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from ABC News (& affiliates)
Rep. Devin Nunes steps away from Russia investigation amid ethics complaints
After a number of ethics complaints, Rep. Devin Nunes, R-California, announced today that he will step aside from leading the House Intelligence Committee's probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election. "Several left-wing activist groups have filed accusations against me with the Office of Congressional Ethics. The charges are entirely false and politically motivated and are being leveled just as the American people are beginning to learn the truth about the improper unmasking of the identities of U.S. citizens and other abuses of power," Nunes said in a statement released this morning.
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from The Anglican Digest
Recovering from Shame
Woody Allen once said something like, “My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.”
Paradoxically, it is in the worst of our moments that we will know the resurrection most viscerally. As we die to a self that we wish we had been, we awaken to the new creation that we are becoming in the risen Christ.
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from The Boston Globe
House Intelligence Committee chairman Devin Nunes said Thursday he’d temporarily step away from the committee’s Russia probe as he deals with an investigation from the House Ethics Committee about whether he made unauthorized disclosures of classified information.
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from Capitalism (independentsentinel.com)
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]
Brian Williams interrupted the Rachel Maddow show to report on the Syrian attack which brought high levels of consternation to her fans. Some are saying it is sexist and they don’t need him coming in to mansplain.
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from The Christian Science Monitor
Briefing: Trump, Russia, Rice – and now Nunes
While it’s too soon for definitive conclusions, here's what we know so far. From the day he took office, President Trump has labored under a cloud called “Russia.” According to a US intelligence report, individuals connected to Russian intelligence hacked into Democratic Party computers during the 2016 election campaign and leaked information in an effort to damage Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. Russian President Vladimir Putin himself ordered the operation, the report concluded. At the same time, a growing number of Trump associates have been found to have connections to Russia (see this Washington Post graphic). So far, there's no proof of collaboration with the Russian government to help Trump win the election, but the question of whether such collaboration took place remains open. This week, two other names moved onto the marquee.
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from CNSNews.com (& MRC & NewsBusters)
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]
Nuclear Strike: Senate Ends Filibusters of Supreme Court Nominees
The United States Senate voted today to overturn its own rule providing that 60 votes would be needed to end debate on the nomination of a Supreme Court justice and proceed to an actual vote on the nomination. "The Senate has just restored itself to an almost unbroken tradition of never filibustering judges," Sen. John Cornyn of Texas, the Republican Whip, said on the Senate floor after the vote. "We have actually restored the status quo before the administration of George W. Bush."
Congressman Provides 'Perfect Example of Why Public Has Lost Confidence in the National Media'
“If I chased down every fake news story in this town, I’d need to get another full-time job,” Rep. Jodey Arrington (R-Texas) said, blasting The Washington Post’s “blatant mischaracterization” of his use of a Bible quote. “This is a perfect example of why the public has lost confidence in the national media,” Rep. Arrington said in a statement condemning the Washington Post’s “fake news” headline. “GOP Lawmaker: The Bible says the unemployed ‘shall not eat,’” the Post declared in a headline last Friday in an article misrepresenting Arrington’s comment – without even quoting him in the piece. Arrington had actually quoted a Bible passage encouraging able-bodied people to be productive: “If a man will not work, he shall not eat.”
Former Montana State Student Sues After Being Suspended For Anti-Transgender Views
A former Montana State University student is suing the school after a professor disclosed his views on transgenderism to a transgender student, resulting in him getting kicked off campus.
Actor Michael Caine on Brexit: 'It Was About Freedom'
Legendary actor Sir Michael Caine was recently interviewed by Sky News ahead of the premiere of his new film, “Going In Style,” and the 84-year-old icon was not bashful about his thoughts on the U.K.’s impending departure from the European Union (EU). In his comments, Caine displayed his individualist convictions by supporting the one absolute that Brexit will bring: freedom. “I voted for Brexit…what it is with me? I’d rather be a poor master than a rich servant.”
California Is Racing to Become a Sanctuary State, Shunning Fed Law and Its Own Residents
Nuclear Strike: Senate Ends Filibusters of Supreme Court Nominees
The United States Senate voted today to overturn its own rule providing that 60 votes would be needed to end debate on the nomination of a Supreme Court justice and proceed to an actual vote on the nomination. "The Senate has just restored itself to an almost unbroken tradition of never filibustering judges," Sen. John Cornyn of Texas, the Republican Whip, said on the Senate floor after the vote. "We have actually restored the status quo before the administration of George W. Bush."
