In the news, Wednesday, November 24, 2010

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from First Things

THANKING THE PURITANS ON THANKSGIVING
There’s little less fashionable today than praising the Puritans, especially for their egalitarian political idealism, their promotion of genuinely humane and liberating learning, and their capacity for enjoyment and human happiness. Praising the Puritans is especially difficult for us because even most of our Protestants have abandoned them. … But the truth is that the Puritans remain the chief source of the American difference—our ability to live freely and prosperously without unduly slighting the longings of our souls. It’s the Puritans’ idealism that made and even makes Americans civilized.
The spirit of political liberty—the ennobling activity of citizens—depends, the Puritans taught us, on the spirit of religion. And they also showed that egalitarian citizenship depends on the truth that each of us is more than merely a citizen. 

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from The Spokesman-Review

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In the news, Friday, November 11, 2016

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NOV 10      INDEX      NOV 12

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Information from some sites may not be reliable, or may not be vetted.
Some sources may require subscription.

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from American News

[Information from this site may be satire/fake]

Hollywood Turns On Oprah After She Expresses ‘Change Of Heart’ About Trump

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from CNSNews.com (& MRC & NewsBusters)

Stephanopoulos Frets to RNC Chair: ‘Rise in Racist Acts’ Since Trump Win
With left-wing anti-Trump protesters rioting in cities across the country, on Friday’s Good Morning America, co-host George Stephanopoulos laid responsibility for quelling the unrest at the feet of the Republican President-Elect and worried that his victory was inciting the violence.

11-Year-Old Boy Beaten for Voting Trump in His School's Mock Election

EXCLUSIVE: GMU Admissions Director Calls Conservatives ‘Pieces of Worthless Trash’
While the president of George Mason University was busy issuing a statement upholding the school’s commitment to diversity and inclusion, the senior admissions director at the public university made it clear he believes that, if you are a conservative, you are a “piece of worthless trash.”

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from Conservative Intelligence Briefing

The Dakota Access Pipeline Should Be Priority Number One for President Trump
DAPL would provide a much needed economic boost. All it takes is a dismissal of the misguided protesters, and a commitment to the law and order Trump promised.

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from EUobserver

Germany: Trump victory to spur EU military union
Donald Trump’s victory, as well as Brexit, ought to speed up plans for EU defence integration, Germany has said. “Europe needs common political will for more security policy relevance. The outcome of the election in America could provide an additional impetus”, German defence minister Ursula von der Leyen said in an opinion article in the Rheinische Post, a German newspaper, on Thursday (10 November).

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from The Federalist Papers

Reuters Reveals How it “Fudged” It’s Polls to Favor Hillary

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from FEE (Foundation for Economic Education)

[Information from this site may not be reliable.]

This Could Be Our 1989
What lies in ruins here is not common decency and morality – much less the character of a whole people and nation – but rather an anachronistic, arrogant, entitled, smug, conceited ruling elite and paradigm. You can see this in the clues that show that the vote was not so much for a particular vision of one man, but against a prevailing model of managing the world. Government is powerful, but not powerful enough to bend reality to its wishes.

Sadly, One Does Not Simply Repeal ObamaCare
Candidate Trump repeatedly called for repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act during the campaign, but it is unclear what President Trump will actually do about the ACA. It is not clear even with President Trump, and Republican majorities in the House and Senate, whether full repeal is possible and what replacement might look like. Replacement requires something that looks like the ACA: TrumpCare, perhaps?

Obamacare was the Catalyst
Why did Trump win? It wasn’t WikiLeaks. It wasn’t FBI Director Comey. It was an electorate that was profoundly unhappy with the direction of the country. And they were particularly unhappy with President Obama’s signature domestic policy achievement — the Affordable Care Act (ACA) — or as it is commonly known, Obamacare. There's no question that this disastrous program was the main reason for the stunning upset. Voters remembered the hollow promises that if you liked your insurance you could keep it, and that medical costs would fall. Down the election home stretch, voters saw insurers pulling out of healthcare markets all over the county, skyrocketing out-of-pocket costs (deductibles and co-insurance), and steep insurance premium price rises. Premiums for enrollment starting November 1 of this year, just days before the election, increased 25% on average. Some states have huge increases: North Carolina 40%, Pennsylvania 53%, Minnesota 59%, and Arizona 116%.

