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Trump administration to deport man to Haiti who has never been there
Via: Bob Nelson • The Beacon • 3 Comments • 2 Likes • 5 years ago
“Financial consultant Paul Pierrilus came to the US with his parents, who are both US citizens, when he was five”
It's Trump's last day... I can almost hear the ICEmen: "What kind of batshit random cruelty can we do before our Lord abandons us?"
Who Invented the Alphabet?
Via: Bob Nelson • The Beacon • 7 Comments • 2 Likes • 5 years ago
“New scholarship points to a paradox of historic scope: Our writing system was devised by people who couldn't read”
When I was a kid, I learned to keep track of whatever I was counting by marking down by fives: That seems pretty simple, but it requires several levels of abstraction: quantification, representation, communication, ...
Who's Radical Now? The Case of Minimum Wages
Via: Bob Nelson • The Beacon • 1 Comments • 1 Like • 5 years ago
“Evidence has a well-known liberal bias.”
I've followed the debate about the minimum wage among economists, for a couple decades now. There was a time when some serious people wrote papers about the negative effects it would have, if it was ever made significant. Then some cities made their minimum wage significant... with no...
1 in 3 Europeans say US can't be trusted
Via: Bob Nelson • The Beacon • 19 Comments • 1 Like • 5 years ago
“More than 60 percent of those surveyed said the American political system is broken”
The Politico article is an introduction to that of the European Council on Foreign Relations. It's a remarkably dense, detailed examination of what Europeans think of America. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
30 Things Donald Trump Did as President You Might Have Missed
Via: Bob Nelson • The Beacon • 4 Comments • 2 Likes • 5 years ago
“Trump's presidency may be best remembered for its cataclysmic end. But his four years as president also changed real American policy in lasting...”
This is pretty exhaustive. I'm saving it for future reference. There are a couple of successes. Some middlin' stuff. And a lot of "accomplishments" that hurt most Americans.
Trump's China tech war contributes to automakers' chip shortage
Via: Bob Nelson • The Beacon • 7 Comments • 5 years ago
“Tight capacity and soaring demand has made it difficult for chip producers to absorb two shocks from the Trump administration”
Remind me why we're having a trade war against China?? Now we have our farmers on welfare, and our auto factories stopped. And still... no one has explained to me how anything Huawei does could be worse than what the NSA has been doing for decades already...
TIMEOUT! ..... We need a break... A STACK OF MAPS!
By: Bob Nelson • The Beacon • 11 Comments • 2 Likes • 5 years ago
“As a gesture toward getting back to normal...”
★ Peloponnesian City states and kingdoms around 530 BC ★ Roads built by the Roman Empire ★ How Antarctica would look like without ice ★ Washington DC, 1865 ★ Seafood consumption per...
Electric Cars Are Better for the Planet - and Often Your Budget, Too
Via: Bob Nelson • The Beacon • 130 Comments • 3 Likes • 5 years ago
“New data published Thursday shows that despite the higher sticker price, electric cars may actually save drivers money in the long-run”
Trying to compare electric to gasoline is difficult. Gasoline is hugely subsidized - something like eighty or ninety percent of its pump price. You pay for your neighbor's gas-guzzling pickup twice: once at the pump, and then in environmental clean-up.
'It was life or death': the plane-hijacking refugees Australia embraced
Via: Bob Nelson • The Beacon • 3 Comments • 5 years ago
“Luke Henriques-Gomes’s grandfather was one of 44 refugees to arrive in 1975 on the only RAAF plane ever hijacked. The official response still...”
Ordinary people. Extraordinary heroes.