Thursday, February 4, 2016

In the news, Thursday, January 21, 2016


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from DONi - Donbass News Agency


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from FEE (Foundation for Economic Education)
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, HIGH, non-profit organization

3 Policies with Good Intentions and Tragic Consequences
Whenever a real or imagined social problem arises, the default position of many people is that the government must “do something.” Indeed, many people implicitly assume that if the government does nothing, nothing will be done, and no progress will be made. The assumption is that government intervention will primarily produce better results than if the government does nothing. Taking a more skeptical approach, Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman once declared that one of the greatest mistakes is to “to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.” 1. The War on Drugs; 2. Child Labor; 3. Food Aid.

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from The Living Church

After the Primates’ Gathering, whither gay conservatives?
Some of us are both gay and conservative, and for us, the question isn’t so much how to hold diverse groups within TEC together ... Rather, our question is how to hold before God and before our fellow Christians (and indeed our fellow Anglicans, both in TEC as well as in the worldwide Communion), our own identity as gay and lesbian and our hard-won theological convictions about sexuality, marriage, and celibacy.

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from Money Talks News

iPhone Users: This Is an Update You Should Not Ignore
The latest Apple security update may sound routine, but a computer security expert explains why it’s important for iPhone users to install it right away. Here’s how to do it.

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from Newsmax

Hubert Zafke Trial: 95-Year-Old Ex-Auschwitz Medic Charged as Accessory to 3,681 Murders
A 95-year-old German who served as a medic at the Auschwitz concentration camp will be tried in the deaths at least 3,681 people there on charges of being an accessory to murder. One of them could have been Anne Frank.

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from POLITICO
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Top former Romney aide launches anti-Trump super PAC

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from The Spokesman-Review

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from Talking Points Memo
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GOP Senator: I'd Vote For Bernie Sanders Over Ted Cruz
Update: Sen. Richard Burr denies the AP report that he said he would vote for Bernie Sanders if Ted Cruz was the nominee. The AP is standing by its story.

GOP Senator Denies Saying That He'd Vote For Sanders Over Cruz

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from Washington Policy Center (State)

from The Washington Post
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