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from ABC
Public & Government Service in Sydney, Australia
The Tears and Laughter of the New Testament: Why David Bentley Hart's Translation is a Glorious Failure
The Tears and Laughter of the New Testament: Why David Bentley Hart's Translation is a Glorious Failure
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from Capitalism (independentsentinel.com)
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]
Bill O’Reilly wrote a book a number of years ago titled Culture Warrior which is a good introduction to what is going on in our society today. He saw the culture war coming.
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from CNSNews.com (& MRC & NewsBusters)
RIGHT BIAS
CNN Political Analyst: ‘Is Slavery Wrong? Does This Administration Believe Slavery Was Wrong?’
CNN's April Ryan went into full trolling mode on Tuesday, wondering if the current administration “thinks slavery is wrong.” Additionally, the network decided it was too much to simply show a press briefing with Sarah Huckabee Sanders talking, CNN must oppose her with an on-screen “correction."
John Kelly Says He'll 'Never' Apologize to Frederica Wilson For 'Empty Barrel' Comments
Chief of Staff Gen. John Kelly promised he’d “never” apologize to Florida Rep. Frederica Wilson for calling her an “empty barrel” after she publicly criticized President Trump’s words during a condolence call to a slain soldier’s wife earlier this month, telling Fox News’ Laura Ingraham Monday night, “I stand by my comments.” Kelly's statement comes after some have demanded he apologize to the congresswoman for his supposedly insensitive remarks.
CNN Political Analyst: ‘Is Slavery Wrong? Does This Administration Believe Slavery Was Wrong?’
CNN's April Ryan went into full trolling mode on Tuesday, wondering if the current administration “thinks slavery is wrong.” Additionally, the network decided it was too much to simply show a press briefing with Sarah Huckabee Sanders talking, CNN must oppose her with an on-screen “correction."
John Kelly Says He'll 'Never' Apologize to Frederica Wilson For 'Empty Barrel' Comments
Chief of Staff Gen. John Kelly promised he’d “never” apologize to Florida Rep. Frederica Wilson for calling her an “empty barrel” after she publicly criticized President Trump’s words during a condolence call to a slain soldier’s wife earlier this month, telling Fox News’ Laura Ingraham Monday night, “I stand by my comments.” Kelly's statement comes after some have demanded he apologize to the congresswoman for his supposedly insensitive remarks.
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from Daily Wire
RIGHT BIAS, MIXED, American news and opinion website
Trump Chief Of Staff John Kelly Sets Off Internet Firestorm With Civil War Comments
In an interview with Laura Ingraham Monday, White House Chief of Staff Gen. John Kelly said that he considered Confederate Civil War General Robert E. Lee an "honorable man" and that the Civil War happened because the North and South had a "lack of ability to compromise." Ingraham asked Kelly for his thoughts on removing monuments to Confederate heroes, and specifically about George Washington's name being removed from his pew at a historic Virginia church. “I would tell you that Robert E. Lee was an honorable man,” Kelly answered. “He was a man that gave up his country to fight for his state, which 150 years ago was more important than country. It was always loyalty to state first back in those days. Now it’s different today. But the lack of an ability to compromise led to the Civil War, and men and women of good faith on both sides made their stand where their conscience had them make their stand.”
WALSH: Christians In America Aren't Closed-Minded Or Intolerant — But They Should Be
Christians in this country are often accused of being closed-minded. The really tragic thing about this insult is that it isn't true. I wish very much that we could wear that label, but our critics give us too much credit. Indeed it is probably more accurate to say, sadly, that the contemporary American Christian is the most open-minded person to have ever existed.
Trump Chief Of Staff John Kelly Sets Off Internet Firestorm With Civil War Comments
In an interview with Laura Ingraham Monday, White House Chief of Staff Gen. John Kelly said that he considered Confederate Civil War General Robert E. Lee an "honorable man" and that the Civil War happened because the North and South had a "lack of ability to compromise." Ingraham asked Kelly for his thoughts on removing monuments to Confederate heroes, and specifically about George Washington's name being removed from his pew at a historic Virginia church. “I would tell you that Robert E. Lee was an honorable man,” Kelly answered. “He was a man that gave up his country to fight for his state, which 150 years ago was more important than country. It was always loyalty to state first back in those days. Now it’s different today. But the lack of an ability to compromise led to the Civil War, and men and women of good faith on both sides made their stand where their conscience had them make their stand.”
