The Supreme Court on Monday upheld the broad reach of a federal law that bars people with misdemeanor domestic violence convictions from owning guns. The justices rejected arguments that the law covers only intentional or knowing acts of abuse and not those committed recklessly — where a person is aware of the risk that an […]
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Notice economics at work. When the price of labor is forced to be raised above that of the actual labor price, a various things will happen to compensate: There will be a reduction in labor hired (ie., the lowest skilled workers will be fired There will be a substitution for labor (ie., robots or various
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The student fee issue could be headed back to the courts. In separate but nearly identical two class action lawsuits, plaintiffs demand that the West Ada School District return some $2 million in unconstitutional student fees collected in 2014-15, and “hundreds of thousands of dollars” in refunds from the Pocatello-Chubbuck School District. The fees “amount to a form of
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21 Questions With Washington Florist Who Refused Gay Couple | The Daily Signal 21 questions with Barronelle Stutzman, the Washington florist who refused to make flower arrangements for a same-sex wedding. Still haven’t subscribed to The Daily Signal on YouTube? This is amazing. Barronelle Stutzman is the Washington florist sued by a gay man, a
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Progressives, who used to fairly pasifist, have now taken the gloves off, bolstered by the momentum of their liberal causes. They are creating their own brand of liberal Shariah Law in America. Via Reason: At least five people were stabbed in a statehouse skirmish between members of the white-nationalist Traditional Workers Party (TWP) and “anti-fascist”
Republicans, Democrats Interpret Orlando Incident Differently This is because it goes against the Dem’s meta-narritive. From Gallup: Republicans and Democrats have starkly different interpretations of what the recent mass shooting at an Orlando nightclub represents. While 79% of Republicans view it primarily as an act of Islamic terrorism, the majority of Democrats, 60%, see it
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Both sides of Brexit were shocked — the Remainers because they have never met a Brexiteer nor bothered to read their arguments. And The Brexiters were a bit shocked too — amazed that despite the big-media bias, puffed up economic scare and the blanket of institutional warnings, the public can still fight off big-gov with
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A threatening and overreaching bill (Senate Bill 1146) is working its way through the California legislature. If passed as is, this bill would strip California’s faith-based colleges and universities of their religious liberty to educate students according to their faith convictions. The proposed legislation seeks to narrow a religious exemption in California only to those
A computer algorithm that calculates the likelyhood of a criminal reoffending has been accused of being racially biased against blacks, even though race is never entered into the system. … race is not an explicit factor in its assessment algorithm. However, some of the factors that do inform the scores can be closely tied to
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I believe an important topic has been ignored or overlooked. It is the proper balance that should exist between the federal government and state governments — balanced federalism. I firmly believe that the federal government is trying to do too much to solve America’s problems, and it is ill-equipped to do so. That’s the cause
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Idahoans strongly support reforms to the state’s campaign finance laws that would ban gifts from lobbyists and campaign donations to anyone doing business with the state, among other ethical issues, a new Idaho Politics Weekly poll shows. The Dan Jones & Associates survey finds that 79 percent of Idahoans support such reforms, 16 percent oppose
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Via The Associated Press: The Idaho Department of Labor says the state’s Hispanic population grew 2.9 percent between mid-2014 and mid-2015. The growth is at the same rate Idaho experienced between 2013 and 2014. In a recent news release, the agency announced that Hispanics account for nearly 12 percent of the state’s population as of
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Cannabis prohibitionists have long cautioned that legalizing the plant will inevitably lead to increased use among teens, couching their restrictive beliefs in concern for the youth. While some of these concerns may be genuine, a recent survey from the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment demonstrates — for the second year in a row — that youth in
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If the government can take away our natural rights to travel and self-defense, can other fundamental rights be far behind? Via Reason Magazine: The people in the government who want to control our personal choices are the enemies of freedom. And the enemies of freedom can be very clever and seductive. Last week, these folks,
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Hamtramck, Michigan has been given the nickname “Shariatown” now that the four out of the six City Council positions have been filled by members of the Islamic faith, and policies that mimic Sharia Law are being implemented throughout the city. It was a historic election due to the fact that this is the first time that the majority
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Hawaii’s governor signed a bill making it the first U.S. state to place its residents who own firearms in a federal criminal record database and monitor them for possible wrongdoing anywhere in the country, his office said. The move by gun control proponents in the liberal state represents an effort to institute some limits on
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Billionaire investor George Soros on Saturday called for thorough reconstruction of the European Union in order to save it, even though he warned that Britain’s vote to leave the bloc makes “disintegration of the EU practically irreversible.” Soros, who warned of financial meltdown if Britain voted to leave the EU before Thursday’s referendum, also said
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