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from Breitbart
from Charisma News
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from CNSNews.com (& MRC & NewsBusters)
from The Economist
Cheating death
Science is getting to grips with ways to slow ageing. Rejoice, as long as the side-effects can be managed. [From the Aug 13th 2016 print edition]
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from FEE (Foundation for Economic Education)
You Don’t Actually Own Your Securities
You think you own securities in your brokerage account, but you don’t. Blockchain technology can fix an industry characterized by layers of intermediaries and opaque accounting.
15 Common Arguments against Immigration, Addressed
Most arguments against immigration have been around for decades. Here's how to refute them.
from The Living Church
ELCA Approves Declaration
The 2016 Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Churchwide Assembly gathering in New Orleans this week overwhelmingly accepted a unique ecumenical document that establishes a path toward greater unity between Catholics and Lutherans. By a vote of 931 to 9, the assembly on Wednesday (Aug. 10) approved the “Declaration on the Way.”
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from Military Times
and Air Force Times, Army Times, Marine Corps Times, and Navy Times
Malaria drug causes brain damage that mimics PTSD: case study
Once the U.S. military's malaria prophylactic of choice, favored for its once-a-week dosage regimen, mefloquine was designated the drug of last resort in 2013 by the Defense Department after the Food and Drug Administration slapped a boxed warning on its label, noting it can cause permanent psychiatric and neurological side effects,
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from NBC News (& affiliates)
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from The Oregonian
Exotic, invasive 'crazy snake worm' discovered in Oregon
An exotic species of earthworm, sometimes called "Asian jumping worms" or "Jersey wigglers," have turned up in multiple Oregon locations, officials confirmed Thursday, and the discovery could spell bad news for forests in the Pacific Northwest.
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from POLITICO
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from Republican National Committee (GOP)
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The Key to Winning This Election
This election is gonna be won or lost with whatever you want to call 'em, the great unwashed, the low-information voter, however you define people that don't pay much attention to politics, other than a couple of weeks, maybe a month before the election. It's about defeating the Democrat Party and what they stand for. Because, as I sit here, I don't care, you take any of the 16 or 17 people that sought the Republican nomination, and there's not a one of them I would not have voted for over Hillary Clinton, if it came down to it. That's what this has always been about to me. It's greater than my personal preferences over ideology and so forth. It's bigger to me than party. The country's always been bigger than party, to me. We have 70% of the American people admitting, in a lot of polls, they think the country's going in the wrong direction. Well, we can build on that.
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from The Spokesman-Review
from The Washington Post
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from The Wenatchee World
Miriam Renee Martin
Miriam Renee Martin, a lifetime resident of Coulee City, WA passed away August 7, 2016 after a courageous battle of cancer. She was born May 1, 1961 in Soap Lake, WA, the daughter of Karl and Joanne (Jorgensen) Jones.
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