Monday, July 31, 2017

In the news, Thursday, July 30, 2009


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from Computer Weekly

Black Hat: SSL is fragile
Researchers at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas have proved that the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol is fragile and could be broken at any time. This puts all smartcard-based systems at risk as well as so-called secure websites because SSL is the web's most widely used authentication system. However, Verisign, which manages SSL security for the .com domain, and internet browser makers were cooperating with each other and the researchers to fix the flaws. New, more robust software and processes would be available by the end of the year, they said.

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from The Spokesman-Review

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In the news, Friday, July 21, 2017


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from Breitbart

GREAT AGAIN: President Trump Eliminates 860 Obama-Era Federal Regulations
President Donald Trump’s White House has, according to Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Mick Mulvaney, removed or withdrawn about 860 Obama administration-era federal regulations.

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from ClashDaily.com with Doug Giles
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]

LMAO: Loudmouth Jerry Brown Suddenly Needs Trump’s Help
After 6 months of burning bridges and doing everything he could to oppose Trump… suddenly California’s Governer needs Federal Help.

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from CNN

Why cancer is not a war, fight, or battle
When news of Senator John McCain's brain cancer diagnosis hit the internet, I thought it was beautiful to see so many well-wishers tweet to him with messages of support.

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from Coeur d'Alene Press

THE TRADITION CONTINUES
American Indian tribes coming together on sacred Coeur d'Alene soil is a tradition that spans many, many generations. This tradition of togetherness continues this weekend during the 20th Julyamsh Coeur d'Alene Tribal Encampment and Powwow at the Kootenai County Fairgrounds.

JULYAMSH EAGLE FEATHER IN THE SKY
The eagle is an important part of the Coeur d’Alene Tribe’s culture. Mark Sales sent us this photo he took earlier today as the Tribe’s Julyamsh powwow is under way in Coeur d’Alene at the Kootenai County fairgrounds. “An airborne Julyamsh feather above Cd’A just now,” Sales wrote.

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

White House Procurement Priorities for Renegotiating NAFTA Do Not Advance Free Trade
The Trump Administration released its list of objectives for renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement. The original goal of NAFTA was to eliminate tariff and non-tariff barriers between the U.S., Mexico, and Canada. In renegotiating NAFTA, the Trump administration should focus on opening markets and increasing competition, not closing them off.

As Justice Department Ramps Up Fight Against Violent and Drug Crime, Property Owners Put at Risk
The nation is currently reeling under the weight of an opioid crisis that has given rise to a surging heroin market. Shootings and violent crime in many major cities have spiked in recent years, perhaps portending a reversal of a decades long decline in crime rates. Arresting, charging, and convicting those suspected of criminal activity should remain the No. 1 focus of law enforcement officials.

Putin Wants Back in the USSR, But With Version 2.0
After a hiatus of 25 years, the Pentagon’s unclassified report on Soviet, er, Russian military might is being published again by the Defense Intelligence Agency. The new report, “Russia Military Power: Building a Military to Support Great Power Aspirations” does a fine job on a timely topic. Indeed, after reading this Russia report, you can’t help but feel — like that old Beatles song—that you’re back in the USSR.

Waiving Federal Insurance Rules: How the Senate Bill Would Allow States to Improve Their Health Insurance Markets
The Senate health reform bill allows states to take advantage of a broad waiver authority that would enable them to regulate their own health insurance markets. It would give states ample opportunity to pursue more aggressive reforms of the insurance markets. The Senate bill holds open the possibility of securing an even broader range of coverage options and more robust cost control.

Here’s What Trump Has Done Right in His First 6 Months
President Donald Trump came to power as a wrecking ball. But what if we were to judge Trump’s presidency thus far not by traditional metrics, but on his own terms—specifically by his success in upsetting the status quo. Clearly, Washington is a far different place today than it was six months ago. The economy is stronger. The regulatory state is shrinking, not growing.

