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from Business Insider
'Do you even understand what you're asking?': Putin and Megyn Kelly have a heated exchange over Trump-Russia ties
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Ontario Passes Law Allowing Gov't to Seize Children From Parents Who Oppose Gender Transition
The so-called Supporting Children, Youth and Families Act of 2017, or Bill 89, was approved by a vote of 63 to 23. It requires child protection, foster, adoption service providers, and judges to take into account and respect a child's "race, ancestry, place of origin, color, ethnic origin, citizenship, family diversity, disability, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression."
from The Christian Post
The so-called Supporting Children, Youth and Families Act of 2017, or Bill 89, was approved by a vote of 63 to 23. It requires child protection, foster, adoption service providers, and judges to take into account and respect a child's "race, ancestry, place of origin, color, ethnic origin, citizenship, family diversity, disability, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression."
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from FEE (Foundation for Economic Education)
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Dear Historians: Are You Trying To Get Us All Killed?
Dear historians, Are you trying to get us all killed? Since my first encounter with history, the main stream of your profession has pretty much been broadcasting one story of the human past and how we got here. That story is the series of conquests and political machinations and elections and political movements and crown successions and civil wars and revolutions and plots and treaties and invasions and bargains and diplomacy. You’ve told them that only politically powerful people and groups get to impact the world around them. You told us that the scramble for power was the way the world worked and the way the world changed. Can you really be surprised we have lived through warfare and revolutions and soul-sucking election cycles again and again and again? “But it’s the truth! That’s just history is like!” you say. Of course it is. History is bloody beyond belief. You’ve shown me that, and I thank you for doing the work. You’ve shown us how depraved people can become when they mix with power. But in your narrow-sighted focus on the stories of the bloody few at the top, you’re forgotten 99% of the lives and actions and customs and beliefs that make up the human story.
Is Industry For or Against the Paris Climate Agreement?
It is not surprising at all that there would be a political split between big and small business over the Paris climate agreement. Whenever you hear that politicians are gathering “stakeholders” from the “business community” to find out their thoughts, know that something is afoul. The interests of large companies are not the same as the interests of free enterprise in general. Drill down just a bit to the pressure-group politics behind Paris and you find just another attempt – cleverly covered by science – by government, various corporate interests, and ruling class intellectuals to skew the system in their favor.
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from The Guardian (UK)
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Donald Trump berates London mayor over response to terror attacks
President criticises Sadiq Khan and uses attack to justify travel ban before mayor’s spokesman calls tweet ‘ill-informed’ and deliberately out of context. Donald Trump has criticised the mayor of London, hours after seven people were killed and 48 injured in a terror attack in the centre of the city. “At least 7 dead and 48 wounded in terror attack,” the president wrote on his personal Twitter account, “and Mayor of London says there is ‘no reason to be alarmed!’” In another tweet, Trump wrote: “Do you notice we are not having a gun debate right now? That’s because they used knives and a truck!” He added: “We must stop being politically correct and get down to the business of security for our people. If we don’t get smart it will only get worse.”
Donald Trump berates London mayor over response to terror attacks
President criticises Sadiq Khan and uses attack to justify travel ban before mayor’s spokesman calls tweet ‘ill-informed’ and deliberately out of context. Donald Trump has criticised the mayor of London, hours after seven people were killed and 48 injured in a terror attack in the centre of the city. “At least 7 dead and 48 wounded in terror attack,” the president wrote on his personal Twitter account, “and Mayor of London says there is ‘no reason to be alarmed!’” In another tweet, Trump wrote: “Do you notice we are not having a gun debate right now? That’s because they used knives and a truck!” He added: “We must stop being politically correct and get down to the business of security for our people. If we don’t get smart it will only get worse.”
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from The Heritage Foundation
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Terror Has Hit London Again. Why US Courts Should Let Government Do Its Job.
A new terror strike in London has renewed the world’s focus on transnational Islamist terrorism, rekindling the old debate over how best to fight it. The debate is understandable, but it comes far too late. It has been nearly 16 years since the 9/11 attacks, and ongoing terrorist activity has fit a predictable pattern—as has the U.S. response. The time for retrospection has long passed. Now is the time for action.
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Terror Has Hit London Again. Why US Courts Should Let Government Do Its Job.
A new terror strike in London has renewed the world’s focus on transnational Islamist terrorism, rekindling the old debate over how best to fight it. The debate is understandable, but it comes far too late. It has been nearly 16 years since the 9/11 attacks, and ongoing terrorist activity has fit a predictable pattern—as has the U.S. response. The time for retrospection has long passed. Now is the time for action.
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from New Statesman
"The leading voice of the British left, since 1913."
A new book from Thomas E Ricks explores the similarities between two 20th century mavericks.
from Reason Magazine
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Trump's Wrong on Trade With Germany and a Liability to the Anti-NATO Argument
Both Trump and his mainstream critics are wrong about NATO. It's possible for both sides to be wrong in a dispute.
Everyone Should Be Getting Wikipedia for Free
Confusion over net neutrality rules has internet providers too scared to offer freebies, even though it’s legal. Internet providers should be able to experiment with giving subscribers free stuff, such as access to Wikipedia and other public information and services on their smartphones. Unfortunately, confusion about whether today's net neutrality regulations allow U.S. providers to make content available without it counting against your data plan—a practice called "zero-rating"—has discouraged many companies from doing so, even though zero-rating experiments are presumptively legal under today's net neutrality regulations.
Trump's Wrong on Trade With Germany and a Liability to the Anti-NATO Argument
Both Trump and his mainstream critics are wrong about NATO. It's possible for both sides to be wrong in a dispute.
Everyone Should Be Getting Wikipedia for Free
Confusion over net neutrality rules has internet providers too scared to offer freebies, even though it’s legal. Internet providers should be able to experiment with giving subscribers free stuff, such as access to Wikipedia and other public information and services on their smartphones. Unfortunately, confusion about whether today's net neutrality regulations allow U.S. providers to make content available without it counting against your data plan—a practice called "zero-rating"—has discouraged many companies from doing so, even though zero-rating experiments are presumptively legal under today's net neutrality regulations.
from The Spokesman-Review
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from Yakima Herald-Republic
It Happened Here: Treaty of 1855 took land, created the Yakama Nation
One hundred sixty-two years ago this week on June 9, U.S. government officials and 14 Native American leaders gathered in Walla Walla to sign a document that to this day continues to affect people in the Yakima Valley. Known as the Treaty of 1855, the agreement confederated 14 tribes and bands into the Yakama Nation, but took away most of the land they and their ancestors had lived on for thousands of years. But the document also promised the Yakamas would have exclusive use of the 1.3-million-acre reservation — spanning from the eastern slopes of Mount Adams eastward to Granger, and stretching from just below Union Gap south to near Goldendale — with the authority to govern itself.
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