Friday, October 21, 2016

In the news, Monday, October 3, 2016


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OCT 02      INDEX      OCT 04
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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 ABC News (& affiliates)

Bass Pro Shops to purchase Cabela's retail chain
Two of the country's largest hunting and fishing retailers will be joining forces. Bass Pro Shops has announced an agreement to acquire retail giant Cabela's in a deal worth approximately $5.5 billion.

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from Anglican Journal

Primate responds to dissenting bishops
In a written response to a statement issued by seven Canadian bishops expressing their dissent from General Synod’s decision to move toward solemnizing same-sex marriages, Archbishop Fred Hiltz, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, pushed back against several of the points they had raised.

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from BBC News (UK)

Largest Iron Age monument found at Skipsea Castle
The largest Iron Age earthwork in Britain has been identified at the former site of a Norman castle.


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from Christ and Pop Culture

Something Brew(ing) under the Sun
The strong winds of craft beer are blowing culturally and commercially in a fresh direction, even within the church. "Bland 'Big Beer' is the oak tree that has been slain, which has kept the world in shaded darkness, and St. Boniface Craft Brewery is our axe-wielding hero."

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from Christianity Today

Evangelical Views of the 2016 Election: Not the Lesser of Two Evils, Choose Candidate Evan McMullin Instead
Editor-in-Chief of Christ and Pop Culture wants to lay a foundation for a future conservative party

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from CNSNews.com (& MRC & NewsBusters)

Politico Shortens and Mangles Giuliani Quote on ABC Into Trump 'Better....Than a Woman'
Politico chopped up Giuliani's quote until it fit the narrative they wanted.

‘Simpsons’ Admits: 'Supreme Court Full of Scalias' Is a 'Beautiful' Thing

Federal Debt in FY 2016 Jumped $1,422,827,047,452.46--That's $12,036 Per Household

MRC’s Brent Bozell Blasts NYT on Trump: Their Hypocrisy Is Breathtaking
MRC President Brent Bozell slammed the blatant hypocrisy at the NY Times regarding Trump’s tax returns.

MRC’s Brent Bozell Hammers ‘Incredible’ Split in Coverage of Hillary Slip vs. Trump’s Taxes

12,587 Syrian Refugees Admitted in FY 2016: 12,486 Muslims, 68 Christians, 24 Yazidis
The U.S. government administration has determined that atrocities carried out by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS/ISIL) against religious minorities in areas under its control amount to genocide. Administration officials say, however, that its refugee program does not and will not prioritize any particular religious group when considering Syrians’ applications.

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from Daily Kos
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]

Iraq and Afghanistan Vets release statement regarding Trump's insensitive PTSD comments

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from End The Fed
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]

88 US Generals Stand Together Against Hillary Clinton In One Massive Act Of Defiance

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from FEE (Foundation for Economic Education)
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]

Trump's Economic Plan Is Completely Detached from Reality
Trump's campaign released a white paper last week elaborate the candidate’s economic plan. The plan betrays a simplistic and erroneous understanding of economics.

Climate Modeling: Settled Science or Fool's Errand?
The way scientists and engineers use mathematics can have profound political consequences when those calculations drift too far from observable reality. Politicizing science, Daniel Sarewitz argues, leads to debates about science being substituted for debates about politics. So we end up fighting over unverifiable forecasts about what might happen in the future, rather than wrestling with the complex tradeoffs that attend political decisions on what we should – or could – do about carbon emissions under all the potential future scenarios.

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from The Heritage Foundation

The Political Theorist Behind Today’s Identity Politics
Today's politics have been heavily influenced by someone most people don't even know: the late Harvard University political theorist John Rawls.

Projections Differ, but Social Security Is in Deep Trouble
If Congress doesn’t take action to reform the nation’s largest entitlement program, its looming insolvency likely will lead to large benefit cuts—along with large payroll tax increases.

Clinton Estate Tax Plan Would Affect Many Families, Not Just the Very Rich

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from The Intercept
[Information from this site may be unreliable.]

Obama Worries Future Presidents Will Wage Perpetual, Covert Drone War
PRESIDENT OBAMA WARNS in a new interview of a future in which a U.S. president could engage in perpetual covert wars “all over the world.” But he claims that the accountability and transparency measures he is instituting will make that less likely.

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from LifeZette (& PoliZette)

Trump: ‘I’m Working for You Now’
GOP nominee contrasts record as savvy businessman with Clinton's as a 'corrupt public official'

Trump Vows Major Upgrades to Nation’s Cybersecurity
GOP nominee says 'America’s dominance in this arena must be unquestioned'

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from The Living Church

COMMON PRAYER AND DIVERSITY IN THE C OF E
The Rev. Dr. Ian Paul: Should the forms of common prayer be as diverse as the "reality on the ground"? There is, arguably, more diversity in the C of E than in any other member of the Communion, with influences not only from both the Oxford Movement and radical liberalism from the past, but also from the New Calvinism and the Vineyard movement in more recent years.

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

U.S.-Russia relations plummet further over Syria, Ukraine
Already testy, relations between the United States and Russia plummeted Monday as Washington suspended diplomatic contacts with Moscow over failed efforts to end the war in Syria and President Vladimir Putin put on hold a deal with the U.S. on disposing weapons-grade plutonium.


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from Mises Institute
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]

Spain Is without a National Government — And Spaniards Are Digging It
With neither major party able to secure a majority of seats in the national legislature and the two parties unable to agree on a coalition government, for the last 10 months Spain has had a do-nothing caretaker government for the first time in its history. While basic government services continue, no new legislation is being proposed, foreign policy is stuck in place, and many infrastructure and other government projects are frozen. In contrast to dire predictions of chaos, everything is proceeding smoothly and some Spaniards are learning a valuable lesson about the resilience of society when left to its own (voluntary) devices. The lesson has been pithily summed up by Felix Pastor, a language teacher, who states: "No government, no thieves."

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from On Pasture


An On Pasture reader wanted to know if I had ever found studies on cows grazing teasel. I knew of nothing off the top of my head, so I spent quite some time searching the internet. The only thing I found was from the 1945 Congressional Record, comments by the Honorable Glen H. Taylor of Idaho titled “Salt and Weeds as Cattle Feeds.”

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from Reuters

U.S. top court denies Obama request to rehear major immigration case
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to rehear a bid to revive President Barack Obama's plan to spare from deportation millions of immigrants in the country illegally, a case in which the justices split 4-4 in June.

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from Smithsonian Magazine
Media/News Company in Washington, D.C.

Nine Places Where You Can Still See Wheel Tracks from the Oregon Trail
The legendary trail has carved itself into American history—and, in some places, into the earth itself

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from The Spokesman-Review

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from Sputnik
(Russian government-supported propaganda channel)

Who Has the Most to Gain Following Britain’s Vote to Leave EU?
The United Kingdom will start formal negotiations with Brussels on Brexit by the end of March 2017, Prime Minister Theresa May said on Sunday. Thus, she confirmed that London is set to trigger Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty. There is an assumption that no matter what happens the United States will benefit the most from the upcoming transformation of the EU, an article in the Russian online newspaper Vzglyad read.

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from The Telegraph (UK)

The Crown: Netflix's astonishing royal gamble pays off – review
Drama doesn’t come more eagerly awaited than The Crown. This 10-part production, which chronicles the lives of the Windsors from 1947 to 1956, is rumoured to have cost £100 million, which would make it the most expensive TV series in history.

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from US National Archives

A Pioneer in Electronic Records

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