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Funding Education Opportunity: Midterm school choice success, new K-12 open enrollment report, and more
Post Date: 2022-12-14 20:23:00 by Charles_Byrd
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While the midterm elections will likely leave Congress in political gridlock, candidates from both major political parties supporting school choice policies won impressive victories. On the Republican side, with the exception of Arizona, every state in which the GOP held a trifecta—governor and both legislative chambers—going into the election and had “enacted large, new school-choice programs or significantly expanded existing ones in the past two years kept that trifecta,” noted The Heritage Foundation’s Jason Bedrick and Lindsey Burke. The midterms helped illustrate school choice can be a winning policy issue for candidates. Voters in Florida’s Miami-Dade ...
Bernie Sanders and the Genocide in Yemen - Spike on WBAL with Torrey and Dan - 12/14/22
Post Date: 2022-12-14 20:20:00 by Charles_Byrd
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Why is the US supporting the genocide in Yemen? Why is Bernie Sanders withdrawing the support for his bill? Click for Full Text!
The Link between Productivity and Wages Is Strong
Post Date: 2022-12-14 20:08:06 by Charles_Byrd
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AEI economist Michael Strain has a new paper showing that, contrary to common belief, the link between productivity and wages is still very strong. Very much worth reading, the paper contains interesting discussions of how we should think about wages, which workers should or shouldn’t be included when measuring the relationship between productivity and pay, whether for “pay” we should use wages or total compensation, and so on. Click for Full Text!
Dr. Paul Joins Kudlow to Discuss Government Overspending - December 14, 2022
Post Date: 2022-12-14 20:06:15 by Charles_Byrd
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Thermonuclear Endgame Creeps Forward
Post Date: 2022-12-14 19:55:32 by Charles_Byrd
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It looks like things are about to get a lot more serious in Ukraine. Click for Full Text!
US Patriot Missiles To Ukraine: Game-Changer Or Nuclear War?
Post Date: 2022-12-14 19:51:35 by Charles_Byrd
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Yesterday CNN reported that the Biden administration has decided on a significant escalation in Ukraine: providing Kiev with the most advanced US missile defense system, the Patriot Missile system. The missiles have a longer range and a much higher price tag. Russia has vowed to take them out if deployed in Ukraine. Will NATO troops be operating the complex systems? If so...then what? Click for Full Text!
NATO Chief Says Russia Relations Can’t Be Repaired Even After Fighting
Post Date: 2022-12-14 19:49:23 by Charles_Byrd
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NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said that trust between the West and Russia has been “destroyed” and that relations couldn’t return to normal even after the fighting ended in Ukraine, CNBC reported on Monday. “Even if the fighting ends, we will not return to some kind of normal, friendly, relationship with Russia. Trust has been destroyed,” Stoltenberg said. “I think the war has had long-lasting consequences for the relationship with Russia.” Click for Full Text!
UK Marines Conducted Covert Ops in Ukraine, General Claims
Post Date: 2022-12-14 19:48:05 by Charles_Byrd
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The British Royal Marines have carried out high-risk special operations on the ground in Ukraine, according to the former head of the elite unit, who said UK commandos have been deployed to the country on more than one occasion this year. Writing in the Royal Navy’s official magazine, the Globe and Laurel, Lieutenant General Robert Magowan said some 350 Marines were sent to Ukraine for two missions since January, starting with an operation to help relocate UK diplomatic staff to Poland just ahead of Russia’s invasion. Click for Full Text!
Some Aussie Songs Against the Wars
Post Date: 2022-12-14 19:46:17 by Charles_Byrd
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Music can be powerful, possessing the ability to conjure emotion in a few minutes what an essay never could. Australia has a rich history of talented singers, writers, and performers creating music that is unique to the sunburned continent. Australia also has a rebel culture, hidden in plain sight. Founded by reluctant prisoners, enthusiastic adventurers, and those escaping their birth land to call Aboriginal land their home, with a history of empire and defiance, the music can reflect this combination, none more than in the songs against war. Few songs express the sorrow felt by soldiers when they return as well as Redgum’s “I Was Only 19.” Click for Full Text!
Leviathan Devours Free Range Entrepreneurs
Post Date: 2022-12-14 19:43:05 by Charles_Byrd
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That meal, guest or package that came to your front door this month is part of a massive delivery industry. Free Range Entrepreneurs (FREs), drivers whose transportation work is varied, temporary, and frequently changing, are critical to our economy and all consumers. It is a national market with State rules. A self-regulating, wage clearing market, with high turnover. The Administrative STATE is threatened. It has unleashed Leviathan. It is from the Government, and it is here to help. Click for Full Text!