Congressman Provides 'Perfect Example of Why Public Has Lost Confidence in the National Media'
“If I chased down every fake news story in this town, I’d need to get another full-time job,” Rep. Jodey Arrington (R-Texas) said, blasting The Washington Post’s “blatant mischaracterization” of his use of a Bible quote. “This is a perfect example of why the public has lost confidence in the national media,” Rep. Arrington said in a statement condemning the Washington Post’s “fake news” headline. “GOP Lawmaker: The Bible says the unemployed ‘shall not eat,’” the Post declared in a headline last Friday in an article misrepresenting Arrington’s comment – without even quoting him in the piece. Arrington had actually quoted a Bible passage encouraging able-bodied people to be productive: “If a man will not work, he shall not eat.”
Former Montana State Student Sues After Being Suspended For Anti-Transgender Views
A former Montana State University student is suing the school after a professor disclosed his views on transgenderism to a transgender student, resulting in him getting kicked off campus.
Actor Michael Caine on Brexit: 'It Was About Freedom'
Legendary actor Sir Michael Caine was recently interviewed by Sky News ahead of the premiere of his new film, “Going In Style,” and the 84-year-old icon was not bashful about his thoughts on the U.K.’s impending departure from the European Union (EU). In his comments, Caine displayed his individualist convictions by supporting the one absolute that Brexit will bring: freedom. “I voted for Brexit…what it is with me? I’d rather be a poor master than a rich servant.”
California Is Racing to Become a Sanctuary State, Shunning Fed Law and Its Own Residents
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from FEE (Foundation for Economic Education)
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, HIGH, non-profit organization
Once the centrally managed command structure emerged, it was almost irrepressible.
By 1920, Americans were sickened by Wilsonian dishonesty and aggression.
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from Forbes
Who knows your employees better: Google, Facebook, the NSA, or you? While security vulnerabilities in IT systems themselves certainly exist, they're put there by the humans writing the code. The vulnerabilities are a problem largely because other humans seek to exploit them to nefarious ends. And your human employees are a vital link in being able to exploit these vulnerabilities. Clicking on a link in an email that starts the exploitation process (known as phishing in the colorful InfoSec jargon) requires a human being to take action.
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from Fortune Magazine
If you believe in the theory of economic clusters, popularized in a 1998 HBR article by professor Michael Porter, the cyber business is exactly the sort of industry that could give rise to a regional hub or cluster—a "Cybercon Valley" if you will.
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from The Guardian (UK)
[Information from this site may be unreliable.]
Move over Suez, hello Stad – Norway to build world's first tunnel for ships
Ambitious project will create 1,700-metre long passageway underneath rocky peninsula for cruise and freight ships by 2023
Move over Suez, hello Stad – Norway to build world's first tunnel for ships
Ambitious project will create 1,700-metre long passageway underneath rocky peninsula for cruise and freight ships by 2023
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from The Heritage Foundation
[Information from this site may be unreliable.]
How World War I Changed America, 100 Years On
Prior to 1917, America kept foreign wars at arm's length. Then came the Great War. One hundred years ago today, April 6, 1917, the United States entered World War I. The Great War’s centennial is especially poignant because of the massive sacrifice America made in both blood and treasure, mostly forgotten and faded now as so much mist over the ocean. More than 53,000 Americans lost their lives on the battlefields in that horrific European conflagration. Disease alone added another 60,000 wartime deaths. More than 204,000 others were wounded, many of them maimed with terrible disfigurements. Some 15 million people lost their lives in World War I.
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How World War I Changed America, 100 Years On
Prior to 1917, America kept foreign wars at arm's length. Then came the Great War. One hundred years ago today, April 6, 1917, the United States entered World War I. The Great War’s centennial is especially poignant because of the massive sacrifice America made in both blood and treasure, mostly forgotten and faded now as so much mist over the ocean. More than 53,000 Americans lost their lives on the battlefields in that horrific European conflagration. Disease alone added another 60,000 wartime deaths. More than 204,000 others were wounded, many of them maimed with terrible disfigurements. Some 15 million people lost their lives in World War I.
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from Indian Country Today Media Network
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]
No Bison for Fort Peck as Annual Yellowstone Kill Winds Down
More than a thousand Yellowstone bison killed this season, though hundreds could have been saved
Native History: Alcohol and Murder Result in Theft of 50 Million Acres
On April 6, 1832 Black Hawk’s War began. The “war” was the culmination of a series of events that began in 1804 in a “small settlement of semi-savage white people,” according to Perry Armstrong’s book, The Sauks And The Black Hawk War With Biographical Sketches, Etc. The settlement was populated with very few women and many white traders, and there was a lot of alcohol.
10 Things You Should Know about the Blackfeet Nation
Is it Blackfoot or Blackfeet, and where did Blackfeet begin?
