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from FEE (Foundation for Economic Education)
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, HIGH, non-profit organization
Shipping Containers Make Surprisingly Nice Homes
The idea of converting shipping containers into housing is hardly new—you just don’t see much of it in Virginia. Other than a six-container Shrimp Shack restaurant under construction in Chesterfield County…But container dwellings comprise a hip new housing type that is increasingly popular among Millennials around the world and is inspiring architects to do marvelously creative things with big steel boxes. Hipness aside, container housing is a potential source of housing for lower-income households.
The Extinction Rebellion's Ugly Tactics Will Not Save the Environment, but Innovation Can
Radical climate change activists in the UK have disrupted the nation's capital for almost a week now. Their preferred tactics: property destruction and the obnoxious blocking of major thoroughfares and transport options. The Extinction Rebellion is an environmentalist group that promotes civil disobedience to raise awareness about the imminent dangers of climate change. They assert that this will be the last generation of humans to live on the planet before mass extinction kicks in. To the Extinction Rebellion protesters: grow up and do something with your life.
Shipping Containers Make Surprisingly Nice Homes
The idea of converting shipping containers into housing is hardly new—you just don’t see much of it in Virginia. Other than a six-container Shrimp Shack restaurant under construction in Chesterfield County…But container dwellings comprise a hip new housing type that is increasingly popular among Millennials around the world and is inspiring architects to do marvelously creative things with big steel boxes. Hipness aside, container housing is a potential source of housing for lower-income households.
The Extinction Rebellion's Ugly Tactics Will Not Save the Environment, but Innovation Can
Radical climate change activists in the UK have disrupted the nation's capital for almost a week now. Their preferred tactics: property destruction and the obnoxious blocking of major thoroughfares and transport options. The Extinction Rebellion is an environmentalist group that promotes civil disobedience to raise awareness about the imminent dangers of climate change. They assert that this will be the last generation of humans to live on the planet before mass extinction kicks in. To the Extinction Rebellion protesters: grow up and do something with your life.
As expected, former vice-president Joe Biden is once again running for president, joining what feels like a million other Democrats who declared their candidacies. While Biden’s more moderate views offer an appealing alternative to the extremism championed by the likes of Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, his role as the godfather of the War on Drugs warrants attention.
Children today are being diagnosed with, and medicated for, ADHD at an astonishing rate.
Childhood exuberance is now a liability. Behaviors that were once accepted as normal, even if mildly irritating to adults, are increasingly viewed as unacceptable and cause for medical intervention. High energy, lack of impulse control, inability to sit still and listen, lack of organizational skills, fidgeting, talking incessantly—these typical childhood qualities were widely tolerated until relatively recently. Today, children with these characteristics are being diagnosed with, and often medicated for, Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) at an astonishing rate. While ADHD may be a real and debilitating ailment for some, the startling upsurge in school-age children being labeled with and medicated for this disorder suggests that something else could be to blame. More research points to schooling, particularly early schooling, as a primary culprit in the ADHD diagnosis epidemic.
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Beware the Anti-Humanism of the Green Extremists
The anti-humanist strand of environmentalism is best exemplified by the renewed push to reduce the world’s population. Unlike in the past, when some governments, such as that of India, forced men and women into sterilisation programs and others, like the Chinese government, mandated “one-child” policies, these latest initiatives are voluntary. This makes them morally preferable, even if they remain intellectually incoherent. A populous world is a rich world and a rich world is better for the environment.
from Mises Institute
from HumanProgress.org Education Website
Beware the Anti-Humanism of the Green Extremists
The anti-humanist strand of environmentalism is best exemplified by the renewed push to reduce the world’s population. Unlike in the past, when some governments, such as that of India, forced men and women into sterilisation programs and others, like the Chinese government, mandated “one-child” policies, these latest initiatives are voluntary. This makes them morally preferable, even if they remain intellectually incoherent. A populous world is a rich world and a rich world is better for the environment.
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RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, MIXED
Private Property, Public Purpose
Property in private hands used for the production of goods and services for the market is already for all practical purposes public wealth. It is serving the public just as much as — in fact, far more effectively than — if it were owned and operated by the government.
Political Centralization Ended the Roman Republic
In order to destroy the Republic in favor of empire, the new Roman dictators systematically dismantled the Republic's system of local autonomy and self-rule.
Government Spending on Colleges in the US Is Higher than in the Countries with "Free" College
Contrary to the myth of America's stingy welfare state, government spending on higher education is higher in the US than in Switzerland, Germany, or France. But colleges remain expensive here because they focus more on non-educational perks and extras.
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
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