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from Atlas Obscura
Before Jell-O, Colorful Gelatin Desserts Were Haute Cuisine
Celebrity chefs served molded jelly dishes to monarchs and royalty.
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from Competitive Enterprise Institute
Ideology Undermines Earth Day Goals
April 22 is the 49th anniversary of Earth Day as well as the former communist dictator Vladimir Ilyich Lenin’s 149th birthday. Is it a coincidence that these two events occur on the same day? Maybe. But there’s no doubt that each share a blind adherence to ideological biases against the free market — biases so devoted to big-government policies that disregard their failings. While innovations of a free-marketplace yield monumental environmental benegits, activists spin a web of misinformation to support policies based on their failed ideology.
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from FEE (Foundation for Economic Education)
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, HIGH, non-profit organization
US-Russia Tensions Are Escalating Because of Collusion Fever
Establishment media and politicians began to sound the alarm on fake news after Donald Trump won the presidency in 2016, blaming deception and ignorance for his victory. But as much as they might worry about the spread of false narratives and disinformation, their thirst for stories about Russia colluding with then-candidate Trump during the 2016 election proved to be a powerful brand of fake news—one that has most certainly put lives at risk.
Thomas Sowell on the Subtle Tyranny of “Anointed” Social Justice Champions
Freedom, personal responsibility, and voluntary interactions are a far better, and just, means of uplifting the least among us.
What's My Alternative to Big Government? How about Giving Freedom a Chance
Freedom cannot be reduced to a static diagram of specific inputs, transformations, and outputs.
Why Falling Birth Rates Aren't Something to Celebrate
The recently published “Simon Abundance Index” found that for each 1 percent increase in the world’s population, the average time price of 50 commonly used commodities declined by 0.934 percent. In other words, for each 1 percent increase in population, the cost of commodities has fallen by almost 1 percent. Each child born today eventually grows up to make resources less scarce, on average, by contributing to innovation and the global economy. So, worrying about overpopulation makes little sense. Moreover, fertility rates are falling already.
from Mises Institute
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, MIXED
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from Moscow-Pullman Daily News
Commentary: Idaho’s Mail-Order Messiah
How Frank Robinson and Psychiana mass-marketed hope in the Great Depression
Medicare for All Hides Obamacare’s Flaws
American health care is like a 50-year-old Jenga tower: Various policies have been delicately layered upon one another to solve an array of challenges and shortcomings over time. But its flaws have been greatly exaggerated. According to Gallup, 80 percent of Americans rate the quality of their health care “excellent” or “good,” and the average level of out-of-pocket costs faced by Americans as a share of household consumption (3 percent) is actually already slightly lower than the average among developed countries. Entitlement programs such as Medicaid and Medicare were established long ago to extend care to the neediest groups, and each incremental expansion has extended assistance to slightly less-needy groups (most recently with subsidies to low-income, able-bodied adults through the ACA). Medicare for All would not do much for those already enrolled in Medicare or Medicaid, but it would pick up the full range of medical costs currently incurred by relatively affluent Americans (who are mostly already well insured by their employers), paid for with an enormous tax increase on all.
US-Russia Tensions Are Escalating Because of Collusion Fever
Establishment media and politicians began to sound the alarm on fake news after Donald Trump won the presidency in 2016, blaming deception and ignorance for his victory. But as much as they might worry about the spread of false narratives and disinformation, their thirst for stories about Russia colluding with then-candidate Trump during the 2016 election proved to be a powerful brand of fake news—one that has most certainly put lives at risk.
Thomas Sowell on the Subtle Tyranny of “Anointed” Social Justice Champions
Freedom, personal responsibility, and voluntary interactions are a far better, and just, means of uplifting the least among us.
What's My Alternative to Big Government? How about Giving Freedom a Chance
Freedom cannot be reduced to a static diagram of specific inputs, transformations, and outputs.
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from HumanProgress.org Education Website
Why Falling Birth Rates Aren't Something to Celebrate
The recently published “Simon Abundance Index” found that for each 1 percent increase in the world’s population, the average time price of 50 commonly used commodities declined by 0.934 percent. In other words, for each 1 percent increase in population, the cost of commodities has fallen by almost 1 percent. Each child born today eventually grows up to make resources less scarce, on average, by contributing to innovation and the global economy. So, worrying about overpopulation makes little sense. Moreover, fertility rates are falling already.
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RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, MIXED
With the release of the long-awaited Mueller (Special Counsel Robert Mueller) report, we see partisan politics at work again, and the results are what one might expect. Those that have supported President Donald Trump or believe that he has been the victim of a contrived “investigation,” while others, like David French of National Review , a self-described “Never Trumper,” are shocked, SHOCKED! at Trump’s behavior. As far as the FBI is concerned, it can do whatever it wants — and anyone who resists its power is guilty of "obstruction of justice."
