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from CNSNews.com (& MRC & NewsBusters)
RIGHT BIAS
Newsweek Headline: ‘People Will Die If Trump Kills ObamaCare’
Hollywood will do anything to clutch onto the last shreds of the Obama administration. Just ask Alyssa Milano. Newsweek reported that actress Alyssa Milano, former HHS secretary Kathleen Sebelius, and actor Bradley Whitford are out to sell ObamaCare. Or as Newsweek puts it: “Get people signed up for insurance through healthcare.gov, even as President Donald Trump tries to get ObamaCare to flatline.”
Newsweek Headline: ‘People Will Die If Trump Kills ObamaCare’
Hollywood will do anything to clutch onto the last shreds of the Obama administration. Just ask Alyssa Milano. Newsweek reported that actress Alyssa Milano, former HHS secretary Kathleen Sebelius, and actor Bradley Whitford are out to sell ObamaCare. Or as Newsweek puts it: “Get people signed up for insurance through healthcare.gov, even as President Donald Trump tries to get ObamaCare to flatline.”
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from FEE (Foundation for Economic Education)
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, HIGH, non-profit organization
Trump Is Quietly Deregulating All the Things
Regulations are far easier to create than they are to dismantle. As Milton Friedman said, “Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.” Yet lately, there has been an undeniable trend of repealing these types of regulations, the likes of which America hasn’t seen since the Reagan Administration. And in the spirit of giving credit where credit is due, this current regulatory rollback is due largely to President Donald Trump. In fact, during the Reagan presidency, both the Federal Register and federal regulations decreased by more than one-third. And as impressive as this record surely was, it’s already been broken by Donald Trump.
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from The Guardian (UK)
LEFT-CENTER BIAS, HIGH, daily newspaper
Resistance to changes in grammar is futile, say researchers
Linguists say that random chance plays a bigger role than previously thought in the evolution of language – but also that ‘English is weird’
Resistance to changes in grammar is futile, say researchers
Linguists say that random chance plays a bigger role than previously thought in the evolution of language – but also that ‘English is weird’
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from The Heritage Foundation
RIGHT BIAS, MIXED, think tank in Washington, D.C
The Ugly Consequences of Single-Payer Health Care
There are just not enough rich people to pay for socialized medicine. Taxes would have to be higher—much higher.
Diplomatic Effort to Reduce America’s Peacekeeping Dues Must Start Now
Reducing the U.S.’s peacekeeping assessment to 25 percent will be difficult, but the Trump Administration is right to pursue this bipartisan goal. The failure to lower the U.S. assessment costs U.S. taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars each year and undermines incentives for small contributors. Securing the assessment requires diplomatic effort by the U.S. Mission, State Department, and President, and congressional resolve to apply the contributions cap.
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Corporations Are Not as Powerful as You Think
Free markets work. Concern over the power of large corporations is back in the vogue. From Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) on the left to Fox News' Tucker Carlson on the right, politicians and opinion makers worry about the influence of U.S. corporate giants on politics as well as on the private lives of ordinary Americans. People are concerned about Facebook's censorship of content, Twitter's banning of controversial users and Google's possession of staggering amounts of information about users' search histories, shopping habits, etc. As a libertarian, I say, pish-tosh! If you don't like a particular company, find an alternative provider or live without a particular service altogether. Alas, most people are not libertarians or as closely wedded to the sanctity of the contract as the latter tend to be.
The Ugly Consequences of Single-Payer Health Care
There are just not enough rich people to pay for socialized medicine. Taxes would have to be higher—much higher.
Diplomatic Effort to Reduce America’s Peacekeeping Dues Must Start Now
Reducing the U.S.’s peacekeeping assessment to 25 percent will be difficult, but the Trump Administration is right to pursue this bipartisan goal. The failure to lower the U.S. assessment costs U.S. taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars each year and undermines incentives for small contributors. Securing the assessment requires diplomatic effort by the U.S. Mission, State Department, and President, and congressional resolve to apply the contributions cap.
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from HumanProgress.org Education Website
Corporations Are Not as Powerful as You Think
Free markets work. Concern over the power of large corporations is back in the vogue. From Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) on the left to Fox News' Tucker Carlson on the right, politicians and opinion makers worry about the influence of U.S. corporate giants on politics as well as on the private lives of ordinary Americans. People are concerned about Facebook's censorship of content, Twitter's banning of controversial users and Google's possession of staggering amounts of information about users' search histories, shopping habits, etc. As a libertarian, I say, pish-tosh! If you don't like a particular company, find an alternative provider or live without a particular service altogether. Alas, most people are not libertarians or as closely wedded to the sanctity of the contract as the latter tend to be.
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from The Living Church
Magazine of The Living Church Foundation (Anglican)
Has the RCL revised too much?
I have lived with the Revised Common Lectionary and its Consultation on Church Union precursor for more than 40 years. Both reflect a drift from the lectionary principles at the heart of the Anglican tradition since that time when Cranmer and his colleagues were radically reforming what they had received from the medieval church during Edward VI’s reign. Maybe the eucharistic lectionary in the classic Books of Common Prayer is inadequate, especially with the absence of Old Testament readings, but historically, both during the week and on Sundays, Morning and Evening Prayer had a far higher profile.
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The March to America's Civil War
In the first episode of the second season of Historical Controversies, Chris Calton gives a revisionist look at the antebellum period leading up to the Civil War.
How the Horrific 1918 Flu Spread Across America
The toll of history’s worst epidemic surpasses all the military deaths in World War I and World War II combined. And it may have begun in the United States
Magazine of The Living Church Foundation (Anglican)
Has the RCL revised too much?
I have lived with the Revised Common Lectionary and its Consultation on Church Union precursor for more than 40 years. Both reflect a drift from the lectionary principles at the heart of the Anglican tradition since that time when Cranmer and his colleagues were radically reforming what they had received from the medieval church during Edward VI’s reign. Maybe the eucharistic lectionary in the classic Books of Common Prayer is inadequate, especially with the absence of Old Testament readings, but historically, both during the week and on Sundays, Morning and Evening Prayer had a far higher profile.
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from Mises Institute
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]In the first episode of the second season of Historical Controversies, Chris Calton gives a revisionist look at the antebellum period leading up to the Civil War.
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from Smithsonian Magazine
Media/News Company in Washington, D.C.
The toll of history’s worst epidemic surpasses all the military deaths in World War I and World War II combined. And it may have begun in the United States
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
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Russian Senators Advise National Media to Refrain From Placing Ads on Twitter
The Russian Upper House has recommended the country's media outlets to refrain from placing ads on Twitter, according to the announcement of Senator Oleg Morozov. "In response to the discriminatory measures taken by US authorities against Russian media, we recommend that Russian companies refrain from placing advertising content on Twitter," Morozov stated. The Russian parliament's move comes the next day after the executives from tech titans Facebook, Google and Twitter testified on the alleged Russian meddling through posting dubious ads on social media in Congress. Commenting on the situation, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said earlier in the day that it seems that the companies were intimidated by the US authorities and confused in the responses.
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from Sputnik
(Russian government-supported propaganda channel)
The Russian Upper House has recommended the country's media outlets to refrain from placing ads on Twitter, according to the announcement of Senator Oleg Morozov. "In response to the discriminatory measures taken by US authorities against Russian media, we recommend that Russian companies refrain from placing advertising content on Twitter," Morozov stated. The Russian parliament's move comes the next day after the executives from tech titans Facebook, Google and Twitter testified on the alleged Russian meddling through posting dubious ads on social media in Congress. Commenting on the situation, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said earlier in the day that it seems that the companies were intimidated by the US authorities and confused in the responses.
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