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Hear about the new restaurant called Karma? There’s no menu: You get what you deserve. What type of sandals do frogs wear? Open-toad!

Denver, Colorado — Mountain States Legal Foundation today announced a major step forward on an effort to hold the Federal Aviation Administration accountable for Obama-era hiring practices that were designed to exclude better-qualified air traffic control candidates, in favor of less-qualified candidates, all due to the color of their skin. Federal judge Dabney Friedrich of the Federal District Court in the District of Columbia today approved class action certification for MSLF clients Andrew Brigida and Matthew Douglas-Cook and other aspiring air traffic controllers who scored highly on qualification tests but lost out on their dream jobs due to the FAA’s...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A jury was set to resume deliberations Wednesday on competing defamation lawsuits filed by former U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore and a woman who accused him of molesting her decades ago when she was 14. After meeting for about an hour Tuesday on the claims by Moore and Leigh Corfman, the jury asked to go home and view videos that were introduced as evidence when they returned. The videos show statements Moore made, at campaign events and in media interviews, denying the accusations. Corfman maintains Moore sexually touched her in 1979 when she was a teen...

The Native American Guardian’s Association and five individual plaintiffs with Native American heritage filed a lawsuit against Colorado, challenging the constitutionality of S.B. 21-116, a law prohibiting the use of Native American mascots by schools.

This isn’t just illiberal, it’s irrational. What Goldberg said was factually incorrect, yes. But so what? Figures on political TV shows say stupid and historically illiterate things every day — including about the Nazis — and nothing much happens to them as a result. What, exactly, was different about this one? Is warmed-over critical theory prohibited now? And why does anyone care? ABC’s president explained that the suspension was a product of Goldberg’s “hurtful comments.” But who, specifically, was “hurt”? The View is a talk show, and a particularly stupid one to boot. Is there anyone in the world who...

Recently, one of your number, an economics professor at Oxford, had this to say: “At Davos a few years ago, the Edelman survey showed us the good news is that the elites across the world trust each other more and more. So we can come together and design and do beautiful things together. The bad news is that, in every single country they were polling, the majority of people trusted their elite less. So we can lead, but if people aren’t following, we’re not going to get to where we want to go.” Where to begin unpacking this stunning example...

A Republican state senator in Georgia is calling for an investigation into a newly elected school board chairwoman after she described white people as 'socialized racists' and demanded an end to 'anti-black capitalism.' Dr. Tarece Johnson, who is a Democrat, was elected the new chair of Gwinnett County Board of Education in January. She is the first black woman to serve as chair.

Companies shed 301,000 jobs last month, sharply missing the 207,000-job gain that economists surveyed by Refinitiv had predicted and a major drop from the downwardly revised gain of 776,000 in December. It marked the first time that ADP reported negative growth since December 2020, when companies shed 123,000 jobs before the vaccines were available.

The following is a recent discussion between U.S. Congresswoman Lisa C. McClain, Northwood University Economics department chair Dr. Dale C. Matcheck and Dr. Timothy G. Nash, director of the McNair Center for the Advancement of Free Enterprise and Entrepreneurship at Northwood University. The conversation centered around recent comments by U.S. Federal Reserve Bank (Fed) chairman, Jerome Powell and how the Federal Reserve intends to bring our nearly 40-year high rate of inflation down to levels prior to 2021. McClain: It’s great to be here with two of my favorite economists, Northwood University’s Dr. Tim Nash, and Dr. Dale Matcheck, to...

GLENVIEW, Ill. - A suspect stole mail from a mail receptacle at the Glenview Post Office over the weekend. According to Glenview police, an unknown suspect pried open the outdoor mail receptacle at the Glenview Post Office, located at 1400 Patriot Blvd., between Saturday at 6 p.m. and Monday at 5 p.m., and stole an unknown amount of mail. Police are warning residents who dropped off mail that contained financial payments or personal information during this time frame to take necessary steps to stop fraud. Residents are encouraged to notify their banks and credit card companies as well as cancel...

Precisely one week ago my colleague, senior editor MacKenzie Chung Fegan, Slacked our entire team a link to these Party Pants from Tillamook’s new Cheddar Capsule collection. There was no text attached; there didn’t need to be. They’re cheese-colored pants custom-designed for storing a lotta cheese. “​​Finally, I can take cubes of cheddar from the party cheese plate back to my apartment,” said senior social media manager Esra Erol, who is as smart at living as she is at dairy-heisting. (Keep an eye on her around your charcuterie.) As someone whose mother recently accused her of being anti-capitalist, “like that...

