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from City Journal
A quarterly magazine of urban affairs, published by the Manhattan Institute
The obsession with income inequality misses the point: jobs are the answer.
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from FEE (Foundation for Economic Education)
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, HIGH, non-profit organization
The Supreme Court Has the Chance to Fix Its Own Mistake
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case regarded compulsory union dues for public-sector workers, giving it the chance to correct the mistake it made on this subject in 1977. The Supreme Court has granted a petition for certiorari — a legal document which pleads the merit of hearing a case — in which Michael Janus is seeking the right to be exempt from public sector union dues. A similar case, Friedrich v. California Association , was before the court only a short time ago until Justice Scalia unexpectedly passed away leaving it undecided. Now, Janus argues that he should not be forced to pay dues to the public-sector union as compelled dues are an infringement on his First Amendment rights of speech and association.
Single Payer Health Care Is Anything But
Economic mobility – and the subsequent improvement of health outcomes – must come from the free market. As the American health care system continues to spend more and ranks lower than other developed countries, many progressives have suggested a shift to single-payer health care as a solution. However, adopting a single-payer system is likely to worsen our quality of care.
Cognitive Biases Afflict Government "Nudgers" Too
Market-based decisions may not always be entirely rational, but there is almost no incentive for governmental decisions to be rational, either. Thaler and many other behavioral economics scholars argue that government should intervene to protect people against their cognitive biases, by various forms of paternalistic policies. In the best-case scenario, government regulators can “nudge” us into correcting our cognitive errors, thereby enhancing our welfare without significantly curtailing freedom. But can we trust government to be less prone to cognitive error than the private-sector consumers whose mistakes we want to correct?
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from GOPUSA
In receiving a lifetime achievement honor, longtime Sen. John McCain signaled a dissatisfaction with aspects of the U.S. government — warning against what he called “spurious nationalism.” McCain, the six-term Senator from Arizona, didn’t mention President Donald Trump by name during his speech at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia on Monday night, but some of his words appeared to refer to the president’s national and international leadership. The senator, who received the center’s Liberty Medal for his lifetime of achievements, said that the United States has a moral obligation to continue international leadership — and “we would bring more than shame on ourselves if we don’t.”
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from The Heritage Foundation
RIGHT BIAS, MIXED, think tank in Washington, D.C
Is the U.S. Navy Dying a Slow Death?
A scan of the daily news headlines reveals ample evidence that maritime security threats are rapidly increasing. The fleet today now has fewer ships than at any time since the beginning of World War I. Let us hope that Congress can put aside partisan discord and work together to halt any further decay of the U.S. Navy’s military strength.
5 Ways Republicans Could Ruin Tax Reform
Policymakers are caving to big-government advocates and other special interests. These deductions mainly benefit high-income taxpayers and high-tax, high-debt state and local governments—to the tune of $1.7 trillion over 10 years. Lawmakers need to push back on special interests and do what is best for our entire nation. A chance like this may not come around for another generation.
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FBI uncovered Russian bribery plot before Obama administration approved controversial nuclear deal with Moscow
Before the Obama administration approved a controversial deal in 2010 giving Moscow control of a large swath of American uranium, the FBI had gathered substantial evidence that Russian nuclear industry officials were engaged in bribery, kickbacks, extortion and money laundering designed to grow Vladimir Putin’s atomic energy business inside the United States, according to government documents and interviews.
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Free Markets Have Made the World a Better Place
In the years following the end of World War II, Hong Kong's per capita income was one third of that in Britain. By the time of the British transfer of the territory to China in 1997, incomes in the two countries were the same. Today, the average inhabitant of Hong Kong is over 30 percent richer than the average Briton.
Is the U.S. Navy Dying a Slow Death?
A scan of the daily news headlines reveals ample evidence that maritime security threats are rapidly increasing. The fleet today now has fewer ships than at any time since the beginning of World War I. Let us hope that Congress can put aside partisan discord and work together to halt any further decay of the U.S. Navy’s military strength.
5 Ways Republicans Could Ruin Tax Reform
Policymakers are caving to big-government advocates and other special interests. These deductions mainly benefit high-income taxpayers and high-tax, high-debt state and local governments—to the tune of $1.7 trillion over 10 years. Lawmakers need to push back on special interests and do what is best for our entire nation. A chance like this may not come around for another generation.