You're Afraid of Power, Not Trump
You aren’t scared of Trump the person. Trump has been on this earth for 70 years and other than a general distaste for him, no one ever feared for their life because Trump walked the earth. He could do what he wanted because he didn't affect your life. He had no control over you. What you fear is the power he now wields.

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from First Things

A RIGHT TO ASSISTED SUICIDE FOR THE INSTITUTIONALIZED MENTALLY ILL
Once a society accepts the premise of euthanasia—that it is acceptable to eliminate suffering by eliminating the sufferer—there is no way to restrict the putative “right to die” to the mentally healthy.

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from Huffington Post

[Information from this site may be unreliable.]

The Incredible Reason You Might Start Seeing Safety Pins Everywhere
By fastening a safety pin to their clothing, people are declaring themselves allies to groups who have been maligned by Trump, to show that they stand in solidarity with anyone who might be afraid.

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from iFIBER ONE News (WA)

Speed limit reduced on section of SR 155 in Grand Coulee starting Nov. 21
GRAND COULEE – The speed limit will be lowered on state Route 155 along the Grand Coulee Industrial Area facilities for construction of a new fire station.

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from Indian Country Today Media Network

First Nations and Environmental Groups Launch Legal Action Against Trudeau Approval of Massive LNG Facility

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from LifeZette (& PoliZette)

Melania Trump Brings Glamour, Style, Class
Yesterday we had our first glimpse of Melania Trump in the White House she will soon call “home.” An international fashion model who speaks five languages, Melania Trump has the cosmopolitan background, elegance, and beauty to instantly make her America’s most glamorous first lady since Jackie Kennedy.

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from The Living Church

FREE TO WORSHIP HIM WITHOUT FEAR
Jordan Hylden on the days "after Election Day." Will they be marked by fear, or "perfect freedom"? We say we are free, but more of us feel alone, afraid, angry, despised, and powerless. The freedom America brought has begun to feel like a freedom from community, shared values, stability, security, family, and dignity. Does it need to be? Do all of those words really mean, without quite saying: My community, our shared values, my tribe’s stability and security and not yours?

FIVE NARRATIVES ON DONALD TRUMP
Those of us specializing in Christian ethics have an obligation to work out what is happening. We need to “read the signs of the times” (Matt. 16:3). So let us consider the main competing narratives that are already emerging.

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from Miami Herald

Leonard Pitts Jr.: Trump presidency means mourning in America

It’s not that America has never been a disappointment before. It’s not that America has never been an embarrassment. But nowhere in modern memory — not at Abu Ghraib, not in the 2000 election debacle, not in the Monica Lewinsky scandal — has it been as much of a disappointment and embarrassment as it is right now. Donald Trump is president-elect of the United States. God help us all.

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from Mises Institute

[Information from this site may not be reliable.]

Why President Trump Will Fumigate the Fed
There are currently two open Board of Governors seats, which will most likely not be filled before the end of President Obama’s tenure. Additionally, both Chair Janet Yellen and Vice-Chair Stanley Fischer’s terms will be up by 2018. Crunch the numbers and you will see that Trump has the opportunity to replace a majority of the Board of Governors and a third of the FOMC with monetary policy hawks during his presidency.

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from New Statesman

"The leading voice of the British left, since 1913."

Did Oswald Mosley inspire Donald Trump?
The parallels between the US president-elect and the British fascist leader are too striking to be ignored.

How to burst your social media bubble
Many are arguing that "filter bubbles" on social media are blinding us to the world around us. Here's how to pop yours.

