Month: May 2024

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Serious Inquiries Only - SIO447: Steve Vladeck on the Shadow Docket

Today's guest, or should I say last year's guest, is Steve Vladeck! He holds the Charles Alan Wright Chair in Federal Courts at the University of Texas School of Law, and is a nationally recognized expert on the federal courts, constitutional law, national security law, and military justice. Last year, he released the New York Times bestselling book, "The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic." We spoke about the book and about the state of our horrible Supreme Court. Steve will be appearing on Opening Arguments soon for a sequel to this conversation!

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Money Girl - 6 Rules for Contributing to an IRA and a 401(k)

Laura reviews six rules you should know to take advantage of multiple retirement accounts and avoid pitfalls.

Money Girl is hosted by Laura Adams. A transcript is available at Simplecast.

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The Daily Detail - The Daily Detail for 5.1.24

Alabama

  • Sen. Britt rips into US Sec of Ed for not reigning in college campus protests
  • Governor Ivey signs bill that prosecutes child pornography created with AI
  • Paul Prine is voted out as police chief on Tuesday by city council
  • Community members at Decatur city council meeting threaten more protests
  • AL House is poised to pass bill regarding deadline for names on November ballot
  • Tristan Harper of AL makes it to the Top 7 on American Idol 2024 season

National

  • 4 police officers shot and killed in NC by suspect being served with felony warrant
  • AZ prosecutors drop charges against elderly rancher accuse of killing illegal alien
  • OK man says going to get hot dogs at gas station saved him from killer tornado
  • NYC judge fines Trump $9K for 9 posts made that violate gag order
  • TX AG Ken Paxton was in NYC to support Trump during this trial
  • Poll shows independent voters lean to Trump in all the law fare cases against him
  • Dem leaders in House will vote to keep Speaker Johnson in motion to vacate
  • State lawmaker in SC says illegals are being given voter registration papers


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NBN Book of the Day - J. P. Messina, “Private Censorship” (Oxford UP, 2024)

When we think of censorship, our minds might turn to state agencies exercising power to silence dissent. However, contemporary concerns about censorship arise in contexts where non-state actors suppress expression and communication. There are subtle and not-so-subtle forms of interference that come from social groups, employers, media corporations, and even search engines. Should these “new” forms of censorship alarm us? Should we assess them in ways that mirror our typical views about state-enacted censorship? If not, how should we think about non-state modes of censorship?

In Private Censorship (Oxford University Press, 2024), JP Messina takes up these broad questions. He examines a range of emerging sites of non-state censorship – what he calls “private” censorship – and sorts through the normative, political, and legal issues.

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Everything Everywhere Daily - Asteroids

Our solar system is made up of a lot of things.

The biggest thing is the sun, of course which makes up the vast majority of the solar system’s mass. 

Then, of course, there are planets, which come in various sizes, and many of them have moons of various sizes. 

However, that isn’t everything. There are other things in the solar system, things that amount to debris between the much bigger objects. 

Learn more about asteroids, how they were discovered, and how they might serve humanity’s future on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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The NewsWorthy - Protesters Occupy Buildings, New Age for Mammograms & iPhone Alarm Issue- Wednesday, May 1, 2024

The news to know for Wednesday, May 1, 2024!

We'll tell you about more arrests as protesters have taken over new parts of university campuses. 

Also, historic changes could be coming to America's marijuana rules, and a first-of-its-kind tribute is set for top U.S. educators. 

Plus, new guidelines for breast cancer screenings, issues reported with iPhone alarm clocks, and newly studied benefits of volunteering through work.

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What A Day - Biden Administration Moves To Lessen Restrictions On Marijuana

The Department of Justice took a significant step on Tuesday to downgrade federal restrictions on marijuana. The DOJ submitted a formal recommendation to the White House to reclassify it as a Schedule III drug. It’s a monumental shift in federal drug policy because, for more than 50 years, the U.S. government has considered marijuana to be among the most dangerous drugs, on par with heroin and LSD. Krishna Andavolu, the host and executive producer of the Vice TV show Weediquette, explains what reclassification could mean for businesses, medicine, and criminal justice.

And in headlines: The New York judge overseeing Donald Trump’s criminal hush-money trial fined the former president $9,000 for violating a gag order, police arrested students that had occupied Hamilton Hall on Columbia University’s campus, and a key federal task force issued new recommendations for women and breast cancer screenings.

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Short Wave - The Mysterious “Great Attractor” Pulling Our Galaxy Off Course

No matter what you're doing right now – sitting, standing, walking – you're moving. First, because Earth is spinning around on its axis. This rotation is the reason we have days. Second, because Earth and other planets in our solar system are orbiting the sun. That's why we have years. Third, you're moving because the sun and the rest of our solar system is orbiting the center of the Milky Way galaxy at over 500,000 miles per hour. If all of that isn't nauseating enough, everything in the entire universe is expanding outward. All the time.

But in the 1970s, astrophysicists noticed something strange about our galactic neighborhood, or Local Group. The whole clump of neighboring galaxies was being pulled off course at over one million miles per hour, towards something we couldn't see — the "Great Attractor." This Great Attractor sits in the "Zone of Avoidance," an area of space that is blocked from view by the stars and gas of the Milky Way. Today on the show, host Regina G. Barber talks to astrophysicist Jorge Moreno about this mysterious phenomenon: What it might be and what will happen when we eventually reach it.

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Hayek Program Podcast - “Freedoms Delayed” Book Panel

On this episode, we’ll hear a book panel discussion on Timur Kuran’s book, Freedoms Delayed: Political Legacies of Islamic Law in the Middle East (Cambridge University Press, 2023). In his comments, Timur provides an overview of his book, highlighting the Middle East's struggle with repressiveness, the challenges of fostering a liberal civil society, and the historical role of Islamic legal institutions. The panel is moderated by Peter J. Boettke, and they are joined on the panel by:

Timur Kuran is a Turkish-American economist and political scientist. He is a Professor of Economics and Political Science and the Gorter Family Professor of Islamic Studies at Duke University. He has published multiple books including The Long Divergence: How Islamic Law Held Back the Middle East (2011) and Private Truths, Public Lies: The Social Consequences of Preference Falsification (1997).

*Mark Koyama's comments were recorded separately

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