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Information from some sites may not be reliable, or may not be vetted.
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from The American Conservative
Why Does Congress Accept Perpetual Wars?
To exercise real oversight, our representatives must take ownership of unpopular foreign entanglements.
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Facial reconstruction made of 'brutally-killed' Pictish man
The face of a Pictish man who was "brutally killed" 1,400 years ago has been reconstructed by Dundee University researchers.
Why Does Congress Accept Perpetual Wars?
To exercise real oversight, our representatives must take ownership of unpopular foreign entanglements.
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from BBC News (UK)
The face of a Pictish man who was "brutally killed" 1,400 years ago has been reconstructed by Dundee University researchers.
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from CNSNews.com (& MRC & NewsBusters)
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]
Trump at Boeing Rally: Our New Mantra is ‘Buy American and Hire American’
President Donald Trump held a rally at the Boeing plant in North Charleston, S.C., on Friday. During his remarks, he spoke on his campaign promise to create jobs and bring on a new era of economic prosperity.
Climate-Alarmist Gore: 'Middle East Could Become Uninhabitable'
Perennial climate alarmist and former Vice President Al Gore spoke at a climate change meeting in Atlanta on Thursday. Gore warned that if things don’t change that certain parts of the Middle East would eventually become “uninhabitable.”
Federal Judge Rules that Hospital CEO's Defamation Suit Against CNN Can Move Forward
CNN pushes "fake" news stories all the time. This time, however, it might seriously come to bite them.
RFK Jr: Trump 'Could Be The Greatest President in History If He Wanted To'
During an interview on CNN, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., son of the late-Robert Francis "Bobby" Kennedy who was assassinated in 1968, said Donald Trump "could be the greatest president in history if he wanted to," and could easily be "the next Teddy Roosevelt."
REWARD MONEY IN CAT ABUSE CASE SOARS
Local residents and business owners hope the $5,750 they have pledged for a reward leads to the conviction of a suspect in a cat abuse case that has shocked the community.
Will Trump EPA Challenge California’s De Facto Authority to Regulate Fuel Economy?
Now that Scott Pruitt is confirmed as EPA administrator, we can expect the Trump administration to take formal action soon to begin unraveling the CPP. Can we expect rollback on this climate policy as well?
Trump at Boeing Rally: Our New Mantra is ‘Buy American and Hire American’
President Donald Trump held a rally at the Boeing plant in North Charleston, S.C., on Friday. During his remarks, he spoke on his campaign promise to create jobs and bring on a new era of economic prosperity.
Climate-Alarmist Gore: 'Middle East Could Become Uninhabitable'
Perennial climate alarmist and former Vice President Al Gore spoke at a climate change meeting in Atlanta on Thursday. Gore warned that if things don’t change that certain parts of the Middle East would eventually become “uninhabitable.”
Federal Judge Rules that Hospital CEO's Defamation Suit Against CNN Can Move Forward
CNN pushes "fake" news stories all the time. This time, however, it might seriously come to bite them.
RFK Jr: Trump 'Could Be The Greatest President in History If He Wanted To'
During an interview on CNN, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., son of the late-Robert Francis "Bobby" Kennedy who was assassinated in 1968, said Donald Trump "could be the greatest president in history if he wanted to," and could easily be "the next Teddy Roosevelt."
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from Coeur d'Alene Press
REWARD MONEY IN CAT ABUSE CASE SOARS
Local residents and business owners hope the $5,750 they have pledged for a reward leads to the conviction of a suspect in a cat abuse case that has shocked the community.
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from Competitive Enterprise Institute
"Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt is a great choice for one of the most important jobs in the Trump administration. He has been charged with fulfilling President Trump’s campaign promises to undo Obama’s massive over-regulation of resource and manufacturing industries. We are confident that Scott Pruitt is up to the challenge. He has the experience, determination, and commitment to the Constitution’s federalist system to roll back the regulatory rampage of the last eight years and return the EPA to its core mission of keeping our air and water clean."
