Saturday, October 21, 2017

In the news, Tuesday, October 3, 2017


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OCT 02      INDEX      OCT 04
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Information from some sites may not be reliable, or may not be vetted.
Some sources may require subscription.

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from CNSNews.com (& MRC & NewsBusters)
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]

Arguing With an Ignorant Gun-Grabber? Here Are Five Basic Facts to Help
About 0.003 percent of all U.S. guns are used in homicides each year.
You’re much more likely to fall to your death than get killed by gunfire.
While gun ownership has doubled, gun homicides have dropped by half.
“Big scary guns” are used to kill people far less than ordinary handguns.
Fully automatic weapons have been illegal to the general public since 1986.

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from Daily Wire
RIGHT BIAS, MIXED,  American news and opinion website


Should The U.S. Adopt Australia's Gun Laws? Here's Why That Would Never Work.
Implementing Australia's "gun buyback" program in the U.S. would require forcefully taking guns from tens of millions of Americans.

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from FEE (Foundation for Economic Education)
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, HIGH, non-profit organization

How Puerto Rico Can Rebuild and Become the Hong Kong of the West
Two simple but powerful steps taken by Congress could hasten recovery and redefine the trajectory of the island’s future. First, the United States should assume all of Puerto Rico’s outstanding bond debt. Second, in exchange for debt assumption, the federal government should establish the island as an Economic Freedom Zone. Within a year, these reforms would help rebuild Puerto Rico; within a decade, they could rebuild our conception of the free market in the Western Hemisphere.

Secession Is Sweeping the World, and We Should Let It
Freedom is the thing. Freedom to choose, freedom to be wrong, freedom to correct our mistakes once they’ve been made.

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from The Heritage Foundation
RIGHT BIAS, MIXED, think tank in Washington, D.C

Criminal Justice Reform Is Alive and Well in Congress
Last year, despite significant bipartisan support in Congress, criminal justice reform crashed on the shoals of an election year, the opioid crisis, and ongoing and escalating tensions between police officers and the communities they serve. That did not deter some states from pursuing criminal justice reform measures that suit the particular needs of their states. By having adequate mens rea standards, we ensure that moral blameworthiness is front and center in the criminal justice system. After all, as Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. once observed, “Even a dog distinguishes between being stumbled over and being kicked.”

Trump’s Picks for Fed Chief, Governors Seen As Opportunity to ‘Drain Swamp’
When President Donald Trump took office, there were three vacancies on the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors. Then, unexpectedly, Fed Vice Chairman Stanley Fischer resigned, effective “on or around October 13, 2017.” Throw in the fact that Fed Chair Janet Yellen’s term as chairman expires Feb. 3, 2018, and it’s very easy to see why so many conservatives have been excited about Trump fighting the cabal of elites running Washington. Trump could easily appoint five of the seven Fed Board members, including the chairman, during a single term in office. That sort of influence means that the president can immediately reshape Federal Reserve policy in a way that most presidents simply cannot. If Trump really wants to transfer power away from Washington and give it back to the American people, he will infuse the Fed’s Board of Governors with a major dose of new thinking.

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from Mises Institute
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]

Foreign Capital Investment: The Antidote to Global Inequality
Foreign investment and free trade are the keys to rapidly increasing a government's wealth. Unfortunately, most governments demonize both of these.

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from Orthodox Christianity

MANY STATE DEPARTMENT CLAIMS ABOUT RUSSIA BASED ON BIASED INFORMATION
Head of Moscow Patriarchate’s Synodal Department for External Church Relations Metropolitan Hilarion (Alfeyev) of Volokolamsk has enumerated both the positives and negatives in the U.S. State Department’s recent report on the supposed infringement of religious freedoms in Russia. As previously reported, the ecclesial letter was sent to the U.S. embassy to be passed to Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.

WHY WE NEED A GOD OF WRATH
Every age faces the temptation to remake the true God in its own image—or in other words, the temptation to idolatry. The brutal ages of barbarian northern Europe tended to refashion God into a kind of Christian Viking, a warrior God, one who disdained weakness, a God who did not allow Himself meekly to be nailed to a cross, but who boldly mounted the wood Himself. The same area of Europe much later in the 1930s refashioned the God of the Jews once again and put forth a blonde Aryan Christ who despised the Jews as heartily as they did. Southern portions of America produced a God who endorsed slavery, forbade inter-racial marriage, and enforced the so-called “curse of Ham”, inflicting black skin on one of Noah’s progeny as a punishment. The temptation to remake God into our own image and imagine that He conforms to our own cultural norms is enduring and universal.

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from The Spokesman-Review

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from Washington Policy Center


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