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The Masterpiece Cakeshop Decision Leaves Almost All the Big Questions Unresolved
Post Date: 2018-06-04 13:54:36 by tpaine
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The Masterpiece Cakeshop Decision Leaves Almost All the Big Questions Unresolved Eugene Volokh June 4, 2018 10:49 am Do bakers have a First Amendment right to refuse to bake cakes for same-sex weddings, even if there's a state law banning sexual orientation discrimination by such businesses? Do they have a First Amendment right to refuse to bake such cakes that contain text or symbolism (e.g., rainbow striping) that the bakers disapprove of? How about wedding photographers or videographers, who create products that (unlike most cakes) are traditionally seen as speech? How about calligraphers or graphic designers, who have an objection to personally writing or typing certain ...
Clapper: The U.S. Meddled In Foreign Elections And Conducted Regime Change In The "Best Interests Of The People"
Post Date: 2018-06-04 12:30:38 by Deckard
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Former head of US Intelligence James Clapper just admitted that the United States was simply looking out for citizens of various countries "when we tried to manipulate or influence elections or even overturned governments," a statement directly at odds with the moral high ground claimed by President Obama and other US officials on the topic of Russian election meddling. In an interview with Bloomberg's Tobin Harshaw published Saturday, Clapper - who is promoting his new book "Facts and Fears," said "I guess the way I think about that is that through our history, when we tried to manipulate or influence elections or even overturned governments, it was ...
Ronald Reagan’s daughter: Father would be ‘appalled’ by Trump presidency
Post Date: 2018-06-04 11:13:42 by Deckard
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Ronald Reagan’s daughter in a new op-ed writes that her father would be “appalled” by President Trump's presidency.Patti Davis reflects on her father’s “love for America” in The Washington Post ahead of the anniversary of his death, and what he would think of the nation today.“He would be appalled and heartbroken at a Congress that refuses to stand up to a president who not only seems ignorant of the Constitution but who also attempts at every turn to dismantle and mock our system of checks and balances,” Davis wrote.She also said that her father would call on Americans “to recognize that the caustic, ...
Trump Says He Has the Absolute Right to Pardon Himself
Post Date: 2018-06-04 11:02:38 by Deckard
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President Trump tweeted Monday morning that he has the right to pardon himself, but that he has no reason to do so, because he’s completely innocent. His bold, frightening assertion comes after a weekend in which the Trump administration’s legal argument — that the president can basically do whatever he wants with no repercussions — came into sharper focus. On Saturday, the New York Times reported that Trump lawyers had sent Special Counsel Robert Mueller a letter in January arguing that their client should not be forced to sit for questioning because, as the president, he could not by definition have obstructed justice. Then, on Sunday, Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani ...
Supreme Court sides with Colorado baker who refused to make wedding cake for same-sex couple
Post Date: 2018-06-04 10:42:06 by Justified
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The Supreme Court ruled Monday in favor of a Colorado baker who refused to bake a wedding cake for a same-sex couple. In a 7-2 decision, the justices set aside a Colorado court ruling against the baker -- while stopping short of deciding the broader issue of whether a business can refuse to serve gay and lesbian people. At issue was a July 2012 encounter between the couple and baker Jack Phillips. The battle has since developed into perhaps the most closely watched appeal so far this term before the high court. At the time, Charlie Craig and David Mullins of Denver visited Masterpiece Cakeshop to buy a custom-made wedding cake. Phillips refused his services when told it was for a ...
The State Will Gladly Protect You From Freedom of Conscience
Post Date: 2018-06-04 07:31:23 by Deckard
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For hundreds of years, western cultures have been refining what is known as Freedom of Conscience. One of the outcomes of this refinement is Freedom of Speech, a Liberty that is relatively new to the human political experience. Not long ago, being critical of a government, for instance, could get you killed by that government. Merely speaking out of turn or having critical thought towards the State religion meant torture or death. But, we have advanced through time to understand that free thought and critical speech is something that a free people must protect and encourage. Thomas Jefferson went as far as to say that repressing Freedom of Conscience was a “Sin against God”. ...
