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from Competitive Enterprise Institute
Legislation doesn’t get much simpler than the National Right To Work Act. Introduced by Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul and South Carolina Rep. Joe Wilson and just two pages long, it says that say private sector unions and management cannot collude to take money away from workers. It is the type of thing where a person might wonder, “Wait, that’s not already illegal?” The answer is: It depends on where you live. It is legal in 23 states as well as in Washington D.C. for businesses and private sector unions to sign a contract that says all workers must either join the union or pay it a regular fee or lose their job. But it may soon be legal in all of them, stripping workers in 27 states of the right to work without supporting a union.
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from DW News (Deutsche Welle)
Broadcasting & Media Production Company in Bonn, Germany
The United Kingdom vowed to increase its nuclear warhead stockpile and boost alliances with Asian allies on Tuesday, after the government conducted a review of foreign policy. The 100-page Global Britain in a Competitive Age report has been characterized by Downing Street as the government's "most competitive articulation of a foreign policy and national security approach" in decades. The review calls for Britain to increase its cap on warheads from 180 to 260 by the middle of the decade in order to counter threats from Russia and China. The report labeled Russia "the most direct threat" to Britain.
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from FEE (Foundation for Economic Education)
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, HIGH, non-profit organization
Billions of people across the globe continue to live under COVID-19 lockdowns or heavily-restricted life. And for almost all of us, life amid the pandemic in 2020 was an isolating and difficult year. Yet doctors are warning that children in particular are experiencing grave mental health consequences as a result of the lockdowns—leading to an “international epidemic” of child suicide.
After much pain and suffering, Venezuelan socialist leaders have conceded they cannot effectively run an economy.
Early in 2007, after winning a second six-year term as president, Hugo Chávez announced his plan to nationalize Venezuela’s largest telecommunications company, CANTV, hinting at wider nationalization plans to come. “All that was privatized, let it be nationalized,” announced Chávez, who had run under the banner of democratic socialism. Nearly a decade and a half later, on the brink of mass famine and a growing energy crisis, Venezuela is now moving in the opposite direction.
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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.
H.R. 1, the deceptively entitled "For the People Act," has arrived in the U.S. Senate after a party-line vote in the House of Representatives. It is without doubt the most dangerous and irresponsible election bill I have ever seen. It will interfere with the ability of states and their citizens to determine the qualifications and eligibility of voters. Not only could states not apply any ID requirement to absentee ballots, they could not enforce any witness signature or notarization requirement. It would force states to allow online registration, opening up the voter registration system to massive fraud by hackers and cybercriminals.
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Nonprofit Organization in Stanford, California
The Assault On Our Past
The assault on our past continues unabated. In its efforts to further “racial healing” in something called the “historical reckoning project,” the City of Chicago is deciding whether to eliminate some forty plus statues from its environs. Included in the potential hit list are George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Benjamin Franklin, Ulysses S. Grant, and a number of others who have apparently fallen within the target set of the politically correct crowd. For those of you who are of Scandinavian descent the statue of Lief Erikson is on the list. Christopher Columbus’s statue has already been removed from its pedestal, supposedly, one would guess, because he was responsible for all the bad things the Europeans have done to indigenous people and to those whom they brought over to serve as slaves after Columbus had died.
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from National Review RIGHT BIAS
Centralized social-media companies are stifling free speech and killing competitors. Decentralized platforms offer a viable alternative.
Before the “great de-platforming” following the events at the Capitol on January 6, defenders of a laissez-faire approach to social media were able to tell those unhappy with Big Tech’s content moderation decisions to simply switch platforms. But when Amazon Web Services removed Parler from its cloud hosting, making the app impossible to access, the case against a government crackdown became less convincing. But if given some time to innovate in an environment free from stifling regulation, the market may yet produce a solution in the form of decentralized social media.
It seems everyone is concerned about “Big Tech” these days. The Left is worried about its role in spreading misinformation — both actual and perceived. The Right is worried about what they see as anti-conservative bias on the part of tech companies. Even libertarians, who regard these two concerns as misplaced, worry about cronyism and a disturbing tendency to cozy up to authoritarian regimes. And the Big Tech firms themselves say they need to be regulated — on their own terms. But compelling companies to quiet the “hate speech” du jour will displease conservatives and libertarians. Forcing companies to carry all speech will anger the Left and libertarians. And doing nothing will annoy the Left and Right alike.
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
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