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from Allen West
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]
I’m starting to get a sick feeling about what just happened in the White House
There are some interesting things happening in the President Trump White House. Recently President Trump seemed to make comments about his “strategist” Steve Bannon. Anytime someone says “I like you, BUT” — well, the separation is coming. There have been dismissals, but it appears it’s no longer rumor and innuendo. There will be some who won’t survive the first 100 days. I didn’t care for Valerie Jarrett and the power she wielded in the Obama administration. And I’m starting to get that same sick feeling in my belly about Jared Kushner.
I’m starting to get a sick feeling about what just happened in the White House
There are some interesting things happening in the President Trump White House. Recently President Trump seemed to make comments about his “strategist” Steve Bannon. Anytime someone says “I like you, BUT” — well, the separation is coming. There have been dismissals, but it appears it’s no longer rumor and innuendo. There will be some who won’t survive the first 100 days. I didn’t care for Valerie Jarrett and the power she wielded in the Obama administration. And I’m starting to get that same sick feeling in my belly about Jared Kushner.
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from Anglican Journal
"Christ breaks down the barriers we are so prone to erect, and he gives us the grace to make of all the debris the very paths on which we can walk reconciled and renewed in our love and respect for one another as children of God." An Easter message from Archbishop Fred Hiltz, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada.
The bishop of British Columbia and the chief of the ‘Namgis First Nation are hoping a meeting last month will prove the crucial first step in a long and fruitful relationship. “I think this is the beginning of many more conversations to come. We really appreciate the church reaching out and starting the conversation,” Debra Hanuse, chief of the ‘Namgis First Nation, said of the weekend meeting March 24-25. “There are limitless possibilities that could come out of this.”
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from BBC News (UK)
The Queen has handed out commemorative Maundy coins in a traditional service at Leicester Cathedral. The monarch distributed money in recognition of services to the church and community to 91 men and 91 women - representing each of her 91 years.
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from Competitive Enterprise Institute
A government agency wrongly sought to unmask an anonymous Internet critic, and it wasn't the first time. Hopefully this saga marks the end of this administration’s efforts to unconstitutionally unmask anonymous critics.
A '21st Century Glass-Steagall' Would Be Bad for the Financial System
To re-impose a firewall between commercial and investment banking now would be to inject risk into the financial system, not reduce it. Lawmakers shouldn't work to resuscitate this outdated banking regulations. Instead, they must bring to the financial sector what virtually every other field of American business possesses: competition.
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from Daily Mail (UK)
Historic Civil War-era home from where Ulysses S. Grant launched a victorious and pivotal battle is vandalized by thieves who strip it of valuable flooring and support beams
A Civil War-era house in Mississippi where Ulysses S. Grant launched a major military campaign has been vandalized. Thieves vandalized and destroyed and took away much of the wood, bricks, and beams of historic 200-year-old A.K. Shaifer House in Port Gibson, Mississippi's Department of Archives and History said Thursday. The Shaifer House sits on the Port Gibson Battlefield in Claiborne County. Its construction began in 1826 and was the site of the opening salvo in Grant's successful campaign to capture Vicksburg during the Civil War. The house was restored in 2006. A Civil War expert says they were probably taken for some other historic project
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from East Oregonian
Man charged with allegedly killing, wasting a dozen elk in Wallowa County
A Wallowa County man is suspected of poaching and wasting at least a dozen elk on his property — and perhaps 13 more found dead on adjoining land.
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from EUobserver
Border controls extended without justification
Austria, Denmark, Germany, Sweden and Norway maintain internal Schengen border controls despite scant evidence that they are still needed.
Commission pleads with nations to protect child refugees
Member states were asked to do more to protect migrant children from violence, trafficking and other traumatic experiences after their arrival to the EU.
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Border controls extended without justification
Austria, Denmark, Germany, Sweden and Norway maintain internal Schengen border controls despite scant evidence that they are still needed.
Commission pleads with nations to protect child refugees
Member states were asked to do more to protect migrant children from violence, trafficking and other traumatic experiences after their arrival to the EU.
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from FEE (Foundation for Economic Education)
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]
Does Canada Have More Economic Freedom Than the United States?
