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Video: Arkansas Term Limits Hidden in Ballot’s “Ethics Issue” Wording

Tim Jacob talks about the current term limit situation in his home state of Arkansas:

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Video: The Freedom and Rights of Poor People

William Easterly looks at the inherent callousness at the heart of modern talk of “development.” His starting point, below, is the big difference in ideas between 1974’s dual winners of the Nobel Prize in Economics, Gunnar Myrdal and F.A. Hayek. Myrdal supported a double standard. Hayek did not.

Myrdal also promoted a huge assumption we still live with today: that of the benevolent dictator, the one who gets all the credit for progress. The common folk, you see, are just pawns in the dictator’s hands.

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Video: Chuck “Privilege”

Young Ms. Julie Borowski confronts a popular (and quite maddeningly ill-​mannered) popular slogan — at least on campuses and in the blogosphere, “Check your privilege”:

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Video: Initiatives and Referendums in Colorado

Two anti-​initiative bills were defeated this week by a unanimous vote in a state senate committee in Colorado. This outcome, thanks to a coalition of groups and civic leaders from left, right and in-​between that rallied people to get involved. Here two leaders, Elena Nunez with Colorado Common Cause and Dennis Polhill with the Independence Institute, speak with Jon Caldara (also with II). All three are very knowledgeable about how initiatives work and also understand why the initiative process is so important.

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Video: What If There Had Been No Affirmative Action?

A man at a forum asks the operative question.

Michigan’s ban on racial and gender preferences, upheld this week by the SCOTUS, was passed by voters in 2006 through a citizen initiative led by Jennifer Gratz, now leading the XIV Foundation, and Leon Drolet, a former state legislator and activist. Ten years before that, Ward Connerly led a similar initiative petition effort in California, which is specifically addressed in the video.

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Videos: Heaven Knows Mr. Bloomberg

With Michael Bloomberg announcing his coming ascension into heaven, we offer a multimedia retrospective on the former mayor, now self-​appointed saint.

CNBC: Michael Bloomberg Says He Has Earned His Place In Heaven

http://​youtu​.be/​Y​9​h​B​IFXzrzI

Reason: The Mike Bloomberg Legacy: 12 Years of Little Tyrannies

Bloomberg’s record on term limits:

http://​youtu​.be/​l​s​J​m​u8hk7DY

The Mayor won’t answer a question about term limits:

The Mayor is heckled: “Why are you here?”

NY Times: Bloomberg Wins 3rd Term as Mayor in Unexpectedly Close Race

The billionaire mayor had poured $90 million of his own fortune into the race, a sum without equal in the history of municipal politics that gave him a 14-​to‑1 advantage in campaign spending. 

George Will on ABC’s “This Week”: Bloomberg thinks “we own you”

NT Times: Bloomberg’s Soda Ban Explained, Sort Of

Awkwafina: “Mayor Bloomberg (Giant Margaritas)”

http://​youtu​.be/​Y​c​p​h​TuFGI40

Common Sense with Paul Jacob: Michael Bloomberg