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from BBC News (UK)
The Right Reverend Philip North exposed a wound in the Church of England when he announced the withdrawal of his nomination to become Bishop of Sheffield, referring to "the highly individualised nature of the attacks upon him". The Archbishops of York and Canterbury now have to find a way to reunite a Church that is divided over women's ordination as well as sexuality.
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from CNSNews.com (& MRC & NewsBusters)
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]
Anti-Feminist Flier 'Hate Crime' Suspect Sought by American University Police
American University police are investigating a “hate crime” on campus and asking for help identifying the suspect who posted anti-feminist fliers around the school Tuesday. Students say the offense might have gone unnoticed by the student body if campus police hadn’t issued a crime alert providing surveillance camera photos of the suspect and requesting help finding him.
Colbert Joke: Refusing Women Planned Parenthood Is ‘Arrogant,’ ‘Paternalistic’
Comedian Stephen Colbert is defending Planned Parenthood in the wake of the new GOP health-care plan – and it’s no laughing matter.
Analysts: Iran Has Been Put ‘On Notice’; Time to Show U.S. Means Business
Iran’s provocations in the Persian Gulf and fresh ballistic missile tests indicate that the regime is testing the Trump administration and watching carefully to see whether and how it responds, policy analysts say.
DUANE JACKLIN, 72, DIES
Duane Jacklin's generosity toward community efforts will be felt forever. Jacklin, whose name is synonymous with the region's grass seed roots, economic development and giving in Kootenai County, died Thursday morning at Kootenai Health. He was 72. Tom Stoeser, president and CEO of Riverbend Commerce Park in Post Falls, which Jacklin owned with brothers Don and Doyle, said Jacklin died of heart failure.
Better than Expected Jobs Report Suggests Employer Optimism
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the economy added 235,000 jobs in February, slightly beating expectations. It is very early days for the new administration, but there may be signs that employers are reacting to its deregulatory agenda.
Anti-Feminist Flier 'Hate Crime' Suspect Sought by American University Police
American University police are investigating a “hate crime” on campus and asking for help identifying the suspect who posted anti-feminist fliers around the school Tuesday. Students say the offense might have gone unnoticed by the student body if campus police hadn’t issued a crime alert providing surveillance camera photos of the suspect and requesting help finding him.
Colbert Joke: Refusing Women Planned Parenthood Is ‘Arrogant,’ ‘Paternalistic’
Comedian Stephen Colbert is defending Planned Parenthood in the wake of the new GOP health-care plan – and it’s no laughing matter.
Analysts: Iran Has Been Put ‘On Notice’; Time to Show U.S. Means Business
Iran’s provocations in the Persian Gulf and fresh ballistic missile tests indicate that the regime is testing the Trump administration and watching carefully to see whether and how it responds, policy analysts say.
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from Coeur d'Alene Press
DUANE JACKLIN, 72, DIES
Duane Jacklin's generosity toward community efforts will be felt forever. Jacklin, whose name is synonymous with the region's grass seed roots, economic development and giving in Kootenai County, died Thursday morning at Kootenai Health. He was 72. Tom Stoeser, president and CEO of Riverbend Commerce Park in Post Falls, which Jacklin owned with brothers Don and Doyle, said Jacklin died of heart failure.
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from Competitive Enterprise Institute
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the economy added 235,000 jobs in February, slightly beating expectations. It is very early days for the new administration, but there may be signs that employers are reacting to its deregulatory agenda.
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from Conservative Review
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]
WHAT THE MEDIA WON’T TELL YOU ABOUT ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION AND CRIMINAL ACTIVITY
Normally, the ACLU promotes transparency in government and the ability of the public to access public records. But apparently that changes when transparency might reveal damaging information that hurts their opposition to President Trump’s common-sense, revised executive order temporarily suspending entry from six terrorist safe havens in the Middle East and Africa.
WHAT THE MEDIA WON’T TELL YOU ABOUT ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION AND CRIMINAL ACTIVITY
Normally, the ACLU promotes transparency in government and the ability of the public to access public records. But apparently that changes when transparency might reveal damaging information that hurts their opposition to President Trump’s common-sense, revised executive order temporarily suspending entry from six terrorist safe havens in the Middle East and Africa.
