Tuesday, January 15, 2019

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  Niskanen Center


  • The Niskanen Center is searching for qualified interns to support our policy, outreach, and operations staff this summer. The post Announcing the 2019 Summer Internship Program...
  • Ocasio-Cortez's proposal to tax the super-rich at 70 percent isn't radical. It's the most mundane progressive politics imaginable. The post Progressives’ Tall Poppy Syndrome...

    • As the shutdown continues unabated and its impacts reverberate throughout the country, we call upon lawmakers from both parties to focus on real solutions. Now is the time to pass...

  • The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) and four cable customers yesterday filed the opening brief in their challenge to the wide-ranging conditions imposed by the FCC in 2016...
  • House Democrats are expected to introduce legislation on Wednesday to raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2024 - a policy that will backfire, warn Competitive Enterprise...

    • If the longest-ever partial (25%) federal government shutdown persists, might Americans catch on that not everything the federal government does and regulates should remain national...

  • Excuse us if we can’t get excited about the ‘meaningful vote’. From the outside it looks like more paralysis and delusionThat the British political and media establishment...
  • The tragic death of Jaden Moodie led to a debate that has been predictably misinformedThey say don’t speak ill of the dead, and especially not of dead children. But it seems there...

    • The film-maker’s despairing tweets about having children have caused uproar. The rest of us should have more sympathyAmong the great lies of our time are: the Brexit agreement...

      CTVNews.ca - Top Stories - Public RSS



  • The family of a Canadian sentenced to death in China says it wants all Canadians “to stand with us and pray” for the safe return of Robert Schellenberg...
  • The RCMP in Alberta say a pair of missing 12-year-olds who they believed were on their way to British Columbia have been found safe.

    • General Motors says it has reaffirmed plans to close the Oshawa Assembly Plant in meetings with the Ontario and federal governments.

  • Such massive subsidies probably couldn’t suddenly disappear, but might be scaled back or even phased out. Contrary to the report, carbon dioxide contributes nothing to air pollution...
  • But they seem to have something in common that scientists were not expecting: their nightside temperature. New research shows how the nightside of all hot Jupiters is covered in clouds...

    • Originally posted on NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT: By Paul Homewood ? https://www.thegwpf.org/content/uploads/2019/01/Homewood-Hurricanes.pdf ? I am pleased to report that...

  • Our crops are different, our festivals and new year celebrations fall on different dates and we speak different languages and follow different religions. It is time for sarkari babus...
  • There is only one commonality that has given rise to the SP-BSP alliance. Everything else is a challenge.

    • The Rafale ruling helped the BJP with the perception of the urban middle class, while the Sabarimala verdict may have opened up the South.

  • Mobile commerce is also on track to overtake desktop sales as the online channel of choice as early as 2020 in India, the survey found.
  • The feature is current under development in Beta for Android 2.19.3 version.

    • Under the hood, the phone is powered by a MediaTek Helio P22 processor.

  • When the smart home sensors detected a human failed to initiate or was struggling with one of the tasks, RAS received a message to help.
  • Memory is a reconstructive process, biased by personal knowledge and world views - sometimes we even remember events that never actually happened.

    • Previous research has shown that spending time in space causes bone density loss, immune dysfunction in both humans and rodent models.

    Zee News :South asia



  • Washington wants Islamabad to encourage the militants to reach a settlement in Afghanistan and bring the 17-year war to a close.
  • Appearing before the Sindh High Court in Pakistan on Monday, the parents said that they had forgiven the owners of the Arizona Grill restaurant.

    • A flight engineer survived and was taken to the hospital.

  • UN-brokered peace negotiations between the Saudi-backed Yemen government and the Houthis held in Stockholm last month yielded a shaky ceasefire deal in the lifeline port city of...
  • The changes in the White Paper has caused concern among the conservative opposition over possibilities of Seoul weakening its defences while Pyongyang`s nuclear and missile abilities...

    • Washington wants Islamabad to encourage the militants to reach a settlement in Afghanistan and bring the 17-year war to a close.

  • Gen Bipin Rawat addressed the 71st Army Day Parade in Delhi.
  • About 15 crore devotees are expected to partake in the pilgrimage.

    • Prasad was admitted to the hospital following complaints of nasal congestion.

      Channel NewsAsia World News



  • Wheelchair-bound Gabon President Ali Bongo chatted and smiled with ministers on state television on Tuesday after returning from a stroke-induced medical leave during which the...
  • Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini urged French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday to extradite leftist guerrillas who have been hiding out in France for decades to avoid...

    • Democratic U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, who has been taking steps to prepare for a run for the White House in 2020, is scheduled to appear on CBS' "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert"...

      Channel NewsAsia Asia Pacific News



  • A senior Chinese military official warned the US Navy Tuesday against any "interference" in support of Taiwan's independence, saying that Beijing would defend its claim to the island...
  • HONG KONG: Food producers in Hong Kong have been urged to improve their recipes after a test on cookies and sweet pastries found that most samples contained genotoxic carcinogens...

    • Anti-corruption group Transparency International said on Tuesday it found "irregularities" in 47 of 50 constituencies it surveyed during last month's general election in Bangladesh...

      Channel NewsAsia Front Page News



  • Three former Barclays bankers cheated the global financial system to gain an unfair edge over counterparties in a five-year plot to rig Euribor interest rates, a London prosecutor...
  • Manchester United supporters have been left furious as it appears they are to be offered a reduced ticket allocation for next week's FA Cup fourth-round trip to Arsenal...

    • Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV Chief Executive Mike Manley told Reuters on Tuesday he is open to partnerships to develop a new midsize pickup truck the automaker could sell in Latin...

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