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from FEE (Foundation for Economic Education)
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, HIGH, non-profit organization
University of Chicago Study: American Hope and Happiness at Abysmal Lows
For the first time in half a century, more Americans said they were unhappy than very happy.
University of Chicago Study: American Hope and Happiness at Abysmal Lows
For the first time in half a century, more Americans said they were unhappy than very happy.
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from First Things
ICONOCLASM RETURNS TO OXFORD
Peter Hitchens: And now it has come back to Oxford, to our glorious High Street, the single loveliest stretch of building and beauty in Europe (after the Grand Canal in Venice). Having the great good fortune to live nearby, I try to pass along it at least once every day of my life. It is full of sculpture. At the river end, there is what I have always assumed to be the severed head of John the Baptist, looking very dead indeed in its dish. Continue to lift your eyes upward and you will also see an owl with a mouse in its beak, a professor apparently bashing a student over the head with a book, Queen Anne shaking her fist at passersby (I have no idea why), a rotting corpse and a very grand sculpture of the Virgin and Child, placed over the porch of the University Church. Almost directly opposite, 50 feet above the street, is a rather ugly graven image of the businessman, politician, and philanthropist Cecil Rhodes, clutching a silly hat and looking a bit like a boxing promoter. You can almost smell his reeking cigar. It is the Rhodes statue that is controversial. But this is no longer really about Rhodes.
Two Years After Singapore, the North Korea Threat Remains
There has been no progress toward denuclearization nor any degradation of the North Korean military threat to the United States and its allies. Since Singapore, North Korea has augmented and refined its nuclear and missile arsenals. The best policy for the U.S. is a comprehensive long-term strategy of diplomacy, fully implementing U.N. resolutions and U.S. laws.
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Centers of Progress, Pt. 5: Ur (Law)
The legal code developed in Ur represented a significant breakthrough in the history of human civilization.
What Is It with Liberals and Blackface?
The lesson seems to be: Liberals will suffer no grave consequences for proving Megyn Kelly was correct about blackface, unless they bring up Megyn Kelly. The best-known person to suffer serious adverse consequences pertaining to the wearing of blackface makeup is, as far as I can tell, Megyn Kelly. Kelly has not worn blackface recently. No one has claimed that she ever wore blackface at all. Yet she was shown the door at NBC two years ago after casually remarking that when she was a kid — 35, maybe even 40, years ago — many people thought it was okay to wear blackface. Kelly drew a distinction between wearing blackface in a respectful manner and wearing it to disparage.
from First Things
ICONOCLASM RETURNS TO OXFORD
Peter Hitchens: And now it has come back to Oxford, to our glorious High Street, the single loveliest stretch of building and beauty in Europe (after the Grand Canal in Venice). Having the great good fortune to live nearby, I try to pass along it at least once every day of my life. It is full of sculpture. At the river end, there is what I have always assumed to be the severed head of John the Baptist, looking very dead indeed in its dish. Continue to lift your eyes upward and you will also see an owl with a mouse in its beak, a professor apparently bashing a student over the head with a book, Queen Anne shaking her fist at passersby (I have no idea why), a rotting corpse and a very grand sculpture of the Virgin and Child, placed over the porch of the University Church. Almost directly opposite, 50 feet above the street, is a rather ugly graven image of the businessman, politician, and philanthropist Cecil Rhodes, clutching a silly hat and looking a bit like a boxing promoter. You can almost smell his reeking cigar. It is the Rhodes statue that is controversial. But this is no longer really about Rhodes.
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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.
Two Years After Singapore, the North Korea Threat Remains
There has been no progress toward denuclearization nor any degradation of the North Korean military threat to the United States and its allies. Since Singapore, North Korea has augmented and refined its nuclear and missile arsenals. The best policy for the U.S. is a comprehensive long-term strategy of diplomacy, fully implementing U.N. resolutions and U.S. laws.
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from HumanProgress.org Education Website
Centers of Progress, Pt. 5: Ur (Law)
The legal code developed in Ur represented a significant breakthrough in the history of human civilization.
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from National Review RIGHT BIAS
What Is It with Liberals and Blackface?
The lesson seems to be: Liberals will suffer no grave consequences for proving Megyn Kelly was correct about blackface, unless they bring up Megyn Kelly. The best-known person to suffer serious adverse consequences pertaining to the wearing of blackface makeup is, as far as I can tell, Megyn Kelly. Kelly has not worn blackface recently. No one has claimed that she ever wore blackface at all. Yet she was shown the door at NBC two years ago after casually remarking that when she was a kid — 35, maybe even 40, years ago — many people thought it was okay to wear blackface. Kelly drew a distinction between wearing blackface in a respectful manner and wearing it to disparage.
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
Sue Lani Madsen: Silence on occupied Seattle area is consent to political violence
What should a mayor’s reaction be if an armed group makes a credible threat of arson against a public building? What if the city abandons the building and militants create an autonomous zone? Hypothetically, picture the South Perry District with stolen police barricades on the streets and 911 response times delayed to homes and businesses. It’s not a hypothetical question in Seattle, it happened on Capitol Hill. If you’re Mayor Jenny Durkan being interviewed by journalist Brandi Kruse on Q13 Fox “The Divide,” you pass off the abandonment of the East Precinct cop shop as a success “because the building was not lit on fire.” And when pressed, call it “not that big a deal” and describe the armed occupiers as just a bunch of “guys my sons age eating Tim’s Chips and granola bars.”
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Sue Lani Madsen: Silence on occupied Seattle area is consent to political violence
What should a mayor’s reaction be if an armed group makes a credible threat of arson against a public building? What if the city abandons the building and militants create an autonomous zone? Hypothetically, picture the South Perry District with stolen police barricades on the streets and 911 response times delayed to homes and businesses. It’s not a hypothetical question in Seattle, it happened on Capitol Hill. If you’re Mayor Jenny Durkan being interviewed by journalist Brandi Kruse on Q13 Fox “The Divide,” you pass off the abandonment of the East Precinct cop shop as a success “because the building was not lit on fire.” And when pressed, call it “not that big a deal” and describe the armed occupiers as just a bunch of “guys my sons age eating Tim’s Chips and granola bars.”
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