Recollections of Joe Medicine Crow
Joe Medicine Crow, ‘The Last Plains Indian War Chief,' Walked On a Year Ago
Joe Medicine Crow will be remembered by the Indian Country with love and reverence.
World War III? Russia warned of “negative consequences” just hours before Syrian attack
Trump attacks key Russian ally
War propaganda: CNN disgustingly uses 7-year-old child reading a script to push for war in Syria
"Fake News" network has no shame
Deep State operation to remove Nunes from Russia probe a success
Deep State keeps knocking em' off in massive push to regain control by swaying Russia probe
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]
No Bison for Fort Peck as Annual Yellowstone Kill Winds Down
More than a thousand Yellowstone bison killed this season, though hundreds could have been saved
Native History: Alcohol and Murder Result in Theft of 50 Million Acres
On April 6, 1832 Black Hawk’s War began. The “war” was the culmination of a series of events that began in 1804 in a “small settlement of semi-savage white people,” according to Perry Armstrong’s book, The Sauks And The Black Hawk War With Biographical Sketches, Etc. The settlement was populated with very few women and many white traders, and there was a lot of alcohol.
10 Things You Should Know about the Blackfeet Nation
Is it Blackfoot or Blackfeet, and where did Blackfeet begin?
Recollections of Joe Medicine Crow
Joe Medicine Crow, ‘The Last Plains Indian War Chief,' Walked On a Year Ago
Joe Medicine Crow will be remembered by the Indian Country with love and reverence.
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from Intellihub
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]
Trump attacks key Russian ally
"Fake News" network has no shame
Deep State keeps knocking em' off in massive push to regain control by swaying Russia probe
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from KOMO News (ABC Seattle)
A down-to-the-wire payment means most tenants at Seattle’s Georgian Motel don’t have to move out, but not everyone’s happy about it. Many motels, including along Aurora, are the only sources of relatively "affordable" housing families can find.
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from LifeZette (& PoliZette)
Five Biggest Issues Looming Over Xi Visit
The likely — and likely uncomfortable — topics of conversation for Sunshine Summit
North Korea; Currency Manipulation; Trade Deficits; South China Sea; East China Sea
From China’s alleged cheating in the global marketplace, to expansion of its military presence in the South China Sea, to President Donald Trump’s threats of giving nuclear weapons to Japan, the American president and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping will have no shortage of touchy topics.
Xi Jinping Heads to Florida as Chinese Investment Booms
East Asian property ownership in the Sunshine State has skyrocketed in recent years
Xi Jinping: From Disgraced Son to China’s ‘Paramount Leader’
What the life, politics and leadership style of the Chinese president may mean for the Sunshine Summit
Former Reagan Adviser: Trump Not Prepared for Chinese Summit
Dr. Michael Pillsbury warns Xi Jinping headed to Mar-a-Lago with an organizational advantage
Trump Strikes Syria Over Chemical Attack
President launches missile barrage over Assad's 'horrible chemical weapons attack on innocent civilians'
Realizing America’s Offshore Economic Opportunity
White House can pursue smart energy deregulation worth tens of thousands of new jobs
There Will Never Be Another Don Rickles
The legendary insult comedian, politically incorrect and beloved for it, leaves a gaping hole in the entertainment world
Costa: Ivanka and Jared Kushner Operate with ‘Ruthlessness’
Veteran reporter says Trump son-in-law, daughter have 'fingerprints on all aspects' of policy
House GOP Announces Breakthrough on Health Care
Speaker Ryan says ‘divide is narrowing’ after proposal for risk-sharing program
Media, Democrats and Neocons All Eager to Humiliate Bannon
Trump strategist's departure from NSC expected, yet establishment hawks celebrate 'shakeup'
Van Jones’ Selective Outrage Over Sexual Harassment
CNN pundit launches blistering attack on Trump, O'Reilly — after hourlong paean to Schwarzenegger
Chris Matthews Compares Trump Kids to Hussein Sons, Again
MSNBC host likens first family to murderous dictator clan
King of Jordan Refuses to Knock Trump on Refugees
Abdullah II brushes away reporter’s invitation to criticize president's migrant policies, travel ban
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from The Living Church
WHY WE BEHAVE LIKE ANGLICANS
On Anglicanism, formality, changing taste, and the strange place of the Episcopal Church in American society. This long editorial — a reflection on American regionalism, Anglican missionary effectiveness, and changes in early 20th-century style and attitudes — comes from Frederic Cook Morehouse (1868-1932). Morehouse’s father. Linden (1842-1915), was the founder of the Young Churchman Co. From 1886, he was the publisher of The Living Church. Morehouse’s son Clifford Phelps (1904-77) edited the magazine from 1932 to 1952. In the past, the Episcopal Church was not, and even now is not, what American taste particularly liked.
