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from Daily Wire
RIGHT BIAS, MIXED, American news and opinion website
WALSH: 5 Questions Every Man Should Ask On A First Date To Weed Out The Man-Hating Feminists
A feminist writer named Lara Witt — who has said “whiteness is evil” and I’m sure a bunch of other crazy stuff that I can’t see because she blocked me on Twitter — went viral this week with an article titled “10 Things Every Intersectional Feminist Should Ask On A First Date.” But if a feminist does not helpfully declare herself by forcing her date to take an entrance exam, it may be necessary for the man to ask his own set of questions in order to ensure that he is not about to court a woman who suffers from latent feminism. I’m not really joking about this. I hear from single men all the time who have nearly given up on the dating scene because their girlfriends end up being cold, bitter, unaffectionate man-haters.
WALSH: 5 Questions Every Man Should Ask On A First Date To Weed Out The Man-Hating Feminists
A feminist writer named Lara Witt — who has said “whiteness is evil” and I’m sure a bunch of other crazy stuff that I can’t see because she blocked me on Twitter — went viral this week with an article titled “10 Things Every Intersectional Feminist Should Ask On A First Date.” But if a feminist does not helpfully declare herself by forcing her date to take an entrance exam, it may be necessary for the man to ask his own set of questions in order to ensure that he is not about to court a woman who suffers from latent feminism. I’m not really joking about this. I hear from single men all the time who have nearly given up on the dating scene because their girlfriends end up being cold, bitter, unaffectionate man-haters.
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from The Gem State Patriot
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]
Aside from the possibility that north Idaho Avista customers will be under a Canadian electric utility, Hydro One, there is a far more serious problem in that a U.S. electrical grid will be run by a foreign country. Hydro One is a Canadian electricity transmission and distribution service provider. Even though Hydro One is a private company, up until 2015 the Government of Ontario held 100% of its shares, at which time the government decided to sell up to 60% shares to raise money for infrastructure improvements. One concern expressed at that time was the possibility of foreign investments, which did happen with the Bahrain Gulf International Bank (GIB) holding approximately 93k shares. As of May 2017, Ontario held the remaining 49.9% shares. In July, 2017 Hydro One bought the American energy company Avista for $5.3 billion U.S. dollars as part of their plan “to grow our business to become a North American leader”, creating “one of the largest regulated utilities in North America.” Avista will be allowed to “keep its existing corporate headquarters… and continue to operate as a stand-alone utility in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana and Alaska.” Scott Morris, Avista president, likes this deal because of future “opportunities in a consolidating industry landscape for the benefit of our customers.” Morris also stated, “The partnership largely allows Avista to preserve how it does business with its customers, enables it to continue to pursue technological innovation, and permits it to take advantage of operating efficiencies and shared best practices”.
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from The Heritage Foundation
RIGHT BIAS, MIXED, think tank in Washington, D.C
Contra Activist Judges, It’s Not Discriminatory to Prohibit Transgender Individuals From Joining Military
Respecting the dignity of all people does not mean subjecting taxpayers to the tremendous medical costs of sex reassignment and allowing the enlistment of individuals whose resilience to the rigors of combat is uncertain.
British Media Losing It Over Gavin Williamson’s Comments. They May Not Mock Him for Long.
What a toxic mix of historical amnesia and political opportunism is being heaped upon Gavin Williamson. The defense secretary noted that, in the war with Iraq and Syria, the British military may end up killing the enemy—including British ISIS fighters. Apparently, we are to consider that commonsense observation to be outrageous.
Singapore's Free Trade Success Story
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Contra Activist Judges, It’s Not Discriminatory to Prohibit Transgender Individuals From Joining Military
Respecting the dignity of all people does not mean subjecting taxpayers to the tremendous medical costs of sex reassignment and allowing the enlistment of individuals whose resilience to the rigors of combat is uncertain.
British Media Losing It Over Gavin Williamson’s Comments. They May Not Mock Him for Long.
What a toxic mix of historical amnesia and political opportunism is being heaped upon Gavin Williamson. The defense secretary noted that, in the war with Iraq and Syria, the British military may end up killing the enemy—including British ISIS fighters. Apparently, we are to consider that commonsense observation to be outrageous.
Singapore's Free Trade Success Story
Viewers of Anthony Bourdain’s CNN series Parts Unknown last weekend were treated to the raconteur’s visit to the city-state of Singapore. Along with Bourdain’s usual noshing, imbibing, and bantering about the food culture with knowledgeable locals, he also made time for drinks with Donald Low to discuss the country’s economic and political culture. Among Singapore’s hallmarks according to Low, an Associate Dean at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, was the desire to attract foreign capital and an “understanding that free trade is good for everyone.” Low’s remarks will not come as a surprise to readers of the Economic Freedom of the World annual report co-published by the Cato Institute, Canada’s Fraser Institute, and a number of other international think tanks. In the report’s 2017 edition Singapore earns a second-place ranking among the 159 jurisdictions examined for overall economic freedom, and a #1 ranking in the category of “Freedom to Trade Internationally” owing to its score of 9.25 (out of 10). Amazingly, this actually represents one of Singapore’s lower ratings since 1980, with the island country receiving a stunning 9.9 score in the category in 1990. The results of Singapore’s free trade embrace have been spectacular, strongly contributing to its status as home to the world’s second-largest container port, stunning visual transformation, and dramatic rise in GDP per capita since earning its independence in 1965.
