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Finland’s Basic Income Experiment Comes to a Close
Finland will be ending its trial program of an unconditional monthly payment to 2,000 unemployed Finns. The program had come about with the support of a coalition of Greens, centrists, libertarians, the Centre party, and the far-left, and faced opposition from unions, social democrats, and mainstream ...
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Alfie Evans’s Father Giving His Son Mouth-to-Mouth as Baby Holds On to Life
The father of twenty-three-month-old Alfie Evans told reporters on Tuesday that he is giving his son mouth-to-mouth resuscitation after the hospital withdrew the baby's life support.
"Both Kate and I had to give him mouth to mouth resuscitation to keep him alive because his lips turned blue," the baby's father ...
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Court Takes Half-Step toward Animals Suing
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled, following an earlier case, that animals can have standing under the Constitution (Article III) to bring lawsuits. (Article III "standing" requires that the party bringing suit have suffered an actual injury.)
Some readers may remember the ridiculous PETA suit for ...
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Infant Clings to Life after British Hospital Removes Life Support against Parents’ Wishes
Twenty-three-month-old Alfie Evans is clinging to life after a British hospital removed him from life support Monday against the wishes of his parents.
Evans's parents lost a legal challenge in February that would have allowed them to take him to Italy for treatment after the Alder Hey Children's Hospital ...
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Trump and the North Korean Tipping Point
The world has been stunned by North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un’s announcement last week that he was suspending his country’s nuclear tests in preparation for the impending meeting with President Trump. Even critics have had to concede that Trump’s bellicose rhetoric since last summer regarding the North ...
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E Pluribus . . . Gridlock
A mantra we hear everywhere these days is that diversity is a good thing. And no doubt, it is. Diversity facilitates an exchange of ideas and opinions, and it promotes economic growth. Moreover, the alternative to diversity is to suppress the views and opinions of some subset of citizens, which is completely ...
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The New York Times Best-Seller List: My Response to the Times’ Response
In my last column -- "The Times Best-Seller List: Another Reason Americans Don't Trust the Media" -- I used my recently published book as evidence that the New York Times best-seller list is not a best-seller list.
I pointed out that The Rational Bible: Exodus, the first volume of my commentary on the first ...
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Trade Misunderstandings
I was distracted by other policy topics last week but not enough not to notice Peter Navarro’s article in the Wall Street Journal, headlined “China’s Faux Comparative Advantage.” Considering Navarro’s position in the White House, it is unfortunate that it demonstrates some serious misunderstandings ...
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