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from Daily Wire
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]
IRONY ALERT: Pelosi Says American People 'Have A Right To Know' What's In Trumpcare Before It Passes
IRONY ALERT: Pelosi Says American People 'Have A Right To Know' What's In Trumpcare Before It Passes
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from Episcopal News Service
Protesters, allies take to the cold streets for rowdy, peaceful protest
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from FEE (Foundation for Economic Education)
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]
There Are No Tariffs on Coffee. Care to Guess Why?
Every trade restriction is simultaneously justified publicly as a righteous intervention against some foreign evil-doing while, in fact, it is a monopoly-power privilege granted by an unethical government to a greedy and powerful domestic interest group.
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from Fortune Magazine
This week, WikiLeaks published thousands of documents describing Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) technical cyber capabilities, including how the agency might hack into commonly used consumer Internet-connected devices. As the latest in a punishing string of unauthorized disclosures and exposures of classified and other sensitive information over the last several years demonstrates, the U.S. government is still failing at securing critical information that it retains.
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from The Heritage Foundation
[Information from this site may be unreliable.]
North Korea Takes Aim at Friend, Foe
Pyongyang has been popping off again with its most recent round of missile mania. No one is happy about it, especially potential North Korean “targets” including the United States, Japan and South Korea. Another country equally displeased by the saber rattling? China. North Korea’s launch this week of four (likely) SCUD ballistic missiles some 600 miles into the Sea of Japan — in the direction of Japan — is just the latest act in Pyongyang’s parade of provocations.
Hawaii Has No Case Against Revised Travel Executive Order
The new lawsuit filed by Hawaii against President Donald Trump’s revised March 6 immigration executive order is just as unsound as the lawsuits filed by other states against the original order—despite what some courts have said about the original order or may say about the revised order. There are only seven pages of legal claims within the entire 38-page complaint.
Maine Rejected Medicaid Expansion and Found Success. Now, House Health Bill Would Send Us Backward.
By rejecting Obamacare's Medicaid expansion, Maine was able to increase support for other programs and facilities that produce genuine results for its citizens.
Congress Takes Important Steps to Lessen Federal Footprint in Education
In the span of 24 hours, the Senate successfully overturned two sets of regulations finalized by President Barack Obama’s Department of Education late last year. Using the oversight authority granted to it by the Congressional Review Act, the Senate passed resolutions of disapproval for accountability regulations under the Every Student Succeeds Act and regulations for teacher preparation programs.
Steve Bannon Is Right. It’s Time to Deconstruct the Administrative State.
In his first public remarks since the election, White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon recently told a packed house at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) that the “deconstruction of the administrative state” was one of the major goals of the Trump administration. Many on the left were troubled by Bannon’s comments, to say the least. The administrative state has enjoyed sprawling growth over the past century at the expense of representative government.
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North Korea Takes Aim at Friend, Foe
Pyongyang has been popping off again with its most recent round of missile mania. No one is happy about it, especially potential North Korean “targets” including the United States, Japan and South Korea. Another country equally displeased by the saber rattling? China. North Korea’s launch this week of four (likely) SCUD ballistic missiles some 600 miles into the Sea of Japan — in the direction of Japan — is just the latest act in Pyongyang’s parade of provocations.
Hawaii Has No Case Against Revised Travel Executive Order
The new lawsuit filed by Hawaii against President Donald Trump’s revised March 6 immigration executive order is just as unsound as the lawsuits filed by other states against the original order—despite what some courts have said about the original order or may say about the revised order. There are only seven pages of legal claims within the entire 38-page complaint.
Maine Rejected Medicaid Expansion and Found Success. Now, House Health Bill Would Send Us Backward.
By rejecting Obamacare's Medicaid expansion, Maine was able to increase support for other programs and facilities that produce genuine results for its citizens.
