Thursday, June 27, 2019

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  • The Supreme Court Thursday blocked the Trump Administration’s request to place a citizenship question on 2020 census. The court said the administration’s explanation for...
  • The city of Los Angeles is quickly descending into a cesspool of decay and disease.  With bubonic plague now likely present amongst residents, the city and the state of California...
  • Massachusetts Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren said Tuesday she would be in favor of decriminalizing illegal crossing of the U.S. border, the latest call for open borders by a 2020...
  •   Special Counsel Robert Mueller has agreed to testify before the House Judiciary and House Permanent Select Committees on July 17 in an open session. The announcement comes after...

    • On Monday, democratic socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) was criticized for pushing photos of herself seemingly intended to help quell the blowback she’s received...

  • Atlanta’s City Council has voted in favor of changing all 7.1 acres of vacant space just south of Lakewood Browns Mill community, where a third of the population lives just below...
  • The Western world has evolved, and Chakras have become widely known and accept among many of us. Chakras are spiritual energy points placed on different parts of our spinal column...

    • People mistake Spirituality for Religion and visa verse. It is often mistaken for some mysterious supernatural occurrence or a sect. When, in fact, spirituality is not mystic, nor...

    Featured Health News from Medical News Today



  • New research in an African American cohort suggests that not all types of sedentary behavior are equally risky for cardiovascular health.
  • A new study asks if triclosan, a chemical in many products, may increase osteoporosis risk. The results are not clear-cut, but it may affect bone health...

    • People with the endomorph body type can gain weight quickly. For this reason, they may wish to avoid processed foods and those with a high fat content. Certain types of exercise are...

      Exceptional Delaware 2017



  • Originally posted on Transparent Christina 2.0: So, Paul is trying to modify school board members’ terms from 5 to 3 years and pay them $100 per meeting. Yeah, that didn’t go so...
  • Another year, another Charter school transportation slush fund discussion. Given Odyssey Charter School’s misappropriation of funds, followed by a plethora of other charter...

    •   The organization that ran a ton of back-end business operations for many Delaware charter schools is kaput.  Their website is unavailable and their Facebook page hasn’t been...

      Have You Heard



  • TweetHave You Heard heads to Michigan to learn about a lesser-known part of the state’s free market education experiment: inter-district school choice. More than 100,000 Michigan...
  • TweetAcross the country, white residents are moving into areas they’ve long stayed away from. They’re arrival is driving up housing costs and displacing the neighborhoods’...

    • TweetFrom Bernie Sanders on charter schools and segregation to Cory Booker stating, once again, that he is a believer in public education, to higher pay for teachers and free-er college...

      Din Merican: the Malaysian DJ Blogger



  • Trump’s ‘America First’ philosophy has created a less stable world by Dr.Fareed Zakaria https://fareedzakaria.com/columns/2019/5/16/trumps-america-first-philosophy-has-created-a-less-stable-world...
  • Malaysia’s Greatest Crisis: Loss of National Pride and Unity   May 13, 2019 by Murray Hunter Malaysia’s Greatest Crisis: Loss of National Pride and Unity Love him or hate him...

    • National service can mend the country The following column is adapted from Fareed Zakaria’s commencement address at Ohio State University on May 5, 2019. It’s graduation season...

      Chicago Boyz



  • Resolved: The US needs at least two political parties that can reliably be trusted to hold power without driving the US constitutional settlement into a ditch and risk civil war. Query...
  • A Modest Proposal

    2 days ago
  • Like an unkillable zombie, or Freddy Kruger returning for the umpteenth time, the matter of reparations for slavery shambles out of its’ crypt on a periodic basis. The whole concept...

    • President Trump has ended the "Carter Doctrine." No More "Blood for Oil" is a reality.

  • Re-Posted from The Conservative Tree House on June 26, 2019 by sundance Alan Dershowitz appears with two panel members of the ‘Tick-Tock-Boom club’ to discuss the potential...
  • Re-Posted from The Conservative Tree House on June 26, 2019 by sundance Due to the size of the field, the first Democrat presidential primary debate takes place over two nights...

    • Re-Posted from The Conservative Tree House on June 26, 2019 by sundance Chopper pressers are the best pressers.  As President Trump departs the White House en route to Osaka...

  • Before our guest joins us on today's BradCast --- and in advance of the Democrats' first two-night 2020 Presidential Candidate Debate in Miami (which we'll be covering over the next...
  • On today's BradCast: Are Democrats finally beginning to reconsider their incredibly ill-considered mandate to require remote voting for their 2020 Presidential caucuses via...

    • IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Vice President Mike Pence refuses to acknowledge his own administration scientists say climate change is a threat to national security; Millions suffering...

      bluebird of bitterness





  • Hot cross puns

    2 days ago

    • Some Franciscans were behind on their belfry payments, so they opened a flower shop to raise money. But a rival florist across town resented the competition, and he hired Hugh MacTaggart...

  • Efforts are underway in Congress to push back on the Trump administration's move to classify uranium as a "critical mineral" essential for national security. Here is the statement...
  • Fairewinds has created this two-minute animation to show why building new nuclear power plants is a lost opportunity for humankind with precious time and money wasted on the wrong...

    • A new series on nuclear power on the USA Today newspaper network, includes an indepth story in the Asbury Park Press about the future for the New Jeresey region around the closed but...

  • The New York Times has publicly acknowledged that it sends some of its stories to the US government for approval from “national security officials” before publication. This...
  • AN ADVOCACY GROUP that represents whistleblowers sent a scathing letter Thursday to the House and Senate committees overseeing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement...

    • Projects included work for the Central Military Commission to extract and classify emotions in online video comments. It pays to pay attention to details. Author credits on research...

  • By Matthew Warren. We are all predisposed to believe repeated information regardless of our own particular cognitive profile.
  • By Christian Jarrett. The spider was unique in being intensely fear- and disgust-inducing in equal measure.

    • By Christian Jarrett. The research focuses on a brain structure involved in "reality monitoring".

      Atlas Obscura - Latest Articles and Places



  • Robert Brady was born into a wealthy family in Iowa in the 1920s, and from a young age showed a great interest in art, anthropology, and collecting. In his late teens, he studied fine...
  • Visitors to London's Kew Gardens are typically drawn to the humid and exotic jungle ambiance of the Palm House, but plants are not the only attraction to be found here: A watery world...

    • In a nondescript residential high-rise building, next to a meat market and overlooking a parking lot, a dentist’s office, and a dollar store, a padlocked door reveals nothing of...

      Accidental Deliberations



  • Expect this space to go quiet for the next week-plus. For those not following on Twitter, I'll still be somewhat active at @juristblog.
  • Assorted content for your weekend reading.- Lana Payne discusses the need for outrage about the lack of enforcement even of corporate tax obligations which have been slashed for...
  • Musical interlude

    6 days ago

    • Phantogram - Fall In Love

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