WALSH: Christians In America Aren't Closed-Minded Or Intolerant — But They Should Be
Christians in this country are often accused of being closed-minded. The really tragic thing about this insult is that it isn't true. I wish very much that we could wear that label, but our critics give us too much credit. Indeed it is probably more accurate to say, sadly, that the contemporary American Christian is the most open-minded person to have ever existed.
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from FEE (Foundation for Economic Education)
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, HIGH, non-profit organization
So This Is What Happens With Government Disaster Relief?
The great truth about government is that every penny it spends must come from somewhere and must land somewhere else. Depending on how you define “scandal,” it is absolutely ubiquitous from the beginning to the end of the budget. There is no possibility of eliminating corruption in government. That’s a pipe dream. The entire apparatus itself is rooted in corruption, defined as self-interested people using the system to enrich themselves at others’ expense.
In yet another move to crack down on fun public health hazards, the French government reached an agreement with the parliament for a new tax on sugary drinks. One might suggest that this is steeped in irony, considering that France is also subsidizing sugar.
The macabre aspects which have grown up around Halloween in modern times—the emphasis on witches, ghosts and other ghoulish figures, have led many people to doubt its Christian character. Yet these demonic elements of the holiday originated from a distinctively medieval Christian idea of exorcising evil by ridiculing it.
Like all masterpieces, Whale’s films work on a number of levels, and nothing will get you in the mood for Halloween better than these two classics. James Whale’s Frankenstein and The Bride of Frankenstein are perfect examples and my personal all-time favorites. They really should be viewed back to back, as one continuous film, even though that was not Whale’s original intention. He was reluctant to make a sequel to his 1931 original, and Boris Karloff didn’t like the idea of having the monster talk (although it did in the Mary Shelley novel). Thank goodness neither got his wish.
Vlad the Impaler, and his literary incarnation, Count Dracula, are rooted in a dark period of monetary inflation and economic nationalism.
Part of the allure of Halloween is getting something great for just showing up, and this carries over into voting habits.
Marx’s manifesto is famous for summing up his theory of Communism with a single sentence: “Abolition of private property.” But this was hardly the only thing the philosopher believed must be abolished from bourgeois society in the proletariat's march to utopia. In his manifesto, Marx highlighted five additional ideas and institutions for eradication. 1. The Family, 2. Individuality, 3. Eternal Truths, 4. Nations, and 5. The Past.
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from Future of Capitalism
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]
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from The Heritage Foundation
RIGHT BIAS, MIXED, think tank in Washington, D.C
7 Questions the Justice Department Must Answer About Uranium One and Clinton Foundation
The Obama administration’s handling of the Uranium One “bribery plot” raises serious, critical questions that must be answered. It is hard to come to any conclusion other than it was a political decision intended to cover up what happened. The Justice Department needs to turn over its complete file on the investigation and prosecution.
How Keeping the Property Tax Deduction Could Backfire on the Middle Class
GOP leaders are considering keeping the property tax portion of the state and local tax deduction as part of their plan. Higher property taxes could even displace existing homeowners. Lawmakers must eliminate the state and local tax deduction in its entirety.
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from Hoover Institution
Nonprofit Organization in Stanford, California
Are There Consequences For The All-Volunteer Military?
In the summer of 1970 in the immediate aftermath of a disastrous spring of rioting by university students, President Richard Nixon decided that a draft lottery would determine the following year’s call up. To the astonishment of university administrators who believed that the students were deeply motivated by moral concerns, the troubles disappeared in the fall. As one cynic summed up the results: “The one third with the highest numbers knew that they were safe and immediately hit the books to study for the law boards; the one third with the lowest number and most likely to be taken figured out how to join ROTC or some other method of escaping the draft; and only the middle third felt the deep angst that had marked university communities over the previous five years.” Two years later as the Vietnam War disappeared into the silence of PBS documentaries, Nixon announced the all-volunteer military.
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7 Questions the Justice Department Must Answer About Uranium One and Clinton Foundation
The Obama administration’s handling of the Uranium One “bribery plot” raises serious, critical questions that must be answered. It is hard to come to any conclusion other than it was a political decision intended to cover up what happened. The Justice Department needs to turn over its complete file on the investigation and prosecution.
How Keeping the Property Tax Deduction Could Backfire on the Middle Class
GOP leaders are considering keeping the property tax portion of the state and local tax deduction as part of their plan. Higher property taxes could even displace existing homeowners. Lawmakers must eliminate the state and local tax deduction in its entirety.
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from Hoover Institution
Nonprofit Organization in Stanford, California
Are There Consequences For The All-Volunteer Military?
