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from American Enterprise Institute
Making Manufacturing Great Again Will Require A Two-Pronged Approach
Today, fewer than 13 million workers are employed in factory jobs. Yet there are also 322,000 positions that are currently unfilled. Clearly, manufacturing jobs exist, and employers are ready to hire, but for some reason workers and firms are not matching up to fill these jobs. Bringing jobs back from overseas makes for a promising campaign pledge. But filling domestic jobs through skill upgradation and changing the image of manufacturing to make it a more appealing career choice can be a more practical and achievable jobs policy.
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Making Manufacturing Great Again Will Require A Two-Pronged Approach
Today, fewer than 13 million workers are employed in factory jobs. Yet there are also 322,000 positions that are currently unfilled. Clearly, manufacturing jobs exist, and employers are ready to hire, but for some reason workers and firms are not matching up to fill these jobs. Bringing jobs back from overseas makes for a promising campaign pledge. But filling domestic jobs through skill upgradation and changing the image of manufacturing to make it a more appealing career choice can be a more practical and achievable jobs policy.
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from Asia Times Online
Strategic patience, as exercised by the outgoing Obama administration, is highly unsustainable as a long-term policy.
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from The Atlantic (& CityLab)
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]
“Very few actually comprehend the deadly and destructive capability of the motor vehicle,” an ISIS publication advises.
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from BBC News (UK)
There are many strange stories in Odysseus's long journey home after the sack of Troy, but where do they come from?
Australians losing faith with mainstream politics, study finds
Australian politics is starting to see similar dissatisfaction to the US and Britain, a study finds.
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from CNSNews.com (& MRC & NewsBusters)
Christmas with the Presidents, from Washington to Reagan
Berlin attack prompts high security in US cities for holiday
Brian Williams Frets Berlin Attack Will ‘Tilt’ Election Against Merkel
In the wake of the ISIS terrorist attack in Berlin, Germany on Monday, many of the county’s right wing politicians have laid the blame at the feet of Chancellor Angela Merkel because of her lax immigration policies. It was something MSNBC whined about that same day. On The 11th Hour Tuesday night, disgraced news anchor Brian Williams fretted for what is meant for Germany and all of Europe. “This could turn out to be the tractor-trailer that affects all of Europe and you know how,” he exclaimed to NBC News Terrorism Analyst Evan Kohlmann. Is Brian Williams worried about preventing terrorism, or is he worried about the defeat of a liberal agenda?
NY Times Keeps Anti-Trump Hope Alive; Won Thanks to 'Whiter, Less Educated States’
In their Tuesday New York Times off-lead “news analysis,” reporters Jonathan Martin and Michael Wines tried to keep anti-Trump hope alive in “Trump’s Win, But Little Else, Is Now Settled – A Vast Divide Persists After the Electors Vote.” Bill Clinton, a former president, was posed as preaching truth to power.
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from Douglas County Empire Press
The building constructed by M.B. Malloy in 1916 is now used for the Checkered Tablecloth.
Mansfield market marks 100 years
The Mansfield Family Market occupies a unique niche as a rural neighborhood grocery store still in business at the same location 100 years later. The Mansfield Family Market is currently co-owned by Don and Christy McGraw who took over operations January 1, 2014, as the market’s fourth owners. Originally known as The Mansfield Mercantile, or the “Merc” as it was affectionately called, the store opened for business in 1916. The Mercantile’s first owner was T.N. Mayfield, who ran the business for 29 years then sold the store to John and Alice Andrews in 1945. The Andrews’ owned the grocery store from 1945 until 1972, when Bill and Linda Bayless purchased it. The Bayless family managed the the Merc as a family business for 42 years. For 10 of those years, from 1993-2004, Ric and Renee Bayless ran the store.
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from EUobserver
EU vows to mend terrorist data share failures
The EU is rolling out plans to improve a large police database in an effort to avoid repeats of allowing terrorists slip by police due to poor data quality.
EU hopes Trump will back down on visa war
The European Commission is hoping that Donald Trump, the incoming US president, will back down in a potential visa war, but terrorist attacks in Europe could make that less likely.
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EU vows to mend terrorist data share failures
The EU is rolling out plans to improve a large police database in an effort to avoid repeats of allowing terrorists slip by police due to poor data quality.
EU hopes Trump will back down on visa war
The European Commission is hoping that Donald Trump, the incoming US president, will back down in a potential visa war, but terrorist attacks in Europe could make that less likely.
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from FEE (Foundation for Economic Education)
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]
Give Thanks to Entrepreneurs
The holidays are traditionally a time for counting your blessings: friends, family, good health and so on. But not much thought is given to entrepreneurs, who should be counted among our blessings first and foremost.
The Failure of Public Schooling in One Chart
Between 1950 and 2009, American public schools experienced a 96 percent increase in student population. During that time, public schools increased their staff by 386 percent – four times the increase in students.
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Loneliness is the modern predicament and it’s getting worse. Christmas reminds us what Christians have to say to this pervasive loneliness.
