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from CNSNews.com (& MRC & NewsBusters)
RIGHT BIAS
Ditka: 'You Don't Like the Country, Get the Hell Out!' -- 'I Have No Respect' for Kaepernick
Three-time Super Bowl champion and Pro Football Hall of Fame member Mike Ditka, who also is an analyst for ESPN's NFL Live, said he did not agree with 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick -- now a free agent -- kneeling in protest during the national anthem, saying he had "no respect for Kaepernick" and that if you don't like the country, then "get the Hell out!"
Carlson, Concha Rip ‘Media Bubble’ on NFL Protests ‘Giving...Rhetorical Finger’ to America
Leading off his eponymous Fox News Channel show on Monday, Tucker Carlson delayed bringing on a liberal guest to debate the day’s news in order to spend a few moments lambasting how those NFL players protesting the National Anthem were “giving the rhetorical finger to the country that made them rich.”
Washington Post's Dana Milbank: President Trump Is 'Driving Us Crazy'
You might remember that on September 15, columnist Dana Milbank of the Washington Post claimed that Trump is killing him. However, before Milbank has a chance to kick the bucket he will apparently lose his mind. Yes, Milbank is now also claiming in his September 22 column that President Trump actually is making us crazy.
Stephanopoulos Demands WH ‘Guarantee’ That Trump, Wealthy, Won’t Benefit From His Tax Plan
Thursday on Good Morning America, anchor George Stephanopoulos repeatedly pressed top economic advisor to President Trump, Gary Cohn, to “guarantee” that Trump’s new tax plan wouldn’t give tax breaks to the wealthy, including specifically the President himself.
John Elway: 'I've Always Believed' in 'Standing' for the Anthem, U.S. is 'Greatest Country in the World'
John Elway, a two-time Super Bowl quarterback champion and now the vice president of operations for the Denver Broncos, issued a statement about the NFL protests saying that it's time to "take the politics out of football," and that he is "one that believes in standing for the National Anthem" and that he also believes America "is the greatest country in the world."
China Reportedly Orders All North Korean Businesses Out of the Country
It looks like "Rocket Man' Kim Jong-un is truly burning out his fuse up here alone. According to an Associated Press report, the Chinese government ordered all North Korean businesses in the country to close on Thursday. The Chinese also cut off foreign revenue to the North Koreans, as a result of heavy U.N. sanctions over the North Korea's refusal to terminate its nuclear and missile programs. Consequently, North Korean business partners must close all operations in China within 120 days from the U.N. Security Council's September 11 sanctions.
Alt-Left Insanity: Standing Is White Supremacy and Libs Can’t Stand It
Back in August, I warned that the left was engaging in a cultural revolution similar to the one in China in the 1960s-’70s. Sports fans now know what I mean. The left isn’t at war just with statues. Or just with the Founders or police officers or Trump or even the NFL. The left is trying to overturn everything it doesn’t like about America, all at once.
NFL Sacked! Businesses Cut Ties With NFL, Let Fans Cancel Over Protests
NFL sponsors are feeling pressure to respond after more than 200 players, coaches and team owners knelt in protest during the anthem on the weekend of Sept. 23. While most NFL sponsors have so far not ended their sponsorships, at least three organizations have reacted and others are being pressured.
One NFL Player Arrested Every Seven Days, On Average
On average, one National Football League (NFL) player is arrested each week, a new report reveals. The longest time on record that the NFL has gone without one of its players being arrested is 65 days, The Daily Wire reports: “The average time between arrests is just seven days, while the record without an arrest is slightly more than two months, at 65 days, according to NFLarrest. com.
Ditka: 'You Don't Like the Country, Get the Hell Out!' -- 'I Have No Respect' for Kaepernick
Three-time Super Bowl champion and Pro Football Hall of Fame member Mike Ditka, who also is an analyst for ESPN's NFL Live, said he did not agree with 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick -- now a free agent -- kneeling in protest during the national anthem, saying he had "no respect for Kaepernick" and that if you don't like the country, then "get the Hell out!"