In the summer of 1970 in the immediate aftermath of a disastrous spring of rioting by university students, President Richard Nixon decided that a draft lottery would determine the following year’s call up. To the astonishment of university administrators who believed that the students were deeply motivated by moral concerns, the troubles disappeared in the fall. As one cynic summed up the results: “The one third with the highest numbers knew that they were safe and immediately hit the books to study for the law boards; the one third with the lowest number and most likely to be taken figured out how to join ROTC or some other method of escaping the draft; and only the middle third felt the deep angst that had marked university communities over the previous five years.” Two years later as the Vietnam War disappeared into the silence of PBS documentaries, Nixon announced the all-volunteer military.
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from HumanProgress.org
Education Website
University of California-Berkeley’s Edward Miguel noted in his a study on witch killing, “Poverty and violence often go hand in hand,” and economic desperation frequently leads to scapegoating and slaughter. Village mobs and individual families strangle, burn alive, knife or beat to death thousands of alleged witches each year, mainly in impoverished parts of the world. The Thomson Reuters Foundation estimates that in 2017, the deaths at the hands of vigilantes have numbered about 80 a month in Tanzania. Most victims are women. And an Indian law firm says it is “only the most gruesome cases that are reported — most cases of witch hunting go unreported and unrecorded.” Miguel’s study found that in the extreme poverty of rural Tanzania, after a poor harvest, women are frequently blamed and murdered for witchcraft. In years where unusual rainfall ruins crops and creates near-famine conditions, there are about twice as many witch killings as in other years. Poor families are the most likely to murder alleged witches. During the early 17th century, when witch killings were common across Western Europe, Germany’s average income was nearly identical to Tanzania’s in 2010: just over $800 in 1990 international dollars per person. ... Poverty and ignorance do not always lead to witch hunts, but they seem to make violence more likely. ... One reason for violence’s decline that Harvard University’s Steven Pinker identifies is capitalist peace theory: when it’s easier to buy things than steal, people don’t steal. Hence trade and commerce between countries reduce the exploitative incentives of military conquest.
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from National Review
RIGHT BIAS
When the Power of the State Was Used to Bully Climate-Policy Dissenters
How blue-state attorneys general tried and failed to silence their political opponents. Last year, Washington attorney general Bob Ferguson announced that he would be joining other blue-state attorneys general to investigate ExxonMobil and conservative groups that work on the issue of climate change. Though they claimed otherwise, the AGs’ goal was to chill opposition to costly and ineffective climate policies pushed by the environmental Left. And while he was not the public face of the effort, Ferguson’s actions are emblematic of how attempts to suppress speech manifest themselves in environmental policy.
When the Power of the State Was Used to Bully Climate-Policy Dissenters
How blue-state attorneys general tried and failed to silence their political opponents. Last year, Washington attorney general Bob Ferguson announced that he would be joining other blue-state attorneys general to investigate ExxonMobil and conservative groups that work on the issue of climate change. Though they claimed otherwise, the AGs’ goal was to chill opposition to costly and ineffective climate policies pushed by the environmental Left. And while he was not the public face of the effort, Ferguson’s actions are emblematic of how attempts to suppress speech manifest themselves in environmental policy.
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from Orthodox Christianity
Organization in Moscow, Russia
Abbot of Vatopedi Monastery on Mt. Athos Archimandrite Ephraim met with President Vladimir Putin on Thursday. According to monasterium.ru, Fr. Ephraim, one of the most influential spiritual fathers on the Holy Mountain, noted in the conversation with the head of state that all are in need of spiritual communication—janitors and officials, oligarchs and presidents.
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
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How French Taxpayer Money Landed in Pockets of Daesh Fighters
500,000 euros ($580,000) is the sum French jihadists who fought in the Daesh ranks received in social allowances over the last five years, a report by Le Figaro has revealed. According to French lawmaker Thierry Mariani, this is the result of flaws in the French social welfare system and the lack of government will to improve it.
Assange Wouldn't Apply for Asylum in Russia Due to Political Situation
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange told Russian journalist Vladimir Pozner in an interview that he was considering the possibility of applying for asylum in Russia, but later renounced the idea since Western media could have used that against him as the political situation remains tense.
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from Sputnik
(Russian government-supported propaganda channel)
500,000 euros ($580,000) is the sum French jihadists who fought in the Daesh ranks received in social allowances over the last five years, a report by Le Figaro has revealed. According to French lawmaker Thierry Mariani, this is the result of flaws in the French social welfare system and the lack of government will to improve it.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange told Russian journalist Vladimir Pozner in an interview that he was considering the possibility of applying for asylum in Russia, but later renounced the idea since Western media could have used that against him as the political situation remains tense.
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