Monday, October 9, 2017

In the news, Wednesday, September 13, 2017


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SEP 12      INDEX      SEP 14
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from The Baltimore Sun

Baltimore to keep, clean defaced Francis Scott Key statue
Mayor Catherine Pugh says she has no plans to remove the Francis Scott Key monument in Bolton Hill that was vandalized before dawn Wednesday and has directed art preservation experts to determine the cost of cleaning it. Exactly 203 years after the Maryland attorney wrote the poem that would later become the national anthem, the city awoke to find the words “Racist Anthem” spray-painted on the Eutaw Place monument and red paint splashed on it. The third stanza of Key’s poem includes a reference accusing the British of encouraging American slaves to join the fight against their masters.

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from BBC News (UK)
LEFT-CENTER BIAS

What's it like to start reading at 60?
Adult learners in Kenya get to read their first words, after a library opens in their village.


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from The Blaze (& Glenn Beck)
RIGHT BIAS

Watch: Matt Walsh discusses transgenderism: ‘It’s a religious dogma’
It is a religious dogma. A superstition. A matter of faith. A demented, deranged faith, but a faith all the same.

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from CNSNews.com (& MRC & NewsBusters)
RIGHT BIAS

John Podhoretz Brings the Truth on Voter Fraud to Liberal Panel
The Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity was in New Hampshire on Tuesday to look into the state’s same-day voting system. And in the wake of their inquiries, the liberals of MSNBC were up in arms with claims of voter suppression and denials of voter fraud existing at all. But Commentary magazine Editor John Podhoretz laid out the facts regarding the reality of voter fraud during MSNBC’s MTP Daily.

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from The Hill
LEFT-CENTER BIAS, MIXED, newspaper in Washington, D.C.

Senate votes down Paul's bid to revoke war authorizations
The Senate has rejected a measure from Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) to sunset two war bills and force a debate on what war powers President Trump should have.

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

Think Gentrification Is Bad? The Opposite Is Worse
Land has no intrinsic value, and its price can go to zero under various conditions. Nearby owners will soon find themselves wishing for gentrification.

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from The Spokesman-Review

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from Trains Magazine

Amtrak Chairman Tony Coscia recently met with the Trump administration to talk about the railroad’s massive undertaking to build new rail tunnels underneath the Hudson River. The $24-billion project, better known as the Gateway program, includes the construction of a new two-track Hudson River rail tunnel from New Jersey to New York Penn Station on Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor, and the rehabilitation of the existing 106-year-old North River Tunnels, which were badly damaged by Hurricane Sandy in 2012.

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from Zero Hedge
CONSPIRACY-PSEUDOSCIENCE,  MIXED,  financial blog with aggregated news and opinion

Schumer, Pelosi Announce Deal With Trump: DACA For Border Security But No Wall; White House Denies
There appears to be some post-dinner confusion, because while the top Democrats issued a statement saying there was a deal on DACA, White House press sec. Sarah Sanders said that "While DACA and border security were both discussed, excluding the wall was certainly not agreed to."

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