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from Asia Times Online
Japan and the UK have agreed to closer military cooperation, including joint development of a new air-to-air missile, in what the Asahi Shimbun describes as a new “semi-alliance” between the two nations. Asahi says the new coordination with Britain represents Japan’s first joint research on missiles that doesn’t involve the US. The big Japanese newspaper says the quickening defense relationship between Japan and the UK reflects “uncertainties over the US security commitment in East Asia and continuing concerns about China’s maritime advances.”
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from FEE (Foundation for Economic Education)
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, HIGH, non-profit organization
Throwing Good Money after Bad Doesn't Improve Government Schools
If giving teachers more money doesn’t work, is it possible that spending more money on facilities will help?
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from HumanProgress.org
Education Website
The U.S. may have won the cold war, but the ideological struggle never ended.
Today marks 100 years since the Bolshevik coup d'état in Russia overthrew the provisional government of Alexander Kerensky and replaced it with communist dictatorship that lasted until the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. Throughout this year, I have written a number of columns devoted to communism as a system of government and socialism as a system of economic organization, throughout the former Soviet bloc. It would, therefore, serve limited purpose to revisit the many social and economic ills that the events of November 7, 1917 unleashed upon the world. Suffice it to say that dictatorship of the proletariat and central planning have resulted in mass murder and relative immiseration wherever they have been tried. Instead, I would like to use today's column as a call to action. Put plainly, we (i.e., libertarians, classical liberals and other promoters of free markets and small government) are at risk of losing the battle of ideas, especially when it comes to young people. According to a new poll conducted by YouGov on behalf of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, “nearly 45 percent of millennials polled said that they would prefer to live in a socialist country compared to the 42 percent who said they preferred a capitalist one. Another 7 percent said that the preferred living in a communist country above all. The findings show that the percentage of millennials who prefer socialism over capitalism is a full 10 points higher than that of the general population.”
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from NPR (& affiliates)
Pope Begs Journalists To Avoid 'Sins Of Communication'
Pope Francis, in speaking to a group of journalists Saturday, addressed the importance of a free and responsible press while also warning against falling "prey to the sins of communication." He was speaking to members of the Italian Periodical Press Union and the Italian Federation of Catholic Weeklies and said that in a field "dominated by the anxiety of speed, by the drive for sensationalism," reliable information is at a premium.
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from POLITICO
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Progressives hunt down one of the last conservative Democrats
Chicago-based Congressman Dan Lipinski has never before been targeted with so much political firepower.
Progressives hunt down one of the last conservative Democrats
Chicago-based Congressman Dan Lipinski has never before been targeted with so much political firepower.
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
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