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Pelosi throws shade as Green New Deal unveiled: ‘Green dream or whatever they call it’: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pelosi-ocasio-cortezs-green-new-deal-the-green-dream-or-whatever-they-call-it

Trump's Absurd Claim that Americans Are Free from Government Coercion: https://mises.org/wire/trumps-absurd-claim-americans-are-free-government-coercion Here! Here!

http://reason.com/archives/2019/02/06/nevada-fighters-and-the-right-to-trash-t Yet another instance where government needs to butt out and let the private organization, this time the UFC, handle this. Like the article says the UFC already has a Code of Conduct which includes prohibitions on certain speech. Let the UFC fine or suspend the guilty parties, not the government. And whatever happened to "stick and stones" in our society? That is what my parents always drilled into me, and it's worked out pretty well.

lol.

How do you personally define a post as a QUALITY post?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/politicians-dont-fear-debt-they-fear-unpopularity/2019/02/05/7bb2e512-297a-11e9-b011-d8500644dc98_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.2804e66c8a11 Yep, let someone else, like our children & grandchildren, worry about the future. 'Tis the uni-party's cowardly line.

You can't tell the score by quarters on Harrell's site, but the 2018 Frankfort team could have had this mercy rule invoked on 9 out of it's 10 games: http://pastfb.homestead.com/logs/Frankfort.htm#loaded

Surging Wealth Inequality Is Poverty's Greatest Enemy: https://mises.org/wire/surging-wealth-inequality-povertys-greatest-enemy Agreed.

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Taxes Are Getting Weaponized for Partisan Purposes: http://reason.com/archives/2019/02/04/taxes-get-weaponized-for-partisan-purpos/

Do you volunteer to moderate such a subreddit? Good luck.

https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/02/blackface-controversy-zero-tolerance-retroactive-repudiation/ One problem with Bouie’s uncompromising stance is this: A policy that condemns public figures who have had “any association” with blackface would thin out the supply of reputable public figures rather quickly. Comics and movie stars would be the first to get “canceled.” Jimmy Fallon did blackface to impersonate Chris Rock; Jimmy Kimmel did it to impersonate Karl Malone and Oprah Winfrey; SNL’s Fred Armisen did it to impersonate President Obama; Ashton Kutcher did brownface to depict a stereotypical Indian man in a Popchips commercial; Robert Downey Jr. wore blackface in Tropic Thunder; Rob McElhenney and Kaitlin Olson, who play “Mac” and “Dee” on the critically acclaimed sitcom It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, have both donned blackface in the show. And there’s no reason to stop at the living. As demonstrated in a recent New York Times op-ed, “‘Mary Poppins’ and a Nanny’s Shameful Flirting with Blackface,” the grave provides no protection from the professionally offended class. To that end, perhaps we should posthumously repudiate Judy Garland (of Wizard of Oz fame), Gene Wilder (of Willy Wonka fame), and Shirley Temple (of Shirley Temple’s Storybook fame), all of whom did blackface. In the sphere of music, we could start by “canceling” living artists such as Joni Mitchell, continue by denouncing deceased artists like Frank Zappa, and then finish by boycotting the Metropolitan Operafor portraying Othello in blackface until as recently as 2015. At the risk of giving the Twitter mob too many ideas, I’ll stop there. But suffice it to say that the listgoes on. Anyone uncomfortable with the liquidation of much of America’s artistic class should reject the idea of a retroactive zero-tolerance policy toward blackface. Instead, we should take a more measured approach, one that, without minimizing the ugly legacy of minstrelsy, allows a modicum of mercy for the accused and accounts for the intentions of the transgressor. We should also recognize the fact that “blackface” is an umbrella term. It covers everything from a white adult performing a nauseatingly racist caricature of a black person, to a pair of 12-year-old girls — who had probably never heard the word “minstrelsy,” much less studied the history of minstrelsy — having fun with makeup at a sleepover. That the same word is used in the media to describe both scenarios should not obscure the fact that, ethically speaking, they belong in separate universes. We should also consider the idea that blackface need not be considered radioactive for all time. Such was the position taken by Bayard Rustin, Martin Luther King Jr.’s strategist and the chief organizer of the March on Washington. In 1951, referring to blackface, he wrote: Rustin recognized the deep hurt that minstrelsy caused in his day. But he did not see this as an eternal reality. He hoped that attitudes toward blackface would evolve over time in the same way that attitudes toward Irish jokes had evolved. He wrote: Having been arrested 23 times on account of his activism, Rustin probably understood racism more viscerally than any living activist you could name. Nevertheless, his goal, like King’s, was for everyone to play by the same social rules. For Rustin, this meant that if black people could do whiteface, then white people could do blackface. Some will object: America is not post-racial. We are not there yet, and until we get there, invoking the logic of color blindness is simply denying history. But the logic of color blindness doesn’t depend on the absence of racism. It depends only on our desire not to needlessly racialize the pursuit of justice. Moreover, those who say “we are not there yet” rarely specify what would count as evidence of our having gotten “there.” Indeed if nothing would or could count as evidence of our arrival, then saying “we are not there yet” is merely a surrender to eternal outrage. Such people are less concerned with making racial progress than they are addicted to the struggle for its own sake. In any event, the best way to never arrive “there” is to “cancel” anyone who questions how far we have to go. Let the professionally offended class continue their Noble Struggle. But don’t give them dominion over the public sphere. But isn't more fun to be perpetually offended?

