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from The Blaze (& Glenn Beck)
RIGHT BIAS
By the way, there was a mass shooting at a church in Tennessee yesterday morning. But nobody noticed because we were so focused on the antics of football players. A Sudanese immigrant named Emanuel Kidega Samson murdered someone in the parking lot and then walked into Burnette Chapel Church of Christ and started shooting indiscriminately. The victim who died was a 39-year-old woman and mother of two named Melanie Smith. According to her family members, she was a Godly and compassionate woman. She was killed for committing the crime of attending church on a Sunday morning.
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from FEE (Foundation for Economic Education)
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, HIGH, non-profit organization
Trump Derangement Syndrome rages on, the latest symptoms flaring equally based on causes both legitimate and ridiculous. A key characteristic of the syndrome is its ability to evoke the same outrage over the president retweeting a harmless (and let’s admit it, funny) meme as threatening to destroy an entire nation. The breathless apoplexy over absolutely everything Trump-related, down to the shoes his wife wears while traveling, has desensitized Trump’s supporters to behavior even they should be concerned about. As secession movements all over the world gain force, it's reasonable to assume those feelings will come to the US.
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from The Guardian (UK)
LEFT-CENTER BIAS, HIGH, daily newspaper
'The best day of my life': Iraqi Kurds vote in independence referendum
More than 80% of registered voters cast ballots in non-binding poll that has raised tensions and fears of instability.
'The best day of my life': Iraqi Kurds vote in independence referendum
More than 80% of registered voters cast ballots in non-binding poll that has raised tensions and fears of instability.
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from Hoover Institution
Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns Of August (1962)
[Review] Barbara Tuchman’s Pulitzer Prize-winning The Guns of August is the starting point for any serious study of the First World War. Its great strength lies in its adroit connection of the political decision making and strategic miscalculations which led to the military operations that directly followed in that critical opening month of the war. Tuchman says it best at book’s end: “…the failures of the first month determined the future course of the war… and the conditions of the Second Round [WWII].” The events of August 1914, on and off the battlefield, doomed the Kaiser’s prediction that his soldiers would be home “before the leaves fell.”
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Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns Of August (1962)
[Review] Barbara Tuchman’s Pulitzer Prize-winning The Guns of August is the starting point for any serious study of the First World War. Its great strength lies in its adroit connection of the political decision making and strategic miscalculations which led to the military operations that directly followed in that critical opening month of the war. Tuchman says it best at book’s end: “…the failures of the first month determined the future course of the war… and the conditions of the Second Round [WWII].” The events of August 1914, on and off the battlefield, doomed the Kaiser’s prediction that his soldiers would be home “before the leaves fell.”
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from Mises Institute
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]Since the federal government has not followed its own Constitution, which nowhere authorizes the federal government to ban drugs or other any substance, it is no surprise that it has not followed the judgment of Ludwig von Mises when it comes to the drug war. Mises contends, the fact that something is a vice is no reason for suppression by way of commercial prohibitions.
Thanks to the existence of greed, of course, there's always the temptation to skimp on safety in order to pad profits, and just hope things work out. But in wealthy nations, there are numerous incentives beyond government regulation to not do this: (1) insurance companies may refuse to insure structures that are of questionable safety, and (2) there are well-developed legal systems that facilitate lawsuits against negligent builders. But perhaps most importantly: consumers of housing and office space in wealthy countries can more often afford to pay for units in buildings where expensive retrofits and safety features have been added. In poor countries, by contrast, consumers are far less likely to be able to afford buildings constructed to specifications that would be considered run-of-the-mill in wealthier areas. Given that producers can only set prices at levels their customers can afford to pay, builders will build accordingly.
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from New York Post
Anthony Weiner gets hard time
Anthony Weiner got a stiff dose of reality Monday as a judge slapped him with a nearly two-year sentence for sexting with a 15-year-old girl — a heinous crime that cost him both his marriage and his freedom. Manhattan federal Judge Denise Cote rejected defense pleas to spare Weiner any time behind bars and instead ordered him to spend 21 months in a federal penitentiary, saying she needed to make an example of the high-profile pervert.
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from POLITICO
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Trump moves to get base ‘stirred up’ with NFL attacks
The president's clash with NFL players over the national anthem extends into its fourth day.
Trump moves to get base ‘stirred up’ with NFL attacks
The president's clash with NFL players over the national anthem extends into its fourth day.
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from The Spokesman-Review
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from Time
What to Know About the Catalan Independence Referendum
Spanish authorities are racing to block Catalonia secessionists from carrying out an independence referendum currently scheduled for Oct. 1. So far, officials have seized almost 10 million ballot papers, imposed fines on top Catalan officials, and detained numerous politicians. Catalonia's battle with Madrid over the vote, which both the Spanish constitution court and Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy deem illegal, has created the worst political crisis Spain has seen in decades.
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from Townhall.com
RIGHT BIAS, HIGH, American conservative website and print magazine
Conservative, Inc., Is Being Replaced By Us Militant Normals
Who are the normals? The Americans who built this country, and defended it. When you eat, it’s because a normal grew the food and another normal trucked it to you. When you aren’t murdered in the street or don’t speak German, it’s because a normal with a gun made those things not happen. We normals don’t want to rule over others. We don’t obsess about how you live your life, but also we don’t want to be compelled to signal our approval or pick up the tab. We are every color and creed – though when someone who is incidentally a member of some other group aligns with normals, he/she/xe loses that identity. The left drums normals who are black out of its definition of “black,” just as normal women get drummed out of womanhood and normal gays get drummed out gayhood. In a way, the left is making E pluribus unum a reality again – to choose to be normal is to choose to reject silly identity group identification and unite. Instead of saying “normal Americans,” you can just say “Americans.”
Conservative, Inc., Is Being Replaced By Us Militant Normals
Who are the normals? The Americans who built this country, and defended it. When you eat, it’s because a normal grew the food and another normal trucked it to you. When you aren’t murdered in the street or don’t speak German, it’s because a normal with a gun made those things not happen. We normals don’t want to rule over others. We don’t obsess about how you live your life, but also we don’t want to be compelled to signal our approval or pick up the tab. We are every color and creed – though when someone who is incidentally a member of some other group aligns with normals, he/she/xe loses that identity. The left drums normals who are black out of its definition of “black,” just as normal women get drummed out of womanhood and normal gays get drummed out gayhood. In a way, the left is making E pluribus unum a reality again – to choose to be normal is to choose to reject silly identity group identification and unite. Instead of saying “normal Americans,” you can just say “Americans.”
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from uCatholic
Pope Francis Issued Formal Filial Correction by Clergy and Lay Scholars
Last Saturday, members of the clergy and lay scholars from around the world issued to Pope Francis a formal filial correction, the first in over six hundred years since the filial correction of Pope John XXII in 1333.
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from Zero Hedge
CONSPIRACY-PSEUDOSCIENCE, MIXED, financial blog with aggregated news and opinion
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