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Group led by Thomas Piketty presents plan for ‘a fairer Europe’

Via: bob-nelson • Op/Ed • 3 Comments • 7 years ago

The manifesto drawn up by Thomas Piketty and others addresses the inequality and populism sweeping the continent. Eric Piermont/AFP/Getty Images A group of progressive Europeans led by...

Young America's Foundation Scores Major Free Speech Victory Over UC Berkeley

Via: mbfc-is-censorship-tool • Op/Ed • 19 Comments • 7 years ago

Young America's Foundation scored a major free speech victory Monday over the University of California-Berkeley. After losing a lawsuit filed by YAF, the university must pay the organization...

A Rare Moment of Unity

Via: mbfc-is-censorship-tool • Op/Ed • 10 Comments • 7 years ago

Former President George W. Bush speaks at the funeral for his father, former President George H.W. Bush, at the National Cathedral on Dec. 5, 2018, in Washington.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon, Pool)...

Beyond GDP

Via: bob-nelson • Op/Ed • 4 Comments • 7 years ago

Just under ten years ago , the International Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress issued its report, Mismeasuring Our Lives: Why GDP Doesn’t Add Up ....

The Art of the Imaginary Deal

Via: bob-nelson • Op/Ed • 2 Comments • 7 years ago

Are we going to have a full-blown trade war with China, and maybe the rest of the world? Nobody knows — because it all depends on the whims of one man. And Tariff Man is ignorant, volatile and...

Trump Just Scored Two Big Wins for Unborn Babies

Via: mbfc-censorship • Op/Ed • 140 Comments • 7 years ago

No matter where you stand on abortion, what follows is going to upset you. If you believe in the unalienable right of a mother to kill her children, you won’t like what Trump has done....

Racism -- It's Everywhere! It's Everywhere!

Via: mbfc-is-censorship-tool • Op/Ed • 106 Comments • 7 years ago

It's sobering how much race dominates the public discourse today. But as long as we're discussing stereotypes, we should note that leftists and elites are the ones obsessed with race, not the...

Southern Poverty Law Center ‘Hate’ Labels Deserve a Vigorous Response

Via: mbfc-censorship • Op/Ed • 9 Comments • 7 years ago

The Alliance Defending Freedom doubles down on its call to civil discourse. Last week, we were honored to have U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions speak at the Alliance Defending Freedom Summit on...

They Go Together: Freedom, Prosperity, and Big Government

Via: bob-nelson • Op/Ed • 1 Comments • 7 years ago

Economists, libertarian economists included, love to measure things. The Human Freedom Index (HFI) from the Cato Institute is a case in point. Its authors have assembled dozens of...

Global Warming: Fake Science Again Serves Far-Left Political Agenda

Via: mbfc-censorship • Op/Ed • 184 Comments • 7 years ago

Global Warming: A new White House report, issued just last Friday, makes alarming projections about future global warming. Not only will it cost billions and billions in lost economic output, that...

Socialists and Fascists Have Always Been Kissing Cousins

Via: mbfc-is-censorship-tool • Op/Ed • 139 Comments • 7 years ago

In 1939, the same year the Germans and the Russians mutually consented to rape Poland, T.S. Eliot rather famously (or, I suppose for some, infamously) declared: “If you will not have God (and He...

A Giant List Of Questions The House Needs To Ask James Comey In His Deposition

Via: vic-eldred • Op/Ed • 65 Comments • 7 years ago

By Margot Cleveland DECEMBER 6, 2018 Former FBI director James Comey will be deposed Friday in a closed-door session by the House Judiciary and House Oversight Committees as...

The Hilarious Reason Why Home Alone Is Going Viral Nearly 30 Years Later

Via: ender • Op/Ed • 4 Comments • 7 years ago

Home Alone will always be a Christmas classic that truly encapsulates all of the magic and family values of the holiday season. But when you watch it as an adult, you can’t help but have some...

Stocks down 6.7% off 2018 High

Via: johnrussell • Op/Ed • 39 Comments • 7 years ago

The Dow Jones Industrial Average is 25027 as of 11:30 central, which means the stock market average is down 6.7% since it's high of 26828 on Oct 3, 2018. - Stocks sold off after the...

Manafort could be affected by double jeopardy case before Supreme Court

Via: vic-eldred • Op/Ed • 45 Comments • 7 years ago

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court hears a challenge Thursday to its long-standing rule that putting someone on trial more than once for the same crime does not violate the Constitution's...

Model criticized after taking a selfie at Holocaust memorial, ‘embarrassment of a human'

Via: johnrussell • Op/Ed • 60 Comments • 7 years ago

Model criticized after taking a selfie at Holocaust memorial, ‘embarrassment of a human' 12/4/2018 1:32 PM Netanyahu Web site view...

Mueller memo says Michael Flynn has provided 'substantial assistance,' recommends lenient sentence

Via: vic-eldred • Op/Ed • 45 Comments • 7 years ago

Special Counsel Robert Mueller filed a memorandum Tuesday recommending a lenient sentence -- with the possibility of no prison time -- for convicted former national security adviser Michael...

Trump Shrugs Off Reports Of An Approaching Debt Crisis

Via: johnrussell • Op/Ed • 4 Comments • 7 years ago

Donald Trump has reportedly told aides that he doesn’t care about the national debt because it won’t really become a problem until after he leaves office: Since the 2016...

“The Japs are bombing us! The Japs are bombing us!”

By: johnrussell • Op/Ed • 10 Comments • 7 years ago

Even the men who saw the planes couldn’t understand. One of them was Fireman Frank Stock of the repair ship Vestal, moored beside the Arizona along Battleship Row. Stock and six of his mates had...

A surveillance video showing a Christmas tree with racist ornaments in the lobby of the Fourth Precinct headquarters is being reviewed by the Minneapolis police internal affairs unit

Via: johnrussell • Op/Ed • 2 Comments • 7 years ago

A surveillance video showing a Christmas tree with racist ornaments in the lobby of the Fourth Precinct headquarters is being reviewed by the Minneapolis police internal affairs unit, which looks...

Pelosi: Dem Majority Will 'Reverse' Trump Efforts to Secure Border, Enforce Immigration Laws

Via: 1stwarrior • Op/Ed • 66 Comments • 7 years ago

Democrats will seek to undo President Donald Trump’s efforts to secure the border and enforce the nation’s immigration laws, House Speaker-designate Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) promised in a...

Liz Peek: Trump scores big wins at the G-20

Via: mbfc-is-censorship-tool • Op/Ed • 12 Comments • 7 years ago

He came, he saw, and he took yet another step towards Making America Great Again. President Trump scored major successes at the G-20 summit that concluded over the weekend in Argentina....

Trump boosts Alan Dershowitz as report alleges lawyer was involved in sexual encounters with minors

Via: johnrussell • Op/Ed • 95 Comments • 7 years ago

Salon › Trump boosts Alan Dershowitz as report alleges lawyer was involved in sexual encounters with minors Shira Tarlo November 30, 2018 President Donald Trump...

How Hanukkah came to America