Thursday, February 23, 2017

@10:11, 2/23/17

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Opinion

This Century Is Broken

The decline of economic growth is at the bottom of ethnic nationalism’s rise, faith in democracy’s fall and world order’s dissipation.

Broken is different from jammed.
The Federal Government must spend a great deal of money at the bottom of the economy.  Eventually that will mean higher taxes at the top of the economy.
Patent law must become shorter term and cheaper.
Copyright is the creators business plan. It should end with the creator's life.
Learning should be publicly supported.


Opinion

President Trump Takes Aim at the Environment

Invoking a false argument about saving “many thousands” of jobs, the president has again retreated from responsibility.

There is no right to profit.

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U.S.

Citing Racist Testimony, Justices Call for New Sentencing in Texas Death Penalty Case

The Supreme Court said that a psychologist’s testimony in the murder case of Duane Buck was laced with “a particularly noxious strain of racial prejudice.”

Duane Buck gets a new sentence.

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U.S.

McMaster May Reorganize Trump’s Foreign Policy Team Once Again

H. R. McMaster, the new national security adviser, is considering giving himself control of Homeland Security and full access to the military and intelligence agencies.

There is no absolute security.
The attempt is intensely political.

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Opinion

The Anti-Vaccine Movement Gains a Friend in the White House

The president’s dangerous embrace of conspiracy theorists could endanger thousands of lives.

Vaccines have been proven safe and effective.

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Business Day

How Small Firms Can Defuse a Political Threat and Blunt a Boycott

Corporations have crisis management firms at their behest. Small-business owners have to rely on their own wits to respond to political animosity.

Good advice for the moment.
Fighting faith directly only strengthens it.

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N.Y. / Region

An Anti-Black Slur on an Interracial Couple’s Garage Stirs Tension in Stamford

An interracial couple in Stamford, Conn., said they will keep up the slur on their garage door until the police solve the crime.

The city of Stamford has a problem.

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N.Y. / Region

Bull Flees Queens Slaughterhouse, but Reprieve is Brief

A bull escaped from a slaughterhouse in Queens and eluded the police for more than two hours before being captured and taken to a shelter, where it died.

Possibly a tranquilizer overdose as the cause of death.

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Business Day

Norton Rose and Chadbourne to Combine in Latest Merger of Large Law Firms

Norton Rose Fulbright and Chadbourne & Parke said they would form a new firm with more than 4,000 lawyers and an expected annual revenue near $2 billion.

A real job is a good thing.

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U.S.

Muslim Group Wins Right to Build Mosque in Michigan City

The city of Sterling Heights settled a lawsuit that would allow the house of worship, though some in the community were vocally opposed to it.

The Muslims get their Mosque.

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