Ukraine's Future Is Brighter Than You Think
Most of the attention Ukraine gets these days is about the war in the eastern part of the country. More than 10,000 people have been killed since 2014. While Russia poses an existential threat to Ukraine, another issue of vital importance for country’s survival cannot be overlooked: the economy. Ukraine finally appears to be heading in the right direction, and the Euro-Atlantic community should do all that it can to keep them on this path.

House and Senate Set to Protect Consumers From an Overreaching Federal Agency
On Thursday, Republicans in both the House and Senate took a major step toward nullifying the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s harmful arbitration rule. The new rule would ban arbitration agreements that block groups of consumers from bringing class-action lawsuits. Congress should use the Congressional Review Act to protect consumers sooner rather than later.

Why This European Leader Is Embracing the Trump Presidency
Hungary’s foreign minister came to Washington last week seeking something from the Trump administration that his government is being denied by the European Union (EU)—sympathy for its sovereign right to make its own internal decisions and laws. Such a return to basic relations among nation-states—let alone treaty allies and friends—is also a radical departure from the previous administration. Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said the Obama administration had failed to respect Budapest’s right to self-determination.

A Positive Step Toward Occupational Licensing Reform: The ALLOW Act
Title I of the ALLOW Act would enable the spouse of a servicemember to travel from one state to another and use on any military base a license received elsewhere. Title II would subject occupational licensing laws to more rigorous judicial scrutiny than courts normally apply to economic and social legislation. Title III would allow a large number of people to be paid for giving a tour of federal battlefields and parks.

Appropriations “Mini-bus” Makes Progress in Some Areas, Misses the Mark in Others
The House of Representatives is poised to consider its first fiscal year (FY) 2018 appropriations bill. The legislation would combine the separate Defense, Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, Legislative Branch, and Energy and Water Development appropriations bills into one “mini omnibus” bill. The bill also includes $1.6 billion in funding to continue border wall construction in the southwestern United States, a major policy goal of the President. Ensuring the nation’s defense should be the top priority of Congress. Passing these individual bills now instead of including them in a politically charged spending deal in September is a step in the right direction. However, the “mini-bus” package misses numerous opportunities to rein in the reach of the federal government and save taxpayers billions of dollars.

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from HumanProgress.org
Education Website

Forty Ways the World Is Getting Better
One of the reasons for starting Human Progress in 2013 was to allow the users of the website to see the multitude of ways in which the state of humanity was improving. While most people already know that we live longer and earn higher incomes than our ancestors, many people fail to appreciate that the story of human progress is truly multidimensional, including (in alphabetical order) increases in charitable contributions, improved communications, improving business environment and economic freedom, better access to education and cheap energy, a cleaner environment, more food, greater gender equality, improved governance (on average), better health, improved housing, an overall rise in human freedom, progress in labor (fewer work hours and fewer on-the-job injuries), more leisure time, falling prices of most natural resources, increased tourism, cheaper and safer transportation, declining violence and, as mentioned, growing wealth. Our website allows users to access over 1,100 datasets and millions of data points related to all of the above areas of progress and much more. So, as a shameless plug for our website, we have compiled a random list of 40 ways in which the world is getting better, giving all of us, I hope, grounds for optimism about the future.

What History Can Tell Us About So-Called Sweatshops
Although the Industrial Revolution is commonly vilified, it was an important first step toward increasing women’s socioeconomic mobility and ultimately brought about prosperity unimaginable in the pre-industrial world. Factory women are not homogenous, but unique individuals with agency.

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from LifeZette (& PoliZette)

Mass Migration Brings Horror of Female Genital Mutilation to the West
Lack of assimilation spurs rapid spread of barbaric Islamist practice in U.S., U.K. and Germany

Millennials’ Scary Faith in Harry Potter
'I feel like I'm born again,' one fan of the trendy new podcast actually declared

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

Obama's AWOL Anti-War Protest
Barack Obama campaigned for the presidency in 2008 as a peace candidate. He signaled that he would fundamentally change America’s course after the reckless carnage unleashed by the George W. Bush administration. However, by the end of Obama’s presidency, the United States was bombing seven different foreign nations. But Obama’s warring rarely evoked the protests or opposition that the Bush administration generated. Why did so many Bush-era anti-war activists abandon the cause after Obama took office?

