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from AOL Media/News Company
Utah Postal Service workers said they're being forced to fake package deliveries to make it look like they're meeting quotas for companies like Amazon and now, others are saying it's not just an issue in the Beehive State.
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from BBC News (UK)
LEFT-CENTER BIAS
The 96-year-old, who spent most of his life in exile, was a key player in Romania's recent history. At the end of his life, King Michael may not have quite retained his earlier popularity, but he was still treated like an elder statesman as he faded from public eye due to his failing health. His wife Anne, who he met at the wedding of Britain's then Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip in 1947, was buried with state honours in 2016, despite never having been crowned. Other members of Michael's family have taken up an ever more prominent place in Romanian public life, even though critics argue they were never "royal" in a true sense and lived off the king's longstanding reputation. For Romanians, Michael was an important player throughout some of the most difficult times in their history: at heart a decent man and a democrat in an age dominated by totalitarian regimes.
Russia has been banned from competing at next year's Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang by the International Olympic Committee. But Russian athletes who can prove they are clean would be allowed to compete in South Korea under a neutral flag.
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from CNSNews.com (& MRC & NewsBusters)
RIGHT BIAS
FBI Issued 4,000 Gun Seizures for Failed Background Checks Last Year
USA Today reported that the Federal Bureau of Investigation issued over 4,000 orders to retrieve guns from purchasers who failed background checks last year. Although the FBI issued such requests, they have yet to retrieve the guns, meaning there are at least 4,000 people that currently have weapons that legally should not be allowed to have them.
FBI Issued 4,000 Gun Seizures for Failed Background Checks Last Year
USA Today reported that the Federal Bureau of Investigation issued over 4,000 orders to retrieve guns from purchasers who failed background checks last year. Although the FBI issued such requests, they have yet to retrieve the guns, meaning there are at least 4,000 people that currently have weapons that legally should not be allowed to have them.
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from Daily Wire
RIGHT BIAS, MIXED, American news and opinion website
Walsh: The Gay Couple In The Masterpiece Cakeshop Case Are Vindictive Bullies, Not Victims.
The Supreme Court began hearing arguments in the Masterpiece Cakeshop case today. It's clear to me that this gay couple targeted Jack Phillips because of his faith, hoping he'd deny them a cake so that they could go on their crusade. They are bullies, and, I believe, dishonest bullies at that.
Walsh: The Gay Couple In The Masterpiece Cakeshop Case Are Vindictive Bullies, Not Victims.
The Supreme Court began hearing arguments in the Masterpiece Cakeshop case today. It's clear to me that this gay couple targeted Jack Phillips because of his faith, hoping he'd deny them a cake so that they could go on their crusade. They are bullies, and, I believe, dishonest bullies at that.
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from The Guardian (UK)
LEFT-CENTER BIAS, HIGH, daily newspaper
Not even vicars have the patience of saints
“You only work one day a week!” Clergy hear it all the time. The people who say it think they’re being original. They’re not. Being a vicar is an enormous privilege, but it is also hard work and the clergy can pay a heavy emotional price. So when I read that the Rev Andy Thewlis in Wiltshire had written a strongly worded letter to his congregation for what he perceived as their lack of warmth – a letter for which he has since issued an apology – I wasn’t remotely surprised. He said his enthusiasm had been sapped by “grumbling and disunity”, also complaining about “arrogant gossips” and “criticism and negativity”. It “drains energy”, he said. Every case is different. But all clergy will recognise something of this.
Amateur explorers discover vast underground passage beneath Montreal
A pair of amateur explorers in Canada have found a vast underground passage stretching hundreds of metres underneath the bustling streets of Montreal whose formation dates back more than 15,000 years ago to the Earth’s last ice age.
Not even vicars have the patience of saints
“You only work one day a week!” Clergy hear it all the time. The people who say it think they’re being original. They’re not. Being a vicar is an enormous privilege, but it is also hard work and the clergy can pay a heavy emotional price. So when I read that the Rev Andy Thewlis in Wiltshire had written a strongly worded letter to his congregation for what he perceived as their lack of warmth – a letter for which he has since issued an apology – I wasn’t remotely surprised. He said his enthusiasm had been sapped by “grumbling and disunity”, also complaining about “arrogant gossips” and “criticism and negativity”. It “drains energy”, he said. Every case is different. But all clergy will recognise something of this.
Amateur explorers discover vast underground passage beneath Montreal
A pair of amateur explorers in Canada have found a vast underground passage stretching hundreds of metres underneath the bustling streets of Montreal whose formation dates back more than 15,000 years ago to the Earth’s last ice age.