Our friends at the free speech coalition People United for Privacy recently released an important video about government abuse of power. “True Story: Wisconsin John Doe Victims” recounts how politically active individuals in the Badger State were singled out and threatened with criminal prosecution for supporting a cause they believed in.
Now that Scott Pruitt is confirmed as EPA administrator, we can expect the Trump administration to take formal action soon to begin unraveling the CPP. Can we expect rollback on this climate policy as well?
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from EUobserver
Germany and US pledge to 'confront' Russia
Germany’s defence minister has described Russia as a threat to Europe’s “way of life”, while also lecturing US president Donald Trump on values.
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from FEE (Foundation for Economic Education)
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]
The Eclipse of Liberalism
To the principles and precepts of Liberalism the prodigious material progress of the age was largely due. Freed from the vexatious meddling of governments, men devoted themselves to their natural task, the bettering of their condition, with the wonderful results which surround us. But it now seems that its material comfort has blinded the eyes of the present generation to the cause which made it possible. In the politics of the world, Liberalism is a declining, almost a defunct force. Nationalism in the sense of national greed has supplanted Liberalism. It is an old foe under a new name.
Authority Is No Substitute for the Genius of Spontaneity
The essence of an individual's freedom is the opportunity to deviate from traditional ways of thinking and of doing things. Planning by an established authority precludes planning on the part of individuals. Conformity is the enemy of intellectual activity and progress.
Why the Government Cannot Ban All Immigrants from a Certain Country
Despite the government's latest argument, the law forecloses the idea that the government could be unbiased in visa issuance but not in entry.
My Biggest Post-Trump Fear: A Progressive Revival
Since President Trump took office, this has been the most divisive period in American politics since the end of the World War II. Partisan hysteria aside, I'm worried that Trump's foolish and jingoist stances will result in a resurgence of faulty progressive ideals.
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from First Things
The late Michael Novak offered prophetic witness with his coherent, fully-formed case for truth. If in truth we find human dignity, then the reverse is also true: Where truth is cast aside, so also is human dignity.
John C. Calhoun, in being removed, was awarded an odd sort of honor: His ideas were treated as relevant and dangerous. A provocative question inspired by Yale’s renaming of Calhoun College: Why have a namesake at all, if the college is not to be colored by his or her character?
There are statements in Amoris Laetitia which, although they admit of a true interpretation, more easily suggest a false one, and are likely to be used to subvert the teachings of the Church. Pope Francis keeps making statements that lend themselves to readings that contradict the magisterium of the Church. As the guardian of the faith he should clarify Amoris Laetitia, and rule out explicitly those false interpretations.
Christianity's political ambition has been to achieve an ever deeper connection of religion and politics. It makes no historical sense to say that the separation of church and state is a fundamental truth of Christianity. If it were, why did it take so long for Christians to discover this fundamental truth?
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from Forbes
The California State University system had 11,614 full-time faculty in 1973, and 12,019 in 2008. During that same time period, administrators grew from 3,800 to 12,183, ending up with more administrators than faculty. By cutting administrative bloat -- but with no faculty cutbacks -- some private colleges could offer nearly-free tuition.
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from Ghostery
Why Data Privacy is Losing Its War Against IT Innovation
A growing number of people think Facebook, other social networks, connected device makers--and potentially the entire internet of things market itself--are (or soon will be) too invasive into personal data privacy for their own good.
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from The Heritage Foundation
Dismantling Obama Regulations Will Require Resolve in the Senate
In just eight years, the Obama administration was responsible for creating 22,700 new burdensome regulations on the American people. During this time, federal agencies seized more power than ever in creating laws on their own, going largely unchecked by Congress.
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from Indian Country Today Media Network
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]
Who Was Pocahontas: Frightened Child or Exotic Sexual Fantasy?
