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from The Blaze (& Glenn Beck)
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Canadian author and journalist Malcolm Gladwell made a damming admission Sunday about the harsh reality of single-payer health care. The Canadian then admitted what many critics of single-payer often point out — that with single-payer health care comes a decline in the quality and quantity of care available. “And they came to the answer that what we want is a system that covers everyone, and what that means is we’re willing to give up choice, we’re willing to give up the most high-tech solutions to various medical problems, we’re not going to have expensive, shiny hospitals,” Gladwell said.
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from FEE (Foundation for Economic Education)
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Do You Know What a Nation Is?
On July 4, we celebrate something called the nation, but what is a nation? What is the source of our affections and loyalties? We all assume that we know the answer to the question. But when you drill down, you find out that there is no clear agreement. In fact, disagreement on this vital issue is a huge source of division and political strife in the world today.
Seattle's Minimum Wage Hurt Low-Income Workers the Most
The real world just kicked advocates of higher minimum wages in the teeth (or maybe someplace even more painful). A new study from the National Bureau of Economic Research looks at the impact of the $11 and $13 minimum wages in the city of Seattle and finds very bad results.
Social Democracy Didn't Spur Post-War Growth
Post-war growth was coincident with policies of government control but they were not the cause of the growth. For starters, catch-up economic growth is easier than trying to work out what to do at the technological cutting edge. In fact, a less socially democratic set of policies produced a better result elsewhere.
Governments Are Trapping Underbanked Populations in Perpetual Poverty
Those of us living in economically advanced countries can take for granted how easy and inexpensive it is to transfer money between individuals. With payment platforms like Venmo and Paypal readily available, sending and receiving payments is as simple as tapping your smartphone screen a few times. But for those from poor countries who have left their families and communities behind in search of a more opportunity-rich life in America, sending large sums of money back home comes with a hefty price tag. In fact, by the time the money actually crosses borders and reaches its recipients, between eight and ten percent of the funds have been lost to service fees. The underbanked regions of the world aren't waiting for governments and centralized banking systems to break the cycle of poverty. Instead, they are utilizing the blockchain and cryptocurrencies to rise about their circumstances.
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from First Things
In a recent story on the next generation of Catholic priests, Time magazine showed itself to be partisan and misinformed. Priesthood reinvents the man—not the other way around.
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from Indian Country Today Media Network
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Donius, Dakota Access Pipeline and The Paris Climate Accords: Ideas to Protect Our Homelands
A commentary by Gyasi Ross on the Dakota Access Pipeline and the Paris Climate Accords
US Forest Service proposes plan to limit hikers in Oregon
The scope of a U.S. Forest Service plan to limit the number of people entering Oregon's wilderness areas has surprised many people. The Statesman Journal reports the plan announced this month by Willamette and Deschutes national forests would require a permit to hike or backpack in the Mount Jefferson, Mount Washington, Three Sisters, Diamond Peak and Waldo Lake wilderness areas. Officials say the goal is to limit crowds and damage by restricting numbers. But it would also represent a fundamental change in a state that for the most part allows people to venture as they please on public lands.
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]
Donius, Dakota Access Pipeline and The Paris Climate Accords: Ideas to Protect Our Homelands
A commentary by Gyasi Ross on the Dakota Access Pipeline and the Paris Climate Accords
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from KATU News (ABC Portland)
The scope of a U.S. Forest Service plan to limit the number of people entering Oregon's wilderness areas has surprised many people. The Statesman Journal reports the plan announced this month by Willamette and Deschutes national forests would require a permit to hike or backpack in the Mount Jefferson, Mount Washington, Three Sisters, Diamond Peak and Waldo Lake wilderness areas. Officials say the goal is to limit crowds and damage by restricting numbers. But it would also represent a fundamental change in a state that for the most part allows people to venture as they please on public lands.
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from The Living Church
ANGLICANS ON THE WITTENBERG TRAIL
It’s perhaps not the most familiar narrative: four contented Anglicans, of the higher church variety, uninterested in theological or ecclesial conversion, walking in the footsteps of Luther, the man whose rending of Christendom Anglicans from Hooker to Newman to Ramsey came, each in their own way, to rue, if not repudiate. By now we’re used to hearing tales of “evangelicals on the Canterbury trail,” but stories — even if only temporary holiday stories — of “Anglicans on the Wittenberg trail” seem fewer and more curious.
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from Mises Institute
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]In early June, the failure of the Spanish bank Banco Popular seemed to work smoothly under the new European resolution rules. The relatively new Banking Union seemed to work in achieving its goal to limit moral hazard. This impression was short lived and died when the Italian government agreed to use €17 billion of taxpayer’s money for two failed banks, Veneto Banca and Banca Popolare di Vicenza, in late June. The Italian banking crisis has managed to kill the new European Banking Union almost as soon as it was begun.
It's difficult to say what most Americans commemorate or celebrate on Independence Day nowadays. Many appear to focus on some vague notion of "America." Others take to jingoism equating the U. S. government with the very notion of "freedom." Lost in this is the fact that the Declaration of Independence — the document we're supposed to remember today — is a document that promotes secession, rebellion, and what the British at the time regarded as treason. Here are three things about the history and context of this holiday that should continue to inform us today and into the future.
One: If You Can't Secede, You're Not Really Free
Two: Independence Day Is Not a Military Holiday
Three: Armed Revolt Is a Serious and Rare Event
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from Orthodox Christianity
from Reason Magazine
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There's More to a Job Than Making Money
More than 11 percent of prime working-age men in the U.S. are outside the job market.
There's More to a Job Than Making Money
More than 11 percent of prime working-age men in the U.S. are outside the job market.
from The Spokesman-Review
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from Sputnik
(Russian government-supported propaganda channel)
France has to have a stronger diplomatic role in resolving world conflicts “from Mali to Ukraine,” French President Emmanuel Macron said Monday, during an address to both houses of parliament reunited in Versailles. In order to achieve the formulated goals, France needs “to know how to talk to all these regions with those in power, including those who do not share our values,” Macron added.
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from The Washington Post
Chicago won’t allow high school students to graduate without a plan for the future
To graduate from a public high school in Chicago, students will soon have to meet a new and unusual requirement: They must show that they’ve secured a job or received a letter of acceptance to college, a trade apprenticeship, a gap year program or the military. The requirement, the first of its kind for a large school district, will take effect in 2020.
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