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As our train wound its way out of London and back into the countryside, the football fans dwindled in number until the only passenger who was left wearing an NFL jersey was me. In the grand scheme of things, it wouldn't have mattered too much if they had lost; the purpose of the day was to see what the NFL was like in London and to introduce my dad to the game I love, as he had introduced me to soccer when I was a little boy. For a moment, two worlds collided, with the NFL fans talking about their game and the soccer fans talking about theirs - never the twain to meet. He had never watched an NFL game in his life, let alone in person, and the sport that he does watch religiously - soccer - is different in a number of pretty important ways. [Extracted from the article]

The article discusses proposed bills in Congress that aim to restrict children's access to social media and pornography on the internet. While acknowledging the real problems these bills seek to address, such as bullying and exposure to inappropriate content, the author expresses concern about the potential negative consequences of government intervention. They argue that implementing age-verification systems and granting the government power to regulate internet access could fundamentally change the decentralized and unsupervised nature of the internet. The author concludes that the risks of destroying the internet outweigh the benefits of restricting minors' access to certain content. [Extracted from the article]

The article discusses the unpopularity of both Donald Trump and Joe Biden among the American public. It highlights that Biden's approval rating is currently at 38 percent, lower than Trump's 42 percent. The author argues that the Democratic Party's decision to run Biden again and maintain the status quo is risky and ignores the public's dislike for both candidates. The article suggests that the Democrats need to adjust their strategy and offer appealing policies to win over voters. [Extracted from the article]

It is a matter of considerable irony that the calls for "reforming" the Court have reached their fever pitch at the exact same moment that the Court has begun to sedulously execute its role. Nevertheless, there is a modest way for the courts to do this and an immodest way for the courts to do it, and, thus far, this Court has stayed firmly on the modest side. If one were to take the Court's left-wing critics at face value, one could be forgiven for concluding that, since its new 6-3 majority was secured in 2020, the Court had begun to heed these cavillous voices and to reinvent America according to their terms. [Extracted from the article]

As we have observed in the political fallout from Trump's two indictments, what is good for Trump among the most committed Republican voters is, in fact, toxic for him among the electorate at large. They spent tens of millions of dollars promoting Trump-backed candidates in the 2022 primaries, betting those candidates would lose. Practically speaking, there is no difference between the insistence that, because Donald Trump was indicted, he ipso facto must not be the Republican nominee and the insistence that, because Donald Trump was indicted, he ipso facto must be the nominee. All told, it would make more sense to say that Trump is the only candidate who cannot prevail against Joe Biden than that he is the only candidate who can. [Extracted from the article]

A year has now passed since the Dobbs decision was leaked, and, despite having had more than enough time to contrive a coherent and persuasive argument against its holding, progressives have managed to come up with nothing more noble in the intervening time than to insist that the Court ought to be destroyed or stripped of its authority or packed with sympathetic judges (all of which, in practice, amount to precisely the same thing). Now, progressives have soured on it to such a degree that they have started "questioning the legitimacy of the Court and proposing court-packing schemes." Before Dobbs, American abortion policy was decided by the courts, which, for nearly half a century, had routinely struck down the will of the majority in the name of individual rights; after Dobbs, the states were free to regulate the practice as they saw fit. [Extracted from the article]

Constitutional carry has no effect on the preexisting background-check rules: The federal system exists independently of state law, and states that abolish their carry permits are not obliged to alter their background-check rules in concert. Since 2003, 24 states have joined Vermont, bringing the total number of states in which law-abiding citizens may carry concealed firearms without first having to apply for a permit to 25 - or exactly half of the 50 that have been admitted to the Union thus far. Likewise if the case had come down in 1996, by which point 30 states had adopted "shall issue" but there were still twelve "may issue" states and seven "no issue" states in existence. [Extracted from the article]

And yet, in making their case for this particular action, they have been forced to complain about the "debt crisis" that has resulted from the widespread mismatch between what college graduates have spent to obtain their degrees and what they have gained by having done so. ARTICLES One could spend a merry week listing the problems with President Biden's recent act of student-loan "forgiveness." If, on balance, the procurement of a college degree represents a ticket to the good life, then there is no "debt crisis" to speak of, and no need for a taxpayer-funded bailout. [Extracted from the article]

