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from Catholic News Service
Don’t worry how it’s spent, always give homeless a handout, pope says
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Don’t worry how it’s spent, always give homeless a handout, pope says
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from Competitive Enterprise Institute
The president highlighted some less market-friendly transportation and infrastructure proposals in his address to Congress last night.
New DNC chair Tom Perez has record of executive overreach
On Saturday, former Secretary of Labor Thomas Perez was elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee. Many portray Perez as the moderate pick compared to his top challenger, Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., who is considered part of the Bernie Sanders wing of the Democratic Party. But one look at Perez's track record at the Department of Labor shows he is anything but moderate. His political preferences guided his regulatory agenda, rather than fulfilling the agency's mission as set forth by Congress. In the process, Perez imposed a whopping $49 billion in regulatory costs and 56 million paperwork burden hours.
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from Crosscut
Give Washington’s working people a (tax) break
Ultimately, this rebate is intended to strengthen the economic security of Washingtonians. And it would help protect people living in poverty from falling through the cracks. Communities across our state are facing an affordable housing crisis, and this rebate is an essential part of the solution.
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from FEE (Foundation for Economic Education)
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]
Selling Higher Education Is Sleazier Than Selling a Used Car
In a previous life, I worked in sales. But not just your everyday, run-of-the-mill brand of sales: I worked in a sleazy industry that championed predatory lending practices and distorted the pricing of its lackluster product, which often sent my clients spiraling down a rabbit hole of debt. And to make matters worse, this entire enterprise was buoyed by your tax dollars, so—regardless of macroeconomic patterns—this dubious marketplace remains untouchable. What was this ethically questionable industry? I worked in higher education.
Healthcare Licensing and Barriers Are Sickening
Obamacare is not the only option. Opening the healthcare market place to midwives, nurse practitioners, and other professionals will benefit patients and save tax dollars.
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from Forbes
Created by Dodd-Frank in 2010, the CFPB was handed jurisdiction over just about every U.S. business that provides some form of consumer credit, but with little accountability to either Congress or the President. According to its boosters, the CFPB was intended to protect the “little guy” from “Wall Street predators.” However, Cordray’s lavish building renovation is just the latest indicator that unfortunately, the CFPB isn’t exactly championing the underdog.
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from The Guardian (UK)
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Trump wants 'peace through strength' – but this budget is a recipe for war
The US already spends more on defence than the next eight biggest defence-spending nations put together. The US enjoys “full-spectrum dominance”. It has a nuclear arsenal capable of destroying all human life on the planet many times over. Yet apparently that’s not enough. Diplomacy is the smartest form of military spending, yet the president is slashing soft-power budgets in order to pay for ego-boosting new hardware.
If religion exists to make raids into what is unsayable, musicians penetrate further than most
Cathedral choirs are the church at its most compelling. Even those who don't do God should be alarmed they are being cut.
Trump wants 'peace through strength' – but this budget is a recipe for war
The US already spends more on defence than the next eight biggest defence-spending nations put together. The US enjoys “full-spectrum dominance”. It has a nuclear arsenal capable of destroying all human life on the planet many times over. Yet apparently that’s not enough. Diplomacy is the smartest form of military spending, yet the president is slashing soft-power budgets in order to pay for ego-boosting new hardware.
If religion exists to make raids into what is unsayable, musicians penetrate further than most
Cathedral choirs are the church at its most compelling. Even those who don't do God should be alarmed they are being cut.
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from Independent Sentinel
[Information from this site may be unreliable.]
Trump Signed Executive Order Repealing “Clean” Water Rule
The massive land grab water rule, which went under the misnomer clean water rule, has just been abolished. President Trump signed an executive order scraping the rule which was especially harmful to ranchers, manufacturers and famers. It allowed the government to control every aspect of their land and water usage.
New Leak Should Cause Democrats to Go Off the Deep End Tonight
Nancy Pelosi has strongly encouraged the Democrats to behave during the President’s State of the Union this evening, though they might not heed her advice when they hear of his proposed budget cuts. She said they mustn’t become “them”.
