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from American Thinker
QUESTIONABLE SOURCE, EXTREME RIGHT BIAS, LOW, News and Opinion BlogThe Democrats are the Real Enemies of Democracy
Ever since the election of Donald Trump, we have heard ad nauseam about the threat to democracy from Trump and his "enablers." Meanwhile, the Democrats plan to pack the Supreme Court, the Biden administration rules by executive fiat, and Big Business and the media — now firmly behind the despotic Democratic agenda — silence all dissent. The anti-American left, under the banners of equality, anti-discrimination, and inclusiveness, have unleashed their dream of an all-out war against whom they anticipate being the future minority of the country: white, Christian, and conservative Americans. Everything they loathe, once hallmarks of American democracy, is recast as vestiges of white male supremacism and racism permitting their execution at the hands of executive action: the filibuster, the Second Amendment, religious liberty, 1776, and the list goes on.
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from BBC News (UK)
US President Joe Biden is reportedly set to propose a tax hike on the wealthiest Americans. The proposal would raise the top marginal rate and increase taxes on investment gains for the rich. The tax rise would help pay for childcare and education, but would not be used for healthcare, according to reports. The news triggered a selloff on Wall Street, with major indexes slipping during Thursday's trading session.
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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.
Twenty-one civil rights leaders and prominent black conservatives defended Georgia’s new election law in a letter to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, rejecting opponents’ comparisons to Jim Crow laws. “It has become clear that even well-intentioned critics of the law simply have no idea what the law is,” the black leaders write in the letter.
How would you feel if your child came home from school and said her teacher had told her that everything that happens in the world is “racist” and that she’s part of the problem because of the color of her skin? That may sound far-fetched, but such disturbing ideas are coming to your children’s schools, if they are not there already. The message that “anyone who does not believe in systemic racism is part of the problem” is sadly permeating all the literature on race in America today. These ideas of oppression and systemic racism come from a Marxist doctrine called “critical theory.” State lawmakers and local education officials must make sure new K-12 lessons do not discriminate by race.
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from HumanProgress.org
Education Website
Does population growth lead to greater resource scarcity, as argued by the English scholar Thomas Malthus and, more recently, by the Stanford University biologist Paul Ehrlich? Or does population growth make resources more abundant, as argued by the University of Maryland economist Julian Simon? The Simon Abundance Index measures the relationship between population growth and the abundance of 50 basic commodities, including food, energy, materials, minerals, and metals. Global resource abundance increased by 5.9 percent in 2020, according to the 4th annual Simon Abundance Index. The base year of the index is 1980, and the base value of the index is 100 percent. In 2020, the index reached 708.4 percent. In other words, the index rose by 608.4 percentage points over the last 40 years, implying a compound annual growth rate in resource abundance of around 5 percent and doubling of global resource abundance every 14 years or so.
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from Idaho State Journal
Newspaper in Pocatello, Idaho
Gov. Brad Little last week signed a bill to legalize industrial hemp, ending Idaho’s distinction as the last state to legalize the non-intoxicating crop for cultivation by farmers. The bill also allows for transportation and processing of the plant. The bill, HB 126, amends Idaho’s list of controlled substances to differentiate between hemp and marijuana. Hemp has no more than 0.3 percent THC, the psychoactive ingredient in marijuana. The legislation authorizes the production, research, processing and transportation of industrial hemp by those licensed in Idaho, and allows the legal possession and transportation of the product, while removing hemp from Idaho’s list of Schedule I drugs, for those purposes.
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
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Earth Day’s organizers at earthday.org claim it “is widely recognized as the largest secular observance in the world, marked by more than a billion people every year as a day of action to change human behavior and create global, national and local policy changes.” If Earth Day was a religion, it would be third, just ahead of Hinduism and behind Islam, a distant second after the 2 billion-plus Christians worldwide. Earth Day adherents range in intensity from those with a deeply internalized faith to the trendy followers easily suckered in by “greenwashing.” Or to put it in religious terms, from Mother Theresa to the culturally observant, with a whole lot of folks somewhere in the middle. Greenwashing is a word first used in 1986 to describe practices or products which sound environmentally friendly until you dig in. A takeout container marketed as compostable isn’t any greener than Styrofoam if they both end up in the same landfill, or if the green option requires more resources or more energy to produce and ship.
Higher education is supposed to be an incubator for thought and challenging ideas. It’s a place where students are trained in the core skills of independent, critical thinking that they will use their entire lives. If you’re a fair-minded current student, graduate with student loans, parent helping pay for tuition or even a donor, you want to know the educational experience offered to future generations will be well-rounded. ... This Earth Week, it’s a tale of two events at Gonzaga University. One features activism, while the other was about intellectual diversity and honesty.
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