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from PJ Media

Trump to Support Nationwide Concealed Carry
You want guns regulated like cars? You got it! Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump -- who said he has a concealed carry permit -- called for the expansion of gun rights Friday, including making those permits applicable nationwide. In a position paper published on his website Friday afternoon, Trump called for the elimination of gun and magazine bans, labeling them a "total failure."

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from POLITICO

[Information from this site may not be reliable.]

How to Repeal Obamacare: A road map for the GOP
Although repealing and replacing the ACA is closer than ever before, many important details will have to be worked out in the next few months. Moreover, much more needs to be done to put our nation’s health care entitlement programs on a sustainable path. Congress must now honor its commitment to free the country from the ACA and replace it with sensible reforms.

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from The Spokesman-Review

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from The Telegraph (UK)

Beyond the Politics of Anger
Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks: This is not politics as usual. The American Presidential election, the Brexit vote and the rise of extremism in the politics of the West are warnings of something larger, and the sooner we realise it, the better. What we are witnessing is the birth of a new politics of anger. It is potentially very dangerous indeed.

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from Townhall.com

[Information from this site may not be reliable.]

GMU Admissions Director on Traditional Marriage, Trump Supporters: You Are Worthless Trash
College administrators everywhere are having a really difficult time accepting Donald Trump's White House victory, but the admissions director at George Mason University just lost it. On his Facebook page, Andrew Bunting declared conservatives, Trump voters and anyone who dares to disagree with his progressive ideology are "worthless pieces of trash."

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from UPI News Agency - United Press International

upi.com

Renewed optimism for Trump pushes Dow to new record, best week since 2011  6:55 PM

Dem leader Reid rebukes Trump victory: 'This does not feel like America'  5:51 PM
"The election of Donald Trump has emboldened the forces of hate and bigotry in America," the Senate minority leader said Friday.

Portland police arrest dozens after anti-Trump protest turns to 'riot'  8:58 AM

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from USA Today

Meet the evangelicals who prophesied a Trump win
Despite many Christians questioning his moral character, Trump walked away with the evangelical vote Tuesday, including 81% of white evangelicals, exit polls showed. And while many Trump supporters of all stripes – and Trump himself – said they sensed polls and cross tabs just weren’t capturing something, fewer framed such feelings as divine.

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from US National Archives

World War II Veteran Lloyd Heller Shares Details About Production of 1943 Tank Training Film
In August, an e-mail came to motion picture archivist Carol Swain’s inbox asking about a World War II training film called Security on the March. Richard Herde contacted the Motion Picture unit looking for information about a film his 100-year-old uncle, Corporal Lloyd Heller, had helped make while serving as a tanker in the United States Army. As luck would have it, Heller remembered the exact title of the film, which made it much easier to find, and a beautiful 35mm negative was preserved here at the National Archives. The motion picture preservation lab scanned Security on the March and made a DVD so that Heller could view the film for the first time in over 70 years.

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from Variety

Robert Vaughn, ‘The Man From U.N.C.L.E.’ Star, Dies at 83

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from The Washington Post

‘Prediction professor’ who called Trump’s big win also made another forecast: Trump will be impeached

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In the news, Thursday, November 10, 2016

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Information from some sites may not be reliable, or may not be vetted.
Some sources may require subscription.

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from AlterNet

[Information from this site may not be reliable.]

10 Shocking 2016 Election Facts: Old Political Assumptions Are out the Window
The election had many surprises beyond Hillary winning the popular vote.

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from Anglican Communion News Service

Christian and Muslim leaders condemn “aggressive tendencies and criminal acts”

Delegations of Sunni and Shia Muslims and Catholic and Anglican / Episcopal Christians have said that hatred, humiliation and persecution based on distorted understandings of the Bible or Qur’an “offends God.” The representatives of Christian and Muslim groups, meeting in Tehran, also declared that women, children, and religious and ethnic minorities are “the first targets of an erroneous interpretation” of Christian and Muslim sacred texts, and that women have an “indispensable" role to play in inter-religious dialogue.

