Tuesday, November 22, 2016

In the news, Thursday, November 10, 2016


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NOV 09      INDEX      NOV 11
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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 AlterNet
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]

10 Shocking 2016 Election Facts: Old Political Assumptions Are out the Window
The election had many surprises beyond Hillary winning the popular vote.

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from Anglican Communion News Service

Delegations of Sunni and Shia Muslims and Catholic and Anglican / Episcopal Christians have said that hatred, humiliation and persecution based on distorted understandings of the Bible or Qur’an “offends God.” The representatives of Christian and Muslim groups, meeting in Tehran, also declared that women, children, and religious and ethnic minorities are “the first targets of an erroneous interpretation” of Christian and Muslim sacred texts, and that women have an “indispensable" role to play in inter-religious dialogue.

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from BBC News (UK)

US Election 2016 Results: A Democratic Party in disarray
The US Democratic party faces a long and dark journey before they can once again emerge from the political wilderness.

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from The Blaze (& Glenn Beck)
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]

What a Gay, Muslim, Pakistani-American Immigrant Learned Traveling to Rural Alaska the Week Before the Election
There exists a HUGE population in America who are desperately struggling to feed their families. They feel their needs are not authentically represented within this huge government. They feel their concerns are not being voiced by any major news outlet. They are tired of being called “dumb,” “bigoted” and “racist.” And, based on the shocked expressions of every anchor last night that all their polling data was off, apparently they aren’t even really counted.

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from Bloomberg

Trump’s Data Team Saw a Different America—and They Were Right
The president-elect’s analysts picked up disturbances others weren’t seeing—the beginning of the storm that would deliver Trump to the White House.

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from The Boston Globe

In a ranked choice vote system, rather than simply voting for one candidate, voters rank their candidates by preference—first, second, third, and so on. Then, if no candidate receives at least 50 percent of the vote after the first choices are counted, the candidate with the least first-choice rankings is eliminated, and the voters who preferred the last place finisher have their vote reallocated according to their next choice. The votes are then recounted and the process is repeated until one candidate breaks the 50 percent threshold.

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from The Christian Institute

The Archbishop of Canterbury says the Government has a seriously flawed view of extremism that places Christians alongside extreme Muslim groups.

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from CNSNews.com (& MRC & NewsBusters)

Gingrich: Beware of Republicans Speaking 'Honeyed Words of Subversion'
Newt Gingrich didn't spare ANYTHING for the Republicans who said they would never support Donald Trump.

Gun Owners Get Some AMAZING News After Trump WINS
“A driver’s license works in every state, so it’s common sense that a concealed carry permit should work in every state. If we can do that for driving — which is a privilege, not a right — then surely we can do that for concealed carry, which is a right, not a privilege,” he added.

Aaron Sorkin on Trump: ‘The Klan Won Last Night…Hate Was Given Hope’
This type of clown is your typical Hollywood writer. They all seem to possess a vicious hatred for anyone who doesn't agree with their far-left beliefs. ESPECIALLY Middle Americans, the object of so many of their attacks.

Levin: The Electoral College Is ‘Absolutely Brilliant’

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from Coeur d'Alene Press

The lingering effects of Agent Orange
Veteran Services Transparency hopes to bring awareness to cause

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

President-Elect Trump Heads to Office with 'Litigation Cloud Over His Head'
'Certainly no presidential candidate in modern times has potentially come to the office of president with such a litigation cloud hanging over his head'

Like Falling Ashes: Leonard Cohen Dies
Like the world wasn't feeling bereft enough, poet, seeker, songwriter and Buddhist monk Leonard Cohen has died at 82.

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

Is a Free-Range Chicken a Happy Chicken?
Cage-free and free-range systems allow hens to express natural behaviors, but access to the outdoors means predators have access to hens.

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from GOPUSA

Mitch McConnell: No interest in term limits for Congress
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says he has no interest in at least one agenda item preferred by President-elect Donald Trump: term limits for members of Congress. Trump praised the idea during the campaign, but McConnell said Wednesday the issue is going nowhere in the Senate.

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from The Guardian (UK)
[Information from this site may be unreliable.]

This US election result is a terrific argument for monarchy
Last week the New York Times, of all places, ran an opinion piece in defence of hereditary monarchy. Under the title, Consider a Monarchy, America, Nikolai Tolstoy argued that, unlike elected heads of state, monarchies offer stability, continuity and a focus for national togetherness. Quoting the historian Edward Gibbon, Tolstoy wrote: “The advantage of monarchy is that the institution ‘extinguishes the hopes of faction’ by rising above the toxic partisanship of competing parties and vying elected officials.”

