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from FEE (Foundation for Economic Education)
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, HIGH, non-profit organization
Can the US Post Office Break Its 13-Year Losing Streak?
In 2019, USPS made $514 million more in revenue than it did in its previous fiscal year, thanks to increases in postage rates and its package delivery business. But the agency also recorded a net loss of $8.8 billion, with 80 percent of that loss attributable to employees’ health-care benefits after retirement. Losses stemming from retirement-benefits have occurred annually since 2006 when the U.S. Congress passed a law requiring the Postal Service to pre-fund the cost of providing its retiree health benefits, similar to how many businesses in the private sector are required to do.
Can the US Post Office Break Its 13-Year Losing Streak?
In 2019, USPS made $514 million more in revenue than it did in its previous fiscal year, thanks to increases in postage rates and its package delivery business. But the agency also recorded a net loss of $8.8 billion, with 80 percent of that loss attributable to employees’ health-care benefits after retirement. Losses stemming from retirement-benefits have occurred annually since 2006 when the U.S. Congress passed a law requiring the Postal Service to pre-fund the cost of providing its retiree health benefits, similar to how many businesses in the private sector are required to do.
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Low-Cost Private Schools Are a Lifeline for the Poor
Increasing access to affordable, high-quality education leads to better futures for children in poverty.
Twenty years ago this week – on Indian Republic Day, 26 January 2000 – I wandered into the slums behind the Charminar, in the Old City of Hyderabad, and my life changed forever. Building on my PhD at what is now the UCL Institute of Education, I had become an expert on private education. Twenty years ago, everyone knew that private education was just for the elite and upper middle classes and I was in India doing consultancy work for the International Finance Corporation, the private arm of the World Bank, evaluating the elite private schools in the area. However, for whatever reason I had always felt that my life should be about serving less privileged communities. So, on a day off from consultancy, I went into Hyderabad’s slums, down an alleyway and found a small school in a residential building. It wasn’t a state school, but a low-cost private one, charging in those days about $1 a month. Then I found another, and another, and soon I was connected to a federation of 500 of these low-cost private schools, serving poor and low-income communities across the region. I spent as much time as I could in these schools after finishing my daily meetings in the elite colleges that had initially brought me to Hyderabad. I watched lesson after lesson and witnessed young energetic teachers educating classrooms full of children, often in extremely impressive ways. I remember going back to my hotel room in an upmarket part of the city and thinking that maybe the different parts of my life could fit together after all. I was an expert in private education, and in India private education seemed as much about the poor and disadvantaged as anyone. My life felt suddenly complete. For many years I ploughed a lonely furrow, trying to convince those with power and influence that private education was good for the poor. Now, 20 years later, the extraordinary, disruptive revolution of low-cost private schools that is sweeping across the developing world is increasingly acknowledged, and sometimes even respected.
from Mises Institute
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, MIXED
YES, COLLEGE PROFESSORS ARE ALMOST ALL LEFT-WING
ean Stevens of Heterodox Academy and Professor Mitchell Langbert of Brooklyn College have a new article published by the National Association of Scholars. They examined professors' self-identified political views, party affiliation, voter registrations, and FEC (Federal Election Commission) records of political donations. Their research appears to confirm that college professors in fact skew overwhelmingly left-wing in their political views, even more than many of us thought. If they are even mostly correct, the (left) liberal professor stereotype is absolutely grounded in reality rather than caricature.
Second Amendment Freedom Fighter Bill Richardson Dead at 92
Gun Owners of America (GOA) announced the passing of its founder, Hubert Leon “Bill” Richardson, on January 13, calling him a “feisty” Republican from Southern California who challenged the powers that be. Called “Wild Bill” by his friends, Richardson served as a California state senator for 23 years, from 1966 to 1989. He failed in efforts to gain a seat in the U.S. Congress, but left a legacy in how successful political campaigns are run.
