Friday, February 12, 2021

In the news, Wednesday, February 3, 2021


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from Anglican Journal

An international interfaith commission has called for an end to violence against and criminalization of LGBTQ+ people and a global ban on conversion therapy. The declaration by the Global Interfaith Commission on LGBT+ Lives, which launched Dec. 16, 2020, was signed by around 400 religious leaders from more than 35 countries. Among the launch signatories of the declaration were Archbishop Linda Nicholls, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada; Metropolitan of the Ecclesiastical Province of Ontario Archbishop Anne Germond; and Metropolitan of the Ecclesiastical Province of BC and Yukon Archbishop Melissa Skelton.

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from Breitbart
RIGHT BIAS, MIXED, American conservative news and opinion website

11 Iranian Migrants Arrested for Illegally Crossing Border into Arizona
Yuma Station agents patrolling the border near San Luis, Arizona on Monday evening encountered a group of migrants who illegally entered the U.S. from Mexico near the Salinity Canal. The agents identified the group of 11 migrants as Iranian citizens, according to information obtained from Yuma Sector Border Patrol officials. Agents arrested the group and transported them to the Yuma Station for processing and a background investigation. Officials reported they arrested five adult women (ages 28-37), two juvenile males (ages two and ten), and four adult males (ages 24-43).

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from Competitive Enterprise Institute

Americans are increasingly hearing the “I” word when it comes to electric vehicles—inevitability. Proponents insist that they make too much sense for consumers and the planet for it to be any other way. They add that the technology is already here and will only get better and cheaper over time, especially if properly incentivized by government mandates, subsidies, or both. And, as for those less enthusiastic about the future of electric vehicles and opposed to market interventions—like CEI—we are told that the critics cannot possibly have any legitimate doubts because there are none  and that they are merely part of a big oil conspiracy to kill off the competition for gasoline. But it is worth noting that almost everything said today about the inevitability of electric vehicles was said several years ago about the inevitability of cellulosic biofuels. Remember cellulosic biofuels? It is easy to forget, especially since the environmental groups that used to tout them scarcely mention them anymore. But prior to electric vehicles, they were the big green hope to displace a substantial amount of fossil fuels in the transportation sector.

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from FEE (Foundation for Economic Education)
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, HIGH, non-profit organization

5 Economics Books Everyone Should Read
1. Economics in One Lesson (Henry Hazlitt, 1946)
2. Free to Choose: A Personal Statement (Rose Friedman and Milton Friedman, 1980)
3. Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Daron Acemoglu & James Robinson, 2012)
4. Less than Zero: The Case for a Falling Price Level in a Growing Economy (George Selgin, 1997)
5. The General Theory of Employment Interest and Money (John Maynard Keynes, 1936)

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from Las Vegas Review-Journal
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS,  HIGH,  major daily newspaper in Las Vegas, Nevada

EDITORIAL: Regulatory benefits that are ‘impossible’ to quantify
One of Donald Trump’s crowning achievements in the Oval Office was a tempering of the massive Beltway regulatory machine. Under the previous administration, two rules were eliminated for every new one, and agencies aspired for a net reduction in overall regulatory costs.

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from Mises Institute
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, MIXED


Incitement Is Not a Real Crime
Laws against incitement—much like defamation laws—are direct attacks on basic human rights and the freedom of speech. Both place nonviolent people in legal jeopardy merely for the "crime" of expressing opinions.

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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington

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from The Washington Examiner
RIGHT BIAS,  MIXED, News & Media Website in Washington, DC

Liberal states like New York and California as being exposed as failures for their handling of the Covid pandemic
As long as you’re not Cuomo and you’re not living in his New York, your public officials are probably doing a lot better. New York’s death toll outstrips that of even much larger states, including some that have done far less damage to their economies with lockdowns.

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