When speaking of Canada, conservatives laugh at our “socialist neighbor to the north” with its lavish social programs. The main point of contention is, of course, Canada's infamous “socialized healthcare," which has been viewed as the epitome of a system NOT to imitate because of its high costs and long waiting times. While, yes, Canada is dangerously close to Bernie Sanders’ dream of a single-payer system, the very structure of its system explains why Canada constantly ranks higher on the Heritage Foundation’s Index of Economic Freedom – #7, compared to the U.S. #17 ranking. And that structure is federalism.
Still Waiting for Republicans to Drain the Swamp
On major economic issues, it does not appear that Republican control of Washington makes much of a difference. Hopefully regulatory reform will be a different story.
Is Trump Accidentally Promoting Liberalism?
Based on how people are reacting to his policy ideas, Trump may be inadvertently promoting the classicly liberal ideas of free trade and mobility.
World War I: The Progressive War
The American entry into the war was the apotheosis of progressivism – the high-water mark of its crusading zeal – not a betrayal of its central tenets. America joining the war was clothed in progressive rhetoric with the goal being nothing less than ending war forever as a blight on humanity.
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Sometimes heeding first principles uncovers something of pressing public concern, right under everyone's noses—like the opioid crisis and the moral and economic deregulation that brought it about. Ending the devastation wrought by opioids in American communities requires us to acknowledge that the crisis exists.
Liberals who are dismayed by the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch should cheer up. Things could be a lot worse. If the mass of conservatives get the idea that constitutionalism is a loser’s game, then originalism might be replaced by a right-wing jurisprudence as vindictive as current left-wing jurisprudence. God help us all when the day comes that there are no more constitutionalists.
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from The Heritage Foundation
[Information from this site may be unreliable.]
The Macroeconomic Impact of Dodd Frank—and of Its Repeal
President Donald Trump’s recent executive order detailed seven core principles for regulating the U.S. financial system. The order calls for “efficient, effective” financial regulations that “foster economic growth,” which means that it is incompatible with the bulk of the Dodd–Frank Act.
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Congress needs CBO to crunch the numbers on Dodd-Frank repeal
When lawmakers passed the Dodd-Frank Act in 2010, they didn’t bother to sweat the details. They left it up to the executive branch to fill in all the regulatory blanks. As a result, there was no way the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) could have accurately estimated the likely macroeconomic effects of the Dodd-Frank Act while the bill was under discussion. Four hundred rule-makings and seven years later, analysts have both law and real-world results to work with. If the repeal of Dodd-Frank comes before Congress, CBO is capable of making a reasonable estimate of the likely budgetary effect of repeal.
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The Macroeconomic Impact of Dodd Frank—and of Its Repeal
President Donald Trump’s recent executive order detailed seven core principles for regulating the U.S. financial system. The order calls for “efficient, effective” financial regulations that “foster economic growth,” which means that it is incompatible with the bulk of the Dodd–Frank Act.
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from The Hill
Congress needs CBO to crunch the numbers on Dodd-Frank repeal
When lawmakers passed the Dodd-Frank Act in 2010, they didn’t bother to sweat the details. They left it up to the executive branch to fill in all the regulatory blanks. As a result, there was no way the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) could have accurately estimated the likely macroeconomic effects of the Dodd-Frank Act while the bill was under discussion. Four hundred rule-makings and seven years later, analysts have both law and real-world results to work with. If the repeal of Dodd-Frank comes before Congress, CBO is capable of making a reasonable estimate of the likely budgetary effect of repeal.
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from Indian Country Today Media Network
[Information from this site may be unreliable.]
Native Americans say the law protects their children. The Goldwater Institute claims it does the opposite
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from Intellihub
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]
The United States is planning a preemptive strike on North Korea in the likely event that the rogue nation moves to carry out yet another nuclear test, according to multiple reports in the mainstream media that Intellihub News can now confirm. With U.S. officials believing that a promised “big event” from the communist nation means yet another nuclear weapons test, the apparent planned attack could happen at literally any moment.
ISIS bunker facility hit with biggest non-nuclear bomb in Air Force arsenal
The U.S. dropped its largest non-nuclear bomb onto an Islamic State bunker facility Thursday marking its debut to the battlefield. The 21,600 pound GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast Bomb (MOAB) (a.k.a. the Mother of All Bombs) was dropped just after 7:30 a.m. local time decimating the facility.
