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from FEE (Foundation for Economic Education)
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, HIGH, non-profit organization
America’s Small Business Owners Have Been Horribly Abused During These Riots and Lockdowns. That Will Have Consequences
America’s small businesses, the backbone of its economy, have been ravaged by the COVID-19 lockdowns. A recent survey by Main Street America found that 7.5 million small businesses in America are at risk of closing their doors for good. A more recent survey showed that even with federal loans, close to half of all small business owners say they’ll have to shut down for good. Will Americans continue to pour capital into these enterprises in a climate that seems at turns dismissive and hostile to their existence? If not, that bodes very ill. Aseconomist Robert Higgs argued, the Great Depression lasted so long chiefly because of “regime uncertainty,” which he defined as, “a pervasive lack of confidence among investors in their ability to foresee the extent to which future government actions will alter their private-property rights.” Add to that what Stephen Carson has recently called “ mob uncertainty ,” and that is exactly what we are facing today.
America’s Small Business Owners Have Been Horribly Abused During These Riots and Lockdowns. That Will Have Consequences
America’s small businesses, the backbone of its economy, have been ravaged by the COVID-19 lockdowns. A recent survey by Main Street America found that 7.5 million small businesses in America are at risk of closing their doors for good. A more recent survey showed that even with federal loans, close to half of all small business owners say they’ll have to shut down for good. Will Americans continue to pour capital into these enterprises in a climate that seems at turns dismissive and hostile to their existence? If not, that bodes very ill. Aseconomist Robert Higgs argued, the Great Depression lasted so long chiefly because of “regime uncertainty,” which he defined as, “a pervasive lack of confidence among investors in their ability to foresee the extent to which future government actions will alter their private-property rights.” Add to that what Stephen Carson has recently called “ mob uncertainty ,” and that is exactly what we are facing today.
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from The Heritage Foundation
RIGHT BIAS, MIXED American conservative think tank based in Washington, D.C.
RIGHT BIAS, MIXED American conservative think tank based in Washington, D.C.
Heritage Expert: Jobs Report Underscores Prudent Reopening Saves Lives and Livelihoods
Economists across the spectrum feared that the unemployment report would be nothing but doom and gloom. What we saw instead is an encouraging indication that many workers haven’t been permanently separated from their jobs and that parts of the economy are restarting. The welcome news underscores how data-driven, locally informed decisions to reopen economies across the country save lives and livelihoods.
Why Conservatives Should Be Leading the Civil Rights Movement
“Conservatives should be leading the civil rights movement,” says Kay C. James, president of The Heritage Foundation. James joins the “Problematic Women” podcast to explain that the answers to many of the issues plaguing the African American community, such as poverty, lack of access to good health care, and poor education systems, are issues conservatives have the viable solutions for.
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from HumanProgress.org Education Website
Centers of Progress, Pt. 4: Nan Madol (Seafaring)
The city of Nan Madol showed the far reach of the first seafarers.
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Magazine of The Living Church Foundation (Anglican)
More Thoughts on Trump, Race, and America
Until you move abroad – I am in Wales – I don’t think you really can measure fully the extent of American political, social, and cultural polarization and how close to the surface violence and anger are. Americans by and large are trained, mainly through the media, to take a deeply antagonistic approach to social issues and events, arriving at the scene (as it were) spoiling for a fight. Thus, almost anything sparks a fire. Mix in systematic racism and a baiting president and you have the makings for a real conflagration. By now, we shouldn’t be at all surprised by this. Though some have evaluated it differently, I found Trump’s visit to St. John’s Church both offensive and, indeed, blasphemous. The aggressive means he used for an inflammatory photo-op outside a church, without the courtesy to inform the rector or bishop he was going to do so, should offend our sensibilities.
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from Orthodox Christianity – orthochristian.com
Religious Organization in Moscow, Russia
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has instructed his aides to conduct a comprehensive study of the possibility of converting the status of the famous Agia Sophia in Istanbul from a museum back into a mosque, the Turkish paper Hurriyet reported today. Agia Sophia, originally built as a great Orthodox cathedral in the 6th century by St. Justinian the Great when Constantinople was the capital of the Byzantine Empire, remains a point of tension between Turkey and Greece. It was converted into a mosque when the Ottomans defeated the Byzantine Empire in 1453. In 1931, the building was secularized, and in 1935 it opened as a museum.
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from Plough
The word thlipsis in the original Greek of the New Testament has been on my mind recently. It doesn’t signal vague and abstract “tribulation” (the standard translation in English Bibles), but is literally about crushing, squeezing, and grinding. With antecedents in the imagery of famines, sieges, slaughters, and extirpations in the Hebrew Bible, thlipsis is the action of history’s millstone on human bodies. Considering what could easily happen to whole communities in late antiquity, pulverization may be less a metaphor and more a factual if generalizing description. These lives might sometimes even undergo quasi-industrial processes and be quickly and forcefully reduced to mere molecules.
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from Quora
After agreeing that Floyd was murdered and the officers involved should be arrested, and a few other things in the first days of the protests, the media… both the left-leaning and right-leaning media… immediately (and predictably) split into selective reporting for narrative pushing purposes. Unless you actively seek out news from both sides of the media-political spectrum, you’re not getting the full story. The truth is, unfortunately, that there really are two media bubbles in this country, and, unless you recognize that and seek out information from both bubbles, you’re only getting one side of the story… the side that is being presented not to inform you, but to persuade you.
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
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