Congress Takes Important Steps to Lessen Federal Footprint in Education
In the span of 24 hours, the Senate successfully overturned two sets of regulations finalized by President Barack Obama’s Department of Education late last year. Using the oversight authority granted to it by the Congressional Review Act, the Senate passed resolutions of disapproval for accountability regulations under the Every Student Succeeds Act and regulations for teacher preparation programs.
Steve Bannon Is Right. It’s Time to Deconstruct the Administrative State.
In his first public remarks since the election, White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon recently told a packed house at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) that the “deconstruction of the administrative state” was one of the major goals of the Trump administration. Many on the left were troubled by Bannon’s comments, to say the least. The administrative state has enjoyed sprawling growth over the past century at the expense of representative government.
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from Indian Country Today Media Network
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]
Skirting the Indian Child Welfare Act Is a Lucrative Business
Removal of Indian children from their homes appears to be a lucrative business in South Dakota, to the tune of “almost a hundred million dollars a year,” according to a 2011 NPR investigation. That’s not including the “adoption incentive bonus” paid to the state when “they move kids to foster care and into adoption – about $4,000 a child.” If the child has special needs, “a state can get as much as $12,000” and interestingly, South Dakota “designated all Native Children” as “special needs.”
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]
Skirting the Indian Child Welfare Act Is a Lucrative Business
Removal of Indian children from their homes appears to be a lucrative business in South Dakota, to the tune of “almost a hundred million dollars a year,” according to a 2011 NPR investigation. That’s not including the “adoption incentive bonus” paid to the state when “they move kids to foster care and into adoption – about $4,000 a child.” If the child has special needs, “a state can get as much as $12,000” and interestingly, South Dakota “designated all Native Children” as “special needs.”
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from Miami Herald
Maybe the problem with America is that we just don't like each other. Resentment is the residue of forced change. And today’s particular resentment is old, deep and festering. Worse, it is useful.
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from Mises Institute
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]While it is true that private banks initiate the money-creation process, it is central banks that make the the whole process possible.
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from SPIEGEL International (Der Spiegel)
A Delicate Meeting: Can Merkel Bring Trump to Reason?
Angela Merkel is planning a dual strategy for her first face-to-face meeting with Donald Trump on Tuesday. She wants to foster close personal relations with the new U.S. president, but she also wants to make clear the Berlin is armed for a trade war against Washington.
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from The Spokesman-Review
Nez Perce reintroduce coho salmon to Grande Ronde basin
Coho salmon took a big leap toward restoration in the Grande Ronde River basin on Thursday as the Nez Perce Tribe, coordinating with Oregon Fish and Wildlife, released 500,000 coho smolts into the Lostine River.
Spokane Transit Authority bus driver assaulted by passenger
A Spokane Transit Authority driver was assaulted Friday morning as he was teaching a new driver the ropes in north Spokane. A driver in training was behind the wheel of the bus driving Route 22 on Northwest Boulevard around 7 a.m. when a departing passenger punched the experienced driver who was doing the training.
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from Tribal Tribune (Nespelem, WA)
Fuels celebrates Travel Plaza with informal opening
Colville Fuels’ celebrated a soft opening of the Colville Confederated tribes’ largest c-store business venture to date with the informal opening of the Half-Sun Travel Plaza in Moses Lake, March 1.
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from The Washington Post
WWII made George Patton a hero, but the ‘Great War’ made him a commander
The Library of Congress’s WWI exhibit shows his longing for the “white-hot joy” of war.
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from Zero Hedge
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]
US Government Revenues Suffer Biggest Drop Since The Financial Crisis
In February the US Treasury brought in total receipts of $172 billion, versus outlays of $364 billion, resulting in a decicit of $192 billion, more than tha $190 billion expected (if in line with last year's $192.6 billion deficit). For the fiscal year through Feb. 28, the total US budget deficit was $349 billion, virtually identical to the $351 billion deficit over the same period in 2016 and set to keep rising this year and for the foreseeable future. One potential mitigating factor this time is that much of the collapse in receipts is due to a double digit % plunge in corporate income tax, which begs the question what are real corporate earnings? While we hear that EPS are rising, at least for IRS purposes, corporate America is in a recession.
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