The Never-Ending Woes of a Government "Enterprise"
History is something one can try to escape, but sometimes you can’t as millions of train riders find out every day. They can’t escape Penn Station falling apart along with Amtrak, New York City commuter railroads, and the New York City subways. They all have the same problem: Every day they are reminded of the sordid history of government enterprise with derailments, delays and the billions of dollars of red ink of these dysfunctional systems. The bill is handed to the taxpayers whether they ride these trains or not. Ignoring the historic failures of government enterprises, mainstream opinion still recoils in horror at the idea of private-sector mass transit.

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from New York Times

Teenagers Recorded a Drowning Man and Laughed
The video was shocking in Florida, where shocking videos seem like a genre. A group of teenagers laughed and watched as a man struggled in the water of a pond. The man drowned, and his body was not found for days.

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from Reason Magazine
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]

Colorado State Pueblo Settles With Student It Falsely Accused of Rape
Grant Neal's girlfriend told school administrators repeatedly that he didn't rape her. They expelled him anyway.

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from The Spokesman-Review

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from United States Constitution
News/Media Website

It seems that the democrats sunk every egg they had into the Hillary Clinton basket in 2016, and now the party and its leadership are irrevocably doomed.

Liberal legal scholars Jonathan Turley and Alan Dershowitz were very well regarded and respected legal minds on the left before President Trump’s election. I’m not sure their reputations are going to survive the Trump era. 

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from UPI News Agency - United Press International

Minneapolis police chief resigns after Australian woman's death
8:23 PM  Minneapolis Mayor Betsy Hodges on Friday announced the resignation of police Chief Janee Harteau one week after the officer-involved shooting of an unarmed Australian woman.

Royals celebrate Prince George's birthday with portrait
5:40 PM  Kensington Palace on Friday released a new portrait of Britain's Prince George to celebrate the young royal's fourth birthday this weekend.

Sarah Huckabee Sanders named White House press secretary
3:25 PM  Sarah Huckabee Sanders will replace Sean Spicer as White House press secretary, the Trump administration announced Friday during an on-camera press briefing. Newly announced White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci congratulated Sanders and thanked Spicer for his six-month tenure in the position.

Press secretary Sean Spicer resigns amid White House shake-up
12:15 PM  White House press secretary Sean Spicer resigned Friday as President Donald Trump's top spokesman amid a series of anticipated staff changes. Spicer's resignation came just after Trump's appointment of Anthony Scaramucci as White House communications director on Friday, Axios reported, citing unnamed sources. Scaramucci was set to meet with Trump about the role Friday morning.

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from The Western Center for Journalism
(Western Journalism)  [Information from this site may not be reliable.]

Sekulow Denies Talk Of Pardons In Russia Probe
“Pardons are not being discussed and are not on the table.”

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In the news, Thursday, July 20, 2017


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from CNSNews.com (& MRC & NewsBusters)
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Celebrity Extremist Bill Nye: Just Wait for ‘Climate' 'Clowns' to ‘Die’ Off
Celebrity climate extremist Bill Nye thinks the solution to dealing with “climate deniers” might be to just wait for them to “die” out. Talking to the Los Angeles Times on Thursday, he mocked “people who are afraid in general” as older and added, “Climate change deniers, by way of example, are older. It’s generational. So we’re just going to have to wait for those people to ‘age out,’ as they say.”

No, Algebra Isn't a 'Civil Rights Issue,' and Kids Aren't That Stupid
In the latest effort to dumb down society to the point where our brains can't function at all, one community college chancellor is now suggesting high schools and colleges nix algebra classes because they’re too hard. As a segue to their interview with California community college chancellor Eloy Ortiz Oakley, NPR claims that “passing college algebra is a major barrier to graduation" for many students.

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from The Daily Caller
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Sen Rand Paul Slams Asset Forfeiture As ‘Unconstitutional’
Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) tweeted out Thursday morning criticizing Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ decision to revive the federal civil asset forfeiture program, calling it “unconstitutional.”

