Wednesday, November 19, 2014

In the news, Monday, November 3, 2014


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NOV 02      INDEX      NOV 04
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Information from some sites may not be reliable, or may not be vetted.
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from Allen West
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]

Real-life sticker shock: I’m getting reamed by Obamacare

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from Breitbart

FLOTUS: NO MATTER WHO'S ON THE BALLOT, OUR COMMUNITY SHOULD ALWAYS VOTE FOR DEM TICKET
Monday on TV One, a cable channel who’s programming is geared for African-American adults, first lady Michelle Obama told Roland Martin the candidate on the ballot and what they say or do should not matter to African-Americans because voting for a straight Democratic ticket best serves their communities.

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from CNSNews.com (& MRC & NewsBusters)
from Freedom Outpost
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]

Houston Pastors to Mayor Annise Parker: Don't mess with the Pulpits of America

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from The Guardian (UK)
from The Heritage Foundation
from The Independent (UK)

If you're worried about immigration, then you should be terrified about climate change
Our politicians appear content to jump on the xenophobic band-wagon driven by the likes of Ukip, yet no one is talking about climate refugees

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from Independent Journal Review

Ben Stein: ‘The President is the Most Racist President There Has Ever Been in America’

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from Jen Kuznicki

Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s ‘Daddy’ Government Prevents Women from Making Their Own Destiny

The Old Guard is Over the Edge
People who don’t speak for the Republican base continue to go to Politico to tell everyone conservatism is dead, and it’s pathetic.

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from Mad World News
[Information from this site may be unreliable.]

[Watch] Bill Maher SLAMS Angry Muslim Woman For Defending Islam

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from Money Talks News
from Newsmax

Jeff Sessions: GOP Senate Can Stop Obama on Illegal Immigration

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from The New Yorker

Against the Grain
Millions of people have sworn off wheat, but there’s little science to support them. Michael Specter investigates.

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from NPR (& affiliates)
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from POLITICO

Mainstream GOP sees tipping point vs. insurgent candidates

Tuesday Will Be A Hollow Victory For The GOP
Republican establishment types will celebrate. Conservatives won’t be joining them.

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from Press TV (Iran)
(Iranian propaganda channel)

NATO says Russia aircraft ‘messaging’ Western alliance
“My opinion is they’re messaging us. They’re messaging us that they are a great power,” General Philip Breedlove, NATO’s supreme allied commander, said on Monday.

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from Salon
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]

Why conservative Christians would have hated Jesus
Even as they profess to spread his word, fundamentalists are forgetting Jesus' most important message

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from The Spokesman-Review

Woman breaks into post office to ‘play house,’ investigators say
A 28-year-old woman faces a federal criminal charge after authorities say she broke into a Spokane Valley post office early Sunday and swiped uniforms and mail from the locked facility.

Co-host of NPR’s Car Talk dies at 77
Tom Magliozzi, one of the hosts of National Public Radio’s popular “Car Talk” show, died Monday of complications from Alzheimer’s disease.

Suspect arrested in Monday morning shooting
Spokane police arrested a woman in connection with a Monday morning shooting at the Value Village parking lot in the 700 block of West Boone Avenue that sent a man to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

Islamic State mass killings now target Iraqi tribe
Islamic State group militants publicly shot dead 36 Sunni tribesmen, women and children Monday, Sheik Naim al-Gaoud, a senior figure in the Al Bu Nimr tribe, said, pushing the total number of members slain by the extremists in recent days to more than 200.

Fatal drive-by shooting in Moses Lake
Jose M. Pichardo, 22, of Moses Lake was killed while driving east on Valley Road near Paxson Drive around 4:15 p.m. The shots were fired from another vehicle, also traveling east on Valley.

Washington would lose clout in GOP-led Senate

Low voter turnout expected in Washington, Idaho, despite high stakes

Delta Air Lines’ expansion brings more Spokane service

Death with dignity advocate Brittany Maynard dies at 29
A terminally ill woman who renewed a nationwide debate about physician-assisted suicide has ended her life with the lethal drugs available under Oregon’s Death With Dignity Law.

Penguin chick is actually robot spy
The newest tool for biologists is the baby penguin robotic spy.