German pharma giant Bayer’s acquisition of Monsanto is only one prominent case of leveraged buyouts (LBOs), which have been flourishing since the 1990s (see Figure). After Bayer has paid 66 billion dollars for Monsanto, the stock value of the merged enterprise has collapsed below Bayer’s pre-merger value. Bayer faces more than 10,000 US lawsuits over cancer allegations for Monsanto’s glyphosate-based herbicides, which were foreseeable prior to the leveraged takeover. What is driving this LBO activity if not profitability? Rather than increase efficiency and profitability, corporate managers look for easy ways to increase their salaries through leveraged buyouts. And central banks have a key role in making this easier and more common.
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How Frank Robinson and Psychiana mass-marketed hope in the Great Depression
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from National Review RIGHT BIAS
Medicare for All Hides Obamacare’s Flaws
American health care is like a 50-year-old Jenga tower: Various policies have been delicately layered upon one another to solve an array of challenges and shortcomings over time. But its flaws have been greatly exaggerated. According to Gallup, 80 percent of Americans rate the quality of their health care “excellent” or “good,” and the average level of out-of-pocket costs faced by Americans as a share of household consumption (3 percent) is actually already slightly lower than the average among developed countries. Entitlement programs such as Medicaid and Medicare were established long ago to extend care to the neediest groups, and each incremental expansion has extended assistance to slightly less-needy groups (most recently with subsidies to low-income, able-bodied adults through the ACA). Medicare for All would not do much for those already enrolled in Medicare or Medicaid, but it would pick up the full range of medical costs currently incurred by relatively affluent Americans (who are mostly already well insured by their employers), paid for with an enormous tax increase on all.
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from NBC News (& affiliates)
LEFT-CENTER BIAS
Recovering an erased history: The Chinese railroad workers who helped connect the country
In the first of 5 articles about the Transcontinental Railroad anniversary, descendants of Chinese railroad workers share their hope for the recognition of their ancestors' labor.
Recovering an erased history: The Chinese railroad workers who helped connect the country
In the first of 5 articles about the Transcontinental Railroad anniversary, descendants of Chinese railroad workers share their hope for the recognition of their ancestors' labor.
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from Orthodox Christianity – orthochristian.com
Religious Organization in Moscow, Russia
KIEV COURT SUSPENDS FORCED RENAMING OF UKRAINIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH
According to a bill passed by the Verkhovna Rada and signed into law by President Petro Poroshenko, the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church had until Holy Friday, April 26, to rename and reregister itself as the “Russian Orthodox Church in Ukraine,” given the Ukrainian government’s lack of understanding of Church governance. As all of the Church’s administrative and legally-binding documents define its administrative center as being located in Kiev, the Church brought a lawsuit against the Ministry of Culture on the matter. On April 5, the district administrative court of Kiev declared the actions of the Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada Andrei Paruby in connection with the adoption of the bill to be illegal. Today, the district administrative court also suspended the process of forced renaming of the Church, reports the court’s press service.
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
from Sputnik
Suburban Syphilis: Rural US Racked by Rising STD Rates
Syphilis, a sexually transmitted disease once largely contained, is now surging in a new demographic ‒ suburban and rural parts of the US Midwest, where health care funding cuts, a lack of experience among some small town doctors and conservative attitudes about sex are making stopping the disease’s spread difficult. Last year, the US Centers for Disease Control reported that syphilis was resurgent in the US, with overall reported cases of primary and secondary syphilis nearly doubling between 2013 (when 17,375 cases were reported) and 2017 (when 30,644 cases were reported). The Midwest followed that trend, with cases increasing from 2,729 in 2013 to 4,182 in 2017. The only area in the country to show a sharper increase was the West.
Fury as Obama, Clinton Avoid Word 'Christians' in Sri Lanka Blast Tweets
World politicians have sent their condolences to Sri Lanka after multiple explosions hit luxury hotels and churches during Easter mass on Sunday, killing at least 290 people and injuring 500 others. Former US President Barack Obama and ex-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have reacted to the deadly Sri Lanka blasts in big-name hotels and churches, seemingly avoiding calling the victims targeted during Easter services “Christians”, having instead opted for a more obscure term – “Easter worshippers”.
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from Sputnik
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, MIXED, Broadcasting & Media Production Company out of Moscow, Russia
Syphilis, a sexually transmitted disease once largely contained, is now surging in a new demographic ‒ suburban and rural parts of the US Midwest, where health care funding cuts, a lack of experience among some small town doctors and conservative attitudes about sex are making stopping the disease’s spread difficult. Last year, the US Centers for Disease Control reported that syphilis was resurgent in the US, with overall reported cases of primary and secondary syphilis nearly doubling between 2013 (when 17,375 cases were reported) and 2017 (when 30,644 cases were reported). The Midwest followed that trend, with cases increasing from 2,729 in 2013 to 4,182 in 2017. The only area in the country to show a sharper increase was the West.
World politicians have sent their condolences to Sri Lanka after multiple explosions hit luxury hotels and churches during Easter mass on Sunday, killing at least 290 people and injuring 500 others. Former US President Barack Obama and ex-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have reacted to the deadly Sri Lanka blasts in big-name hotels and churches, seemingly avoiding calling the victims targeted during Easter services “Christians”, having instead opted for a more obscure term – “Easter worshippers”.
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