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Inside the Facebook Files: Emails Reveal the CDC's Role in Silencing COVID-19 Dissent: https://reason.com/2023/01/19/facebook-files-emails-cdc-covid-vaccines-censorship/

Not in the least.

https://nypost.com/2023/01/16/how-the-wokeness-it-pushes-could-destroy-higher-ed/ Yes, it was a mistake.

https://www.nationalreview.com/2023/01/san-franciscos-insane-reparations-program/ Not only does this attempt to justify reparations for proposals that were never adopted in California, it stands the history of California statehood on its head. True, California in 1850 had a large population of pro-slavery migrants from the South, who were given some legal latitude in bringing small numbers of slaves through the territory. But when California was admitted to the Union as a free state in 1850, it was over the bitter objections of the slave states because its admission permanently tilted the free state–slave state balance of the Senate in favor of the free states. Only the Compromise of 1850, which granted significant concessions to the southern states in strengthening the Fugitive Slave Act, prevented a civil war over the admission of California. If one considers the taxpayers of San Francisco, who will actually foot the bill for this, the case for saddling them with financial responsibility for American slavery — or even more recent injustices — becomes even more ridiculous. Over 34 percent of San Franciscans are foreign-born, having no historic ties to the American past. That number has been above a third for four decades, and it was also consistently between a third and half of the city’s population between 1860 and 1910. It’s been 40 years since non-Hispanic whites made up a majority of San Francisco’s population, which as of the 2020 Census was 33.7 percent Asian American (including South Asian) and 15.6 percent Hispanic. San Franciscans are being penalized for the sins of someone else’s fathers. The message this sends to immigrants who may have come to America to escape old tribal grudges is not an encouraging or welcoming one. The report focuses heavily on legal discrimination against black San Franciscans in the 1940s and 1950s. But if reparations are based on injustices and discrimination other than slavery, there is a far weaker case for singling out a single group for benefits. If anything, California and San Francisco have a much more egregious history of injustices done by the government towards Native Americans and people of Chinese and Japanese descent. Those injustices include laws that prevented Asian Americans from owning guns or testifying in court. Then, there are the legal and moral problems with giving people money on the basis of race without requiring them to show that they have ever suffered injustice. As the report acknowledges, this creates legal problems under state law: “Proposition 209, which bans government institutions from taking affirmative actions based on race, sex, or ethnicity, poses a challenge to the City to implement programs seen as giving preference.” Yet, the report does not recommend limiting benefits to the descendants of slaves, and its list of proofs of suffering past injustice is quite elastic, including black immigrants from foreign countries to San Francisco as late as 1996 and those who were “Personally, or the direct descendant of someone, incarcerated by the failed War on Drugs.” Giving someone $5 million for being a heroin trafficker does not seem like justice. The report also does not exclude the descendants of slave-owners, slave-catchers, or other perpetrators of historic injustices. Reparations programs that aim to benefit entire groups of people on the basis of long-ago injustices along racial or ethnic lines simply exacerbate racial thinking and racial resentment on all sides. We suspect that the exorbitant price tag will make it easy for even San Francisco to reject this proposal at a time when the city faces many more immediate and concrete challenges to the safety and quality of life of its population. It should also stand as a warning against the madness of reparations. Yes, the concept of reparations is madness. And will never, ever work on the scale these progressive liberals envision.

Chicago Public Schools Will Call Child Services if You're Late To Pick Up Your Kids From School: https://reason.com/2023/01/12/chicago-public-schools-will-call-child-services-if-youre-late-to-pick-up-your-kids-from-school/

The Government Shouldn't Stop College Athletes From Making Money: https://reason.com/2023/01/12/the-government-shouldnt-stop-college-athletes-from-making-money/ There needs to be lawsuits filed in these states that have passed these unconstitutional laws. NIL is here to stay, and state governments need to butt out.

Chicago Bears name B1G commish Kevin Warren as team president: https://deadspin.com/bears-expected-to-name-b1g-commish-kevin-warren-as-team-1849979593 Interesting move by Mr. Warren.

As I was taught by my late mother you always need to have the attitude of "I may not be right, but I'm never wrong."

From a further revamp of the state tax code into something akin to what is being floated in the U.S. Congress, the Fair Tax: https://reason.com/2023/01/11/house-republicans-want-a-vote-on-the-fairtax-is-it-worth-supporting/

Links please.

Thank you Lions.

https://reason.com/2023/01/09/with-jordan-peterson-occupational-licensing-becomes-a-way-to-censor/ Agreed. This practice of licensing as always been a scourge on society and the economy, and it has only become worse now that it is being wielded as a political weapon as well.

Sounds like a consolidation of Southern Wells and Blackford County schools would be a smart move.

Yet another taxpayer funded boondoggle. I'll pass. Let the Bears ownership pay for a new stadium out of their pocket. Like the Patriots, Dolphins, Redskins, and Panthers, Giants/Jets, and Rams/Chargers.

Agreed. The Bears should trade this pick to the Colts for Leonard, Buckner, and Paye, or a 2-player combination of those two and some draft picks.

https://www.indystar.com/story/news/politics/2023/01/10/indiana-senate-republicans-eliminate-state-income-tax/69791227007/ (Note: Story is behind a paywall) I will be contacting my newly elected representative in the Indiana State Legislature to voice my support of this bill. I suggest all other Hoosiers do the same.

So the plaintiff is bad, or the lawyer is bad?

That the team/NFL neglected to provider proper protection to Mr. Hamlin in the form of better coaching, equipment, rules, etc. He should be set for life financially. And it looks like AI is coming for your job, Bobref: https://nypost.com/2023/01/05/robot-lawyer-powered-by-ai-will-help-fight-speeding-ticket-as-it-takes-first-case-in-court/

I prefer John Riggins.

Have to get that lawsuit against the Bills, Bengals, and/or the NFL filed, because his playing days are over.

Day Three: House Begins Eighth Round Vote For Speaker https://www.zerohedge.com/political/day-three-mccarthy-caves-concessions-republican-holdouts-stand-ground Mr. Trump is elected to speaker, Mr. Biden is 25th amendmented, Ms. Harris is impeached, Mr. Trump is president. Checkmate.

Only if they can afford to pay for them.