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"And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose." -- Rom. 8:28
5/2/2 Fox News has video of two Russian patrol boats exploding after drone attacks. All these lives (Ukrainian and Russian) lost in pursuit of Putin's ego. As a comment I saw earlier put it: Putin is Hitler's ruthlessness with Mussolini's military prowess.
Washington (CNN)The Supreme Courtunanimously ruled Monday that Boston violated the First Amendment rights of a group seeking to briefly raise a Christian flag atop a city flagpole outside of City Hall as a part of a city program celebrating Boston's greater community.
The court said that the flag display amounted to a public forum, and because many other groups were allowed to raise their flags in celebration of the Boston community, the city could not discriminate on the basis of the religious group's viewpoint without violating the Constitution.
"We conclude that, on balance, Boston did not make the raising and flying of private groups' flags a form of government speech," Justice Stephen Breyer wrote.
It has long been my opinion that much of American case law about the First Amendment has been based in hostility to Christian beliefs--in a nation where Christians have long been the majority.
"A clear majority of Americans think Vladimir Putin would not have ordered the Russian invasion of Ukraine had Donald Trump still been in the White House, according to a new poll."
"Over the past two years, Americans who own their homes have gained more than $6 trillion in housing wealth. To be clear, that doesn’t mean homebuilders have transferred to buyers $6 trillion worth of new housing, or that existing homeowners have made $6 trillion in kitchen and bathroom upgrades."
And amazingly, this is not the archetypal "End of the World; blacks and women especially hard hit" stories.
"Millions of people — broadly spread among the 65 percent of American households who own their home — have gained a share of this windfall....
The cumulative effects figure to be sweeping, and divergent: This period of rising equity will enable some families to create intergenerational wealth for the first time. It will force other families to delay homeownership for years....
The downside is that those who did not (or could not) buy homes are probably out of luck for the foreseeable future. The good news is the experts they interviewed think this is unlikely to be a repeat of the 2008 housing collapse because it is not built on high risk mortgages. Even rising interest rates are unlikely to destroy most of this wealth.
"JEFFERSON CITY, Missouri — A ruling issued this week by the Missouri Supreme Court this week could have major implications for police in their fight against crime.
The state's highest court overturned a lower court ruling that initially threw out a challenge to the state's controversial Second Amendment Preservation Act."
Do not get too excited. The language makes me think they struck down a summary judgment against the law. This is likely not the end of the case.
