Sunday, April 16, 2017

In the news, Tuesday, April 4, 2017


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from BBC News (UK)

St Petersburg metro bombing a possible suicide attack
The St Petersburg metro explosion was caused by a bomb possibly detonated by a man whose body parts were found on the train, Russian investigators say. Monday's blast between two stations killed 14 people and injured almost 50. Kyrgyzstan's security service named the suspect as Akbarzhon Jalilov, who was born in the Kyrgyz city of Osh in 1995 and had obtained Russian citizenship.

Syria conflict: 'Chemical attack' in Idlib kills 58
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that strikes on Khan Sheikhoun by Syrian government or Russian jets had caused many people to choke.

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from Business Insider

House Republicans are finally making a big admission: They like Obamacare!
Republicans are now committed to keeping so much of the heart of Barack Obama's health care law that we can say they are for Obamacare.

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

California Votes to Become a 'Sanctuary State,' Putting Illegals Ahead of Citizens
California lawmakers voted Monday to approve legislation making the entire state a “sanctuary” for illegal aliens, proving yet again that the Golden State is so far to the left they might fall off a cliff. The bill, SB54, passed by a simple 27-12 majority vote, and bans state and local law enforcement officials from cooperating with federal immigration officers, only carving out certain exceptions for “serious and violent felons.”

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from Communities Digital News, LLC

History: President Wilson sends America into the “Great War”
President Wilson’s speech to Congress on April 2nd portrayed the German submarine warfare as a “warfare against mankind… a war against all nations…” Then he took America to war.

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from Competitive Enterprise Institute

Thanks to today's court ruling Uber and Lyft drivers will avoid union restrictions and dues that mean less flexibility for drivers and higher prices for riders.

Delaying the Fiduciary Rule will be a Big Reprieve for Savers
Delaying the Obama fiduciary rule by 60 days will be a big reprieve for savers from a regulation that threatens access to financial guidance and investment choices.


National Security Is No Argument against Regulatory Reform
Had pending regulatory reforms been the law when today’s financial surveillance regulations were promulgated, we’d likely be more secure and prosperous than we are now.

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from Conciliar Post

EXPLOITS OF THE APOSTLE THOMAS IN INDIA
While we do well to send missionaries to India, we should learn about and respect indigenous Indian Christianity. The history of the Apostle Thomas also offers us powerful cultural inroads for those who seek to evangelize Hindu and Muslim Indians around the world. Indian history gives Western Christians one more reason for humility too, when realizing that the first centuries of our faith thrived far more in Asia and Africa than it did in Europe. Prior to the proliferation of historical information in the internet age, American Protestants tended to view Christianity as if it were a story of simply the Roman Empire and her “correction” in the sixteenth century. The truth is that from the very first century, Christianity became the heritage of the Persian Empire, the Ethiopian Empire, Southern India, and many other Asian and African regions.

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from Conservative Intelligence Briefing

Gorsuch Clears Committee, Dems Face Nuclear Option
Judge Neil Gorsuch, President Trump’s nominee to the Supreme Court, passed an important hurdle Monday when the Senate Judiciary Committee voted to advance his nomination. The vote was 11 to 9, along party lines.

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

Everything You Need to Know about Global Poverty
Despite the large increase in population, the absolute number of people suffering from extreme poverty went down by 1.25 billion.

Emma Watson Knows Feminism Is about Choice
If you believe–like Emma Watson and I–that choice is important, take a moment to join me in recognizing how important economic opportunity is for women to be able to make the most important decisions we face as human beings: who we want to be, and how we want to spend our days.

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from Forbes

These Are 10 Cybersecurity Myths That Must Be Busted
There are many cybersecurity myths, but an accurate understanding of these 10 is critical to your cyber posture as an individual, as a business, or as a government.

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from GeekWire (Seattle)

Seattleites who say Bay Area tech workers are invading their city have new data to back up that claim. In the last five years, the number of Silicon Valley workers searching for jobs outside the region has increased by a staggering 67 percent. That’s according to a new report from Indeed, a job listings and search platform based in Austin, Texas.

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from The Heritage Foundation
[Information from this site may be unreliable.]

