"What Trump is doing is completely different. The ballroom he is constructing will likely survive as a symbol of American power long after we are all gone. It will be, in a sense, our generation’s contribution to the people’s home." foxnews.com/opinion/david-…

#VAAG: Jason Miyares is up on TV with this spot featuring Virginia law enforcement officials calling on Jay Jones to withdraw from the race -- Sheriff Whit Clark: "We cannot trust Jay Jones and we can never make him attorney general"

Joe Kernen: The stock market has been telling us what to believe ever since Liberation Day. The stock market said tariffs are not going to be the end of the world like so many business reporters said... and here we are — what are we up, 36% since then?

HASSETT: "Biden's runaway deficits caused the biggest inflation spike basically we've had since the '70s... Why is inflation going down now? It's because President Donald J. Trump' policies are set... to reduce the deficit by $600 billion this year alone!"

So most likely outcome: Not much change on offshore oil. Yet at the same time, the most likely outcome for another liberal priority, foreign aid, is *also* not much change. Indeed between the shutdown, OMB, and prevailing GOP views, the outlook for foreign aid is bearish. 4/

This is the standoff. Paradoxically, those who argue most strongly for domestic economic expansion (Republicans) also tend to argue for foreign aid contraction. Conversely, those who most support foreign aid expansion (Democrats) incline toward domestic economic restrictions. 5/

So what to do? One possibility is a grand bargain between Ds and Rs. United on a deal that directly links natural-resource development in the U.S. with more foreign aid. Say, Russ Vought and Senator Chris Coons could haggle out the actual dollar totals. 6/ theamericanconservative.com/a-grand-bargai…

This possible grand bargain is an application of Abundance, which needs to be bipartisan so as to be sustainable. If there's not a red-blue consensus, then resource development will be hobbled, because capital expenditures are so huge and timelines are so long. 7/

Of course, this grand bargain would rankle the greens, who prize their vision of environment more than foreign aid. That's their choice. But others on the left, more pro-foreign aid, might see the value of constructive engagement with America Firsters and budget cutters. 8/

Other bargains, too, present themselves. For instance, Secretary of the Army Dan Driscoll has floated imaginative proposals for unlocking value of U.S. Army assets, which are enormous. 9/ business-standard.com/world-news/us-…

And that's just the U.S. Army. There's also the assets of the U.S. Navy and U.S. Air Force and the rest of the military establishment--and the U.S. govt. Yet any such unlocking would be met, of course, by green-inflected political and legal opposition, with unknown outcome. 10/

So we come back to the grand bargain: More economic growth with a guaranteed set-aside for foreign aid. Will the two sides meet for mutual benefit? We'll have to see. One thing we know in the meantime: Donald J. Trump loves deals. 11/end.

In 2025, looking back on portentous events in 1995, with a saga in between, thanks to Valerie Stivers of UnHerd. unherd.com/2025/10/how-ru…

Now there's AI as the new plaything for rewriting current events, as well as history. So we'll see how Valerie Stivers' UnHerd piece is treated by the generative summarizers and the algorithms. unherd.com/2025/10/how-ru…

We can only hope that She Who Can't Be Named is still speaking to us--informing us, livening things up--from some Madame X-type account. unherd.com/2025/10/how-ru…

Jewish faculty members deserve to work free from discrimination, yet it's clear they're not being defended. It's concerning that AFT has not only failed to help solve this problem but has made it worse by allowing Dr. Wolfson to continue to serve in a leadership role.