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from Conservative Intelligence Briefing
DNC to Pro-life Dems: Drop Dead
Yes, yes, you might think they are already unicorns, but there actually are a few pro-life Democratic officeholders and a lot more pro-life voters who still haven’t left the Democratic Party. Well, DNC Chairman Tom Perez wants them gone. He has officially promised that the DNC will not support candidates who oppose abortion. This doesn’t just put mostly pro-life Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., in a pickle. It doesn’t just put the screws to Democrats who pretend to be pro-life, like Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., who is also up for re-election in 2018. It also jeopardizes a small but real segment of the party’s voter base.
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from FEE (Foundation for Economic Education)
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]
The Federal Reserve Is a Disease Masquerading as Its Own Cure
Interventionism creates new dislocations that seem to cry out for further interventions, which don't actually solve the problem. Free markets make corrections in real time, which can be painful in the short term, but most beneficial in the long term.
The Infantization of the Campus Left
Those who grew up with the ability to block people on facebook and who were never allowed to play unsupervised have been shielded from most conflicts and have absolutely no idea how to handle them.
The Bad Manners of the Campus Left
Far-left students derailing speakers with whom they disagree have been in the news a lot. Sometimes they’ve resorted to violence. Many times, the speech being protested was cancelled before it happened or protesters forcibly prevented the speaker from finishing his job. When cowardly school administrators hire barbarians to teach in their classrooms and collaborate with them to blackball serious scholars of a different viewpoint, they are accomplices in the degradation of education and the decay of civilization.
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from The Heritage Foundation
[Information from this site may be unreliable.]
Import Substitution Made Countries Such as Argentina Poorer
Trade policy discussions in Washington lately have centered on the possibility of raising trade barriers or instituting protectionist import-tax schemes that favor certain American industries in the hopes of generating U.S. jobs. Before going that route, Trump administration officials and members of Congress would do well to study the sorry history of such ideas. One such idea, implemented primarily in Latin America in the years after World War II, was called “Import Substitution.” It did not end well for the countries that tried it. Initially conceived during the Great Depression, Import Substitution was intended to help developing countries industrialize rapidly and reduce dependence on costly imported manufactured goods. The theory hinged on the notion that, by imposing protectionist policies, the government would give domestic manufacturers a leg up on foreign competition, speeding their growth and assuring their success. In 1930 Argentina was one of the 10 wealthiest nations in the world. Today, income per capita in Argentina ranks 87th—lower than in Russia or Kazakhstan. Imports support U.S. jobs. Erecting trade barriers that restrict the flow of goods, services and investment stifles economic growth.
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from Hoover Institution
Nonprofit Organization in Stanford, California
China, North Korea, And 1950’s Shadow Of War
When the subject is North Korea, it is hard for a military historian not to think of Thanksgiving 1950. It was around that date that Chinese forces, having stealthily entered the country and already engaged in their first attacks, hit American troops and hit them hard. Two months earlier U.S., South Korean, and other allied forces crossed the 38th parallel dividing the two Koreas, defeated North Korean forces, and advanced toward the Chinese border on the Yalu River. It was part of America’s response to the North Korean invasion of South Korea in June 1950. America saved the south but incautiously tried to conquer the north without reckoning on Chinese intervention. It was a blunder of the first order.
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Import Substitution Made Countries Such as Argentina Poorer
Trade policy discussions in Washington lately have centered on the possibility of raising trade barriers or instituting protectionist import-tax schemes that favor certain American industries in the hopes of generating U.S. jobs. Before going that route, Trump administration officials and members of Congress would do well to study the sorry history of such ideas. One such idea, implemented primarily in Latin America in the years after World War II, was called “Import Substitution.” It did not end well for the countries that tried it. Initially conceived during the Great Depression, Import Substitution was intended to help developing countries industrialize rapidly and reduce dependence on costly imported manufactured goods. The theory hinged on the notion that, by imposing protectionist policies, the government would give domestic manufacturers a leg up on foreign competition, speeding their growth and assuring their success. In 1930 Argentina was one of the 10 wealthiest nations in the world. Today, income per capita in Argentina ranks 87th—lower than in Russia or Kazakhstan. Imports support U.S. jobs. Erecting trade barriers that restrict the flow of goods, services and investment stifles economic growth.
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from Hoover Institution
Nonprofit Organization in Stanford, California
China, North Korea, And 1950’s Shadow Of War
When the subject is North Korea, it is hard for a military historian not to think of Thanksgiving 1950. It was around that date that Chinese forces, having stealthily entered the country and already engaged in their first attacks, hit American troops and hit them hard. Two months earlier U.S., South Korean, and other allied forces crossed the 38th parallel dividing the two Koreas, defeated North Korean forces, and advanced toward the Chinese border on the Yalu River. It was part of America’s response to the North Korean invasion of South Korea in June 1950. America saved the south but incautiously tried to conquer the north without reckoning on Chinese intervention. It was a blunder of the first order.
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from Mises Institute
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]As Americans were spending time scrambling to give the IRS their annual protection fee, the court system in the United Kingdom, at the behest of National Health Service bureaucrats, abducted and murdered an 8-month-old baby. This brazen abduction was done in broad daylight with full press coverage and the UK government and courts claimed loudly this was humane and the right thing to do.
Neil deGrasse Tyson has released a new video aimed at a what he sees as a growing anti-intellectualism problem in the United States. It was released at the same time as the March for Science and many Earth Day demonstrations. Tyson is leading a dangerous anti-intellectual movement that conflates science with scientism, all to promote government-enforced "solutions."
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from New Statesman
"The leading voice of the British left, since 1913."
The centrist is not the first to succeed from outside the traditional parties in the Fifth Republic.
Whoever leads the country after this conflict comes to an end will inherit not just the rubble and ruins, but a ravaged people, too.
from PBS (& affiliates)
Science Isn't Partisan, But Public Perception Of Science Often Is
A new study finds that science is assimilated within a web of existing attitudes and beliefs, a core part of which concerns a person's social identity. When a scientific result threatens a person's strongly-held identity, the person is more likely to question the science than rethink the identity, says psychologist Tania Lombrozo.
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from The Spokesman-Review
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