When described neutrally, the bill that Disney opposes is not only popular among a majority of Floridians (and of Americans), it is popular among a majority of Floridians of all parties. Instead, Disney's former CEO, Bob Iger, seems to have fired off an ill-considered tweet, some of Disney's staff seem to have followed suit, and Bob Chapek seems to have jumped in with both feet. ARTICLES IN some quarters of the American Right, it has become an article of faith that when the wishes of conservatives are pitted against the wishes of the progressive movement and its allies in the press, academia, Hollywood, Silicon Valley, and the S&P 500, the conservatives "always lose.". [Extracted from the article]

In the article, the author discusses how former Florida Department of Health (FDOH) dashboard manager Rebekah Jones allegedly advanced a conspiracy theory that state Governor Ron DeSantis manipulated COVID-19 data. Other topics include some Democrats who believed Jones' claims like Nikki Fried and Charlie Crist, and the thousands of dollars raised by Jones from GoFundMe accounts.

HAVING watched closely the manner in which questions of liberty and power are batted around in the first part of the 21st century--most recently during the disgraceful contretemps that Indiana's [...]

The article focuses on the U.S. republicans disagree on how much the outgoing U.S. president reshaped their movement. Topics include nationalism requires rebalancing policy priorities away from greater globalization and toward the restoration of an integral domestic economy; and economic growth should be more widely spread around the country, rather than clustered in super-wealthy cities on the coasts.

Outside of the pandemic, DeSantis has not shown a great desire to interfere with the health-and-safety rules that govern businesses in the state, and what steps he has taken have not been applicable to everyday life but are preparation for the next emergency. What happened, as DeSantis himself implies, is that Disney decided to "wage war on state policies regarding families and children", and, in retaliation, DeSantis decided to take away its special district. ARTICLES 'FIGHTING for freedom is not always easy", Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida argued in his second inaugural address, "because the threats to freedom are more complex and more widespread than they have been in the past.". [Extracted from the article]

The author asserts that the virtues required by political order and classical liberalism are in decline as culture goes against the law and institutions committed to liberalism are becoming less committed to it. Those virtues are humility, tolerance and forbearance. It mentions the investigation by Robert Mueller into the election campaign of Donald Trump. It also considers the sexual assault case involving federal judge Brett Kavanaugh whose accusations were brought by Christine Blasey Ford.

In the article, the author discusses how the authorities should tackle issues involving social media platforms like Twitter following the U.S. Capitol attack incited by President Donald Trump. Also cited are the issue of whether the Internet should be regulated or not, the design of the Internet as a decentralized and neutral platform, and the Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.

Per existing rules, candidates for induction must have been a head coach for at least ten years (which Leach was), have won at least 100 games (which Leach did), and have a .600 win rate - which Leach missed out on by just 0.4 percent. Still reeling from his early death, many of Leach's fans have reacted to this news by insisting that these rules are unjust, by proposing that the National Football Foundation ought to "round up" the percentage to .600, or even by demanding that Leach be treated as a special case and accorded a waiver. By 2000, Leach had made such a name for himself that, after a year at Oklahoma, he was hired as the head coach of Texas Tech, where he stayed for ten seasons - all of them winning. [Extracted from the article]

In 2014, Republicans swept the midterms in one of the greatest GOP victories of the previous hundred years. Since 2014, the Republicans have had one good election cycle - the election of 2016 - and, in that year, their presidential candidate got 46 percent of the vote against the most hated woman in American political history. Had they wished to, Republican primary voters could have learned a valuable lesson from this: Namely, that when the different parts of the party constructively shape each other, Republicans can win big. [Extracted from the article]

SPECIAL ISSUE: THE MIDTERMS RARELY has a party deserved to lose its unified controlof the federal government as much as the Democratsdid in the year 2022. Voters responded tothese promises by handing the House of Representatives overto the Republicans and by declining to give the Democratsthose extra two seats in the Senate. [Extracted from the article]

The author argues that the political system known as socialism is not democratic, and assertions that democracy can be upheld within socialist systems are mistaken despite efforts of the American left to introduce democratic socialism in the U.S. The author also argues that socialism is incompatible with the U.S. Constitution. The author also argues that the historical record proves that socialism is ineffective and counterproductive.

The author comments on interpretations of the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution regarding the right to bear arms, suggesting that it was designed to protect an individual right rather than states' rights to raise militias. He looks at the history of the Second Amendment from its creation in 1781 through the end of the Civil War, covering Supreme Court decisions on its legal meanings.

