Sunday, September 4, 2016

In the news, Thursday, August 18, 2016


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from Allen West
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Trump is right: Hillary is a BIGOT (and so is the entire Democrat Party)

Told ya: Freed GITMO prisoner makes TERRIFYING promise
Former detainee Ibrahim Ahmed Mahmoud Al Qosi — who was released in 2012 as part of a plea deal after pleading guilty to conspiracy and supporting terrorism, and joined and immediately hooked up with al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) in December 2014 – this week vowed attacks in the U.S. by English-speaking jihadis with Western names not on CIA or FBI terrorist lists.

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from BBC News (UK)

Swallows and Amazons: The Syria connection
Arthur Ransome's famous book about the Walker children - John, Susan, Titty and Roger - is being retold in a new film that comes out on Friday. But the blonde-haired, quintessentially English children of the film look nothing like the four youngsters who initially inspired Swallows and Amazons. They were Taqui, Susan, Mavis (known to her family as Titty) and Roger Altounyan, an Anglo-Armenian family who lived in Aleppo in Syria.


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from Breitbart

LA Times Tracking Poll: Clinton 44 Percent, Trump 43.4 Percent
The LA Times daily tracking poll shows the race between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump too close to call.

Trump Visits Louisiana Flood Victims as Hillary Rests and Obama Vacations
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and his running mate Mike Pence are going to Baton Rouge, Louisiana on Friday to meet victims of the flooding that has killed 13 and forced 30,000 Louisianans to leave their homes.

Mexican President Caves, Will Meet with Trump After Likening Him to Hitler and Mussolini

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from Clarion Project
Addressing Islamic Extremism

The Burkini Battle: What Really Happened in Corsica
After investigating, the French prosecutor revealed what really happened on the beach -- and it's much worse than a a fight about a burkini.

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from Coeur d'Alene Press

Rathdrum site prepped for natural gas generation
Avista Utilities is preparing a Rathdrum site it owns for a possible natural gas generating facility.
The Rathdrum City Council last week approved Avista's request to change the city's zoning map for 302 acres at the site on the west side of the city between Idaho and Greensferry roads and southeast of Burlington Road from industrial, open space and public to industrial.

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from Communities Digital News, LLC

Women’s suffrage: The fight for and against voting rights
The fight for women's rights was far from unified, despite the sanitized version of events often presented in history books.

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from Conservative Intelligence Briefing

Wow: Obama Confirms $400 Million Iran Payment Was RANSOM
In an announcement that surprised no one, the Obama administration today admitted that the $400 million payment to Iran was indeed a ransom.

HUGE New LA Times Poll Shows Trump And Hillary Tied

Obama Golfs While Louisiana Drowns

What Impact Will Pulte Homes Layoffs Have on Political Environment?

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from FEE (Foundation for Economic Education)

Why Luxury TVs Are Affordable when Basic Health Care Is Not
Imagine this. You are feeling under the weather. You pull out your smartphone and click the Rx app. A nurse arrives in 20 minutes at your home. He gives you a blood test and recommends to the doctor that she prescribe a treatment. It is sent to the CVS down the street, which delivers it to your door in 20 minutes. The entire event costs $20. Sounds nuts? Not so much. Not if health care were a competitive industry. As it is, medical care prices are up 105% in the last 20 years. This contrasts with the television industry, which is selling products that have fallen 96% in the same period.

Nations (and Borders) Can Exist Without Restricting Immigration

Latino Support for Liberty Defies Stereotype
Far from being socialists, a wide range of evidence shows that on average, Latino views track libertarian views as closely as any other demographic. This is not to say that Latinos are libertarians overall, but that they are just as open to the libertarian perspective as anyone else.

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from Field & Stream

Transferring Control of Federal Lands Would Devastate Hunting and Fishing
The recent movement to do away with the concept of federal lands has nothing to do with freedom. It’s just the opposite—and would change hunting and fishing as we know it.

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from First Things

FEDERAL MARIJUANA POLICY UNDERMINES RULE OF LAW
Today is celebrated as “Weed Day” by cannabis aficionados. From our archives: Regulators in the United States have not found medical uses for cannabis primarily because our laws have prevented the very kind of medical testing needed to determine such medicinal uses. Federal marijuana policies subvert the rule of law in two ways: First, the law as currently written embodies a clear scientific falsehood—that marijuana has no medical uses. Second, instead of changing the law to reflect contemporary knowledge, the administration has chosen simply not to enforce the law in the states in which “medical marijuana” has been legalized. This sends a message that a law need be obeyed only if one agrees with its precepts.

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from The Heritage Foundation
from Huffington Post
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EpiPen's 500 Percent Price Hike Leaves Patients Scrambling
The EpiPen, an easy-to-use injectable shot filled with medicine that can stop a life-threatening allergic reaction, has increased in price from about $100 for a pack of two pens in 2009 to over $600 this year.

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from The Living Church

A report on ad orientem in a local parish

Master and Commander
Many observe that Patrick O’Brian’s novels are comparable to Jane Austen’s, if only she had written rousing naval adventures.

Muslim Fulani herdsmen attacked a predominantly Christian village in north-central Nigeria on Aug. 13, killing seven Christians, sources said.

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from NBC News (& affiliates)

Justice Department says it will end use of private prisons
Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates said in a Thursday statement that she sent out a memo instructing officials to not renew contracts with prison operators or to diminish existing contracts. "This is the first step in the process of reducing — and ultimately ending — our use of privately operated prisons," she said.

North Dakota Pipeline Protest Shuts Down Highway
Nearly 1,000 members of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe and other protesters have shut down North Dakota's Highway 1806 as they demand a halt to construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline.

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from New York Post

State Dept.: $400M to Iran was contingent on US prisoners’ release

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from New York Times

Is Your Lipstick Bad for You?
Cosmetics should be rigorously tested, much as drugs already are, and as they already are in Europe.

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from POLITICO
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State Dept. confirms $400 million Iran payment conditioned on hostage release
'He lied about the hostages – openly and blatantly – just like he lied about Obamacare,' Trump says.

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from Republican National Committee (GOP)

State Dept. Admits Secret $400 Million Iran Payment Was Ransom
Today, The State Department Admitted That They Withheld $400 Million Dollar Iran Payment Until Hostages Were Released.

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from The Spokesman-Review

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from United States Constitution
News/Media Website


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from The Washington Free Beacon

Forest Service Pays for ‘LGBT Safe Space’ Training
Agency gave $12,025 to company specializing in ‘empowering change agents’

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from The Washington Post

Justice Department says it will end use of private prisons
The Justice Department plans to end its use of private prisons after officials concluded the facilities are both less safe and less effective at providing correctional services than those run by the government.

Trump, hillbillies and race
For some of us, the puzzle of this election is not why Donald Trump is doing so badly but why he is doing so well. Given his obvious lack of qualifications, his absurd proposals, his hypocrisy, his obnoxious rhetoric, his sheer incompetence as a candidate, why is he not down 10 points in every state?

Why these diehard Democrats are rooting for Trump
In Weirton — where Weirton Steel Company employed 12,000 people and now only 900 — many say they will cast their ballots for Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. They talk about him over beers at local taverns and at church socials. For many of those in the unions, he’s the first Republican for whom they’ll vote — even as national unions, including the United Steelworkers and the AFL-CIO, have endorsed Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.

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