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from FEE (Foundation for Economic Education)
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, HIGH, non-profit organization
The Greatest Lesson Hurricane Irma Has Taught Us
If we are left free and virtuous, we are likely to continue creating beautiful things for our own and others’ sake. Hurricane season has once again reminded modern America of the limitations of being human. Or, perhaps it has reminded us that, despite our various religious, political, and personal problems, Mother Nature, paired with the flaws of human nature, is the true problem we need to solve. Did Irma once again show us the folly of man's knowledge and courage? Is our attempt to civilize Florida just another example of reaching for the forbidden fruit? Should we have told the Army Corps of Engineers, local governments, and private developers, “careful, Icarus,” before they went about taming the Sunshine State’s hellish swamps? After this storm, will the people once again rebuild there, in spite of mother nature's most recent rebuke? Will they once again use human ingenuity and technology to fly as close as they can to the sun, whether it's to sunbathe on the Florida beaches, set sail on floating cities for a pleasure cruise, visit the magical world of an iconic mouse, or continually fire rockets into space?
There Are Racist Emblems, but Chief Wahoo Isn't One of Them
And those who censoriously insist it is are unwittingly downplaying the ugliness of genuinely racist images. On any list of knee-jerk PC verities, the “obvious” racism of Chief Wahoo — the cartoon character that has been the Indians logo for seven decades — would be near the top. I get why people make that claim, but I’m going to argue that they’re wrong.
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from Fox News (& affiliates)
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from The Liberty Review
[Information from this site may be unreliable.]
Supporters of the “fight for 15” and other campaigns to raise the minimum wage go to great lengths – including commissioning “research” designed to contradict studies that find their effects injurious – to insist that such a hike will have little or no adverse effects on employment for low-skill workers. However, such claims fly in the face of the economic truism that “there are substitutes for everything.” Additionally, the supplementary policies they also support would impose still greater government coercion, showing that they know how misleading their claims are.
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from NBC News (& affiliates)
LEFT-CENTER BIAS
NFL Anthem Dispute: NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell Fires Back at Trump
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell on Saturday hit back at President Donald Trump's criticism of players who kneel during the national anthem, slamming the comments as "divisive" and showing an "unfortunate lack of respect." Trump said during a speech Friday night that NFL owners should fire players who kneel during "The Star-Spangled Banner." In a sharply worded response that didn't mention Trump by name, Goodell said the remarks "demonstrate an unfortunate lack of respect for the NFL, our great game and all of our players, and a failure to understand the overwhelming force for good our clubs and players represent in our communities."
NFL Anthem Dispute: NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell Fires Back at Trump
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell on Saturday hit back at President Donald Trump's criticism of players who kneel during the national anthem, slamming the comments as "divisive" and showing an "unfortunate lack of respect." Trump said during a speech Friday night that NFL owners should fire players who kneel during "The Star-Spangled Banner." In a sharply worded response that didn't mention Trump by name, Goodell said the remarks "demonstrate an unfortunate lack of respect for the NFL, our great game and all of our players, and a failure to understand the overwhelming force for good our clubs and players represent in our communities."
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from RT (Russia Today)
(Russian government-supported propaganda channel)
6.2 magnitude quake felt in Mexico City, citizens evacuate onto streets
(PHOTOS, VIDEOS) Earthquake warning sirens are currently sounding in Mexico City while the head of the city government has advised that emergency protocols have been activated following a 6.4 temblor in the city of Ixtepec in the southern state of Oaxaca. Initial reports from the Mexican Seismological authority said the quake struck at 07:53 am local time at a depth of 10 kilometers with an epicenter approximately 12 km north of the City of Ixtepec. This is around 530km south of Mexico City.
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6.2 magnitude quake felt in Mexico City, citizens evacuate onto streets
(PHOTOS, VIDEOS) Earthquake warning sirens are currently sounding in Mexico City while the head of the city government has advised that emergency protocols have been activated following a 6.4 temblor in the city of Ixtepec in the southern state of Oaxaca. Initial reports from the Mexican Seismological authority said the quake struck at 07:53 am local time at a depth of 10 kilometers with an epicenter approximately 12 km north of the City of Ixtepec. This is around 530km south of Mexico City.
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from The Spokesman-Review
Hoffman defends Giddings; we stand by our story
Betsy Z. Russell: Wayne Hoffman, head of the Idaho Freedom Foundation, a lobbying and political action group, has sent out a column seeking to discredit my article on residency questions surrounding Rep. Priscilla Giddings, R-White Bird.
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from The Times and The Sunday Times
London, United KingdomEven asking questions is now ‘transphobic’
Wanting to know why more people are choosing to change gender is seen as an act of aggression by trans activists. A surgeon friend told James Caspian that in one year he’d performed two reverse gender reassignment operations on patients who’d swapped gender then changed their minds. “This is new,” he said. “Someone should research it.” Caspian, a psychotherapist at a private gender clinic, discovered no one ever had. So he enrolled on an MA course at Bath Spa University with the intention of writing his thesis on “detransition”. He outlined his detransition thesis but was told by Bath Spa it must go before the ethics committee, which last November issued an extraordinary judgment. “Engaging in a potentially ‘politically incorrect’ piece of research carries a risk to the university,” it said. “Attacks on social media may not be confined to the researcher but may involve the university.” The report expressed concern that Caspian would suffer psychological damage. “It’s ridiculous,” he said. “I’m in my late fifties, I’m an expert in my field and I’m not even on social media. I’m not frightened at all.” Nonetheless his thesis was rejected.
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from USA Today
Jaguars owner Shahid Khan joins in on NFL's national anthem protests
Several players from the Baltimore Ravens and Jacksonville Jaguars either knelt or locked arms on their respective sidelines in solidarity and against the words of President Trump during the national anthem at Wembley Stadium. Included among them was Jags owner Shahid Khan, who locked arms with tight end Mercedes Lewis and linebacker Telvin Smith in an unprecedented show of unity with his team. Khan was one of seven owners to donate $1 million to President Donald Trump’s inauguration festivities.
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from Zero Hedge
CONSPIRACY-PSEUDOSCIENCE, MIXED, financial blog with aggregated news and opinion
Spain In Crisis: Catalan Police Reject Madrid Takeover, Vow To "Resist"
Spain found itself on the verge of a full-blown sovereign crisis on Saturday, after the "rebel region" of Catalonia rejected giving more control to the central government in defiance of authorities in Madrid who are trying to suppress an independence referendum on Oct. 1.
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