Cardinal Blase Cupich, the Archbishop of Chicago, has downplayed bombshell allegations that Pope Francis knowingly rehabilitated an abusive American cardinal, saying the pope has a “bigger agenda” to worry about, such as protecting the environment and migrants. In a television interview with NBC News, Cardinal Cupich commented on a recent 11-page statement by Archbishop Carlo…
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A Slippery, $39 Billion Slope: New Data Analysis Makes Case for Trade, Not Aid
n response to mounting frustration from farmers across the country, the administration last week proposed spending up to $12 billion of taxpayer money to compensate farmers and ranchers for the deep economic losses they are suffering as a result of the ongoing trade war. Notably, America’s agricultural community responded to the proposal by making…
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Time to Drain the Energy Swamp
By Viv ForbesThe Australian electricity market has become a stinking swamp covered with a tangled net of treaties, laws, rules, obligations, prohibitions, targets, taxes and subsidies. The swamp conceals the rubble of demolished coal generators; another plant destined for destruction (Liddell) is gradually sinking in the green ooze. The swamp is slowly claiming paddocks of…
Larry Bell
Trump’s Space Force Makes Practical, Strategic Sense
Speaking at a June meeting of the newly-reestablished National Space Council in the White House, President Trump called for a “Space Force” to be added as a sixth coequal military branch. He ordered the Pentagon to “immediately begin the process” of making it happen. The president said, “When it comes to defending America, it is…
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Have You Ever Been Called a “Free Rider,” or Are You Called to Become One?
By John MitchellThe Oxford Online Dictionary defines a free rider as, “a person who, or organization which, benefits (or seeks to benefit) in some way from the effort of others, without making a similar contribution.” If you are a teacher who has chosen not to join the teachers’ union, someone may have called you this…
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Study Scrutinizes Public School Spending, Non-Teacher Staffing
Milwaukee, WI – With campaigns in full swing, candidates are frantically trying to outdo each other in promising to spend more money on K-12 public schools. Yet little debate is had over the relationship between additional school funding and student performance. This is a topic that deserves in-depth research. To get the ball rolling,…