BBC Cuts Religion & Ethics
The BBC, already under fire for farming out its flagship religious program, Songs of Praise, for private production, is taking more heat after announcing the closure of its Religion and Ethics Department. “It is a failure of the BBC as a public service broadcaster,” said the Rt. Rev. Graham James, Bishop of Norwich and the Church of England’s media spokesman.
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from Military.com
Army Commemorates 100th Anniversary of US Entering WWI
The U.S. Army paid tribute Thursday to the 100th anniversary of the American military entering World War I, a move that would cost the lives of nearly 117,000 Doughboys. A modest ceremony at the Pentagon marked the decision by Congress on April 6, 1917, to declare war on Imperial Germany for its campaign of unrestricted submarine warfare.
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from Mises Institute
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]
Immigration restrictions and trade restrictions are often two policies that go hand in hand. Donald Trump, of course, provides an instructive example of a politician who has won elections while promoting both policies. Usually ignored, however, is the fact that trade restrictions work contrary to to the goal of immigration restrictionism. That is, by restricting the movement of goods and services across borders, trade protectionists are creating the very conditions that are likely to increase incentives for workers to emigrate from low-wage areas into higher-wage areas. That is, if goods and services can't move across borders, then people are more likely to move in order to reach those goods and services.
In spite of centuries of sound economic theory describing the benefits of free trade, we continue to hear two objections to free trade. We even sometimes hear these from friends who consider themselves generally to be in favor of free trade, even unilateral free trade. Free trade is not an obstacle to either economic prosperity or military defense.
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from New Statesman
"The leading voice of the British left, since 1913."
Too often, ageing societies are treated as problematic. Yet past generations would have marvelled at our longevity. A 100th birthday used to be so rare that, in many countries, it was deemed worthy of special recognition. In Japan, a centenarian was given a silver dish; in the UK, he or she received a card of congratulation from the Queen. Today, living for 100 years is so common that Japan gives out cheaper dishes, and the number employed to send the Queen’s cards has risen from one to seven in a decade.
from Newsweek
HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL AND THE PROPAGATION OF IMMORAL PROFIT STRATEGIES
In the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, much of the country was enraged because not a single Wall Street hotshot—the guys who got us into the mess—was prosecuted. While there are many financiers who could have been made to take the perp walk, there’s also a case to be made that the fault lies with those who laid the intellectual foundation upon which a market-driven financial crisis could happen in the first place. By propagating ideologically inspired amoral theories, business schools have actively freed their students from any sense of moral responsibility.
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from New York Daily News
Don Rickles, legendary funnyman and king of the insult, dead at 90
Comedic insult king Don Rickles, whose verbal jabs and playful putdowns endeared him to both audiences and Hollywood stars alike, died Thursday [today]. He was 90.
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from New York Times
Dozens of U.S. Missiles Hit Air Base in Syria
President Trump said Thursday night that the United States had carried out a missile strike in Syria in response to the Syrian government’s chemical weapons attack this week, which killed more than 80 civilians.
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from Paste Magazine
[Information from this site may be questionable.]An Actual Doctor Debunks 7 Myths About Single Payer Healthcare
This would be easier than you'd think. People who say single payer can’t happen are the people who don’t want it to happen
from The San Diego Union-Tribune
San Diego's new minimum wage already may be killing jobs
Update on San Diego minimum wage hike: Some people keep their jobs and even get a pay hike. Others see their jobs disappear, yielding a wage of zero. Other jobs that might have been created simply aren't. Meantime, the "progressive" advocates of minimum wage hikes will, with probably no exception, regard any negative effects as irrelevant and not worth investigating. Why? Because to them, actual outcomes are far less important than two other things: 1) the mere expression of good intentions and 2) government using force to tell job creators how to run their businesses (that really makes "progressives" feel good).
San Diego's new minimum wage already may be killing jobs
Update on San Diego minimum wage hike: Some people keep their jobs and even get a pay hike. Others see their jobs disappear, yielding a wage of zero. Other jobs that might have been created simply aren't. Meantime, the "progressive" advocates of minimum wage hikes will, with probably no exception, regard any negative effects as irrelevant and not worth investigating. Why? Because to them, actual outcomes are far less important than two other things: 1) the mere expression of good intentions and 2) government using force to tell job creators how to run their businesses (that really makes "progressives" feel good).
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from The Spokesman-Review
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from Yahoo News
Misogyny 'played role' in election loss: Clinton
Hillary Clinton said Thursday that misogyny "certainly" played a role in her bruising defeat to Donald Trump in last year's US presidential election, giving her first public interview since that shock loss.
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