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Israel and Iran reached the brink of full-scale war Thursday as the Islamic Republic’s unprovoked rocket attack on soldiers in the Golan Heights gave way to an unprecedented Israeli counter-strike that targeted nearly all Iranian infrastructure inside Syria.
The Israeli Defense Force said it deployed fighter jets and used missiles to strike a range of targets, including military compounds, intelligence operations and munitions warehouses, a statement read. The strikes were Israel’s largest air operation in Syria since the 1973 Yom Kippur War. [Read More]
It’s Not Sci-Fi: China Is Developing Tech That Can Mold U.S. Kids’ Minds (The Federalist)
The recent Facebook controversy focused Americans’ attention on the dangers of uncontrolled access to and use of individual online data. But as a nation we have a notoriously short attention span, which Big Business and Big Data count on to enable business as usual. Beginning with our children’s education data and continuing for the rest of their lives, the sky’s the limit for what can be done when all that glittering data is sifted, stirred, and exploited. [Read More]
Sanders Introduces Legislation to End State ‘Right-to-Work’ Laws (Washington Free Beacon)
Senator Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) filed legislation Wednesday that would significantly strengthen the power of organized labor.
Sanders, along with senators Cory Booker (D., N.J.), Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.), and Kirsten Gillibrand (D., N.Y.), among others, introduced the Workplace Democracy Act, which would make it easier for workers to unionize and enter into contractual negotiations with employers. [Read More]
National NAACP Leader Calls For Mandatory ‘Implicit Bias Testing’ For Public Officials (Daily Wire)
NAACP President Derrick Johnson says his organization would like to see a mandatory ‘implicit bias testing” scheme in place to determine whether public officials who enforce laws or “receive public dollars” for their work have racist tendencies.
In an article for USA Today, Johnson explains that internal bias “impacts us subconsciously,” and that racism has become so institutionalized in American government that police officers and other public officials can no longer recognize how these biases impact their decision-making. [Read More]
Half of all Americans now live in ‘sanctuaries’ protecting immigrants (The Washington Times)
About half of all Americans now live under sanctuary policies that shield illegal immigrants from law enforcement, according to the latest tally of jurisdictions that the Federation for American Immigration Reform is releasing Thursday.
FAIR calculates there were 564 states and municipalities that refuse some level of cooperation with federal immigration authorities as of April 1, up more than 200 since President Trump took office and up more than 500 compared with a decade ago. There were just 40 sanctuaries when President Obama took office.
Entire states such as California, Illinois and New York are now sanctuaries, as well as major cities and counties such as Fairfax, Montgomery and Prince George’s counties and the District of Columbia in the capital region, according to the list. [Read More]
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