Thursday, December 8, 2016

In the news, Monday, November 14, 2016


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NOV 13      INDEX      NOV 15
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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 Thinker
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]

The Electoral College Is Brilliant
The progressives are determined to get rid of the Electoral College.  Of course they are.  Abolishing the Electoral College would complete their project of overthrowing America's unique federal system, begun about one hundred years ago.

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from CNSNews.com (& MRC & NewsBusters)

Obama Administration Agrees to Take Mideast Refugees Refused by Australia
A little over two months before President Obama leaves the White House, Australia’s prime minister has disclosed that the U.S. has agreed to resettle an unspecified number of refugees, mostly from the Middle Eastern region, who are currently housed in offshore detention centers after being prevented from reaching Australia by boat.

Maryland High School Students Stage Walkout to Protest Trump

Swedish Chef Reportedly Assaulted Because of His Resemblance to Trump
Swedish celebrity chef Anders Vendel claims he was beaten by a group of Muslim men because of his resemblance to president-elect Donald Trump.

'Morning Joe' Skewers Dramatic 'SNL' Cold Open
SNL has officially quit trying to be funny. “And people wonder why half of America thinks the media elites are extraordinarily disconnected.” Even MSNBC thought 'SNL's' dramatic, post-election opening was over the top.

Hollywood Reporter: ‘Liberal Celebrities May Have Been Doing More Harm Than Good’

CBS Lectures Bernie Sanders About ‘Guilt,’ 'Responsibility' for Hillary Loss
Maybe it’s Bernie Sanders’s fault that Hillary Clinton lost? That’s the latest blame game theory brought up on Monday’s CBS This Morning. Co-host Norah O’Donnell talked to Clinton’s primary opponent and wondered if he had “guilt” and “responsibility” for bringing up trust issues during the early part of the campaign.

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from Columbia Basin Herald (Moses Lake, WA)

BAIL LOWERED IN COULEE CITY SCHOOL THREAT
The bail for an Arizona man who is accused of threatening to shoot up schools in Coulee City has been decreased by over $100,000. Benjamin VanTassell, 39, of Flagstaff, Ariz., is currently charged in Grant County Superior Court with threats to bomb or injure property and attempting to elude a pursuing police vehicle. In March Grant County Superior Court Judge John Antosz set VanTassell’s bail at $125,000. Following an agreed recommendation between Deputy Prosecutor Mark Laiminger and defense attorney Rafael Gonzales, Grant County Superior Court Judge John Knodell decreased VanTassell’s bail last week from $125,000 to $20,000 cash or bond.


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

Glenn Beck: Steve Bannon Is a ‘Terrifying Man’
Right-wing commentator Glenn Beck continued his leftward progression on Monday by warning listeners of his radio show about the dangers of President-Elect Donald Trump's new chief adviser Steve Bannon. “He’s a nightmare and he’s the chief adviser to the president of the United States now," Beck said, shaking his head.

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from FEE (Foundation for Economic Education)
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, HIGH, non-profit organization

The Accidental Genius of the Electoral College
In response to Donald Trump's presidential victory, many people have called to abolish the electoral college and have the presidency decided by a popular vote, including several hundred thousand MoveOn.org petitioners. In contrast, I support the electoral college. Though I would find unobjectionable changes in the way the electoral college is calculated, I generally approve of the electoral college because it is one of the Constitution’s accidentally great procedural features for deterring the concentration of political power and the resulting abuses of such concentration.

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from First Things

DOES IT MAKE A DIFFERENCE TO SUPREME COURT DECISIONS?
At the Liberty Law site, I have a post on the absence of any Protestant Christians on the current Supreme Court. In historical terms, this is a striking anomaly: Most of the 112 men and women who have sat on the Court have been Protestant Christians. What explains this, and does it make a difference for American law?

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from Fox News (& affiliates)

Report: Soros, Big Liberal Donors Meeting with Dems on Stopping Trump
Billionaire George Soros and other big Democratic donors are meeting for three days in Washington, D.C. to discuss how to stop President-elect Donald Trump's agenda.

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

Bernie Sanders Could Replace President Trump With Little-Known Loophole
Actually, no we can’t. There is no loophole that allows a random person to assume the office of president. That’s pretty basic common sense but yet you clicked or even shared this article anyway. Now that right there is the real point of this post. Our social media sites have been flooded with misinformation in the past few months. While this has always been a problem, it now appears to have exploded over this election season. We are seeing post after post stating just plain illogical things and this is not a problem unique to any one side.

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from Indian Country Today Media Network

Breaking: DAPL Construction on Hold Pending Further Review and Tribal Consultation
Citing historical injustices, environmental uncertainties and other factors, the U.S. Department of the Army is holding off on easements under the Missouri River for the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) and halting construction pending further review.

Trump’s Climate Plans Look Stormy
For those concerned about the planet’s rising temperature the outlook has just become significantly more worrisome, with President-elect Donald Trump’s climate plans offering little comfort.