Al Gore Explains Why He Keeps Comparing Global Warming Activism To Freeing The Slaves
Former Vice President Al Gore explained why he routinely compares the fight against global warming to the civil rights, anti-apartheid and abolitionist movements during a live SiriusXM radio town hall Thursday.


from Freedom Daily
from Gateway Pundit

MUELLER CROSSES RED LINE: Special Counsel Investigating POTUS Business Dealings
Special counsel Robert Mueller just crossed President Trump’s red line, expanding his investigation to include transactions by the Trump Organization. As the President warned in a New York Times interview yesterday, Mueller might be making a fatal mistake in probing the Trump family’s finances.

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

Vice President Pence’s Trip: An Opportunity to Advance U.S. Leadership in Europe
Vice President’s trip to Estonia, Georgia, and Montenegro is the perfect follow-up to President Trump’s visit to Poland for the Three Seas conference. While each country faces threats from Russia, each also presents unique challenges, which demand robust attention. Vice President Pence should underscore U.S. commitment to NATO, Baltic security, and U.S. engagement in the Balkans and the Black Sea region.

Senate Health Care Bill Could Be Greatest Entitlement Reform in a Generation
Obamacare created higher payment for a new class of beneficiaries: able-bodied recipients. For them, federal taxpayers fund 95 percent of health care costs. Medicaid is an open-ended entitlement, meaning that if a state spends more, for whatever reason, bigger federal payments to the state are automatically increased. The Senate bill adopts a cap that would slow the growth of federal Medicaid payment over time and accounts for the wide differences among individuals in Medicaid.

This Conservative Budget Proposal Is a Real Solution to America’s Debt Situation
The Republican Study Committee's SAFE proposal would balance the budget in less than 10 years. The budget builds on President Trump’s proposal, making defense spending a top priority and fully paying for it by redefining the role of the federal bureaucracy. The United States is on an unsustainable fiscal path, and without immediate action from Congress it will continue to move closer to the brink of fiscal disaster.

Paid Family Leave: Avoiding a New National Entitlement
President Trump has proposed a federal paid family leave (PFL) law. This law would create a new national entitlement that would almost certainly inflate over time. A federal PFL law could minimize or dismantle existing private and state PFL provisions, and could cost federal taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars per year. To support families’ access to PFL, the federal government can reduce marginal taxes, encourage flexible work arrangements, and cut costly business regulations.

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from New York Times

President Trump’s Lies, the Definitive List
We have catalogued nearly every outright lie the president has told publicly since taking the oath of office.

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from Reason Magazine
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]

"I’m an anarchist. But when you actually look at what anarchism stands for...it’s almost boring."
Humans of FreedomFest, Part 2: Portraits from the largest annual gathering of libertarians

'I Teach How to Think, Not What to Think'
Humans of FreedomFest, Part 3: Portraits from the world's largest annual gathering of libertarians.

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from The Spokesman-Review

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from Sputnik
(Russian government-supported propaganda channel)

White House Admits Defeat in Syria
President Trump's announcement this week to end the CIA's covert arming of militants in Syria is an admission of defeat. The US has lost its six-year war for regime change in the Arab country. It's time to wrap it up. It's not over yet, of course. It remains to be seen if Trump's decision can in fact be implemented. Can the CIA be reined in to obey orders? Will the US be able to stop regional client regimes, like Saudi Arabia, from stepping up their covert supply of American weapons to the militants in Syria?

A Welcome Step: Trump Ends Disastrous CIA Support for Syrian Islamist Rebels
US President Donald Trump's decision to stop arming Syrian rebels is a step in the right direction, but it's too soon to tell if Trump will be able to help bring peace to Syria given the opposition of US Senators to any kind of compromise with Russia.

How Kiev's Pursuit of Western Money is 'Adding Fuel' to Donbass War
Kiev is adding fuel to the fire of the Donbass conflict in a bid to get further aid from the West, a political analyst told Sputnik commenting on the latest events in the war in eastern Ukraine's Donbass region.