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from BBC News (UK)

US Election 2016 Results: A Democratic Party in disarray
The US Democratic party faces a long and dark journey before they can once again emerge from the political wilderness.

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from The Blaze (& Glenn Beck)

[Information from this site may not be reliable.]

What a Gay, Muslim, Pakistani-American Immigrant Learned Traveling to Rural Alaska the Week Before the Election
There exists a HUGE population in America who are desperately struggling to feed their families. They feel their needs are not authentically represented within this huge government. They feel their concerns are not being voiced by any major news outlet. They are tired of being called “dumb,” “bigoted” and “racist.” And, based on the shocked expressions of every anchor last night that all their polling data was off, apparently they aren’t even really counted.

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from Bloomberg

Trump’s Data Team Saw a Different America—and They Were Right
The president-elect’s analysts picked up disturbances others weren’t seeing—the beginning of the storm that would deliver Trump to the White House.

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from The Boston Globe

Maine became the first state in the country Tuesday to pass ranked choice voting

In a ranked choice vote system, rather than simply voting for one candidate, voters rank their candidates by preference—first, second, third, and so on. Then, if no candidate receives at least 50 percent of the vote after the first choices are counted, the candidate with the least first-choice rankings is eliminated, and the voters who preferred the last place finisher have their vote reallocated according to their next choice. The votes are then recounted and the process is repeated until one candidate breaks the 50 percent threshold.

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from The Christian Institute

Justin Welby: I’m an extremist, according to the Govt’s definition

The Archbishop of Canterbury says the Government has a seriously flawed view of extremism that places Christians alongside extreme Muslim groups.

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from CNSNews.com (& MRC & NewsBusters)

Gingrich: Beware of Republicans Speaking 'Honeyed Words of Subversion'
Newt Gingrich didn't spare ANYTHING for the Republicans who said they would never support Donald Trump.

Gun Owners Get Some AMAZING News After Trump WINS
“A driver’s license works in every state, so it’s common sense that a concealed carry permit should work in every state. If we can do that for driving — which is a privilege, not a right — then surely we can do that for concealed carry, which is a right, not a privilege,” he added.

Aaron Sorkin on Trump: ‘The Klan Won Last Night…Hate Was Given Hope’
This type of clown is your typical Hollywood writer. They all seem to possess a vicious hatred for anyone who doesn't agree with their far-left beliefs. ESPECIALLY Middle Americans, the object of so many of their attacks.

Levin: The Electoral College Is ‘Absolutely Brilliant’

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from Coeur d'Alene Press

The lingering effects of Agent Orange
Veteran Services Transparency hopes to bring awareness to cause

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from CommonDreams

[Information from this site may not be reliable.]

President-Elect Trump Heads to Office with 'Litigation Cloud Over His Head'
'Certainly no presidential candidate in modern times has potentially come to the office of president with such a litigation cloud hanging over his head'

Like Falling Ashes: Leonard Cohen Dies
Like the world wasn't feeling bereft enough, poet, seeker, songwriter and Buddhist monk Leonard Cohen has died at 82.

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from FEE (Foundation for Economic Education)

[Information from this site may not be reliable.]

Is a Free-Range Chicken a Happy Chicken?
Cage-free and free-range systems allow hens to express natural behaviors, but access to the outdoors means predators have access to hens.

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from The Federalist

Donald Trump Should Pardon Hillary Clinton, Not Prosecute Her

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from GOPUSA

Mitch McConnell: No interest in term limits for Congress
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says he has no interest in at least one agenda item preferred by President-elect Donald Trump: term limits for members of Congress. Trump praised the idea during the campaign, but McConnell said Wednesday the issue is going nowhere in the Senate.

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from The Gospel Herald

Bethel Church Pastor Bill Johnson: Why I Voted for Donald Trump

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from The Guardian (UK)

[Information from this site may be unreliable.]

