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Trump calls for death penalty for drug dealers
Posted by Jeff Landauer on 3/19, 2:27pm
President Donald Trump on Monday rolled out his three-part plan to tackle the opioid epidemic -- including some programs long championed by public health advocates -- but it's the proposal to impose the death penalty on drug traffickers that has raised the most eyebrows.(Read more...)
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A Trump-Kim Meeting — Fraught With Risk and Opportunity
Posted by Jeff Landauer on 3/09, 2:41pm
Just over a year into a presidency already full of unusual precedents, President Trump has agreed to a North Korean offer, communicated through South Korean national security adviser Chung Eui-yong, to meet face to face with Kim Jong-un. Though such meetings have been bandied about in the past, no sitting U.S. presiden...(Read more...)
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Antifa Shut Down a Planned Debate Between Yaron Brook and Sargon of Akkad at the King’s College
Posted by Jeff Landauer on 3/06, 1:36pm
Antifa agitators shut down an event at the King's College in London featuring Ayn Rand Institute President Yaron Brook and anti-political-correctness YouTube personality Carl Benjamin (a.k.a. Sargon of Akkad).(Read more...)
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Why Being an Introvert Is Actually the Biggest Blessing
Posted by Luke Setzer on 10/16, 6:30am
"Make no mistake — I fully understand the importance of maintaining human relations. I simply don't think our entire existence should hinge on it. ... Yet solo-shaming persists, because being alone — even for a little while — is perceived by some as unusual or, in lots of cases, wrong. ... The biggest...(Read more...)
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IRS awards multimillion-dollar fraud-prevention contract to Equifax
Posted by Merlin Jetton on 10/03, 3:23pm
Oh, the irony. A no-bid contract, too.(Read more...)
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Responding to Hurricane Harvey
Posted by Michael E. Marotta on 9/18, 6:29am
Still here in the operations center...  Our cut-off is the 23rd of September because FEMA sets 30 days as the limit for "immediate response" to an incident.  After that, the plan moves into the mitigation and remediation phases.  According to FEMA's Incident Command System, you begin as much of the later stages as poss...(Read more...)
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Responding to Hurricane Harvey
Posted by Michael E. Marotta on 9/18, 6:28am
Still here in the operations center...  Our cut-off is the 23rd of September because FEMA sets 30 days as the limit for "immediate response" to an incident.  After that, the plan moves into the mitigation and remediation phases.  According to FEMA's Incident Command System, you begin as much of the later stages as poss...(Read more...)
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Evolution of the American Health Care System
Posted by Merlin Jetton on 7/28, 4:32am
This is EconTalk. It's about an hour long but interesting. Read or listen or both.(Read more...)
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Tony Robbins: To be truly successful, avoid these 3 mental traps
Posted by Luke Setzer on 3/22, 4:36am
Some of the biggest issues he sees among his clients are confirmation bias, recency bias, and loss aversion.(Read more...)
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NOAA Scientists Falsify Data to Dupe World Leaders on Climate Change
Posted by Luke Setzer on 2/15, 8:55am
Scientific sleight-of-hand pushed economy-hobbling Paris Agreement.(Read more...)
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