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Obamacare

Warren, Biden Support Taxpayer-Funded Transgender Surgery

Democratic presidential candidates Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren want American taxpayers to pay for transgender surgeries. The 2020 candidates spoke at a LGBTQ forum GLAAD, the Advocate and the Cedar Rapids Gazette hosted in Iowa on Sept. 20, according to V…

bubmagSeptember 24, 2019

Donald Trump

Donald Trump: Boris Johnson is ‘doing very well’

Donald Trump: Boris Johnson is 'doing very well'

bubmagSeptember 24, 2019

Global Warming

Trump calls teen Greta Thunberg a ‘happy young girl’ after her angry, impassioned speech – Global News

U.S. President Donald Trump took to Twitter in an apparent attempt to mock 16-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg after she delivered an impassioned speech at the United Nations Climate Action Summit on Monday. “She seems like a very happy young…

bubmagSeptember 24, 2019

NSA

Update: A few comments on the Seasonal Pattern for House Prices

CR Note: This is a repeat of earlier posts with updated graphs. A few key points:1) There is a clear seasonal pattern for house prices.2) The surge in distressed sales during the housing bust distorted the seasonal pattern.3) Even though distressed sales are…

bubmagSeptember 24, 2019

Paris

The Disparate Reactions to a New Woody Allen Film

PARIS—At an arthouse on the Left Bank, a cinephile’s paradise thick with revival houses, moviegoers spilled out onto the sidewalk after the premiere of Woody Allen’s latest film, A Rainy Day in New York. The movie, which stars Timothée Chalamet and Elle Fanni…

bubmagSeptember 24, 2019

Water Pollution

Waters of the United States

The Environmental Protection Agency and Army Corps of Engineers recently announced the official repeal of an Obama administration definition of which streams, wetlands, rivers, and lakes are under the jurisdiction of the federal government for purposes of the…

bubmagSeptember 24, 2019

Greta Thunberg

‘Greta’: A young activist’s moment, praised and criticized

UNITED NATIONS (AP) She stepped onto the biggest of global stages to face the most diverse of audiences, and she made it count. "How dare you?" she kept saying to some of the world's most powerful people. "You are failing us," she told them. Sometimes, a mom…

bubmagSeptember 24, 2019

Anti-Putin Protests

Russia Begins Installing Equipment To Cut Its Access To World Wide Web

Getty Images Earlier this year, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed the Russian Internet (RuNet) into law to protect the countrys communications infrastructure in case it was disconnected from the world wide webor so he said. Critics argued it was openin…

bubmagSeptember 24, 2019

eSports

MTG invests $250,000 in emotional health aid Mightier Games

Newsbrief: The typically esports-focused game company MTG has invested $250,000 from its venture capital fund into Mightier Games, a game-driven program that aims to help kids with ADHD, anxiety, and anger issues improve emotional regulation skills. Overall,…

bubmagSeptember 24, 2019

Hiroshima

DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: N.J. Schools Pushing Far-Left Indoctrination. What the Hel…

DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: N.J. Schools Pushing Far-Left Indoctrination. What the Hell Is Betsy DeVos Doing? Melissa Barnett, a supervisor of English Language Arts in the Washington Township School District in New Jersey, caused outrage on Twi…

bubmagSeptember 24, 2019

Warren, Biden Support Taxpayer-Funded Transgender Surgery

Donald Trump: Boris Johnson is ‘doing very well’

Trump calls teen Greta Thunberg a ‘happy young girl’ after her angry, impassioned speech – Global News

Update: A few comments on the Seasonal Pattern for House Prices

The Disparate Reactions to a New Woody Allen Film

Waters of the United States

‘Greta’: A young activist’s moment, praised and criticized

Russia Begins Installing Equipment To Cut Its Access To World Wide Web

MTG invests $250,000 in emotional health aid Mightier Games

DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: N.J. Schools Pushing Far-Left Indoctrination. What the Hel…

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