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from BuzzFeed
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With Popular Single-Payer Plan, Bernie Sanders Enters New Territory: A Wealth Tax
As Democrats embrace Bernie Sanders and his Medicare-for-all proposal, he is also publicly detailing a tax policy that few American politicians have embraced before.
With Popular Single-Payer Plan, Bernie Sanders Enters New Territory: A Wealth Tax
As Democrats embrace Bernie Sanders and his Medicare-for-all proposal, he is also publicly detailing a tax policy that few American politicians have embraced before.
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from Dayton Daily News
Media/News Company in Dayton, OH.
1 million Ohio public employees, retirees may see pension cut
Columbus — Ohio’s biggest public pension system is considering cutting the cost of living allowances for its 1-million members as a way to shore up the long-term finances of the fund.
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from FEE (Foundation for Economic Education)
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, HIGH, non-profit organization
'Greedy Capitalists' Are the Best at Giving Us What We Want
Those of us with gray hair have seen the amazing developments produced by the private sector.
The EU's Regulatory War on Google Is an Attack on Innovation
Antitrust laws in the EU stifle competition and innovation, and the Google ruling is a perfect example of this. Every day, Google is used for billions of searches, making it the most popular search engine on earth. On Monday, September 11th, it appealed an EU decision that resulted in a $2.9 billion fine because the company firmly believes that its actions were neither anti-competitive nor harmful to consumers. Essentially, EU regulators punished Google because its improvements make its competition irrelevant.
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from Fox News (& affiliates)
Should children in kindergarten be taught about transgender people? That’s the question at the center of a controversy that erupted in June after a transgender student at Rocklin Academy Gateway, a charter school in northern California, brought the children’s book “I Am Jazz” to school to share with classmates. The book chronicles the life of a real-life transgender girl named Jazz Jennings. In a Monday night vote after an impassioned, emotional debate, the Rocklin school board decided to keep its current literature policies in place, which allow similar types of books to be read to children during story time. However, the board passed a provision stating that teachers "will endeavor to notify parents in advance of controversial topics being discussed when they are part of the school’s curriculum or a teacher’s lesson plan so that parents can also share their views at home."
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from Orthodox Christianity
A nationwide fundraiser for constructing a chapel in the village of Kudama on the shore of Lake Syamozero in Russia’s northwestern Karelia Province in honor of the fourteen children who drowned in the lake last summer was announced on Tuesday. On June 18, 2016, members of the “Park-Hotel Syamozero” children’s recreation camp who had arrived to Karelia from Moscow ran into a heavy storm on the lake. 47 children and four adult instructors were in three boats, which capsized and sank due to foul weather. 14 children drowned as a result of the storm.
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from The Spokesman-Review
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from The Sun (London, UK)
After two more earthquakes today in Taiwan and Vanuatu a third hit Japan, disabling power to the Fukushima nuclear plant. The quake, measuring 6.1, happened 175 miles from Kamaishi, northern Japan
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from Tribal Tribune (Nespelem, WA)
Through an agreement with U.S. Customs and Border Protection, The Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation will begin issuing Enhanced Tribal Cards Monday. ETCs serve the mutual interests of CBP and the tribes by expediting and facilitating cross-border trade and travel for members of the tribe, as well as providing a tribally-issued secure travel document to eligible tribal members.
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from The Washington Times
The man whose biblical doomsday claim has some nervously eyeing Sept. 23
David Meade, the self-described “specialist in research and investigations,” has earned a fair amount of publicity online for predicting that catastrophic events would soon befall Earth. Among his claims: On Saturday, Sept. 23, 2017, a constellation — a sign prophesied in the Book of Revelation — would reveal itself in the skies over Jerusalem, signaling the beginning of the end of the world as we know it. Meade believes that by the end of October, the world may enter what’s called a seven-year tribulation period, a fairly widespread evangelical belief that for seven years, catastrophic events would happen.
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from The Weekly Standard
Rand Paul's Epic Obamacare Flip-Flop?
At the end of July, Kentucky senator Rand Paul advocated and voted for the so-called "skinny repeal" bill of Obamacare. "Skinny repeal is better than no repeal," Paul said on Fox News. "The reason I will advocate and vote for skinny repeal is that it's the best I can get." But now that Republicans are trying to take one last shot at Obamacare by passing the Graham-Cassidy bill, Paul is adamantly opposed to the "better than nothing" argument. "It keeps 90 percent of the spending of Obamacare and reshuffles it," Paul told reporters on Monday, dismissing Graham-Cassidy as "Obamacare Lite."
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