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from Hoover Institution
Nonprofit Organization in Stanford, California
President Joe Biden’s recent announcement that the United States would remove all forces from Afghanistan by the end of August put at risk the lives of those Afghans who served with U.S. forces during two decades of conflict. Without American and NATO airpower, intelligence, and advisors, the Afghan National Security Forces are quickly losing ground to a surging Taliban. The Taliban contest around three-quarters of the country today, bringing large numbers of Afghans under their control. The fate of Afghan interpreters and others who worked for or served with U.S. and NATO forces is uncertain, but if history is any guide, they will not be treated kindly by their new masters.
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from Lens
Media/News Company in Bellevue, WA.
Overseen by The Business Institute Of Washington
The effects of local and state housing regulations continue to take their toll on the single family home rental market. Windemere reports that 2019-2020 saw a 38 percent increase within 10 counties in the number of housing providers who sold their rental homes – virtually all of which were bought by individuals planning to occupy those properties themselves.
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RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, MIXED
Two titanic vectors of pressure converged on the beleaguered and heroic citizens of the Rhode Island republic. First, the United States Congress, in its first act of international aggression, threatened to place a total embargo between Rhode Island and the states of the Union. But perhaps the little state would have held out regardless. Second, when the convention reopened, it faced not a threat of secession by fanatical Federalists, but secession as an actual fact. For the main city of Providence had announced its secession from the state, to continue unless and until Rhode Island adopted the Constitution unconditionally. And, what is more, Newport and other towns threatened to do the same. Only now, facing the direct prospect of being blockaded from the sea and surrounded by a hostile power, did Rhode Island surrender—and then, remarkably and incredibly, by a margin of only two votes, 34–32. After all this time and pressure, a shift of one vote would have defeated the Constitution in Rhode Island. It truly was a last stand that just barely failed.
Gary Galles: It struck me recently just how frequently we use the word “law” in our conversations. I read or hear, “That’s against the law” when someone wants someone else not to do something, and “There ought to be a law” when someone wants to further restrict others. I read arguments about what it really means to say that the Constitution is the highest law of the land. But few people seem to be thinking more than a millimeter deep about law—is there any law beyond civil law? What do we mean when we say “law” in a particular context? What are the current limitations on law? What should the limits on law be?
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from Spokane Daily Chronicle
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
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