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from American Military News
Media/News Company in New York, NY
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from Competitive Enterprise Institute
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS
The Trump administration has proposed to halt the steady increases in auto fuel economy standards that were part of backroom deals made by the Obama administration with California and automakers in 2009-12. In doing so, the administration has struck a blow for consumer choice that will be good news for drivers planning or hoping to buy a new car in the next decade. That’s because the mileage mandate is one of the main causes of rapidly rising vehicle prices.
In our new paper, “Traders of the Lost Ark,” my Competitive Enterprise Institute colleagues and I attempt to articulate a strong moral and economic case for free trade. Free trade has long been one of CEI’s core issues, and we felt it necessary to restate the case given current policy disputes. Those disputes, we believe, have lost sight of what trade is and why we engage in it, and in so doing will lead to the infringement of liberty and great economic harm.
Rediscovering a Moral and Economic Case for Free Trade
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from The Daily Caller
RIGHT BIAS
SAN FRANCISCO TO DEPLOY ‘POOP PATROL’ IN EFFORT TO REMOVE HOMELESS EXCREMENT FROM ITS STREETS
The $750,000 operation is the brainchild of Mayor London Breed and Public Works director Mohammed Nuru, both of whom hope the patrol’s six dedicated staff members and two trucks will be able to locate and remove human feces from the streets before pedestrians call in complaints. The “poop patrol” will have its work cut out — since the start of 2018, San Francisco’s 311 services received 14,597 calls complaining about piles of human and dog feces on the street, according to KGO-TV. That’s roughly 65 complaints per day.
SAN FRANCISCO TO DEPLOY ‘POOP PATROL’ IN EFFORT TO REMOVE HOMELESS EXCREMENT FROM ITS STREETS
The $750,000 operation is the brainchild of Mayor London Breed and Public Works director Mohammed Nuru, both of whom hope the patrol’s six dedicated staff members and two trucks will be able to locate and remove human feces from the streets before pedestrians call in complaints. The “poop patrol” will have its work cut out — since the start of 2018, San Francisco’s 311 services received 14,597 calls complaining about piles of human and dog feces on the street, according to KGO-TV. That’s roughly 65 complaints per day.
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from The Economist
Seeing history in colour makes the past less foreign
“Into the valley of Death/Rode the six hundred”, wrote Alfred, Lord Tennyson, commemorating the ill-fated Charge of the Light Brigade in 1854 at the Battle of Balaclava during the Crimean war. Around 110 men died in the assault, which was seen as so disastrous it led to the resignation of the British government. Roger Fenton took this picture of the local landscape (below) six months after the battle. Yet even at this early date in the history of photography, images were not immune to manipulation. Fenton was accused of dressing the scenery with cannonballs to add to the drama of the scene. Long before the advent of Photoshop, the camera was proving itself a less than reliable witness. “The Colour of Time”, a collaboration between the historian Dan Jones and the artist Marina Amaral, opens with Fenton’s confection. The book presents a panorama of world history from 1850 to 1960 through 200 photographs taken during this period. The pictures, though, are very different from the grainy, monochrome images that readers of the Daily Sketch, the Graphic and countless other newspapers launched to take advantage of the new medium would have seen: they have been rendered into full colour. The results are often startling, even in the cases of familiar images, of which there are a fair few.
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from The Economist
Seeing history in colour makes the past less foreign
“Into the valley of Death/Rode the six hundred”, wrote Alfred, Lord Tennyson, commemorating the ill-fated Charge of the Light Brigade in 1854 at the Battle of Balaclava during the Crimean war. Around 110 men died in the assault, which was seen as so disastrous it led to the resignation of the British government. Roger Fenton took this picture of the local landscape (below) six months after the battle. Yet even at this early date in the history of photography, images were not immune to manipulation. Fenton was accused of dressing the scenery with cannonballs to add to the drama of the scene. Long before the advent of Photoshop, the camera was proving itself a less than reliable witness. “The Colour of Time”, a collaboration between the historian Dan Jones and the artist Marina Amaral, opens with Fenton’s confection. The book presents a panorama of world history from 1850 to 1960 through 200 photographs taken during this period. The pictures, though, are very different from the grainy, monochrome images that readers of the Daily Sketch, the Graphic and countless other newspapers launched to take advantage of the new medium would have seen: they have been rendered into full colour. The results are often startling, even in the cases of familiar images, of which there are a fair few.
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from EUobserver
Media/News Company in Brussels, Belgium
US trial sheds light on murky Cyprus-Russia links
The US trial of Trump's former campaign manager has shown how Kremlin cronies used Cyprus to channel shady money.
Burned cars fuel Swedish election debate
Sweden's first big party leader TV debate ahead of September elections was marked by the burning of dozen of cars in cities across the south-west of the country.
How long can Bulgaria keep facing both East and West?
Sofia may be wearing out its welcome with Western democracies by playing both sides - seeking closer integration in Europe while cosying up to Moscow and Beijing, claiming to work towards hitting EU targets while putting its own interests first.
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Media/News Company in Brussels, Belgium
US trial sheds light on murky Cyprus-Russia links
The US trial of Trump's former campaign manager has shown how Kremlin cronies used Cyprus to channel shady money.