Staff Leakers Say McMaster Recommends Not Using Term “Radical Islamic Terrorism” Tonight
Every day, there is another leak(s). It’s hard to know what this latest leak involving Lt. General McMaster is supposed to do, if anything, besides undermine Trump’s presidency.
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from The Living Church
A CONCISE PRAYER BOOK
Many want to be reconnected to a tradition from which they feel distanced. They want ancient, connected, continuous, simple, transformative liturgy.
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A CONCISE PRAYER BOOK
Many want to be reconnected to a tradition from which they feel distanced. They want ancient, connected, continuous, simple, transformative liturgy.
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from Miami Herald
Leonard Pitts Jr.: In the face of hatred, Americans can speak up or they can look away
As a wave of anti-Semitic attacks sweeps the nation, who will bear witness for the Jews? Saturday night, nearly eight decades after the death factories were closed, someone — more likely a gang of someones — toppled about 100 headstones at a Jewish cemetery in Philadelphia. The same thing happened last week in St. Louis. And there have been dozens of false bomb threats at Jewish community centers in over two dozen states, including Florida.
As a wave of anti-Semitic attacks sweeps the nation, who will bear witness for the Jews? Saturday night, nearly eight decades after the death factories were closed, someone — more likely a gang of someones — toppled about 100 headstones at a Jewish cemetery in Philadelphia. The same thing happened last week in St. Louis. And there have been dozens of false bomb threats at Jewish community centers in over two dozen states, including Florida.
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from National Review
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A Nation of Immigrants — Only if They Assimilate
The Left repeats that ‘we are a nation of immigrants’ without citing the other half of that fact — ‘who assimilate into America.’
A Nation of Immigrants — Only if They Assimilate
The Left repeats that ‘we are a nation of immigrants’ without citing the other half of that fact — ‘who assimilate into America.’
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from Open Culture
Study Shows That Teaching Young Kids Philosophy Improves Their Academic Performance, Making Them Better at Reading & Math
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from The Paris Review
Literary Magazine
Letter from Kiev
Ukraine’s ultranationalist uprising has brought together two disparate groups: neo-Nazis and ethnic minorities.
Letter from Kiev
Ukraine’s ultranationalist uprising has brought together two disparate groups: neo-Nazis and ethnic minorities.
from Reuters
Trump seeks 'historic' U.S. military spending boost, domestic cuts
President Donald Trump is seeking what he called a "historic" increase in defense spending, but ran into immediate opposition from Republicans in Congress who must approve his plan and said it was not enough to meet the military's needs.
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from Reveal
With a single Facebook notification, Mark Provost realized the thing he had spent years building was never truly his in the first place. Instead, it was under Facebook’s formidable blue-and-white thumb. Provost is the publisher of U.S. Uncut, a progressive group that, in the span of a few years, evolved from a loose collection of left-wing activists protesting corporate tax dodgers to a popular online news organization.
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from The Seattle Times
Greater Seattle once again had the biggest home-price increase in the nation, with home values soaring at nearly twice the national rate. Big housing-cost increases are taking a heavy toll on millennials throughout the Seattle area, which has retained its title as the hottest housing market in the country. A new poll from a local nonprofit finds that 45 percent of millennials in the Puget Sound region think they will have to move somewhere cheaper to afford the life they want, even though nearly all would prefer to stay in the area. Groups that were especially likely to say they might move include women, people in their late 20s and those with low incomes.
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from The Spokesman-Review
North Idaho developer and resort pioneer Robert Templin dies
Before there was the Coeur d’Alene Resort, there was the North Shore Resort Hotel and Bob Templin, the man who came to be known as Mr. Hospitality in the early years of the economic shift from timber to tourism. Templin, a Post Falls developer, U.S. Army veteran and pioneer of North Idaho’s resort and tourism economy, died Tuesday morning at age 93.
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from Sputnik
(Russian government-supported propaganda channel)
Yazidi refugees currently residing in a camp at Sinjar Mountains in Iraq held a protest rally in order to raise awareness about Daesh terrorists enslaving their children and using them as suicide bombers.
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