Carlson, Concha Rip ‘Media Bubble’ on NFL Protests ‘Giving...Rhetorical Finger’ to America
Leading off his eponymous Fox News Channel show on Monday, Tucker Carlson delayed bringing on a liberal guest to debate the day’s news in order to spend a few moments lambasting how those NFL players protesting the National Anthem were “giving the rhetorical finger to the country that made them rich.”
Washington Post's Dana Milbank: President Trump Is 'Driving Us Crazy'
You might remember that on September 15, columnist Dana Milbank of the Washington Post claimed that Trump is killing him. However, before Milbank has a chance to kick the bucket he will apparently lose his mind. Yes, Milbank is now also claiming in his September 22 column that President Trump actually is making us crazy.
Stephanopoulos Demands WH ‘Guarantee’ That Trump, Wealthy, Won’t Benefit From His Tax Plan
Thursday on Good Morning America, anchor George Stephanopoulos repeatedly pressed top economic advisor to President Trump, Gary Cohn, to “guarantee” that Trump’s new tax plan wouldn’t give tax breaks to the wealthy, including specifically the President himself.
John Elway: 'I've Always Believed' in 'Standing' for the Anthem, U.S. is 'Greatest Country in the World'
John Elway, a two-time Super Bowl quarterback champion and now the vice president of operations for the Denver Broncos, issued a statement about the NFL protests saying that it's time to "take the politics out of football," and that he is "one that believes in standing for the National Anthem" and that he also believes America "is the greatest country in the world."
China Reportedly Orders All North Korean Businesses Out of the Country
It looks like "Rocket Man' Kim Jong-un is truly burning out his fuse up here alone. According to an Associated Press report, the Chinese government ordered all North Korean businesses in the country to close on Thursday. The Chinese also cut off foreign revenue to the North Koreans, as a result of heavy U.N. sanctions over the North Korea's refusal to terminate its nuclear and missile programs. Consequently, North Korean business partners must close all operations in China within 120 days from the U.N. Security Council's September 11 sanctions.
Alt-Left Insanity: Standing Is White Supremacy and Libs Can’t Stand It
Back in August, I warned that the left was engaging in a cultural revolution similar to the one in China in the 1960s-’70s. Sports fans now know what I mean. The left isn’t at war just with statues. Or just with the Founders or police officers or Trump or even the NFL. The left is trying to overturn everything it doesn’t like about America, all at once.
NFL Sacked! Businesses Cut Ties With NFL, Let Fans Cancel Over Protests
NFL sponsors are feeling pressure to respond after more than 200 players, coaches and team owners knelt in protest during the anthem on the weekend of Sept. 23. While most NFL sponsors have so far not ended their sponsorships, at least three organizations have reacted and others are being pressured.
One NFL Player Arrested Every Seven Days, On Average
On average, one National Football League (NFL) player is arrested each week, a new report reveals. The longest time on record that the NFL has gone without one of its players being arrested is 65 days, The Daily Wire reports: “The average time between arrests is just seven days, while the record without an arrest is slightly more than two months, at 65 days, according to NFLarrest. com.
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from Daily Mail (UK)
Christian to head Syria parliament for first time in decades
A Christian legislator was Thursday elected speaker of parliament in predominantly Muslim Syria for the first time in decades. Hammudeh Sabbagh, a 58-year-old Syriac Orthodox Christian graduate in law and member of President Bashar al-Assad's Baath party from Hasakeh province in northeast Syria, won 193 votes out of 252 cast, state media reported.
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from First Things
Amid the hoo-hah surrounding the clash between Donald Trump and the NFL, perhaps the most important question does not concern the righteousness of the two sides’ positions. Rather, it concerns why any of us should allot special importance to the political views of a group of men whose sole claim to fame is the ability to play a schoolyard game with exceptional competence. And why is Jimmy Kimmel, a late-night comedian, suddenly a national authority on the philosophy of healthcare? The absurdity of these phenomena should be obvious. If it is not, then that is a sign of the absurdity of contemporary society.
