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from ABC News (& affiliates)
TV Network in New York, New YorkThe suit alleges that Trump and others violated the 1871 Ku Klux Klan Act.
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from Competitive Enterprise Institute
The Biden administration is poised to start reversing Trump administration policies that were designed to ensure farmers have continued access to critical pest control tools. As a result, pest control will likely become more difficult, leading to increased crop damage and higher food prices.
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from Daily Wire
RIGHT BIAS, MIXED, American news and opinion website
Billionaire and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has called upon the rich nations of the world to switch over to synthetic beef to better combat climate change. Speaking with MIT Technology Review about his new book “How to Avoid Climate Disaster,” Gates discussed his views on improving the “food sector,” and lamented that the political scene may keep first-world nations from going fully synthetic in the beef department.
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from FEE (Foundation for Economic Education)
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, HIGH, non-profit organization
President Biden is hitting the road and traveling across the country to pitch his $1.9 trillion COVID-19 stimulus and relief spending proposal to voters. The legislation includes $1,400 relief checks, a further six-month expansion of “temporary” super-generous unemployment benefits that often pay more than work, $350 billion for bailouts for state and local governments, partisan provisions like a federal $15 minimum wage, and much more. Economists interviewed by FEE warned the package was an “economically unjustified” plan that “incentivizes unemployment.” Yet with his road trip and ongoing lobbying efforts, Biden hopes to persuade voters and members of Congress that his stimulus proposal is necessary for long-term economic recovery. But a new Ivy League analysis suggests the opposite.
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from The Hill
LEAST BIASED, MOSTLY FACTUAL, News & Media Website in Washington, D.C.As nation freezes, fossil fuels are keeping the lights and heat on
Much of the Midwest and the Mountain States are seeing subzero temperatures and blizzard conditions sweep through. As far south as Dallas, a polar vortex has caused temperatures to dip into the 20s, with ice and snow. In parts of Minnesota, temperatures dipped to near their lowest levels in a century. There are now rolling blackouts in some parts of Texas because of power supply shortages at a time when the deep freeze causes peak demand. Many states are at a dangerous point of running out of energy at any price to meet demand as the cold spell rolls on. This story isn’t so much about the weather as it is about a grand failure of public policy. Because of the political left’s war on fossil fuels, and “renewable energy mandates” that require 20 percent to 30 percent of a state’s power supply to come from wind and solar power, the power grid is squeezed to the brink. Wind and solar don’t generate much power when temperatures plummet.
from INFOWARS
CONSPIRACY-PSEUDOSCIENCE, LOW, radio program and website run by Alex Jones
Shocking footage out of Austin shows long lines of desperate Texans queueing up to enter grocery stores, as extreme cold weather conditions stretch into their third day and many are without power.
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from MedPage Today
— Not the research or the headline we needed
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from Mises Institute
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, MIXED
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, MIXED
Racism has, tragically, raised its ugly head throughout history. And American has certainly seen its share. But after all the other things that have been called racist, with everything connected to them bearing guilt by association, it is nonetheless stunning that some are now calling mathematics racist, often inheriting ascribed guilt from the fact that some seem to be better at it than others. And the condemnation is far broader than most people imagine. For instance, I just did a Google search of “racist mathematics,” and it generated more than 70,000 hits. ... Rather than representing “white supremacy,” the evolution of mathematics has been a globe-, race-, and culture-spanning collaboration of advancements, an ongoing development of more effective tools for anyone to use. And that history shows that all of those involved wanted to get the answers right, where having to show your work has been a millennia-old strategy for mathematics education. To turn mathematics into an effort to “identify and challenge the ways that math is used to uphold capitalist, imperialist, and racist views” offers poor compensation for undermining the development of skills and knowledge that benefit all of us, even when we as individuals don’t have those skills. And those who will be most harmed are those who already struggle most with the basics of getting the mathematics right, which precedes more advanced understanding. Without learning the precision that higher order mathematics requires, putting “ethno” in front of mathematics will ensure that doors to careers in aerospace, physics and other sciences, engineering, economics, finance, and more will be closed to entire generations of learners, for they will never meet the demands those fields require. In other words, advocates of ethnomathematics are proposing to harm the group they claim they are supposedly trying to help.
According to some commentators such as economics Nobel Laureate Paul Romer, technical knowledge is key to economic growth. But if this is the case, why do third world economies continue to experience poverty? After all, individuals in these economies have access to the same technical knowledge as the developed world. Careful examination, however, shows that a key driver of economic growth is the pool of consumer goods, or the subsistence fund.
This year has been interesting for Wall Street, to say the least. After hearing that hedge funds had shorted the stock of the dying retail chain GameStop by over 100 percent of shares, Redditors banded together to buy up the stock, knowing that short sales do not expire, so the hedge funds will eventually be forced to buy it all back at a drastically raised price.
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
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from Star Tribune (Minneapolis)
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from Star Tribune (Minneapolis)
Omitted from audit are the computer files created to count votes and the activity logs documenting that process.
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from Washington Policy Center
Educational Research Center in Seattle, Washington
HB 1399, to remove occupational license barriers for people who have finished prison sentences
A bipartisan bill giving people getting out of prison a shot at returning to productive society.
As Washington prepares to re-open its economy, legislators should remove barriers that make it difficult for many low-income workers to find jobs. Of particular note are restrictions for those with criminal records who have finished their sentences. Currently, Washington state puts licensing barriers on those who are trying to put their past behind them and begin a new career and chapter in their life.
HB 1399, to remove occupational license barriers for people who have finished prison sentences
A bipartisan bill giving people getting out of prison a shot at returning to productive society.
As Washington prepares to re-open its economy, legislators should remove barriers that make it difficult for many low-income workers to find jobs. Of particular note are restrictions for those with criminal records who have finished their sentences. Currently, Washington state puts licensing barriers on those who are trying to put their past behind them and begin a new career and chapter in their life.
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