Justice and Open Debate, and other links

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• A Letter on Justice and Open Debate -- “We uphold the value of robust and even caustic counter-speech from all quarters. But it is now all too common to hear calls for swift and severe retribution in response to perceived transgressions of speech and thought.”
• Activists Set Up Guillotine In Front Of Jeff Bezos’s D.C. Home -- “Fringe activists set up a guillotine in front of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’s home in Washington, D.C., on Sunday where they reportedly demanded that Amazon be abolished.”
• Blood type, genes tied to risk of severe COVID-19: European study -- “The findings, published in The New England Journal of Medicine on Wednesday, suggest people with type A blood have a higher risk of being infected with the coronavirus and developing worse symptoms.”
• Compassion at the Cemetery -- “One tender service that Carrie provides is to care for the gravestones that are unmarked, particularly those for children, like the one in the photo above.”
• Disciple-Forming Corporate Worship -- “You see, in a corporate worship service, we are not the primary actors; corporate worship is not us performing for God—that is paganism.”
• EPA approves first surface disinfectant products tested on the SARS-CoV-2 virus -- “This week, EPA updated the entries for two products on List N to show they have now been tested directly against SARS-CoV-2. These are the first List N products for which the agency has reviewed laboratory testing data and approved label claims against SARS-CoV-2.”
• Growing number of Texas sheriffs refuse to enforce governor's mask requirement -- “The order is not a law, there is no requirement that any police officer enforce it, and it’s unenforceable.”
• HATE CRIME HOAX: Oregon Politician Claimed He Received Racist Letter. He Wrote It To Himself. -- “KEPR-TV News reported Tuesday that police determined Lopez sent the letter to himself and that Lopez verbally and in a written statement admitted to fabricating the letter.”
• Hot Off the Grills -- “The smoke and sizzle signal something special is on the grill; here’s what we recommend.”
• Kanye West breaks ranks with Trump, vows to win presidential race -- “It was ‘a form of racism and white supremacy’ to suggest all Black people should support the Democrats, he said.”
• Palo Duro Love Letters -- “Georgia O’Keeffe’s paintings captured the Panhandle; her wistful writings brought it to life.”
• Remnants of Freedom -- “Because there is almost no documentation of this secret code, some historians want to dismiss the narrative as myth.”
• The Dangers Posed by State-Controlled Digital Currency -- “It Could Never Happen Here...probably the most repeated argument in our ‘civilized’ Western democracies, right before some terrible governmental abuse of power takes place, or before some new restrictive law or overarching regulation gets passed...”
• The US States People Are Fleeing And The Ones They Are Moving To -- “North Dakota dropped 24 spots overall in the Best States rankings since taking the number two ranking in 2013 and 2014.” (Unfortunately, lots of links to click through)
• Trump Tax Cases Are a Win for Supreme Court Credibility -- “The Supreme Court issued two landmark decisions today on President Donald Trump’s financial records. The first, Trump v. Vance, related only to a New York state criminal subpoena; the second, Trump v. Mazars, related to congressional subpoenas of Trump's tax returns.”
• U.S. Supreme Court shields religious schools from employment lawsuits -- “The 7-2 decision embraced a broad interpretation of the “ministerial exception,” a legal doctrine recognized by the Supreme Court in a 2012 case that bars ministers or people in similar roles from suing religious institutions for workplace bias.”
• Winging Its -- “On Baumgarten Street, not far from downtown, a miniature propeller biplane set high atop a slender white column marks the red-roofed Stanzel Model Aircraft Museum.”