Monday, August 25, 2014

In the news, Thursday, August 14, 2014


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from ABC News (& affiliates)
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from ACLJ (American Center for Law and Justice)
from BBC News (UK)

Rosetta: Comet probe gets down to work

Is Ferguson the start of a 'libertarian moment'
There is a growing chorus from the conservative movement's libertarian wing that connects the perceived overreaction by a militarised local law enforcement to their critique of the heavy-handed power of government.

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from Breitbart
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from BuzzPo

Fox News Doctor: Michelle Obama is Too Fat to Argue About Nutrition  In a move that is bound to make him an enemy of the Obama White House, Fox News contributor and doctor, Keith Ablow said that Michelle Obama is too fat to be preaching nutrition.  Ablow appearing on the Fox show, “Outnumbered” was discussing the complaints against Michelle Obama’s lunch program.

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from The Christian Science Monitor

Obama's on vacation? Nothing new about that
Questions about White House vacations are as old as the presidency itself, points out Lawrence L. Knutson, author of 'Away from the White House.'

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from Conservative Tribune
from The Daily Beast

Why Obama's Iraq War Will Be a Disaster
When it comes to our latest foray into Mesopotamia, don’t expect the sequel to end better than the original. Why the hell is the United States going back into Iraq? And to what end? Americans famously don’t know much about history, but the willingness to ignore the immediate decade-plus of failure and plunge back into the fog of war without any clear articulation of national interests, exit strategy, or even obvious battle plan borders on the criminally insane.

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from The Daily Caller

John Lewis Calls On Obama To Declare Martial Law In Ferguson, Mo.  [VIDEO]

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from Daily Mail (UK)

'ISIS want to impregnate Yazidi women and smash our blond bloodline': Fears grow for the 300 women kidnapped from Sinjar

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from The Dallas Morning News

Scientists call evolution a unifying theory, a weight-bearing wall that frames our understanding of the natural world. But at the Institute for Creation Research in northwest Dallas, a group of nine Ph.D.s from places like Harvard and Los Alamos National Laboratory say all that molecules-to-man stuff is nonsense. And they’re out to prove it.

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from EarthSky

First dust grains from beyond our solar system
A collector dropped to Earth by the Stardust spacecraft may have contained the first known contemporary dust grains from outside our solar system.

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from Fox News (& affiliates)
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from The Guardian (UK)

Dust from beyond our solar system fell to Earth from space probe
Detectors dropped off by the Stardust probe in 2006 carried particles that may have originated in interstellar space

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from Harper's Magazine

Why We Lost in Iraq and Afghanistan
A general’s account of the military’s mistakes

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from Huffington Post
[Information from this site may be unreliable.]

Facebook Donates $10,000 To Politician Fighting Gay Marriage
Facebook made a $10,000 donation in May to the reelection campaign of Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes, who has received national attention for fighting a court ruling that would make gay marriage legal in the state.

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from The Jerusalem Post
from Methow Valley News

Badly burned bear cub has Cinder-ella story

Traumatic summer has created a stressful atmosphere
After a month of living with wildfires, evacuations, power outages, communication failures, bizarre storms and smoke, Methow Valley residents are a collective wreck.

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from Money Talks News
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from National Geographic

Scientists Explain Mystery Behind Sand Dune That Swallowed Boy  Decomposing trees and homes may be responsible for the sand dune hole that swallowed a boy in June 2013.

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from Pamela Geller (Atlas Shrugs)

Islamic State Recruits Muslims in India to Wage Jihad

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from Patheos
[Information from this site may be questionable.]

Catholic school employs first openly gay high school coach in South Dakota  [Catholic Channel]

What We Must Learn from Indigenous Peoples
[Pagan Channel]  Why protecting the rights of indigenous peoples is vital to all of us
The rights of indigenous peoples are important for many reasons. They are important first and foremost because they are fellow human beings with a right to live safe and free, but also for other reasons.
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from POLITICO
from Space.com (& CollectSpace)

Rise of Independence: Mock Space Shuttle Hoisted Atop Historic NASA Jet

Rosetta Spacecraft Takes Temperature of Comet 67P
As the European-built Rosetta spacecraft neared its close encounter with a comet last week, it turned up a cosmic surprise: the comet is warmer than scientists were expecting.

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from The Spokesman-Review

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from Stars and Stripes

Navy tells lodges to put removed Bibles back into rooms
The Navy on Thursday ordered the Bibles returned to rooms and said it is reviewing a decision by the Navy Exchange to remove them from its worldwide network of military hotels.

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from The Telegraph (UK)
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]

'Precious' specks of stardust collected by NASA spacecraft
A NASA spacecraft dispatched 15 years ago to collect samples from a comet also snared what scientists suspect are the first dust specks from outer space

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from TPNN (Tea Party News Network)

Allen West: ‘Barack Hussein Obama is an Islamist’

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from The Wall Street Journal

A Climate Crusader's Comeuppance
Billionaire Tom Steyer's vow to make politicians toe the green line isn't working out so well.

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from The Wenatchee World (WA)

A disaster that’s not bad enough
Gov. Jay Inslee recently asked the Federal Emergency Management Agency — FEMA — that our charred segment of Washington be declared a major disaster and therefore eligible for various forms of federal assistance. His request was granted, but only for Okanogan County and the Colville Tribes, and only for so-called “public assistance.” which is not assistance for the public, but aid to public agencies with infrastructure bashed or carbonized. FEMA denied Inslee’s request for assistance to individuals. As it stands individual grants for housing will not be coming, as much as they are needed.

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from 100 Percent FED Up


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