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from Acculturated
Strange to say, a cable drama about Soviet spies has gotten closer to the truth of American sex than the countless series that explicitly treat the topic have. Parental acceptance of teen sex not only gives permission to instrumentalize others; it is an instruction to be instrumentalized in turn.
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from CNET
Congress just killed the online privacy rules. Now what? (FAQ)
Republicans in Congress have repealed the FCC's rules protecting your online data.. What's it mean for you? CNET has the answers.
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from Competitive Enterprise Institute
Focus on Results Instead of Rigid Rules to Improve Safety and Promote Innovation
Safer transportation should be a top priority, but this freight rail regulation is holding back safety-enhancing automated train technology.
From the Natural Resources Defense Council’ to a Breitbart editor, here are the three silliest reactions to Trump's executive order on climate policy.
#3 Silliest Reaction: Red Scare!
#2 Silliest Reaction: James Delingpole Calls for EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt to Resign
#1 Silliest Reaction: NRDC Says Climate EO Is Undemocratic
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from FEE (Foundation for Economic Education)
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]
Governments Can Theoretically Destroy All Wealth in the World in One Year
Governments can’t live on their own. Their only source of energy is someone else’s money. They have many strategies on how to get it, and many excuses for why they must get ever more.
Build a Sandcastle, Get Fined $500, and Maybe Go to Jail
In the American legal system, there is a pillar of jurisprudence known as Mens rae, which is latin for “guilty mind.” The principle itself comes from the Latin phrase actus reus non facit reum nisi mens sit rea, which translates to, "the act is not culpable unless the mind is guilty.”
The Purpose of Manufacturing Isn't to Create Jobs
Jobs are means, not an end. Human labor is valuable to the extent that it contributes to human prosperity and human flourishing, not in and of itself as a matter of abstraction.
People are enraged over the thought of cutting government funds to the arts, humanities, and public television. They're saying that without federal money, these programs would fail, and there would be no more arts, no more humanities, no more of the shows broadcast on public television. This prediction will likely not come true, but if it does, what does that say about the value being created by these programs?
Personnel is policy, and Donald Trump has chosen to surround himself with hawks.
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from The Guardian (UK)
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Eight executions in 11 days: Arkansas order may endanger staff's mental health
The psychological impact on execution teams is one of the least discussed aspects of capital punishment in the US, yet arguably one of the most disturbing
Eight executions in 11 days: Arkansas order may endanger staff's mental health
The psychological impact on execution teams is one of the least discussed aspects of capital punishment in the US, yet arguably one of the most disturbing
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from The Heritage Foundation
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What a Lesser-Known Opinion Reveals About Neil Gorsuch
When fellow judges upheld a police officer's right to arrest a middle school student for burping, Judge Gorsuch dissented. The opinion will almost certainly never be heralded as a landmark case or tour de force on a complex legal doctrine, but it showcases just how thoroughly Gorsuch’s common sense permeates his approach to the law.
Obama Tried to Make Nice With Rebellious Students. It Backfired Miserably.
Driven by Obama administration pressures, school districts revised their discipline procedures. The results of this new policy? Increased violence, drug use, and gang activity.
Preventing a Defense Crisis: The 2018 National Defense Authorization Act Must Begin to Restore U.S. Military Strength
The U.S. military has been significantly degraded following 15 years of war—overlapped by five years of budget cuts.
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What a Lesser-Known Opinion Reveals About Neil Gorsuch
When fellow judges upheld a police officer's right to arrest a middle school student for burping, Judge Gorsuch dissented. The opinion will almost certainly never be heralded as a landmark case or tour de force on a complex legal doctrine, but it showcases just how thoroughly Gorsuch’s common sense permeates his approach to the law.
Obama Tried to Make Nice With Rebellious Students. It Backfired Miserably.
Driven by Obama administration pressures, school districts revised their discipline procedures. The results of this new policy? Increased violence, drug use, and gang activity.
Preventing a Defense Crisis: The 2018 National Defense Authorization Act Must Begin to Restore U.S. Military Strength
The U.S. military has been significantly degraded following 15 years of war—overlapped by five years of budget cuts.
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from Intellihub
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]
"Keeping them honest" taken to the height of absurdity
CNN is keeping them honest by fact checking a literal joke by the White House Press Secretary.
Is there something about to happen? Luxury bunker sales going through the roof
When ordinary people begin to accumulate survival gear and build bunkers in their back yards, it’s a sign of the times. It’s what ordinary people did throughout the Cold War, and it’s what a lot of ordinary people have been doing since 9/11. But when rich people start building bunkers and stockpiling food and weapons, it’s not just a sign of the times. It’s a sign that something may be about to go down. That’s because the wealthy know and understand things that the rest of us often miss.
House Speaker Paul Ryan said Friday that pulling the GOP leadership's bill to overhaul the US healthcare system from the House floor meant Obamacare would remain "the law of the land" for the foreseeable future. The failure of the GOP to repeal Obamacare proves once again that the establishment power structure maintains their grip on political policy.
Longtime Congressional Democrat targets Center for Medical Progress
Liberal prosecutors in California have charged two anti-abortion activists who exposed Planned Parenthood in a series of undercover videos with 15 felonies in what appears to be a politically motivated attack carried out by allies of the massive abortion provider.
Barack Obama’s former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Evelyn Farkas has admitted that the Obama administration spied on the Trump team and then rushed to spread the intelligence to colleagues on the Hill while simultaneously covering up where it came from.
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from Military Times
and Air Force Times, Army Times, Marine Corps Times, and Navy Times
An act of Congress honoring Vietnam veterans with a day of recognition was signed into law by President Trump on Tuesday, per a White House press release. March 29 is now designated as National Vietnam War Veterans Day by the Vietnam War Veterans Recognition Act of 2017.
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from New Statesman
"The leading voice of the British left, since 1913."
In our gender revolutionary times, people still seem to find it easier to accept the existence of a “female penis” than of little boys who like princesses and pink.
from The Seattle Times
A University of Washington professor started studying social networks to help people respond to disasters. But she got dragged down a rabbit hole of twitter-boosted conspiracy theories, and ended up mapping our political moment.
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from The Spokesman-Review
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from Sputnik
(Russian government-supported propaganda channel)
US President Donald Trump and his administration quickly moved on to tax reform after the embarrassment of having to pull the much-touted legislation to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, commonly called Obamacare.
The US Geological Survey (USGS) has released a new study that claims Southern California’s famous beaches – as many as two thirds of them – could be eroded or flooded by the year 2100 without human intervention.
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