Burned cars fuel Swedish election debate
Sweden's first big party leader TV debate ahead of September elections was marked by the burning of dozen of cars in cities across the south-west of the country.
How long can Bulgaria keep facing both East and West?
Sofia may be wearing out its welcome with Western democracies by playing both sides - seeking closer integration in Europe while cosying up to Moscow and Beijing, claiming to work towards hitting EU targets while putting its own interests first.
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from FEE (Foundation for Economic Education)
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, HIGH, non-profit organization
The uproar over periodic resistance to reciting the pledge typically originates with Constitution-waving, Tea Party conservatives. Ironically, the pledge itself is not only un-American but antithetical to the most important principle underpinning the Constitution as originally ratified. ... “One nation, indivisible” is the precise opposite of the spirit of both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution ("under God" wasn’t added until the 1950s).
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from Hoover Institution
Nonprofit Organization in Stanford, California
Squaring Ends And Means
Self-determination for countries that had been occupied by Nazi Germany—Poland in particular—was foremost of the common objectives to which President Franklin Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winton Churchill committed on August 14, 1941 after meeting on the British battleship Prince of Wales off Newfoundland. Germany’s invasion of Poland had been the reason why Britain had declared war. Restoring Poland’s freedom was the war’s first-order objective.
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Nonprofit Organization in Stanford, California
Squaring Ends And Means
Self-determination for countries that had been occupied by Nazi Germany—Poland in particular—was foremost of the common objectives to which President Franklin Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winton Churchill committed on August 14, 1941 after meeting on the British battleship Prince of Wales off Newfoundland. Germany’s invasion of Poland had been the reason why Britain had declared war. Restoring Poland’s freedom was the war’s first-order objective.
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from HumanProgress.org Education Website
Utopianism: One of the Biggest Obstacles to Progress
What are the biggest obstacles in progressing a free and open society? One of the biggest obstacles is, broadly speaking, utopianism. Progress is neither guaranteed nor irreversible. The institutions and values that helped bring about the progress humanity has achieved are increasingly under attack by extremists on both sides of the political spectrum. Many nationalist populists on the right and self-proclaimed socialists on the left reject the Enlightenment values of reason, science, and open discourse, as well as free enterprise. Modern society based on the rule of law, global exchange, and social tolerance, is an extremely recent phenomenon. It may also be more fragile than it seems. The greatest travesties of the 20th century were carried out in the name of the utopian ideologies of communism and fascism. There is always the danger that new utopian demagogues will emerge.
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from Intellectual Takeout
Nonprofit Organization in Bloomington, Minnesota
Soulmate Marriage: An Unrealistic Goal?
The idea that marriage is difficult is underscored by the fact that nearly 40 to 50 percent of all marriages end in divorce. And although divorce rates are supposedly falling, the numbers of divorced couples are far higher than they were 100 or even 60 years ago. Commenting on this phenomenon for NPR, social psychologist Eli Finkel suggests one possible reason for the change is that marriage “used to be… about basic economic survival.” Now, however, it has turned into a quest for self-actualization and self-esteem.
Soulmate Marriage: An Unrealistic Goal?
The idea that marriage is difficult is underscored by the fact that nearly 40 to 50 percent of all marriages end in divorce. And although divorce rates are supposedly falling, the numbers of divorced couples are far higher than they were 100 or even 60 years ago. Commenting on this phenomenon for NPR, social psychologist Eli Finkel suggests one possible reason for the change is that marriage “used to be… about basic economic survival.” Now, however, it has turned into a quest for self-actualization and self-esteem.
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from KXLY 4 News (ABC Spokane)
At least 107 measles cases confirmed across 21 states
More than 100 cases of measles have been diagnosed this year in 21 states and the District of Columbia, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Wednesday. Measles is one of the leading causes of death for children, according to the World Health Organization, which estimates that 450 die each day worldwide due to the illness.
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from Psephizo (Blog)
Why did Jesus come to ‘bring division and a sword’?
In my five-part series of talks at New Wine on the question of why Jesus came, the final one focussed on a more surprising say of Jesus, which appears to stand in contrast to his purpose of bringing good news and reconciliation, but connects more obviously with his aim of ‘destroying the works of the evil one‘: "Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword." (Matt 10.34)
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
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from WND (World Net Daily)
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CNN contributor: Criticism of Muslims 'domestic terror'
A CNN contributor who also writes for a Pakistani newspaper says that people who criticize Muslims and their political agenda in the West are participating in “domestic terrorism.” It is Islamists, who sometimes commit acts of terror, who are the real victims. So suggested Rafia Zakaria in a CNN forum on the recent attack by social-media platforms on Alex Jones and his Infowars website.
CNN contributor: Criticism of Muslims 'domestic terror'
A CNN contributor who also writes for a Pakistani newspaper says that people who criticize Muslims and their political agenda in the West are participating in “domestic terrorism.” It is Islamists, who sometimes commit acts of terror, who are the real victims. So suggested Rafia Zakaria in a CNN forum on the recent attack by social-media platforms on Alex Jones and his Infowars website.
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