Tuesday, March 7, 2017

In the news, Wednesday, February 8, 2017


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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 Asia Times Online

Trump may need Japanese, Chinese help to rebuild American infrastructure
Part one of a three part series on President Donald Trump's plans to replace and rebuild decaying roads, bridges, railways, airports and other infrastructure across the US. The Donald Trump administration in late January unveiled a 50-project list that’s the first follow-up to the president’s campaign pledge to pour US$1 trillion into rebuilding America’s crumbling infrastructure.

Everything you wanted to know about the South and East China Seas
The US Council of Foreign Relations think-tank prepared an interactive timeline of events in the South and East China Seas, home to a smorgsboard of maritime and island territory disputes.

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from Bloomberg

Anti-Trump Employees Put Their Bosses in the Hot Seat
Executives face internal pressure, even threats to quit, unless ties to Trump are severed.

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from CBC News (Canada)

Canadian woman turned away from U.S. border after questions about religion, Trump
'We found videos on your phone that are against us,' Fadwa Alaoui says she was told by a border agent

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from CNSNews.com (& MRC & NewsBusters)
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]

Social Justice Warriors Outraged Over Super Bowl Petroleum Ad
If you were like one of the many viewers watching the Super Bowl LI, you may have seen a commercial from the American Petroleum Institute (API) with the catchy opening line, “This ain’t your daddy’s oil.”

Bitter NY Times Blasts DeVos Victory: ‘Wealthy Republican Donor With Almost No Experience’
A full-court press by the left and congressional Democrats failed to take down the nomination of Betsy DeVos as Secretary of Education, and the New York Times is bitter. Emmarie Huetteman and Yamiche Alcindor couldn't even finish their lead sentence without laying down an insult against the new education secretary in Wednesday's front-page report, “DeVos Confirmed for Education by Pence’s Vote.”

Piers Morgan: Biased Media Need to Show Trump ‘More Respect’
Even avowed liberal Piers Morgan thinks the media's treatment of Trump is "dangerous and toxic." During an appearance on Fox News Monday night, former CNN host Piers Morgan offered a stunning rebuke to the media, calling out them out for being “in the tank of Hillary Clinton” during the 2016 campaign and openly hostile to President Trump after “their candidate didn’t win.” He then demanded that press show the commander-in-chief “more respect.”

Humana Reports 69 Percent Drop in Obamacare Enrollment, Half a Billion in Losses
From December 2016 to January 2017, Humana saw its customer base drop from 450,800 individual market purchasers to 204,000.

Multiple Studies: Europeans Support 'Travel Ban' More Than Americans
Only one in five Europeans surveyed think that “migration from mainly Muslim countries” should continue.

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from Coeur d'Alene Press

COLLISION KILLS 15-YEAR-OLD
Girl killed in car-train crash remembered: 'She brought out the best of people'.

THIRD ACCIDENT IN THREE YEARS AT CROSSING
Tuesday's fatal vehicle-train collision on north Spokane St. was the third accident at the crossing since 2014 and sixth since 1986.

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from Competitive Enterprise Institute

Deregulate to Speed Recovery from 'Creative Destruction' of Trade and Innovation
Whether jobs are lost as a result of trade or from innovation, the best government policy response is not protectionism, but the sort of deregulation that helps stimulate innovators and entrepreneurs to take their idea to market and start hiring people (or, as we like to say here at CEI, “liberate to stimulate.”)


GOP Beltway Veterans Pitch Trump on Carbon Tax
A group of former Republican White House and cabinet officials advocated a carbon tax in a meeting today with Trump economic adviser Gary Cohn, Ivanka Trump, senior advisor Jared Kushner, and chief of staff Reince Priebus, CNN reports. Leading the group, which calls itself the Climate Leadership Council (CLC), is James Baker III, who, among other posts, served as Secretary of State and chief of staff under President George H. W. Bush. These senior distinguished economists seem to have forgotten Econ 101, as they are pushing the administration for a market-rigging carbon tax.

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from Douglas County Empire Press

Our Pictorial Past | GOP Leadership
Roy Westerdahl of Bridgeport, left, new chairman of the Douglas County Republican Central Committee, confers with outgoing chairman Bob Barr of East Wenatchee in December 1976.

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from EUobserver

Libyan authorities oppose EU migrant plans
Local authorities from Tripoli and Zintan in Libya say they have no interest in stopping migrants to help out the EU.

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

Protectionists Are Confused about Work and Scarcity
Protectionist logic is wrong. True, goods and services are more abundant because of people working, but artificial scarcity means people have to work harder to consume fewer goods and services. Making foreign goods more expensive doesn't protect domestic workers.

Debunking a Misleading Minimum Wage Study
The National Employment Law Project (NELP) released a study claiming to have directly disproved any link between minimum wage and job loss. But they asked the wrong question and proved no such thing. If you want the right answer, it's important to ask the right question.

Want More Jobs? Ban Power Tools
If congress were serious about creating jobs, they need only ban power tools. Millions of jobs would be created overnight and we'd all be worse off. “Jobism” is a misguided public policy goal because it treats jobs as a benefit when jobs are, in fact, a cost.

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from First Things

Bishop Charles E. Blake of the Church of God in Christ writes back to Robert P. George and a group of Catholic scholars: This growing collaboration between our communities provides invaluable reinforcement of our ethical positions in a world increasingly hostile to faith and moral goodness. Our joint efforts have the potential to bear significant fruit that will benefit the poor and disadvantaged in our society.

