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from CNSNews.com (& MRC & NewsBusters)
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CBO: Feds Pay 17% More Than Private Sector for Similar Workers
The federal government pays about 17 percent more in total compensation—including both wages and benefits—than the private sector does for similar workers, according to a report by the Congressional Budget Office.
GRAIN TRAIN DERAILS NEAR COCOLALLA
BNSF Railway spokesman Gus Melonas said Monday the grain train’s rail cars derailed around 6 a.m. just outside Cocolalla and five rail cars have tipped over — causing some spillage of corn. No injuries or hazardous conditions have been reported.
CBO: Feds Pay 17% More Than Private Sector for Similar Workers
The federal government pays about 17 percent more in total compensation—including both wages and benefits—than the private sector does for similar workers, according to a report by the Congressional Budget Office.
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from Coeur d'Alene Press
GRAIN TRAIN DERAILS NEAR COCOLALLA
BNSF Railway spokesman Gus Melonas said Monday the grain train’s rail cars derailed around 6 a.m. just outside Cocolalla and five rail cars have tipped over — causing some spillage of corn. No injuries or hazardous conditions have been reported.
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from Daily Wire
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A May Day Tale: Seattle Worker Loves $15 Minimum Wage — Until He Loses His Job
A May Day Tale: Seattle Worker Loves $15 Minimum Wage — Until He Loses His Job
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from FEE (Foundation for Economic Education)
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]
An Insider's Account of the War on Work
License requirements are but one way that those with close ties to government secure for themselves a supposed advantage. While in the 1950s roughly 5 percent of U.S. workers needed a “government-issued license to work,” the authors cite estimates that what used to be one in twenty is “almost one in three today.” Odds are if you start a business, you’re breaking some kind of licensure law based on your lack of “a government-issued permission slip” allowing you to work.
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from geostrategy.info
The realist Henry Kissinger suggested that the victory of Donald Trump presents an opportunity to close (or at least narrow) the gap between the public’s and the elite’s perception of risks. Kissinger called the 2016 presidential election a “domestic revolution” (see Ferguson, 2016) even though he did not say a word about the nature of this “revolution” or the elites involved in it. Perhaps the term “revolt of elites,” introduced by the American historian Christopher Lasch (1996), describes well this “revolution.” The Russian elitologist Andrei Fursov more specifically – and provocatively – calls it a free-market Christian fundamentalist reaction to the risks of globalization in a society where liberal-individualistic ways of life have intensified. It is an attempt to return to Modernity – “restoration” – and to defend the nation-state from transnational bankers. For their operations, these financiers need supranational organizations both open and clandestine. According to Fursov, these bankers see the nation-state as the principal obstacle to their international activities. On the contrary, anti-globalists want to stop the crisis of legitimacy of the state and to restore legitimacy to the state.
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from The Guardian (UK)
[Information from this site may be unreliable.]
Steroid injections, physio and fish oils: what really works for painful knees?
It’s not until your knees start hurting that you realise how much work they do. So, which problems should you worry about, and which treatments should you try?
Steroid injections, physio and fish oils: what really works for painful knees?
It’s not until your knees start hurting that you realise how much work they do. So, which problems should you worry about, and which treatments should you try?
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from Harvard Business Review
Linear Thinking in a Nonlinear World
The obvious choice is often the wrong one. Decades of research in cognitive psychology show that the human mind struggles to understand nonlinear relationships. Our brain wants to make simple straight lines.
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from The Heritage Foundation
[Information from this site may be unreliable.]
Reforming Arizona's Forfeiture Law Was Long Overdue
Gov. Doug Ducey signed into law a significant retooling of Arizona’s civil forfeiture system this month, noting that “[r]eforms have been needed in this area for some time.” He’s right: In Arizona and across the country, lax civil forfeiture laws have invited abuse and corruption. It is long past time to rein in the practice.
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Reforming Arizona's Forfeiture Law Was Long Overdue
Gov. Doug Ducey signed into law a significant retooling of Arizona’s civil forfeiture system this month, noting that “[r]eforms have been needed in this area for some time.” He’s right: In Arizona and across the country, lax civil forfeiture laws have invited abuse and corruption. It is long past time to rein in the practice.
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from LifeZette (& PoliZette)
Conservatives Warn Trump Must Fill Political Jobs
Remaining federal vacancies leave liberals inordinate influence in GOP administration
Antifa Radicals Set Paris ‘May Day’ March Aflame
From Berkeley to France, coalition of left-wing agitators increasingly relies on violence
Illegal Immigrant Activist: Texas Sanctuary Crackdown is ‘Terror’
Criminal alien defenders stage sit-in against bill to compel cooperation with feds
Democrats Bully Republicans into Spending Surrender
Fearful of shutdown, GOP funds sanctuary cities, Planned Parenthood, and more
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from The Living Church
EASTER IS BONKERS
Mark Clavier: The older I grow the less I’m convinced that we know anything much about God. Everybody seems to have an opinion about him, and even people grounded in theology disagree vehemently with each other about the nature and attributes of the Almighty. But one thing I do know: God despises bores. Easter reminds us of this. Put the redemption of the world into our hands, and we’d come up with something unimaginative, uninspiring, and probably much too believable. That the Easter story doesn’t strike us as an idea crazier than my dogs on caffeine shows just what a bunch of bores we Christians are.
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from Mises Institute
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]
A very good visual correlation between the yearly percentage change in the consumer price index (CPI) and the yearly percentage change in the price of oil seems to provide support to the popular thinking that future changes in price inflation in the US are likely to be set by the yearly growth rate in the price of oil. It is more likely that the core driver of general increases in prices of goods and services is money supply (AMS) growth that in turn is driven by central and commercial bank money creation, not the price of oil.
In dealing with the preponderance of the liberal social philosophy there is a disposition to overlook the power of an important factor that worked in favor of the idea of liberty, viz., the eminent role assigned to the literature of ancient Greece in the education of the elite. No intelligent man could fail to recognize that what the socialists, communists, and planners were aiming at was the most radical abolition of the individual's freedom and the establishment of government omnipotence.
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from The Oregonian (oregonlive.com)
Police declare riot as protesters set fires in downtown Portland
Police revoke the city permit and declare the Portland May Day is no longer lawful as violence mars demonstration. Earlier story: About 1,000 people gathered Monday afternoon in downtown Portland for a May Day march and rally that began at the South Park Blocks' Shemanski Park. The event was organized by Portland May Day Coalition, which comprises almost 50 organizations.
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from Redoubt News
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Opposition to Riverstone Bus Terminal Grows
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Opposition to Riverstone Bus Terminal Grows
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from The Spokesman-Review
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from UPI News Agency - United Press International
Just two days after inviting his controversial Philippines counterpart to the White House, President Donald Trump on Monday said he would be "honored" to meet North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un "under the right circumstances."
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from Wilson Center
The Italian parliamentary elections of April 18, 1948, pitted Rome’s pro-Western government against a communist-dominated Popular Front. As numerous studies have shown, the American embassy, the CIA, and other US organizations intervened heavily in favor of the government and its allies during the election campaign. These measures ranged from covert financial support, to public statements by US officials, linking American economic aid to an electoral defeat of the Popular Front.
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