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from 100 Percent FED Up
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]

NEW YORK TIMES REFUSES To Publish Op-Ed By Lifetime Democrat, Top Legal Scholar Alan Dershowitz Because It Defended Innocence Of President Trump
Alan Dershowitz has been a regular contributor to #FakeNews New York Times for decades. This time however, the New York Times, the publication that used to be the “gold standard” in journalism, has drawn the line, as the liberal Harvard law professor’s op-ed doesn’t jive with their relentless character assassination of our sitting president.

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In the news, Wednesday, July 19, 2017


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from The American Conservative

It was hard to get excited about the Republican plans for repealing and replacing Obamacare. And now that the effort has failed, it’s hard to feel especially sorrowful. In typical fashion for the Republicans, there was never any solid message as to what exactly a repeal of Obamacare meant, or what should be done to replace it, if anything. The various bills offered up were a constantly-shifting myriad of suggested policies, most of them extremely milquetoast and wonkish. Not surprisingly, the public never managed to care about them.

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from The Blaze (& Glenn Beck)
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]

Gay activist says it’s time to target Christians: Time to ‘punish the wicked’
Tim Gill, tech millionaire and extremely liberal LGBTQ activist, spoke with Rolling Stone in a June interview, and called for the punishment of Christians who refuse to take part in same-sex weddings.

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from Competitive Enterprise Institute

President Trump and Net Neutrality Rulemaking at FCC
White House press briefing, Principal Deputy Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said, in reference to the current net neutrality debate, “The Trump administration believes the rules of the road are important for everyone – website providers, Internet service providers, and consumers alike . . . The Trump administration supports the FCC chair’s efforts to review and consider rolling back these rules.”

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from Daily Sun News (Sunnyside, WA)

Senate right to withhold capital approval
While city folk and governmental bureaucrats are whining about our state’s capital budget being held hostage until a Hirst decision fix is in place, we think the state Senate is doing the right thing. City dwellers and governmental bureaucrats building fiefdoms want money to continue to build and expand their empires. But here in rural Eastern Washington, water is king. And the right and ability to access water for our families, crops and livestock is far more important than widening another road, building another school or buying up more private land in the name of purported protection.

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

Intellectual Property Does Not Protect Creative Rights
The phrase “creative rights” is one of the great misnomers. No one can take from you the right to be creative, and that right certainly isn’t granted by some government office. And yet, the phrase is commonly invoked as a synonym for “intellectual property,” laws, which are laws that actually stop creative people from freely marketing the products of their labor.

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

This Reagan Adviser’s Wisdom on Free Trade Is Much Needed Today
President Ronald Reagan’s first chair of the Council of Economic Advisers was Murray Weidenbaum. The most significant change since Weidenbaum’s 1983 comments is that trade now represents 28 percent of the U.S. economy, up from just 17 percent at the time. It is especially important that we reinforce our defense of the free market.

Top Four Issues to Address in Reauthorizing Department of Homeland Security
The Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) byzantine oversight structure makes it difficult to reauthorize the Department, something now underway in Congress. Congress should strengthen and streamline DHS’s management structure, privatize the TSA, improve research and development, and reform FEMA. While there are other issues to be addressed as well, addressing these issues will all help streamline DHS and improve security.

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from Hot Air

How Capitalism Averted The Bee-Pocalypse
Remember all the concern about colony collapse disorder? That’s a real problem that causes entire colonies of honeybees to simply abandon their hives. And that’s a real problem because the bees pollinate about 1/3 of the food we eat. Without them, our food supply would be in serious jeopardy. Colony collapse really is a real problem, but as Reason points out, America’s hard-working beekeepers have held the bee-pocalypse at bay. In fact, there are more honeybee colonies in the country today than in nearly 25 years.

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from Huffington Post
[Information from this site may be unreliable.]

These Plastic Bottles Full Of Water And Bleach Light Up Homes Without Electricity
About 1.2 billion people worldwide don’t have access to electricity.

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

Early Indigenous Peoples and Written Language
Written language for early indigenous peoples included wampum belts, codices, and khipu.
It may be hard to picture civilization without writing to carry messages short-term across space and long-term across time—but it’s impossible to claim that the indigenous people of the Americas had no written language. The evidence has remained despite the European invasion turning indigenous cities from centers of learning to centers of disease and despite the Spanish practice of book burning on a massive scale.

