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from The Atlantic Magazine
The Philosophy Behind the First American Dictionary
In 1789, Noah Webster called on the newly independent United States to claim its own national version of the English language.
from Hoover Institution
Nonprofit Organization in Stanford, California
The Case Against An Interventionist Foreign Policy
It is always a propos for us to ask whether it’s a good idea for the U.S. government to intervene militarily in other countries’ affairs. That’s why I chose my topic. It’s particularly appropriate this week, now that Acting Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan has talked of sending as many as an additional 120,000 troops to the Middle East if the Iranian government attacks American forces in the Middle East or speeds up nuclear development.
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from Journal of the Civil War Era
The removal of a Confederate monument from its original dedication spot in Forest Park almost two years ago aroused a great deal of controversy among St. Louis residents. Like the debates taking place in other cities that have Confederate iconography, supporters praised the removal of a monument they considered to be offensive and historically inaccurate. Meanwhile, protestors claimed that the removal constituted an erasure of history. If anything, they saw this action as a precursor to the erasure of other historic figures honored in the city, such as Thomas Jefferson and Charles Lindbergh.[1] What many commentators missed in the discussion, however, was that the “Memorial to the Confederate Dead” was not the first public monument in St. Louis to be removed from its original dedication spot. That distinction belongs to a monument honoring Union General Nathaniel Lyon that was relocated in 1960. Analyzing why this monument aroused so much controversy can lead to important insights not just about Civil War memory in St. Louis, but also the fungible nature of public commemoration.
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from LifeZette
Media/News Company in Washington, D. C.Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), who currently sits on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, believes American policy needs the “perspective of a foreigner.” Citing the Green New Deal, which is always a losing prospect when wanting to be taken seriously, Omar said our nation’s foreign policy needs a new approach and a sweeping global agenda. A viewpoint that is not primarily American is what the Democrat from Minnesota is suggesting.
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RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, MIXED
The US Supreme Court Is Right to Rule In Favor of Tribal Sovereignty
Last week, the Supreme Court ruled the legal rights of members of the Crow tribe are not void simply because a US state tries to legislate them away. In the case of Herrera v. Wyoming, the US Supreme court overturned the lower courts' findings that tribal rights (established in an 1868 treaty with the United States government) in Wyoming had ceased when Wyoming became a state in 1890.
The Welfare State is Tearing Sweden Apart
Swedes do not toil under a Communist yoke. We are thankfully a market oriented society, and particularly in rural areas, Swedes are ruggedly individualistic and responsible citizens. But we do have an enormous welfare state with which to contend — and it poisons our nation much in the same manner that full blown communism would; if perhaps not to the same degree. Doubtlessly; it sets the stage for some rather dystopian developments, both in terms of its steady consumption of productive capabilities — but also in its toxic effects on our culture. On top of this, Sweden has accepted a considerable amount of immigrants (to put it mildly) from cultures that differ wildly from the Swedish.
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from The Orca News & Media Website in B.C.
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from Orthodox Christianity – orthochristian.com
Religious Organization in Moscow, Russia
Having just undergone renovations two years ago, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem is set to undergo round two. The leaders of the three churches that share responsibility for Christianity’s holiest site met at the Franciscan monastery in Jerusalem yesterday. The Jerusalem Patriarchate of the Orthodox Church was represented by His Beatitude Patriarch Theophilos III, His Beatitude Archbishop Aristarchos of Constantina, and Archimandrite Mattheos, the Franciscans by the Custos Fr. Francesco Patton and two other Catholic priests, and the Armenians by Patriarch Nourhan and two priests who serve at the Armenian section of the Holy Sepulchre. Together, the leaders signed an agreement on the completion of the maintenance and restoration of the Sacred Edicule and Rotunda—the edifices over the Lord’s Tomb itself.
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from ScienceAlert
Every year, NASA partners with the NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) to update the global temperature. They use temperature data dating back to 1880 from land and sea surface measurements, combined with more modern measurements from over 6,300 weather stations research stations, and ships and weather buoys around the world. Using all this data, the pair of organizations concluded that 2018 was the fourth-warmest year on record, and that 2016 was the warmest. In this new study, NASA scientists analyzed the GISTEMP data to see if past predictions of rising temperatures were accurate. They needed to know that any uncertainty within their data was correctly accounted for. The goal was to make sure that the models they use are robust enough to rely on in the future. The answer: Yes they are. Within 1/20th a degree Celsius.
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
Once common in Eastern Washington, the monarch butterfly is rare. But the Painted Lady remains easy to find.
A Washington State University butterfly expert described painted ladies as a “cosmopolitan” butterfly because they can be found on every continent aside from Antarctica. The ladies are coming to town, and Spokane residents can expect to see them in droves this year due to California rains.
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Once common in Eastern Washington, the monarch butterfly is rare. But the Painted Lady remains easy to find.
A Washington State University butterfly expert described painted ladies as a “cosmopolitan” butterfly because they can be found on every continent aside from Antarctica. The ladies are coming to town, and Spokane residents can expect to see them in droves this year due to California rains.
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from The Washington Times
News & Media Website in Washington, D.C.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg knocks Clarence Thomas in dissent: A woman seeking abortion is not a 'mother'
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg chided fellow Justice Clarence Thomas Tuesday in her dissenting opinion, saying that he was wrong to call a woman who has an abortion a “mother.” The court upheld an Indiana law that governs the way fetal material is disposed of after an abortion — but refused to hear an appeal to a judge’s injunction of Indiana’s ban on abortions because of the sex, race or disability of the fetus.Justice Thomas wrote that the court will eventually have to tackle that issue — and in his opinion, he referred to pregnant women as “mothers.”
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg knocks Clarence Thomas in dissent: A woman seeking abortion is not a 'mother'
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg chided fellow Justice Clarence Thomas Tuesday in her dissenting opinion, saying that he was wrong to call a woman who has an abortion a “mother.” The court upheld an Indiana law that governs the way fetal material is disposed of after an abortion — but refused to hear an appeal to a judge’s injunction of Indiana’s ban on abortions because of the sex, race or disability of the fetus.Justice Thomas wrote that the court will eventually have to tackle that issue — and in his opinion, he referred to pregnant women as “mothers.”
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