflict, he sought to fight European-style, with massed armies blasting away at each other in open fields—although he did sometimes look for soldiers who were, as he put it, “accustomed to the irregular kind of wood-fighting practiced by the Indians.” Gradually he warmed to working with such allies as the Iswa (Catawba) and Lënapeyok (Lenape), but he relied on them only for specialized roles—scouting, spying, and safeguarding the frontier—rather than as infantry troops in pitched battles.

If natives’ impact on the battleground was limited, their impact on the war’s origins, political and intellectual, was enormous.

A turning point occurred in 1763. In January, European nations signed the Treaty of Paris, which ended the Seven Years’ War between Britain and France (and their respective allies). Dismaying the war-weary British government, Pontiac’s Rebellion erupted barely four months later. It was a months long, broad-scale assault by a coalition of native nations on British forces in Michigan and the Ohio Valley. (“Pontiac” was the English name for Obwa and i’eyaag, who led the Odawa, or Ottawa, in Michigan.)

NATIVE LANDS ESTABLISHED BY PROCLAMATION OF 1763

In October, seeking to defuse what was becoming a long and costly conflict, King George III banned colonists from moving into land west of the Appalachians. The royal proclamation gave natives permanent title to what had been the eastern half of France’s American holdings—all of the land between the Mississippi River and the crest of the Appalachian Mountains, plus the western half of Georgia, all of Florida, and a big chunk of Canada. It blocked off an area of something like 600,000 square miles.

Leave aside natives’ annoyance at being “given” title to land they had occupied for generations. Colonists reacted with fury. From their point of view, the king was taking back the free land he had promised them—the reason that many had left their homelands, the goal of fighting the Seven Years’ War. Worse, he was giving it to “savages.” Read More

In his newsletter, Tom Woods tests the limits of folks feeling “free to be themselves:”

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Larry Sharpe makes his “sharpest” case yet for Governor—with the GOP in New York a total basket case, incumbent Democrat Kathy Hochul will be in office until 2038. Unless, you put Sharpe, the only libertarian still in the race, on the ballot. Skip the disappointing details about how his LP petition drive failed, the bottom line (curse words and all) is, he is the only liberty voice for NY Governor in 2026. Give him ballot status, right now!

Scott Horton puts on a master class explaining the hypnotic grip the elite class has on both Trump, and both war hawk wings of Congress:

The Independent Institute reviews how climate change dogmatism is in retreat, since current research and economic transactions (aka, voluntary action) are addressing issues without state force:

By all accounts, climate change alarmists are on the defensive—politically, scientifically, I would even say morally (see Bill Gates’s comment below). We could leave it at that. But there may be hope for a truce in this conflict—and if so, capitalism can take the credit.

The negatives for the climate change alarmists are substantial. Here are some:

• President Trump’s policies have deregulated oil and gas and withdrawn many subsidies for “clean” alternatives; the shock of the Iran war has made the importance of traditional energy more visible than ever.
• A conflict occurred over the manual that the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine routinely prepares to help federal judges deal with complicated scientific issues. The latest (2025) edition had a clearly biased chapter on climate change. Under political pressure, the publisher, the Federal Judicial Center, withdrew it, causing outrage by some; for others, it reaffirmed scientific integrity.
• Another embarrassment for alarmists is the recent retraction of a 2024 article in Nature. It predicted a stunning 62 percent decline in world GDP by 2100 due to climate change. Widely reported findings didn’t stand up to scrutiny—neither the predictions nor the uncertainties surrounding those predictions. So Nature took the article back.
• Local opposition to wind and solar power projects is high and perhaps growing. Robert Bryce tallied 735 rejections or restrictions on wind and solar between 2015 and 2024.…More

Dr. Singer explains how the bad effects of drugs that are currently illegal could be solved, as ending the drug war would reduce the dangers of their use: