Wednesday, September 14, 2016

In the news, Wednesday, August 24, 2016


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Information from some sites may not be reliable, or may not be vetted.
Some sources may require subscription.

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from Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
/ArkansasOnline.com

A pattern emerges
Clinton Inc., at home and abroad [Editorial]

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from BBC News (UK)



Depression: A revolution in treatment?
It's not very often we get to talk about a revolution in understanding and treating depression and yet now doctors are talking about "one of the strongest discoveries in psychiatry for the last 20 years".

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from Coeur d'Alene Press

Trump not alone on big narcissism stage

Calling all cowfolk
In 1987 the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association legitimized a diminutive North Idaho roundup by adding it to its growing circuit. Since then, the Coeur d'Alene-based rodeo — formerly known as the North Idaho Fair and Rodeo — has budded, attracting some of the sport's more eminent figures. The 30th edition of the PRCA-sanctioned rodeo, with performances going Friday to Sunday at the fairgrounds, has changed its name to the Gem State Stampede.

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from CTV News (Canada)

Colombia to hold plebiscite on peace deal with FARC
Colombia's president is moving fast to hold a plebiscite on a landmark peace deal reached with leftist rebels, presenting to congress Thursday the full text of the accord that he says will end a half-century of bloody combat.

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from The Daily Caller
from FEE (Foundation for Economic Education)

What Is the ROI?: The Question That Will Change Your Life
Every dollar you spend should work for you in some way. Otherwise, you will end up getting burned in the end. It will change your life if you start asking yourself, “What’s the return on investment (ROI)?”

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from The Heritage Foundation

DC School’s ‘Green Academy’ Selling False Hope With Renewable Energy Training

Why Politicians and Taxes Can’t Save Taxis From Extinction
Ride-sharing companies like Uber and Lyft again made headlines this week. In Pittsburgh, Uber announced plans to begin the world’s first self-driving vehicle pilot program. Meanwhile, in the incorrigible liberal bastion of Massachusetts, taxi-friendly lawmakers passed a first-of-its-kind rideshare tax that will transfer profits from successful ride-sharing companies to the foundering taxis they are putting out of business.

Doctors Sue Obama Administration for Forcing Them to Perform Gender Transition Procedures
Five states and a group of religiously-affiliated hospitals and physicians are suing the Obama administration over a federal mandate that forces doctors to perform gender transition procedures on adults and children against their medical judgment.

What a School Letting Students Opt Out of Pledge of Allegiance Says About Our Patriotism

From a Course on Miley Cyrus to ‘Identity-Based Housing,’ Examples of Lunacy on College Campuses

This Year, the Deficit Is Rising Faster Than Predicted

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from The Hill

Carville thanks Trump for La. flood visit, donation

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from The Independent (UK)
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]

Syria war: Turkish tanks cross border in huge operation to drive Isis out of key stronghold
Turkish tanks, rocket launchers and planes hit Isis territory with hundreds of strikes overnight

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from Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
Rancho Cucamonga, California

How the unjust detention of 5,434 Japanese-Americans at Pomona Fairplex is now memorialized

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from The Living Church

Abp. Turei to Retire at 92
The oldest primate in the Anglican Communion, Archbishop William Brown Turei of the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand, and Polynesia, will retire at the end of March at the age of 92.

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from Miami Herald


from Military Times
and Air Force Times, Army Times, Marine Corps Times, and Navy Times

VA program to provide service dogs for some veterans with mental health conditions

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from NBC News (& affiliates)
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from NPR (& affiliates)

Down With Homework: Teacher's Viral Note Tells Of Growing Attitude

Latest Target In The Drug Price Wars? The Ubiquitous EpiPen
Lawmakers are demanding answers as to why the price of this aging drug, which stops a life-threatening allergic reaction, keeps going up.
Editor's note: Updated ... to include Mylan's announcement that it will reimburse consumers for some of their out-of-pocket costs.

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from Rare America
[Information from this site may not be vetted.]

The big defense contractors are lining up behind Hillary Clinton

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from Republican National Committee (GOP)

Hillary's Afraid of Questions
Clinton has been plagued by scandal after scandal and has refused to have a press conference for 264 days. Or, to put it another way, Hillary hasn’t had a press conference this year. You read that correctly, she has not had a press conference in all of 2016.

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from The Spokesman-Review

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from Sputnik
(Russian government-supported propaganda channel)

Similarities Between Brexit Vote, Trump Campaign Overstated
Libertarian policy experts claim that the similarities between the United Kingdom’s popular referendum to leave the European Union, called Brexit, and the populist US presidential campaign of Donald Trump have been largely overstated.

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from United States Constitution
News/Media Website
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from USA Today

At least 16 dead after 6.2 earthquake strikes central Italy

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from The Washington Free Beacon
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from Washington Policy Center (State)

Judge rules Olympia income tax proposal illegal
A Thurston County Superior Court judge ruled today a proposed ballot measure to enact a city income tax in Olympia is illegal. The Olympia City Council requested an injunction to keep the proposal off the November ballot.

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from The Washington Post

U.S. soldier killed in Afghanistan was an ‘exceptional Green Beret’
Army Staff Sgt. Matthew V. Thompson was killed in Afghanistan’s restive Helmand province on August 23. This was the first combat death of an American in Afghanistan since January.

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from The Western Center for Journalism
(Western Journalism)  [Information from this site may not be reliable.]

CNN Just Received An Unexpected Blow
For the third week in a row, CNN found itself in third place among the three major cable news networks, well behind Fox News Channel and attracting significantly fewer viewers than its primary rival, MSNBC.

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from Zero Hedge
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]

University of Chicago Tells Millennials to Suck It Up, "We Do Not Condone 'Safe Spaces'"

Something "Unexpected" Happened When Seattle Raised The Minimum Wage
Seemingly no amount of empirical evidence can convince progressives that raising minimum wages to artificially elevated levels is a bad idea.

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