The Bill of Rights Against the States

The US Dollar: From Exceptional To Average? Authored by Eva Sun-Wai via BondVigilantes.com, The dollar’s slide last year looks less like a sudden break and more like the culmination of pressures that have been gathering for a while. The fading of US exceptionalism has sat quietly in the background, and once the narrative started to normalise, the cracks became clearer: softer growth expectations, slower capital inflows, and valuations that had been leaning heavily on the idea that the US could keep outperforming indefinitely. The currency came into the year heavily owned...

What To Know About Trump's Presidential Fitness Test Award Revival Authored by Aaron Gifford via The Epoch Times, In the coming academic year, old-fashioned calisthenics, timed runs, and the spirit of competition could return to many public schools. President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed a proclamation restoring the Presidential Fitness Test Awards, which date to the mid-20th century but ended under President Barack Obama’s administration. The May 5 White House action is a follow-up to the July executive order re-establishing the President’s Council on Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition. This proclamation, which also recognizes...

Being A Pedophile Now Not Enough To Warrant Deportation Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, A convicted paedophile migrant who failed to disclose his child sex offence when applying to stay in Britain has won an appeal against deportation – because a judge ruled the omission was simply an “honest mistake.” YES, REALLY. Edi Cardoso Ramos, who was convicted in Portugal of molesting a five-year-old child, can now fight to remain in the UK after the Upper Tribunal accepted his explanation that he thought the immigration form only asked about UK convictions.  Paedophile migrant...