A trade war Canada will lose to its larger, louder counterpart [Trump] [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2018-06-03 20:26:39 by Tooconservative
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Presumably Donald Trump was warned of the furious response he could expect from the United States’ trading partners were he to proceed with his threatened tariffs on their exports of aluminum and steel. He went ahead and did so anyway. This is one problem with trade wars: they seek to achieve in retrospect what they failed to achieve in prospect. Were he likely to have been deterred by retaliatory tariffs, of the kind that Canada, Mexico and the European Union have just applied to a fantastic assortment of U.S. goods, he would have been already. And yet, deterrence having so conspicuously failed, they feel obliged to carry out the threat regardless. It is difficult to see how the ...
War Erupts Between Italy's Government And Soros: "You Profited From The Death Of Hundreds Of People"
Post Date: 2018-06-03 16:48:03 by Tooconservative
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Matteo Salvini, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior A feud has broken out between liberal billionaire activist and fervent Clinton supporter, George Soros, and Italy's anti-immigrant League party, which on Friday formed a populist movement in coalition with the 5-Star party, and whose leader Matteo Salvini stepped into his new job as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior on Friday, pledging to deport hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants. Salvini's League and the 5-Star Movement struck a deal Thursday on a coalition government which will work towards "putting Italians first" (and potentially making life for Europe a living hell ...
Dozens of FBI Agents Admit Agency Corrupted Hillary Probe, Considering Legal Action
Post Date: 2018-06-03 15:45:35 by Tooconservative
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Being subpoenaed to appear in front of a judge is something most people want to actively avoid, but a report regarding the Obama-era FBI suggests dozens of agents want to have their day in court to expose government corruption. During Sean Hannity’s Fox News program Friday, the conservative host said he has learned that more than two dozen FBI agents want to be subpoenaed in order to testify about widespread abuses and political bias that occurred at the bureau during the Hillary Clinton email scandal. “We have an (Inspector General) report coming out, and I’m told as many as 28 people that have knowledge of the Clinton email server scandal want to be ...
FBI Agent Accidentally Discharges Firearm [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2018-06-03 11:57:31 by misterwhite
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An off-duty FBI agent accidentally fired his gun, striking another patron in the leg, at a Denver nightclub while he was dancing early Saturday, police said. (Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Law Prof: Trump can pre-pardon all in Russia probe, kill Mueller's inquest
Post Date: 2018-06-03 11:09:31 by Tooconservative
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President Trump is not only right in claiming he can’t be subpoened in special prosecutor Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation, but he can also issue a blanket pardon to any targeted in the probe, a move that would essentially shut it down, according to a top legal expert. By offering a pre-pardon, Trump could signal to potential “flippers” that they won’t have to go to jail for refusing to testify against the president or his 2016 presidential campaign. According to George Washington University Law School Professor John F. Banzhaf, the president has several ways to thwart Mueller, including a move “to directly or indirectly assure those under investigation ...
[what is justification] Dikaiosyne Theou (The Righteousness of God)
Post Date: 2018-06-03 09:21:44 by A Pole
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[...] In the interpretation of the theme righteousness of God, the problem begins when one considers the meaning of words. Words neither exist by themselves without a context, nor are texts written as free-floating packages of meaning without a historical basis or a place in their cultural milieu. The language Paul used was Greek, but as a Jew he participated in a culture that was Hebrew as well as Greco-Roman. Since Paul quotes passages of the OT throughout his letters, one must understand Paul as writing within the tradition of the Hebrew Bible. By reason of Paul’s frequent use of the Septuagint version of the Hebrew Bible, the same concepts in the LXX should be given due ...
Trump to host Ramadan dinner
Post Date: 2018-06-03 00:09:24 by Hondo68
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President Donald Trump said last month “Ramadan reminds us of the richness Muslims add to the religious tapestry of American life.” | Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images President Donald Trump will host an iftar dinner at the White House next week to recognize the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, according to a White House official, a departure from last year’s decision not to host the traditional post-sundown meal. The iftar dinner is scheduled for Wednesday. The White House official declined to provide a list of attendees. During the month of Ramadan, Muslims fast from dawn to sunset and they break the fast with a meal known as an iftar. The White House faced criticism last ...