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from The Hill
LEFT-CENTER BIAS, MIXED, newspaper in Washington, D.C.FBI uncovered Russian bribery plot before Obama administration approved controversial nuclear deal with Moscow
Before the Obama administration approved a controversial deal in 2010 giving Moscow control of a large swath of American uranium, the FBI had gathered substantial evidence that Russian nuclear industry officials were engaged in bribery, kickbacks, extortion and money laundering designed to grow Vladimir Putin’s atomic energy business inside the United States, according to government documents and interviews.
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from HumanProgress.org Education Website
Free Markets Have Made the World a Better Place
In the years following the end of World War II, Hong Kong's per capita income was one third of that in Britain. By the time of the British transfer of the territory to China in 1997, incomes in the two countries were the same. Today, the average inhabitant of Hong Kong is over 30 percent richer than the average Briton.
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from LifeZette (& PoliZette)
Hollywood Screenwriter on Weinstein: ‘Everybody Knew’
Scott Rosenberg worked with the disgraced producer and says, 'We were aware of a certain pattern of overly aggressive behavior'
ICE Chief: Shame on Those Who Criticize Us for Enforcing Immigration Laws
Immigration and Customs Enforcement Acting Director Thomas Homan on Tuesday offered a forceful defense of his agency and President Donald Trump’s administration while blasting so-called “sanctuary” jurisdictions for making their communities less safe.
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from National Review
RIGHT BIAS
The Axis Was Outmatched from the Start
Hitler and his Axis cohorts couldn’t match their enemies’ resources to begin with. That they learned all the wrong lessons from military history while the Allies learned all the right ones doomed them.
[T]he second in a series of excerpts adapted from Victor Davis Hanson’s new book The Second World Wars.
New Russian Nuclear Scandal Raises New Questions About Clinton Foundation
The Hill this morning broke what could be a very big news story, if anyone is willing to follow up on it. As is often the case with these kinds of stories, it bears watching if the reporting falls apart somehow, but as of yet, it seems there’s almost no pushback out there.
The Axis Was Outmatched from the Start
Hitler and his Axis cohorts couldn’t match their enemies’ resources to begin with. That they learned all the wrong lessons from military history while the Allies learned all the right ones doomed them.
[T]he second in a series of excerpts adapted from Victor Davis Hanson’s new book The Second World Wars.
New Russian Nuclear Scandal Raises New Questions About Clinton Foundation
The Hill this morning broke what could be a very big news story, if anyone is willing to follow up on it. As is often the case with these kinds of stories, it bears watching if the reporting falls apart somehow, but as of yet, it seems there’s almost no pushback out there.
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from Reuters
China's Xi lays out vision for 'new era' led by 'still stronger' Communist Party
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday laid out a confident vision for a more prosperous nation and its role in the world, stressing the importance of wiping out corruption and curbing industrial overcapacity, income inequality and pollution. Opening a critical Communist Party congress, Xi pledged to build a “modern socialist country” for a “new era” that will be proudly Chinese and steadfastly ruled by the party but open to the world.
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from The Spokesman-Review
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from The Wall Street Journal
George Soros Transfers $18 Billion to His Foundation, Creating an Instant Giant
The pioneer of hedge-fund investing has transferred the bulk of his wealth to Open Society Foundations. George Soros, who built one of the world’s largest fortunes through a famous series of trades, has turned over nearly $18 billion to Open Society Foundations, according to foundation officials, a move that transforms both the philanthropy he founded and the investment firm supplying its wealth. Now holding the bulk of Mr. Soros’s fortune, Open Society has vaulted to the top ranks of philanthropic organizations, appearing to become the second largest in the U.S. by assets after the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, based on 2014 figures from the National Philanthropic Trust.
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from The Week
Dan Brown is a very bad writer
To say that Dan Brown's Origin is one of the worst "thrillers" ever published would not be accurate. Not because it is not appallingly, insultingly, groan-inducingly written — it is — but because it is not, in fact, a thriller. It would be hard to pinpoint the exact moment at which I made this discovery, but I would venture a guess that it was somewhere around chapter three. The clues, like the endless codes Brown's characters are doomed to chase fruitlessly around a version of Europe that rarely achieves a CIA World Factbook entry level of descriptive interest, are everywhere — hiding, as he might put it, in plain sight.
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from Zero Hedge
CONSPIRACY-PSEUDOSCIENCE, MIXED, financial blog with aggregated news and opinion
Car-Bomb Kills "One-Woman WikiLeaks" Who Led The Panama Papers Revelations
Daphne Caruana Galizia, the journalist who led the Panama Papers investigation into corruption in Malta, was killed today when her car was destroyed by a powerful explosive device which blew the car into several pieces and threw the debris into a nearby field.
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