Canoes Land at Nisqually’s Historical Solo Point on Monday
The 27th annual Canoe Journey began Monday with six canoes welcomed ashore from Squaxin Island.

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from LifeZette (& PoliZette)

Democratic Official: Even Small-Scale Fraud Can ‘Sway the Outcome’ of Elections
New Hampshire secretary of state rejects liberal claim that integrity measures suppress voter turnout.

USPS Broke Law Allowing Employees Leave to Support Clinton Campaign
Investigators say federal agency demonstrated 'institutional bias' in favor of Democratic nominee

House Democrat Accuses Border Agents of Human-Rights Violations
Patrol's union chief blasts Rep. Kaptur for ‘dangerous' comment, 'attack' on law enforcement

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from The Living Church

METHODISTS AND ANGLICANS: LINGERING DIFFERENCES
Bishops, creeds, Eucharist — Anglican and Methodist stances toward these continue to differ.

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from Opposing Views

Richard Gautier shared the photo of his son to his Facebook page and described the interaction between the student and his teacher when he arrived to class with the shirt on. So...Mason wore his "Hillary for Prison 2016" shirt to school today. One of his Clinton-supporting teachers whom he's has political discussions with asked, "Did you wear that for me?" His reply, "No, for Chris Stevens." The post quickly went viral, with many praising the student for his response to the teacher.

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from Reason Magazine
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'Humans of FreedomFest': Portraits from the Largest Annual Gathering of Libertarians
Meet some of the people who convene in Vegas every July to discuss and debate "Free Minds and Free Minds." First in a series.

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from The Register
Sci-Tech News website for the World

Targeted, custom ransomware menace rears its ugly head
No spraying and praying here, just precise, exorbitant attacks

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from The Spokesman-Review

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from UPI News Agency - United Press International

CBO: Repeal-only bill would lead to 32 million more uninsured by 2026
The Republican Senate bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act will result in an extra 32 million more uninsured people and higher premiums, an analysis by the Congressional Budget Office and Joint Committee on Taxation released Wednesday says.

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from Washington Examiner

Bill Nye: Older people need to 'die' out before climate science can advance
Bill Nye specifically targeted the elderly this week as he spoke out against climate change deniers, saying that climate science will start to advance when old people start to "age out."

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In the news, Tuesday, July 18, 2017


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from AJC (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

Seattle Mayor Ed Murray after newly surfaced sex abuse documents: I'm not going to resign
A city councilwoman is asking the Seattle mayor to consider stepping down after a newly surfaced investigation believed Ed Murray abused a foster son in 1984. Murray's former foster son, Jeff Simpson, is one of four men who publicly accused him this spring of sexually abusing them long ago. Murray adamantly denies the allegations, but he declined to seek re-election in the upcoming race. Councilwoman Lorena González released a statement on Monday that said she is “deeply concerned” about the mayor’s ability to lead, and she asked him to consider stepping down as mayor. A couple of mayoral candidates are sharing that sentiment, calling on the mayor to resign.

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from Asia Times Online

US healthcare bill dead, dollar hits 10-month low
Legislative failure adds to doubt surrounding Trump economic stimulus. The US currency’s drop came after two more Republican Senators expressed their opposition.

Asian Development Bank wary of Russia’s AIIB membership
Russia isn’t an ADB member, but is a member of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, complicating relations between the two development banks

ADB ready to cooperate with AIIB in Asia, insider says
But the former Asian Development Bank official and regional expert warns that the two development banks may butt heads in the future. The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is now open to cooperating with China’s Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), though the potential for more competitive relations lurks in the wings.

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from Breitbart

Trump Warns of Further Venezuela Sanctions: ‘We Will Not Stand By as Country Crumbles’
President Donald Trump has sent out another clear message on the worsening political and humanitarian crisis in Venezuela, promising “strong and swift economic actions” should socialist leader Nicolás Maduro push ahead with plans to create a non-elected “constituent assembly.”