Joel Osteen’s Church Has a $90 Million Annual Budget
Post Date: 2018-06-02 19:29:06 by Deckard
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PJ Media – by John EllisMega-pastor Joel Osteen may not know theology very well, but he sure knows how to rake in the bucks. To put it another way, Osteen is an expert at getting your down-on-their-luck relatives to hand over their money to his “ministry.” The proof is in the pudding, so they say, because the Houston Chronicle is reporting that Lakewood Church’s annual budget is around 90 million dollars a year.Lakewood Church’s fiscal budget was revealed during the newspaper’s series titled “The Preacher’s Son.” The series “explores the origins and spectacular growth of Houston’s Lakewood Church under pastor Joel ...
NATO chief says alliance won’t aid Israel if Iran attacks
Post Date: 2018-06-02 18:18:21 by Hondo68
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BERLIN — NATO’s secretary-general says the alliance wouldn’t come to Israel’s defense in case of attack by arch enemy Iran.Jens Stoltenberg told the magazine Der Spiegel in comments published Saturday that Israel is a partner, but not a member and that NATO’s “security guarantee” doesn’t apply to Israel.Stoltenberg says NATO isn’t involved in Mideast peace efforts or in conflicts in the region.He spoke at a time of rising Israel-Iran tensions. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently intensified his criticism of a 2015 agreement between world powers and Iran that offered Tehran sanctions relief for curbs on its nuclear program. The U.S. ...
Black unemployment rate hits a record low
Post Date: 2018-06-02 15:37:35 by Justified
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The black unemployment rate fell to 5.9% in May — the lowest since the government started keeping track in 1972. It's a notoriously volatile number, but the trend is clear: This economy is strong, and everyone is reaping the rewards. "The jobs market is firing on all pistons. It is benefiting all workers," said Tony Bedikian, head of global markets at Citizens Bank. "There are more jobs to be had for all Americans." As the overall unemployment rate continues to fall — the lowest since 2000 — it's also shrinking the gap between black and white unemployment. It is the narrowest on record. Black unemployment dropped sharply last month, down from ...
Deflated: NFL popularity at new low, just 3 in 10 are 'favorable'
Post Date: 2018-06-02 15:25:53 by Tooconservative
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The National Football League has done nothing to recover during the off season from it’s miserable popularity ratings that are now at the lowest ever. Rocked by the issues of players taking a knee during the playing of the National Anthem, overly long games, and scandalous players, just 35 percent say they have a favorable view of “America’s sport.” According to an Economist/YouGov poll taken May 27-29 another 47 percent have an “unfavorable” view of the NFL. What's more, only 15 percent called the NFL a "top interest," and 37 percent said that they are "Not at all interested" in the games. Many teams are already in early training camp ...
Hamster-Pellet Alert: A Sad Look At How Smartphones Condition And Control The Lives of 3 Girls (Age 11-17)
Post Date: 2018-06-02 14:25:34 by Liberator
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From Bye Bye Birdie to The Baby-Sitters Club to Mean Girls and everything in between, the cultural history of teen and tween girls and the telephone is long and storied. But how do the girls of today use the phone when it is no longer a landline but rather a back-pocket accessory? Generation Z, the first generation of digital natives, has a relationship with phones and the internet like no other generation before. Notably, it is the first generation to learn to navigate an iPhone at the same age they learn to walk. While many say the proliferation of loneliness and unhappiness among this rising generation is phone-related, it’s safe to say the phone is not ...
The Conservative Drug War Creed
Post Date: 2018-06-02 11:49:11 by Deckard
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If there is one thing that most conservatives have in common it is their support for the federal government’s war on drugs. Although conservatives claim to believe in certain principles that libertarians would likewise hold to, their support of the drug war shows that they don’t really believe in them at all. Here is the conservative drug war creed. I believe in the Constitution, but I also believe in the unconstitutional federal war on drugs.I believe in a smaller federal government, but still support a federal Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).I believe in federalism, but not when it comes to the federal war on drugs.I believe in free markets, but not when it comes to a free ...
