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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via AFP: French Prime Minister Manuel Valls on Sunday blasted a planned EU-US trade treaty, saying the ambitious deal was against “EU interests”. “No free trade agreement should be concluded if it does not respect EU interests. Europe should be firm,” Valls told members of the governing Socialist Party, adding “France will be vigilant about
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The Washington Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a judge’s decision to force a teenager to write a letter of apology to a classmate he was convicted of sexually assaulting. The 17-year-old boy challenged the judge’s order as a violation of his free-speech rights, and in a 6-3 decision issued Thursday, the court agreed that compelled
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The United Kingdom’s stunning vote to leave the European Union was driven by much of the same sentiment that fueled Donald Trump’s insurgent march toward the Republican presidential nod: a rejection of economic globalization and the elites who favor it by those who feel left behind. Many economists warn that the British vote to leave
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Your Health Idaho is actively working to ensure that customers don’t see another delay in receiving a critical tax form needed to prove health coverage and avoid a tax penalty, said exchange officials on Friday. The state’s health insurance exchange failed this year to distribute the forms by the required Jan. 31 deadline. The exchange
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