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from The Living Church
Magazine of The Living Church Foundation (Anglican)
Structure, shape, and text
Continuity in prayer book worship
For hundreds of years after the Reformation, Anglicans looked to the texts and rubrics of the Book of Common Prayer as a principal source of liturgical unity. When the preface of the 1549 Prayer Book declared that from then on “all the whole realm shall have but one use,” it canceled out a certain degree of medieval liturgical variety in a bid for uniformity. Though from the very beginning bishops, clergy, and congregations construed the text and rubrics differently, they were by and large sources of liturgical unity.
An ‘Anglican Catholic’ case for the episcopacy
Part two of “Apologia episcoporum: Anglican Catholicism and the reformation of ecclesial order.” This is the concluding part of a paper delivered at the conference “Anglo-Catholicism: Uncovering Roots,” Church of the Advent, Boston, November 15-16.
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Magazine of The Living Church Foundation (Anglican)
Structure, shape, and text
Continuity in prayer book worship
For hundreds of years after the Reformation, Anglicans looked to the texts and rubrics of the Book of Common Prayer as a principal source of liturgical unity. When the preface of the 1549 Prayer Book declared that from then on “all the whole realm shall have but one use,” it canceled out a certain degree of medieval liturgical variety in a bid for uniformity. Though from the very beginning bishops, clergy, and congregations construed the text and rubrics differently, they were by and large sources of liturgical unity.
An ‘Anglican Catholic’ case for the episcopacy
Part two of “Apologia episcoporum: Anglican Catholicism and the reformation of ecclesial order.” This is the concluding part of a paper delivered at the conference “Anglo-Catholicism: Uncovering Roots,” Church of the Advent, Boston, November 15-16.
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from The New Republic
LEFT BIAS
“Cat Person” and the New Universe of Literary Criticism
Why critics, journalists, and publishing houses are all failing to connect with online communities of readers. "[T]he way that a journalist presents the conversation...conditions us to believe that he has the answers, even though “the facts” in this case are an invention. What he is really doing is layering more fictions on to fictions. The writer’s “greatest fear,” Fish writes, is that “he will stand charged of having substituted his own meanings for the meanings of which he is supposedly the guardian; his greatest fear is that he be found guilty of having interpreted.” Journalists like to pretend that they’re flourishing the noble sword of truth, and to prove it will dabble in the “aggressive humility” of posing as a reporter when really they’re acting like critics. They pretend merely to describe a phenomenon, when really they are doing what every other social media user is doing, all day long: interpreting."
“Cat Person” and the New Universe of Literary Criticism
Why critics, journalists, and publishing houses are all failing to connect with online communities of readers. "[T]he way that a journalist presents the conversation...conditions us to believe that he has the answers, even though “the facts” in this case are an invention. What he is really doing is layering more fictions on to fictions. The writer’s “greatest fear,” Fish writes, is that “he will stand charged of having substituted his own meanings for the meanings of which he is supposedly the guardian; his greatest fear is that he be found guilty of having interpreted.” Journalists like to pretend that they’re flourishing the noble sword of truth, and to prove it will dabble in the “aggressive humility” of posing as a reporter when really they’re acting like critics. They pretend merely to describe a phenomenon, when really they are doing what every other social media user is doing, all day long: interpreting."
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from Orthodox Christianity
Organization in Moscow, Russia
The two chambers of the Romanian Parliament, namely the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies, met on Monday, December 11, to commemorate Romania’s late King Michael I, who passed away to the Lord on December 5 at the age of 96.
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
100 years ago in Spokane: Lumberjack’s request granted, and he will fight for British in Mesopotamia
John Cohen, 34, a Jewish lumberjack, went to the British military recruiting office in Spokane and asked to serve in the British army. He said he was inspired to sign up when he read that the British had captured Jerusalem. The British recruiters were happy to grant his wish. They declared him fit for service and were sending him to Montreal and, ultimately, Mesopotamia.
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100 years ago in Spokane: Lumberjack’s request granted, and he will fight for British in Mesopotamia
John Cohen, 34, a Jewish lumberjack, went to the British military recruiting office in Spokane and asked to serve in the British army. He said he was inspired to sign up when he read that the British had captured Jerusalem. The British recruiters were happy to grant his wish. They declared him fit for service and were sending him to Montreal and, ultimately, Mesopotamia.
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from Washington Examiner
Bonfire of the academies: Two professors on how leftist intolerance is killing higher education
At colleges and universities all over the country, students are protesting in increasingly virulent and sometimes violent ways. They demand safe spaces and trigger warnings, shouting down those with whom they disagree. It has become rote for outsiders to claim that the inmates are running the asylum; that this is analogous to Mao’s Red Guard, Germany’s brown shirts, the French Revolution’s Jacobins; and, when those being attacked are politically “left” themselves, that the Left is eating its own. These stories seem to validate every fantasy the Right ever had about the Left. As two professors who recently resigned from positions at a college we loved, and who have always been on the progressive-left end of the political spectrum, we can say that, while none of those characterizations is exactly right, there is truth in each of them. The Evergreen State College is a public liberal arts college in Olympia, Wash., at the southern tip of Puget Sound, surrounded by water and forests. Being public means it has a socioeconomically diverse student body, which brings a variety of life experiences to campus. It is not an elite college made up primarily of rich kids. It is, rather, an experimental college with a curricular structure that, for both better and worse, is like no other.
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