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from Anglican Journal
The consecration of Bishop Jennifer Baskerville-Burrows made history twice over: not only is Baskerville-Burrows the first black woman to lead an Episcopal diocese, she is also the first woman to succeed another woman as diocesan bishop.
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from Competitive Enterprise Institute
Regulatory reform is desperately needed to reduce the burden crushing innovation and entrepreneurship. How can Congress help the administration take the regulatory state off autopilot?
The point of the Wire Act was to target the mafia's sports gambling operations not to create a new and broad prohibition on all Internet gambling. This bill was never meant to create a broad prohibition on all Internet gambling.
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from The Daily Caller
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Power Move: Gorsuch Opts Out Of High Court Labor Pool
Power Move: Gorsuch Opts Out Of High Court Labor Pool
In an early show of independence, Justice Neil Gorsuch declined to join the Supreme Court’s “cert pool,” an administrative division of labor that allows for efficient review of the deluge of petitions the justices receive each term.
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from FEE (Foundation for Economic Education)
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African Cities Are Being Built for Wealth Consumption Not Creation
The problem with African cities is that they are generally built for the rich elite. Yet these cities lack the basics. Roads are jammed up; power is erratic; there is often little in the way of sewage systems or clean water. As a result, few competitive businesses want to move to African cities. Manufacturing is all but absent: the power and logistics are simply not good enough for factories. The African city Kinshasa, despite having a population that is bigger than London's and being one of the world's fastest growing cities, is only slightly better connected to the global economy than the North Pole.
The Campus Counter-Revolution against Liberty
Much has been rightly said about recent attacks on conservative, libertarian, and other non-Leftist speakers on college and university campuses around the country. The elements of intellectual intolerance, the willingness to shout down any ideological critic or opponent, and the resort to incidents of on-campus violence to prevent invited speakers from addressing students have been pointed out to represent a dangerous totalitarian streak among “progressives” and even more radical Leftists. The goal of these new leftists is to create a real “false consciousness” among segments of society in which they no longer think of themselves as distinct and individual human beings, but as inescapable and interchangeable particles within a collectivist mass of particular race, gender, or social groups that define them and whose collective destiny determines their own.
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from Forbes
Reaffirming the presumption of innocence, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a Colorado law last month that forced criminal defendants to prove their innocence when the defendants’ convictions were already overturned. As the court explained, “Absent those convictions, Colorado would have no legal right to exact and retain petitioners’ funds.” Not only is this decision a win for due process, the court’s ruling in Nelson v. Colorado could have major ramifications for government shakedown schemes nationwide.
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from The Heritage Foundation
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The Risks Of Slighting Human Rights In Asia
A strong policy toward Asia cannot be accomplished without bearing human rights concerns in mind.
Reducing the Regulatory Burden
Don’t make the mistake of assuming regulations don’t affect you — or that they do only if you run a business.
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The Risks Of Slighting Human Rights In Asia
A strong policy toward Asia cannot be accomplished without bearing human rights concerns in mind.
Reducing the Regulatory Burden
Don’t make the mistake of assuming regulations don’t affect you — or that they do only if you run a business.
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from KIRO 7 Eyewitness News (CBS Seattle)
City council unanimously passes Seattle income tax resolution
As May Day marchers worked their way through downtown Seattle Monday, the city council unanimously supported a resolution in favor of a Seattle income tax.
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from Miami Herald
Leonard Pitts Jr.: Florida’s apology to four black men after 70 years falls far short of being justice
If this apology to the Groveland Four tempts anyone to feel good about how enlightened we’ve become, he or she would be well advised to remember that it comes from a state that just a few years ago put a murder victim named Trayvon on trial and judged him guilty of his own death.
If this apology to the Groveland Four tempts anyone to feel good about how enlightened we’ve become, he or she would be well advised to remember that it comes from a state that just a few years ago put a murder victim named Trayvon on trial and judged him guilty of his own death.
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from Mises Institute
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]Nassim Nicholas Taleb does not suffer fools gladly. Author of several books including The Black Swan and Antifragile, Taleb is known for his incendiary personality almost as much as his brilliant work in probability theory. Readers of his very active Medium page will experience a formidable mind with no patience for trendy groupthink, a mind that takes special pleasure in lambasting elites with no “skin in the game.”
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from New York Magazine
This Is What a Modern-Day Witch Hunt Looks Like
A bunch of academics are spreading false information about one of their own by sharing all sorts of false claims about the article that don’t bear the scrutiny of even a single close read, leading to a massive and misinformed pile-on.
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from Salon
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Alabama congressman: “People who lead good lives” don’t have preexisting conditions
Mo Brooks says people without pre-existing conditions have "done things the right way"
Alabama congressman: “People who lead good lives” don’t have preexisting conditions
Mo Brooks says people without pre-existing conditions have "done things the right way"
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from The Spokesman-Review
Violence leads to arrests in May Day marches in Northwest
May Day protests turned violent in the Pacific Northwest as demonstrators in Portland, Oregon, threw smoke bombs and Molotov cocktails at police while elsewhere thousands of people peacefully marched against President Donald Trump’s immigration and labor policies.
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from UPI News Agency - United Press International
"The reason why I believe we lost were the intervening events of the last 10 days," Clinton said in an interview Tuesday.
"It's possible that it has snowed less in this part of Antarctica in recent years -- that would also cause the glaciers to thin and lose mass, but it's a not a signal of dynamical imbalance," said Leeds researcher Andrew Shepherd.
President Donald Trump threatened to force a "good shutdown" of the government over frustration with a spending bill, which House Speaker Paul Ryan defended Tuesday.
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from Washington Examiner
The Wire Act was already restored
In his April 24 op-ed, lobbyist Jon Bruning presented several alternative facts about our nation's gambling laws and history. The most egregious error was his assertion that a 2011 opinion issued by the Office of Legal Counsel in the Department of Justice amounted to a reinterpretation of the 1961 Wire Act and that the Trump Administration — presumably newly minted Attorney General Jeff Sessions — must act to "restore" the Act to its original intent. The reality, however, is that the 2011 legal opinion already did that.
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from The Washington Times
Pulling the administrative state off autopilot
Reducing burdensome regulations could unleash the full potential of America
When it comes to confronting excessive federal regulation, from signing a Congressional Review Act resolution to roll back the Federal Communications Commissions’ broadband privacy rules to his executive order asking the Environmental Protection Agency to review its Clean Power Plan, the Trump administration has, so far, delivered on promises.
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