Cobell Land Buy-Back Fund Four Million Acres and Billions of Dollars Short
A federal land acquisition program to benefit tribes will leave unrecovered 4 million acres of fractionated land, reservation land divided up and allotted to individual members, interests when it ends in 2022, according to the Land Buy-Back Program for Tribal Nations’ 2016 Status Report released November 1.

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from LifeZette (& PoliZette)

Trump Election Should End DOJ’s Police Takeover
Federal push to control local law enforcement can be ended rapidly by the president-elect

Irrational Fears Over Women’s Health Services
Reproductive medical issues are nonpartisan, so don't buy the hype and the hysteria

Old-Guard Republicans Will Try to Scuttle Trump’s Success
President-elect should stiff-arm the neocons trying to sneak into his administration

Democrats to Double Down on Identity Politics with Ellison
Minnesota congressman with track record of racially divisive rhetoric leads race for DNC chairman

Market Thrives off Trump Win, Despite Apocalyptic Predictions
Dow Jones closed Friday with best single-week performance in five years

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from The Living Church

Vandals Target Churches
Racist and neo-Nazi messages appear in various states after the presidential election.

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from Los Angeles Times

LAPD will not help deport immigrants under Trump, chief says
Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck said Monday that he did not intend to change the LAPD's approach to immigration enforcement, despite pledges by President-elect Donald Trump to toughen federal immigration laws and increase deportations.

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

What those comparing Donald Trump to Jeremy Corbyn have got right
The comparison is electorally wrong, but the sentiment behind it is correct.

Meet Reince Priebus - Donald Trump's unlikely chief of staff
The Republican peacemaker has allied himself to a tempestuous star. In 2013, Priebus told fellow Republicans: "If you're not engaging with the Hispanic community, you better get to work."

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from On Pasture


Over the course of the past decade, Brown Midrib, or BMR forages have become widely familiar as the elite of summer annual forages. The “cream of the crop,” these corn hybrids, sorghums, and pearl millets are distinguished by a genetic makeup that reduces their lignin content and can be visually evident as a light to dark brown tint in the stalk and leaf midrib. The BMR characteristic is actually caused by a natural genetic mutation that was discovered in the 1920s, which has the effect of increasing whole-plant fiber digestibility.

Producers often overlook replacement heifer development plans with the implementation of these plans happening soon after weaning. Producers that have not evaluated the cow costs or heifer development costs may not be using the best replacement method for their operation. Just because heifers have been kept in the past, it does not mean they need to be kept every year.

If you’re going to be feeding your livestock this winter, bale grazing could be right for you. It can save you time and money and even improve your pastures.

What kind of wrecks are we setting ourselves up for when we do things the way we always have?

Here’s a tip for all of us, and for folks new to agriculture especially. You’ll need the right people to be successful.

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from OZY
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]
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from The Raw Story
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]

Donald Trump has already broken his promise to serve “all Americans” as president and “bind the wounds of division” after a bruising White House campaign, said Ana Navarro.

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from Redoubt News
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]

Federal Charges For Following State Law
Kansas Veterans On Trial for Following State Law

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from Religion News Service

Jewish-Muslim alliance formed against anti-Semitism, Islamophobia
The day after President-elect Donald Trump appointed a man accused of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia as his chief strategist, two of the nation’s largest Jewish and Muslim advocacy groups formed an unprecedented partnership to fight bigotry.

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from The Spokesman-Review

Idaho Trump electors report ‘barrage’ of harassing messages urging them to change votes

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

Odds and Ends: Three Election Outcomes You Probably Haven't Heard Much About
Remember the Oregon Democrat Who Fined a Christian Bakery $144,000? He Lost. In Colorado, voters absolutely demolished a ballot initiative to create a government-run, single-payer healthcare system for the state. And in Louisiana, white supremacist David Duke's US Senate run ended in abject, deserved embarrassment.  The state's conservative electorate relegated Duke to a seventh-place finish, delivering him a rounding-error pittance of votes.

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from The Wall Street Journal

The Electoral College Is Anything But Outdated
In a deeply divided nation, a candidate shouldn’t be able to win by appealing only to urban sophisticates.

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from The Washington Free Beacon

Pentagon Officials Told Russians ‘No Evidence’ U.S. Korean War POWs Taken to Soviet Union
Pentagon officials leading efforts to recover missing American service members told their Russian counterparts in May there is no evidence that U.S. prisoners of the Korean War were brought into the Soviet Union, dismissing intelligence reports and eyewitness testimony compiled over the last two decades. American officials made the claim during a May meeting of the U.S.-Russia Joint Commission on POW/MIAs, and experts say it could undermine the Defense Department’s efforts to recover further information about the more than 7,800 military personnel still unaccounted for from the Korean War of the 1950s.

One of Hillary Clinton’s top aides nailed exactly why she lost
Change conquered all.

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from The Washington Post
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from World Politicus
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]


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