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from FEE (Foundation for Economic Education)
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Libertarianism Rejects Anti-Semitism
It is not a coincidence that among the leading libertarian thinkers of the 20th century, we have a large number of Jews, starting with Mises, Milton Friedman, Israel Kirzner, and Robert Nozick. And despite the ways in with both rejected their Judaism, we should not forget Ayn Rand and Murray Rothbard. They are only the tip of the iceberg of the disproportionate number of Jews who have been instrumental in forwarding the ideas of classical liberalism in the last century. It is no exaggeration to say that the modern libertarian movement would not exist were it not for these Jewish intellectuals.
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from The Guardian (UK)
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'The new Obama': will Abdul El-Sayed be America's first Muslim governor?
The 32-year-old charismatic Muslim doctor is running for governor of Michigan and in the process trying to change US politics.
'The new Obama': will Abdul El-Sayed be America's first Muslim governor?
The 32-year-old charismatic Muslim doctor is running for governor of Michigan and in the process trying to change US politics.
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from The Heritage Foundation
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Congress, Don't Further Normalize Military Relations With Burma
In a proposed amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which Congress is slated to take up when it returns from recess in September, the Senate signaled support to expand the scale and scope of U.S.-Burma military-to-military ties. Such an expansion is a bad idea on many grounds, not the least of which is Burma’s current ties to North Korea – a regime who’s nuclear and missile programs the Trump administration has made a cornerstone of its foreign policy to counter.
Operation Choke Point Is Over. But Without Major Reforms, It Could Happen Again.
Operation Choke Point was an effort by Obama administration officials to destroy lawful businesses that they personally disliked by intimidating finance companies into denying them service. Last week, Assistant Attorney General for the Justice Department’s Office of Legislative Affairs Stephen E. Boyd wrote a letter to House Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., saying that Operation Choke Point was “misguided” and that “law abiding businesses should not be targeted simply for operating in an industry that a particular administration might disfavor.”
Why American Workers Should Care About Business Investment
Economists have understated the impact of business investment on wages and demand for labor. Decades of data suggest that wages are twice as responsive to investment as the most commonly used economic model suggests. The data suggest that an 8 percent increase in capital per worker would increase wages by 13 percent to 20 percent. Business investment has been low, so capital per worker is about 8 percent below its long-term trend. The best ways to encourage higher business investment are corporate tax reform, deregulation of local land use, and freeing financial markets from overregulation.
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How the Senate's baseline budget could make or break tax reform
Pro-growth tax reform that provides relief for American families and businesses should be the centerpiece of Congress’ agenda this fall. The House Budget Committee’s proposed budget makes that task considerably more difficult. The Senate can avoid the same mistake by choosing the correct baseline.
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Congress, Don't Further Normalize Military Relations With Burma
In a proposed amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which Congress is slated to take up when it returns from recess in September, the Senate signaled support to expand the scale and scope of U.S.-Burma military-to-military ties. Such an expansion is a bad idea on many grounds, not the least of which is Burma’s current ties to North Korea – a regime who’s nuclear and missile programs the Trump administration has made a cornerstone of its foreign policy to counter.
Operation Choke Point Is Over. But Without Major Reforms, It Could Happen Again.
Operation Choke Point was an effort by Obama administration officials to destroy lawful businesses that they personally disliked by intimidating finance companies into denying them service. Last week, Assistant Attorney General for the Justice Department’s Office of Legislative Affairs Stephen E. Boyd wrote a letter to House Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., saying that Operation Choke Point was “misguided” and that “law abiding businesses should not be targeted simply for operating in an industry that a particular administration might disfavor.”
Why American Workers Should Care About Business Investment
Economists have understated the impact of business investment on wages and demand for labor. Decades of data suggest that wages are twice as responsive to investment as the most commonly used economic model suggests. The data suggest that an 8 percent increase in capital per worker would increase wages by 13 percent to 20 percent. Business investment has been low, so capital per worker is about 8 percent below its long-term trend. The best ways to encourage higher business investment are corporate tax reform, deregulation of local land use, and freeing financial markets from overregulation.
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from The Hill
How the Senate's baseline budget could make or break tax reform
Pro-growth tax reform that provides relief for American families and businesses should be the centerpiece of Congress’ agenda this fall. The House Budget Committee’s proposed budget makes that task considerably more difficult. The Senate can avoid the same mistake by choosing the correct baseline.
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from Indian Country Today Media Network
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September Will Be a Mess in Congress; Budget, Spending and Debt Fights Ahead
September is going to be a mess. Congress must sort out some really complicated fiscal issues. There is the budget, an increase in the debt limit, how much to spend on federal programs and services, and, if there’s time, tax reform.
6 Things You Should Know About GMOs
Are GMOs dangerous? How do they impact food sovereignty?