ALL THAT IS NOT TRUE ABOUT NICEA II
The Rev. Ben Jefferies: Anglo-Catholics (of whom I count myself one) frequently appeal to the “seven ecumenical councils” as a source of authority for Christian dogma. On the face of it, this seems to be a rather solid place to put down one’s doctrinal anchor, but is it? Upon closer examination, two contrary conclusions present themselves, namely: 1. The “seven ecumenical councils” are not a recognized source of ultimate authority for Anglicans.2. The so-called seventh ecumenical council makes assertions and anathemas that are patently un-catholic. Its decrees are not authoritative for the universal church, and it is therefore not an ecumenical council.
from HumanProgress.org Education Website
Low-Cost Private Schools Are a Lifeline for the Poor
Increasing access to affordable, high-quality education leads to better futures for children in poverty.
Twenty years ago this week – on Indian Republic Day, 26 January 2000 – I wandered into the slums behind the Charminar, in the Old City of Hyderabad, and my life changed forever. Building on my PhD at what is now the UCL Institute of Education, I had become an expert on private education. Twenty years ago, everyone knew that private education was just for the elite and upper middle classes and I was in India doing consultancy work for the International Finance Corporation, the private arm of the World Bank, evaluating the elite private schools in the area. However, for whatever reason I had always felt that my life should be about serving less privileged communities. So, on a day off from consultancy, I went into Hyderabad’s slums, down an alleyway and found a small school in a residential building. It wasn’t a state school, but a low-cost private one, charging in those days about $1 a month. Then I found another, and another, and soon I was connected to a federation of 500 of these low-cost private schools, serving poor and low-income communities across the region. I spent as much time as I could in these schools after finishing my daily meetings in the elite colleges that had initially brought me to Hyderabad. I watched lesson after lesson and witnessed young energetic teachers educating classrooms full of children, often in extremely impressive ways. I remember going back to my hotel room in an upmarket part of the city and thinking that maybe the different parts of my life could fit together after all. I was an expert in private education, and in India private education seemed as much about the poor and disadvantaged as anyone. My life felt suddenly complete. For many years I ploughed a lonely furrow, trying to convince those with power and influence that private education was good for the poor. Now, 20 years later, the extraordinary, disruptive revolution of low-cost private schools that is sweeping across the developing world is increasingly acknowledged, and sometimes even respected.
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from Intellectual Takeout
Nonprofit Organization in Bloomington, Minnesota
Taxpayers Eat Another Solar Energy Flop
Another federally backed solar energy plant has gone bust. Bloomberg News reports, “A $1 Billion Solar Plant Was Obsolete Before It Ever Went Online.”
Taxpayers Eat Another Solar Energy Flop
Another federally backed solar energy plant has gone bust. Bloomberg News reports, “A $1 Billion Solar Plant Was Obsolete Before It Ever Went Online.”
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RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, MIXED
YES, COLLEGE PROFESSORS ARE ALMOST ALL LEFT-WING
ean Stevens of Heterodox Academy and Professor Mitchell Langbert of Brooklyn College have a new article published by the National Association of Scholars. They examined professors' self-identified political views, party affiliation, voter registrations, and FEC (Federal Election Commission) records of political donations. Their research appears to confirm that college professors in fact skew overwhelmingly left-wing in their political views, even more than many of us thought. If they are even mostly correct, the (left) liberal professor stereotype is absolutely grounded in reality rather than caricature.
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from The New American Magazine
RIGHT BIAS: John Birch SocietySecond Amendment Freedom Fighter Bill Richardson Dead at 92
Gun Owners of America (GOA) announced the passing of its founder, Hubert Leon “Bill” Richardson, on January 13, calling him a “feisty” Republican from Southern California who challenged the powers that be. Called “Wild Bill” by his friends, Richardson served as a California state senator for 23 years, from 1966 to 1989. He failed in efforts to gain a seat in the U.S. Congress, but left a legacy in how successful political campaigns are run.
