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Spring signals a critical time for preppers to audit supplies, refresh skills and update contingency plans, treating preparedness as a continuous lifestyle. Conduct thorough checks of canned goods, grains, medical supplies and fuel for expiration, damage or depletion. Keeping a printed catalog ensures accuracy. Test survival tools (e.g., tents, filters and generators) and practice essential skills (firearms, navigation, first aid) to prevent failures in emergencies. Fix winter-damaged gear such as tarps, blades and shelter materials and learn basic DIY repairs via tutorials to maintain self-reliance. Study past disasters (e.g., Hurricane Harvey) to refine strategies, adding new tools (rafts, alternate routes) and…

Workplace Raids Are Coming–and They're Essential Source link

The Upper Middle Class American Dream Source link

The federal school choice tax credit program should be an easy choice for the remaining undecided states. But politics are getting in the way. Source link

Phil Lord and Christopher Miller’s ‘Project Hail Mary’: A Review Source link

Can states force public schools to display the Ten Commandments in classrooms? The Supreme Court may soon decide this, after a federal appeals court upheld a controversial Texas law earlier this week.  On Tuesday, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld Senate Bill (S.B.) 10, requiring Texas public schools to display posters of the Ten Commandments in a “conspicuous place.” It also requires that the posters, which must be at least 16 inches wide and 20 inches tall, display a specific version of the commandments. Any classroom without a poster “may, but is not required to, purchase posters or copies…

  NA The rise of “abundance liberalism” is one of the few good political developments of the last few years. Abundance liberals and related thinkers like Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson (authors of the best-known book promoting the movement), Matt Yglesias, Catherine Rampell, Kelsey Piper, Noah Smith, Jerusalem Demsas, and others are left-liberals who advocate market-based approaches to a variety of important issues. Smith and famous law professor Cass Sunstein have even written recent articles expression new-found appreciation for libertarianism. I think the growth of this movement is extremely promising, even though it has some flaws and internal contradictions. And…

Do the internal Supreme Court memos concerning the stay of the Clean Power Plan reveal judicial hypocrisy or a failure of the justices to apply the proper standard of review? Many commentators seem to think so. Many also seem to think the memos (and those by the Chief Justice in particular) contain errors or omissions that were not commented upon by the other justices. At Divided Argument, William Baude and Richard Re respond to the claims that the Court failed to adequately or consistently account for irreparable injury to the government and did not apply the appropriate standard of review.…

America has a spending problem. It also has a health care problem. These are not two separate crises but rather the same crisis wearing different clothes. The Cato Institute’s new Handbook on Affordability is a great resource to understand the root problem and how to fix it. Start with a recap of the fiscal picture. The federal government runs large deficits so persistently that they’ve become a structural threat to price stability. As Romina Boccia and Dominik Lett argue in the handbook’s second chapter, when debt expands faster than the economy, investors begin pricing in one of three outcomes: higher future…

The latest crypto view from the securities agency concludes software that clears the way for securities transactions with individual wallets won’t trip regulations. What to know: The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has issued another crypto-world policy statement, with the staff finding that broker regulations won’t be triggered by software interfaces allowing users securities transactions through self-hosted wallets. The statement doesn’t have the force of a rule and joins an increasingly lengthy list of similar findings meant to give the industry some clarity over what’s allowed in the crypto space. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said that software that…