This US election result is a terrific argument for monarchy
Last week the New York Times, of all places, ran an opinion piece in defence of hereditary monarchy. Under the title, Consider a Monarchy, America, Nikolai Tolstoy argued that, unlike elected heads of state, monarchies offer stability, continuity and a focus for national togetherness. Quoting the historian Edward Gibbon, Tolstoy wrote: “The advantage of monarchy is that the institution ‘extinguishes the hopes of faction’ by rising above the toxic partisanship of competing parties and vying elected officials.”

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from Harvard Business Review

What So Many People Don’t Get About the U.S. Working Class

The reasons for Trump’s win are obvious, if you know where to look.

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from The Heritage Foundation

The Shocking Intolerance of Anti-Trump Liberals
Some liberals are considering ending ties with relatives—including not letting grandparents see their grandkids!—over a vote for Trump. And unfriending people on Facebook who supported Trump.

Trump Should Reverse Obama’s Executive Actions. Here Are 7 Areas to Start.

Radical Social Agenda Now Costing the Democrats ‘Big League’
Democrats who now wonder how they’ve managed to lose the White House, Congress, and potentially the Supreme Court have plenty of blame to go around, but the pro-abortion, anti-religious freedom extremism now characteristic of the Democratic Party should rank high up on their list.

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from Huffington Post

[Information from this site may be unreliable.]

The Real Reason We're Grieving After Trump's Victory
It feels like living in enemy territory now, and there’s no way around that.

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from Independent Journal Review

The Man Who Put Oregon Christian Bakers Out of Business Just Got Beaten at Polls By REPUBLICAN

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from Indian Country Today Media Network

DAPL Ignores 2nd Army Corps Request to Stop Construction for 30 Days
The U.S. Department of Justice is about to announce next steps on de-escalating the standoff regarding construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline, according to the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe.

Culinary Diplomats: Chefs Take Native Ancestral Foods to Russia

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from Las Vegas Review-Journal

Prosecutors confirm BLM shredded documents before Bunkerville standoff
Bureau of Land Management agents shredded sensitive documents about their roundup of Bundy family cattle in the tense hours before their April 2014 standoff with armed Bundy followers, federal prosecutors have confirmed.

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from LifeZette (& PoliZette)

Let’s Give Political Peace a Chance
Much like Reagan, Trump can bring the American people together in pursuit of more freedom, less government.

Desperate Liberals Cry Sexism
Grieving Democrats and pundits point to gender bias as a culprit for Trump's win — Oct. poll disproves them.

The Unknown Professor Who Called Trump’s Win
Helmut Norpoth, who forecast Trump victory in February, takes victory lap. Pollsters who confidently predicted a comfortable victory for Hillary Clinton in the presidential election might lose business, according to one of the few experts who foresaw a win by Donald Trump.

Filling President-Elect Trump’s Cabinet
Likely picks for top posts from among the president-elect's most loyal, experienced backers.

Trump Win Delivers Ignominy to Some, Vindication to Others
Election leaves America's elite ruling families, the media, and movement progressives like Sanders all disgraced.

Obama Defanged but Still Dangerous
Outgoing president likely to spark lame-duck border rush, prison breaks, pardons, and move against Israel

Patients and Their Doctors Can Talk Again
A physician weighs in on how Obamacare reform can work in the wake of Trump's win

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from Mises Institute

[Information from this site may not be reliable.]

The Looming Bubble in Long-Term Debt
In the aftermath of the financial crisis of 2007–2009, analysts and prognosticators have constantly argued over the next big bubble.

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from New Statesman

"The leading voice of the British left, since 1913."

Would Bernie Sanders have done better against Donald Trump?
The limitations of the Third Way have been further exposed. The strengths of the alternative are less clear.

The invisible economic catastrophe that Donald Trump spotted
Many commentators seem to accept falling male participation in work as some kind of inevitable force of nature, often linked to arguments about technological change. This is simply untrue.