The author discusses the qualities that make the state of Florida a good place to live in. Topics covered include Florida's good weather, the geographical diversity of its population, and its standing as the entertainment capital of the world. Also discussed are Florida's everyday services that are both friendly and efficient.

Or, to put it another way: There is no path to a post-Trump Republican Party that goes around, rather than through, Donald Trump. ARTICLES UNLIKE Tennyson's star-crossed Light Brigade, those among us who hope that the Republican Party does not renominate Donald Trump in 2024 possess a great deal of agency over our fates. As it was with Iraq, this approach is profoundly mistaken, for the most likely alternative to the Republicans who coexisted with Donald Trump is not some slate of immaculately conceived neophytes; it is more Donald Trump. [Extracted from the article]

These days, CNN is a peculiar and unlovely hybrid of progressive propaganda outlet, oleaginous media apologist, sexless cultural scold, and frenzied Donald Trump stalkerblog. As Lemon did this, the technical team at CNN changed the chyron at the bottom of the screen so that it ceased to describe Owens as an "African American faith leader" and labeled him instead as a "controversial pastor.". [Extracted from the article]

The article discusses the alleged importance of college degrees in Americans' attitudes, including in regard to the relationship between income and college degree and the likelihood of American voters with academic degrees voting for U.S. Democratic Party candidates. It compares the education levels of the working class and those with white collar jobs.

In the article, the author reports on the highlights of the 27th Amelia Island Concours d'Elegance car show that was held in Amelia Island, Florida in March 2022. The show is aimed at celebrating well-designed automobiles like Ferraris, Alfa Romeos and Porsches. Also cited are the winners at the show, including the 1934 Duesenberg J-531 Convertible Coupe.

In the article, the author discusses why the Republican Party does not need to become involved in government activism. Also cited are the suggestion by Marco Rubio and his allies to turn the party into a working-class party, the need for the Republicans to stop campaigning against the entitlement state, and the performance of Republican presidential candidates in attracting the votes of the working class.

The article discusses freedom of speech in relation to the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Topics include the history of U.S. regulation of dissent and anti-war activism, the relation between politics and culture, and the notions of fascism and authoritarianism in U.S. politics. U.S. Supreme Court assessments of freedom of expression are noted.

The author comments on the press coverage of President Donald Trump. He mentions the lack of accountability in journalism which leads to less credibility, the lack of objectivity in coverage of Republicans vs. Democrats, and the lack of historical background in news stories.

The author discusses the significance of the U.S. Bill of Rights in the U.S. Constitution and their importance in the 21st century, particularly concerning the growth of government and as a set of instructions for self-government and the U.S. political system.

The author expresses his opinion on the history of the right to keep and bear arms in the U.S. according to historian Carol Anderson. He cites the inability of her book based on the 1619 Project to manifest a singular inability to portray the U.S. as a vehicle for the suppression of non-whites. He mentions the claims of the project about the role of slavery in the American Revolution. He notes the assertion of Anderson that the Bill of Rights was influenced by slave rebellions.

In the article, the author presents a secular view against abortion. He claims that the core case of abortion is that the killing of innocent human beings is wrong. Also cited are how becoming a parent has strengthened his stand against abortion, and the need to care for children with special needs like Down syndrome, cerebral palsy and autism.

The article discusses the executive power of the U.S. president throughout U.S. history from its founding through the mid 2010s, with a particular focus on presidents' efforts to use executive authority to override the U.S. Congress and U.S. courts. U.S. presidents' use of federal agencies to override Congress, including in regard to the U.S. Constitution and environmental administrative rules issued by U.S. government agencies and through referencing professor Philip Hamburger, is discussed.

The article comments on the implication of the decisions made by U.S. President Joseph Biden in August 2021. Topics discussed include the failure of Biden to address the foreign-policy crisis facing the U.S., response of the president to the ruling of the Supreme Court that the administration exceeded its statutory authority in extending eviction moratorium, and the alleged failure of the federal government to focus on what is necessary to fulfill its basic mission.

The author discusses his reasoning for deleting his account on the social media platform Facebook and critiques the business model and practices of Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg, particularly Facebook's involvement in the 2016 U.S. presidential election and in U.S. politics, in addition to the social influence of Facebook.

The article discusses how Milwaukee County, Wisconsin Sheriff David A. Clarke Jr. became a political celebrity, and it mentions Clarke's support for the private ownership of firearms in America. According to the article, Clarke issued a radio advertisement in 2013 which states that citizens have a duty to protect themselves and their families. The U.S. National Rifle Association is mentioned, along with the opposition to Clarke's views about gun rights and self-government.

