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from EUobserver
Turkish referendum pivotal in EU-Turkey relations
The outcome of the upcoming Turkish referendum, which would grant president Erdogan sweeping new powers, is almost too close to call. The result will have a huge impact on EU-Turkey relations.
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Turkish referendum pivotal in EU-Turkey relations
The outcome of the upcoming Turkish referendum, which would grant president Erdogan sweeping new powers, is almost too close to call. The result will have a huge impact on EU-Turkey relations.
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from The Guardian (UK)
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What is the historical evidence that Jesus Christ lived and died?
Today some claim that Jesus is just an idea, rather than a real historical figure, but there is a good deal of written evidence for his existence 2,000 years ago
What is the historical evidence that Jesus Christ lived and died?
Today some claim that Jesus is just an idea, rather than a real historical figure, but there is a good deal of written evidence for his existence 2,000 years ago
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from The Heritage Foundation
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Handouts to the Agriculture Industry Are Out of Control
Congress created two new massive handout programs in the 2014 farm bill. They are now projected to cost nearly double the original estimates — $32 billion over five years, instead of $18 billion. Congress needs to stop fleecing American taxpayers to further enrich large agribusinesses.
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Handouts to the Agriculture Industry Are Out of Control
Congress created two new massive handout programs in the 2014 farm bill. They are now projected to cost nearly double the original estimates — $32 billion over five years, instead of $18 billion. Congress needs to stop fleecing American taxpayers to further enrich large agribusinesses.
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from LifeZette (& PoliZette)
What You Didn’t Know About Easter Traditions
Here are theories about the origin of the Easter Bunny and of dyeing eggs — from German, pagan, and Christian practices
From the White House to Greece: Easter Traditions Around the World
Some people fly kites, throw pots, or have water fights — all to celebrate the most significant Christian holiday of the year
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from Miami Herald
My latest column is in response to a reader who feels I've been entirely too negative since the election. America is threatened as it has never been before. And it occurs to me that faith in inevitable salvation is a luxury we can no longer afford.
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from New Statesman
"The leading voice of the British left, since 1913."
A win for the government-led “Yes” campaign would destroy checks and balances applied to the parliamentary system
from PBS (& affiliates)
The problem with thinking you know more than the experts
More and more, people don't care about expert views. That's according to Tom Nichols, author of "The Death of Expertise," who says Americans have become insufferable know-it-alls, locked in constant conflict and debate with others over topics they actually know almost nothing about. Nichols shares his humble opinion on how we got here.
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from SPIEGEL International (Der Spiegel)
Life After Islamic State
'They Taught Us How To Decapitate a Person'
For over two years, Islamic State controlled the Iraqi city of Mosul, including its schools. Now that the U.S.-led coalition has pushed the Islamists out, the city's teachers face a dilemma: How do you reshape the minds of children who were taught to fight and kill?
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from The Spokesman-Review
Semitruck crashes into school bus near Colville; bus driver seriously injured
A school bus carrying 25 elementary students collided with a semitruck Friday morning on U.S. Highway 395 north of Colville, seriously injuring the bus driver and leaving a number of students with minor cuts and bruises.
U.S. Highway 395 washed out in Ferry County
Overnight flooding washed out a portion of Highway 395 about 10 miles north and west of Kettle Falls.
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from Sputnik
(Russian government-supported propaganda channel)
Recently, there have been a growing number of suggestions by Chinese diplomatic and military commentators that Beijing is not obliged to defend Pyongyang in the event of a military attack, an article in the South China Morning Post read. The assumption comes as senior officials in the United States have warned of a strike against North Korea.
Less than a block from what is believed to be the birthplace of Jesus Christ, a group of Palestinian Christian art students are recreating the ancient iconography of early Christianity. "Icons are not commercial objects for us, but holy images that we honor," said Nicola Juha, who heads the Bethlehem Icon Center. He claims his group to be part of a tradition stretching back as far as 60 AD, where Luke the Evangelist (he of the Gospel of Luke) supposedly painted the first icons of the Virgin Mary and a young Christ.
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from UPI News Agency - United Press International
"The president's promise to 'drain the swamp' has never rung more hollow than it does today," Sen. Tom Udall said Friday.
"What is this executive order about, then?" the judge asked a government lawyer who said Trump's order doesn't really ask anything more than what existing federal law already does.
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from The Wall Street Journal
The Profound Connection Between Easter and Passover
First Things editor R. R. Reno writes in the Wall Street Journal: “Over the years, I have come to see that Christianity’s most important day recapitulates Passover. Both holidays face head-on the daunting power of death—and both announce God's greater power of life.” It’s not just that the Last Supper was a Passover Seder. Both holidays are about the dead rising to new life.
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from The Weekly Standard
Wellesley's Student Paper Mounts a Barely Literate Defense of Censorship
All the while bemoaning the lack of education that keeps people from having "correct" opinions.
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from Zero Hedge
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Atlanta Fed Slashes Q1 GDP Forecast To Just 0.5%, Lowest In Three Years
Just over two months ago, the Atlanta Fed "calculated" that Q1 GDP was going to be a pleasant 3.4%, confirming that the Fed had made the correct decision by hiking not only in December, but also last month. Since then, the Fed's own GDP estimate has crashed in almost linear fashion, and as of this morning - after the latest disappointing retail sales report - it had plunged to just 0.5%, which if accurate would make Q1 the weakest quarter going back three years to Q1 2014.
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