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from BBC News (UK)
A host of proposed new laws designed to prepare the UK for a "smooth and orderly" departure from the EU have been announced in the Queen's Speech. Of 27 bills, eight relate to Brexit and its impact on immigration, trade and sectors such as fisheries and farming.
The Duke of Edinburgh was admitted to hospital on Tuesday as "a precautionary measure", Buckingham Palace has said. He is being treated at the King Edward VII Hospital, London, for an infection arising from a pre-existing condition.
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from Breitbart
Camille Paglia Blames Dems for Destroying Journalism — ‘It Is Going to Take Decades to Recover’
Tuesday on Sean Hannity’s nationally syndicated radio show, author and University of the Arts professor of humanities and media studies Camille Paglia railed against the current state of journalism in America. Paglia called what she said the Democratic Party had done to journalism “absolutely grotesque” and warned it would take decades to recover.
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from First Things
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from Forbes
A new study on Seattle's $15 minimum wage doesn't pass the smell test.
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from Indian Country Today Media Network
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Praying for the Sacred and World Peace
2017 World Peace and Prayer Day statement by the Keeper of the Sacred White Buffalo Calf Bundle
Should Indian Nations Fear the Return of Termination Policy?
Any new termination policy legislation would require Congressional action
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]
Praying for the Sacred and World Peace
2017 World Peace and Prayer Day statement by the Keeper of the Sacred White Buffalo Calf Bundle
Should Indian Nations Fear the Return of Termination Policy?
Any new termination policy legislation would require Congressional action
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from New York Times
In Search of the American Center
On both sides of the Atlantic, if you tried to build a consensus politics based around what voters actually want, it would be very moderately culturally conservative and very moderately economically liberal, and it would sit low in the upper left quadrant of our chart — the place where Trump won voters who had previously voted for Obama. But on both sides of the Atlantic, if you sought to place the elite consensus on the same chart, it be much closer to the emptiest of quadrants — the land of austerity and open borders, free trade and the permanent sexual revolution, the Simpson-Bowles plan and Emmanuel Macron.
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from Reason Magazine
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Clarence Thomas Attacks Civil Asset Forfeiture, Lower Court Follows His Lead
In March the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear a case filed by a Texas woman fighting for the return of over $200,000 in cash that the police seized from her family. Although neither Lisa Olivia Leonard nor any of her relatives were ever charged with any underlying crime connected to the cash, the state's sweeping asset forfeiture laws allowed the authorities to take the money. The Supreme Court offered no explanation when it refused to hear Leonard v. Texas. But one member of the Court did speak up in protest. In a statement respecting the denial of certiorari, Justice Clarence Thomas made it clear that in his view modern asset forfeiture law is fundamentally incompatible with the U.S. Constitution. Yesterday, one of the most influential federal appellate courts in the country—the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit—signaled its agreement with Thomas' assessment in a notable decision in favor of an innocent couple fighting for the return of $17,900 in cash seized by the police.
Clarence Thomas Attacks Civil Asset Forfeiture, Lower Court Follows His Lead
In March the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear a case filed by a Texas woman fighting for the return of over $200,000 in cash that the police seized from her family. Although neither Lisa Olivia Leonard nor any of her relatives were ever charged with any underlying crime connected to the cash, the state's sweeping asset forfeiture laws allowed the authorities to take the money. The Supreme Court offered no explanation when it refused to hear Leonard v. Texas. But one member of the Court did speak up in protest. In a statement respecting the denial of certiorari, Justice Clarence Thomas made it clear that in his view modern asset forfeiture law is fundamentally incompatible with the U.S. Constitution. Yesterday, one of the most influential federal appellate courts in the country—the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit—signaled its agreement with Thomas' assessment in a notable decision in favor of an innocent couple fighting for the return of $17,900 in cash seized by the police.
from The Spokesman-Review
Landmarks: Hillyard area’s Evergreen Cemetery offers 14 acres of restored grounds, historic grave sites
Among the approximately 450 people buried at Evergreen Cemetery, an inordinate number of them are infants and members of the military. The cemetery, located at 10015 N. Market St., just south of the intersection of Market and East Hawthorne Road, was long inactive and in ruins, formerly a dumping site for passersby and a haven for vandalism by those so inclined.
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from Sputnik
(Russian government-supported propaganda channel)
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization's (NATO) F-16 supersonic multirole fighter attempted to get close to Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu's plane over neutral Baltic waters but was chased away by a Russian jet, a Sputnik correspondent reported Wednesday. Shoigu was en route to the westernmost Russian city of Kaliningrad when the F-16 attempted to make an approach. Russia's Sukhoi Su-27 fighter, one of the aircraft escorting Shoigu's plane, then displayed its weapons, prompting the F-16 to retreat.
The latest air incident, which involved a NATO F-16 fighter that attempted to approach the plane of Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu over neutral Baltic waters, has raised a lot of questions. Speaking to Sputnik, military observer Boris Rozhin and former Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Air Forces Pyotr Deinekin shed light on the matter.
The White House is considering a total ban of US travel to North Korea following the death of 22-year-old Otto Warmbier, who was rendered comatose during his 17-month detention in the DPRK and died shortly after returning to the United States.
Experts with Queen’s University Belfast (QUB) in Northern Ireland have warned that it’s only a matter of time before a large asteroid strikes Earth, causing a natural catastrophe unparalleled in the ruin that it would bring.
The US Navy’s Ford-class aircraft carrier will not be required to go through shock trials, if the House Armed Services Committee gets its way. The 2018 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) is getting marked up by lawmakers who seem to believe the US carrier fleet is stretched so thin that it needs the USS Gerald Ford operational as soon as possible, Defense News reports.
Washington is seeking to persuade China to shoulder the burden of the fight against Daesh (ISIS/ISIL) in the Middle East, Russian scholar Azhdar Kurtov, military analyst Vladimir Evseev and Chinese expert Yang Mian told Sputnik, while explaining why Beijing is unlikely to accept this offer unconditionally.
The whimsical Saudi rulers are playing musical chairs again, with the king's favorite son jumping the succession queue in what some observers have called a "soft coup" to become heir to the oil kingdom throne. The medieval-like House of Saud has always been a lynchpin in US foreign policy for the Middle East. More so under President Donald Trump who has struck up a chummy relationship with the young Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. This relationship is like the blind leading the blind. No wonder US policy is fast becoming a disaster for the restive region.
Ankara's decision to send a group of Turkish servicemen to a Qatari base is the wrong move because it was not caused by a real threat to Turkey's security and does not reflect the country's national interests, Turkish political analyst Murat Bilhan told Sputnik.
European Union Foreign Policy chief Federica Mogherini has suggested the bloc may dispatch a security mission to help stabilize Iraq after the expected recapture of Mosul from Daesh. While plans remain at an embryonic stage, the mere prospect has already been subject to much criticism and doubt.
The new Kiev-proposed plan on Donbass reintegration is in fact an attempt to replace the ongoing blockade with a full-scale military operation, a senior Russian official stated.
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