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from FEE (Foundation for Economic Education)
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, HIGH, non-profit organization
“There is [going to be] a time in which people wake up and say ‘the emperor has no clothes."
The federal government has broken the bank with an astounding $6+ trillion in (ostensibly) pandemic-related spending to date, and President Biden wants to spend trillions more. Unfortunately, many Republicans in Congress have been too inconsistent on this issue to protest this spending binge in any meaningful way.
In their zeal to thwart medical marijuana use, prohibitionists undermined the law and effectively killed the ballot initiative process in Mississippi. When voters are yanked around in this manner they will no longer respect the laws and institutions that govern them, and rightfully so.
Hawaii’s transition to 100% renewable energy is not going as planned. The revelation that the Kapolei Energy Storage Facility will be powered with oil caused an uproar at a recent meeting, but the project is slated to continue. The head of the state's utility commission complained that going from coal to oil is like “going from cigarettes to crack.”
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from The Oregonian - oregonlive.com
Newspaper in Portland, OR
More Oregon counties vote to consider joining Idaho, part of rural effort to ‘gain political refuge from blue states’
Five eastern Oregon counties voted Tuesday in favor of considering becoming part of Idaho. Baker, Grant, Lake, Malheur and Sherman counties join Union and Jefferson, which voted last year to require county officials to study or promote joining Idaho.
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More Oregon counties vote to consider joining Idaho, part of rural effort to ‘gain political refuge from blue states’
Five eastern Oregon counties voted Tuesday in favor of considering becoming part of Idaho. Baker, Grant, Lake, Malheur and Sherman counties join Union and Jefferson, which voted last year to require county officials to study or promote joining Idaho.
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from Smithsonian Magazine
New research suggests a circle of Tudor women saved the “Book of Hours” for the queen’s daughter, Elizabeth I
As Anne Boleyn walked to her execution on May 19, 1536, legend has it she carried a prayer book, which she handed to a lady-in-waiting just before a sword struck off her head. Most historians today believe that Anne’s husband, Tudor king Henry VIII, ordered her death on trumped-up charges of adultery, incest, witchcraft and high treason. The English queen’s real crimes were failing to produce a male heir and not reining in her fiery personality. Following Anne’s beheading, her devotional Book of Hours, which included several inscriptions in her own hand, disappeared for centuries. As Craig Simpson reports for the Telegraph, the illustrated manuscript only reemerged in the early 20th century, when wealthy businessman William Waldorf Astor purchased Anne’s childhood home of Hever Castle. Now, a former steward at the castle thinks she knows what happened to the text for at least part of the time that it was missing. Per a statement, historian Kate McCaffrey, who studied the Book of Hours for nearly a year, found markings bearing the names of women who may have passed it along—at great personal risk—so it could be preserved for Anne’s daughter, the future Elizabeth I.
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
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The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to consider a Mississippi law limiting abortion after 15 weeks. Mainstream media will dutifully follow the AP Style Guide, calling it “a major rollback of abortion rights.” But what’s really at stake in Jackson Women’s Health Organization v. Dobbs is a final reckoning on the fatal flaw in the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision. What does viability mean? How and where do we draw the line between life and not life?
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from The Washington Examiner
RIGHT BIAS, MIXED, News & Media Website in Washington, DC
A handful of Oregon counties voted to approve measures that would initiate the process of seceding to Idaho. Voters in five counties (Baker, Grant, Lake, Malheur, and Sherman) approved measures Tuesday that would require local officials promote seceding to Idaho. All of the counties are predominantly conservative despite Oregon’s overwhelming liberal population. The local initiatives were supported by Citizens for Greater Idaho, a group that advocates for the state lines to be redrawn, according to the Idaho Statesman.
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