Saturday, March 25, 2017

In the news, Sunday, March 5, 2017


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from Addicting Info
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ANOTHER Russian With Ties To Trump Just Dropped Dead
While Donald Trump’s team, one by one, is being connected to Russia in secretive and perhaps illegal ways, a story that’s going largely unreported in American media is the fact that seven, yes seven, Russian diplomats and businessmen have dropped dead since the American presidential election.

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from Big Think

Why Some Conservative Thinkers Seriously Want the Return of the Middle Ages
Of all the political and intellectual surprises that come at us every day now, one of the more unusual is the strange resurgence of the Middle Ages as an influence on our times.  A number of conservative thinkers have proposed that as modernity and liberalism led humanity to a dead end, we should look to the medieval period for inspiration on how to remake our world. This idea has been expressed through memes and writings of the alt-right and has found its way all the way up to Presidential advisors.

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from Coeur d'Alene Press

CRAPO: TIME TO DRAIN THE SWAMP
More than 400 people attended the annual Lincoln Day dinner, a fundraising event for the local GOP hosted by the Kootenai County Republican Central Committee, at The Coeur d’Alene Resort Saturday night. The theme of this year’s dinner, “Making America Great Again Begins in Idaho,” served as a focal point of the evening. U.S. Sen. Mike Crapo said the process has begun in Washington, D.C., to fight and drain a swamp filled with federal bureaucracy. “I’ve never seen the U.S. Senate meaner and more toxic, but I’m having more and more fun every day,” Crapo added. “There’s a fight, you all know about the fight — we’re standing up to the government.”

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from Competitive Enterprise Institute

The administrative state is huge, and it’s only getting bigger
The Washington Post highlights Wayne Crews's research on the federal regulatory state. To be clear about vocabulary: The “administrative state” and “the regulatory state” are essentially one and the same. It is a gigantic enterprise. Clyde Wayne Crews Jr. of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a free-market think tank, estimates that the costs of complying with federal rules and regulations totaled nearly $1.9 trillion in 2015, equal to about half the federal budget ($3.7 trillion in 2015).

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from FEE (Foundation for Economic Education)
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American Workers Aren't Helpless Children Who Need Protection
Much of the discussion about job destruction and worker transition rests on the assumption that workers are either myopic or unintelligent. Efforts to protect them are often rooted in the subtle bigotry of low expectations. Workers in all professions are adults who are quite capable of anticipating and preparing for change.

Trailer Park Houses Are the Original Tiny Homes
Given that “redneck” and  “hillbilly” remain the last acceptable stereotypes among polite society, it isn’t surprising that the stereotypical urban home of poor, recently rural whites remains an object of scorn. The mere mention of a trailer park conjures images of criminals in wife-beaters, moldy mattresses thrown awry, and Confederate flags. As with most social phenomena, there is a much more interesting reality behind this crass cliché. Onerous housing supply restrictions are turning cities into playgrounds for the rich, but trailer parks remain one of the last forms of housing in US cities provided by the market explicitly for low-income residents. When we stop treating low-income communities as objects of scorn, we might find that we have a lot to learn from them. Better still, they offer a working example of traditional urban design elements and private governance.

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from Intellihub
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Trump vs. Deep State: Full-scale information war revealed
It appears that the Deep State’s push to oust President Trump and close associates may have backfired to some extent after President Trump revealed on Twitter that outgoing president Barack Obama had previously requested that Trump Tower be wiretapped. However, make no mistake, the powers-that-be have no intentions of stopping now and are in fact suiting up for battle — this is a literal information war and it has gone full-scale.

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from The Living Church

A PLACE IN THE ORDER OF THINGS
Fr. Mark Michael reflects on his grandfather's death, vocation, and the loss of stability in American life. "My grandfather died two weeks ago, a few months short of his 89th birthday, in the same room where he was born. Most every night of his long life, he slept under the same roof, in the farmhouse where his parents had settled just after their marriage. Historically speaking, this kind of stability is unremarkable. But in modern America, where the average person moves 11.4 times in a lifetime, it would be difficult to compute just how rare it is."

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from PJ Media

#ObamaGate Is a Lot More than a Hashtag
If I were a Democrat, I'd be afraid. I'd be very afraid.
Roger L Simon points out that, while there has to date been no evidence presented proving collusion between Trump's camp and the Russians, there are reports to support some variation of Trump's early-morning assertion that Obama wire-tapped Trump tower.

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from The Spokesman-Review

Police were on the lookout for three Chinese tong members – meaning, members of notorious Chinese gangs – who were believed to be hiding in Spokane after fleeing from Portland, The Spokane Daily Chronicle reported on March 5, 1917.

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from Townhall.com
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Trump, Sex Trafficking & How It Ties To Russia
In my last column, I mentioned that the child sex trafficking story will eventually get so big that the MSM will have no choice but to cover it. The Russian journalist who wrote the follow-up on my sex trafficking story noted this in the Sputnik story: “If that does occur, perhaps the more ridiculous aspects of US media coverage of the Trump presidency – his approval ratings, comedians' incisive political commentary, and especially the ludicrous 'ties to Russia' claims, will die down and take a back seat to the real issues facing their country.” That statement from Russia’s state-run media is more reasonable and logical than anything I’ve read in the MSM in a long time – that alone should speak volumes about our corrupt MSM and their sick scheme to protect pedophiles and cover up sex trafficking.

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from The Wall Street Journal

The Exhaustion of American Liberalism
White guilt gave us a mock politics based on the pretense of moral authority.

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