The story of Pocahontas often depends on who you ask
Sixties Scoop Adoptees Win in Court
Ontario court ruling in $1.3 billion class-action lawsuit has implications throughout Canada
Chris Eyre And Georgina Lightning Respond to Trump Calling Sen. Warren Pocahontas
“Trump calling Senator Warren Pocahontas is a racially-charged comment that reinforces the need for accurate retelling of Native American and First Nations History”
Trump may not make it four years: Former intelligence operatives confirm “hit job” on Michael Flynn
Rogue intelligence operatives worked with Obama holdovers and former Obama administration national security officials to take out Michael Flynn, according to former intelligence officials interviewed by the Daily Caller News Foundation.
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]
Who Was Pocahontas: Frightened Child or Exotic Sexual Fantasy?
The story of Pocahontas often depends on who you ask
Sixties Scoop Adoptees Win in Court
Ontario court ruling in $1.3 billion class-action lawsuit has implications throughout Canada
Chris Eyre And Georgina Lightning Respond to Trump Calling Sen. Warren Pocahontas
“Trump calling Senator Warren Pocahontas is a racially-charged comment that reinforces the need for accurate retelling of Native American and First Nations History”
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from Intellihub
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]
Rogue intelligence operatives worked with Obama holdovers and former Obama administration national security officials to take out Michael Flynn, according to former intelligence officials interviewed by the Daily Caller News Foundation.
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from LifeZette (& PoliZette)
Christian Florist Faces Ruin After Losing Religious Liberty Case
WA Supreme Court finds woman who declined to work gay wedding guilty of discrimination. A Christian florist’s personal assets and home are now at risk because she could not in good conscience arrange flowers that would be used in a gay wedding ceremony.
Leftist Journalist Won’t Do Bill Maher’s Show
Journalist Jeremy Scahill has pulled out of an appearance on Friday night’s episode of “Real Time with Bill Maher” to protest the fact that conservative commentator and Breitbart senior editor Milo Yiannopoulos will also appear on the show. Scahill's canceled appearance on 'Real Time' smacks of bad manners and aggrieved entitlement.
Exclusive: Few Rogue Border Agents Resist Trump Policies
Union leader says some stations continue to follow Obama 'catch and release' directives
White House Comms Job Goes to GOP Establishment
Operative from Karl Rove orbit will take helm of Trump's communications shop. The pool of original Trump loyalists appears to be shrinking in the White House as more figures from the traditional Republican Establishment move in.
Chattering Class Freaks Out Over Trump Presser
Chuck Todd melts down, 'not a laughing matter ... delegitimizing the press un-American'
WikiLeaks Exposed April Ryan as More Than ‘Just a Reporter’
Correspondent acts confused by Trump meeting quip, offered to set up similar engagements for Clinton.
Why Trump Will Revise and Reissue Travel Ban
President shifts course on immigration action, DOJ withdraws request from appeals court
Open Borders Activists Throw ‘Day Without Facts and Logic’
Liberals conflate legal and illegal immigration, push myth of unwelcoming America
Untangling the Future of Health Care
When 'experts' can't agree on where things stand, how can average Americans figure it out? We may not like Obamacare or be able to afford it — but have gotten used to operating under it (or some people have, anyway). So repeal and replace has many Americans feeling confused, anxious, or very in limbo — even those who support something getting done.
Students Demand Free College Tuition to Make Up for Slavery
University of Wisconsin minority group insists this is what's due them — but there's more
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from The Living Church
Fires Sweep New South Wales
The little settlement of Uarbry was at the center of a fire that burned 55,028 hectares (136,000 acres). There were only half a dozen houses and two other buildings in the village. One was the Anglican Church of St. John the Evangelist. The Rev. Robert Bowman, rector of St. John’s, said the building had been a 1920s church that seated 50 people at most. “All that is left now is the concrete steps at the back,” he said.
