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Archive: ITTBF 8-23-17

The Nation – by Jesse A Myerson

Let’s get rid of private housing.

Plenty of time and effort have lately gone into analyzing a host of related crises—homelessness, unaffordable urban real estate, devastating gentrification, and a housing bubble whose burst landed us in the Great Recession. But the explanations tend to be incomplete, the attributions shortsighted, and the policies rearguard. For every liberal who insists that deregulating zoning laws will curb skyrocketing urban housing prices, there’s a conservative who blames the 1977 Community Reinvestment Act for the housing bubble, and none of them is anywhere near the mark.   Continue reading “How to Get Rid of Your Landlord and Socialize American Housing, in 3 Easy Steps”

Fox 10 News

PHOENIX (KSAZ) – Phoenix police officials say officers deployed pepper spray and pepper balls to a crowd outside the Phoenix Convention Center, following President Donald Trump’s rally.

Phoenix police say some people in the crowd began throwing rocks, bottles, and other projectiles at police officers and someone in the crowd dispersed tear gas in the area.  Continue reading “POST-RALLY CHAOS: 4 arrested as protests outside Trump rally turn violent”

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PHOENIX (KSAZ) – Fox News is reporting that President Donald Trump will not pardon Former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio.   Continue reading “No pardon for Former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, but Trump appears to hint at future pardon”

Salon – by Jesse Myerson

As the commentary around the recent deaths of Nelson Mandela, Amiri Baraka and Pete Seeger made abundantly clear, most of what Americans think they know about capitalism and communism is arrant nonsense. This is not surprising, given our country’s history of Red Scares designed to impress that anti-capitalism is tantamount to treason. In 2014, though, we are too far removed from the Cold War-era threat of thermonuclear annihilation to continue without taking stock of the hype we’ve been made, despite Harry Allen’s famous injunction, to believe. So, here are seven bogus claims people make about communism and capitalism.   Continue reading “Why you’re wrong about communism: 7 huge misconceptions about it (and capitalism)”

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Archive: ITTBF 8-22-17

Democrat and Chronicle – by James Goodman, Brian Sharp

Among the 893 people who were arrested during the Rochester riots of 1964, according to the city’s statistics, the vast majority were either unemployed or unskilled workers.

Those 804 people gave a sense of the Rochester that was below the radar screen of community leaders when the riots broke out.

“It was a great shock to people who were very confident in the benevolent nature of the community. Clearly, generous benevolence was not sufficient to deal with the problems,” said Chris Lindley, who was then teaching history at the University of Rochester and later served as deputy mayor.   Continue reading “1964 Rochester riots spawned FIGHT, other community efforts”

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Archive: ITTBF 8-21-17

PJ Media – by Paula Bolyard

Google revealed in a blog post that it is now using machine learning to document “hate crimes and events” in America. They’ve partnered with liberal groups like ProPublica, BuzzFeed News, and the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) to make information about “hate events” easily accessible to journalists. And now, there are troubling signs that this tool could be used to ferret out writers and websites that run afoul of the progressive orthodoxy.

In the announcement, Simon Rogers, data editor of Google News Labs, wrote:

Continue reading “Is Google Working with Liberal Groups to Snuff Out Conservative Websites?”

CBC News

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has a message for asylum seekers: crossing illegally into the country doesn’t offer an advantage when it comes to obtaining refugee status in Canada.

“If I could directly speak to people seeking asylum, I’d like to remind them there’s no advantage,” Trudeau said at a news conference Sunday in Montreal.

“Our rules, our principles and our laws apply to everyone.”   Continue reading “Trudeau to asylum seekers: Crossing border illegally won’t fast track immigration”

Fox 5 News

Border Patrol agents at a Texas checkpoint found 60 people hiding in a refrigerated tractor-trailer on Saturday.

Agents assigned to the Falfurrias Border Patrol checkpoint sent a truck for secondary inspection that morning after a K-9 alerted officers to the trailer, according to to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

Authorities said that upon searching the trailer, which had been set to 49 degrees, they found 60 people inside.   Continue reading “60 people found in refrigerated trailer at Texas border crossing”

The Guardian – by Mark Keierleber

It’s been an excruciating six months since 14-year-old Fatima Avelica watched, sobbing, as immigration agents picked up her father on their way to school.

Fatima’s father, Rómulo Avelica-González, who immigrated illegally from Mexico in the 1990s, had driven Fatima and her 12-year-old sister, Yuleni, to school in Los Angeles every morning for years, despite a deportation order hanging over his head. But a month after Donald Trump took office and promptly called for ramped-up immigration arrests, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents pulled over the family’s car.   Continue reading “‘Sanctuary schools’ across America defy Trump’s immigration crackdown”

The Hill – by Niv Elis

Funding for President Trump’s proposed border wall is poised to be a central issue in this fall’s showdown over government funding.

Unless Congress approves a new funding bill, the government will shut down on Oct. 1.

Trump is demanding funds for the wall that was the centerpiece of his successful presidential campaign, but Democrats have warned they will vote en masse against any legislation that includes money for the wall.   Continue reading “Trump poised for a September fight over border wall”