Wednesday, December 28, 2016

In the news, Thursday, December 15, 2016


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from CNSNews.com (& MRC & NewsBusters)

Census Bureau: 4 Richest Counties in U.S. Are Suburbs of D.C.
During the Obama administration, the EPA became a lawless organ of federal power, divorced from the Congressional statutes that were meant to constrain it., writes Brett Talley. Scott Pruitt is the right choice to fix the problem, he says.

Fox’s newest music series by creator Lee Daniels, Star (a spin-off of Empire), debuted Wednesday and the show is straight out of a liberal fantasyland.

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from Competitive Enterprise Institute

It must be a priority to reverse course from Obama administration employment policies that aimed to direct the private behavior of workers and employers by limiting how individuals can work and companies operate.

Free-market reforms to protect the environment and promote plentiful, reliable energy

First Steps for the Trump Administration: Rein in the Regulatory State
Free-market reforms to revive the U.S. economy’s wealth-creating potential

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from Conservative Review
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]

IF YOU EVER NEED AN EXCUSE FOR A BAD CANDIDATE, BLAME RUSSIA
If Democrats want to know why they lost the election, they don’t need an intelligence briefing to get the answer. They just need to look in the mirror. Liberals are openly lying about Russian influence on our elections—and the media is more than happy to help.

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

Hillary Clinton Toasts Her Mega-Donors At Donald Trump’s Old Hotel
To thank her richest supporters, Hillary rented the room Ivana had renovated, and where Marla then got hitched.

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from First Things

WHY ARE CATHOLIC ACADEMICS SUPPORTING THE FOUR CARDINALS?
On the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, a score of Catholic academics and pastors—of whom I am one—spoke out, in an open letter, in support of the “Four Cardinals” who submitted and then made public five “dubia” (doubts or questions) to Pope Francis on issues raised by his post-synodal exhortation Amoris Laetitia. The four cardinals—Raymond Burke, Carlo Caffarra, Walter Brandmüller, and Joachim Meisner—have taken a step that has few, if any, precedents.

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from The Heritage Foundation

Obama’s Last Gift to Planned Parenthood
The Department of Health and Human Services proposed a rule that would prohibit states from blocking Planned Parenthood from receiving Title X family planning services grant money for reasons “unrelated” to its ability to provide family planning services. The rule has been finalized and will be published in the Federal Register on Dec. 19.

New Social Security Reform Bill Moves in the Right Direction
Finally, a reform plan has been introduced to preserve Social Security without troubling younger generations with undue debt and tax burdens. This plan, the Social Security Reform Act of 2016, was introduced last week by Rep. Sam Johnson, R-Texas, the chair of the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Social Security.

Facebook’s Reliance on Liberal Fact-Checkers Means Your News Is About to Be Censored

The 4 Steps Facebook Is Taking to Crack Down on ‘Fake News’

NYC Muslim Teen’s Lie About Trump Supporters Attack Shows Media’s ‘Fake News’ Problem

EPA Finds No Widespread Water Pollution From Fracking
The EPA admits fracking is harmless to drinking water—but that's not stopping environmental groups from continuing to lie about it.

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

Understanding the Trump Phenomenon
To get to where we want to go, the American political class has to be hit hard, and the media and the universities need to be exposed for the propaganda factories they are.

Why the Bill of Rights Is Failing
The words of the Bill of Rights are nice, but they mean nothing if the public abandons the ideology that underpins the Bill of Rights itself.

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

Theresa May might look lonely, but cracks are showing in the EU's united front
It has taken just under six months but power tussles over Brexit plans are exposing splits among the Brussels bigwigs.

Martin Scorsese's new passion project, Silence, shows the danger of confusing faith with folly
This labour of love from the legendary director is no more a movie than a pile of ingredients is a picnic.

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from New York Daily News

KING: There’s a huge education level drop-off with the Trump cabinet picks

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from PRI Public Radio International



This crisis has been building for a long time. Detaining asylum seekers is a result of the bi-partisan 1996 Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act signed into law by President Bill Clinton. "IIRIRA made it mandatory that anyone who arrives at a border or an airport and declares that he or she is seeking asylum is detained."

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from Quartz

Trump’s 17 cabinet-level picks have more money than a third of American households combined
The 17 people who US president-elect Donald Trump has selected for his cabinet or for posts with cabinet rank have well over $9.5 billion in combined wealth, with several positions still unfilled. This collection of wealth is greater than that of the 43 million least wealthy American households combined—over one third of the 126 million households total in the US.


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from The Spokesman-Review

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from UPI News Agency - United Press International
upi.com

Facebook announces measures to debunk mounting fake news
6:42 PM  Social network Facebook on Thursday outlined four new ways it's fighting the issue of fake news and hoaxes on its site, which has been a popular topic in recent weeks. Four new measures in the fight include an easier reporting protocol, flagging suspect stories, informed sharing and mitigating financial incentives for spammers.

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from The Washington Post

Facebook will start telling you when a story may be fake
A new feature on Facebook will now flag news if it's been disputed by an independent third party fact checker. You will also see an alert if you're about to share the news.

Vladimir Putin wants a new world order. Why would Donald Trump help him?

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