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from The Heritage Foundation
RIGHT BIAS, MIXED, think tank in Washington, D.C
In Big Win for Utah, Trump Scales Back Federal Land Grab from Obama Administration
President Donald Trump took a big step on Monday to begin correcting abuses of the Antiquities Act. The president acted on his April 26 executive order to review national monument designations under the Act since 1996, making his announcement in Utah, which has been the subject of sweeping national monument designations through the Antiquities Act.
Distinguished Group of Scholars Defends a Christian Baker’s First Amendment Rights
Jack Phillips is a Christian baker from Colorado. Should he be forced to bake a cake for a same-sex wedding in violation of his deeply held religious beliefs? A group of leading legal scholars and economists say “No.” Not only would this violate Phillips’ individual conscience, it would also violate the Constitution and have negative ripple effects on both society and markets. The distinguished group, which includes 34 legal scholars, philosopher Sherif Girgis, and 14 law and economics scholars, filed amicus briefs in Phillips’ Supreme Court case, Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission.
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The Supreme Court's 'gay cake' case matters to all Americans
On Tuesday, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in a landmark religious liberty and free speech case, Masterpiece Cakeshop Ltd. v. Colorado Anti-Discrimination Commission. This case is important to all Americans, not just to Jack Phillips, the Colorado cake artist and owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop, who petitioned the Court for a hearing. The Supreme Court will decide how much power a government can exercise to force a person to create art that violates their conscience.
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In Big Win for Utah, Trump Scales Back Federal Land Grab from Obama Administration
President Donald Trump took a big step on Monday to begin correcting abuses of the Antiquities Act. The president acted on his April 26 executive order to review national monument designations under the Act since 1996, making his announcement in Utah, which has been the subject of sweeping national monument designations through the Antiquities Act.
Distinguished Group of Scholars Defends a Christian Baker’s First Amendment Rights
Jack Phillips is a Christian baker from Colorado. Should he be forced to bake a cake for a same-sex wedding in violation of his deeply held religious beliefs? A group of leading legal scholars and economists say “No.” Not only would this violate Phillips’ individual conscience, it would also violate the Constitution and have negative ripple effects on both society and markets. The distinguished group, which includes 34 legal scholars, philosopher Sherif Girgis, and 14 law and economics scholars, filed amicus briefs in Phillips’ Supreme Court case, Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission.
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from The Hill
LEFT-CENTER BIAS, MIXED, newspaper in Washington, D.C.The Supreme Court's 'gay cake' case matters to all Americans
On Tuesday, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in a landmark religious liberty and free speech case, Masterpiece Cakeshop Ltd. v. Colorado Anti-Discrimination Commission. This case is important to all Americans, not just to Jack Phillips, the Colorado cake artist and owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop, who petitioned the Court for a hearing. The Supreme Court will decide how much power a government can exercise to force a person to create art that violates their conscience.
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from Independent Sentinel
RIGHT BIAS
Senate Altered Tax Bill So Some Illegal Aliens Will Collect Child Tax Credit Welfare
It appears the Senate altered the tax reform bill so Illegal Aliens will find it easier to collect child tax credits [welfare]. People are eligible for the credits when they don’t make enough money [some work off the books and don’t report] to pay federal taxes. Nearly half the country hasn’t been paying federal taxes. These people get money back from taxes if they have children, even if they didn’t pay any taxes.
Disgusting! Jeff Flake Donates to Far-left Soros Candidate Doug Jones
The sanctimonious senator from Arizona Jeff Flake sent a check to Roy Moore’s opponent Doug Jones. He wrote on the hundred dollar check, “country over party”. Why doesn’t he just go away? He’s bragging about supporting the opposition.
Huma Abedin, Cheryl Mills Lied to the FBI But Weren’t Ruined Like Ret. Lt. Gen. Flynn
Huma Abedin should be indicted but there are two justice systems, one for Democrats and another for everyone else. Trump associates are being forced to plead guilty to lying to the FBI and their lives are being ruined. Lying Hillary who actually committed crimes is running around the country on her revenge tour while her lying associates like Cheryl Mills, like Huma Abedin skate.
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from Indian Country Today Media Network
[Information from this site may be unreliable.]
Trump Slashes Two Million Acres off of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase: Tribes To Sue
In an announcement by President Trump on Monday in Salt Lake City, the size of two national monuments would be drastically reduced. According to the Trump administration, the Bears Ears National Monument would be reduced by 85 percent, and Grand Staircase-Escalante, would be reduced to half its current size. It is the largest cut to federal land protection in U.S. History. Shortly after the announcement by Trump, the inter-tribal coalition, comprised of the Ute Mountain Tribe, the Ute Indian Tribe, the Navajo Nation, the Hopi and the Zuni, filed a lawsuit against the executive order on the basis that President Trump does not have the legal authority to remove the national monument protections.