Reining the Big-Government Stampede
Most Americans don’t expect the federal government to stay out of their lives altogether. What they expect is minimal involvement: Let Washington be the last resort, the one Americans turn to only when they truly can’t devise any alternative. Self-reliance characterized the first settlers in this country, and the U.S. Constitution exemplified that spirit by creating a federal government of separate and limited powers — one strong enough to represent a new nation to the world, but weak enough to allow states and individuals to thrive.

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from LifeZette (& PoliZette)

Rice ‘Unmasking’ of Trump Associates Could Mean Legal Jeopardy
Experts say top Obama adviser engaged in 'fishing expedition' on incoming administration officials
Steps reportedly taken by former National Security Adviser Susan Rice to “unmask” names of associates of President Donald Trump before he took office could put her in legal jeopardy, according to legal and national security experts.

Dems Upset Over ‘Nuclear Option’ Should ‘Look in the Mirror’
Gorsuch supporters say liberals started partisan battles that led to pending rules change

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from The Living Church

Wrestling with our past: Cranmer our brother
What do we do when we face parts of the past — or even among brothers and sisters today from far away — that strike us as uncomfortably strange? Fr. Calvin Lane finishes his series on Anglicanism and Cranmer, who is neither "a toy nor an idol," but our brother.

Max McLean turns from adapting C.S. Lewis’s imaginative works to narrating the author’s journey to God.

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

The Supposed Failure of Economics
The left has always been anti-economics for the simple reason that economics shows the real cost of progressive policy and government meddling in the economy. When this cost is pointed out, socialism in all shapes and forms necessarily appears less appetizing.

Trump Continues to Ignore Monetary Policy — And It Will Cost Him
We’re now three months into the new administration and more than a year on from the start of a powerful late-cycle monetary stimulus (otherwise described as “the Yellen Put” in which all planned rate rises for 2016 were halted) by the Federal Reserve.

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

Technology and tragedy: How the government uses terrorism to justify surveillance
Can we trust that new security measures are anti-terrorist and not anti-democracy?

From Jeeves to the Twitter egg, the sad inhabitants of the internet's graveyard
Egg is just one of many internet behemoths who once ruled over our accursed world (wide web) – it is time we remembered them. Pay your respects with our internet obituaries.

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from The New Yorker

THERE’S NOWHERE TO HIDE ON THE INTERNET
We live in a moment when our government has too little transparency and our own private lives have too much. Sometime before dawn on March 29th, not too many hours after Congress approved legislation that allows Internet-service providers to sell your browsing history to whoever wants to buy it, a coder named Dan Schultz released a search randomizer called Internet Noise, which offers a way of veiling one’s real interests online.

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from The Register
Sci-Tech News website for the World

It's 30 years ago: IBM's final battle with reality
How PS/2 and OS/2 handed the industry to Bill Gates

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from Science (& News from Science)

The original Brexit: How tremendous ice age waterfalls cut off Britain from Europe
For millions of years, Britain was part of Europe. A high ridge of limestone—now famously exposed as the chalky cliffs of Dover—extended all the way to what is now France, allowing mammoths, hippos, and eventually humans to freely pass back and forth. But about 450,000 years ago, this rocky road was cut off by a flood of unimaginable proportions. Now, a team of researchers has detailed evidence of how this torrent of destruction was unleashed.

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from The Spokesman-Review

Long abandoned Otis Hotel may be developed as apartment building
After years of false starts the Otis Hotel may finally have a buyer as an Oregon poker player offers renovation plans to turn the building into small apartments.

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from UPI News Agency - United Press International

White House presents healthcare changes to Freedom Caucus
Vice President Mike Pence met with members of the conservative House Freedom Caucus to renegotiate and possibly revive Republicans' healthcare efforts. Under the proposal, states could apply to be exempt from Obamacare's "essential health benefits" mandate.

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from The Washington Free Beacon

Elizabeth Warren’s Female Staffers Made 71% of Male Staffers’ Salaries in 2016
The gender pay gap in Sen. Elizabeth Warren's (D., Mass.) office is nearly 10 percent wider than the national average, meaning women in the Massachusetts Democrat's office will have to wait longer than most women across the country to recognize Equal Pay Day.

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from WND (World Net Daily)
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]

Urgent warning for Christians to help Trump beat Obama's shadow government
Barack Obama may have left office on Jan. 20, but he didn’t go far – only two miles to the Kalorama neighborhood of northwest Washington, D.C., where his family lives with former senior adviser Valerie Jarrett, who moved into his 8,200-square-foot $5.3 million mansion.

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