GOLD IS MONEY: EVERYTHING ELSE IS CREDIT
Post Date: 2022-12-14 19:40:53 by Charles_Byrd
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Throughout the better part of 2022 there has been one question that has consistently, and predictably, popped up in conversations with my friends, clients and readers. Those who know me and are familiar with my ideas are well aware of my position on precious metals and the multiple roles they serve, so I can’t blame them for them for being curious whether I still “stick to my guns” in this era of irrationality in the markets and the economy. Especially for those not versed in monetary history, which is regrettably the vast majority of the population, it is natural to wonder: “If gold is such a great hedge against inflation, why hasn’t it skyrocketed now that ...
Old Testament: Isaiah 7:10-17 (Advent 4: Series A)
Post Date: 2022-12-13 17:50:42 by Charles_Byrd
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A sign was given to Ahaz to point him toward the greater sign given in a manger and that Bethlehem’s Messiah is the sign we look forward to seeing in the sky when Jesus, our Emmanuel, comes again. This is a great text to take us one step deeper into trusting God during the season of Advent. First, some background information. The context for this section of scripture can be found in 2 Kings 16 where political and military trouble surrounds Ahaz in the year 735 BC. The Northern Kingdom together with Syria sought an alliance with Judah against Tiglath-Pileser III who was advancing with his Assyrian troops onto their lands. Israel had already suffered defeat from the Assyrians and knew ...
FEATURED UNCATEGORIZED SPU Board Members Seek Dismissal of Lawsuit Over Hiring Stance
Post Date: 2022-12-13 17:47:41 by Charles_Byrd
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Members of Seattle Pacific University’s board of trustees are asking a Washington state court to dismiss a lawsuit brought against the body by a group of students and faculty at the school, arguing that the suit is an effort to “intimidate and punish leaders of a religious institution for the exercise of protected First Amendment rights.” Click for Full Text!
Christmas is a season of irony and song that helps us to know the sacred past and the truth of the Gospel of our salvation. Our reading from Isaiah for Christmas Day is deep within a context which gives us a great angle into a powerful gospel procla
Post Date: 2022-12-13 17:46:19 by Charles_Byrd
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Members of Seattle Pacific University’s board of trustees are asking a Washington state court to dismiss a lawsuit brought against the body by a group of students and faculty at the school, arguing that the suit is an effort to “intimidate and punish leaders of a religious institution for the exercise of protected First Amendment rights.” Click for Full Text!
Old Testament: Isaiah 52:7-10 (Christmas: Series A)
Post Date: 2022-12-13 17:44:57 by Charles_Byrd
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Christmas is a season of irony and song that helps us to know the sacred past and the truth of the Gospel of our salvation. Our reading from Isaiah for Christmas Day is deep within a context which gives us a great angle into a powerful gospel proclamation. We need to see Isaiah 52:7-10 in the greater framework of Isaiah 49-54. In this new rhetorical unit starting with chapter 49, Isaiah warns Israel concerning their spiritual captivity to sin and the redemption God has for the entire world. The Lord accomplishes this salvation through His “servant” who we know is Jesus. What is striking and important within the context is that in chapter 49 the “servant” is Israel in a ...
Young Former Transgender Plans to Sue Doctors Who Provided “Transition” Drugs and Surgery
Post Date: 2022-12-13 17:42:30 by Charles_Byrd
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An 18-year-old California woman is threatening to sue Kaiser Permanente for gross negligence and fraud after doctors convinced her to begin “transitioning” to male at age 12 and to have her breasts removed at 15 — treatments that are now causing her physical and psychological distress. Attorneys Charles LiMandri and Harmeet Dhillon sent a letter to Kaiser Permanente advising the healthcare consortium that their client, Chloe Cole, intends to sue for the maximum damages allowed by law because of the “permanent irreversible mutilation and damage to her body” wreaked by Kaiser’s doctors, who performed unnecessary “medical experimentation” on her without ...
Brickbat: Officer Down
Post Date: 2022-12-13 17:40:26 by Charles_Byrd
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Bear, a K9 with the Boone County, Iowa, sheriff's office, died after spending 22 hours in the truck of his partner, Sgt. Dallas Wingate. Temperatures reached 89 degrees that September day, which experts said meant the temperature inside the vehicle could have reached 135 degrees. Wingate said he placed the dog in the truck after Bear began barking at a deer. Click for Full Text!