[Information from this site may be unreliable.]
Trump Slashes Two Million Acres off of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase: Tribes To Sue
In an announcement by President Trump on Monday in Salt Lake City, the size of two national monuments would be drastically reduced. According to the Trump administration, the Bears Ears National Monument would be reduced by 85 percent, and Grand Staircase-Escalante, would be reduced to half its current size. It is the largest cut to federal land protection in U.S. History. Shortly after the announcement by Trump, the inter-tribal coalition, comprised of the Ute Mountain Tribe, the Ute Indian Tribe, the Navajo Nation, the Hopi and the Zuni, filed a lawsuit against the executive order on the basis that President Trump does not have the legal authority to remove the national monument protections.
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from Investor's Business Daily
Regulations: By all accounts, President Trump is moving aggressively to lighten the regulatory burden on the economy. While the discussion has focused on saving businesses money, could the effort also be a lifesaver? For decades, free-market conservatives have pointed out that federal regulations can easily backfire, costing lives rather than saving them.
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from The Living Church
Magazine of The Living Church Foundation (Anglican)
Reading the Bible through Keble’s mosaics
This is the second part of a paper delivered at the conference “Anglo-Catholicism: Uncovering Roots,” Church of the Advent, Boston, November 15-16. For Newman, Keble, and Pusey, learning to recognize Christ present in and through the stories of the OT was a sanctifying discipline. The approach helped to form a sacramental sensibility. It gave content to spiritual promises that could otherwise seem abstract or elusive. This mystical reading of the OT is part of the deifying discipline that Keble described in his Pentecost sermon. It is a way of reading that not only furnishes the mind but shapes the affections. Pusey taught this with a surprising example: what was Cain’s first sin?
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from Orthodox Christianity
Organization in Moscow, Russia
The feast of the Entrance of the Theotokos into the Temple, on the day of the centenary of the enthronement of St. Tikhon of Moscow as the first occupant of the renewed patriarchal throne of the Russian Orthodox Church, was solemnly celebrated yesterday in Moscow’s Christ the Savior Cathedral, gathering primates and bishops from around the entire Orthodox world.
King Michael I, Romania’s last monarch, died on Tuesday, December 5, at his private residence in Switzerland. He was 96 years old. The Royal House announced almost one month ago that the king’s health has worsened. He was seriously ill, suffering from cancer.
His Beatitude Patriarch John X of Antioch and All the East has urged the Orthodox Church to do everything possible to preserve Syrian unity, and thanked the Russian side for its fight against the spread of terrorism in the Middle East. The Antiochian primate also met with President Putin at his private residence yesterday evening, taking the opportunity to further discuss the situation in Syria. He again expressed his deep gratitude to the president for his assistance in Syria, and also for his interest in holding a personal meeting.
In remembering the tragic events of the twentieth century and pondering their cause, we must with deep humility and sincere conviction bear witness before those close to us and those afar to the main lesson of the past century: without God no state or social building can ever lead to prosperity. History has shown that revolutionary attitudes, generated by political provocations, including those that appeal to social justice, are ruinous for the state and destructive for people. Representatives of all layers of society must exert all their efforts in avoiding the repetition of errors which led in the last century to the suffering and deaths of many people and to the destruction of our statehood.
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from Orthodox Church in America
Religious Organization in Syosset, New York
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from Psephizo
Community
Can Anglo-Catholic churches grow?
Richard Peers writes: Not so many years ago it was generally accepted that the Church of England was a finely balanced three-legged stool of Anglo-Catholics, evangelicals and the liberal establishment. The debate about the ordination of women has diminished Anglo-Catholicism both in numbers and in the diversion of energy – particularly of our best leaders and organisers. The liberal establishment has been reduced by the rise of what at least one bishop describes as the neo-orthodoxy of our times. It is hard to imagine either David Jenkins or John Robinson in the episcopate now.
Can Anglo-Catholic churches grow?
Richard Peers writes: Not so many years ago it was generally accepted that the Church of England was a finely balanced three-legged stool of Anglo-Catholics, evangelicals and the liberal establishment. The debate about the ordination of women has diminished Anglo-Catholicism both in numbers and in the diversion of energy – particularly of our best leaders and organisers. The liberal establishment has been reduced by the rise of what at least one bishop describes as the neo-orthodoxy of our times. It is hard to imagine either David Jenkins or John Robinson in the episcopate now.
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
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