US-Russian relations are about to change – what next for Syria and eastern Europe?

Vladimir Putin was one of the first world leaders to congratulate Donald Trump on becoming the 45th President of the United States. According to an official statement on the Kremlin portal, he expressed hope that the two of them can work together to repair the relations between Russia and the US and to address threats to global security.

It’s NOT the economy, stupid: busting the myth of how Donald Trump won

As with Brexit, there’s little evidence that the US presidential election result had much to do with voters’ personal economic circumstances. Diversity and difference tends to alarm right-wing authoritarians, who seek order and stability. This, and not class, is what cuts the electoral pie in many western countries these days.

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from The New Yorker

AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY
That the electorate has, in its plurality, decided to live in Trump’s world of vanity, hate, arrogance, untruth, and recklessness, his disdain for democratic norms, is a fact that will lead, inevitably, to all manner of national decline and suffering.

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from NPR (& affiliates)

FACT CHECK: Donald Trump's First 100 Days Action Plan
NPR reporters and editors add context to the legislation and other proposals that the president-elect said he wants to introduce in his first 100 days in office.

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from Rolling Stone

[Information from this site may not be reliable.]

President Trump: How America Got It So Wrong
Journalists and politicians blew off the warning signs of a Trump presidency – now, we all must pay the price

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from The Spokesman-Review

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from The Times of Israel

Alarmism saved my family from Hitler: Why I won’t tell anyone to calm down about Trump

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from US Uncut

[Information from this site may not be reliable.]

‘Calexit’ May Actually Happen For California, And Sooner Than You Think  (DETAILS)

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from Washington Examiner

Heritage Foundation takes risk and wins big with Trump
The Heritage Foundation might be the biggest winner of 2016. The conservative think tank bet big on Donald Trump by biting their tongue and overlooking many of his conservative heresies. While others turned their nose up at Trump, they were the ones reading the electorate.

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In the news, Wednesday, November 9, 2016

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from ABC News (& affiliates)

Donald Trump's 2012 Election Tweetstorm Resurfaces as Popular and Electoral Vote Appear Divided

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from Alex Jones (INFOWARS.COM)

[Information from this site may not be reliable.]

KINGMAKER DRUDGE DEFEATS ESTABLISHMENT MEDIA WITH TRUMP WIN
We're living in the future in which citizen reporting trumps mainstream media By standing up for Donald Trump when the establishment media went against him, media pioneer Matt Drudge has reignited independent journalism in which everyday Americans are just as important as the New York Times. Twenty years ago, Drudge correctly surmised the mainstream media would grow so attached to the establishment that it would soon become irrelevant.

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from Atlas Obscura

Protect Your Library the Medieval Way, With Horrifying Book Curses
IN THE MIDDLE AGES, CREATING a book could take years. A scribe would bend over his copy table, illuminated only by natural light—candles were too big a risk to the books—and spend hours each day forming letters, by hand, careful never to make an error. To be a copyist, wrote one scribe, was painful: “It extinguishes the light from the eyes, it bends the back, it crushes the viscera and the ribs, it brings forth pain to the kidneys, and weariness to the whole body.” Given the extreme effort that went into creating books, scribes and book owners had a real incentive to protect their work. They used the only power they had: words. At the beginning or the end of books, scribes and book owners would write dramatic curses threatening thieves with pain and suffering if they were to steal or damage these treasures.

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from The Blaze (& Glenn Beck)

[Information from this site may not be reliable.]

Watch: White House won’t rule out a pardon for Clinton

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from CNSNews.com (& MRC & NewsBusters)

‘View’ Host Reacts To Trump Victory: ‘I Wasn’t in Touch With The Country I Live In’

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from First Things

TRUMP, EVANGELICALS, RELIGION, AND THE 2016 EXIT POLLS
Trump did well among key segments of the faithful, winning clear majorities among evangelical, Protestant, and Catholic voters.