Fellowship for Performing Arts Plans for Legacy, Will Continue Going ‘Further Up & Further In’
Post Date: 2022-12-13 17:37:48 by Charles_Byrd
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Award-winning actor Max McLean founded Fellowship for Performing Arts to “produce theatre, film and online events from a Christian worldview designed to engage a diverse, worldwide audience,” and his aim is that the ministry continue for generations to come. Click for Full Text!
Walter Grinder 1938-2022
Post Date: 2022-12-13 17:36:33 by Charles_Byrd
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I note with great sadness the passing of my friend and former colleague Walter Grinder. He was 84. Walter may be the most important libertarian that most libertarians have never heard of. Although he made important contributions to the literature of liberty (such as his work with John Hagel on the far-reaching destructive effects of state intervention in money and banking and his introduction to Albert Jay Nock's classic, Our Enemy the State), he devoted his professional activities primarily to keeping libertarian scholars and writers informed about a wide range of literature relevant to understanding liberty. His interests covered the broadest range of disciplines, including history, ...
Tax Cuts Do Not Cause Inflation. Printing Does.
Post Date: 2022-12-13 17:34:24 by Charles_Byrd
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The narrative to attack any tax cut and defend any increase in government size is reaching feverish levels. However, we must continue to remind citizens that constantly bloating government spending and increasing the size of monetary interventions are some of the causes of the widespread impoverishment of the middle class. Constantly increasing taxes and diminishing the purchasing power of the currency is wiping out the middle class in most developed nations. Currency printing is not neutral, and it never is. It disproportionately benefits government and massively hurts real salaries and deposit savings. It is a massive transfer of wealth from savers to the indebted. Click for Full Text!
Malachi Prepares the Way for Jesus
Post Date: 2022-12-13 17:32:57 by Charles_Byrd
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The lesson of Malachi reveals God’s love for his people. When the people ask for proof of God’s love, he reminds them of their election. The Jews had returned to Jerusalem from Babylon. They had listened to God’s prophets, Haggai and Zechariah. They rebuilt God’s temple. And then nothing happened. No Messiah. No great divine war against Israel’s enemies. No worldwide kingdom of God. None of the good things Haggai and Zechariah said would happen, happened. Click for Full Text!
Conservatives Must Resist Push to Normalize LGBTism on the Right: MassResistance
Post Date: 2022-12-13 17:30:33 by Charles_Byrd
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Conservatives and traditional Americans must resist the relentless push to normalize homosexuality, homosexual "marriage," and transgenderism even within the Republican Party and the broader conservative movement, warned MassResistance Field Director Arthur Schaper in an interview on Conversations That Matter with The New American magazine's Alex Newman. The organization, which is on the front line of the culture war, has seen a series of enormous victories, including shutting down drag queen shows for children, exposing convicted sexual predators involved in the perverse events, and removing grotesque material from libraries and schools. Schaper said the organization has also ...
Congress Has a New Scapegoat for COVID Fraud: Banking Apps
Post Date: 2022-12-13 17:10:39 by Charles_Byrd
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App-based financial service firms like PayPal and Square have revolutionized how American consumers and businesses move money around—and now, they're being blamed for COVID-19 relief fraud. Yes, really. In a congressional report published last week, lawmakers on the Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis say widespread fraud in the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), which was supposed to pay shuttered businesses to keep employees on the payroll during the pandemic, should spur calls for new regulations on so-called "fintech" companies. Click for Full Text!
The Supreme Court Will Hear a Second Challenge Over Biden's Student Loan Forgiveness Plan
Post Date: 2022-12-13 17:08:42 by Charles_Byrd
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On Monday, the Supreme Court announced that it would hear a second challenge over President Joe Biden's federal student loan forgiveness plan. With Biden's plan having been blocked twice in federal court, the Education Department will now have to victory not once but twice in order to finally begin enacting its plan. With a broadly conservative Court, that possibility seems slim. Click for Full Text!
Wichita Falls Pastor Charged With Sexually Assaulting 11-Year-Old Girl
Post Date: 2022-12-13 17:07:21 by Charles_Byrd
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Last week, Wichita Falls Police in Texas arrested a pastor for sexually assaulting an 11-year-old girl. The girl’s family attends his church. Click for Full Text!
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