Conventional Republicans continue trying to sell their unpopular agenda by appealing to Reagan nostalgia—but they're facing problems. The biggest cause of today’s right-wing politics has been the collapse of the center-right economic consensus.
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from The Guardian (UK)
LEFT-CENTER BIAS, HIGH, daily newspaper
Alarm as study reveals world’s tropical forests are huge carbon emission source
Forests globally are so degraded that instead of absorbing emissions they now release more carbon annually than all the traffic in the US, say researchers.
Wanted: Couple to run deserted French island of Quéménès
The French government is looking for a new couple to take over the tiny Brittany island of Quéménès. The current occupants, who were chosen 10 years ago, have decided to leave. There are 20 "serious" candidates to replace them and the deadline for applications has just closed. The lucky successors will be appointed in the coming weeks and they should arrive in the new year.
London church rebuffs bishop's efforts to get it to remain concert venue
St Sepulchre-without-Newgate in Holborn, widely known as the National Musicians’ Church, is set to ban non-religious events
Alarm as study reveals world’s tropical forests are huge carbon emission source
Forests globally are so degraded that instead of absorbing emissions they now release more carbon annually than all the traffic in the US, say researchers.
Wanted: Couple to run deserted French island of Quéménès
The French government is looking for a new couple to take over the tiny Brittany island of Quéménès. The current occupants, who were chosen 10 years ago, have decided to leave. There are 20 "serious" candidates to replace them and the deadline for applications has just closed. The lucky successors will be appointed in the coming weeks and they should arrive in the new year.
London church rebuffs bishop's efforts to get it to remain concert venue
St Sepulchre-without-Newgate in Holborn, widely known as the National Musicians’ Church, is set to ban non-religious events
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from Independent Journal Review
RIGHT BIAS
Officer Escorting Him Crashes — Trump Refuses to Let Air Force One Take Off Until He Talks to Him
NFL Anthem Kneelers Are Ignoring Real Issues
If pro athletes want to get political, there are many other things they can and should do to spread positive cultural messages.
What the NFL Can Learn from Oprah’s Obama Endorsement
Without the fans, there is nothing — sports organization may destroy itself just as TV mogul did to her show when she went political.
A Libertarian "Stealth Plan for America"?
Thomas DiLorenzo reviews Nancy MacLean's attack-book on libertarianism.
The primary theme of Democracy in Chains by Nancy MacLean, a Duke University history professor, is that participation in American democracy by conservatives or libertarians threatens the destruction of American democracy by imposing restraints on the unlimited growth of government.
DUMA CHRISTIAN VALUES GROUP URGES NOT TO FUND PROJECTS THAT PROVOKE SOCIETAL SPLITS
Members of the Inter-factional State Duma group for the protection of Christian values have spoken on the necessity of reforming state policies in the sphere of culture, cinematography, television, and mass media, arguing for the inadmissibility of spending taxpayer money on projects that provoke a split in society, reports RIA-Novosti. The Christian values group held a meeting on Wednesday on the theme of “Spiritual-Moral Values and Civil Society,” in which they discussed, among other things, the controversial film “Mathilde.” State Deputy Natalia Poklonskaya, who has been quite vocal against the film’s blasphemous portrayal of the Royal Martyrs, was present at the meeting.
MEMORIAL WITH NAMES OF STALIN’S VICTIMS OPENS AT BUTOVO FIRING RANGE
A new memorial, “Garden of Memory,” has been opened at the former Butovo firing range, bearing the name of all those shot on that spot in the years of Stalinist repressions, reported the rector of the Church of the Holy New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia in Butovo Archpriest Kirill Kaleda to RIA-Novosti. The monument consists of two granite slabs on which are engraved the names of 20,762 people who died at Butovo. The monument measures 984 ft. long, and 6.5 ft. tall.
Evacuations after huge explosion in Ukraine
Around 24,000 people have been evacuated after a massive explosition and a fire eruped at a miliary ammunition depot in central Ukraine.