Many issues defined the years 2020 and 2021. In addition to the obvious coronavirus pandemic and economic strife, the most prevalent issue on Capitol Hill during this time has been "big tech” companies and their business practices. This has manifested itself in a number of hearings where expert witnesses and tech executives were brought before congressional committees to speak on these practices. All of this was to determine what the government’s response ought to be. What has been lost in the debate about big tech and antitrust has been what the effect of these new bills would have on child...

The Backdoor Gun Ban We need new, independent, domestic end-to-end ammunition plants, and right away.Last year, the Biden Administration banned the further import of Russian-made ammunition into the United States. After a subdued press release, which announced the ban was punishment for Russia’s poisoning of the anti-corruption activist Alexei Navalny on a flight from Tomsk to Moscow, the entire issue was shelved. Today, no one in the administration is touting the success of this initiative in getting Russia to behave itself. Which is bizarre, given Russia’s excellent behavior since then.In reality, the Russian ammo embargo is a sanction on Americans,...

Leaked notes from a White House Situation Room meeting the day before Kabul fell shed new light on just how unprepared the Biden administration was to evacuate Afghan nationals who'd helped the United States in its 20-year war against the Taliban. Why it matters: Hours before the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan's capital on Aug. 15, 2021, senior Biden administration officials were still discussing and assigning basic actions involved in a mass civilian evacuation. Outsiders were frustrated and suspicious the administration was having plenty of meetings but was stuck in bureaucratic inertia and lacked urgency until the last minute. While...

LONDON (Reuters) - A coronavirus pandemic which lasts five years, another pandemic in a decade, and ever more transmissible variants are among the scenarios life insurers are predicting after COVID-19 claims jumped more than expected in 2021.The global life insurance industry was hit with reported claims due to COVID-19 of $5.5 billion in the first nine months of 2021 versus $3.5 billion for the whole of 2020, according to insurance broker Howden in a report on Jan 4, while the industry had expected lower payouts due to the rollout of vaccines."We definitely paid out more than I had anticipated at...

The White House was left scrambling to cobble together a plan to evacuate Americans and allied Afghans mere hours before the Taliban took control of the war-torn country’s capital last year, leaked documents show. Notes of an Aug. 14 Situation Room meeting obtained by Axios show Biden administration officials were still discussing and assigning fundamental actions to get thousands of people out of Afghanistan as Taliban forces carried out their final offensive amid the US troop withdrawal. “State will work to identify as many countries as possible to serve as transit points. Transit points need to be able to accommodate...

Free-agent NFL head coaching candidate Brian Flores is suing the league and three teams, the Miami Dolphins, the New York Giants and Denver Broncos, over hiring practices.According to the complaint, Flores is alleging race discrimination when it comes to coaching personnel decisions in the NFL. Among many complaints, the lawsuit chides the NFL’s “Rooney Rule,” which requires NFL teams to conduct at least one in-person interview with a minority candidate for all head coaching vacancies.“However, well intentioned or not, what is clear is that the Rooney Rule is not working,” the complaint reads.Currently there is only one black coach in...

Even with the pandemic, the U.S Postal Service delivered on its obligations to deliver cards and packages to family and friends during the holiday season. Now Congress is finally ready to deliver a much-needed Postal Service Reform Act (H.R. 3076, S.1720). This legislation involves tradeoffs and compromises that won’t fully satisfy all stakeholders. But Congress should keep focused on the positive principal points of the bill and not trip over distractions some parties are throwing in its way. The proposed law would facilitate the continued expansion of e-commerce. E-commerce is a crucial lifeline during the pandemic, especially for smaller enterprises...

Internet sleuths were absolutely shocked by this former freedom-loving hippies stance on freedom of speech and alternative medicine that they did some digging and they found that Neil Young is financially tied to Pfizer. The big pharma giant owns him and his music!On January 6, 2021, Neil Young sold half of his catalogue to Merck Mercuriadis’ Hipgnosis Song Management company. Later that year Hipgnosis merged with Blackstone in a USD$1Bn deal. However, just a month before the merger Blackstone announced that they appointed Pfizer’s former Chairman and CEO Jeffrey B Kindler as the company’s Senior Advisor.

Groundhog Day, 2-2-22. Also known as day 702 to flatten the curve.Happy birthday Punxsutawney. 702 and still going strong! Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow and predicts 6 more weeks of winter. But then, you knew he would. We’re in this for the long haul.Unless, that is, the long-haulers - i.e. #MapleLeafRevolution - inspire their brethren to the south to mount an even larger convoy and declaration of freedom from the autocratic policies that our betters have deemed “useful and necessary.” In a sane time, in a sane world – neither of which we’ve seen for years – this Johns Hopkins...