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from The North American Anglican
Media/News Company: "A journal of orthodox theology in the Anglican tradition"
The Rev. Ben Jefferies: Anglo-Catholics (of whom I count myself one) frequently appeal to the “seven ecumenical councils” as a source of authority for Christian dogma. On the face of it, this seems to be a rather solid place to put down one’s doctrinal anchor, but is it? Upon closer examination, two contrary conclusions present themselves, namely: 1. The “seven ecumenical councils” are not a recognized source of ultimate authority for Anglicans.2. The so-called seventh ecumenical council makes assertions and anathemas that are patently un-catholic. Its decrees are not authoritative for the universal church, and it is therefore not an ecumenical council.
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from Orthodox Christianity – orthochristian.com
Religious Organization in Moscow, Russia
Despite the long-standing division, the Greek Orthodox Church of Alexandria and the Coptic Church of Alexandria are the same Church, Patriarch Theodoros of Alexandria believes. The head of the Orthodox Church in Alexandria visited Patriarch Tawadros II, the head of the Coptic Church yesterday, January 20, at the headquarters of the Coptic Patriarchate in Alexandria to greet him and congratulate him with the feast of Theophany, celebrated the day before, reports Romfea. Referring to the Alexandrian Patriarchate’s missionary activity throughout Africa, Pat. Theodoros told the Coptic Patriarch: “Our Churches are one Church, headed by Jesus Christ.” The Coptic Church split from the Orthodox Church following the Fourth Ecumenical Council in Chalcedon in 451, according to which Christ is one Person in two natures—Divine and human. The Coptic Church together with the other “Oriental Orthodox” Churches confess Christ in one nature.
Hundreds of thousands of Montenegrins have participated in the protests throughout the country against the recently-adopted anti-Church bill. While President Milo Đukanović reproaches the Serbian Church in Montenegro for supposedly politicizing the issue, Met. Amfilohije said, “If he calls it a political assembly, then he doesn’t know what is ecclesiastical and what is political, and that’s not surprising, because he isn’t baptized. And the fact that he calls to talk about the law—the people have spoken their piece here today: This is not law, but lawlessness and the taking of holy sites.”
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
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Polish Jews’ pre-Holocaust plea to Chamberlain: Let us into Palestine
In March 1939, weeks before the notorious White Paper, Polish Jewry sent London a desperate telegram, published here apparently for the first time. At terrible cost, it was ignored. The sordid history of the May 1939 British White Paper, the notorious document with which the British all but slammed shut the doors of Palestine to European Jewry, has been documented many times. Less-remembered is how the (Jewish-owned) New York Times took British prime minister Neville Chamberlain’s side the day after the White Paper was issued, incurring the wrath of Chaim Weizmann and the Zionist leadership. Virtually unknown, however, is that the Polish Jewish community had sent a desperate plea two months earlier to Chamberlain — a telegram begging him to keep the gates of Palestine open.
As West Coast Transplants Pour In, a Small Idaho Town Has a Big Dilemma
Star’s population is booming and housing prices have more than doubled; ‘The growth is beyond what people can handle’.
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from The Times of Israel
Polish Jews’ pre-Holocaust plea to Chamberlain: Let us into Palestine
In March 1939, weeks before the notorious White Paper, Polish Jewry sent London a desperate telegram, published here apparently for the first time. At terrible cost, it was ignored. The sordid history of the May 1939 British White Paper, the notorious document with which the British all but slammed shut the doors of Palestine to European Jewry, has been documented many times. Less-remembered is how the (Jewish-owned) New York Times took British prime minister Neville Chamberlain’s side the day after the White Paper was issued, incurring the wrath of Chaim Weizmann and the Zionist leadership. Virtually unknown, however, is that the Polish Jewish community had sent a desperate plea two months earlier to Chamberlain — a telegram begging him to keep the gates of Palestine open.
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from The Wall Street Journal
As West Coast Transplants Pour In, a Small Idaho Town Has a Big Dilemma
Star’s population is booming and housing prices have more than doubled; ‘The growth is beyond what people can handle’.
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