FAA bans drone flights near major U.S. landmarks; Grand Coulee Dam included
The Federal Aviation Administration is banning drone flights within 400 feet of several national landmarks, including the Statue of Liberty and Mount Rushmore. Five dams also are on the list: Nevada’s Hoover Dam, Shasta and Folsom Dams in California, Arizona’s Glen Canyon Dam and Washington’s Grand Coulee Dam.
Julian Assange just dropped a bomb onto the heads of Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg, alleging they colluded with Hillary Clinton’s 2016 election campaign. Assange Tweeted Thursday, linking the emails sent back and forth between John Podesta and Sandberg which reveal Sandberg wanted Clinton to win “badly.” Assange said the women met privately numerous times during Clinton’s campaign.
A Brit’s speech in an American election takes a Stalinist turn
Terms such as “enemy within” featured at Nigel Farage’s rally for Roy Moore in Alabama.
RIGHT BIAS
Officer Escorting Him Crashes — Trump Refuses to Let Air Force One Take Off Until He Talks to Him
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from The Inlander
Controversial sex ed curriculum sent back to Spokane Public Schools board
A Spokane Public Schools advisory committee on Wednesday doubled down on its choice of the "Get Real" sexual education curriculum developed by a Planned Parenthood affiliate in Massachusetts. The Human Growth & Development Citizens Advisory Committee initially chose the curriculum toward the end of the past school year after a months-long process. But in June, days before the Spokane Public Schools board was set to vote on whether or not to adopt it, citizens and the Spokane County Republican Party expressed concerns about the curriculum. Those concerns centered around the fact that Planned Parenthood helped create it.
Controversial sex ed curriculum sent back to Spokane Public Schools board
A Spokane Public Schools advisory committee on Wednesday doubled down on its choice of the "Get Real" sexual education curriculum developed by a Planned Parenthood affiliate in Massachusetts. The Human Growth & Development Citizens Advisory Committee initially chose the curriculum toward the end of the past school year after a months-long process. But in June, days before the Spokane Public Schools board was set to vote on whether or not to adopt it, citizens and the Spokane County Republican Party expressed concerns about the curriculum. Those concerns centered around the fact that Planned Parenthood helped create it.
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from Law360
News & Media Website in New York, NY
The U.S. Supreme Court will again take up the question of whether making public sector workers pay fees to unions violates their First Amendment rights, saying Thursday it will review a Seventh Circuit decision ending an Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services worker’s suit. Worker Mark Janus’ suit asks whether the high court’s 1977 case that affirmed the right of unions to extract fees from public sector workers should be overruled. The justices deadlocked in a 4-4 vote on the same question last year after the death of Justice Antonin Scalia, whom many expected to cast the deciding vote against so-called agency fees.
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from The Liberty Review
The big solution to global poverty is smaller than you think, but it requires a new philanthropic strategy to change the way we see ourselves and those we hope to help. The easier it is to exercise economic rights, the less likely you are to find poverty. In a forthcoming 2018 annual report from the World Bank, for the first time the relationship between small institutional reforms, like strengthening private property rights, and poverty will be quantified. The findings show that for every five-unit increase in a country’s score on the “Doing Business” report, poverty drops one percentage point. In other words, the easier a government makes it for the poor to exercise their economic rights, the less likely you are to find poverty in that country. The implication of this finding is that the poor know better than we do how to lift themselves out of poverty. So why don’t we let them? The answer is because today’s economic development aid juggernaut perpetuates a paternalism that relies too heavily on the technical expertise of outsiders and ignores, at its peril, the tacit knowledge possessed only by local beneficiaries.
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from LifeZette (& PoliZette)
NFL Anthem Kneelers Are Ignoring Real Issues
If pro athletes want to get political, there are many other things they can and should do to spread positive cultural messages.
What the NFL Can Learn from Oprah’s Obama Endorsement
Without the fans, there is nothing — sports organization may destroy itself just as TV mogul did to her show when she went political.
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from Mises Institute
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]Thomas DiLorenzo reviews Nancy MacLean's attack-book on libertarianism.