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from Mises Institute
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]
Democracy, the God That's Failing
Democracy was always a bad idea, one that encourages mindless majoritarianism, political pandering, theft, redistribution, war, and an entitlement mentality among supposedly noble voters. It’s an idea whose time has passed, both on a national and international scale. The future of liberty is decentralized, and will be led by smaller breakaway nations and regions where real self-determination and real consensus is not an illusion. Jefferson and Hoppe were right about democracy, but it took Trump and Brexit to show the world how quickly elites abandon it when they don’t prevail.
Democracy was always a bad idea, one that encourages mindless majoritarianism, political pandering, theft, redistribution, war, and an entitlement mentality among supposedly noble voters. It’s an idea whose time has passed, both on a national and international scale. The future of liberty is decentralized, and will be led by smaller breakaway nations and regions where real self-determination and real consensus is not an illusion. Jefferson and Hoppe were right about democracy, but it took Trump and Brexit to show the world how quickly elites abandon it when they don’t prevail.
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from NBC News (& affiliates)
Bill Gates: Job-stealing robots should pay income taxes
CPAs of the world, take note of a whole new potential client base: According to Bill Gates, if a robot is going to do a human's job, it should also pay a person's income taxes.
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from New Statesman
"The leading voice of the British left, since 1913."
As a new film focuses on the real founder of McDonald’s, his grandson reveals the unlikely story behind his family’s long-lost restaurant.
The break-up of the UK is a convenient warning for both opponents of Brexit and nationalists alike.
Whether it's Simon Baron-Cohen on female brains to Richard Dawkins patronising feminists, I'm glad I read (and hated) these books.
from Observer (New York)
Drudge Put It Perfectly: Congressional Republicans Flail and Fail
Incompetence hinders party from accomplishing Trump’s agenda.
Now that Republicans have control of Congress, they seem to have lost focus.
________Drudge Put It Perfectly: Congressional Republicans Flail and Fail
Incompetence hinders party from accomplishing Trump’s agenda.
Now that Republicans have control of Congress, they seem to have lost focus.
from The OregonianMassive rockslide blocks Douglas County road
The Oregon Department of Transportation posted a picture on social media Wednesday morning showing a massive rockslide a day earlier along Tyee Access Road about 15 miles west of Sutherlin in Douglas County.
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from SPIEGEL International (Der Spiegel)
Europe Must Plan to Defend Itself
Europe has long relied on America for its defense. But that era is rapidly coming to an end. It is time for a stronger European defense alliance that is less dependent on the U.S. and more capable of asserting its own interests with Russia and Turkey.
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from The Spokesman-Review
Federal judge scolds state for treatment of mentally ill
A federal judge has blasted the Washington state agency responsible for providing competency services to mentally ill people in jail, saying the agency doesn’t appear to understand that these individuals “have constitutional rights that are being violated.”
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from Sputnik
(Russian government-supported propaganda channel)
The owner of the Washington Post, a newspaper that has done little to hide its contempt for the current US president, has been quietly doing business with the CIA for years. In 2013, it was revealed that Jeff Bezos, the owner of the Post and retail behemoth Amazon, had secured a contract for $600 million with the intelligence agency — an agency that also happens to be seemingly rebelling against President Donald Trump. The contract came just four months after Bezos purchased the newspaper.
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from The Washington Post
John McCain just systematically dismantled Donald Trump’s entire worldview
John McCain is increasingly mad as hell about President Trump. And on Friday, he went after Trump — hard. During a speech at the Munich Security Conference in Germany, the Republican senator from Arizona delivered a pointed and striking point-by-point takedown of Trump's worldview and brand of nationalism. McCain didn't mention Trump's name once, but he didn't have to.
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from Zero Hedge
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]
Mary Jo White Seriously Misled The US Senate To Become SEC Chair
Yesterday it was widely reported in the business press that Mary Jo White is returning to her former law firm as a partner representing clients who face government investigations. She will also fill the newly created position of Senior Chair of the law firm. This news is highly significant because it would appear that the U.S. Senate was seriously misled by White’s ethics letter in its deliberations to confirm her as the top cop of Wall Street.
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