Thursday, December 8, 2016

In the news, Wednesday, November 23, 2016


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from CommonDreams
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Yes, the Democratic Party Did Abandon the Working Class
It's not as if the Democratic Party was ever "the party of the people" — at least not in the mystical sense depicted by both party loyalists and some on the left who are nostalgic for the liberal tradition established by Franklin Roosevelt and carried forward by Lyndon Johnson.

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from Conservative Review
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THANKSGIVING 1943: AMERICAN SAILORS PULL OFF A MIRACULOUS NAVAL VICTORY

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from Douglas County Empire Press

Pine Canyon work done
Road work to provide a permanent fix at the sight of a massive landslide that occurred on Pine Canyon in January has been wrapped up.

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from FEE (Foundation for Economic Education)
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Protectionism Will Make America Poor, Not Great
The reason Mr. Trump’s rhetoric on trade resonates with so many blue collar voters is because they believe a popular fallacy: foreign trade destroys US jobs. President Trump will have to choose between candidate Trump’s promises. He can embrace international trade and contribute to making America great, or he can follow his protectionist rhetoric at the expense of American greatness. But he can’t have it both ways.

Tax Avoidance Is an American Tradition
Thanksgiving approaches, and our colleagues on the left (and some on the right), continue their prolonged apoplectic seizure over Donald Trump’s non-taxpaying ways. The record cries out to be set straight. Tax avoidance is as great an American tradition as eating turkey and pumpkin pie on a particular Thursday in November. Actually, it goes back a little bit farther than our culinary peculiarities.

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from First Things

Next month marks the fiftieth anniversary of the film A Man for All Seasons. And if it’s impossible to imagine such a picture on such a theme winning Oscars today, then let’s be grateful that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences got it right by giving Fred Zinnemann’s splendid movie six of its awards in 1967—when, reputedly, Audrey Hepburn lifted her eyes to heaven before announcing with obvious pleasure that this cinematic celebration of the witness and martyrdom of Sir Thomas More had beaten The Sand Pebbles, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Alfie, and The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming for Best Picture. Intriguingly, though, A Man for All Seasons is a magnificent religious film—perhaps the best ever—despite its author’s stated intentions.

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from Gizmodo

NASA Didn't Find Life on Mars—But It Did Find Something Very Cool
If we ever get proof of past life on Mars, it’ll come in the form of biosignatures, fingerprints that could only have been left by living organisms. We’re a long way from finding that smoking gun evidence, but an analysis of silica minerals discovered by NASA’s Spirit rover pushes us one step closer. Because of their similarity to silica deposits shaped by microbial life on Earth, these intriguing Martian minerals are now being called a “potential biosignature.”


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from The Heritage Foundation

Thanksgiving Through the Years
From its earliest days, Thanksgiving was recognized as a day for Americans to express gratitude to God. George Washington was first in war, first in peace, and in November 1789, the first president to proclaim a national day of thanksgiving, openly acknowledging God as the source of all “the great and various favors which He has been pleased to confer upon us.” Thanksgiving was summed up by President Ronald Reagan: “God has blessed America and her people, and it is appropriate we recognize this bounty.”

Department of Justice Fines Sheriff Department for Hiring Only US Citizens
In a sharp illustration of how the federal government refuses to play by the same rules as everyone else, the Denver Sheriff’s Department has agreed to pay a $10,000 fine for making U.S. citizenship a qualification for being hired as a deputy sheriff.

Trump to Follow Reagan Model in Federal Hiring Freeze
President-elect Donald Trump won’t be saying you’re fired, but he will be saying you’re froze as a one means of shrinking the bureaucracy. Trump has pledged to reduce the federal workforce through attrition, and leaving positions unfilled through a hiring freeze.

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from Huffington Post
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The Thing All Women Do That You Don’t Know About
There’s this thing that happens whenever I speak about or write about women’s issues. Things like dress codes, rape culture and sexism. I get the comments: Aren’t there more important things to worry about? Is this really that big of a deal? Aren’t you being overly sensitive? Are you sure you’re being rational about this? Every. Single. Time. And every single time I get frustrated. Why don’t they get it? I think I’ve figured out why. They don’t know. They don’t know about de-escalation. Minimizing. Quietly acquiescing. Hell, even though women live it, we are not always aware of it. But we have all done it.

How To Recognize A Fake News Story
Fake news articles ― especially throughout this election year ― have increasingly become a fixture on social media. These posts, designed to deceive, run rampant across the internet. Only later, if ever, do readers discover that the stories they shared may have been false.

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from Indian Country Today Media Network

Supporters for NoDAPL Turn Out in Force at CNN Headquarters

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from Mises Institute
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One of the many political myths to which Americans continue to cling is the idea that the Supreme Court is an "non-political" institution and that its traditions and institutional framework are sacrosanct. The court has never been non-political, of course, and has always been composed of political appointees closely connected to elected officials in Washington. 

The Great Thanksgiving Hoax
Each year at this time, schoolchildren all over America are taught the official Thanksgiving story, and newspapers, radio, TV, and magazines devote vast amounts of time and space to it. It is all very colorful and fascinating. It is also very deceiving. This official story is nothing like what really happened. It is a fairy tale, a whitewashed and sanitized collection of half-truths which divert attention away from Thanksgiving's real meaning.

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from NPR (& affiliates)

Students Have 'Dismaying' Inability To Tell Fake News From Real, Study Finds
Stanford researchers assessed students from middle school to college and found they struggled to distinguish ads from articles, neutral sources from biased ones and fake accounts from real ones.

We Tracked Down A Fake-News Creator In The Suburbs. Here's What We Learned

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from Redoubt News
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Celebrating Thanksgiving in America

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from The Spokesman-Review

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from Washington Examiner

Pipeline protester could lose an arm after clash with police
A New York woman says she may have to have her arm amputated after police used concussion grenades to disperse protesters who were trying to block the construction of the Dakota Access pipeline in North Dakota, although police say these grenades weren't used.

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from Zero Hedge
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Merkel Declares War On "Fake News" As Europe Brands Russia's RT, Sputnik "Dangerous Propaganda"
Picking up the torch on the most hotly debated topic by the humiliated US mainstream media, namely the spread of so-called "fake news" (not to be confused with Brian Williams lying for years on prime time TV, and which until recently was branded far simply as "conspiracy theory"), German Chancellor Angela Merkel warned on Wednesday against the power of fake news on social media to roil the establishment and to spur the rise of populists, after launching her campaign for a fourth term.

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