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from HumanProgress.org
Education Website
Our thirtieth Center of Progress is Tokyo, which, after it was nearly destroyed during World War II, was rapidly rebuilt and reinvented itself as a world leader in manufacturing and technology. Today, Tokyo is the country’s economic center and the seat of the Japanese government. The city is famously safe and prosperous. It is renowned for its glamor and cosmopolitanism. The Greater Tokyo Area is currently the most populous metropolitan area in the world, boasting well over 37 million residents. As our final Center of Progress, Tokyo’s large population is appropriate because, as in every city, it is the people who live there who drive progress and create wealth. And the more people, the merrier—a finding also backed up by empirical research.
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from Jihad Watch
Critical Race Theory is as an indictment of the United States as a systemically-racist society, but it is also something worse: an all-encompassing worldview, a guiding life philosophy that purports to explain the world in a staggeringly simple manner. With racism, slavery, imperialism, colonialism, and more, white people have inflicted incalculable harm on the world, and in fact are the source of evil in the world. The Nation of Islam has expressed this with devastating succinctness for decades, using the chillingly direct phrase, “The white man is the devil.” With officials all over the country pushing Critical Race Theory upon us in our schools and workplaces, the Nation of Islam is quickly becoming the de facto official religion of the United States. This makes the question all the more urgent: why haven’t the churches condemned it?
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from Mises Institute
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, MIXED
Why the US Supports Secession for Africans, but Not for Americans
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, MIXED
Why the US Supports Secession for Africans, but Not for Americans
The twentieth century was a century of secession. Since the end of the Second World War, the number of independent states in the world has nearly tripled as new states, through acts of secession, have come into existence. This was driven largely by the wave of decolonization that occurred following the Second World War. From the late 1940s through the 1970s, across Africa and Asia—and even in Europe, as in the case of Malta—dozens of colonial territories declared independence through referenda and other strategies. Throughout these processes of decolonization, much of the international community—including the United States—was supportive. Following the Second World War, the United States explicitly supported decolonization efforts, and was often quick to recognize the new countries’ sovereignty and establish diplomatic relations. The US frequently supported these acts of secession, because, it was said, it was morally imperative so as to respect the rights of “self-determination” denied to the world’s colonized territories. Moreover, many of the world’s sovereign states supported this global spree of secessionist movements, from the US to the Soviet Union and China, and within many international organizations like the United Nations. Yet when secession is suggested in other contexts, today’s regimes are far less enthusiastic and generally condemn the very idea of secession.
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
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There is an existential crisis threatening to overwhelm the livability of American cities, and it’s not climate change. It’s homelessness. And while we argue over how to adapt and how much influence our activities have on the physics of climate, we are fully responsible for policies behind and around homelessness. A compassionate people must not adapt to stepping over human feces on downtown sidewalks and accepting families living in cars as normal. There is not a single cause for homelessness nor a single solution. Least visible are those with income from work or other legitimate sources who are priced out of housing. They may not be visible on the streets as they hunker down in their cars or couch surf with friends.
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