Thursday, December 8, 2016

In the news, Tuesday, November 15, 2016


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NOV 14      INDEX      NOV 16
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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 Anglican Communion News Service

Publishers have described it as "the first study of [the Anglican Communion’s] dramatic growth and decline in the years since 1980.”

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from Business Insider
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]

An anti-Trump movement is calling for the boycott of these 32 retailers
It's hard to separate Donald Trump's businesses from his politics. As a result, some are calling for a boycott of the president-elect's business empire and other companies that sell Trump products.

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from Conservative Intelligence Briefing

Trump Needs to End the Death By Delay Tactics Stalling DAPL
Earlier this week, the Army Corps of Engineers sided with President Obama’s job-killing stance on the Dakota Access Pipeline by posting a decision that further delays construction of the much-needed project. It seems that developing and reviewing more than 1,200 pages of environmental and cultural analysis, consulting with 55 Native American tribes nearly 400 times, and successfully defending its route twice in federal court was just not enough for the political activists hellbent on preventing American energy independence.

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

India's War on Cash
This past Tuesday, India’s prime minister made an announcement that the existing ₹500 and ₹1000 currency notes would cease to be legal tender. The result was widespread chaos. But what was the wisdom behind this whole exercise and making people suffer so much?

Why Trump Might Soften on Immigration, and Why He Probably Won't
Trump's immigration policy paper is detailed, specific, and terrible. Hopefully he'll soften his tone when confronted with the logistical and humanitarian nightmare his policies would entail.

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from First Things

Willa Cather’s novels, such as “Shadows on the Rock” and “Death Comes for the Archbishop,” depict the human experience of exile and homelessness. She is honest about human shortcomings—and about human possibilities.

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from Fort Worth Star-Telegram

Permian’s Wolfcamp formation called biggest shale oil field in U.S.
Big oil discoveries in shale formations have made the Permian Basin in West Texas the hottest oil play in the U.S. despite low oil prices.

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

Anglo-Saxon graves and tree-trunk coffins unearthed in Norfolk
Archaeologists say six plank-lined graves could be part of burial ground of early Christian community dating from between the 7th and 9th centuries

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from The Heritage Foundation

What Obama Got Wrong in His Latest Defense of Obamacare

Sanctuary Cities Defy Trump’s Pledge to Defund Them. How He Can Fight Back.

With Trump’s Election, the Future of the Courts Looks Brighter

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from The Hill

Cook: Clinton passes 1M in popular vote lead
Hillary Clinton has surpassed 1 million in her popular vote margin over President-elect Donald Trump, according to a Tuesday tally from the nonpartisan Cook Political Report. Clinton leads Trump in the popular vote, 61,694,263 to 60,961,967, Cook officials said, with 20,000 votes from Montgomery County, Md., pushing her over the 1 million mark. Trump won the White House via the Electoral College a week ago, while the former secretary of State is now the fifth nominee in American history to win the popular vote but lose the presidency.

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from HumanProgress.org
Education Website

We Work Less, Have More Leisure Time and Earn More Money
Globally, a worker could expect to work 2,227 hours in 1950. By 2016, however, he or she worked only 1,855 hours. That's a decline of 17 percent. Over the same time period, global inflation-adjusted income per capita per year rose from $11,578 to $24,400, or 111 percent. Put differently, we are working less while making more money.

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from KGW-TV (NBC Portland)

Most of arrested Portland protesters didn't vote in Oregon
Most of the 112 protesters arrested in Portland last week didn’t vote in Oregon, according to state election records. Approximately 30 percent did cast a ballot in Oregon or in another state.

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from KING 5 (NBC Seattle)

Most of arrested Portland protesters didn't vote in Oregon
More than 70 percent of the 112 protesters arrested in Portland last week didn’t vote in Oregon, according to state election records. The other approximately 30 percent did cast a ballot in Oregon or in another state. At least seventy-nine demonstrators either didn’t turn in a ballot or weren’t registered to vote in the state.

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from LifeZette (& PoliZette)

College Crybabies Need Maturity 101
Meltdowns, cry-ins, coloring sessions — time to grow up

Conservative Cardinals Challenge Pope Francis
On issues of the family, four Catholic leaders do not mince words

You Can’t Quote Jefferson at the College He Founded
Political correctness runs rampant at University of Virginia — and our college students are biggest victims

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from The Living Church

CHILDREN WITHOUT MOTHERS AND FATHERS, WITHOUT HOPE OF ADOPTION
Christianity has more descriptive power than secular egalitarianism since the latter’s universalist discourse prevents it from describing the world as it is with its inherent distinction between biological and adoptive parents. The point, though, isn’t simply that the terms mother, father, and adoption are phenomenologically necessary. The point is that they are necessary unto salvation. When they are taken from children, children are stripped of their ability to locate their immediate experiences within the theatre of divine action.

Not Just a Slogan
Presiding Bishop Curry: “‘The Episcopal Church Welcomes You’ is who we seek to be and the witness we seek to make.”

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from Miami Herald

Leonard Pitts Jr.: I’m not in the mood for ‘unity.’ At the end of the day, Trump’s still a bigot
People keep telling me we should be working to "heal." I say: not so fast.

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

Trump's Election May Strain the Euro to the Breaking Point
The euro is already in deep trouble, and the less enthusiastic globalism likely to be offered by Trump will be another blow to the European project.

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from The Newton Citizen
Newspaper in Conyers, Georgia

DARRELL HUCKABY: Take a seat — history class is in session
Goodness gracious sakes alive, does this country need a history lesson! Never in the past four years have I wanted so badly to have a class of people to teach. Teenagers or adults or senior citizens — it wouldn’t have mattered. I have seen so much appalling ignorance about our country, its history and its constitution that I have just wanted to grab the populace and shake them until they understood.

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from New York Times

With Trump’s Signature, Dozens of Obama’s Rules Could Fall
A little-used law may be used by the Trump administration to strike down regulations passed since this spring under President Obama.

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from The Spokesman-Review

Confronting hate one stroke at a time
With every stroke of a paintbrush, the word seemed to disappear. The mayor took a swipe. Ordinary citizens did, too. City Council members, clergy, social justice advocates and organizers, children, police and fire officials – all took up the brush. Each took a swipe against the N-word – spray-painted in bright red on the side of a children’s center named for Martin Luther King Jr. – and with each one, it became harder to recognize that the word had ever been there at all.

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from Sputnik
(Russian government-supported propaganda channel)

Pump Down the Volume: Palestinians Say Israeli Bill Will Lead to Religious War
The Israeli Knesset Ministerial Committee for Legislation on Sunday approved a bill prohibiting religious institutions from using outdoor amplification.

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from UPI News Agency - United Press International
upi.com

Dems push Pelosi vote back to Nov. 30 to mull election losses, party direction  9:15 PM
Democrats first scheduled the vote for Nov. 30, then moved it to Thursday before sending it back to Nov. 30 on Tuesday

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from The Washington Post
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