Tuesday, November 22, 2016

In the news, Friday, November 11, 2016


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NOV 10      INDEX      NOV 12
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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 American News
[Information from this site may be satire/fake]

Hollywood Turns On Oprah After She Expresses ‘Change Of Heart’ About Trump

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from CNSNews.com (& MRC & NewsBusters)

Stephanopoulos Frets to RNC Chair: ‘Rise in Racist Acts’ Since Trump Win
With left-wing anti-Trump protesters rioting in cities across the country, on Friday’s Good Morning America, co-host George Stephanopoulos laid responsibility for quelling the unrest at the feet of the Republican President-Elect and worried that his victory was inciting the violence.

11-Year-Old Boy Beaten for Voting Trump in His School's Mock Election

EXCLUSIVE: GMU Admissions Director Calls Conservatives ‘Pieces of Worthless Trash’
While the president of George Mason University was busy issuing a statement upholding the school’s commitment to diversity and inclusion, the senior admissions director at the public university made it clear he believes that, if you are a conservative, you are a “piece of worthless trash.”

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from Conservative Intelligence Briefing

The Dakota Access Pipeline Should Be Priority Number One for President Trump
DAPL would provide a much needed economic boost. All it takes is a dismissal of the misguided protesters, and a commitment to the law and order Trump promised.

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from EUobserver

Germany: Trump victory to spur EU military union
Donald Trump’s victory, as well as Brexit, ought to speed up plans for EU defence integration, Germany has said. “Europe needs common political will for more security policy relevance. The outcome of the election in America could provide an additional impetus”, German defence minister Ursula von der Leyen said in an opinion article in the Rheinische Post, a German newspaper, on Thursday (10 November).

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

This Could Be Our 1989
What lies in ruins here is not common decency and morality – much less the character of a whole people and nation – but rather an anachronistic, arrogant, entitled, smug, conceited ruling elite and paradigm. You can see this in the clues that show that the vote was not so much for a particular vision of one man, but against a prevailing model of managing the world. Government is powerful, but not powerful enough to bend reality to its wishes.

Sadly, One Does Not Simply Repeal ObamaCare
Candidate Trump repeatedly called for repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act during the campaign, but it is unclear what President Trump will actually do about the ACA. It is not clear even with President Trump, and Republican majorities in the House and Senate, whether full repeal is possible and what replacement might look like. Replacement requires something that looks like the ACA: TrumpCare, perhaps?

Obamacare was the Catalyst
Why did Trump win? It wasn’t WikiLeaks. It wasn’t FBI Director Comey. It was an electorate that was profoundly unhappy with the direction of the country. And they were particularly unhappy with President Obama’s signature domestic policy achievement — the Affordable Care Act (ACA) — or as it is commonly known, Obamacare. There's no question that this disastrous program was the main reason for the stunning upset. Voters remembered the hollow promises that if you liked your insurance you could keep it, and that medical costs would fall. Down the election home stretch, voters saw insurers pulling out of healthcare markets all over the county, skyrocketing out-of-pocket costs (deductibles and co-insurance), and steep insurance premium price rises. Premiums for enrollment starting November 1 of this year, just days before the election, increased 25% on average. Some states have huge increases: North Carolina 40%, Pennsylvania 53%, Minnesota 59%, and Arizona 116%.

You're Afraid of Power, Not Trump
You aren’t scared of Trump the person. Trump has been on this earth for 70 years and other than a general distaste for him, no one ever feared for their life because Trump walked the earth. He could do what he wanted because he didn't affect your life. He had no control over you. What you fear is the power he now wields.

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from First Things

A RIGHT TO ASSISTED SUICIDE FOR THE INSTITUTIONALIZED MENTALLY ILL
Once a society accepts the premise of euthanasia—that it is acceptable to eliminate suffering by eliminating the sufferer—there is no way to restrict the putative “right to die” to the mentally healthy.

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from Huffington Post
[Information from this site may be unreliable.]

The Incredible Reason You Might Start Seeing Safety Pins Everywhere
By fastening a safety pin to their clothing, people are declaring themselves allies to groups who have been maligned by Trump, to show that they stand in solidarity with anyone who might be afraid.

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from iFIBER ONE News (WA)

Speed limit reduced on section of SR 155 in Grand Coulee starting Nov. 21
GRAND COULEE – The speed limit will be lowered on state Route 155 along the Grand Coulee Industrial Area facilities for construction of a new fire station.

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from LifeZette (& PoliZette)

Melania Trump Brings Glamour, Style, Class
Yesterday we had our first glimpse of Melania Trump in the White House she will soon call “home.” An international fashion model who speaks five languages, Melania Trump has the cosmopolitan background, elegance, and beauty to instantly make her America’s most glamorous first lady since Jackie Kennedy.