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

Gingrich: Harvard Says CNN is 93% Negative -- That's an 'Attack Network,' 'Propaganda Network'
Commenting on how the White House is taking new approaches with its daily press briefings, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) said he would exclude CNN from the briefings because a study by Harvard determined that CNN's coverage of President Trump was 93% negative, which makes them an "attack network," a "propaganda network."

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from Competitive Enterprise Institute

CEI's John Berlau Testimony Before House Financial Services Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Securities and Investment
Today, CEI's John Berlau testified before the House Financial Services Committee Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Securities, and Investment on the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.

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from Daily Wire
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]

After Alleged Sexual Abuse Victim Goes Public, Seattle Mayor Urged To Resign
On Monday, a Seattle city councilwoman asked Seattle mayor Ed Murray to resign after an alleged victim of Murray’s sexual abuse went public for the first time.

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

There Really Were Health Nazis
There really were Health Nazis. They were ahead of their time when it came to regulations regarding tobacco use. Hitler despised smoking, and he used the power of the state to stop it.

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from Indian Country Today Media Network
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The Power of Haudenosaunee Women
‘The strength of the Haudenosaunee women is legendary’ and can be seen from the women’s rights movement to Standing Rock

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from Intellectual Takeout

How Classic Cartoons Created a Culturally Literate Generation
The cartoons from our parents' and grandparents' generations weren't mind-numbing - they were an important pathway to knowledge.

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

To Fix Healthcare, We Need to Repeal a Lot More than Obamacare
The focus on Obamacare as the source of all our health-care woes has distracted us from the real foundations of the healthcare mess. If actually improving the lives of taxpayers and constituents were the goal, the GOP could have focused less on specifically repudiating the Obama agenda, and instead looking for ways to undo decades of government meddling in healthcare — which has produced the expensive, inflexible, and monopolistic healthcare system we have today. 

Don't MacLean on Me
As I mentioned in an earlier article, Nancy MacLean’s Democracy in Chains has aroused controversy, in large part owing to her many inaccuracies and misleading remarks.  I’d like in this note to call attention to a few more of these.

Immunity for Prosecutors Encourages Fraud
Absolute Immunity for Prosecutors Creates the Classic “Lemons Problem.” Public officials argue that to be able to carry out their duties, laws must protect them from lawsuits by disgruntled individuals or those harmed by wrongful actions of government agents. The U.S. Supreme Court especially has protected prosecutors, granting them absolute immunity as long as they committed wrongful acts within the scope of their legal duties. Prosecutorial immunity provides an incentive to government prosecutors to engage in fraud if it's good for their careers.

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from Orthodox Christianity

ARE WE WAX OR FIRE?
Fr. James Guirguis: Nothing attracts others to God like people who are genuinely faithful to God and to His commandments. In fact, it is sometimes said that people have no problem with Jesus but that they have a problem with the followers of Jesus whom they’ve encountered.

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from The Spokesman-Review

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from Washington Examiner

Alan Dershowitz: New York Times ignoring me because 'I don't have the right point of view'
Alan Dershowitz recently tried to publish an opinion piece in The New York Times that President Trump likely did not attempt to obstruct justice by firing former FBI Director James Comey. But Dershowitz told the Washington Examiner over the phone on Monday that the Times had "no response" to his submission. The widely known legal commentator and cable news fixture said he remains a "liberal Hillary Clinton supporter," but said after reading an op-ed in the Times that argued Trump could be charged for criminal conduct in Comey's firing, he reached out in June to the paper to present an opposing view.

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from The Washington Times

Alan Dershowitz: New York Times won’t publish me because I offer ‘alternative point of view’
Harvard law professor emeritus and prominent liberal author Alan Dershowitz said The New York Times won’t publish him because he’s offering an “alternative point of view” on the Trump-Russia collusion allegations.

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from The Week

The party of failure
The GOP controls both houses of Congress. It holds the White House. For seven years its leadership railed against ObamaCare, and its rank-and-file members voted to repeal it, over and over again. Yet here we are, six months into the Trump administration, and what has the party managed to deliver?

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