CATHOLICISM EMBODIED: “THE PIVOTAL PLAYERS”

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from The Guardian (UK)

[Information from this site may be unreliable.]

Silicon Valley investors call for California to secede from the US after Trump win
Hyperloop co-founder said he would fund ‘Calexit’ campaign for Democratic state to become its own nation as tech industry has been at odds with Trump

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from The Heritage Foundation

Pot, Guns, and the Minimum Wage: Some Ballot Questions That Matter
Millions of Americans weigh in on ballot measures ranging from raising the minimum wage to legalizing medical and recreational marijuana use.

Election Results Show There Is No One ‘Hispanic’ Vote

As is well known, this election will start, not end, months or years of probing existential debates for conservatives and liberals. But one trope both sides can discard early is that there is a “Hispanic” vote. As Florida demonstrated, it doesn’t exist. Generalizing about Hispanic votes, or even Cuban-Americans ones, is fool’s gold. It's better to appeal to all Americans with good policies—rather than look at the country as a mosaic of groups. Some Hispanics did vote for Trump.

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from Huffington Post

[Information from this site may be unreliable.]

Justin Welby Suggests We Should Pray For America After Donald Trump’s Victory
There was a marked absence of any congratulatory  to the message.

The Democratic Party Deserved To Die
Demographics are not destiny. Candidates do matter. And it is still the economy, stupid.

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from Independent Journal Review

Trump Won Because He Listened To The American People. It's Really That Simple.  IJR Opinion

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from LifeZette (& PoliZette)

It’s Not Too Soon to Start Overhauling Obamacare
Donald Trump has promised to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act as his first act in office. These five positive steps could fulfill the promises originally made to the American people and make health care once again solvent, affordable, and accessible in the U.S.

What a Trump Victory Means to the Christian Base
A reminder to accept a win with grace and humility — and to pray for Donald Trump in his new role

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from Mises Institute

[Information from this site may not be reliable.]

The Government Won't Make America Great Again
The 2016 election was notable for many things—from the frequency of ad hominem arguments to the frequency of scandals to the frequency of OMG reactions to Donald Trump’s victory. But one thing notable for its absence has been adherence to the principles that created America as a unique beacon of hope for liberty.

63 Million Americans Now Live in States with Legal Recreational Marijuana
With legalization in California now underway, one in five Americans can legally buy and use marijuana in their home states.

The Intelligentsia Takes a Hit
Last night's surprising result left Trump supporters elated, Clinton supporters dejected. Most libertarians have long given up hope that the electoral process can bring substantial improvements to US policies. But there is an important silver lining to this year's election season. Public skepticism of the establishment media, think-tanks, academics, and other members of the intelligentsia is at an all-time high.

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from NPR (& affiliates)

Here Is What Donald Trump Wants To Do In His First 100 Days
At the end of October, Donald Trump spoke in Gettysburg, Pa., and released a plan for his first 100 days in office. On Wednesday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell mostly made nice with Trump but also shot down or expressed little enthusiasm in some of his plans.

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from Redoubt News
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]

Trump Wins in Historic Upset
In a major upset to Liberal Progressives, Donald Trump won the United States Presidential election against Hillary Clinton. It is being hailed as an historic uprising against America’s flirtation with Socialism. The people of this country have soundly rejected the Obama/Clinton agenda of globalization.

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from The Spokesman-Review

Election 2016: America plays Trump card

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from U.S. News and World Report

Elections: Is There a Better Way Than America's?
Other democracies stage shorter, far less expensive campaign seasons.

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from The Wall Street Journal

How the Media’s Election Predictions Badly Missed the Mark
News outlets pay the price for a pre-election narrative that had Clinton in the lead

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from 100 Percent FED Up

[Information from this site may not be reliable.]

BREAKING: 5 People Shot At Anti-Trump Protest…All Are In Critical Condition  [VIDEO]
According to social media posts by KOMO-TV and other sources, multiple people were shot Wednesday in Seattle during protests over election results.

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