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from The Gospel Coalition
Ravi Zacharias: Post-truth as a phenomenon is not new. Just as postmodern is neither post nor modern but existed in the first conversation at creation's dawn—"Has God spoken?"—so also post-truth is actually rebellion right from the beginning. "Has God given us his word?" The answer to that question spelled life or death.
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from The Heritage Foundation
Standing Up to Political Bullying Is What Voters Want
The Human Rights Campaign engaged in an eight-month smear campaign against the state of North Carolina—with [Governor Pat] McCrory as the primary target—over the passage of North Carolina’s privacy law, which blocked a Charlotte city ordinance that would have allowed men into women’s bathrooms, showers, locker rooms, and other intimate facilities.
What Rick Perry Could Do to Prevent Future Solyndras
Departing Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz has announced a conditional loan guarantee for a fossil fuel project—a blatant, taxpayer-backed subsidy of up to $2 billion for Lake Charles Methanol, LLC. Such federal government meddling in the energy sector is the exact wrong approach to America’s energy policy. By contrast, incoming Energy Secretary Rick Perry has called for the abolition of the Department of Energy. A good place to start would be the abolition of the loan guarantee program.
Germany to Commit More Troops to NATO in Lithuania
A sign that Germany is prioritizing European security—and its relationship with the U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has stressed that NATO’s European members need to do more.
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from Intellectual Takeout
Nonprofit Organization in Bloomington, Minnesota
Why Millions of Millennials Are Living in ‘Bad Faith’
Safe Spaces, trigger warnings, parental coverage of health insurance until age 26 and living at home into one’s thirties…why are we treating young adults like they are infants, folks? Without adversity, Millennials fail to develop perseverance and grit. Will they ever grow up? The French playwright and existential philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) had an expression for it: bad faith. He believed that every person is free to choose their next steps in life. Moreover, it’s nearly impossible to escape that freedom. (Indeed, Sartre wrote that we are “condemned to be free.”) To instead claim that we lack choice and the future is predetermined is to live in bad faith. Bad faith involves self-deception. To deny the freedom to choose life plans means rejecting our own humanity. Someone who lives in bad faith treats themselves as an object, not as an autonomous or freely choosing agent. For Sartre, bad faith is both insincere and wrong.
Why Millions of Millennials Are Living in ‘Bad Faith’
Safe Spaces, trigger warnings, parental coverage of health insurance until age 26 and living at home into one’s thirties…why are we treating young adults like they are infants, folks? Without adversity, Millennials fail to develop perseverance and grit. Will they ever grow up? The French playwright and existential philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) had an expression for it: bad faith. He believed that every person is free to choose their next steps in life. Moreover, it’s nearly impossible to escape that freedom. (Indeed, Sartre wrote that we are “condemned to be free.”) To instead claim that we lack choice and the future is predetermined is to live in bad faith. Bad faith involves self-deception. To deny the freedom to choose life plans means rejecting our own humanity. Someone who lives in bad faith treats themselves as an object, not as an autonomous or freely choosing agent. For Sartre, bad faith is both insincere and wrong.
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from The Living Church
Historic Choice in Southwark
The Church of England has selected a Nigerian priest to become Bishop of Woolwich in the Diocese of Southwark. The Rev. Preb. Woyin Karowei Dorgu will be the first Nigerian to be a stipendiary bishop in the Church of England when he is consecrated at Southwark Cathedral on St Patrick’s Day, March 17, and the first black priest to be appointed bishop in the province for 20 years.
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How Unions Used Licensing to Crush Ethnic Barbershops
Barbering offered a living wage to many Italian-Americans and blacks during the 19th century. Thus, a labor union stepped in to put an end to that.
Congress's War on Internet Gambling
The War on Gambling is about as moral as the War on Drugs.
Historic Choice in Southwark
The Church of England has selected a Nigerian priest to become Bishop of Woolwich in the Diocese of Southwark. The Rev. Preb. Woyin Karowei Dorgu will be the first Nigerian to be a stipendiary bishop in the Church of England when he is consecrated at Southwark Cathedral on St Patrick’s Day, March 17, and the first black priest to be appointed bishop in the province for 20 years.
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from Mises Institute
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]Barbering offered a living wage to many Italian-Americans and blacks during the 19th century. Thus, a labor union stepped in to put an end to that.
The War on Gambling is about as moral as the War on Drugs.
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from New Statesman
"The leading voice of the British left, since 1913."
When the left seeks to explain away jihadism as the consequence of Western foreign policy, they're attacked.
from Open Culture
from The Spokesman-Review
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from Sputnik
(Russian government-supported propaganda channel)
Europe’s only supervolcano, dormant for 500 years, is showing signs of reawakening, according to Italian and French volcanologists.
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from The Washington Times
Man charged in ‘Vote Trump’ black church arson is member of congregation
The man who allegedly set fire to a black church in Greenville, Mississippi, and spray-painted it with the words “Vote Trump” is a member of the church. Police arrested Andrew McClinton on Wednesday in conjunction with the arson of Hopewell Missionary Baptist Church, which was burned and vandalized on Nov. 1, a week before Donald Trump was elected president. Several incidents initially reported as hate crimes carried out by Mr. Trump’s supporters have proven to be false.
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