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from The Living Church

FREE TO WORSHIP HIM WITHOUT FEAR
Jordan Hylden on the days "after Election Day." Will they be marked by fear, or "perfect freedom"? We say we are free, but more of us feel alone, afraid, angry, despised, and powerless. The freedom America brought has begun to feel like a freedom from community, shared values, stability, security, family, and dignity. Does it need to be? Do all of those words really mean, without quite saying: My community, our shared values, my tribe’s stability and security and not yours?

FIVE NARRATIVES ON DONALD TRUMP
Those of us specializing in Christian ethics have an obligation to work out what is happening. We need to “read the signs of the times” (Matt. 16:3). So let us consider the main competing narratives that are already emerging.

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from Miami Herald

It’s not that America has never been a disappointment before. It’s not that America has never been an embarrassment. But nowhere in modern memory — not at Abu Ghraib, not in the 2000 election debacle, not in the Monica Lewinsky scandal — has it been as much of a disappointment and embarrassment as it is right now. Donald Trump is president-elect of the United States. God help us all.

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

Why President Trump Will Fumigate the Fed
There are currently two open Board of Governors seats, which will most likely not be filled before the end of President Obama’s tenure. Additionally, both Chair Janet Yellen and Vice-Chair Stanley Fischer’s terms will be up by 2018. Crunch the numbers and you will see that Trump has the opportunity to replace a majority of the Board of Governors and a third of the FOMC with monetary policy hawks during his presidency.

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from New Statesman
"The leading voice of the British left, since 1913."

Did Oswald Mosley inspire Donald Trump?
The parallels between the US president-elect and the British fascist leader are too striking to be ignored.

How to burst your social media bubble
Many are arguing that "filter bubbles" on social media are blinding us to the world around us. Here's how to pop yours.

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from PJ Media

Trump to Support Nationwide Concealed Carry
You want guns regulated like cars? You got it! Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump -- who said he has a concealed carry permit -- called for the expansion of gun rights Friday, including making those permits applicable nationwide. In a position paper published on his website Friday afternoon, Trump called for the elimination of gun and magazine bans, labeling them a "total failure."

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

How to Repeal Obamacare: A road map for the GOP
Although repealing and replacing the ACA is closer than ever before, many important details will have to be worked out in the next few months. Moreover, much more needs to be done to put our nation’s health care entitlement programs on a sustainable path. Congress must now honor its commitment to free the country from the ACA and replace it with sensible reforms.

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from The Spokesman-Review

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from The Telegraph (UK)

Beyond the Politics of Anger
Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks: This is not politics as usual. The American Presidential election, the Brexit vote and the rise of extremism in the politics of the West are warnings of something larger, and the sooner we realise it, the better. What we are witnessing is the birth of a new politics of anger. It is potentially very dangerous indeed.

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from Townhall.com
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]

GMU Admissions Director on Traditional Marriage, Trump Supporters: You Are Worthless Trash
College administrators everywhere are having a really difficult time accepting Donald Trump's White House victory, but the admissions director at George Mason University just lost it. On his Facebook page, Andrew Bunting declared conservatives, Trump voters and anyone who dares to disagree with his progressive ideology are "worthless pieces of trash."

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from UPI News Agency - United Press International
upi.com

Renewed optimism for Trump pushes Dow to new record, best week since 2011  6:55 PM

Dem leader Reid rebukes Trump victory: 'This does not feel like America'  5:51 PM
"The election of Donald Trump has emboldened the forces of hate and bigotry in America," the Senate minority leader said Friday.

Portland police arrest dozens after anti-Trump protest turns to 'riot'  8:58 AM

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from USA Today

Meet the evangelicals who prophesied a Trump win
Despite many Christians questioning his moral character, Trump walked away with the evangelical vote Tuesday, including 81% of white evangelicals, exit polls showed. And while many Trump supporters of all stripes – and Trump himself – said they sensed polls and cross tabs just weren’t capturing something, fewer framed such feelings as divine.

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from US National Archives

World War II Veteran Lloyd Heller Shares Details About Production of 1943 Tank Training Film
In August, an e-mail came to motion picture archivist Carol Swain’s inbox asking about a World War II training film called Security on the March. Richard Herde contacted the Motion Picture unit looking for information about a film his 100-year-old uncle, Corporal Lloyd Heller, had helped make while serving as a tanker in the United States Army. As luck would have it, Heller remembered the exact title of the film, which made it much easier to find, and a beautiful 35mm negative was preserved here at the National Archives. The motion picture preservation lab scanned Security on the March and made a DVD so that Heller could view the film for the first time in over 70 years.

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from The Washington Post
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