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from FEE (Foundation for Economic Education)
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, HIGH, non-profit organization
It’s almost impossible to see a scenario where this doesn’t lead to much higher prices for consumers.
California’s war on the gig economy continues. After past labor regulations nearly prompted Uber to entirely abandon the state until they were essentially undone by voters, Golden State regulators have a new plan to attack ride-sharing services—this time in the name of environmentalism. The California Air Resources Board just unanimously voted to mandate that Uber and Lyft rides must almost entirely switch to electric vehicles.
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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.
What would you call an ideology that rejects color-blindness, openly criticizes the civil rights movement, attacks successful blacks, and is blatantly and unapologetically racist? Critical race theory is an idea that originated in universities and law schools under the name critical theory. Its supporters added race in the 1970s to Americanize a 1930s European theory birthed by communist academics. The objective of critical race theory was to tear down and erase the history of ideas that created Western culture, and this included American culture. The supporters of critical race theory believed that to advance American culture, they must destroy the system. Tenants of critical race theory reject ideas such as colorblindness. And even advancement based on meritocracy. In other words, critical race theory does not value people by the content of their character nor does it value hard work.
The United States has counted Colombia among its strongest allies in the Western Hemisphere. We cannot afford to let the bilateral relationship deteriorate. Sadly, the Biden administration appears to be taking deliberate steps to weaken the government of President Iván Duque. If the bilateral relationship deteriorates, it will undermine both U.S. and Colombian national interests, as well as broader regional interests. The Biden administration needs to weigh carefully its actions if Colombia is to be spared from further political and economic deterioration. But when the presidency transitioned to former defense minister Juan Manual Santos in 2010, some of those hard-fought gains began to erode. The Administration is now considering cutting security assistance to Colombia and has shown no initiative in cooperating with regional security services.
Was the Soviet Union the real “winner” of World War II? This idea came up earlier this month, as it increasingly seems to be in recent years, around V-E Day commemorations. We now see tributes to Victory in Europe Day mixed with attempts to rewrite history and diminish the role played by the United States and Great Britain in ensuring victory. Russian President Vladimir Putin wrote Britain and the U.S. out of his Victory Day speech, saying that Russia fought Nazi Germany alone during the most difficult time of the war. We now see tributes to Victory in Europe Day mixed with attempts to rewrite history and diminish the role played by the United States and Great Britain. It should now be clear, through the lens of history, that Ronald Reagan was right: The Soviet Union was an evil empire to be confronted and defeated. Debates about who “won” World War II may seem academic 75 years after that terrible human calamity ended. But that would be mistaken.
In today’s climate, it’s rather intuitive to consider almost any prohibition an obstacle to freedom. Ahmari makes the case that freedom is found only when one binds oneself to tradition. Ahmari’s eminently readable book is a rediscovery of time-tested wisdom that adds a valuable contribution to these enduring questions.
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from The Hill
LEAST BIASED, MOSTLY FACTUAL, News & Media Website in Washington, D.C.Returning the ghost of Eric Holder to the Justice Department
It appears that the Democrats’ federal election takeover bill, H.R. 1, may not pass the U.S. Senate, but a new proposal threatens to be as bad as the first. Beware the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act — a backdoor way of implementing some of the worst provisions of H.R. 1 and stopping commonsense election reforms like voter ID. This legislation summons the ghost of Eric Holder, the former attorney general who abused federal power under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to badger states such as Texas, South Carolina, Florida and North Carolina over election integrity laws.
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from Media Research Center (MRC)
(& CNSNews.com & NewsBusters) RIGHT BIAS, MIXED
nonprofit media watchdog for politically conservative content analysis based in Reston, Virginia
The Netflix CEO who promoted the pedophilic film Cuties has reportedly given millions of dollars to help far-left California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) stave off recall efforts. Newsom’s anti-recall campaign received a $3 million donation “from Netflix co-CEO Reed Hastings,” according to Fox News. The contribution was reportedly “the Stop The Republican Recall committee’s largest donation to date, according to Politico.” In addition, Fox News reported: “A February filing showed Hastings also donated $32,400 and $29,600 to Newsom’s campaign. Hastings’ wife donated identical amounts.”
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from New York Times
Newspaper in New York
Newspaper in New York
In nonbinding elections, parts of eastern Oregon said they wanted to join Idaho. The conservative region has long felt alienated from the liberal politics of Oregon’s population centers.
Political divisions in Oregon can to a great degree be measured by a river, the Deschutes, which winds its snaky, circuitous way through the state’s midsection. The river divides the high prairies of the eastern half — agricultural and politically conservative, largely — from the wetter, woodier western half, which has long been more populated and more liberal. The statewide shutdown orders that accompanied the coronavirus pandemic last year deepened those divisions, crippling businesses at a time when some rural counties had few cases. The protests and riots over race and police conduct in Portland, the state’s largest city, widened the gap further still, and the defeat of former President Donald J. Trump, who won most counties but still lost the state by a big margin after President Biden’s strong showing in the cities, capped off a litany of frustrations. This week, all of that led thousands of east-bank residents to a single resonant but highly improbable word: secession. A majority of residents in five eastern counties said in nonbinding votes that they would like to leave Oregon and join with their more like-minded conservative neighbors further east in Idaho.
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
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from The Times of Israel
Recent days have seen a series of assaults against Jews in Los Angeles and New York and a large uptick in anti-Jewish activities online and on social media
There has been a “dangerous and drastic surge” in antisemitism in the US, and around the world, in recent days linked to the fighting between Israel and terror groups in the Gaza Strip, the Anti-Defamation League said. In preliminary data revealed late Thursday, just before a ceasefire went into effect, the watchdog group said it had tracked an increase in online and real-world incidents of antisemitism in the United States. “As the violence between Israel and Hamas continues to escalate, we are witnessing a dangerous and drastic surge in anti-Jewish hate right here at home,” says ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt. “It’s happening around the world— from London to Los Angeles, from France to Florida, in big cities like New York and in small towns, and across every social media platform.” The ADL said it has documented antisemitism on Facebook, Twitter, TikTok and Instagram, with messages including explicit praise for Hitler, promoting tropes about Jewish control and demonizing all Jews.
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