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from Competitive Enterprise Institute
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS
During the final days of the Obama administration, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) proposed its “talking car” mandate. This would have required new vehicles to come equipped with radios to communicate information to other vehicles in order to convey hazard warnings to drivers. This was to use a specific communications protocol known as dedicated short-range communications (DSRC). The proposal was deeply flawed in numerous ways, as CEI pointed out at the time. Unfortunately, buried in the recently proposed overhaul of federal fuel economy standards, which are jointly administered by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and NHTSA, is a proposal from EPA to manipulate the fuel economy program to subsidize DSRC radio installations.
Our class action legal team here at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, the Center for Class Action Fairness, has a new video explainer on their upcoming case before the U.S. Supreme Court this term, Frank v. Gaos. Find out how they are fighting to make sure regular people benefit from class actions settlements, rather than attorneys and special interests.
It’s good news for consumers that a superior court judge may put the brakes on a case alleging that the popular weed killer Roundup causes cancer. The science behind this claim — and nearly 9,000 other similar cases pending against Roundup’s manufacturer, Monsanto — is sorely lacking. If this case and others succeed, Roundup will likely be removed from the marketplace based on junk science claims about its risks. As a result, it would be more difficult for farmers to produce an affordable food supply for the rest of us, and consumers will have a harder time controlling weeds in their gardens.
In retail, as in every industry, eras come and go. Few recent events mark the passing of an era like the announced bankruptcy of Sears. That the company that ruled brick-and-mortar and mail order would be felled by online retail and nimbler competitors isn’t surprising. What is unusual is for Sears’ reign to have lasted as long as it did.
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from FEE (Foundation for Economic Education)
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, HIGH, non-profit organization
Cultural Marxism Is the Main Source of Modern Confusion—and It's Spreading
Another name for the neo-Marxism of increasing popularity in the United States is "cultural Marxism.” This theory says the driving force behind the socialist revolution is not the proletariat—but the intellectuals. While Marxism has largely disappeared from the workers' movement, Marxist theory flourishes today in cultural institutions, in the academic world, and in the mass media.
Subprime Loans Are Back, Proving We Have Learned Nothing from 2008
Many are claiming that this time will be different than the last. This should concern just about everyone.
Cultural Marxism Is the Main Source of Modern Confusion—and It's Spreading
Another name for the neo-Marxism of increasing popularity in the United States is "cultural Marxism.” This theory says the driving force behind the socialist revolution is not the proletariat—but the intellectuals. While Marxism has largely disappeared from the workers' movement, Marxist theory flourishes today in cultural institutions, in the academic world, and in the mass media.
Subprime Loans Are Back, Proving We Have Learned Nothing from 2008
Many are claiming that this time will be different than the last. This should concern just about everyone.
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from The Inlander
Media/News Company in Spokane, WA
A conservative group’s closed-door ‘training’ of judicial clerks draws concern
The closed-door “training academy” was aimed at a select group: recent law school graduates who had secured prestigious clerkships with federal judges. It was organized by the Heritage Foundation, a conservative group that has played a leading role in moving the courts to the right, and it had some unusual requirements.
Media/News Company in Spokane, WA
A conservative group’s closed-door ‘training’ of judicial clerks draws concern
The closed-door “training academy” was aimed at a select group: recent law school graduates who had secured prestigious clerkships with federal judges. It was organized by the Heritage Foundation, a conservative group that has played a leading role in moving the courts to the right, and it had some unusual requirements.
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from HumanProgress.org Education Website
Free Trade Empowers Women and Tariffs Hurt Them
It is an underappreciated fact that women are hit particularly hard by the United States’ ever-increasing tariffs on imports and burgeoning trade war with China (and, possibly, other countries as well). As globalized market competition made household appliances increasingly affordable, it reduced the burden of housework, enabling more women to participate in the labor force and obtain economic independence.
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from Medium Community
We Can’t Replicate Scandinavian Success and Here’s Why
In the years since the onset of the 2016 campaign season, the American Left has become perfectly captivated by the dreamy narrative of democratic socialism. Hailed as pleasant and peaceful and suspiciously cooperative (which I’ll explain in a moment), it is juxtaposed with American capitalism with its supposedly “exploitive,” tasteless impulses. The Scandinavian nations with their seemingly envyingly successful welfare states and prosperous economies, are continually put forth as prime examples of the validity of socialism. It is incumbent of me to point out that the Nordic nations are really not practitioners of “democratic socialism” at all. Thus, the term, as used by popular, trendy political figures such as Bernie Sanders, is actually pretty intellectually dishonest. It is more correct to say that these nations are primarily welfare states minus any other economic features of socialism. High taxation is merely paired with a surprising affinity for a private-enterprise, market economy. Precisely because these countries are rooted in free market orthodoxy do they seem “suspiciously cooperative” and peaceable for ostensibly falling underneath the socialist umbrella. And despite having a large public sector, the Nordic public sector doesn’t swallow up all of the privately owned companies. The truth is, these nations have nearly always had loyalties to free markets and their covetable economic success is, in large part, due to just this historical devotion. What exists in their countries today is a model of heavy taxation (and consequently government spending) within the framework of, well, capitalism.
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from Orthodox Christianity
Organization in Moscow, Russia
The so-called “Turkish Orthodox Church” has filed a lawsuit against the Patriarchate of Constantinople and His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew in particular against the background of the decision to interfere in Ukrainian Church life and continue the process of granting autocephaly, the Turkish church’s press secretary Sevgi Erenerol told RIA-Novosti on Tuesday. The schismatic “Turkish Orthodox Church” was established in 1922 by government resolution, with the aim of creating a national Orthodox Church unconnected to Greek Orthodoxy. It is not recognized as canonical by other local Orthodox Churches. It is currently headed by “Patriarch” Eftim IV (Erenerol). “We filed a lawsuit today, where we indicated that this matter is political, far from religious. Bartholomew has no authority to send his exarchs to Ukraine and give autocephaly to its Church. The status of the Patriarch of Constantinople, according to the Lausanne Peace Treaty of 1923, is limited to the administration of the Divine services for Greeks living in Turkey,” the press secretary explained.
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
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