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September Will Be a Mess in Congress; Budget, Spending and Debt Fights Ahead
September is going to be a mess. Congress must sort out some really complicated fiscal issues. There is the budget, an increase in the debt limit, how much to spend on federal programs and services, and, if there’s time, tax reform.
6 Things You Should Know About GMOs
Are GMOs dangerous? How do they impact food sovereignty?
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from The Living Church
RUSSIA IN THE WEST
In the wake of the 1917 revolution, a vast number of Russian persons entered a diaspora movement with clusters in Berlin, Munich, Shanghai, New York, Prague, Harbin, Kobe, and especially Paris. The White Russians in Paris, centered on the St. Sergius Orthodox Theological Institute and the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in the Rue Daru, were a group of remarkable theological activity and vitality. Many of them became members of the Student Christian Movement and the Fellowship of St. Alban and St. Sergius (FSASS), founded in 1928 to promote contact between Christians of Eastern and Western traditions. “Many of us were quite prepared to accept Communism, if it should appear that Communism was the readiest solution of our national problem. But what we could not accept was a government which deliberately set itself to destroy the spiritual foundations of our national culture. We are here in exile because we were compelled to make a decision; and we desire to keep burning that sacred flame, that in God’s good time we may carry it back undimmed to our Fatherland.”
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A Bureau of Land Management agent who has been scrutinized for past behavior took valuable stones held as evidence and handed them out "like candy" to colleagues and a contractor, federal investigators said in a report made public Thursday. Daniel Love played a command role in an April 2014 standoff involving backers of Nevada rancher and states' rights figure Cliven Bundy. It pitted weapon-toting Bundy supporters against heavily armed BLM agents who, in the end, gave up efforts to collect Bundy cattle for nonpayment of grazing fees.
RUSSIA IN THE WEST
In the wake of the 1917 revolution, a vast number of Russian persons entered a diaspora movement with clusters in Berlin, Munich, Shanghai, New York, Prague, Harbin, Kobe, and especially Paris. The White Russians in Paris, centered on the St. Sergius Orthodox Theological Institute and the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in the Rue Daru, were a group of remarkable theological activity and vitality. Many of them became members of the Student Christian Movement and the Fellowship of St. Alban and St. Sergius (FSASS), founded in 1928 to promote contact between Christians of Eastern and Western traditions. “Many of us were quite prepared to accept Communism, if it should appear that Communism was the readiest solution of our national problem. But what we could not accept was a government which deliberately set itself to destroy the spiritual foundations of our national culture. We are here in exile because we were compelled to make a decision; and we desire to keep burning that sacred flame, that in God’s good time we may carry it back undimmed to our Fatherland.”
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from McClatchyDC
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from Orthodox Christianity
Archaeologists have used carbon dating to prove that samples of hazel charcoal unearthed in a dig on the island of Iona 60 years ago originate from the lifetime of St. Columba, the enlightener of Scotland and perhaps the greatest Celtic saints who was born in 521 and reposed in 597. The structure, believed to be the saint’s cell where he prayed and studied, dates to between 540 and 650. St. Columba is described in his biography, written about 100 years after his death by his successor St. Adomnan, as often writing in a wooden cell on a rocky hill called Torr an Aba, or, “the mound of the abbot.”
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from The Seattle Times
LEFT-CENTER BIAS, HIGH, Newspaper in Seattle, Washington
A defamation lawsuit against Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant is a good example of how false, inflammatory rhetoric chases away reasonable discourse. Seattle police officers Scott Miller and Michael Spaulding shot Che Taylor in February 2016. Taylor’s death became a flashpoint for race and policing issues. But a King County jury, hearing the shooting inquest into the incident earlier this year, believed the officers. Jurors ruled the officers had reason to believe Taylor — facing a “third strike” life sentence if convicted again — was a threat to their safety and that Taylor appeared to be drawing a gun when they opened fire. Separately, a Seattle police-review board found the shooting fell within department policy, and after the inquest jury sided with the officers, King County Prosecutor Dan Satterberg declined to charge them. Sawant did not wait to know those facts. Within days of Taylor’s death, she accused them of “murder” and said the incident was the result of “racial profiling.”
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from The Spokesman-Review
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from The Telegraph (UK)
Ancient Roman sarcophagi discovered by chance next to Rome's football stadium
wo ancient Roman sarcophagi have been unearthed by chance close to Rome’s modern-day football stadium. The marble coffins boast elaborate bas-reliefs and were probably the final resting place of the children of a wealthy Roman family. They were discovered by chance when an energy utility company started digging in the area in order to lay pipelines and cables. The utility company notified the authorities who sent in a team of archeologists to carefully excavate the tombs. Experts said the sarcophagi appear to date from the third or fourth century AD. Ancient remains are routinely discovered beneath the streets of Rome during construction and maintenance work.
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