Tapes show no-fly zone over Missouri town was directed at media
The U.S. government agreed to a police request to restrict more than 37 square miles of airspace surrounding Ferguson, Missouri, for 12 days in August for safety, but audio recordings show that local authorities privately acknowledged the purpose was to keep away news helicopters during violent street protests.

In brief: Spaceship descent device deployed early
Investigators say Virgin Galactic’s experimental spaceship broke apart in flight over California’s Mojave Desert after a device to slow the craft’s descent prematurely deployed.
Another doctor tests positive for Ebola
Authorities in Sierra Leone said Sunday that another doctor there has tested positive for Ebola, marking a setback for efforts to keep desperately needed health care workers safe in the West African country ravaged by the deadly virus.

U.N. climate change assessment offers grim projections, hope
Climate change is happening, it’s almost entirely man’s fault and limiting its impacts may require reducing greenhouse gas emissions to zero this century, the U.N.’s panel on climate science said Sunday.

Election 2014: Both sides dig in as vote nears
Claiming new momentum 48 hours before polls open across America, Republicans on Sunday assailed President Barack Obama in a final weekend push to motivate voters as Democrats deployed their biggest stars to help preserve an endangered Senate majority.

Wallenda completes Chicago wire walks
Daredevil Nik Wallenda wowed Chicago and the world Sunday with two hair-raising skyscraper crossings on high wires without a safety net or a harness, and performing one blindfolded.

Eastern Ukraine separatists hold their own elections
Russia-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine voted Sunday in elections condemned by the international community as illegal and a violation of a cease-fire already on the verge of collapse.

People: Shirley MacLaine reflects on impressive career

Islamic State kills 50 Iraqis
Islamic State group extremists lined up and shot dead at least 50 Iraqi men, women and children from the same tribe on Sunday, officials said, in the latest targeting of the group by militants.

In brief: Bomber kills 54 at Pakistan border
A suicide bomber detonated explosives near a Pakistani paramilitary checkpoint near the country’s eastern border with India on Sunday, killing at least 54 people in the deadliest attack to hit the country in several months.
Netanyahu will keep religious site openIsrael’s prime minister vowed to maintain long-standing worship arrangements at Jerusalem’s most sensitive religious site Sunday.
Hundreds killed in Benghazi fighting
At least 210 people were killed in fighting in Libya’s eastern city of Benghazi since troops loyal to the country’s elected government launched an attempt to re-take the city from Islamist militias two weeks earlier, a medical official said Sunday.
Canadian planes launch strike in Iraq
Canadian warplanes involved in the U.S.-led bombing campaign against militants in Iraq have launched their first airstrikes since deploying to the region.

In Brief: No suspect ID’d in Spokane Valley shooting
Investigators were working Sunday to identify a suspect in the slaying Saturday night of two men  at the Broadway Square Apartments, 11910 E. Broadway Ave
CdA, Spokane live theaters renamed
Lake City Playhouse in Coeur d’Alene and Interplayers Professional Theatre in Spokane have been renamed The Modern Theater. Deeply in debt and facing closure, Interplayers in September merged operations with Lake City Playhouse, a nonprofit community theater company that now oversees both venues.
UI professor given teaching honor
Greg Möller is the UI’s first recipient of the National USDA Excellence in Teaching Award, given by the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities. He is on the faculty of the School of Food Science, operated jointly by the UI and Washington State University.
Woman in hospital does not have Ebola
Oregon health officials said a woman who visited West Africa and was hospitalized in Oregon with a fever does not have Ebola.

Leonard Pitts Jr.: Some prefer lie from cable news

Then and Now: Pigeon Hole Parking

Workshops help seniors navigate life, end-of-life planning

Ways to counterbalance the burden of health-care expenses

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from TPNN (Tea Party News Network)

Rand Paul: GOP’s Focus on Voter ID Laws is a ‘Dumb Idea’

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from The Washington Examiner (DC)

Rand Paul says it's 'dumb' for Republicans to make voter ID a big campaign issue

Beware a wounded Obama
No matter what the exact outcome of Tuesday’s elections, there is little doubt that President Obama will come out of it wounded.

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from The Washington Post (DC)
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