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from The Heritage Foundation

What Ruth Bader Ginsburg Gets Wrong About the Electoral College
Since President Donald Trump defeated Hillary Clinton in the November presidential election without winning the popular vote, there have been almost unending calls from the left to eliminate the Electoral College. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg joined that chorus on Monday. It is unfortunate that so many prominent Americans, including a Supreme Court justice and countless others, have questioned an electoral institution that has so effectively served the American people for over two centuries. It would be foolish to abandon this remarkably stable process without first understanding why it was created.

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from Independent Journal Review

You've Heard People Compare Trump to Hitler. So We Asked a Woman Who Was Born in Nazi Germany...
"What is going on in this country is giving me chills. Trump is not like Hitler. Just because a leader wants order doesn't mean they're like a dictator. What reminds me more of Hitler than anything else isn't Trump, it's the destruction of freedom of speech on the college campuses — the agendas fueled by the professors. That's how Hitler started, he pulled in the youth to miseducate them, to brainwash them, it's happening today."

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from Indian Country Today Media Network
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]

International Indian Treaty Council: Trump’s Executive Orders Violate Treaties
The IITC calls for vigilance against Trump's slash and burn tactics and violation of legal and human rights.

Native History: Dawes Act Signed Into Law to ‘Civilize’ Indians
The Dawes Act put individual Indians at the mercy of the federal government
On February 8, 1887, U.S. President Grover Cleveland signed the Dawes Severalty Act (commonly referred to as the Dawes Act) into law, introducing private land ownership to American Indians. Arguably one of the most devastating pieces of legislature for Natives, the act slashed millions of acres from the existing land base, broke up tribes as communal units and threatened tribal sovereignty. It applied to all Indian nations, with exceptions in the Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Seminole, Osage, Miami, Sac and Fox, Peoria and Seneca nations.

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from Intellihub
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]

Leaked docs: Media Matters conspires with Facebook, Google to shut down conservative media
Hard-left political activist David Brock, founder of Media Matters – the father of “Fake News” – is working with co-conspirators Google and Facebook to implement a strategy designed to ban conservative and libertarian websites, including Infowars.com.

Civil war is coming to the U.S. “Left will resort to large scale violence…to stop Fascism”
The social justice mantra is changing. At first, it was predominately about forming mobs to “shame” target political opponents into silence. Now, it is about forming mobs to do what they call “punching Nazis.” Leftists are now often seen regurgitating the claim — “This is only the beginning…” Leftist social justice warriors are now openly using violence as a political weapon which coudl easily lead to a new civil war in America.

The number-one mind-control program at U.S. colleges
Here is a staggering statistic from the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI): “More than 25 percent of college students have been diagnosed or treated by a professional for a mental health condition within the past year.”

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from LifeZette (& PoliZette)

How America Pays for Abortion
And why Neil Gorsuch must be confirmed as the next justice of the Supreme Court
Macroeconomics would tell us that a shortage of 125 million persons would cause significant economic problems. The negative economic impact in real dollars is derived by taking each annual population loss total due to abortion and applying the “per capita” individual federal income and social insurance taxes paid for each respective year — so when totaled, as of 2014, the federal government has sustained a loss of about $20 trillion in revenue due to abortion. Over time, in fact, the abortion rate and the federal debt rate follow the same growth curve.

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from The Living Church

Vatican Welcomes Evensong
Anglican Choral Evensong will be celebrated at the altar of the Chair of St. Peter in St. Peter’s Basilica next month. The music will be sung by the Choir of Merton College, Oxford. Permission for the first-time service was granted by Cardinal Angelo Comastri, Archpriest of St Peter’s Basilica, during a recent meeting with Archbishop David Moxon, director of the Anglican Centre in Rome and the Archbishop of Canterbury’s representative to the Holy See. March 13 has been chosen as the nearest available day to the historic feast day of St. Gregory the Great, an unofficial patron of relations between the two churches. St. Gregory was the pope who sent St. Augustine to England in 595 to evangelize the Anglo-Saxons. He became the first Archbishop of Canterbury.

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

Will Republicans End the Department of Education? Not Likely.
In the wake of the contentious confirmation hearings for Betsy Devos as Education Secretary, Kentucky Congressman Thomas Massie offered a solution: abolish the Department of Education.

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

Why Trump and the right-wing Leninists have Davos Man by the throat
It is easy to guffaw at the idea of a billionaire Bolshevik in the White House, but it seems there is more to the comparison than meets the eye.

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from NPR (& affiliates)

Empathy Is Tough to Teach, But Is One Of the Most Important Life Lessons
Dr. Brené Brown has become famous for her speaking and writing about vulnerability, worthiness, shame and the other important emotions running underneath daily life all the time. One theme she returns to over and over is the importance of cultivating empathy, a very different reaction than sympathy.

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from PBS (& affiliates)

San Francisco becomes first city to offer free community college tuition to all residents
The new program comes as several other jurisdictions, including the states of New York and Rhode Island, are considering free tuition programs.

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from Slate
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]

What a Pro-Trump English Professor Thinks Now
A conversation with Mark Bauerlein, the rare academic who believed—and still believes—we’ve found the right leader to make America great again.

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from The Spokesman-Review

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from Zero Hedge
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]

Senate Letter Reveals Staggering Number Of Murders By Illegal Aliens With Previous Criminal Convictions
ICE confirmed that of the 36,007 criminal aliens released from custody in 2013, 1,000 of them had already been convicted of new crimes as of June 2015.

Most Government Workers Could Be Replaced By Robots, New Study Finds
A study by a British think tank, Reform, says that 90% of British civil service workers have jobs so pointless, they could easily be replaced by robots, saving the government around $8 billion per year.

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