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from The Blaze (& Glenn Beck)
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Monster snowstorm in Colorado forces postponement of climate change & global warming rally
A mid-spring snowstorm in Colorado over the weekend postponed a rally that sought to bring attention “climate change” and “global warming,” as well as protest President Donald Trump’s climate policies.
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from Coeur d'Alene Press
Little Kyoto to open this week
A menu with about 100 choices will be offered at Little Kyoto Japanese restaurant when it opens this week at 11250 Government Way in Hayden. Seating will open for about 30 customers in what was the Yellow House Cafe. More will be added as more staff is hired. Business Bits: A new Japanese restaurant, Popeye's breaks ground, get ready to gas up at Walmart.
Richard Le Francis refuses to let his museum go down. Perhaps you found your way to the Pappy Boyington Field Museum on west Wyoming Avenue at some point in the last few years. If you enjoyed it and plan on a return visit, though, you’ll have to do it online. The museum named for the Coeur d’Alene area’s most famous aviator — Medal of Honor recipient and World War II ace Pappy Boyington of the famed “Black Sheep Squadron” — now exists only in virtual reality. Le Francis put blood, sweat and tears — not to mention bucks — into the museum project, from leasing a building on the Fraternal Order of Eagles property, then opening in 2012, to finally being turfed out with a lease expiration this past February. All those spectacular artifacts are stuck in a warehouse. “Last year (2016), we had about a thousand visitors — without any signs, on someone else’s property, with almost no marketing — and we just about broke even. Museums normally take 25 years to become actual destinations with valuable displays. We did it in a lot less than that.” And now? Le Francis has managed to land another Coeur d’Alene aviation superstar — legendary aircraft designer and aerospace engineer Burt Rutan — as an advocate.
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from FEE (Foundation for Economic Education)
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Occupational Licensing Doesn't Protect Who You Think It Protects
Licensing is about little more than consumer exploitation. There's no evidence that occupational licensing achieves its stated objectives and abundant evidence that it harms labor mobility and low-income entrepreneurship. Here are some better solutions that would actually work.
Economic Liberty and the Rise and Fall of Nations
Chile's on the rise. Unfortunately, most of Europe isn't. The OECD [Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development] published data on "Average Individual Consumption," and we can use those data to take a look at how countries have changed over time. The conclusion? If nations want faster growth and more prosperity, there’s no substitute for free markets and limited government.
How the Blockchain Prevented Digital Book Burning
When UC Berkley's 20,000 free world-class lectures were threatened with elimination at the hands of the state, an enterprising blockchain-based company, LBRY, stepped in and saved the day.
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from Isaac M. Morehouse
Contrary to the absurdly naive belief that monopolizing an industry will produce “efficiencies”, it has the opposite effect. All the wrong things are incentivized and no one has any clear signal of what creates value. This is easily provable with Public Choice Theory, and consistently proven in practice.
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from LifeZette (& PoliZette)
Bold Mom Takes a Stand: ‘Don’t Force My Son to Share’
Besieged at the park, little boy learns to fend off greedy mob while others heap scorn on the outspoken mother
Priebus: Trump Could Take Action Against Fake News
White House chief of staff says changing libel laws 'something that we've looked at'
White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus said Sunday the administration has examined the possibility of taking action against publications like The New York Times for their false reporting about the president.
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from Military Times
and Air Force Times, Army Times, Marine Corps Times, and Navy Times
It’s been three years in the making, but helicopter crews who flew during the Vietnam War will have their own monument at Arlington National Cemetery. The Vietnam Helicopter Pilots Association and Congress came together for the Vietnam Helicopter Crew Monument Act, directing the secretary of the Army to place a 2 1/2-foot by 2 1/2-foot monument at the cemetery in Virginia. It will be placed in Section 35 along Memorial Drive, not far from the Tomb of the Unknowns.
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from The Spokesman-Review
Turkey threatens further strikes on US-allied Syrian Kurds
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Sunday his country may take further action against Kurdish militants in Iraq and Syria, as U.S.-backed forces in Syria closed in on the last neighborhoods of a former stronghold of the Islamic State group.
Eye on Boise: Only in Idaho have lawmakers changed school science standards on climate change
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from TechCrunch
Computers have become more powerful and more portable, letting you execute some compute-intensive tasks on your laptop. But internet connections have also become incredible faster, making it much easier to outsource some tasks to servers sitting in a data center. Most of the apps on your phone already rely on a server component to store and process your data. When you post a video on Facebook, it gets re-encoded into multiple formats on the server so that other users can stream your video in SD, HD, etc.
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