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from BBC News (UK)
Pub bosses have apologised after asking a group of trainee priests to leave their Cardiff venue, mistaking them for a stag party in fancy dress. The seven Roman Catholic seminarians had gone to The City Arms to toast Father Peter McClaren's ordination when they were asked to move on. But assistant manager Matt Morgan said they received a free round of drinks when the situation was explained. "They were all dressed in their black and white clothes," he said. "The staff thought they were a stag. We do have quite a few issues on the weekends with parties wearing fancy dress so it is our policy to turn them away."
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from The Blaze (& Glenn Beck)
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James “Ooker” Eskridge is the mayor of a town on an island disappearing in the Chesapeake Bay, but rather than see it as evidence of global warming, he used it to shut down Al Gore’s narrative that the seas are rising because of climate change. Eskridge faced the climate warming alarmist during a CNN town hall on global warming. “I’m a commercial crabber,” Eskridge said, “and I’ve been working the Chesapeake Bay for 50-plus years. And I have a crab house business out on the water. And water level is the same as it was when the place was built in 1970.” “I’m not a scientist but I’m a keen observer, and if sea level rises are occurring,” he asked, “why am I not seeing signs of it?” “Our island is disappearing,” he explained, “but it’s because of erosion and not because of sea level rising, unless we get a seawall, we will lose our island.”
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from Coeur d'Alene Press
BLAZES KEEP FIRE CREWS BUSY
Area fire crews were spread thin Tuesday afternoon as they battled two blazes that started at the same time on opposite sides of Coeur d'Alene. Fire crews met with a barn ablaze at the historic Settler's Creek Farm, four miles from Coeur d'Alene on the the north side of the Spokane River along Riverview Drive. At the same time crews were sent to battle a fire at Sunnyside Drive along Mullan Trail east of Coeur d'Alene.
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from First Things
Natality is essential for a living political culture. We come forward out of private life to speak and act in public life in order to give birth to new possibilities. The sterility of Western Europe’s political leadership is a fitting sign for its spiritual malaise. In the West—and I include America—we feel the oppression of limited options and constrained choices. “We have started to pass from an order built on confrontation between equally legitimate opinions to an order relying on confrontation between legitimate opinions and illegitimate opinions, between political orthodoxy and heresy.” Responsible leaders versus fascists, racists, and bigots. Truth versus fake news.
Robert Burns, “Rabbie” to those who love him, sired thirty-six children with eighteen mistresses before dying of exhaustion at age thirty-seven. Everyone who is Scottish claims him as a forebear despite the whiff of bastardy this introduces into the auld coat of arms. We have a Burns Day. We do not have a Yeats Day. He is a national poet in a way no other modern poet is.
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from The Heritage Foundation
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Islamism poses a clear and present national security threat to Europe. This threat has mainly converged on France, Germany, and the U.K. Over time, the plots have increased in frequency. Defeating ISIS militarily is clearly vital. Yet such a defeat alone would not mean the danger has passed. The U.S. can and should help its friends in Europe face these challenges. Nonetheless, a robust response to Islamism in Europe must be led from within Europe.
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from HumanProgress.org Education Website
1 in 6 people would raise taxes on the rich even if they knew it would also hurt the poor to do so. Why? Envy.
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from The Independent (UK)
LEFT-CENTER BIAS
Archaeologists excavating the City of David in Jerusalem found a range of artefacts dating back 2,600 years.
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from Los Angeles Times
As Trump mulls cutting off Obamacare aid, Senate begins bipartisan approach
Even as President Trump renews his threat to undermine the Affordable Care Act, senior Republican and Democratic senators announced plans Tuesday to begin work on a new bipartisan effort to stabilize the 2010 healthcare law, often called Obamacare. The move — by Senate Health Committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) and Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), the committee’s senior Democrat — does not ensure the end of the GOP’s long Obamacare repeal campaign. But in the wake of last week’s dramatic collapse of the Senate GOP repeal effort, it signaled a new willingness by Republican senators to begin work on fixing weaknesses in the current law rather than trying to roll it back.
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from New York Magazine
Obama’s Legacy Is Finally Coming Into Focus, Thanks to Trump
Trump Is Proving That Obama’s Legacy Will Survive. Quite by mistake, a failing presidency reveals the true scale of its predecessor’s achievements.
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from The Spokesman-Review
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from Sputnik
(Russian government-supported propaganda channel)
Researchers were shocked to discover that a trash island floating in the South Pacific Ocean may be close to a million square miles in area. The current has gathered millions of tons of waste into one spot in the ocean to form a garbage pile that, if it were a country, would be the 30th largest in the world.
The 2,240-square-mile long iceberg departed ways with its mother, the Larsen C ice shelf, on July 10-12. Scientists are now questioning the future of Larsen C, as the years-long calving process has caused its area to shrink by 10 percent.
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