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Seattle Tiny House Village Opens Amidst Allegations of Drug Use on Premises

_{Jonathan Choe
October 29, 2026
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Homelessness}

Bombshell allegations made against taxpayer-funded Low Income Housing Institute in Seattle. Several concerned neighbors say LIHI staff told them dedicated “smoking shacks” would be available for fentanyl use inside a new 90-bed tiny house village called Cloverleaf.

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Would You Attend an Assisted Suicide? Wesley J. Smith Discusses with Dr. Marcus Peter: Center on Human Exceptionalism; November 2, 2026; Human Exceptionalism

Robert J. Marks II Talks AI Killer Robots on Real Science Radio: Discovery Institute; October 27, 2026; Technology

Is School Choice a Threat to Freedom? Keri D. Ingraham Addresses a Common Objection on Unmasking Government Schools Podcast: American Center for Transforming Education; October 15, 2026; Education

Power, Politics, and Seattle’s Homelessness Machine: Jonathan Choe; October 7, 2026; Homelessness

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Dr. Päivi Räsänen on Her Hate Speech Conviction for Quoting the Bible

_{Wesley J. Smith
November 9, 2026}

Can a person in a free country be convicted of hate speech for quoting the Bible or asserting a traditional view of moral issues based on biblical texts? Apparently yes, because that is precisely what happened in Finland — to a member of parliament, no less. The supposed “criminal” joins us today to discuss her conviction and the issues of freedom of speech and religion that her prosecution raises. Dr. Päivi Räsänen is a long-serving Finnish legislator and medical doctor. She completed her Licentiate of Medicine at the University of Helsinki in 1984 and subsequently worked as a physician in hospital-based clinical practice. She was first elected to the Parliament of Finland in 1995 and has served continuously since then. Over the course of her parliamentary …

Forrest Mims on Winning the Rolex Award (And How You Can Too!)

_{Forrest M. Mims III
November 6, 2026}

Rolex is well-known the world over for crafting high-quality, innovative time-pieces. But did you know they also award funds to people with innovative ideas in science and technology? On this classic ID The Future out of the vault, Texan engineer, writer, and self-taught scientist Forrest M. Mims recounts his experience of winning a Rolex Award for Enterprise in 1993 for his innovative proposal to track the ozone layer through a worldwide ground-based network that utilized his own homemade ozone instruments. Mims discusses the work that led to the honor, the memorable trip to Switzerland to collect the award, and how the Rolex Award propelled his career in science. By the early 1990s, Mims had built a reputation as one of America’s foremost citizen scientists. He had found …

Where Is Heaven? What Physics and Math Tell Us About Multiple Dimensions

_{Robert J. Marks II
November 4, 2026}

When we are asked to point to heaven, we point up. But that’s not where heaven is. That’s outer space. Today on Mind Matters News, host Robert J. Marks shares a lecture he recently gave in his Baylor University course Multidimensional Signal Analysis entitled “Where is Heaven?” The speculative talk approaches the concept of multiple dimensions from mathematical and theological angles to ask whether heaven might exist in dimensions beyond the ones we can perceive. Dr. Marks first makes the point that our view of reality is partial. He then explores what a higher-dimensional being might look like to lower-dimensional creatures. Then he turns to physics and math to explore time as a dimension, the extra dimensions of string theory, parallel universes, and Stephen …

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Is the Mind Just Neurons Talking?

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The Education Freedom Tax Credit: A Historic Win for American Families

Seattle Tiny House Village Opens Amidst Allegations of Drug Use on Premises

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Would You Attend an Assisted Suicide? Wesley J. Smith Discusses with Dr. Marcus Peter

Robert J. Marks II Talks AI Killer Robots on Real Science Radio

Is School Choice a Threat to Freedom? Keri D. Ingraham Addresses a Common Objection on Unmasking Government Schools Podcast

Power, Politics, and Seattle’s Homelessness Machine

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Where Is Heaven? What Physics and Math Tell Us About Multiple Dimensions

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