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from FEE (Foundation for Economic Education)
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, HIGH, non-profit organization
Feminism, originally, is a libertarian movement, or at least it did not propose solutions based on the State: libertarian feminism is part of an individualist tradition, as can be seen in American history. Many people assume that early feminist activists and advocates were socialists and interventionists, but the reality is quite different. Those women were not asking for funds from all citizens to be used to defend the cause; rather they were asking for equality in the eyes of the law, and they did so by confronting the State.
According to The Wall Street Journal, the city with the fastest growing job market can be found in northern Utah. “Salt Lake City has top-notch ski resorts, challenging bike trails and breathtaking views of the Wasatch Mountains. It also is home to the hottest job market in the U.S.,” the Journal reports. “As the pandemic raged through the U.S. in 2020, no metropolitan area in the country expanded the size of its labor force more on a percentage basis than Utah’s capital. It also had the lowest average unemployment rate and the highest share of people working or looking for jobs.”
President Biden is pitching his $2.7 trillion+ “infrastructure” plan, chock full of items unrelated to traditional transportation infrastructure, as key to restoring the economy and putting Americans back to work. It’s right in the name: the “American Jobs Plan.” “This is the moment to reimagine and rebuild a new economy,” Biden said in introducing his plan. “The American Jobs Plan is an investment in America that will create millions of good jobs, rebuild our country’s infrastructure, and position the United States to out-compete China.” The president’s rhetoric is quite optimistic—but his plan’s long-term prospects are not. A new Ivy League analysis concludes that Biden’s plan would actually shrink the economy in the long run.
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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.
At the top-ranked education schools, 48 percent of faculty characterize diversity and race as a research interest or area of study. In other words, issues of race, diversity, and equity tend to be at the center of what most schools of education do today. The real concern is not that aspiring teachers aren’t exposed to issues of race; it’s that such issues are too often taught as a means of political proselytizing.
The 6th Circuit Court of Appeals refused to even consider Small’s claim. Why? Because of a single Supreme Court case: Trans World Airlines v. Hardison (1977). Trans World Airlines v. Hardison (1977) is a case that clearly tips the scales in favor of an employer when an employee asks for a religious accommodation. The Supreme Court had a chance to correct that imbalance—but declined.
A major new bill on China policy is on the horizon. In a way, Congress has been preparing for a grand debate on China for years. Comprehensive bills have been filed. The U.S.–China Economic and Security Review Commission and the Congressional-Executive Commission on China are veritable idea factories. In addition, there are the almost 300 individual stand-alone measures that were introduced in the past Congress. This Backgrounder offers its own guidelines and recommendations. It is time to put as many existing ideas as possible to the legislative test and construct a China policy that will give direction to the present and future Administrations.
This week the Court issued a high-profile and very technical opinion in the copyright dispute between Google and Oracle. Your hosts break down the complicated issues in that case and cover other interesting orders from this week including an opinion by Justice Thomas about free speech and Big Tech that sparked a national conversation.
Packing the courts would be devastating to our system of constitutional government and the rule of law, and would irreversibly damage our democratic republic. It would risk turning the judiciary into an overtly political body, and completely undermine the American people’s confidence in the federal judiciary as a non-political, impartial, co-equal branch of government. The temptation for a successive president whose party enjoys majority control in the House and Senate to pack the court further would likely be irresistible, which would further undermine the stability of our legal system. This is a dangerous road we should not go down.
“President Biden’s budget request represents a massive increase in spending from current levels, prioritizing funding for agency programs over defense spending. The budget is unreasonable, irresponsible, and Congress should instead chart its own course for the FY 2022 appropriations process.
The power of the purse does not give Congress a license to spend on anything it wants, irrespective of the guardrails imposed by the Constitution. Earmarks for special interests and local projects are not a valid tool for Congress to exercise its legitimate Article I powers. Earmarks encourage wasteful spending and spawn corruption. There is nothing more emblematic of the Washington “swamp” than earmarks.
from National Review RIGHT BIAS
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’s concurrence in Joseph Biden v. Knight First Amendment at Columbia University recommends regulating social-media platforms as if they were common carriers or public accommodations, so that their First Amendment rights to exclude speech would be curtailed. While the U.S. does have a history of employing such regulations, the wisdom of those precedents and the extent to which they are appropriate for social-media companies is less certain. ... While there are legitimate frustrations and complaints about content moderation online, Thomas’s heavy-handed regulatory prescription is not the answer. The unintended consequences of common-carrier regulation warn against the idea, and the marketplace is already at work decentralizing control. Most fundamentally, despite the opinion of one Supreme Court justice, case law does not suggest that laws restricting the First Amendment rights of social-media platforms would survive judicial review.
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
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