https://www.npr.org/2019/02/05/691843161/pope-francis-acknowledges-for-first-time-sexual-abuse-of-nuns-by-priests Can the leadership of the Roman Catholic Church, its priests, bishops, etc. sink any lower? This is truly disgusting. How exactly will Pope Francis end the problem?

Why was this such a bad decision for Lawrence Township? I'm not aware of this history here.

What Was Missing From Trump's State of the Union? America's $1 Trillion Deficit: http://reason.com/blog/2019/02/05/whats-missing-from-trumps-state-of-the-u Agreed. A ticking time bomb we are leaving for your children and grandchildren to tackle. Sickening and cowardly. What would the remaining members of the "greatest generation" think of this?

A fun name a former co-worker of mine, and Lafayette native, used when referring to the newspaper.

Unbiased citations please.

I don't understand why the members of the communities where these mega schools exist continue to allow them to exist. Reminds me of a song............ I take my card and I stand in line To make a buck I work overtime Dear sir letters keep comin' in the mail I work my back till it's racked with pain The boss can't even recall my name I show up late and I'm docked, it never fails I feel like just another, spoke in a great big wheel Like a tiny blade of grass in a great big field To workers I'm just another drone To Ma Bell I'm just another phone I'm just another statistic on a sheet To teachers I'm just another child To IRS I'm another file I'm just another consensus on the street Gonna cruise outta this city, head down to the sea Gonna shout out at the ocean, hey it's me And I feel like a number, feel like a number Feel like a stranger A stranger in this land, I feel like a number I'm not a number, I'm not a number Damn it I'm a man, I said I'm a man Gonna cruise out of this city, head down to the sea Gonna shout out at the ocean, hey it's me And I feel like a number, feel like a number Feel like a stranger Stranger in this land, feel like a number I'm not a number, I'm not a number Damn it I'm a man, I feel like a number Feel like a number, feel like a number I feel like a... I feel... feel like a... feel like a I feel like a... I feel like a ...I feel like a... I feel like a

Ahh, those were the days. And with the benevolent TA looking out for it all.

A lot these you can just go and clear your browser cookies for that site and voila!, you have another 5-10 articles you can view. In Chrome go to Settings-->Advanced-->Content Settings-->Cookies-->See all cookies and site data. Then simply search for the site(s) cookies you want to removed and hit the "Remove All" button. In fact just did this a few minutes ago for the Lafayette Urinal & Courier, and Indianapolis Star sites.

Just no. If you think Harrell's is a cesspool the shear amount of trolling and sh*tposting on reddit would make your head spin.

Cory Booker Is Running for President. Must He Run Away from School Choice?: http://reason.com/blog/2019/02/01/cory-booker-president-school-choice Well the obvious solution is the get the federal government of out of the education business entirely. Until then you will have flip-flopping. The quest for power trumps principles.

Must be running an ad blocker in your browser, or the ad sites are being blocked at the ISP/network level. Has the GID technical staff re-enabled no ads for GID members that have donated here on the new site?