Syrian President Assad: ‘The chemical attack was fabricated, 100 percent fake’
President al-Assad suggests that perhaps crisis actors were used to set him up and justify a military response
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from Investor's Business Daily
Wages: It's tax season, which means that union groups are once again out in force claiming that because Wal-Mart (WMT) doesn't pay its workers enough, taxpayers are forced to make up the difference. This is, to put it politely, pure poppycock. If the facts actually supported the case made by self-serving union propagandists and their "progressive" friends, they wouldn't have to make stuff up.
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from The Library of Congress (& Medium)
Many college students head for the beach or perhaps to a city with a lively night life for spring break. The students in Joe Kobylka’s honors seminar on the Supreme Court had a strikingly different kind of destination this year: the Library of Congress.
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from LifeZette (& PoliZette)
Democrats Dominate College Commencement Addresses
High-profile liberals vastly outgun conservative voices for university speaking slots
Notre Dame Students Feel ‘Unsafe’ with VP Mike Pence on the Way
Coddled college kids fret about an upcoming commencement speech when they should be proud instead
Leftist Group Tries to Intimidate Le Pen Supporters
'Combat Xenophobia' claims credit for firebombing of French candidate's headquarters
Kansas Conviction of Illegal Voter ‘Tip of the Iceberg’
Voter-integrity advocates contend voter fraud is more common than acknowledged
Vegas Company: Build Self-Sustaining Solar Border Wall
Liberal-friendly plan could put pressure on progressives, allow wall to 'pay for itself'
North Korea Puts World on Edge with ‘Day of the Sun’ Suspense
Pyongyang uses communist holiday to stoke speculation over possible nuclear incident
Jared Kushner’s Rough Deals
Two ill-fated investments cost Trump son-in-law and ascendant adviser millions
Mediterranean Migrant Crossings Down 80 Percent
Mass refugee flow into Europe slows, nations left to grapple with domestic aftermath
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from Mere Orthodoxy
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from New Statesman
"The leading voice of the British left, since 1913."
The US president's stunning reversals underline his volatility and untrustworthiness.
from The Spokesman-Review
EPA head tells coal miners ‘regulatory assault is over’
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt has told workers at the nation’s largest underground coal mining complex the “regulatory assault” on the coal industry is over.
Canada introduces legislation to legalize marijuana
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government introduced legislation Thursday to let adults possess up to 30 grams of marijuana in public – a measure that would make Canada the largest developed country to end a nationwide prohibition on recreational marijuana.
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from Sputnik
(Russian government-supported propaganda channel)
The New York Times' recent opinion editorial has gone even so far as to suggest that Washington should treat Daesh in Syria "the same way" the US "encouraged the mujahedeen fighters to bleed Russia in Afghanistan." Believe it or not, after unfounded accusations of chemical weapons' use in Khan Sheikhoun by Bashar al-Assad the US mainstream media has ended up with supporting Daesh (ISIS/ISIL) in Syria.
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from UPI News Agency - United Press International
President Donald Trump on Thursday signed a bill that allows states to block federal family planning funding for abortion providers such as Planned Parenthood by eliminating an Obama-era rule. The bill, House Joint Resolution 43, allows state governments to block federal Title X family planning funds from organizations that perform abortions. Title X is a federal grant program dedicated to family planning and reproductive health services prioritized for low-income families and people who are not insured.
Sheila Abdus-Salaam, the first Muslim woman in U.S. history to serve on the bench, was found dead Wednesday near the Hudson River, New York City police said. The pioneering Abdus-Salaam, 65, was an associate judge on the New York Court of Appeals, the state's highest court, and the first African-American woman appointed to that bench in 2013. Her body was discovered on the banks of the Hudson River fully clothed. Authorities said there were no signs of criminality.
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from The Washington Post
‘13 Reasons Why’ depicts a graphic suicide. Experts say there’s a problem with that.
Netflix’s “13 Reasons Why” offers a well-intentioned message about being kinder to others and asking for help when you need it, but some suicide prevention experts say the series could do more harm than good.
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