Study: Trump's Proposed Automobile Tariffs Will Destroy 195,000 American Jobs
Post Date: 2018-06-02 11:40:13 by Deckard
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And if other countries respond with similar tariffs, the U.S. could lose more than 600,000 manufacturing jobs.A new study says the American automobile industry will lose 195,000 jobs over the next three years if President Donald Trump presses forward with a plan to impose 25 percent tariffs on imported cars and auto parts. That's on top of the existing tariffs on steel and aluminum, which are already forecast to whack automakers and other manufacturing jobs. According to the study, which was released by the D.C.-based Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE), a 25 percent tariff on automobiles and auto parts would cause production in those industries to fall by about 1.5 ...
Kid Expelled over Novelty 'Bang Snap' Toys Is Your Stupid Zero Tolerance Story Du Jour
Post Date: 2018-06-02 11:36:13 by Deckard
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Your childhood is illegal now.When you look back at your childhood, you might have fond memories of throwing around little "Bang Snap" noisemakers with your friends. Or possibly at your friends, if you were that kind of kid. You might have even brought some to school to share and have fun with during recess. I know I did. But now we live in a world of school panics. A 10-year-old fourth grader in the Henry County School District in Georgia bought a handful of these little noisemakers to his bus stop, then had three left over in his backpack when he entered Flippen Elementary School. Another student told the principal, who searched his backpack and found them. They didn't ...
Trump's Crony Capitalism: Energy Division
Post Date: 2018-06-02 11:30:57 by Deckard
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Trump orders "immediate steps" to save money-losing coal and nuclear power plants.Who you gonna call when your business is being outcompeted and you're going bust? The feds, of course. President Donald Trump obliged his cronies in the electric power and coal industries today by ordering the Department of Energy (DOE) to take "immediate steps" to save the companies from going bankrupt. Those immediate steps will result in consumers having to pay higher power bills. Back in March, the bankrupt nuclear and coal-fired electric power generator FirstEnergy asked the DOE to invoke section 202(c) of the Federal Power Act and declare that an "emergency condition" ...
7 out of 10 children in Detroit can't swim
Post Date: 2018-06-02 11:02:53 by no gnu taxes
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Swimming pools have opened, but several children in the metro-Detroit area don’t know how to swim and are at risk of drowning. According to USA Swimming 70 percent of African American and 60 percent of hispanic children don’t know how to swim. Nearly ten people drown each day. The Center for Disease Control says African American children 5 to 19 years old drown in swimming pools at rates five and a half times higher than those of white children. Alexis Townsend is the Aquatic Director at the Royal Oak YMCA, she’s also African-American. When she was a child she nearly drowned in a pool. Now she teaches other children how to swim. “Some say, oh you know how to swim? ...
To the NFL and its players
Post Date: 2018-06-02 10:20:17 by IbJensen
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If I have brain cancer, I don’t ask my dentist what I should do. If my car has a problem, I don’t seek help from a plumber! Why do you think the public cares what a football player thinks about politics? If we want to know about football, then depending on the information we seek, we might consult with you, but even a quarterback doesn’t seek advice on playing his position from a defensive tackle! You seem to have this over inflated view of yourselves, thinking because you enjoy working on such a large scale stage, that somehow your opinion about everything matters. The NFL realizes the importance of its “image” so it has rules that specify the clothes and insignia ...
Record 95.9 Million Americans Are No Longer In The Labor Force
Post Date: 2018-06-01 21:07:04 by Deckard
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In what was otherwise a solid jobs report – one which Donald Trump may or may not have leaked in advance – in which the establishment survey reported that a higher than expected 223K jobs were added at a time when numbers below 200K are expected for an economy that is allegedly without slack, the biggest surprise was not in the Establishment survey, but the household, where the unemployment rate tumbled once more, sliding to a new 18 year low of 3.8%, even as the participation rate declined once again, as a result of a stagnant labor force, which was virtually unchanged (161.527MM in April to 161.539MM in May, even as the total civilian non-inst population rose by 182K to ...
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