The primary theme of Democracy in Chains by Nancy MacLean, a Duke University history professor, is that participation in American democracy by conservatives or libertarians threatens the destruction of American democracy by imposing restraints on the unlimited growth of government.
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from Orthodox Christianity
Members of the Inter-factional State Duma group for the protection of Christian values have spoken on the necessity of reforming state policies in the sphere of culture, cinematography, television, and mass media, arguing for the inadmissibility of spending taxpayer money on projects that provoke a split in society, reports RIA-Novosti. The Christian values group held a meeting on Wednesday on the theme of “Spiritual-Moral Values and Civil Society,” in which they discussed, among other things, the controversial film “Mathilde.” State Deputy Natalia Poklonskaya, who has been quite vocal against the film’s blasphemous portrayal of the Royal Martyrs, was present at the meeting.
MEMORIAL WITH NAMES OF STALIN’S VICTIMS OPENS AT BUTOVO FIRING RANGE
A new memorial, “Garden of Memory,” has been opened at the former Butovo firing range, bearing the name of all those shot on that spot in the years of Stalinist repressions, reported the rector of the Church of the Holy New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia in Butovo Archpriest Kirill Kaleda to RIA-Novosti. The monument consists of two granite slabs on which are engraved the names of 20,762 people who died at Butovo. The monument measures 984 ft. long, and 6.5 ft. tall.
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from Sky News (UK)
Around 24,000 people have been evacuated after a massive explosition and a fire eruped at a miliary ammunition depot in central Ukraine.
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from The Spokesman-Review
FAA bans drone flights near major U.S. landmarks; Grand Coulee Dam included
The Federal Aviation Administration is banning drone flights within 400 feet of several national landmarks, including the Statue of Liberty and Mount Rushmore. Five dams also are on the list: Nevada’s Hoover Dam, Shasta and Folsom Dams in California, Arizona’s Glen Canyon Dam and Washington’s Grand Coulee Dam.
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from Townhall.com
RIGHT BIAS, HIGH, American conservative website and print magazine
GOP, Can You Hear Us Normals Now?
Poor Luther Strange, the Collateral Damage Candidate. He’s a nice enough guy, even if his name makes him sound like he ought to be lurking in a volcano lair plotting against The Avengers. But he’s also Mitch McConnell’s guy; this was not a diss of Donald Trump (Future Column Idea: “Why Trump =/= Trumpism”). The base wanted to teach the Elderly Mutant Establishment Turtle, and those aligned with him, a lesson. So the base went with Roy Moore, who is super-colorful in a potentially Todd Akin kind of way, because Roy Moore constitutes a giant middle finger to the crowd that failed to summon up the cajones to repeal Obamacare yet found endless investigations of RUSSIA! TREASON! OK, IT’S JUST SOME ADS ON FACEBOOK BUT WE’RE STILL GOING WITH TREASON! and amnesty for middle-aged Dreamers muy simpatico.
GOP, Can You Hear Us Normals Now?
Poor Luther Strange, the Collateral Damage Candidate. He’s a nice enough guy, even if his name makes him sound like he ought to be lurking in a volcano lair plotting against The Avengers. But he’s also Mitch McConnell’s guy; this was not a diss of Donald Trump (Future Column Idea: “Why Trump =/= Trumpism”). The base wanted to teach the Elderly Mutant Establishment Turtle, and those aligned with him, a lesson. So the base went with Roy Moore, who is super-colorful in a potentially Todd Akin kind of way, because Roy Moore constitutes a giant middle finger to the crowd that failed to summon up the cajones to repeal Obamacare yet found endless investigations of RUSSIA! TREASON! OK, IT’S JUST SOME ADS ON FACEBOOK BUT WE’RE STILL GOING WITH TREASON! and amnesty for middle-aged Dreamers muy simpatico.
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from True Pundit
CONSPIRACY-PSEUDOSCIENCE, MIXED, Media/News Company in Philadelphia, PA
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from The Washington Post
A Brit’s speech in an American election takes a Stalinist turn
Terms such as “enemy within” featured at Nigel Farage’s rally for Roy Moore in Alabama.
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