The article examines the terrorist attacks that occurred in Paris, France on January 7, 2015 in the office of the periodical "Charlie Hebdo." Topics include what comprises the French identity, the problem of antisemitism in France, and the flight of French Jew from France in response to antisemitic threats.

The article discusses the political scenario of France in the wake of presidential elections. It offers information on contenders for the 2017 elections which include the former Prime Minister Francois Fillon, Marine Le Pen from the Front National, the left wing candidate of Parti Socialiste Benoît Hamon, and an independent candidate Emmanuel Macron.

The article discusses the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA's) outer space exploration, within the context of private sector spaceflights. An overview of space shuttle launches from the John F. Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida is provided.

The article looks at Pennsylvania State University climate scientist Michael E. Mann as of 2014, focusing on what it describes as his effort to suppress debate over climate change, including his libel lawsuit against the publication and one of its regular columnists, Mark Steyn, over a 2012 piece by Steyn on the publication's website. Topics include free expression, the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, and evaluations of Mann's data and research on human-caused global warming.

In article, the author examines the media coverage of Democratic U.S. president-elect Joe Biden during the 2020 presidential campaign. He alleges that media organizations campaigned for Biden and against outgoing president Donald Trump. Also cited are the importance of a free press to maintain a free country, and the alleged return of a partisan press in the country.

In the article, the author discusses the negative effects of U.S. President Donald Trump on the country's institutions and whether he will vote for him in the 2020 presidential election. He claims that Trump stressed the American political culture and failed to adapt to the environment of the presidency. He says that if Trump wins a second term, he will greatly damage the conservative movement. He also cites his reasons why he will not vote for Democrat Joe Biden.

The article looks at Canada's oil industry as of 2013, focusing on petroleum production from the tar sands in Alberta, Canada. The author recounts a visit to Fort McMurray, Alberta, and to tar sands facilities in the surrounding area. Topics include the volume of Canada's oil reserves, the jobs and economic expansion associated with oil production in Alberta, and environmentalist opposition to that production and to the proposed Keystone pipeline. Global warming is discussed.

A personal narrative is presented that discusses the author's experience of being a spectator at a NASCAR automobile race at the Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida, noting social and political aspects of NASCAR as a U.S. sport.

The article looks at the drought in California, focusing on economic conditions caused by the drought in the state's Central Valley region and arguing that environmental policies related to water supply have exacerbated the problem. Topics include a lawsuit related to the U.S. Endangered Species Act limiting the volume of water piped into the Central Valley from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and the high unemployment and difficult social conditions among agricultural workers in the region.

The article reflects on free speech as embodied in the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. It cites a poll conducted by the Campaign for Free Speech wherein participants aged 18 to 34 agreed that the First Amendment should be changed according to the present cultural norms, with some favoring criminalization of hate speech while some agree that punishment should be imprisonment. He notes former slave Frederick Douglass' view regarding free speech.

The article discusses the importance of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996 and the alleged efforts by U.S. government officials and legislators to abolish it. Also cited are the efforts by President Donald Trump and Senator Josh Hawley to amend the law, how the repeal of the section will weaken the Internet and freedom of expression, and how the section protects social media sites like Facebook and Twitter.

In the article, the author discusses crises and sufferings experienced by humans, particularly the current COVID-19 pandemic as of May 2020. Also cited are the essay of journalist Ryan Brooks on the coronavirus, the challenges faced by the present generation like climate change and gun violence, as well as the economic situation and unemployment rate in the U.S. before the pandemic.

The article discusses the issues on federalism during emergencies like the coronavirus epidemic. Also cited are the limited authority of the federal government under the U.S. constitutional structure, the missteps of President Donald Trump in handling the public health emergency, and why the federal system is the best form of government in terms of responsibility, power, accountability, and information dissemination.

The article offers information on future of technology. Topics include considered that the compact disc are comprehended by the elderly as a better vinyl record, much as the Space Shuttle could be comprehended as a faster airplane; and examines the airplane annihilated distance and the smartphone that has annihilated geography.

The author criticizes an omnibus bill provision that raised the age at which Americans may legally buy tobacco. Topics discussed include view of U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell on the provision, number of states that had set at 21 the age at which tobacco products might be purchased, and explanation on the freedom to take conscious risks.