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In the news, Monday, August 15, 2016


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from BBC News (UK)

Tight security at Lourdes for Assumption Day celebrations
Thousands of Roman Catholic pilgrims are celebrating the Feast of the Assumption at the famous Lourdes pilgrimage site in France.


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from CBS News (& affiliates)

Too many parents put babies to sleep in unsafe positions
Despite decades of warnings from the "Back to Sleep" campaign, many parents are still putting their babies to sleep in ways that raise the risk of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), a new study finds.

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from Clarion Project
Challenging Islamist Extremism

Burkini Versus Bikini Round Two: Showdown in Corsica
A huge fight broke out between Muslim immigrants and native Corsicans after women wearing burkinis were photographed by a tourist.

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from Conciliar Post

This tribal, “they’re-not-really-one-of-us” impulse creates a churning backwash in which probably-incorrect ideas proliferate without encountering real challenge. The questionable theology in books like The Shack and The Boy Who Went to Heaven may often be shrugged off because the authors are “in the tribe”: they identify as evangelicals and speak the right conceptual language. Over time, bad ideas become more and more entrenched through repetition and a lack of internal self-policing.

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from The Daily Caller
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Leaked Soros Memo: Refugee Crisis ‘New Normal,’ Gives ‘New Opportunities’ For Global Influence

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from FEE (Foundation for Economic Education)
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Venezuela’s Road to Literal Serfdom
There is no better book than Friedrich Hayek’s classic The Road to Serfdom to explain the popular delusions that helped to virtually eliminate the market economy and civil society in Venezuela. Writing during the depths of World War II, Hayek intended his book as a warning “to the socialists of all parties.” What happened in Venezuela can happen wherever a critical mass of the population begins to hold certain delusionary beliefs.

How Government Encourages Food Waste
To reduce food waste, get rid of the rules that promote it in the first place. Earlier this year, Italy adopted measures to reduce the quantity of food that's wasted in the country. The laws encourage the use of doggy bags, which are uncommon on the continent. More importantly, they eliminate longstanding rules that have made it difficult or impossible for farmers and grocers to donate food to those in need. For those readers unfamiliar with the term, food waste means "food that completes the food supply chain up to a final product, of good quality and fit for consumption, but still does not get consumed because it is discarded, whether or not after it is left to spoil."

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from The Guardian (UK)
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Joseph Goebbels’ 105-year-old secretary: ‘No one believes me now, but I knew nothing’
Brunhilde Pomsel worked at the heart of the Nazis’ propaganda machine. As a film about her life is released, she discusses her lack of remorse and the private side of her monstrous boss

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from The Hill

Convicted spy cites Clinton emails to seek leniency
A Navy sailor who has pleaded guilty to espionage charges for photographing classified areas of a nuclear submarine is citing Hillary Clinton’s email setup in an effort to avoid jail time.

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from Intellectual Takeout
Nonprofit Organization in Bloomington, Minnesota

Actor: Western Civilization is in Danger of Losing
John Rhys-Davies is famous for playing Sallah in the Indiana Jones movies, and more recently, Gimli in The Lord of the Rings trilogy. But he has also become an outspoken defender of the West against its perceived enemies, both within and without. In an interview last week with FOX411, he decried the growing intolerance that he sees among his fellow actors, some of whom “believe their opinion is the only right one”: “​I love my fellow actors but sometimes I think that their opinions are wrong. True art asks uncomfortable questions and if you find yourself agreeing with everyone around you all the time, you should wonder what your significance as a citizen and as an artist is.”​ Tolerance for other opinions, he added, is a distinguishing mark of Western civilization, which “is kept alive and vital by debate.”

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from On Pasture

When he was 95 years old Scott Nearing, who has been described as the great-granddaddy of the back-to-the land movement, was speaking to a group about homesteading and gardening. Of all that he said that day the most profound statement was this: “If you want to garden just do it.”

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from People.com

Hoofing It! Man Walking from Seattle to New York with Pet Goat for Charity
[Steven Wescott is the son of Theresa Daley]

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from USA Today

Uncle Sam goes for gold, too: Up to $9,900 per Olympic gold medal
Olympic athletes who bring home medals also bring home cash — $25,000 for gold, $15,000 for silver and $10,000 for bronze — paid for by the United States Olympic Committee. Like any prize winner, from a jackpot hitter to a Nobel Prize recipient, the athletes are taxed because Olympic medals and cash bonuses are considered income, said Steven Gill, associate professor of accounting at San Diego State University.

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