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from Harvard Business Review

The reasons for Trump’s win are obvious, if you know where to look.

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from The Heritage Foundation

The Shocking Intolerance of Anti-Trump Liberals
Some liberals are considering ending ties with relatives—including not letting grandparents see their grandkids!—over a vote for Trump. And unfriending people on Facebook who supported Trump.

Trump Should Reverse Obama’s Executive Actions. Here Are 7 Areas to Start.

Radical Social Agenda Now Costing the Democrats ‘Big League’
Democrats who now wonder how they’ve managed to lose the White House, Congress, and potentially the Supreme Court have plenty of blame to go around, but the pro-abortion, anti-religious freedom extremism now characteristic of the Democratic Party should rank high up on their list.

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

The Real Reason We're Grieving After Trump's Victory
It feels like living in enemy territory now, and there’s no way around that.

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from Independent Journal Review

The Man Who Put Oregon Christian Bakers Out of Business Just Got Beaten at Polls By REPUBLICAN

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from Indian Country Today Media Network

DAPL Ignores 2nd Army Corps Request to Stop Construction for 30 Days
The U.S. Department of Justice is about to announce next steps on de-escalating the standoff regarding construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline, according to the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe.

Culinary Diplomats: Chefs Take Native Ancestral Foods to Russia

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from Las Vegas Review-Journal

Prosecutors confirm BLM shredded documents before Bunkerville standoff
Bureau of Land Management agents shredded sensitive documents about their roundup of Bundy family cattle in the tense hours before their April 2014 standoff with armed Bundy followers, federal prosecutors have confirmed.

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from LifeZette (& PoliZette)

Let’s Give Political Peace a Chance
Much like Reagan, Trump can bring the American people together in pursuit of more freedom, less government.

Desperate Liberals Cry Sexism
Grieving Democrats and pundits point to gender bias as a culprit for Trump's win — Oct. poll disproves them.

The Unknown Professor Who Called Trump’s Win
Helmut Norpoth, who forecast Trump victory in February, takes victory lap. Pollsters who confidently predicted a comfortable victory for Hillary Clinton in the presidential election might lose business, according to one of the few experts who foresaw a win by Donald Trump.

Filling President-Elect Trump’s Cabinet
Likely picks for top posts from among the president-elect's most loyal, experienced backers.

Trump Win Delivers Ignominy to Some, Vindication to Others
Election leaves America's elite ruling families, the media, and movement progressives like Sanders all disgraced.

Obama Defanged but Still Dangerous
Outgoing president likely to spark lame-duck border rush, prison breaks, pardons, and move against Israel

Patients and Their Doctors Can Talk Again
A physician weighs in on how Obamacare reform can work in the wake of Trump's win

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

The Looming Bubble in Long-Term Debt
In the aftermath of the financial crisis of 2007–2009, analysts and prognosticators have constantly argued over the next big bubble.

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

Would Bernie Sanders have done better against Donald Trump?
The limitations of the Third Way have been further exposed. The strengths of the alternative are less clear.

The invisible economic catastrophe that Donald Trump spotted
Many commentators seem to accept falling male participation in work as some kind of inevitable force of nature, often linked to arguments about technological change. This is simply untrue.

Vladimir Putin was one of the first world leaders to congratulate Donald Trump on becoming the 45th President of the United States. According to an official statement on the Kremlin portal, he expressed hope that the two of them can work together to repair the relations between Russia and the US and to address threats to global security.

As with Brexit, there’s little evidence that the US presidential election result had much to do with voters’ personal economic circumstances. Diversity and difference tends to alarm right-wing authoritarians, who seek order and stability. This, and not class, is what cuts the electoral pie in many western countries these days.

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from The New Yorker

AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY
That the electorate has, in its plurality, decided to live in Trump’s world of vanity, hate, arrogance, untruth, and recklessness, his disdain for democratic norms, is a fact that will lead, inevitably, to all manner of national decline and suffering.

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from NPR (& affiliates)

FACT CHECK: Donald Trump's First 100 Days Action Plan
NPR reporters and editors add context to the legislation and other proposals that the president-elect said he wants to introduce in his first 100 days in office.

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from Rolling Stone
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]

President Trump: How America Got It So Wrong
Journalists and politicians blew off the warning signs of a Trump presidency – now, we all must pay the price

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from The Spokesman-Review
from US Uncut
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]
from Washington Examiner

Heritage Foundation takes risk and wins big with Trump
The Heritage Foundation might be the biggest winner of 2016. The conservative think tank bet big on Donald Trump by biting their tongue and overlooking many of his conservative heresies. While others turned their nose up at Trump, they were the ones reading the electorate.

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