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From ABC News:  DOBBS FERRY, New York — A former president of the U.N. General Assembly awaiting trial in a bribery scandal died in a weightlifting accident when a barbell he was lifting from a bench dropped on his neck, an autopsy revealed Thursday. John Ashe was declared dead late Wednesday afternoon by a paramedic

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

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

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

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

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

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,